Throwing Stones: The Left’s Hypocrisy Problem
by John M. O'HaraMany a partisan and pundit-provocateur has spent the last year trying to convince us that the tea parties consist of violent extremists. The multi-front attack has come from the media, Hollywood, and the current White House.
At the genesis of the movement, David Axelrod couched criticism of the Obama agenda as “unhealthy” on national television. Last April, the infamous “right-wing extremism” report released the week before the tax day tea parties by the Department of Homeland Security. The report referenced “disgruntled veterans” and lumped those that believed in states’ rights in with white supremacists and militia members. It was an embarrassment to the Department of Homeland Security and the administration. Public apologies to veterans and regrets regarding the extremely broad language were issued.
A while back, “Law and Order” ran a ridiculous episode where a lawyer declared that Rush, Beck, and O’Reilly drive people to commit violent hate crimes. Before that, there was an episode referencing a tea party in the context of discussing extremists. In February of this year, Marvel Comics issued an apology after a comic implicitly painted tea parties in a racist, violent light.
Countless guests have appeared on Keith Olbermann’s show to dissect the tea party movement psyche. Most notable was budding amateur psychologist Janeane Garofalo who erroneously dismissed tea partiers as intellectually deficient violent racists. More recently a guest on The Rachel Maddow Show, talking about the recent Midwest militia arrests, conflated the tea party movement and right-wing militant extremists and implied that the nation is somehow in danger of the tea party splintering into militia terror cells.
In recent days, the violence claim has been invoked in conjunction with the equally baseless racism claim to discredit those that oppose ObamaCare. Yet, as John Steele recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal in a piece entitled “As Peaceful as a Tea Party,” “the only person arrested in recent days for threatening violence against a politician was held for threatening Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House.” Last week, news broke that a man was arrested after threatening the life of Representative Eric Cantor and his family. The suspect, Norman Leboon, is an anti-Semite and an Obama donor.
As Mr. Steele accurately points out, the tea parties aren’t immune to odd sign bearers:
“To be sure, tea partiers have carried signs saying such things as “If [newly elected Massachusetts Senator Scott] Brown can’t do it, a Browning can,” referring to the American firearms manufacturer. But how do those differ from the signs regularly seen—if seldom reported on by the mainstream media—during the previous administration calling for President Bush to be tried for war crimes and shot as a traitor?”
They don’t. The only difference is, these kooks wandered into a tea party and not a Code Pink rally, so they got an abnormal share of the spotlight from the leftist media.
Such messages are rare at tea parties and an inherent hazard of hosting an event in a public arena for both the left and the right. It would hardly be fair to extrapolate from the Cantor threat that all Obama supporters are violent anti-Semites taking marching orders from the propagandists on MSNBC. Yet such perverse logic is invoked to form the shoddy foundation of the left’s constant tea party attacks. One odd sign somehow translates into a movement-wide sentiment linked to orders from Fox News. Worse, these attacks typically don’t even invoke an actual incident or individual to reach the perpetrators’ unreasonable generalization. Claims of racism and violence arise regularly with virtually zero supporting evidence.
In fact, from the St. Louis SEIU racist beating of tea party participant Keith Gladney to the recent Nevada bus attack and threats against Andrew Breitbart, the tea party opposition has perpetrated every instance of actual violence at tea parties over the past year. Yet, time and time again, politicians intimate and media hacks declare that the tea partiers are the violent fringe. It is simply stunning.
It is often said that the best way to lead is by example. Hatred and violence have no place in political discourse or civil society as a whole. That’s why they have no place in the mainstream, non-violent grassroots movement exhibited in the tea parties. Period. As tax day tea parties kick off this month, let’s hope that the tea party opposition comes around to the same way of thinking.
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About twenty six million people watch the nightly 'news' from the White House Ministry of Propaganda, formerly know as the MSM…
Two million people watch Bret Baier, Houston…we have a problem…
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Leftist Hate.
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WE THE PEOPLE, the ones who cherish our freedoms, have to stand our ground and NOT let the msm dictate what our next move is…the best way to do this is by word of mouth! I have 'enlightened' so many people with the truth, which is easy to do if you have the proof of your words on your side!!! Stand up and fight, before there is nothing left to fight for!!!
