Posts Tagged ‘Tea Parties’
April 16th, 2010
OK—As some of you are aware, I recently wrote a diary titled, “Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism”. In this diary, I discussed how Andrew Breitbart proved that the allegations from the DNC and the MSM that the Tea Party is fueled by racism and violence is one gigantic hoax. Furthermore, I also demonstrated how the left often resorts to acts of civil disobedience, threats, name-calling, and sometimes out-right violence, when they protest or try to suppress dissent. Some examples of this behavior are threatening voters with nightsticks, throwing food at people, posting death threats to Eric Cantor and shooting up his office, calling people “Raaaaaacists!!”, “hooligans”, “The Mob”, “Nazis” and writing in the WaPo that “I want to knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads.”
Our own Caleb Howe even covered the story of SEIU union thugs beating up an African American conservative (Kenneth Gladney) for handing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, and then slapping the camera woman in the face (see embed below).
Moreover, I also embedded a video of the actual March 20th Tea Party protest (where the protesters were falsely smeared as “Raaaaacists!”) in order to demonstrate just how orderly and respectful our side is compared to their side when protesting.
Well, well, well—after viewing some of the more recent news stories that have been reported on over the last few days, I’m beginning to think that I was even more prescient than I realized in regard to liberals being more aggressive protesters than conservatives. (Not to pat myself on the back or anything—I’m just being honest.)
First of all, you had a video recently made public that showed some Harry Reid supporters throwing eggs at The Tea Party Express bus and at Andrew Breitbart—and one of Reid’s supporters even went so far as to threaten violence against Breibart, even though he was just standing around doing nothing provocative.
Second of all, you had Michelle Malkin reporting on what a bust the “Crash the Tea Party Movement” was (that was organized by desperate leftists that were going to try to infiltrate the Tea Party in order to make them appear racist, because all of their past attempts to smear them have failed). In her blog, Ms. Malkin even has a picture of some idiot walking around with a picture of a noose while other real Tea Party members are holding up signs pointing him out as an infiltrator.
Furthermore, our own Moe Lane reported that Politico interviewed an African American Obama supporter (who wore an Obama T-shirt to a Tea Party) saying the following regarding his experience at the Tea Party—
Brooks Alexander, a 23-year-old Olney, Md., hotel worker and Obama supporter who wore an Obama t-shirt to the evening rally, said infiltrators were being disrespectful.
“They’re doing a disservice not only to themselves, but to the people who are here trying to express their views,” said Alexander, who is African American and said he traveled to the rally to verify for himself liberal accounts blasting the tea party as racist.
“All my friends told me I was crazy to come down here in an Obama shirt,” he said. “Obviously I have political disagreements [with the tea party], but I cannot lie. I cannot say that people have been anything but nice to me. They have been shaking my hand. One guy told me I had a lot of [guts] for coming down here. I will definitely walk away from this with a new understanding of the tea party.”
Man, those Tea Parties sound like a real “scary”, “raaaaacist” bunch, don’t they?
However, speaking of scary, Michelle Malkin has reported that LA governor, Bobby Jindal’s campaign fundraising chief, Allee Bautsch, and her boyfriend were savagely beaten leaving Brennan’s Restaurant after the SRLC (Southern Republican Leadership Conference). The Louisiana blog, The Hayride has all of the details, including multiple videos of people protesting the SRLC right outside of Brennan’s. Now, neither the Hayride, nor Michelle Malkin are 100% sure that the attacks were political in nature. However, the victims were horrifically beaten (Bautsch had her leg broken in four places and has had five screws put in it, and her boyfriend had his jaw and his nose broken), they weren’t robbed by the perpetrators, and there were numerous protesters surrounding the SRLC, so it’s fair to say that I wouldn’t at all be surprised if the attacks turned out to be political. (Put it this way—if this kind of attack had happened anywhere near a Tea Party protest, the MSM would be all over it and already jumping to conclusions.)
And finally, this video is a perfect compilation of left wing protests being contrasted with conservative protests. Watch it and tell me which group you honestly think is scarier.
