The most convoluted Tea Party=RAAACIST smear ever

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 18, 2010 10:40 AM

Amy Bishop is the Obama-loving professor who is accused of gunning down her University of Alabama colleagues over tenure denial. By all accounts, she was the beneficiary of soft-on-crime largesse throughout her violent life.

So, naturally, Bishop represents the rise of the rabid, right-wing Tea Party angry mob! Naturally!

Well, only in the unreality-warped minds of left-wing Tea Party-haters, that is. Via Legal Insurrection:

By all accounts, Bishop was extremely liberal and a huge Obama fan (to the point of being described by someone who knew her as being obsessed with Obama).

But in keeping with the attempt to smear as crazy the Tea Party movement specifically, and anyone who is not a Democrat generally, now comes the inevitable attempt to link the Tea Parties and Bishop, centered on a charge of shared racism.

It’s migraine-inducing, but read the whole thing.

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This latest attack is quite reminiscent of the Kentucky census worker hoax/smear, isn’t it?

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  1. #1
    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:45 am, Lindsay said:

    Is this all they have to fight the Tea Party? Pretty lame.

  2. #2
    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:50 am, max said:

    “Obama-loving professor”

    there’s one for the department of redundancy department…

  3. #3
    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:50 am, cheapseat said:

    Where do they find people who can conjure these fantasies into stories. Is the left now getting it’s spin from 14 year old high school students with zits and an inferiority complex they blame on people like their parents? Jeez this is the same sort of star wars planet far far away crap you read on the daily kos. You know that dweeb went through high school with a constant wedgie and no female companionship.

  4. #4
    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:51 am, Paul Revere said:

    It’s all they have left.

  5. #5
    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:51 am, d1carter said:

    The Tea Pary endures…lib heads explode…this is why real America has turned away from these lies and smears. 2010 is going to be so much fun!

  6. #6
    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:51 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Why don’t you focus on legitimate criticisms of the Tea Parties? Oh that’s right, you don’t want to acknowledge they exist!

  7. #7
    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:53 am, DBNinKY said:

    The Dems and their supporters are in charge of the gov (for now) aren’t they? Is this how they choose to spend their time – fighting the Tea Party movement – when an additional 40K+ Americans just joined the ranks of the unemployed?! Yeesh!

  8. #8
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:11 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:50 am, max said:
    “Obama-loving professor”

    there’s one for the department of redundancy department…

    There you go again! I’ve repeatedly told you a million times not to exaggerate!

  9. #9
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:18 am, beenthere said:

    Red State Skeptic said: Why don’t you focus on legitimate criticisms of the Tea Parties? Oh that’s right, you don’t want to acknowledge they exist!

    Then why don’t you take the awesome burden upon yourself and share your reasoned, insightful, and yet devastatingly witty criticisms of the Tea Parties? Oh, that’s right, they don’t exist!

  10. #10
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:19 am, rightwingrocker said:

    Let them continue with lame stuff like this.

    It just furthers our cause!

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  11. #11
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:20 am, spaceycakes said:

    Oh, I read the whole thing…

    Migraine inducing?

    Lawsy–that bunch is so contrary that cheese would loosen their bowels.

  12. #12
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:25 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:18 am, beenthere said:

    Read the link I provided. That is a major player in the TP world.

  13. #13
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:40 am, txvet2 said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:25 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Read the link I provided. That is a major player in the TP world.

    If YOU had read the link you provided, you’d know that he was kicked out of the event for carrying that sign. Just because he was quick enough to grab a website address doesn’t make him a “major player” in anything but your imagination.

  14. #14
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:41 am, Flyoverman said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:51 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Why don’t you focus on legitimate criticisms of the Tea Parties? Oh that’s right, you don’t want to acknowledge they exist!

    The criticisms you refer to may be legtimate. But I am curious as to why these “legitimate” critcisms are not focused on by the Left as opposed to this utter nonsense about Professor Bishop.

    Is the Left incapable of conducting a dispassionate debate? Is villification their only approach?

  15. #15
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:44 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    Who are they expecting to fool with these kinds of smears? Just about everyone is related to or close friends with someone who is a Tea Party protester or at least, a sympathizer. For a large percentage of Americans, the Tea Party isn’t something that happens on TV, it is something that is happening in in their real lives.

    That’s the problem with elitist messaging purporting to speak for “the people”. Completely disconnected from the big reality. It’s not just the Republican country club elites who live in blissful isolation.

  16. #16
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:46 am, txvet2 said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:41 am, Flyoverman said:

    As with everybody on the left, he’s desperate to change the subject away from the dishonesty of pretty much everything and everybody liberal.