Very well put! My local morning talker was espousing centrist media types this morning. I was wondering who could be on the list- certainly not the likes of Olby and Maddow. He tried to defend Chris Matthews when I pointed out his attack on Rush and the use of Regime. As Byron York pointed out, Matthew himself used the work to describe the Bush administration. The HYPOCRACY IS ASTOUNDING! We need to keep pointing it out and putting it in there faces!
If the left really believed this they'd be grabbing their ankles and appeasing us. Cowardice is in progressives' DNA. But there is the risk that their persistently dishonest stabs at baiting us will make this something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I mean, I don't know anyone whose anger at Obama's policies comes anywhere close to the sheer rage that their tone-deafness and arrogance are inducing.
The problem can be resolved by turning off the television. Your life will be immeasurably improved. Why do folks invite the most vile invective into their homes and then pay for it?
It's interesting to look back at some of the radicals the media spent years ignoring.
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You know you’re winning the debate when they scream racist. Keep it up America, ignore the race pimps, when they start baiting don’t bite! …point and laugh!
I knew the disparity of those who watch real news and those sit brain dead in front of a TV was not good,……….
but I did not think it was this lop sided,………..
Housoen,………Houston hell there wldbil, ……….America,….we have a problem
not so fast. this is from the pew project's 2009 "the state of the news media" report:
it states that cable networks' viewership numbers went up 58% between the elections of 2004 and 2008, while the networks declined by 9%. it goes on to state:
"Comparing the networks’ popularity versus cable the rest of the time is more complicated. By the most basic measure, ratings, network nightly news still dwarfs cable. In 2008, night in and night out, the 22.8 million viewers who on average watched the three nightly newscasts was nearly seven times larger than the combined audience of the three main cable news channels at any given moment in prime time (3.5 million viewers) (see Cable Audience Section)
But given the nature of cable, ratings comparisons with network evening newscasts do not tell the whole story. Viewers may tune into cable at different times during the day.
To discern the degree to which people rely on cable vs. network news more generally, survey data are also helpful. Here, one can see that while the ratings for the evening newscasts are still vastly larger than for even the most popular cable shows, cable’s universe of viewers is much closer to the networks’ in size. More Americans for some years have said they regularly watch cable news (39%) than watch the three nightly newscasts on the traditional networks (29%), according to data from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.13
But this does not include network morning programs. When the number of Americans who watch those programs are added to the mix—eliminating duplicate viewers who watch both—the network news audience (39.3% of Americans) was essentially the same as cable news’ (39.6%). "
here's the link to the entire report: http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2009/index.htm
The point I'm making here is there are/is a very large number of people in this country who are not politically savvy and don't realize they are being 'had' by our 'free press', 'our Fourth Estate, our 'nation's watch dogs' who took a journalistic oath to provide the American people with the 'news'…..NOT PROPAGANDA………………….
The left needs to hate. Wether it be smokers, anti-tax folks, anti-abortionists, users of salt or soda, they need an enemy in order to justify their political ideology. Right now they hate the Tea Party movement. During Bush, they hated the war. Any debate on a variety of topics is rendered moot only because they approach the given topic with such irrational disregard that it becomes futile to even talk to them. They will always hate, they hold the White House, the Senate, The House and still they are angry, bitter, unhappy people who spew vitriol like skunks spraying down a threat. They hate and will always hate. It is endemic to their way of thinking.
MSM are driving themselves out of business, but it is a real problem.
Exhibit A: David Gregory on Meet the Press yesterday mildly insinuating linkage between Obamacare protests and racism and threats of violence. You know, that whole Timothy McVeigh thing started innocently with protest too! </sarc>
GREGORY:
… mean, look, there are certainly quarters of, you know, of racism around the country with an African-American president, extreme economic anxiety, and a lot of revolution talk out there in this opposition to policies like health care. And, you know, people may forget, if you go back to the Oklahoma City bombings, Tim McVeigh first went to Waco not to protest the government's role there, but to protest the Brady gun law.
Transcript here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36149408/ns/meet_the_...
BTW, It's telling that in previous weeks, MTP including our old pal Anita Dunn in panel discussions several times…the former BHO WH Communications Director caught on video preaching the virtues of Mao to high school grads.
MSM and Washington seem to be hoping for an "event", and willing to gin one up if necessary. Let's not give it to them. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/04/025...
Hits too close to home? He's right, and as usual for the Libs – you can only call names and use kingergarden arguing tactics.