Just a thought, but maybe the reason why smarmy, self-important liberals, like Anderson Cooper and Janeane Garafalo, feel so free to call us all “Raaaaacists!” and “teabaggers” (which is a vile oral sex term) is because they aren’t at all afraid of us, because they KNOW we aren’t violent or racist.
I mean, could any of you IMAGINE wearing a Palin or a McCain T-shirt to a left wing rally or to a protest group with people similar to the ones in the videos or the links that I provided for you? You would have to be certifiable to do that in my humble opinion. Furthermore, could you imagine what would happen to you if you called those left wing protesters a lude term like “teabagger”? At best they would throw food at you—at worst, you might end up in the hospital.
Y’all have a nice weekend.
This diary was originally posted at The Minority Report.
UPDATE: As if everything that I’ve shown you isn’t overwhelming enough, Return to Revolution was kind enough to give me a link to pictures of protesters issuing death threats to George Bush and a link to numerous pictures of protesters likening Bush to Hitler. Could any of you imagine what the left would do if Tea Party protesters showed up with pictures half as heinous as these?! (I’m DEFINITELY not advocating that they do, I’m just pointing out the extreme double standard.) I mean, just today Joe Klein accused Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck of sedition for simply speaking at Tea Parties, so you be the judge.
Oh, and Return to Revolution also gave me this video that Caleb Howe shot of anti-war protesters at the Democratic Convention calling US soldiers “Nazis” and ‘baby killers”. Classy, huh?
April 22nd, 2009
It’s really too bad that the media won’t cover this video from Midnight Blue.
But hey, it’s probably for the best with him being a “right-wing extremist” (translation-veteran) and all, right?
This diary is cross-posted on The Minority Report.
April 16th, 2009
Apologies to Dixie kin for “sweet tea” (pictured) redundancy as we are trying to reach a larger audience that includes northern economics Nobel Prize winners clueless about the 25-year Reagan Recovery.
For the first time in memory I won’t have to wait for the Braves score to know if an April 15th can be blunted by some good news. Having worked for myself for 17 of the 20 years of my professional life, I always wait till the last possible moment to fund those governments The Gipper identified as The Problem.
For this Tax Day will now have to share its previously exclusive billing with a tradition older than the venerable First Amendment, much less the invidious Sixteenth.
Today, the conservative grassroots of America will follow an example began in now ultra-liberal Boston and hold over 500 tea parties from sea to shining sea in every one of the Lower Forty-Eight in addition to the former and/or current home states of Barry Obama and Sarah Palin.
The Queen City in which I reside holds its own 2:00 pm version on Fourth Street near the Government Center after its 1:00 pm beginning outside the local dead tree Drive-by Charlotte Observer to underscore its frequent failure to observe anything that doesn’t fit their big government agenda.
We will examine the Charlotte Tea Party in this space tomorrow where we have frequently had to employ a Leghorn to blow away The Disturbers and its Drive-by allies’ Foghorns that distort the facts or leave them out all together.
Who knew that George Orwell would get it exactly right and exactly wrong in his 1984, that a free media would choose to reduce the dictionary and re-write history on behalf of tyrannical government rather than a tyrannical goverment imposing an un-free press.
Tyrannical government you say?, you angry, dangerous Obama/Napolitano-identified right-wing terrorist threat.
No, not the ominous Bushlied threat via library cards and non-draft armed forces at war with Islam by liberating Muslims and ridding their territories of megalomaniacal dictators and Taliban religious extremists. Identified American victims to date: 0
No, not the tens of thousands killed by Bush that trained to re-shape pentagons and WTCs. They are no more. Identified American victims to date: 0
No, not even the remaining would be reshapers now called purveyors of man-made disasters, formerly known as illegal enemy combatants or, God forbid, terrorists.
Their kind killed 3000 in one day and thousands abroad before and since while the Obama Left cites Timothy McVeigh ad nauseum to justify killing millions via abortion, once while a President Clinton blamed right wing talk radio for a McVeigh, but I digress.
No, not the crazed Code Pinks nor throwers of pies at Pat Buchanan, David Horowitz and Ann Coulter.
Rather, the danger comes from vehicles bearing Ron Paul bumper stickers; non-delinquent mortgagors championed by Santelli; and opposers of ending Newt and Bill’s welfare reform as we knew it. The imminent threat are those that opposed bailing out banks and AIGs; favor spanking Fannies; and hope Freddie’s Dead.