  17. #17
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:47 am, graysonret said:

    The socialists have been working quietly, in the background, for decades. They slowly worked their way into our culture, values and legal system. With this congress and president, they have come out in the open to start their take-over. Being that way, they will use any means necessary to achieve that final goal of taking over the country, so expect to see all sorts of attacks and wild emotional outbursts now, and in the future, against anyone or “movement” that is against them.

  18. #18
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:49 am, Flyoverman said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:46 am, txvet2 said:

    As with everybody on the left, he’s desperate to change the subject away from the dishonesty of pretty much everything and everybody liberal.

    They do not seem particularly confident in being able to articulate their real positions on issues in a way that people would find compelling.

    Thus, they adopt the approach they take.

  19. #19
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:52 am, 29Victor said:

    Wow, that’s handy. Attempt to link anything that looks like a racially-motivated crime with the Tea Parties, then point to those crimes as evidence that Tea Partyers are racist.

    Pretty much parallels how my uncle forms his opinion of black people.

  20. #20
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:52 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Not to invoke Godwin, but Obama isn’t the first would be statist dictator, nor are his followers, to embrace the strategy of the “Big Lie”.

  21. #21
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:55 am, happyscrapper said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:51 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    I am SO.SICK.OF.YOU and your drivel. Go back to the bottom of the pond where you came from. I just want you lying, cheating, disgustng left-wing creeps out of my life.

  22. #22
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:57 am, happyscrapper said:

    With this congress and president, they have come out in the open to start their take-over.

    Fortunately, they are transparent in their agenda and we are on to them. Their undercover methods are now exposed. All we have to do now is STOP THEM! Tall order, but the patriots are up to it.

  23. #23
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:58 am, ronfromhollywood said:

    i think the press accusing tea party of racism need to be taken to task. force them to go to court with that, force them to show their true colors. force them to prove it and if wrong, get sued back. just to use their own methodology.

  24. #24
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:59 am, swede said:

    Pasadena Phil said:
    Who are they expecting to fool with these kinds of smears?

    This is the beauty of the present Dear Leader/Librocrat meltdown. Anyone with the brainpower God gave an egg plant hears this stuff and says “Huh?!?”

    To the “[pseudo]intellectual elite, this stuff is either self-evident truth or if uttered by the infallible messiah becomes reality via its divine source.

    Liberals: Your logic is flawed and your your conclusions non sequetor. Please continue!

  25. #25
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:03 pm, graysonret said:

    I am SO.SICK.OF.YOU and your drivel.

    Have pity on him, happyscrapper. He’s a Lenin “useful idiot”, recruited to support a political system that seeks to destroy his freedoms and liberty. He has been led to believe that government control over his life, is best; though, it has never succeeded, in history.

  26. #26
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:04 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Since the Demonratic Party began the evolution to a pro-Soviet Marxist party back in the 1930s, when Henry Wallace was first selected Agriculture Secretary and then FDR’s Vice President (thank God party leaders forced the incapacitated and near death FDR to pick Truman as a running mate in 1944), accelerated when George McGovern, a campaign volunteer for Wallace when he ran as a Third Party “Progressive (ie, Communist) candidate against Truman in 1948 with an NKVD agent as his campaign manager, took control of the party in 1972, the Democrats can’t camapign honestly.

    The American people won’t accept communism and a radical opposition to traditional families, and opposition to religiously enhanced moral structures.

    So almost all Democrats lie to get elected.

    Even Demorats in safely Marxist districts like Berkeley may wink and nod to their followers, but can’t openly claim communism, lest it be noticed by voters outside their district. The hard core revolutionary communists in Congress call themselvs the “Progressive Caucus”, and the MSM never points out they want undiluted communism.

    Demonrats from cenrist states and districts have to pretend not to be Communists, it would keep them from being elected. They have to lie about life issues. Bob Casey, Democrat governor of Pennsylvania, was denied podium time at the 1992 Demonrat convention that nominated Clinton because he was Catholic and respected human life, and the party had a strict litmus test. His son disgraces his memory, by running as a supposed “pro-life” Democrat, but then votes reliably for abortion on demand every chance he gets.

    There is a reference to Satan in the Gospel of John as “The Father of all Lies”. The Democrats are the “Party of All Lies”.

    Why they feel such hostility to bitter Bible clingers, if I had to guess.

  27. #27
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:15 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Off-topic Michelle, but when are you going to comment on selling Hot Air to Salem Communications? I am not comfortable to see Hot Air joining the same GOP propaganda machine that operates Townhall.com.

  28. #28
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:17 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    The American people won’t accept communism and a radical opposition to traditional families, and opposition to religiously enhanced moral structures.

    So almost all Democrats lie to get elected.

    Exactly.

  29. #29
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:19 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Off-topic Michelle, but when are you going to comment on selling Hot Air to Salem Communications?