I'm glad to know you can't refute the argument O'Hara is making, and you have so little intelligence that all you can do is resort to profanity-laced sputtering postures better suited to middle school playgrounds.
Such an opponent brings NO challenge whatsoever.
" As tax day tea parties kick off this month, let’s hope that the tea party opposition comes around to the same way of thinking."
I wouldn't hold my breath.
Still name calling? And already swearing!! It's going to be a long day for you, but keep it coming, I need some entertainment at work today.
"journalistic oath"? That's a first to me. Do you suppose that was what motivated Woodward & Bernstein? Without gratefully dead Mark Felt betraying the FBI, his Director and the United States, Watergate would have remained exactly what it was, a muddled up attempt to muck up the other party's campaign. In retrospect, Watergate was an inconsequential story that the media turned into a carnival. And the country has only been worse off for it, ever after. Thanks for the likes of wannabe investigative journalists.
I wasn't attempting to tell the 'whole' story…But you deserve credit for attempting to….
With all due respect…If you don't think there is huge problem here you are badly mistaken…
" O Lord, Spare Us From this Plague of Leftist Hypocritters that Darken Our Land and Eat Out Our Substance !"
Thanks anti REALAMERICAN, You just described yourself and the rest of the scum bag commie left better than we could, everything you wrote was about you and yours. PUNK ASS PANSI.
Oh and I know you are but what am I ? and also nanner, nanner, nanner, What grade are you in this year and does your mommie know you play with her puter ?
And you are not an American and you never will be. PUNK ASS PANSI, GERBAL BOY.
Sure Mr. Anonymous blogger what ever your say…
LOL
"As tax day tea parties kick off this month, let’s hope that the tea party opposition comes around to the same way of thinking". Your kidding right?
You think the ideologues on the left are going to come to the conclusion that if you can beat them join do you mr. O'hara?
Yea like Hitler did. These lefty ideologues will arrest and imprison if they could…and if we sit back long enough they will.
OathKeepers is calling for *Event Monitors*.
Funny that comment about Mommy's skirts…I think that says it all….
An apt analogy.
And it's not just the news. Consider that every piece of popular entertainment contains the left's message–everything from a 30-second commercial to a Pulitzer Prize winning novel to the kind of clothing our children see in the malls. And then there are the schools.
We can lead by example, but who will see our example?
Then you would be safe to bet that David Axlerod and the Administration are calling for a ramped up prescence of Brown Shirted Egg Launchers………..
The left is best at projection. If they are saying WE are thinking of going violent, it is because THEY are thinking of going violent. Be very, very careful everybody.
Good idea…
The New York Times supported Josef Stalin.
That's all you need to know.
They've been a Communist Propaganda nerve center for 100 years. Walter Duranty damn near had his Pulitzer Prize revoked because of his manipulation of the reality surrounding Communist Russia.
November.
What you call whining, which is understandable considering, is more commonly known as Sunshine.
Can't handle reading about how evil your Democrat overlords are?
I'll be wearing my 'Hard Knuckle' gloves.
STFU loser. You are nothing.
41% of TEA Party folks are not republicans, this must chill oHugo jr's sh!t. So, if we are to follow Mr
O'Hara's advice we will spread sweetness & light. For most of us conservatives this will require mas-
sive quantities of prescription drugs, dang it, o'care has not been implemented as yet. Sorry, Mr O, I
don't do drugs, so while oHugo jr does his angry rants from the podium, resembling Rev Wrt more
than a dignified POTUS, we are scolded in O'Haras last paragraph (disclaimer) to take the high road.
I do not condone violence, however hatred has its place in any war, & make NO mistake, we ARE at WAR.
Primary self-defense items: cell-phone cams and video recorders. Pull a Breitbart: Let them make up whatever they want, then publish video to prove the lie.
demonize, demonize and demonize some more.
You seem like a mean spirited violent person, a product of leftist indoctrination. I don't blame you. You are a victim of the lefts social policies.
Is our prison system full of conservatives or libertarians? No…They are full of leftist.
If I gave away 1000 guns at every Tea Party event, I would never hear one shot. If I did the same at any leftist march, bodies would be piled up.
Try again, palace guard eunuch.
OMG! the level of arrogance is simply stunning.
"The problem can be resolved by turning off the television."
