Tea Party- please explain

[Anonymous]

Here is a bit of tea party advertising. I like the "medium is the message" aspect of a tea party leader trying to scare the naive into believing that Obama, like Hitler and Lenin, is the one who uses fear to lead the naive. But like the racist stuff, it seems that this is too far out for most tea partiers and they are moving away from the scary Hitler/Lenin pix because they distract from the message.

[Anonymous]

You don't see the spit, but you see the guy lean in and the gentlemen immediately jerk back as if hit by something and reach up to wipe. Do we need DNA evidence? Again, I'm curious why you are so quick to defend these folks. Do you really want to split hairs over one man spitting in another man's face, insisting we didn't actually SEE the spit? Didn't this happen in an episode of "Seinfeld"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't see the spit, but you see the guy lean in and the gentlemen immediately jerk back as if hit by something and reach up to wipe. Do we need DNA evidence? Again, I'm curious why you are so quick to defend these folks. Do you really want to split hairs over one man spitting in another man's face, insisting we didn't actually SEE the spit? Didn't this happen in an episode of "Seinfeld"?

Given that I've been giving the benefit of the doubt to our Black Panther guy, I ought to be fair and note that it's not at all unusual to spray when you shout, and that is quite possibly what happened here. Even if the guy did spit, it's one guy, so what does it prove?

I find it scarier that so many of them think that health care for all is a grave threat to their freedom than that some of them may have racist tendencies.

[Anonymous]

The man was later arrested, though the Congressman ultimately declined to press charges. Yes, it's one guy, but we now have lots and lots of "one guy" situations that are emerging into a pattern that deserves more attention.

Personally, I think the racist tendencies are more troublesome. I actually don't think most of these people genuinely oppose health care for all. Most of them are just spouting rhetoric and sound bites that they don't really understand. Look no further than the guy in the Pelosi doc who can't even come close to explaining what socialism is, but insisting that Obama is a socialist and that it is very, very bad. (This is not unique to the tea party, but they sure seem to be trying to corner the market on empty rhetoric.)

So, if this legislation was being pushed by the Republicans or by a white Democrat, I'm not sure we'd be hearing it decried as the greatest threat to the Western World this side of Mecca. It might still be opposed, but probably not as intensely, which is where the racism creeps in.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Here is a bit of tea party advertising. I like the "medium is the message" aspect of a tea party leader trying to scare the naive into believing that Obama, like Hitler and Lenin, is the one who uses fear to lead the naive. But like the racist stuff, it seems that this is too far out for most tea partiers and they are moving away from the scary Hitler/Lenin pix because they distract from the message.

A few years ago, Move On held a contest in which the public was asked to submit campaign commercials. Someone submitted one that compared Bush to Hitler. Mind you, this commercial was not produced by Move On, but simply a member of the public. Nevertheless, both chambers of Congress passed resolutions condemning Move On. Hillary Clinton actually voted in favor of the resolution. So, I am sure Congress will now vote to condemn the Tea Party, right? Right?

[Anonymous]

http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201007150012

Here we go again...

[Anonymous]

I heard on NPR yesterday someone described them along these lines "Tea party members seem to quote sections of the constitution verbatim and talk about their "rights" frequently, but they often take the words out of context and only focus on some sections of the constitution and not others. It is the same sort of selective interpretation fundamentalist Christians seem to apply to the Bible, and I'd wager the membership of these two groups overlap considerably."