Didn’t you read Free Republic? It never happened, and if it did, it was just a Demonrat plant doing it to make the patriotic protesters look bad.
“Racial epitaphs?”
I’m assuming that would be something like, “Here lies Tyrone Washington, Negro. He liked fried chicken”.
Admittedly, not that easy to actually chant.
I think this page is being constantly updated. What specifically were you pointing to?
Apparently, blogger Ann Althouse thinks “so what?” to the whole racial epithet thing. The people are just expressing their righteous anger.
Also (from that link), Glenn Reynolds thinks the racism charges against the Tea Party movement are “bogus.” (I assume he argues that a few isolated incidents are blown out of proportion to condemn everyone in it.)
There was an incident where a protester in the house gallery began screaming stuff like “The people don’t want this!” and the GOP congressman were clapping.
Heh, I like how one post says
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I believe our very own Lonesome Polecat has made a few dire predictions of insurrection if the health care bill passes.
Well, to be fair, certain types of “insurrection” are not only okay, but healthy for the country. If the nation fairly sweeps in the Republicans in all forms in November, well, the people have spoken and that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
But really, I think about the causes and circumstances that it took to create the Civil War, and well, I just don’t see it here. I’m not sure what it WOULD take today.
Agreed.
I wouldn’t worry about it, though. It’s all talk, nothing more than rhetoric from the lunatic fringe.
You may want to ask Dr. Tilller about rhetoric from the lunatic fringe. If you can.
Of course you’re right, in that this type of thing comes up all the time by crazies, but many liberals are concerned that the right-leaning powers that be in politics and the media are encouraging them in order to leverage their passion into political power. (Heck, even many Tea Partiers think this.)
The concern is not so much their mere existence, but that they are being seemingly embraced rather than loudly pushed aside. Sort of what some conservatives feel moderate Muslims are doing with their more radical bretheren.
Exactly. The Right’s slogan these days is “Give me minority rule in all matters or we’ll give you DEATH!”
And what’s the left’s slogan? Take the worst people we can find, paint them all with the same brush, and tell everybody how awful they are?
You know better. And what’s worse is that you know you know better, yet you persist in attributing malice to everybody who might, for example, oppose health care reform on a more personal level than just opposing it because the Democrats are for it.
Under normal circumstances I’d say that I’m glad that this is finally going to be done, but the most troubling aspects of the wrangling will never go away, if only because people are so intent to point fingers and accuse that they latch on to things like this and hold them up as shining examples of that which they oppose.
For every one of these people that claim that they would take up arms because of some action by the government there are thousands that would do everything that they could to stop him from doing so. But he’s the face of the Republican Party now, and so all conservatives are militant lunatics. It’s such a shame that we place such a premium on honesty and then lie to ourselves every chance we get.
The Left aren’t the ones who have made the health care debate about fear. I for one would have been delighted if the discussion had been about the best way to improve health care in this country for the most people at the most reasonable cost, instead of lies about death panels and socialism. But that’s the tactic the Right chose to take. Not just a few nutjobs highlighted by the Left – that was the message put out time and again by the most prominent voices and media outlets of the Right.
So yeah, it must suck to be a non-stupid conservative and have the Republicans and Teabaggers choose to use such irrational and idiotic tactics on an important and highly visible issue like this. But be pissed at them, not at us.
I have never claimed that such people are the face of the Republican Party. I do, with reason, claim that such people are worth worrying about.
Quite frankly, it will suit me right down to the ground if some of these retarded shitheads get a nice lesson in the difference between perception and reality. For instance, the perception wingers have that pussy lefties don’t have guns–I’d LOVE to see a few of these pistol packing pinche gusanos find out the hard way that many things they think are true actually don’t stand up to real world testing.
None of those good teabaggers were doing anything to stop or rebuke the bad ones, though, were they? They never do.
Whaddaya want? As Mao said, “The Revolution is not a dinner party.”
Then those Republicans (not necessarily you) who found such tactics and comments appalling should have stood up more strongly against them rather than meekly letting them hijack their party. They should have gone to every teabagger rally, holding signs saying “Those guys don’t speak for ME—>” and such. The failure of more reasonable conservatives to attempt to stem the tide of lunacy in any significant way should weight heavily on their souls.
So one or two people act like jerks. So you immediately paint with a big brush and say all teabaggers are jerks.
Gee. You acted like a jerk in doing this. So I suppose it’s okay to say that all libs are jerks because you did.