# How will the Tea Party spin the CT shooting? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 15, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098 "2012-12-15T07:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/81 "2012-12-19T02:05:14Z")
> [@PhiloVance](#): > > TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already. Next thing is that you will retrocon “teabagging” into a word they didn’t use first. ---
**Author:** ![CJJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/82 "2012-12-19T15:26:24Z")
**How will the Tea Party spin the CT shooting?** In case you aren’t following the Westboro Baptist Church’s [Twitter feed](http://www.examiner.com/article/westboro-church-tweets-about-connecticut-shootings-fag-marriage-is-to-blame): > [@](#): > > On Friday afternoon, ABC’s Josh Elliot tweeted that Connecticut is the “2nd-deadliest school shooting in US history.” > > (Margie) Phelps replied with a hateful tweet, “One of first states to have fag marriage. #ConnectDots #PicketFunerals.” > > The Associated Press tweeted “@BarackObama says nation must take meaningful action after school shooting” to which Westboro Church member Phelps replied, “Yes. Stop marrying fags & mourn for your sins.” The hashtag #PicketFunerals was confirmed in a [follow-on tweet](http://www.examiner.com/article/westboro-church-will-picket-sandy-hook-funerals-god-sent-the-shooter) from church member Shirley Phelps-Roper: > [@](#): > > Shirley Phelps-Roper and other WBC hate mongers tweeted on Dec. 15, 2012 that “Westboro will picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgement…” > > Using hashtags including #FagMarriageDoomsCT, #GodSentTheShooter, #BloodOfThoseBabes, and #TeachYourChildrenToFearGod, the Westboro Baptist Church supporters are spreading hate messages and threatening to disrupt the memorials for the 20 children and 6 adults who died at the hands of gunman Adam Lanza on Friday. The hacker collective Anonymous has responded by publishing private information on church members including email, home addresses, and phone numbers (don’t think I should link it here; google if you like). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/83 "2012-12-19T15:32:17Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Conspiracy theory. The CIA, UN, Trilateral Commission, and ACORN somehow forced the shooter into making the attacks, so that the Kenyan-born “President” Barack **HUSSEIN** Obama would have an even better excuse to personally take away the guns of true American patriots. > [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > So, y’all’r ridiculing conservatives for how you imagine they might respond? Classy. [Yep](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=676015). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/84 "2012-12-19T15:35:52Z")
> [@CJJ](#): > > **How will the Tea Party spin the CT shooting?** > > In case you aren’t following the Westboro Baptist Church’s . . . Really, what’s WBC got to do with the Tea Party or anything else? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/85 "2012-12-19T15:58:07Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Next thing is that you will retrocon “teabagging” into a word they didn’t use first. They used to call themselves teabaggers, i dunno in what context they would use teabagging. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/86 "2012-12-19T16:15:20Z")
What difference does it make how the Tea Party spins this? Seriously, I don’t get it…who cares at this point what they think or how they spin this? What seems to be important is how the Liberals and Democrats are spinning this, since they seem to be getting the most traction. This is probably the biggest opportunity that the anti-gun crowd has had in years, maybe a decade, and they are spinning it for all it’s worth and trying to get as much mileage out of it as they can. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/87 "2012-12-19T16:21:49Z")
> [@XT](#): > > What difference does it make how the Tea Party spins this? Seriously, I don’t get it…who cares at this point what they think or how they spin this? Who said that they care how they will spin it? This is teh srs message board? If the OP had put this in IMHO or MPSIMS it would most likely be moved to Elections anyway. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/88 "2012-12-19T16:27:35Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > They used to call themselves teabaggers, i dunno in what context they would use teabagging. Could conceivably refer to any Tea-Party-related activity, e.g., “Let’s all go to Washington on Memorial Day for some teabagging.” ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/89 "2012-12-19T16:53:52Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IMO they will find a tasteless, completely inappropriate take on it, and run with it. What do Dopers think that take will be? The TEA Party spin will be that liberal gun control policies and cultural rot caused the CT massacre or at least worsened the body count. They will, or likely have already, support the idea that more guns and more Jesus are needed in schools. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/90 "2012-12-19T17:47:20Z")
