Targeted By Con Blogs, Dem Rep’s Office Vandalized By Swastika
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The Republican machine isn’t just making noise anymore.
Rep. David Scott (D-GA) told Fox News that his district office in Smyrna, Georgia, was vandalized with a four-foot swastika.
‘We woke up this morning and my staff called me and said there was a swastika, a Nazi sign, painted on the sign,’ said Scott. ‘Which of course is very unfortunate, and I just feel very bad about it — and really feel bad about the person who did it.’
As you may have heard, Rep. Scott’s outburst of frustration versus the teabaggers made him a target on conservative blogs. Who’s next?
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Anybody shocked? This is what we’re up against, what we’ve been up against for quite a while. It’s nothing new.
Thanks Dennis (Britney) et al!
Oh, and please no False Equivalence this time. Thanks in advance.
I guess we all just need to shut up. Criticizing somebody is no good because one idiot might take things too far.
Conservative bloggers, don’t you dare offer up any criticism of the Democrats crappy health care plan! Better you should just shut down and shut up!
Conservative bloggers, don’t you dare offer up any criticism of the Democrats crappy health care plan! Better you should just shut down and shut up!
Thanks Jay! I just knew this was somehow Teh Librulz fault! Stay KKKlassy!
Jay’s into criticism via hate vandalism.
Jay’s into criticism via hate vandalism.
He’s KKKlassy!
Conservative bloggers, don’t you dare offer up any criticism of the Democrats crappy health care plan! Better you should just shut down and shut up!
Well, if you keep with the “Mah free speech sez I speak while making sure you don’t” strategy at the town halls, then “shut your ignorant pipehole while the adults speak” would be the appropriate response.
If I was local law enforcement in Smyrna, GA and I was assigned to this case, I’d be checking the local SEIU office to see if any four foot swastika signs were missing from their inventory.
Jay’s into criticism via hate vandalism.
I am? Gee, thanks for letting me in on that. I didn’t realize it.
Are we going to get a breaking report like this for every single swastika? Because that’s a drastic change from how we’ve done things the last 8 years.
If Mitch McConnell calls Obama a Nazi on the Senate floor, then, only then, will Republicans have “risen” to the level set by Democrats.
Yep, matt. Whoever did this was probably a liberal Democrat. Good point. Idiot.
I guess we all just need to shut up.
Works for me, thanks Jay!
Man shows up to NH Town Hall with gun:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22887392#32373716
Mmm hmm.
This is an adult blog, Matt621.
Jay, this isn’t a one off situation. The pattern:
1. The dupe (in this case, a self-proclaimed conservative who also cannot think for themselves, not because they’re “conservative” but because they cannot think for themselves) only pays attention to Fox News, Limbaugh, Coulter, etc.
2. They do not verify, fact check, or debate for the purpose of knowledge enhancement. Their sanctioned authority is all they need.
3. Nothing stops them from working themselves into a frenzy and their emotions get the best of them.
This happens on the left too, but current dynamics is such that this tends to happen more often on the right.
Yep, matt. Whoever did this was probably a liberal Democrat. Good point. Idiot.
That problem is not whatever ideology he subscribes. It is once again, the “guilt by association” BS tactic the left uses over and over and over again.
Fact A: Conservative bloggers criticize Rep. Scott.
Fact B: Some guy paints a swastika on Scott’s office.
Liberal Pretzel Logic: Conservative bloggers are to blame for Fact B.
If Oliver were to limit his ire to that of the jerkoff who committed vandalism, then I’d think he’d find broad support for that ire. But he doesn’t do that and neither do most left wing bloggers. Something happens and they immediately look for someone to blame for “causing” something else to happen.
Eliminationists doing their thing
If Oliver were to limit his ire to that of the jerkoff who committed vandalism, then I’d think he’d find broad support for that ire
Actually Jay, don’t you think there would be more credibility if the right did the same?
New Hampshire allows law-abiding citizens to openly carry firearms. I also like the updates about how the guy was no where near where the President was going to be and was under watch by police guarding the event. But hey GUNZ R BAD!
This is an adult blog, SFC B.
The dynamic, in a nutshell:
1. The right does not believe in problem solving via government. Therefore, their pundits are pretty much committed to criticizing attempts by the other side to problem solve via government. Since ratings tend to favor yellow journalism those most ‘out there’ in shrillness and conspiracy usually get the most attention and succe$$.
2. Keith Olberman, Al Franken, and those liberal others are now in the position where they can lie in wait for the inevitable mistakes or outright falsehoods, and then attack from a factual base, which gives them the credibility upper hand.
IMO, #2 will tend to draw more of the rational debate crowd, while #1 will draw more of the knee jerk emotional bunch. Not a good situation for real conservatism, and quite the pickle for the GOP.
If I was local law enforcement in Smyrna, GA and I was assigned to this case, I’d be checking the local SEIU office to see if any four foot swastika signs were missing from their inventory.
Pfft–I say we just cut to the chase here…there’s just GOT to be a couple of suspiciously empty Krylon cans at the Obama residence.
Eliminationists doing their thing
And who said the conservative didn’t have their own death squads? HA!
“New Hampshire allows law-abiding citizens to openly carry firearms. I also like the updates about how the guy was no where near where the President was going to be and was under watch by police guarding the event. But hey GUNZ R BAD!”
Permit, laws, or no, the question is: Why did he feel he needed bring it? Especially if he knew the POTUS was going to be there?
These are the questions ADULTS ask.
The only reason some wingnut loser shows up with a gun at a healthcare townhall meeting, is to show the world that he is some insecure failed male who never could get a woman. He thinks he is SO tough, with his little peashooter on his hip. Fucking wussy boy.