    The guys who run the automated radio stations with the girl at the local IHOP doing local traffic reports between pancake deliveries?

  30. #30
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:20 pm, PKAmmoTroop said:

    Let me see if I got this straight:

    The Tea Party Movement is racist because Amy Bishop is white.

    I’m sorry but how gut wretchedly stupid can liberals be?

    In other words: the first rule of Liberal Tautological thought is obviously rule number one of Liberal Tautological thought.

  31. #31
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:21 pm, Southpaw said:

    Wow. A coordinated assault on the Tea Party Movement, who’d have expected that?

    I hate to post a link to the piece of crap New York Times, but here’s their hit piece on Tea Partiers:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/us/politics/16teaparty.html

    The establishment corruptocrats in both the Republican and Democratic parties have a vested interest in seeing the Tea Party Movement go away.

    We.Will.Fight.Back.

  32. #32
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:26 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Salem is a network that tailors itself to Christian audiences.

    I don’t think they, or many of their commenters, are tools of the GOP.

    That being said, Michael Medved, good on most social and economic issues, was pro-amnesty and endorsed John McCain in the 2008 primaries. Medved actually is a reformed liberal, and is usually a good guy, but seems to have some real discomfort with Palin, and where the pro-amnesty sentiment comes from, I have no clue.

    But Hewitt is good 90% of the time.

  33. #33
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:32 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:55 am, happyscrapper said:
    I am SO.SICK.OF.YOU and your drivel. Go back to the bottom of the pond where you came from. I just want you lying, cheating, disgustng left-wing creeps out of my life.

    Feel better? I know I do. I think we could use this vent as part of group therapy. Sometimes you just have to let it all out. :smile:

  34. #34
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:39 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    As long as PJM doesn’t get all whack, internet style, like Town Hall, I don’t mind.

  35. #35
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:40 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    That, and other than Mrs. Malkin, who is only tangentially associated with the PJM, as her blog is basically a stand alone blog, the only PJM blogger I read on a semi-daily basis is Belmont Club/Fernandez.

  36. #36
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:42 pm, letget said:

    OT,
    It seems a plane has crashed into a building, that has the IRS in it, in Austin. The pilots home is reported to have been set on fire prior to the crash.
    L

  37. #37
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:46 pm, Southpaw said:

    But Hewitt is good 90% of the time.

    Hugh is the best of all of them.

    (Now that I’ve plugged you Hewitt, can you have a talk with that radio station that preempts you for Lakers basketball. Gag.)

  38. #38
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:47 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Man with a major beef with the IRS has apparently flown a private plane into their office in Austin, TX.

    Oh, fire does appear to melt steel.

    Bad news, assuming he is white, Lamestream Media will examine his links to Tea Partiers, Republicans, Christianists et al with a scanning electron microscope.

  39. #39
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:50 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:42 pm, letget said:
    OT,
    It seems a plane has crashed into a building, that has the IRS in it, in Austin. The pilots home is reported to have been set on fire prior to the crash.

    On CNN, the DHS has already stated that this crach does not appear to be terrorist related.
    Boy that was quick!

  40. #40
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:51 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    crach = crash (slap!)

  41. #41
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:51 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:26 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Believe me, Townhall.com is the GOP mouthpiece in the blogosphere. Their masthead pretty much says just that and I was a blogger there (junior circuit) for two years. Believe me, that place is RINO central and Medved is about as bad as it gets. King of the Squishies.

  42. #42
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:54 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:
  43. #43
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:55 pm, John Deaux said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:51 am, Red State Skeptic said:
    Why don’t you focus on legitimate criticisms of the Tea Parties? Oh that’s right, you don’t want to acknowledge they exist!

    One guy with a sign who happens to grab a web site is hardly the leader of the Tea Party movement.

    Using your logic, Amy Bishop is the leader of the liberals. Care to renounce your liberalism?

  44. #44
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:56 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:51 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Why don’t you focus on legitimate criticisms of the Tea Parties? Oh that’s right, you don’t want to acknowledge they exist!

    Cartoon Character: you have no idea what the Tea Parties are. Now some dude/dud might claim the domain name but that does not make him the Tea Party. No we are NOT financed by the Insurance companies or anyone else. Want to be the Tea Party-makes some signs, make some calls and you can have one. I have done it twice now. Yes we know your hero Janeane Garofalo claims to know all about the Tea Parties but she is a cartoon character too.

    As we are a grass roots movement that DOES NOT fornicate and defecate on the lawn I know it is a mystery to you. But I guess that is to be expected of a Cartoon Character. There is NOT a Major player in the Tea Party however much they or you claim there are. As I said: Cartoon Character.

    Have Tea Bag
    Will Travel

    http://secondamendmentmarch.com/
    Countdown to April 19, 2010
    60 days until the march in D.C.!

