Taki Theodoracopulos

A Time to Spit

Posted by Taki Theodoracopulos on September 27, 2007

The Waverly Inn on Bank Street, here in the Big Apple, is the hottest ticket in town. Owned by Graydon Carter, the Vanity Fair honcho, it became the chicest place for dinner even before it opened. (Graydon opened it unofficially for friends of his). It is located on a quiet Greenwich Village street which would do justice to an Edward Hopper painting, and the interior resembles the way small inns used to look like before Planet Hollywood and other such atrocities came into being. The clientelle is mostly bold-faced names, artsy fartsy types and lotsa young people. The service is impeccable and the atmosphere friendly and gay, and I’m using the g-word in the old fashioned sense.

On Wednesday evening, September 26, I took my wife and son to dinner there as it was Alexandra’s birthday. In the next booth was a large and noisy party headed by a music lawyer called Grubman, father of Lizzie Grubman, the woman who mowed down 16 people waiting in line outside a Hamptons nightclub with her SUV once she had been refused entrance to the dump. (Grubman got away with a few weeks inside and lots of crocodile tears). There was also Mort Zuckerman, the real estate shark who poses as a writer and pundit and some other people I didn’t recognize.

After a very pleasant dinner despite the noise by Grubman, a cake was served and we were ready to leave. That is when my old friend Edward Jay Epstein came to my table to say hello. Ed is a good writer and a great discoverer of facts people in government don’t like to be discovered, and I have great affection for him. We go back a very long way. “We’re in the back room for a dinner in honor of Paul Wolfowitz,” he told me. I asked him to repeat it. “You are what?” I exclaimed. “You actually are sitting down with that lying pig who has caused so much death and is responsible for tens of thousands being maimed and killed?” Ed saw that I meant what I was saying and walked away.

That is when I decided to go into the back room and spit in that bum’s face. It was, I figured, the least I could do. But my wife beat me to the punch. She got up and announced that it was her birthday and that if I went to the back I would ruin an otherwise good evening. “Please,” she begged me, “do it for me.” Like a coward, I gave in. The interesting part was that some of the nice waiters had witnessed the scene and commiserated with me, saying, “Isn’t it disgusting that we have to serve such a man....” or words to that effect.

Now I know that gentlemen do not go around spitting on people, but neither do unelected officials like the pig Wolfowitz go around lying and manufacturing evidence in order to take a country to war—a country that in the past was looked upon as a beacon of democratic freedoms and fairness. Just imagine that if every time Wolfowitz, Feith, Kristol, Podhoretz, Perle, Frum, Abrams—Bush and Cheney are immune because of their elected position—showed their faces, they were spat upon by outraged citizens. Imagine they could be made to feel responsible for their past propaganda and the actions that flowed from their words. What would result? America would be a far, far better place in which to live.

We should not take these liars lying down. These scumbags have caused so much misery and death, so much suffering to so many people, they should not be allowed to walk around with impunity. Forget the think tanks and networks and newspapers which still employ them. The neo-cons know how to survive. The only way to make them realize that they cannot fool all the people all of the time, as they have done until now, is to humiliate them whenever and wherever they appear in public. I had my chance and blew it. Perhaps I will have a second chance while I’m still around.


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taki i am ecstatic to hear you voice your opinion of this pack of clowns (neocons). im still waiting for the day when an american politician steps up to the plate and announces to the nation that israels interests are not american interests.
we need john f kennedy in america today.

maybe there is hope for the gentlemanly class afterall.
chivalry is alive and well among the politically correct american citizenry.

Let’s hope the waiters found creative ways to show their disgust with that blood thirsty monster.

“humiliate them whenever and wherever they
appear in public”
It starts with you, Taki.
Personally I would be afraid to get within
20 feet of the guy. No doubt I would end up
on the losing end of a lawsuit.
I’m just a little guy.

Posted by willb on Sep 27, 2007.

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That tells you not to listen to your wife. Next time have the guts to do it and ask your wife to spit at the vermin too. People like Wolfowitz, Feith, Bolton and Abrams are the lowlife and scumbags of this world; agents of torture, mass murder and wars of aggression. It is time for the “Washington Trials”.

Hopefully next November we can articulate our displeasure by electing many politicians they despise.

We need a better way to fight the globalist and the neo-cons folks. We need to identify them and their business interests (what banks do they hold stock in, what companies do they hold great amounts of stock in, what compaines are they aligned with) and PRINT THEIR NAMES (hint, hint) and attack this group with our wallets, socially, professionally (don’t hire neo-con hacks for anything if you can help it), and emotionally if possible.

Posted by miles on Sep 27, 2007.

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Personally I think that spit is too mild.

We should stock on rotten tomatoes, rotten eggs, any
foul smelling substances and pass them around in hopes
of getting close to one of those scum.

Then we start pelting them.

Couldn’t agree with you more Taki - I’ve felt for some time that my differences with these folk go way beyond polite disagreement, and that simply expressing this disagreement in argument is not nearly enough.

