Is John Bolton Upset The North Koreans Once Called Him Bloodsucking ‘Human Scum’?
Is John Bolton Upset The North Koreans Once Called Him Bloodsucking ‘Human Scum’?
Ever since news broke that President Clinton was traveling to North Korea to finalize the release of two imprisoned American journalists, super-hawk John Bolton has been on the attack. While he first charged Clinton with “negotiating with terrorists,” he piled on even after the journalists’ release, saying Clinton was “rewarding bad behavior.”
While only a handful of conservatives have criticized Clinton, Bolton has been leading the charge — in major op-ed pages, television, and radio. After criticizing Clinton for “encouraging rogue states” on NPR yesterday, the host asked Bolton what he would have done instead. “[W]orked harder with China,” was all he could muster. And last night on Fox News, Bolton continued the attack, saying that Clinton had endangered the lives of Americans who travel abroad:
BOLTON: Obviously, we’re happy that they’re released, and obviously, the president has a responsibility to try and protect Americans. But he needs to do it in a way that doesn’t endanger other Americans in the future by making it look profitable for terrorist groups or rogue states to grant other Americans and get ransom. … So this is the question looking forward. What Americans now are not important enough for Bill Clinton to come and secure their release?
Watch it:
But what explains Bolton’s harsh backlash against Clinton over the past few days? Back in 2003, when he was serving as U.S. Undersecretary of State in the Bush administration, the North Koreans called Bolton “human scum” and refused to negotiate with him because of his attacks on the North Korean regime:
North Korea said Saturday that it won’t deal with U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton because he described Kim Jong Il as a “tyrannical dictator” and said “life is a hellish nightmare” for many North Koreans. Bolton had made the remarks during a visit to South Korea last week.
“Such human scum and bloodsucker is not entitled to take part in the talks,” a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said, according to the North’s official KCNA news agency. “We have decided not to consider him as an official of the U.S. administration any longer nor to deal with him.”
Maybe this is more about Bolton holding a grudge than it is about criticizing President Clinton for securing the release of two Americans being detained in North Korea.
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I read once that when Bolton gets really upset, the hairs in his mustache stands up on end, kinda like a cat. Someone pointed out that lit “looks like he has a giant, oversized caterpillar vibrating on his upper lip.”
August 6th, 2009 at 11:34 amIs John Bolton Upset The North Koreans Once Called Him Bloodsucking ‘Human Scum’?
Upset? Bolton’s scratching his head wondering how they got to know him so well.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:35 amMaybe we should have brokered an exchange with Il. We get the two journalists and the NK gets Conryn for hard labor.
Deal?
August 6th, 2009 at 11:35 amFrom wikipedia:
Funny how the uberhawks are also the ubercowards. Combat deaths are for the “unchosen” I guess.
PEACE
August 6th, 2009 at 11:36 amBolton is one of the “Americans” who cannot travel abroad, but, only because any other democratic government will arrest him and try him for his role in the Bush/Cheney War Crimes. He’ll say anything to help cover up his lies and crimes and direct the light of attention somewhere else.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:36 amI mean Bolton in 4, but then again we could’ve thrown him in on the deal.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:36 amBolton: So this is the question looking forward. What Americans now are not important enough for Bill Clinton to come and secure their release?
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Huh? WTF??? Is Bolton serious?
Could he possibly, truly believe this comment makes sense?
August 6th, 2009 at 11:36 amwalruses don’t suck blood. They are bottom feeders. Foraging in the muck.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:36 amBolton would’ve liked it better if we let the jornalists rot. What a colossal scum.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:37 am***
i don’t agree with the n. koreans.
calling bolton human scum is an insult
to human scum.
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August 6th, 2009 at 11:37 amMr Bolton claims that Mr Clinton is rewarding bad behavior and validating North Korea’s regime by negotiating and using diplomacy rather than bombing and using sanctions. Isn’t that what MSM is doing by giving John Bolton and the failed Bush regime air time?