  45. #45
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:58 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Pasadena Phil.

    I’d never accept Medved blindly on any issue after endorsing both amnesty and McCain.

    BTW, I think maybe some day we could naturalize the illegals with otherwise spotless criminal records (being in the country illegally is, of course, a crime on its own), but not before any lawbreakers and gangbangers are deported, and a nearly leakproof border security fence is built, because anything that smacks of amnesty will only draw more illegals to the US to await amnesty.

    So, I’ll think about some kind of limited amnesty, maybe, but it should be off the table 100% until the borders are iron-clad secured.

  46. #46
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:58 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:26 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Let me say this about Townhall’s Hugh Hewitt: Hewitt is at least intellectually honest. He is a Republican first and foremost and makes no bones about it. He will fight hard for the candidate he wants but once the party settles on a candidate, he is on board regardless of how obnoxious that candidate is. If that candidate is the candidate WE want, he can be counted on to fight hard for that candidate.

    Although he is an open-borders guy, it was his persuading Jon Kyl to send him a copy of the October 2008 amnesty bill to dissect it before the vote that ultimately killed that bill. Of course, once the November elections were behind us, Kyl then re-introduced the bill under his sponsorship.

    Medved and many others at Townhall.com are intellectually bankrupt and ambitious wannabes who are trying to impress the GOP elites in order to get hired as campaign consultants or Web Directors (Patrick Ruffini e.g., who I like) or for other jobs.

    The best place in the blogosphere for independent-minded conservatives and Tea Party voters is right here on MM. I would really be upset (and shocked) if Michelle compromised her independence.

  47. #47
    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:59 pm, John Deaux said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:47 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:
    Man with a major beef with the IRS has apparently flown a private plane into their office in Austin, TX.

    Oh, fire does appear to melt steel.

    What did Obama know and when did he know it?

    Gulf of Tonkin?

    Rosie, you with me on this?

  48. #48
    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:04 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:55 pm, John Deaux said:

    One guy with a sign who happens to grab a web site is hardly the leader of the Tea Party movement.

    Dale Robertson is more than “one guy with a sign.” He has a network of tea party chapters in all 50 states. Do some research. He was quoted at length and cited as “a founder of the tea party movement” by the Washington Times. He is clearly a major figure in the tea party movement.

  49. #49
    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:08 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:56 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Yes we know your hero Janeane Garofalo claims to know all about the Tea Parties but she is a cartoon character too.

    Pray tell, why are you all so fixated on Janeane Garafalo? She is not even on my radar, or on that of any other liberal I know. She was funny on the Larry Sanders Show. That was 15 years ago.

  50. #50
    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:09 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:55 am, happyscrapper said:

    I am SO.SICK.OF.YOU and your drivel. Go back to the bottom of the pond where you came from. I just want you lying, cheating, disgustng left-wing creeps out of my life.

    Umm. Sick of seeing evidence that contradicts what you think? OK! Stay happy, scrapper.

  51. #51
    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:14 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Garafalo was on the failed ‘Air America’, IIRC.

    Air America was doomed. NPR is government funded, and didn’t need to run commercials. Air America just couldn’t compete.

    Reminds me of Fox. Good business model. Let CNN, MSNBC, and the three broadcast networks compete for the liberal audience, and they have the conservative cable market share all to themselves. Brilliant, really.

    If Obama wanted to get rid of Fox, a conservative version of NPR on cable, no commercials, until Fox changed formats or filed Chapter 11. Then he could defund C-NPR.

    Good thing I’m not a Demonrat strategist and the loons in the party, even if they read this, couldn’t tolerate the idea of government support for conservatives.

  52. #52
    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:37 pm, txvet2 said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:51 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    I suppose you’re aware that Townhall also carries Michelle’s columns, along with such other squishes as Thomas Sowell?

  53. #53
    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:42 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 12:21 pm, Southpaw said:

    I hate to post a link to the piece of crap New York Times, but here’s their hit piece on Tea Partiers:

    I was skeptical of that article when I read it the other day. Until I found out that WorldNetDaily birther Joseph Farah spoke at the tea party convention. And saw that the John Birch Society is actually a sponsor at CPAC. It seems the more the Tea Partiers get in on the action, the more the mainstream right invites looney tunes. Beware.

  54. #54
    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:44 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    OK, just checked the internet, and maybe PJM and Hot Air isn’t the same thing.

    And, apparently, Mrs. Malkin owned Hot Air, run by Captain Ed and Allah Pundit.

    That, I didn’t know.

    I liked AllahPundit when he was linked at LGF, and provided major league baseball coverage. Now, I don’t go to Hot Air because I’m already registered at a bunch of blogs and forums.

    But AllahPundit, he used to be almost David “Iowahawk” Burge type funny.