The proud stalwarts of the Tea Party Have lusts that are hearty but naughty Such as offering their sacks As mid-morning snacks To all and to sundry! How haughty! ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/91 "2012-12-19T17:59:22Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It’s being reported that Rick Synder has decided to veto the law that would have allowed the carrying of concealed weapons in Michigan schools. Read this with Rick Perry still on my mind from BridgetBurke’s post and thought, “How’s Perry going to accomplish that?” Good thing for Snyder this bill didn’t arrive on his desk the day before the tragedy. 'Cause he probably would’ve signed it. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/92 "2012-12-19T18:51:28Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Their spin: “If only we armed the teacher, this never would’ve happened.” That statement is quite true, especially for teachers plural. > [@](#): > > “If only we allowed kids to pray in schools, their prayers would’ve been answered, and they wouldn’t have died.” etc. I am having a great time nailing people who say that by asking them a simple question: oh, so the kids should have been praying to the same god that sent the shooter to their school in the first place. How does that possibly make sense? I then watch their facial expressions resemble that of a guppy. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/93 "2012-12-19T21:34:05Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I am having a great time nailing people who say that by asking them a simple question: oh, so the kids should have been praying to the same god that sent the shooter to their school in the first place. How does that possibly make sense? Easy. Extortion. Pray or else. “Nice school you lowly mortals have here. Be a shame if something happened to it…perhaps you could use some ‘protection,’ heh heh heh…” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/94 "2012-12-19T22:30:52Z")
God’s a publicity whore, and insists on public adoration. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/95 "2012-12-19T22:37:52Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > God’s a publicity whore, and insists on public adoration. Or so the heads of all His fan clubs tell us . . . One is tempted to suspect their lack of bias or vested interest in the question . . . ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/96 "2012-12-20T00:38:21Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Ah, of course, so the solution to one crazy murderer with a gun is another crazy murderer with a gun. Amazing how these guys give killers no credit. Unless the armed guard was going to spend his whole shift crouching behind protection, the first thing that would happen is that he’d get a bullet in the head, and then the killer would enter. I agree that your average teacher / administrator is not going to handle a crisis all that well. Does he/she want to get away from the kids to attack the intruder, leaving them unprotected, and stay and attract fire, some of which could hit them? Plus, these people must never have heard of the term arms race. Shooters would buy protective gear, and that would make it harder for the cops to take them out. This guy shot himself as soon as he heard the cops coming - if he had thought he might stand them off he might have killed even more kids. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/97 "2012-12-20T02:15:03Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > They used to call themselves teabaggers, i dunno in what context they would use teabagging. You “teabagged” your congressman by sending him a teabag, letting him know you were as mad as hell and you weren’t going to take it anymore. That was “teabagging” and they called themselves “teabaggers.” It was a laff riot all across the intertubes. I think a lot of them still don’t understand why it’s so funny. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/98 "2012-12-20T02:20:00Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > That statement is quite true, especially for teachers plural. And how are we going to pay for the initial and continuing training needed to turn hundreds of thousands of teachers into combat-ready soldiers? Many of these people have never even seen a gun except in a cop’s holster. ETA: Statements like yours are glossy and glib and take nothing of reality into account. Please think through a process before you support it. ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/99 "2012-12-20T03:23:39Z")
The Neanderthals are coming out of the woodwork: [http://www.newnownext.com/mike-huckabee-sandy-hook-shooting-newtown-blames-gays-god/12/2012/](http://www.newnownext.com/mike-huckabee-sandy-hook-shooting-newtown-blames-gays-god/12/2012/) (with my apologies to Neanderthals, who really don’t deserved to be grouped with such idiotic homo sapiens) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-tea-party-spin-the-ct-shooting/644098/100 "2012-12-20T04:20:19Z")
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