Not only do the big hat Neocons deserve such treatment, but so do all their sundry sell-out supporters on the right and in the media. There are several people here in Oregon I hope I never run into in public because it will get very ugly, very quick (Dan Reinhard, of the Oregonian, and Lars Larson - you are both forewarned).

I would pay for an overpriced meal to be within earshot of Taki tearing into Herr Wolfowitz.  But hopefully any spit would be an inadvertent side effect of heated verbiage.  I don’t agree with ever spitting unless maybe it was done to you first, or you are about to be tortured to death.  But Taki’s wife, who is apparently a saint, made the right call - that’s what wives are for.
- I hope Taki is around for a long time.

Your wife was right Taki, never degrade yourself for scum.

Yet, I can feel the urge.

Taki - be carefull -If you keep calling Wolfowitz a pig, Fred Kagan will say you are not “serious.”

Posted by Anon on Sep 28, 2007.

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zuckerman and buchanan almost came to blows once on Mcglughlin group when hamas won the US sponsored elections.

Taki: Refraining from spitting on this guy was not cowardice on your part, but Prudence (one of the old, now forgotten virtues). I would, on just the emotional level, be pleased to bring his liver home for my cat. But it is not our Lord’s way.

I recommend an obscure Bible story, the story of David, Nabal, and Abigail:
(I Samuel 25:1-42)
David is about to avenge his dishonor by Nabal, when Abigail, Nabal’s wife, talks him out of it. Soon afterwards, Nabal kicks the bucket.
After all, God did say “Vengeance is mine, I will repay.”
HTH,
Phil Camp

I would advise against any act of the sort Taki suggests. People like Wolfowitz are cowards to the core and would have you arrested for assault. The government would trump the charges up to “terrorism” or “great bodily harm on a government official” or something like that so that you are facing life in prison.

A real man would simply set a time and place to settle it man to man. Taki must know there are no real men in that crowd.

Posted by Mark on Sep 29, 2007.

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@Taki

You should wear gloves all the time in case you run
across any of that crowd.

In which case you can slap him with your glove and say
“my seconds will call on your seconds” or some such.

I think that people would be a lot more circunspect on
what they advice if they though they might have to defend
it in the field of honor.

“In which case you can slap him with your glove and say
“my seconds will call on your seconds” or some such.”

...wouldn’t it be more appropriate to slap a
a chickenhawk with his own soiled knickers?

Papa said:

Ask not for whom the chickenhawk cackles…

Posted by Anon on Sep 30, 2007.

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Magnifico! What a story! What an image!  Impeach ‘em? Prosecute ‘em? Vote ‘em out of office?  No, first spit on ‘em. That’s what should come to mind when those despicable names and faces appear.  Thanks for giving us the best column and the most memorable visualization of the Bush years.

Forget gentlemanly class for a moment. I hope one of the waiters took his old schlong out and vigorously rubbed it into Wolfie’s mashed potatoes or whatever else that reptile was feeding on. Come to think of it, I hope ALL the waiters had a go!

That’s what you get from living in the Big Bagel.
Although my surroundings are far duller and only
interrupted by the the occasional klunking intrusion
of an Amish horse and wagon, I never have to
encounter the porcine company so disturbing to Taki.
Isolation does have its advantages.

@samuel burke

“we need john f kennedy in america today.”

You mean the guy who got us into Vietnam?
The guy who stole the election from Nixon using gangster money and influence? The son of the bootlegger?
Or some other kennedy?

Spit at Wolfowitz all you want, Taki, and spit once for me, but what about traitors like William F. Buckley?  In August 2005 I sent The American Conservative a letter, after reading your column about sailing with Mr. B aboard the Bushido.  I quote in part:  “Considering the name of your boat, I am amazed Mr. Buckley accepted your invitation to sail.  A smart Mussulman never trusts a Deunme, and Mr. Buckley never should have hired those Jewish political converts who pollute the pages of National Review, which, like the White House, Congress and the Ayn Rand Society, is now Zionist-occupied territory.  Editor Buckley was not a soup kitchen missionary.  He ought to have known it was victuals, not scripture, that attracted those schnorrers… As a Conservative, he should appreciate the mediaeval custom of sequestering oneself in a monastery to hide from disgrace, but like Graham Greene’s Harry Lime, he flaunts a Peter Pan-ish attitude toward his mistakes.  There are too many dead Iraqis and Americans for us to agree that Bill’s happiness makes the day.”

Mr Burch,

And don’t forget to mention JFK was an
“America Firster”, following in the footsteps
of his Nazi-fifth-columnist gangster father who
reeked of Fenian swine-sweat.

“miles” has it right: the only way to wreak vengeance in this country is to expose their financial relationships. Honor, duty, and all the other virtues are of no consequence when compared to money, power, and prestige.
Spitting, however viscerally pleasurable, can inevitably develop into prosecution for simple battery. But then, I have a feeling that they may have difficulty finding a sympathetic jury.
I also like the recycling of overripe fruits and veggies.

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