Perhaps we should use their tactics and start denying them air time and press, better yet we should simply invade the American Enterprise Institue and put them all on trial for crimes against humanity.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:38 amSo your theory is that Bolton objected to being characterized as “human”? The rest of the description seemed surprisingly spot on coming from North Korea and all.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:39 amdont worry, he has been called worse.
the only thing that i am really concerned with him being called is guilty at a war crimes trial.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:39 amWell that clears up by Bolton is so up set as he was put in his place and was worthless in doing the job he was appointed to do. I must agree with the statement made by the North Koreans as it was correct. But we had many wacko scums working in the Bush Administration along with racist, drug addicts, crooks and all liars. A hell of a group as we now see the chaos and crimes they committed over the 8 year crime wave.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:39 amNorth Korean officials think John Bolton is a bloodsucking human scum? Well, so do a lot of Americans. This common ground seems like a perfect starting point for diplomatic talks.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:41 amWell, they called him “human.” Isn’t that enough?
August 6th, 2009 at 11:41 amPLC, have I told you lately how much I love your posts?
PEACE
August 6th, 2009 at 11:42 am——————————————————————————–
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joecantwell says:
i don’t agree with the n. koreans.
calling bolton human scum is an insult
to human scum.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:46 am—————————–
Way to go Joe. I was going to say I agreed for the first time with the North Koreans, but you said it much better!
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Wafting breeze echoes
August 6th, 2009 at 11:46 amCool cave, water droplets fall
Bolton’s ears draining
Bolton is one of the most obnoxious, lying, violence-loving Repubs ever, and that’s saying a lot. Why does anyone put this proven loser on the air?
August 6th, 2009 at 11:46 amWow, I never thought I’d agree with Kim Jong-Il in my life, but the Walrus is most certainly a sucker of scum if there ever was one.
Lying liar extraordinaire.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:47 amWe have decided not to consider him as an official of the U.S. administration any longer nor to deal with him.”
Even the then-republican majority in the Senate said the same!
August 6th, 2009 at 11:49 amBOLTON: Obviously, we’re happy that they’re released, and obviously, president Reagan has a responsibility to try and protect Americans. But he needs to do it in a way that doesn’t endanger other Americans in the future by making it look profitable for terrorist groups or rogue states to grant other Americans and get ransom. …
Fixed it for you, John-boy. Or did you forget that Reagan’s deals with terrorists actually spurred additional hostage-taking?
August 6th, 2009 at 11:50 amIntrepid says:
Bolton would’ve liked it better if we let the jornalists rot.
Clinton was doing a personal favor for his old friend Al Gore. End of story.
Bolton claims Clinton endangered American civilians and soldiers. But only in his fever-racked brain.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:50 amBolton forgot about the plane load of cash we sent to Iraq??
Bolton forgot about the missiles we gave Iran?
Bolton sure isn’t aware of much of the stuff someone in his position should be.
Seems he’s just another lying, game-playing Wingnut Welfare Queen.
It takes one big moustache to keep that amount of bullshit conttained inside one man.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:50 amAnd like Stephanie Miller just said, if Bush had pulled this off, he would have come off the jet in a pilot suit with a megaphone and Mission Accomplished at the front of the hanger
August 6th, 2009 at 11:51 amMaybe Bolton would have been happier if we trade the women for GUNS to North Korea . .
Where’s OLLIE NORTH?
August 6th, 2009 at 11:51 amJust saying calling him scrum and a bloodsucker well that isnt a insult to them.
a insult would have been if they said
he`s a poor uninsured public educated person.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:52 amI’m wondering why bolton was even there? He has no official capacity.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:53 amBOLTON: Obviously, we’re happy that they’re released, and obviously, the president has a responsibility to try and protect Americans. But he needs to do it in a way that doesn’t endanger other Americans in the future.
“… And this trip endangered a certain segment of Americans — namely, Republican Americans. Any success on any stage by a Democratic figure endangers Republican Americans. I am against any such reckless endangerment” Bolton continued.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:53 amBolton is living up to everything that the N. Koreans have said:
“Such human scum and bloodsucker is not entitled to take part in the talks,” a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said, according to the North’s official KCNA news agency. “We have decided not to consider him as an official of the U.S. administration any longer nor to deal with him.”
Deal with it John and go back to your neo-nut hole…
August 6th, 2009 at 11:54 amTo Tombaker,
Bolton also forgot about Ollie North, who lied to Congress in the Arms for Hostages Deal and who now has his own show on The FAUX Network.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:54 am“Such human scum and bloodsucker is not entitled to take part in the talks,” a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Doesn’t John Bolton appreciate flattery?