  55. #55
    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:47 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:44 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    I liked AllahPundit when he was linked at LGF, and provided major league baseball coverage.

    Really? AP did baseball coverage? I missed out.

  56. #56
    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:50 pm, iamsaved said:

    When someone can’t handle their liquor, it’s best not to give them anything to drink. The same goes for liberals and guns. Maybe gun control for them isn’t a bad idea. Doesn’t look like you want to put a gun in the hands of flaming, left-wingers, they don’t seem to be able to handle them in a responsible manner.

    No wonder the left wants gun control – to protect them from themselves.

  57. #57
    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:54 pm, rightisright said:

    why let the trolls get the best of you, ignore them as they have nothing but hate and hostility to offer you.

  58. #58
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:02 pm, happy2behere said:

    Red State occasionally says some things I agree with, but I love John Deaux’s logical push back, Bravo Deaux.

  59. #59
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:03 pm, Surveyor said:

    Why don’t you focus on legitimate criticisms of the Tea Parties? Oh that’s right, you don’t want to acknowledge they exist!

    Few and far between.

    Let us not forget that during all those immigration rallies in Cali, there were THOUSANDS of signs telling the “racist, bigot white people” to “get off our land”…etc. etc. Funny how the LSM bent over backwards to hide that fact in their reporting, but…
    apparently…
    they have time to send out their little minion “journalists” to try & find the most extreme signs they can at the Tea Party rallies and post them far and wide. S.O.P. for the LSM. O’Keefe is getting some of that same treatment as well. And don’t forget the MSNBC “white racists with guns” picture flap. The left is on the ropes man, on the ropes.

  60. #60
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:07 pm, tbear44 said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:42 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    I was skeptical of that article when I read it the other day. Until I found out that WorldNetDaily birther Joseph Farah spoke at the tea party convention. And saw that the John Birch Society is actually a sponsor at CPAC. It seems the more the Tea Partiers get in on the action, the more the mainstream right invites looney tunes. Beware.

    Tea Partiers don’t have a leader. They are made up of dems, and repubs, and independants who are tired of the way their country is being run. To denounce them because of an individual who participates is just wrong.

  61. #61
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:09 pm, tbear44 said:

    And you can be white, yellow, black or green and you will be welcomed to any tea party. The argument that it’s just a bunch of white rednecks is wrong as well.

  62. #62
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:10 pm, happy2behere said:

    Today’s plan crash into the IRS office in Austin, Texas looks bad. Often, the violent anti-tax people are associated with militias in some way. I feel an MSM anti-tea party/militia/patriot smear attempt coming on.

  63. #63
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:11 pm, happy2behere said:

    Sorry-plane crash.

  64. #64
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:21 pm, Southpaw said:

    Tea Partiers don’t have a leader. They are made up of dems, and repubs, and independants who are tired of the way their country is being run.

    Exactly. I am automatically skeptical of anybody who is a self-proclaimed leader of the Tea Party Movement.

    And you can be white, yellow, black or green and you will be welcomed to any tea party.

    Hugh Hewitt is talking about the CNN poll that declares Tea Parties are mainly rural white males. Look for the Democratics and the Mainstream Media starting to gin up hysteria about Tea Partiers being racists and rednecks. The strategy is to scare democrats to the polls in November.

  65. #65
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:22 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:37 pm, txvet2 said:
    I suppose you’re aware that Townhall also carries Michelle’s columns, along with such other squishes as Thomas Sowell?

    I’m assuming sarcasm here, because I don’t find Thomas Sowell squishy at all. In fact I wish he was my first black president. Correct?
    These posts fly back and forth so fast, sometimes I need an inuendo handhold.

  66. #66
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:30 pm, Surveyor said:

    where a disgruntled white professor murdered three minority professors; and the growing success of the Tea Party movement, which is overwhelmingly white and increasing vocal in its violent dislike of the nation’s first black president

    This is quote is kind of funny…in that, alot of lefties still think this whole movement is about a black president. Idiots. “violent dislike” ?? I haven’t seen any “violent dislike”. This professor had a lefty ideology to begin with. Her ideology, in general, supports minority hiring practices far and wide. Her ideology has caught up with her…and hit her right in the wallet…so to speak…and she lashed back with deadly consequences. Case closed, IMHO.

  67. #67
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:31 pm, swede said:

    happy2behere said:
    I feel an MSM anti-tea party/militia/patriot smear attempt coming on.

    That’s a given. Teaparty = anti-tax = anti-IRS = unhinged suicidal/homicidal maniac in Austin. MSM people are nothing if not predictable. Yaaaaaawn. Next.