Such is the state of Homeland Security in the Age of Obama in which all threats from abroad including any foreigners here with visa overstays given that the Geithner economy talk down and the president’s policies that promise to destroy the dollar and keep investors on strike (h/t to Randy Streu) since the Democratic Party takeover due to promised tax hikes have removed the illegal immigrant threat by making job prospects better in Juarez than Walla Walla.
But in case any illegals remain, don’t dare cross Speaker Pelosi and deport them and please get them quickly legalized so they join unions and get wage rates up, as Obama dreams.
Now comes a former Obama campaign apologist with a Swedish medal around his neck that has switched Kool-Aid brands while still eschewing tea, no matter the level of sweetening.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman used to be a credible economist in the 90s; lost his way with political partisanship in the early to mid 2000s; and now sees The Messiah’s tripling of the federal debt and tripling of the budget deficit as a portion of GDP from Bush’s worst 3.8% to Obama’s first 12.8%; $750B stimulus; $450B omnibus spending bill; and $3.8 Trillion budget as puny.
Under the influence of the old Kool-Aid he often echoed his recent trashing of the Reagan recovery due to its budget deficits in the 3-5% of GDP range and unfair tax rate cuts for the rich.
Guess he missed Bill Clinton’s end of big government State of the 1995 Union and largest capital gains tax cut in American history, or does he trash the 90s as well.
All he seems to love and promote as an answer to the current recession is a return to a command economy on the order of WWII. He thinks we need a stimulus 4-5 times as large as Obama proposes.
I quite agree. The problem is that it can’t be gotten from government spending. It can only be gotten from the private sector, where reside those supply siders we call Americans that create real jobs that last.
Krugman seems to view the economy of the United States circa 1941-1945 as idyllic. Guess he missed the rationing and the war. Moreover, after the hay days of the 1950s when an American homeland untouched by Axis bombs held monopoly status, this country maintained its superiority via supply side policies of JFK, RWR, WJC/Newt and GWB that left more of the fruits of Americans labor in American hands.
Then came Frank and Dodd and Obama and Hillary all voting to let Fannie and Freddie direct the market.
Paul, its time for your intervention. Meet some Indian garb-clad white males angry at the Stamp Act and the Tea Tax. Meet black males Crispus Attucks angry at the British taxers and troop quarterers and Frederick Douglass angry at federal and state governments he wishes would leave him and his folk alone.
All we tea drinkers want are our rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
For Southerners that means Sweet Tea! and unlike Krugman’s, the Charlotte Observer and the Drive-bys’ and President Obama’s and Secretary Napolitano’s Kool-Aid,
Luzianne doesn’t get cloudy!
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Examiner.com and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Originally published by Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and Examiner.com, where all for verification links may be accessed.
April 16th, 2009
Apologies to Dixie kin for “sweet tea” (pictured) redundancy as we are trying to reach a larger audience that includes northern economics Nobel Prize winners clueless about the 25-year Reagan Recovery.
For the first time in memory I won’t have to wait for the Braves score to know if an April 15th can be blunted by some good news. Having worked for myself for 17 of the 20 years of my professional life, I always wait till the last possible moment to fund those governments The Gipper identified as The Problem.
For this Tax Day will now have to share its previously exclusive billing with a tradition older than the venerable First Amendment, much less the invidious Sixteenth.
Today, the conservative grassroots of America will follow an example began in now ultra-liberal Boston and hold over 500 tea parties from sea to shining sea in every one of the Lower Forty-Eight in addition to the former and/or current home states of Barry Obama and Sarah Palin.
The Queen City in which I reside holds its own 2:00 pm version on Fourth Street near the Government Center after its 1:00 pm beginning outside the local dead tree Drive-by Charlotte Observer to underscore its frequent failure to observe anything that doesn’t fit their big government agenda.
We will examine the Charlotte Tea Party in this space tomorrow where we have frequently had to employ a Leghorn to blow away The Disturbers and its Drive-by allies’ Foghorns that distort the facts or leave them out all together.