Well, see, the thing is, see…..I can't turn off my 200 neighbors' televisions.
If I turn off MY *(don't have one, never will) TV, just how in the hell does that resolve the problem wldbil mentioned? Oh, wait. It DOESN'T. All 200 of my neighbors are still willingly being fed the B.S., only now I don't have a clue as to the specific contents of the B.S.
Someone's gotta watch TV on our side. I'm glad some kind, iron-stomached folks in the blogosphere are willing to do it for me. Kudos to Breitbart, the folks at NewsBusters, Rush Limbaugh, and anyone else willing to go into that disease-and-rat-infested House-of-Brainwashing, and come out and tell us what the people are being fed.
"If you don't like it, don't watch it." and all variants of this pithy phrase are NONSEQUITEURS.
I don't like crack cocaine either, or what it's done to Detroit. By the logic in that phrase, if I don't like what crack has done to Detroit, well, HEY, all I gotta do is not smoke it! PROBLEM RESOLVED? Nope, I don't smoke crack, yet Detroit (and 100 other democrat/acorn ghettos) are STILL CRAPHOLES.
heh.
Thank you for proving my above post *cheers*
The worst thing, and we see this here all the time with the younger bloggers, no American exceptionalism is taught to our kids., hell they think of Founding Fathers were very bad people…
Who do you see the 'One" talking to all the time?
Students…this is a very serious problem….
I don't hate the left, but your vitriol sure proves my point to a tee! Thanks again for validating my point.
Addendum:
"I can't turn off my 200 neighbors' televisions"
NOR DO I WANT TO.
That's just a fascist tactic of the left. Notice that they're the ones whose goal is to shut down opposing speech. They're the ones who want to turn off other people's AM radios, with all their hearts.
Because even leftists and Progressives know that it's not enough to just "don't listen to Rush if you don't like it." and that that phrase is mind-numbingly idiotic.
Look folks, you understand the nature of the beast & all the video evidence you can produce only plays to your side. Howling like children because someone threw an egg or cryed racist won't cut it. They are feeding off you. When the left really raises the level of violence this summer & fall what are you going to do?
I have no answers…….but I know where this is headed & I think many of you do as well.
don't underestimate the effectiveness of the liberal MSM propaganda upon the 58 million boobs who voted for Hugo Obamao, Campaigner in Chief. The loyal communists are quite happy with the daily reports that everything is just swell and the unhappy in this country are just racist kooks. You can rail against the hypocrisy but it is working just fine. It seems grotesque to us who read Brietbart, a tiny sliver of the population
This US Marine DOES know how to handle those situations. With the first Gulf War and Somalia under my belt (Somalia being MUCH more dangerous), I'd NEVER thought I'd have to be prepared against my OWN Government tho – thugs, yeah: robbers, maybe: gangs, maybe but I don't frequent their parts of town – but my OWN Government (and those that support it) – not even in my wildest nightmares.
Students have always been a serious problem (which is why the left lowered the voting age), but never before was the media so in control of their lives as it is now. There used to be some balance because they had been taught some history.
Good point. Even videogames, even since the old 8-bit nintendo, have been soaked in anti-corporate, anti-West, and Green propaganda. I could list 30 8-bit NES games (yes, even back then) and quote from them and you'd be shocked. Get an NES emulator for the PC, and DL the game "Awesome Possum kicks Dr. Machino's Butt." This "game" starts with a quiz. Better be sitting down when you read this.
Watch any old episode of the A-Team. Knight Rider. Scooby freakin' Doo. Same white corporate banker profit-taking villians every single time.
They've been doing this for so long now, it's natural.
The backs of freakin' CEREAL BOXES, and the milk cartons they see twice a day at school, EVEN THEY contain their Commie message.
Always looking out for the Joneses! Hope you find a better neighborhood <lol>
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I do hope *Event Monitors* include lots of professional photographers and sound recorders.
Cornpone there was a good program on last night about the border violence. It seems now the drug cartels are purchasing ranches on the American side of the border. After making offers the ranchers "could not refuse".
This war will have many fronts & only a few of us realize what we are really up against. Honest law abiding folks will have to go about their day armed & prepared to defend themselves, family, & property. Those not ready to adopt that mindset are fooling themselves. I think most Texans are coming to that conclusion.
