Bartcop

Bartcop is a popular online American political commentator from Oklahoma. He is a liberal Democrat, and is known among many bloggers, reporters and others interested in politics for his intense and often scathing commentary and fierce humor, criticizing George W. Bush and other Republicans, as well as further right conservatives. Bartcop is a strong critic of the current Democratic leadership for not speaking out against the War on Iraq and for "backstabbing" Bill Clinton, but he often rails against Nader voters and anti-NAFTA types. One of Bartcop's favorite passtimes is to show angry e-mail he has received, which he calls "monkey mail," and post his running commentary.

He also likes to end each issue with an image of Shirley Manson from the band Garbage. Bartcop.com is the masthead for a spring of varied websites. Bartcop has launched a radio show, availble to financial supporters of Bartcop.com, and many readers frequent the #bartcop IRC chat room. In the 2004 Democratic Primary, he gave some support to Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean before finally endorsing Wesley Clark, both because of his military credentials and his closeness to Clinton. Immediately after Clark's departure from the race, Bartcop followed the general in endorsing John Kerry.

He is an outspoken critic of the American media and addresses the perception of liberal bias in a page long diatribe entitled "The Myth of the Liberal Media." Many issues feature quotes from journalists that are fawning over government policy. Bartcop often calls these journalists whores, a preception recently reinforced by revelations about black commentator Armstrong Williams and White House "journalist" Jeff Gannon. In an attempt at humor, pictures of many (so called) whores are featured with bodies of women that bear the stereotypical appearance of a prostitute.

Bartcop has been known to take controversial stances on some issues; his advocated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is for all Jews to leave Israel and take up residence in the United States (specifically Oklahoma), and lambasts Zionists for putting a higher priority on their "sacred sand" than the lives of their children. This view which has earned him a great deal of hate mail from liberal Jewish readers of his site, but Bartcop notes that he also opposes Palestinian suicide bombers. Also, he tends to be extremely critical of religion in general (especially the "religiously insane"), believing devout followers of any creed to be merely superstitious, and uses the saying "Invisible Cloud Being" as a sarcastic way of poking fun at people who believe in God.

Bartcop is a staunch supporter of the American military, and has had many heated expletive-laced debates with leftists whom he views as insulting the troops. He has said that Bush betrayed the troops and the country by ordering the invasion of Iraq for what he perceives as the wrong reasons, and he keeps a running tally of those soldiers killed in the war. Previously a supporter of the political cartoons of Ted Rall (Bartcop had referred to Rall as "my good friend Ted Rall" in the past), he broke all connection and publicly denounced Rall in May 2004 after Rall published a cartoon about Pat Tillman. Bartcop dedicated an entire issue of his magazine to Rall's cartoon, publishing his views and the views of many readers who sent in e-mail on the subject. Bartcop viewed the cartoon as an insult to a brave soldier, and he was upset that Rall did not distinguish between the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, which Bartcop considers a worthy cause, and the War in Iraq, which he does not. Nonetheless, Bartcop frequently includes Rall's comics in his material.

Bartcop's non-political obsessions include Chinaco Anejo Tequila, poker, bixby corn, and Shirley Manson.

Contents

1 Favorite claims 2 Bartspeak 3 Quotes 4 External links 4.1 The Bartcop.com Network

Favorite claims

• To have an IQ of 64.
• To possess a tequila treehouse.
• To never have lost a debate, or a court case.
• That Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show routinely steal jokes from him.
• That Bartcop.com has dozens of readers.

Bartspeak

• Bag O' Hairspray = Senator Elizabeth Dole
• B.F.E.E. = Bush Family Evil Empire
• Bush the Smarter, George Herbert Herbert Bush, Smirk Daddy = President George H. W. Bush
• Bush's Poodle = Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair
• Cheesy Fries = Former Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien
• Ditto Monkey = a fan of Rush Limbaugh
• Doc Meng = Dr. Laura Schlessinger (a reference to Dr. Josef Mengele)
• Judas Maximus = George Stephanopoulos
• Knuckledrag, K-Drag = Oklahoma in general, Bartcop's hometown of Tulsa in particular
• Meet the Whore = Meet the Press
• Monkey Mail = barely coherent hate mail from Ditto Monkeys
• Mr. Three Percent = Ralph Nader
• Musclehead, Governor Gang Bang = Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Pink Tutu Democrat = Congressional Democrats, usually centrists, whom Bart feels do not stand up to Republican policies
• Pissquick = Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe
• The Invisible Cloud Being = God, specifically the religious right's view of a vengeful, Old Testament-style deity
• The Jesus Twins = Oklahoma politicians Tom Coburn and Steve Largent
• The Monkey = George W. Bush
• The San Francisco Treat = Condoleezza Rice
• The Savage Weiner = Ultraconservative pundit Michael Savage
• The vulgar Pigboy = Rush Limbaugh
• Red-Ink = President Ronald Reagan
• Religiously insane = religious fanatics
• Slappy = Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
• Snoot = Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
• Uncle OJ = Rep. J.C. Watts
• Unka Dick = Vice President Dick Cheney

Quotes

• "Things are getting so bad. I don't know how you non-drinking people deal with it."
• "Where are the Democrats?"
• "How did I get in this party?" (referring to the cowardice for which Bartcop constantly scolds the Democrats)
• "The Pink Tutu Democrats" (a phrase Bartcop coined (?) referring to many Democrats who Bartcop says "refuse to fight" and "let the Republicans do whatever they want"), usually accompanied by a graphic of the heads of prominent Democratic politicians superimposed on ballerinas wearing pink tutus
• "The only people standing up for Kerry are the Republicans."
• "Bill Clinton never sent a man into battle who didn't make it out alive." (Bartcop claims that the deaths during the Battle of Mogadishu, which occurred 10 months after President Clinton took office, were caused not by Clinton, but by the poor preparation of George H. W. Bush)
• " ...and the Democrats can't figure a way to make that a campaign issue?" (used when the Democrats back away from an issue on which they could score points)

External links

The Bartcop.com Network

• Bartcop.com (http://www.bartcop.com)
• The Myth of the Liberal Media (http://www.bartcop.com/libmedia.htm)
• Bart's Law (http://www.bartcop.com/bartslaw.htm)

• Bart Cook (http://bartcook.pdxnet.net/)
• Bart Stocks (http://inamongus.com/bartstocks/)
• Bartcop Sports (http://bartcopsports.blogspot.com/)
• Bartcop Entertainment (http://www.suprmchaos.com/home.index.html)
• Project 60 (http://www.bartcop.com/p60current.htm), a timeline of World War II
• Bartcop Nation, another hub of leftist politics (http://www.bartcopnation.com)
• Disinfotainment Today (http://www.disinfotainmenttoday.com) Making fun of the future, one president at a time.
• The Bartcop Forum (http://bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php)