August 6th, 2009 at 11:58 amIsn’t it amazing how foreign policy under the Right Wing has been driven by personal vendettas rather than true statesmanship?
August 6th, 2009 at 11:58 amWell, that can’t be right. We all know he doesn’t have one.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:58 amBolton is like the little child in a toy store throwing a temper tantrum when the parent says no.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:58 amI think Bolton is just jealous of Lil Kim’s sunglasses and pantsuits.
PEACE
August 6th, 2009 at 12:02 pmlapdogs says:
And like Stephanie Miller just said, if Bush had pulled this off, he would have come off the jet in a pilot suit with a megaphone and Mission Accomplished at the front of the hanger…
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You forgot the codpiece. He would have been wearing a codpiece, fer sure.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:06 pmSpencer’s mom says:
I think Bolton is just jealous of Lil Kim’s sunglasses and pantsuits.
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Yer right spot on money, mom.
Bolton can only DREAM about wearing sunglasses and polyester like that and NOT getting laughed outta the room.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:07 pmWhat a coincidence that’s what I call him except I add mother *ucker to it
August 6th, 2009 at 12:07 pmFred says:
I’m wondering why bolton was even there? He has no official capacity.
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Perhaps John intended to make a great personal sacrifice. Perhaps he was there to offer Kim a mustache ride if Korea would let the 2 women go and is now upset because Clinton swooped in and stole his thunder.
Perhaps poor John hand already given Kim the ride when Clinton swooped in and grabbed all the glory for himself.
Only 2 people know the truth about this, and Kim ain’t talking.
Nor is he complaining.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:11 pmdasm says:
“Bolton is one of the most obnoxious, lying, violence-loving Repubs ever, and that’s saying a lot. Why does anyone put this proven loser on the air?”
The tentacles of PNAC run deep dasm. Check out the list of original signatories of the PNAC mission statement sometime. The list is jam-packed with many popular war-mongering, beligerent, anti-American criminals like Bolton, Dick Cheney, Ari Fleischer, William Kristol, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Scooter Libby just to name a few. This organization (now conveniently re-branded as FPI) is supported by a check list of the most anti-American muther fockers ever to disgrace our nation. And EVERY ONE of these criminals was intricately involved in American policy making throughout the Bush Administration. To a one they deserve the fate of traitors to America as their main objectives were and still are to the benefit of a select few powerful individuals at the expense of American soldiers lives and the financial ruin of our Nation through endless military operations geared to make them money and rule the world with an iron fist. Unfortunately as of 1990 with the passing of The Criminal Justice Act, the death penalty no longer applies.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:12 pm***
ot but worth noting:
rupert’s woes continue.
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meanwhile he’s got a plan to
charge for the wingnuts for his
online propaganda.
:)
not a good time to be rupert,
is it?
:)
August 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pmspenser’s mom, thank you. *blushing*
August 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pmALERT! ALERT!
LIMBAUGH IS GETTING READY TO TALK ABOUT THINK PROGRESS.
He is his usual batsh¡t crazy self today.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:18 pmI’m assuming they asked for Bolton’s opinion because Liz Cheney was unavailable.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:20 pmgood – maybe The Drugster will send over some of his “crack” interns to gin up a froth on some threads, that he can then use to “prove” there’s a “hate site” operating here…
August 6th, 2009 at 12:22 pmMathazar says:
I’m assuming they asked for Bolton’s opinion because Liz Cheney was unavailable.
She’s oiling her father’s clogged rump!
August 6th, 2009 at 12:23 pmWhy have the Cheneys been quiet lately? Something bothering them on possible indictments? Just wondering. I’d have thought they would have been first in line to say that this diplomatic success with a happy ending was a disaster.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:24 pmIn the real world the release of two Americans is a good thing, in Repub bizarro world not so much. In real world Bolton would be a homeless and living under a bridge, in Repub bizarro world he is a talking head on Fox News.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:27 pmMegaloptera McWars says:
She’s oiling her father’s clogged rump!
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Gee, McWars… t’anks fer the visual…
***TRoS violently shaking head in vain attempt to dislodge image***
My breakfast just voted unanimously to withdraw from my stomach.
Look out… here comes the Surge™!!!