If anyone promotes hatred towards another group it is Keith Olbermann. He has and continues to slam anything that is not a left winged liberal or Obama worshipper. His rants are nothing but the very thing that he condemns all others for. He is a liberal HYPOCRITE. Watch him (only once) when he begins to rant about a group of conservative, patriotic Americans. He uses 5-10 derogatory adjectives to describe them in every sentence…talk about hate speech. This guy is an @@s and should be removed from the air for inciting violence against anyone with any common sense.
MSM… I don't watch ANY of that feces anymore. I would never know if they came around to actually reporting the truth, or both sides of anything. I'm just waiting for the MSM to flop around like a fish before withering away. Then again… NObama will likely bail them out too.
My bad, the game I referenced was for the Sega Genesis (for which you can also get an emulator).
screenshots:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/image/563...
wldbil, your original post at the top, here, barely scratches the surface. The Progressives have their message on frikkin milk cartons, videogames, commercials, cartoons, school supplies, movies, tv-shows, and much, much more. It's in all their schoolbooks – social studies, math, history, science, English, reading, writing. Every single avenue has been covered.
We have FOXNEWS, and some internet sites, and some YouTubers.
There seems to be a problem, indeed.
Yup Good ole Walter Duranty in defending Stalin's murderous rampage…used the famous Lenin quote.
"If you want to make an omelette, you gotta break a few eggs."
Minor correction, it is Kenneth Gladney, not Keith.
http://biggovernment.com/kengladney/2009/11/09/i-...
Talk about hypocrisy. They seek to paint members of the Tea Party as militant extremists yet the continuously give Obama a pass on his association with Bill Ayers who cheerfully admits to bombing a police station and then the World trade center. They want to label us as racists yet they give Obama a pass on his relationship with Rev. Wright. I would have to say they are the embodiment of the pot calling the kettle black or do as I say not as I do. They believe they are above the law, more often than not, because they are making up the rules as they go along.
From my point of view they are the children who insisted on being in charge, making up the rules, and if you didn't like it they would not like you anymore. To be their friend you were required to tolerate their demanding ways. They are spoiled children who are generous only when it suits them and usually when there is something in it for them. If they do you a favor they will lord it over you as long as they can. Do something wrong or embarrassing and they will blackmail you with that information. What we are seeing from the liberals now is the toll they exact on those who dare to challenge their superiority. They will tell lies about you and call you names and whenever they can they will try to embarrass you in front of their "friends". They will threaten you and try to intimidate you and if all else fails they will resort to physical harm to save face. Fairness and truth are to them a matter of perspective. To them honor is simply another word for pride. What they fail to see is that they are the polar opposite to what they believe themselves to be. In other words, they are lost.
Because of all this, there are people who truly think that we are monsters and I don't blame them. They are hearing things from people they think they can trust. We need to wake up to this fact. Turning off the TV is not enough. Avoiding popular culture is not enough. Home schooling our own children is not enough. It's time to be proactive in these realms.
Dale, I suppose the border-dwellers being 'bought out' are more fortunate than those being
murdered on their own property. Our outfit is in the southern Panhandle, around 400 miles
from the border, however my concern is if we cede that ground adjacent to the border, how
long will it be before the lawlessness spreads further in. So in effect we are selling TX back
to MX one ranch at a time. Interesting concept, but grossly un-American. Just another example
of divide & conquer. Where the hell are the border-watch orgs who were raising hell a few years
ago. Why are their neighbors not banning together to raise cain highlighting this lack of protec-
tion from foreign invasion, as border protection is one of out Fed Gvt's primary assignments.
I did the "armed & prepared" thing for awhile, several years back & it's a real hassle. In our op-
eration we work around water a lot & side-arms & water don't mix well.
Frankly I am tired of all the bullshit artist talking about the tea party and hate speech, violence ect. ect ect.. The founders held up sign that said "if a brown can't solve it a browning can" they would have loved that sign! They said you government leaders should fear what you will do…and they should. The shit eatin grin on dems face is the fact that they know they have the voting districts rigged, the doj rigged and media rigged.
The tea parties are the best thing that has happened in this country in my lifetime. They are trying to do things the right way and showing respect. However you have to remember that the left has and is always ready to use "any means necessary especially including violence" to get their way. This is a ploy to disarm you so their thugs can show up with a gun to intimidate you. Well I come for peaceful reasons but I will not be oppressed by the left and you can bet I will protect my life, liberty and pursuit of happiness…by any means necessary…the founders require it! Man up!