Who knew that George Orwell would get it exactly right and exactly wrong in his 1984, that a free media would choose to reduce the dictionary and re-write history on behalf of tyrannical government rather than a tyrannical goverment imposing an un-free press.
Tyrannical government you say?, you angry, dangerous Obama/Napolitano-identified right-wing terrorist threat.
No, not the ominous Bushlied threat via library cards and non-draft armed forces at war with Islam by liberating Muslims and ridding their territories of megalomaniacal dictators and Taliban religious extremists. Identified American victims to date: 0
No, not the tens of thousands killed by Bush that trained to re-shape pentagons and WTCs. They are no more. Identified American victims to date: 0
No, not even the remaining would be reshapers now called purveyors of man-made disasters, formerly known as illegal enemy combatants or, God forbid, terrorists.
Their kind killed 3000 in one day and thousands abroad before and since while the Obama Left cites Timothy McVeigh ad nauseum to justify killing millions via abortion, once while a President Clinton blamed right wing talk radio for a McVeigh, but I digress.
No, not the crazed Code Pinks nor throwers of pies at Pat Buchanan, David Horowitz and Ann Coulter.
Rather, the danger comes from vehicles bearing Ron Paul bumper stickers; non-delinquent mortgagors championed by Santelli; and opposers of ending Newt and Bill’s welfare reform as we knew it. The imminent threat are those that opposed bailing out banks and AIGs; favor spanking Fannies; and hope Freddie’s Dead.
Such is the state of Homeland Security in the Age of Obama in which all threats from abroad including any foreigners here with visa overstays given that the Geithner economy talk down and the president’s policies that promise to destroy the dollar and keep investors on strike (h/t to Randy Streu) since the Democratic Party takeover due to promised tax hikes have removed the illegal immigrant threat by making job prospects better in Juarez than Walla Walla.
But in case any illegals remain, don’t dare cross Speaker Pelosi and deport them and please get them quickly legalized so they join unions and get wage rates up, as Obama dreams.
Now comes a former Obama campaign apologist with a Swedish medal around his neck that has switched Kool-Aid brands while still eschewing tea, no matter the level of sweetening.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman used to be a credible economist in the 90s; lost his way with political partisanship in the early to mid 2000s; and now sees The Messiah’s tripling of the federal debt and tripling of the budget deficit as a portion of GDP from Bush’s worst 3.8% to Obama’s first 12.8%; $750B stimulus; $450B omnibus spending bill; and $3.8 Trillion budget as puny.
Under the influence of the old Kool-Aid he often echoed his recent trashing of the Reagan recovery due to its budget deficits in the 3-5% of GDP range and unfair tax rate cuts for the rich.
Guess he missed Bill Clinton’s end of big government State of the 1995 Union and largest capital gains tax cut in American history, or does he trash the 90s as well.
All he seems to love and promote as an answer to the current recession is a return to a command economy on the order of WWII. He thinks we need a stimulus 4-5 times as large as Obama proposes.
I quite agree. The problem is that it can’t be gotten from government spending. It can only be gotten from the private sector, where reside those supply siders we call Americans that create real jobs that last.
Krugman seems to view the economy of the United States circa 1941-1945 as idyllic. Guess he missed the rationing and the war. Moreover, after the hay days of the 1950s when an American homeland untouched by Axis bombs held monopoly status, this country maintained its superiority via supply side policies of JFK, RWR, WJC/Newt and GWB that left more of the fruits of Americans labor in American hands.
Then came Frank and Dodd and Obama and Hillary all voting to let Fannie and Freddie direct the market.
Paul, its time for your intervention. Meet some Indian garb-clad white males angry at the Stamp Act and the Tea Tax. Meet black males Crispus Attucks angry at the British taxers and troop quarterers and Frederick Douglass angry at federal and state governments he wishes would leave him and his folk alone.
All we tea drinkers want are our rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
For Southerners that means Sweet Tea! and unlike Krugman’s, the Charlotte Observer and the Drive-bys’ and President Obama’s and Secretary Napolitano’s Kool-Aid,
Luzianne doesn’t get cloudy!
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Examiner.com and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Originally published by Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and Examiner.com, where all for verification links may be accessed.