    The pilot was Joseph Stack and apparently left an anti government/IRS “manifesto”. Tea Party guilt by association in 3, 2, 1…

  68. #68
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:32 pm, jsr said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:10 pm, happy2behere said:

    Today’s plan crash into the IRS office in Austin, Texas looks bad. Often, the violent anti-tax people are associated with militias in some way. I feel an MSM anti-tea party/militia/patriot smear attempt coming on.

    The MSM will doubtlessly try to paint him as an ant-tax right-wing extremist but if you leave the on-line rant he left behind it sounds a lot more like leftist paranoia and conspiracy theory. This guy made a mess of his finances and blames everybody and everything around him for his predicament. Everybody hates complying with the IRS and the tax codes but this guy sounds like a certified leftist wacko.

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html

  69. #69
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:33 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    By the logic of how few people of color are broadcasters at MSNBC, it is even more racist than any Tea Party supporter and therefore more likely to go on a racist killing rampage at any moment.

    Oh wait.. a couple victims were white?… well, then she just shot them to mask her true racist intentions just like the Tea Party conventions paying a few black people to show up.

    /sarc

  70. #70
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:33 pm, txvet2 said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:22 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Nah, Phil was ranting about Towhhall being a bunch of GOP RINOs. I was just pointing out an inconvenient truth – mainly that Townhall carries a pretty extensive stable of columnists, many (if not most) of whom should have no need to defend their conservative bona fides from such as Phil – such as Michelle, Sowell, Walter Williams, and many others.

  71. #71
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:38 pm, txvet2 said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:32 pm, jsr said:

    Looks like he didn’t like anybody very much and decided to take it out on the IRS. He missed the FBI, though – they’re next door.

  72. #72
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:44 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:55 am, happyscrapper said:

    I am SO.SICK.OF.YOU and your drivel. Go back to the bottom of the pond where you came from. I just want you lying, cheating, disgustng left-wing creeps out of my life.

    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:09 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    Umm. Sick of seeing evidence that contradicts what you think? OK! Stay happy, scrapper.

    What evidence? You just spew the usual moonbat trash. Nothing you say makes sense. You need to go back to kos where you fit in better. I don’t mind a rational argument with some semblance of common sense, like Chap offers. You have no fresh ideas, or even a sense of humor. What do you offer? I say, nothing of value whatsoever. Why bother?

  73. #73
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:46 pm, Jeddite said:

    David Duke recently tweeted that he, too, was a founding Tea Party member.

    WHERE IS ALL THE CRITICISM ABOUT DAVID DUKE BEING A TEA PARTY KINGPIN HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH

    (durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

  74. #74
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:49 pm, Jeddite said:

    I should register http://www.icreatedtheteaparty.com domain …before, y’know, Al Gore snatches it.

  75. #75
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:52 pm, John Deaux said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:04 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    Dale Robertson is more than “one guy with a sign.” He has a network of tea party chapters in all 50 states. Do some research. He was quoted at length and cited as “a founder of the tea party movement” by the Washington Times. He is clearly a major figure in the tea party movement.

    I did a quick look at his chapters and saw organizers names such as first name “Atlanta” with no last name.

    Do you realize how many “tea party” groups are out there? I don’t have to agree with every single member on every single issue, do I?

    If I find what the president is doing to be offensive, does that mean I’m not an American?

    Also, your linked article mentions that he started this two years ago. Isn’t it odd that MM just had a post about the one year anniversary?

  76. #76
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:52 pm, Jeddite said:

    http://www.teaparty.net/

    WHO IS THIS PENGUIN-MOLESTOR AND WHAT IS HIS RELATIONSHIP TO DALE ROBERTSON RABBLE RABBLE

  77. #77
    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:56 pm, Khyris said:

    When called out in the comments on his nonsense asserting Amy Bishop is a racist, he tries to back-pedal:

    As for finding Amy Bishop guilty of racism — my posting raises the issue of racism rather than coming to a sweeping conclusion that she is.

    But in the very first paragraph he states we do NOT live in a “post racial America”:

    The proof: last week’s shooting in Alabama…

    Since when does “just asking questions” equate with proof?

    Posted this here because I have no interest in registering with that site.

  78. #78
    On February 18th, 2010 at 3:01 pm, J S Ragman said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:10 pm, happy2behere said:

    Today’s plane crash into the IRS office in Austin, Texas looks bad. Often, the violent anti-tax people are associated with militias in some way. I feel an MSM anti-tea party/militia/patriot smear attempt coming on.

    C’mon people. How far is Austin from Crawford? Do I have to draw you a picture?

    (Is the sarc tag really necessary?)

  79. #79
    On February 18th, 2010 at 3:05 pm, Khyris said:

    To follow his model:

    Are child molesters allowed to roam free in America? The answer is a resounding definitely. The proof:
    Jonathan Curiel writes non-sequiters so inane they could only come from someone with a brain as screwed up as a child molester’s. Also Mother Teresa might have once thought about molesting children, according to anonymous unreputable sources.

