‘Ted Fans’ scrap plans for 9-foot tall statue of Sen. Stevens.
By on Jun 12th, 2007 at 11:21 am
‘Ted Fans’ scrap plans for 9-foot tall statue of Sen. Stevens.
Plans have been scrapped to “erect a nine-foot-tall…statuary tribute” to 
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. According to the Anchorage Daily News, “Ted fans decided that…recently vocal enemies of his successful delivery of federal largesse to Alaska might use the project to disparage him.” Last week, Stevens revealed that he had been asked by the FBI “to preserve records as part of a widening investigation into Alaskan political corruption.”
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Why not a 90 foot statue?
June 12th, 2007 at 11:23 amHe’s certainly delivered the pork to Alaska for years. He deserves to be memorialized in something bigger than a nine foot statue.
Hell, he’d barely fit inside it!
Wimps! Saddam Hussein had a MUCH bigger statue pulled down.
/sarc off
Whatever happened to the tradition that a memorial only was erected after the person was buried and society had a chance to evaluate the person’s contribution from an objective distance?
June 12th, 2007 at 11:26 amI’d scrap it too, 9 feet is way to small.
Maybe they can build a giant one, like the Colossus at Rhodes, and use it as a bridge to get to that island.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:28 amWell birds might crap on his statue and nobody would clean it off > lol.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:29 am#3 Brilliant!
June 12th, 2007 at 11:30 amI’d guess that there is a nine-foot-tall stack of records he’ll have to turn over to the FBI.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:30 am“erect a nine-foot-tall…statuary tribute†– - Sounds like statutory rape to me.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:31 amPlease change the abbreviation from AL to AK. This post would leave the impression that this asshat is from Alabama. We have enough problems without being associated with Ted “Tubes” Stevens.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:32 amMr. Stevens is not from AL (we have our own problems).
June 12th, 2007 at 11:33 am#3 ~ nice :)
June 12th, 2007 at 11:34 amWow Ted has a cult of personality going up there in Alaska. The guy isn’t even dead yet, and they have an airport named after him. Whats next a bridge?
June 12th, 2007 at 11:34 amDid Ted Stevens move?
June 12th, 2007 at 11:35 amIt’ll be really bad when he dies. When his corruption investigation begins, he’ll suddenly be raptured. I’d bet on it.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:38 amSnicker… snicker… ya got to be kiddin’ me…
June 12th, 2007 at 11:41 amIt was actually a ploy to disguise missles as statuary,
June 12th, 2007 at 11:42 ampart of Bush’s missle defense plan.
Hey nutters check out Senator Robert “KKK” Byrds home state for pork and memorials/statues of this mini-god.
Washington, D.C. Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va. ) Porker of the Month for his legacy as the “King
of Pork.â€
The Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan, the Democrats very own Senator Robert KKK Byrd gets an honor that he actually EARNED: PORKER OF THE MONTH! In this case, he gets the honor the greatest PORKER of all time. what kind of award should he get? Maybe an honorary lynching? The Democrat Party, I mean the RACIST Party, needs to clean it’s own ranks before it denigrates the Republicans. Don’t hold your breath, though.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:44 amJust tar and feather Stevens and stand him on a 4′ pedestal.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:48 amJust tar and feather Stevens and stand him on a 4′ pedestal.
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And use a few of TP’s trolls for the “base”.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:52 amHave a link Flaco, or just prefer emoting?
June 12th, 2007 at 11:53 amA statue of Stevens could reach to the stars and fail to do him justice. “Washington, Lincoln… Stevens”.
And not necessarily in that order.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:56 amShould be plenty of fellers up there handy enough with chainsaws to carve his statue out of a spuce log.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:56 amThen when winter comes, they can cut him up and get warm.
Well When Stevens drops dead, then drop his body in bronze and erect that near a toxic dumpsite in Alaska. Pour a pool of oil around it with dead animals in it. That would be a tribute to his corruption.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:57 amMove the Lincoln Memorial to Alaska, chop off it’s head, then put one of Senator Stevens on top.
June 12th, 2007 at 12:00 pmHave a link Flaco, or just prefer emoting?
Comment by Krazny
Google dude?
June 12th, 2007 at 12:00 pmStevens belongs in prison.
June 12th, 2007 at 12:05 pmIt’s my understanding that the statue will be made of tubes…
June 12th, 2007 at 12:09 pmHow about a 9′ tall pile of shite to represent Ted Stevens and his glorious political party?
June 12th, 2007 at 12:12 pmGoogle dude?
Comment by Flaco — June 12, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
Go fu*k yourself dude.