August 6th, 2009 at 12:29 pmALERT
Limbaugh says Think Progress falsely connected McGuffy to FREEDOM WORKS. Says TP made up stuff that actually appeared in McGuffy memo. Says this is on par with the Dan Rather/National Guard story….He’s now quoting Richard Wolfe… Limbaugh says the Dems are unravelling.
(Limbaugh must be afraid of something or else he wouldn’t be bringing up and lying about TP reporting.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pmAnother thing; the Right hates you calling them ANGRY MOB…so keep it up.)
joe cantwell says:
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ot but worth noting:
rupert’s woes continue.
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Boy… did I call that one six months ago or what!!
Two words for ya, Rupert: Tee… and Hee…
August 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pmWhat exactly is the “ransom” that has been given for the journalists release? Oh, never mind. I err in trying to apply logic to yet another right wing screed.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:34 pmAIO says:
ALERT
Limbaugh says Think Progress falsely connected McGuffy to FREEDOM WORKS. Says TP made up stuff that actually appeared in McGuffy memo.
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If the Bloated One feels it’s necessary to lie about it on his radio show, it means the coverage is taking its toll.
Pour it on, fellas.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:39 pmThe Dear Leader is about something.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:40 pmAIO says:
“ALERT! ALERT!
LIMBAUGH IS GETTING READY TO TALK ABOUT THINK PROGRESS.”
talk about bloodsucking human scum!
August 6th, 2009 at 12:44 pmHey, Limpdick! Eat sh!t and die s l o w l y whilst in a great deal of pain!
“Such human scum and bloodsucker is not entitled to take part in the talks,” a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said, according to the North’s official KCNA news agency. “We have decided not to consider him as an official of the U.S. administration any longer nor to deal with him.”
Bah, silly North Koreans, they confused Bolton with Cheney who is the real bloodsucker. Bolton is just a bug eating Renfield.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:47 pmSo if a member of John Bolton’s family is imprisoned in a foreign nation that is openly hostile to the US, no one should do anything and just let the Bolton family member rot in prison. I get it. Let’s not reward bad behavior.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:56 pmWho says the North Koreans are dumb?? The reading of his character is masterly.
August 6th, 2009 at 1:09 pmfrom Examiner dotcom 7/24 from a story about NK insulting Hillary (and Bush):
North Korea’s harshest language was saved for V.P. Dick Cheney who they once called a “cruel monster and blood-thirsty beast.”
August 6th, 2009 at 1:12 pmAh, shows how little Rush knows. The Dan Rather/National Guard story was a set-up. Notice how the Bush AWOL story was never fully investigated.
August 6th, 2009 at 1:12 pmHe’s upset because he doesn’t actually suck blood…He has small children drained and he drinks it from a glass like a civilized person.
August 6th, 2009 at 1:27 pmCappy says:
“He’s upset because he doesn’t actually suck blood…He has small children drained and he drinks it from a glass like a civilized person.”
Would that be Dead Baby Juice?
August 6th, 2009 at 1:32 pmBolton impresses me as the type that likes to pick fights and takes being called “human scum” as a badge of honor.
Also as they type that just wants to destroy N Korea because we fought them in the 50s.
August 6th, 2009 at 1:44 pmBolton’s just pissed that Obama’s two for two in hostage retrieval.
Somali pirate shot by Navy SEAL team–one ship captain.
Big Dog Clinton to North Korea–two journalists.
Seems like the score is two, maybe three to nil. The last one was a ‘two-fer’.
That is all.
August 6th, 2009 at 1:55 pmOh man. If being called a bloodsucking human scum upset Bolton, he’s going to be just furious when he hears what I’ve been calling him.
I guess this means I shouldn’t be expecting a Christmas present from him this year, right?
August 6th, 2009 at 2:12 pmThe North Koreans must be a pretty good judge of character. They nailed it right the first time, John Bolton is a “BLOOD SUCKING HUMAN SCUM.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:22 pmThe only American endangered by overseas travel would be Bolt-On, and the administration had nothing to do with people worldwide hating this mofo’s gucking futs.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:49 pmMaybe Bolton harbors a secret and powerful man-crush on Clinton. He thinks that it was extremely rewarding for Kim Jong Il to receive him.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:55 pmOk, OK, so even the North Koreans get it right every now and then. Blood-sucking human scum? Maybe, although Bolton isn’t anywhere near as entertaining as Trueblood.