    I’m just raising the issue of molestation, not coming to a sweeping conclusion about his guilt.

  80. #80
    On February 18th, 2010 at 3:35 pm, Misscheryl said:

    3:05 pm, Khyris said:

    Excellent example. Question: How does one argue with that lack of logic? Answer: You don’t.

  81. #81
    On February 18th, 2010 at 3:42 pm, Misscheryl said:

    10:51 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Why don’t you focus on legitimate criticisms of the Tea Parties?

    aaaahhhh…because we don’t want to?

  82. #82
    On February 18th, 2010 at 4:12 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 2:52 pm, John Deaux said:

    Clearly most of the coordinators listed are real people, with phone numbers. This guy is a big deal, you have to admit. Does that mean everyone affiliated with him is a racist? Of course not. But I find it disingenuous for the right, who spent so long trying to equate Barack Obama with Bill Ayers, to say that the Tea Partiers are immune from guilt-by-association because it’s not a single organization.

    I’m not interested in trying to blame Sarah Palin or anyone else who associates with the Tea Partiers for having unclean hands. But I am fascinated by the level of fringe kooks who are getting very strong lip service by politicians and the mainstream media. It’s impossible to say how many baggers are simply garden variety conservatives and how many are racists, secessionists and conspiracy theorists. But if there’s anything the Tea Parties have taught us, there is a whole lot of overlap.

  83. #83
    On February 18th, 2010 at 4:38 pm, txvet2 said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 4:12 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    It’s impossible to say how many baggers are simply garden variety conservatives and how many are racists, secessionists and conspiracy theorists. But if there’s anything the Tea Parties have taught us, there is a whole lot of overlap

    Undoubtedly there are some fringe kooks in the mix – but I would surmise that it would be a far smaller percentage than oh, say, Marxists, Leninists, and others of the lunatic fringe among what’s left of the Democrat Party. And your reference to “baggers” puts you right in the loony mix.

  84. #84
    On February 18th, 2010 at 4:49 pm, Khyris said:

    I’d like to explain something about using the term “baggers.”
    MSNBC decided to use a sexual euphemism to smear tea partiers. Most people know this by now.
    Some people were legitimately ignorant of the connotations and were suckered into believing it was o.k. to repeat as a valid appelation.

    But it’s not ok.

    And people who knew what was coming out of the Peacock’s suckers and swallowed it anyway, or spit it at legitimate protesters with malice, just because they know they can get a rise out of them ….. well they should be VERY careful about referring to others with crude innuendo. What goes around…

  85. #85
    On February 18th, 2010 at 5:11 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 4:49 pm, Khyris said:

    I’d like to explain something about using the term “baggers.”

    Have a sense of humor. If the TP’ers don’t want to be made fun of, they should choose a symbol that isn’t synonymous with a certain sex act.

  86. #86
    On February 18th, 2010 at 5:44 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    Red State Skeptic said:
    Have a sense of humor. If the TP’ers don’t want to be made fun of, they should choose a symbol that isn’t synonymous with a certain sex act.

    Guess what!??! Your TeaBagger friends at CNN first used the term on TV. In their compelte innocence, the party of Tea chose the symbol of overthrowing tea into the sea to protest taxes… or did you miss that chapter in grade school?

  87. #87
    On February 18th, 2010 at 5:58 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 5:44 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    Guess what!??! Your TeaBagger friends at CNN first used the term on TV. In their compelte innocence, the party of Tea chose the symbol of overthrowing tea into the sea to protest taxes… or did you miss that chapter in grade school?

    I read that chapter. There are two meanings. If they threw a Tossed Salad Party, I would also make fun of them. I make fun of granola eating commie liberals too, so lighten up some.

  88. #88
    On February 18th, 2010 at 6:08 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Have a sense of humor. If the TP’ers don’t want to be made fun of, they should choose a symbol that isn’t synonymous with a certain sex act.

    Most patriotic productive citizens arenn’t well versed in that particular obscure, usually gay, sex practice.

    It took the freaks and fruits like Anderson Cooper and Rachel Madcow (not that she has ever seen a scrotum) are the ones who were familiar with the term “tea bagging”.

  89. #89
    On February 18th, 2010 at 6:10 pm, Khyris said:

    I obviously have a sense of humor. I find it hillarious that you’re doubling down on this. So, let me get this straight, I can use any kind of slur against you that I want, as long as I can create some sort of plausible rationalization… even though we BOTH know I fully intend to insult you … and you promise to grin and bear it in good humor?

    Are you SUUURE?

  90. #90
    On February 18th, 2010 at 6:11 pm, Dimsdale said:

    Anyone that has to work that hard to see racism everywhere really wants to see it everywhere.

