Posts Tagged ‘Tea Party’
Apples Are Red!!!
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Seen today on W. 93rd St: a mother in a greengrocer’s buying a yellow apple. Her baby was struggling with the concept. “Apples are RED!” he kept insisting. The patient mom took time and explained this to him. “All apples are not the same. Here is a yellow one!” Clearly out of his comfort zone the little fellow insisted on the old reality. I’m sure he will come round. It did remind me of the current political scene. About 20% of the electorate are having a rough time accepting realities that take them out of their comfort zone. Glenn Beck viewers who don’t like that, for example, we NEED immigration in the United States, you CAN’T cut taxes during wars and depressions, human sexuality is NOT all the same, multi-national corporations ARE the Big Brother you think the government is, and they ARE behind Global Warming, which IS real, Medicare and Social Security ARE government programs, etc. What Glenn and the Becker-heads need, of course is a patient Mommy to explain reality to them. They used to have this when the media choices were limited to professional outlets. But now why bother when with FOX News they can have “reality”. And all apples can be red for always. ‘Night Mother.
Tags: Far Right, Glenn Beck, GOP, Hard Right, John Birch Society, Republican, Right, Tea Party
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No You Can’t
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
The Tea Party Right found themselves seized up in the last two days. Calling obscene names at Democratic legislators; last night shouting ugly words at Stupak on the floor of the House Chamber. They will now have to deal with clearly being seen as the party of “no”. Even more clearly they have exposed themselves as the party of hate.
From NBC:
Members of Congress were greeted by the N-word and other derogatory epithets on their way to see the president Saturday.
As the ugly side of the we-don’t-want-health-care-reform protests came out, the Tea Party activists’ behavior left several lawmakers in shock, reported the Huffington Post:
A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) had been spat on by a protestor. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of the civil rights movement, was called a ‘ni–er.’ And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a “faggot,” as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Frank, approached in the halls after the president’s speech, shrugged off the incident.
Tags: Baby Killer, Boehner, health Care, House Floor, Pelosi, Stupak, Tea Party
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R is for Rush
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Sarah Palin’s celebrity-burn-rate continues at volcanic temps. We happy blog workers here are always glad to help.
Forget the Super Bowl, dig Sarah’s flying wedge . . . against herself.
So after pissing off Tea Partiers with a very un-populist $100,000 fee for her to chirp at their convention in Nashville, she is caught referring to scribbles she made on her hand (remember her “Obama, the guy with the teleprompter”?). Next she carried her Rahm Emanuel is toast for using the word, retard” campaign to Fox News. When asked if it was okay that Rush Limbaugh used it, she said, uh huh.
I have to wonder, where is the rest of her policy? I ‘m sure the R word is written around there somewhere. It’s her registered trademark.
From the Huffington Post:
“On Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, she said his comments calling liberal groups “f-ing retards” was “indecent and insensitive” and cause for his dismissal.
But the former governor went to great and sometimes awkward lengths to insist that when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh used the same exact term to describe the same exact group, it was simply in the role of political humorist.
“They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh,” she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups “retards.” “Rush Limbaugh was using satire … . I didn’t hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with ‘f-ing retards,’ and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there.”
Tags: Fox News, Palin, R-word, Rahm Emanuel, Retard, Rush, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, Tea Party Convention
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