I bet some of the top dogs at the NY Times in the past have had links to the KGB and/or Pravada.
Consider that every piece of popular entertainment contains the left's message–everything from a 30-second commercial to a Pulitzer Prize winning novel to the kind of clothing our children see in the malls. And then there are the schools.
Because of all this, there are people who truly think that we are monsters and I don't blame them. They are hearing things from people they think they can trust. We need to wake up to this fact. Turning off the TV is not enough. Avoiding popular culture is not enough. Home schooling our own children is not enough. It's time to be proactive in these realms.
We can lead by example, but who will see our example?
BHO won a battle for health care, but look what he got. Progressives occupy an indefensible position, that they will have to explain again and again as details of the 2600-page monstrosity emerge..The public is not going to forget the corrupt jam job. Maybe a decade ago. Not this time. And the momentum is all with the Tea Party. It's why BHO, Pelosi and the other Washington corruptocrats look to discredit what's become a powerful movement.
that was an amazing video on the democrats. I have attended 3 tea parties and never did i hear or speak with anyone that was extreme as that….
The battle for America comes down to this. The "let's roll" Americans who know the right thing to do and do it regardless of the consequences to themselves versus the "post-Katrina" Americans who sit on their roofs holding up signs that read "help me" and throw eggs at those who don't oblige. I know which team I'm fighting for and I can't imagine any red-blooded American wanting to fight for that other team.
Honestly I don't carry either, the new gun friendly laws here made keeping one in the truck or car legal. I'm over in Northeast Texas so thankfully neither of us has to contend with Metro-Plex style varmits.
Some neighbors recently moved to Dalhart…….I almost envy them. I'd head for the hill country if I had the option………sadly looks like I won't though.
I agree the "border" may become fluid, I think it's actually been moving north for years…………..San Antonio possibly?
My sentiments exactly…..well put !
absolutely. look at the "racist!" claims from the "perp-walk" of the Congressional Black Caucus. without all of the footage out there that consistently shows that no such words were ever uttered, where would we be?
The left's use of union thugs is not a good sign. Right now, the battle is still for public perceptions because there's some strength in numbers. It could come to worse later. My takeaway from the health care debacle is that BHO respects no boundaries in getting what he wants, and what he wants usually works out to be horrible for America.
the border watch orgs like the Minutemen all had to quit or go under cover because the Progressives and the MSM portrayed them as racist, violent, gun nuts just looking to shoot people coming over the border.
Mr. Bahe would be served well by integrating this into his AGW piece.
JP Morgan and Goldman and the other Banksters wouldn't want this thread followed for too long.
The left should be concerned about threats emanating from the conservative movement. For decades, the leftists have threatened, used violence, and employed any tactic they thought necessary when voicing their desires. The left is fully aware of what methods can be employed if the feelings are strong enough. Now, for the first time in my 50 years alive, the right wing is giving it back to the left in equal terms and the left doesn't like it. It was OK as long as libs were throwing the invective around and threatening the right. Those days are OVER. No longer willing to sit back and be a punching bag, the conservatives are telling the left that if you continue on your current path, we will hurt you. Considering a majority of gun owners are conservative, and liberals are allergic to weapons ownership, the left should consider carefully their course of action. Ram through the illegals bill at your own peril. We've had enough.
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The left has no ideas other than take from one person and give to another. They realize that dog wont hunt so they have to hide their agenda and use diversionary tactics. Face it liberalism has failed every time it has been tried. It doesn't work and it is corrupt to the core. If you know a liberal you know a person of poor character that is intellectually lazy. Their most common tactic is to do something and then claim the other side did it. I for one have stopped supporting anyone that supports liberal causes. It has gone too far and it's time to stop this nonsense! Boycott all liberal causes and supporting companies. WE HAVE THE POWER, they needOUR money to continue. Do not watch NBC, ABC, CBS or CNN. Do not go to a movie that has an idiot liberal actor in it. Do not buy products from Apple, Build A Bear, Arby's, Starbucks etc… If you do, YOU are supporting liberalism. Know who you are doing business with. It's the only way to stop the liberal nonsense!