June 12th, 2007 at 12:14 pmOhhhh, I see. It’s all the fault of Avery Wanbutted. I should have guessed.
June 12th, 2007 at 12:18 pm“Whatever happened to the tradition that a memorial only was erected after the person was buried and society had a chance to evaluate the person’s contribution from an objective distance?”
Comrade, this tradition is not part of the revolution and you are hopelessly mired in pre-911 thinking. You should report for re-education immediately.
June 12th, 2007 at 12:23 pmj swift
Funny. And scarily true. What traditions are to be “conserved”?
June 12th, 2007 at 12:29 pmBush will probably want the largest statue ever erected someday and it will enhance his crotch area > lol.
June 12th, 2007 at 12:31 pmHow about a 2 foot paper mache? And maybe stuff it with candied pork, and whack it with a stick till it explodes…oh wait, that would be a pinata.
IGNORE THE TROLLS – Debate good, Trolls bad
June 12th, 2007 at 12:37 pmWTF??????????? You gotta be kidding me!
June 12th, 2007 at 12:39 pmWhat’s next? George W. Bush Baghdad International Airport??
LOL DDB > I heard that the new US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, is going to be named for Bush baby. They can erect the huge statue of him on the highest roof in the 104 acre Vatican size complex. The statue can portray Bush giving the finger to the people of Iraq and show off his padded crotch too.
June 12th, 2007 at 12:44 pmDAVID OBEY IS THE NEW TED STEVENS:
Sen. Ted Stevens was the butt of blogosphere jokes and target of blog swarm after blog swarm for the better part of two years when Republicans controlled Congress. But with Democrats in control, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., appears to be working hard to replace Stevens as Blogosphere Enemy No. 1.
Obey caused an uproar among liberal bloggers in March when he referred to the “idiot liberals” opposed to an emergency spending bill for military operations in Afghanistan in Iraq. Now he is under fire from bloggers on the right for moving to undermine Democrats’ pledge to be more transparent about “earmarking” projects in lawmakers’ districts for federal spending.
June 12th, 2007 at 1:11 pm#34 Yes, it is not surprising. Papa Bush has a statue in the Austin? airport. IIRC it looks sort of like a college professor braving stiff breeze on his way to a Philosophy 101 class. I don’t think it is 9′ feet though, maybe Stevens is compensating.
#31 What traditions are to be “conserved�
Comrade, I realize this may be a rhetorical question but the answer is none. The glorious revolution and the dictatorship of reconstructionism must wipe clean all vestiges of the anti-establishment movement. The word hippie will be consigned to the dust bin of history. Adoration of Dear Leader and his supporters will focus our religio-corporate zeal on the goals of the revolution.
June 12th, 2007 at 1:48 pmA better tribute is put his picture in toilet paper rolls.
June 12th, 2007 at 1:53 pmWill it have feet of clay? That would be appropriate.
June 12th, 2007 at 1:57 pmrefresh
June 12th, 2007 at 1:57 pmThey should make the statue out of a series of tubes. (: Now that would be art!
June 12th, 2007 at 2:20 pmREMEMBER ME!!!!!!!!!!
/futurama fan, sorry
June 12th, 2007 at 2:42 pmNine feet, huh? What would that be, one foot for the legs, torso, arms and neck, and 8 feet for his giant fecal matter-filled head?
June 12th, 2007 at 3:34 pmPatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC)
DM
Glad you guys enjoyed it.
June 12th, 2007 at 5:08 pmBy “nine-foot-tall…statuary tribute†to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK),” I assume they’re simply gonna plant a 9 ft steel TUBE in the ground, correct?
June 13th, 2007 at 12:39 amI was born and raised in Alaska, lived there 43 years before moving to Florida. In 1994 I travelled overseas and came back through Customs at the pre-Ted Stevens Airport (his first wife died there in a plane crash, I think it should be named for her). Anyway, through a series of strange incidents, I wrote my one and only letter to my then Senator Stevens, questioning the actions of the customs agents and asking for clarification of why custom agents regularly strip searched female Asians, but didnt question male Asians. He wrote me back the nastiest letter (which since 911 I could kick myself for throwing away), saying I had alot of nerve to question the intergrity of the US Customs Service and that America had the finest security system in the world in screening out the bad guys entering America. WTG Teddie.
June 14th, 2007 at 8:43 amSince Ted will be headed for the klink in the future we’ll need to take his name off Anchorage International Airport. Jay Hammond the grand statesman of Alaska will have his name on AIA and then we should build a 100 ft statue of him, as he had integrity and cared for Alaska and Alaskans as he did his own family. Memorialize an honest man, not Ted the Racketeer!
June 17th, 2007 at 4:56 am