  91. #91
    On February 18th, 2010 at 6:13 pm, Khyris said:

    Oh, and in case you were ignorant, the “symbol” the tea partiers chose is the Boston Tea Party itself… a symbolic act… which occurred 35 years before the tea bag was even invented.

  92. #92
    On February 18th, 2010 at 6:18 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    Red State Skeptic said:
    I read that chapter. There are two meanings. If they threw a Tossed Salad Party, I would also make fun of them. I make fun of granola eating commie liberals too, so lighten up some.

    Gee, thanks for the suggestion that I lighten up. Try it yourself, sometime.

  93. #93
    On February 18th, 2010 at 6:48 pm, granite said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 6:08 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Exactly.

  94. #94
    On February 18th, 2010 at 6:52 pm, corkie said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 5:11 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    Have a sense of humor. If the TP’ers don’t want to be made fun of, they should choose a symbol that isn’t synonymous with a certain sex act.

    To normal people, the term “tea party” refers to the statement made by the American colonists prior to our nation’s independence.

    To you, I’m sure almost any term can be synonymous with some type of sex act.

  95. #95
    On February 18th, 2010 at 6:58 pm, Dave Turson said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 1:04 pm, Red State Skeptic said:
    Dale Robertson is more than “one guy with a sign.” He has a network of tea party chapters in all 50 states. Do some research. He was quoted at length and cited as “a founder of the tea party movement” by the Washington Times. He is clearly a major figure in the tea party movement.

    I did some research and found that Robertson appears to be a lonely loon. He has issues with Palin. The Houston Tea Party has more:

    A search on Google yields plenty of information about Mr. Robertson, and a search of the various leadership teams among legitimate national tea party organizations show him nowhere to be found.

    I’m done with this guy — you can waste your time reading about him for the whole story. You need to re-examine that “skeptic” thing.

  96. #96
    On February 18th, 2010 at 7:29 pm, John Deaux said:

    RSS,

    I have noticed that the majority of your posts regard race. I can understand wanting to avoid the sins of the past, but why does that seem to be your biggest issue?

    Yet you actively support the party that honors Robert Byrd, admitted Klan member, and Klan leadership at that. Do you denounce the entire Democrat party because he is the elder statesman of the Dems?

    Then shy would you try to divert attention from the genuine disgust at being labeled a racist because of conservative political values?

  97. #97
    On February 18th, 2010 at 7:36 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    Well, they have caught us. Obviously, Bishop can’t be a leftist if she had a GUN!!!

    The TEA Party Movement should have issued Bishop a non-standard bunch of spit-wads to use in her racist attack and that would have thrown off the geniuses at “True/Slant” a bit longer.

    Is there NO LIMIT to their lunacy?

  98. #98
    On February 18th, 2010 at 7:56 pm, SirKnob said:

    We should never let them forget this. Every time I see a liberal, I have the urge to walk up to them, scream “I AM DOCTOR AMY BISHOP” and slap em up side the head. Of course, I won’t, because I am not a hard left liberal whack job like she is, but I do think it would bring home the message. Then again, I am twisted like that :-)

    I really am not surprised about the bomb thing. After all Ayers is as Ayers people does.

    That might be a little too deep, I’ve been traveling the last couple of days breathing in all that healthy airplane air and all :-)

  99. #99
    On February 18th, 2010 at 8:41 pm, jrgdds said:

    Some people can endlessly rationalize anything to arrive at their own predetermined conclusion.
    My half-sister that happens to be a raging California Style liberal is such a Case. For 30 years, she ranted to anyone that would listen that our stepmother was trying to kill our Dad to get his Money. Evidently, our stepmother’s plan was to poison Dad by feeding him pre-packaged food Several times a week. Sadly, Dad died a year and a half ago. According to My half-sister, that “B*tch” finally killed him and had all the money when dad passed away-Never mind the fact that he they earned their fortune together, that Dad was 84, that he smoked for 60 years, and died of lung cancer!
    In the aftermath, my sister did irreparable damage to her relationship with family by her hell raising over the dispersal of Dad’s personal effects. Again, forget the fact that he had a will.
    True believers are capable rationalizing anything to suit their own beliefs. In the end, those people’s assertions speak volumes about themselves and very little about anything else.
    Along with my sister, they ought to put anyone who believes there is a connection between Dr. Amy Bishop and supposed Tea Party racism in a nice quiet padded room.

  100. #100
    On February 18th, 2010 at 11:02 pm, jangar said:

    It sure ain’t hard to find the left’s sore spot…Palin, Tea Party, Tax Cuts…

    The trolls come out in full force, both on blogs and news outlets.

    I’m quite surprised that ziggy didn’t show up for this one as well :shock:

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