Why is it when conservatives gather together in large groups, and make noise, even rowdy noise, even impolite noise, just like leftists have done for years – and without the slightest violence – why is it that all the network talking heads are portraying it as threatening? They thought the left was so cute as they trashed cities every time there was an event they didn't like – but the conservatives just make noise, and pick up their trash afterwards of course.
Why is non-threatening dissent suddenly so threatening, and un-patriotic? Why are some many in the media inventing intimidation and violence that is not happening. Could it be that the media is in reality a propaganda organ for the left, and is without a shred of decency and honesty when it comes to reporting on political protest?
Why yes, I think it very well could be just that!
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even John Stewart skewered Olbermann for this.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-21-...
Is that Abe Froman, the sausage king of Chicago?
Left out of the story of the attempts to tie actual violence acts with the Tea Party. What was the instant media attack line when the Holocaust Museum shooting occurred? And when a crazy dove a plane into the IRS? Despite a blatant leftist, if not Marxist manifesto, the first lines were to tie in the right. In both instances, if not for the internet, the truth would have been buried, and the smears would have went unchallenged. They are creating an environment to declare conservative ideas hate speech.
When o when will the bulk of the American people run these yellow juornalists out of town. I am not surprised by the fall of viewers of the MSM, I am surprised that they have any viewers at all.
…Beuller? …Beuller?
SO, they arrested an anti-Semite leftist Obama supporter for threatening Cantor…?
We need to do a quick troll poll…and see who got picked up…
Haven't heard from Dhass for a bit…
They problem is not with how many watch Fox News, but how few Americans only turn the TV on enough to believe the propaganda!
He should be back from his paper route by now.
educate a friend ,show him the facts,pull the republican lever in 2010..VOTE EVERY DEMOCRAT OUT
The Left's Hypocrisy Problem is a only problem for US, not for them. Upholding and sustaining their very political lives depend upon it.
When your focus is on winning, rather than on discussion, it helps to objectify and dehumanize your enemies.
People on the right are if anything, over-civilized. One has to give careful consideration to the question of whether we are in a discussion or a fight.
The course of the 20th century has been a move toward the China model of governance. In your private life, do what you like, we don't care. In your business life, we give you enough leeway to feed the taxman and no more. In your political life, you'll damn well do what you're told.
And they'll even let you get rich in the process of feeding the tax man, as long as you don't wander off the reservation politically.
We're not quite there, here is the US, but look over the 20th century and you can perceive the trend clearly.
So, are we in a discussion or a fight?
I'm telling you, he should have stuck to the floor burgers…
This is kinda novel…I've never called someone a d**k before who's threatened a member of Congress…
I'll bet the other trolls are going to be INSANELY jealous of him…
The LOONY LEFT and their spokespersons. The pseudo intellectuals, maher, olbermann, garafalo, mathews, maddow and the rest on the libREATARDED CLOWNS. Do people really listen to and watch these REPULSIVE KNOW-NOTHINGS? How sad! My wife and I used to watch Law and Order and other shows on nbc until the subliminal (and sometimes not so sublte) conservative bashing pro libRETARD agendas got to be too much. SPONSORS TAKE NOTE! WE DON'T WATCH THESE LEFT WING OUTLETS POSING AS ENTERTAINMENT ANYMORE!
Hypocrisy problem on the Left? I don't see it. They seem to have the hypocrisy thing down pat.
Hey you Corporate Socialist supporters of BUILDING up Foreign Nation named Iraq…take a gander:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/a...
A fight IMO. How can you discuss if the other side won't admit obvious facts, breaks rules and doesn't even try to debate their agenda on the merits — because they recognize it's indefensible? But even in a fight, one chooses what tactics are appropriate at a given moment, and adapts when necessary.
“If [newly elected Massachusetts Senator Scott] Brown can’t do it, a Browning can.”
There is nothing wrong with that sign, it is being kind of funny, but at the same time metaphoric. If November does not put us on some sort of a path to restoration then we will have done all we could up to that point. If the peaceful way does not work, then we are empowered by our fore fathers to move to taking up arms.
Ignorance is all you will find in that link.
Repeal it!
Just what we need, another person who is uinwilling to look at the source material to make an informed judgement. You may feel some sort of superiority for not being
"willing to go into that disease-and-rat-infested House-of-Brainwashing, and come out and tell us what the people are being fed."
All it shows me is that you don't want to carry the load.
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