Recycled Hate Speech

Yesterday I wrote about Nevada congressman Jim Gibbons' speech to a group of supporters which suggested that liberals should be used as human shields in Iraq. Well, thanks to a great Atrios catch, we learn that this dumbass statement was not even his own dumbass statement:

Here we have a 2003 speech by Alabama state auditor Beth Chapman:

I’m here tonight because men and women of the United States military have given their lives for my freedom. I am not here tonight because Sheryl Crowe, Rosie O’Donnell, Jane Fonda or Phil Donahue, sacrificed their lives for me...

Tonight, I say we should support the President of the United States and the U.S. military and tell the liberal, tree hugging, hippy, Birkenstock wearing, tie-dyed liberals to go make their movies and music and whine somewhere else.

After all, if they lived in Iraq, they wouldn’t be allowed the freedom of speech they’re being given here today - - ironically, they would be put to death at the hands of Sadam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden.

I want to know how the very people who are against war because of the loss of life, can possibly be the same people who are for abortion?

They are the same people who are for animal rights but against the rights of the unborn.

The movie stars say they want to go to Iraq and serve as human shields for the Iraqis, I say let them buy a one-way ticket and go.

All of these lines are in Gibbons' speech.

This kind of stuff took Joe Biden out of a Presidential campaign. Will it take Jim Gibbons out of the House? OK, will it get a speechwriter fired or something?

UPDATE: The local press in Gibbons' state has picked up the story. They even called Chapman herself. Gibbons' defense is "it was just something that was emailed to me." So that's how GOP legislators get their speeches? Over the transom? That's hilarious. I guess it's a cost-cutting move to save on a speechwriter staff. I guess his next speech will be about a "new Cialis offer."