I still maintain that he’s from the idiot class that hasn’t figured out yet that you cannot talk someone into or out of some policy if you don’t talk to them. All the crap he throws out is school yard squabble BS.
Legitimize the North Koreans. Sorry, dude, they own the ground they’re standing on. We don’t approve of what they’re doing, politically, socially, militarily, etc, but not talking to them isn’t going to bring them around. No, they’ve never signed on to a peace treaty, so we could be at war in an instant, but not talking to them is not going to bring them around.
We could go on like that all day, and on and on, and John Bolton and his pals will never get it, mostly because they don’t want to get it. If they don’t have the boogeyman card to play, they’re SOL and they know it.
August 6th, 2009 at 3:00 pmgully foyle, I was thinking along those same lines, but I think it goes deeper than that. The ship captain was rescued from the Somali pirates in an operation where the only casualties were three pirates. The journalists were rescued without a shot fired, other than the photographer’s shot of Kim and the Big Dog sitting in front of a gaudy mural (and Clinton had his grumpy face on, lest anyone think he enjoyed being there).
To someone like Bolton, this demonstrates a complete failure of the Obama administration: Two perfect, precious excuses to start unjustified wars wasted like that. Just thrown away, as if it is somehow enough to merely protect American citizens without making the citizens of other, inferior countries SUFFER and PAY. How can American prestige possibly survive if we can’t rely on fear and have to somehow make do with just having the respect of other countries?
Yes, it’s a sad, sad time. To be John Bolton.
August 6th, 2009 at 3:30 pmComing from North Korea, that is a compliment. I would be more worried if North Korea liked him. So when the next idiot gets too close to the North Korean border and gets arrested will Billy Clinton go to North Korea again to bail them out? That goes for the Iranian border, too.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:02 pmkwsventures says:
More bilge and talking points from you. Do you ever stray from your ignorance and at least TRY to make a cogent argument?
August 6th, 2009 at 4:21 pm75. kwsventures sez:…
Yep. Maybe that’s what Slick Willy will do, kwsv. Just go over and talk to them, after someone else talks to them for about 4 or 5 months. Talk to them until they want to scream from policy wonk boredom. Chat them up.
You cannot TALK them into or out of anything if you won’t TALK to them. This is not some playground where you can holler for the teacher that Kimmie is being mean. Kimmie owns his own fracking country. We don’t like that? We don’t like his policies? We think he’s nasty, brutish, and short? So effing what? If we don’t talk to him, nothing changes.
This is not summer camp among the Amish either; you cannot shun some two bit tyrant like Kim. He’s there, he has enough diplomatic relations and customers that he can occasionally thumb his nose at us. You wanna go to war with him? We’ve already been there, done that, with his daddy, and it didn’t work out too well. The Russians and Chinese were daddy’s friends and we ended up stalemated on the battlefield. Sure, we could’ve nuked ‘em or some such thing; just what the world would’ve needed and appreciated – the northern part of the Korean Penninsula as smoking radioactive crater. The South Koreans have done well, and that’s good, but the people in the North are still screwed.
Ignoring Kim Il Twerp isn’t going to change that, and if we are not in contact with the NK establishment, continuously, pissing moaning and whining, they will definitely go their own way. And we, along with the devil, can take the hindmost.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:32 pmpoor ol’ kwsvulture,
never enough money or life pissed away to suit him…
August 6th, 2009 at 4:34 pmIf Bolton held a grudge against everyone who regards him as a bloodsucking human scum (or worse. I think the N. Koreans gave him the benefit of the doubt for being human.), he would have to avenge himself on over half the western world and most of the eastern.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:13 pmThe North Koreans seem to be on to something here.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:19 pmBolton is a neocon that wants the U.S.to be in conflicts all over the world. I’m not a big fan of the U.N.but this guy couldn’t get 2 Cubs fans to agree to love their Cubs.I wonder though, is Bolton out there because Tricky Dick Cheney had to go back in hiding? How is he somebody that should be listened to? Does ineffectiveness make you a Republican cover boy.The next 2 guys who will shoot off their mouths will probably be Tom Delay and Trent Lott.Well maybe not ,they are too busy scooping money into their pockets as lobbyists.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:51 pmWhat would Scum Bolton’s response to this situation have been if the women who were released had been his daughters?
August 6th, 2009 at 9:23 pm