“If I was local law enforcement in Smyrna, GA and I was assigned to this case, I’d be checking the local SEIU office to see if any four foot swastika signs were missing from their inventory.”
Why don’t you guys stand up and own it. Just admit that there are crazy fuck heads in your party that are racists nazi skinheads. Then, IF you disagree with them, say so. Blaming the Democrats for this is similar to condoning what hopefully you don’t agree with. I say hopefully because I’m not completely sure that you’re not part of the sicko base.
If I was local law enforcement in Smyrna, GA and I was assigned to this case, I’d be checking the local SEIU office to see if any four foot swastika signs were missing from their inventory.
Brilliant deduction, Sherlock. Maybe you could look into all of that George Soros “astro-turfing” too. Also.
“Pfft–I say we just cut to the chase here…there’s just GOT to be a couple of suspiciously empty Krylon cans at the Obama residence.”
Is that the same can he used to make up his birth certificate?
Actually Jay, don’t you think there would be more credibility if the right did the same?
Why? Does the left condemn every pinhead thing somebody does? By claiming they have some moral obligation to condemn it is to fall into that other trap which is to say that if somebody doesn’t condemn something, they must condone it. That’s just stupid.
Permit, laws, or no, the question is: Why did he feel he needed bring it? Especially if he knew the POTUS was going to be there?
Uh, maybe because he routinely carries and it’s no big deal to him to do so? Sorry, but I know people that have concealed carry permits and carrying a gun to them is as routine as putting on wristwatch.
The screechy reaction to this goes to show how idiotic our society has become with regard to guns. Rather than having a healthy respect for them, we’re supposed to cower in pants-wetting fear every time we see one. If that’s what you want to do, fine. But stop projecting your fears on to everybody else.
Yeah, why can’t Teh Left be civil? Why are they so unhinged anyway? This is all Teh Left’s fault!
isms,
There is a regular poster here who has done something somewhat similar to this when he posted a highly racist statement on another blog and used another blogger’s name and her blog web address as the identifier, then shortly thereafter chided that blogger for being racist.
I’m not saying that whoever drew the swastika sign was an SEIU member, but crap like that does happen. And why is it being a sicko to be suspect of this occurrence when the liberal blogs have done nothing short of declaring Kenneth Gladney a bought and paid-for conservative plant for the last four days solid?
liberal blogs have done nothing short of declaring Kenneth Gladney a bought and paid-for conservative plant
Did you mean to link some other article, Dennis? The one you linked doesn’t mention Mr. Gladney at all.
Where is the leadership on the right? What are they instigating? What are they condoning by silence? Remember McCain after the “kill him” episodes, standing up and essentially saying “whoa, Obama is a decent individual, let’s not get too frenzied”?
Where is the leadership on the right? Why can they not stand up and say that these townhalls have turned into a mockery, are sullying the principles of free speech, dialogue and fairness that our country was founded on?
It’s one thing for Dennis and Jay to say the swastika etc is just isolated wingnuttery. However I don’t see any ANY conservative coming forward to try to cool things off and get this back to a debate about the actual legislation.
It is shameful and dishonorable. Dennis and Jay you have to acknowledge that, no? WHERE ARE YOUR LEADERS!
Its called Occam’s Razor.
The article Oliver linked about the vandalism never mentions Republicans, racism or Tea Party Protesters, either!
Phew, that’s a relief. For a minute there, I was worried that Representative Scott and others of his party and ideology were being targeted by right wing blogs and radio and TV commentators. Thank goodness that isn’t the case. Thanks for clearing that up, matt621. Like the good and civil TeaBaggers opposing health care for the poor, that’s mighty Christian of ya!
This is so dangerous… this frenzy that the GOP Right Wing is creating is going to get either someone or a lot of someones hurt or killed.
By the way, @durablend, this was hilarious:
If I was local law enforcement in Smyrna, GA and I was assigned to this case, I’d be checking the local SEIU office to see if any four foot swastika signs were missing from their inventory.
Pfft–I say we just cut to the chase here…there’s just GOT to be a couple of suspiciously empty Krylon cans at the Obama residence.
The article Oliver linked about the vandalism never mentions Republicans, racism or Tea Party Protesters, either!
What? Aside from the mention of Rep. Scott’s “outburst versus the teabaggers,” OW’s post didn’t mention any of those things either.
Isn’t it neat how that works?
I am sick and tired of all these damn Democrats thinking they can just pass legislation and shit just because they won some elections. The Constitution clearly says that the agenda has to be set by Southern conservative whites and only the magic powers of ACORN / SEIU thugs could mess up that finely honed system. I WANT MAH COUNTRY BACK !!!
Where is the leadership on the right?
Broadcasting from the EIB Studios.
No rational person brings a gun to a presidential town hall. No rational person.
No rational person brings a gun to a presidential town hall. No rational person.
Please explain how somebody exercising their rights under the law and the constitution is not “rational.” I can’t wait to hear this explanation. And please, don’t try the nonsense of answering a question with a question.
Very simple: “How is somebody exercising their rights under the law and the constitution irrational?”
There is NO leadership on the right. None. The idiot brigade of Cantor/Boner/McConnell cannot stay on the same page for more than 12 hours. Steele? Nah, he’s totally defanged and utterly useless. Mittens? Hardly. Huck? He riles the fundies, but they are diminished in influence and dying by the day. Palin…no comment.
The only semblance of leaders are talking heads like Blen Geck, Hannity, and Limpballs. That’s it. Those people are dictating right wing policy now. Elected members of Congress are actually afraid of speaking out against a talk radio show host. How fucking funny is that? And I saw footage of some townhall meeting where the congressmen was telling the idiots in the crowd that they need to turn off the TV and not listen to Glen Beck, and they BOOED HIM!
Think about that…they actually got furious at the notion that some know-nothing blathering idiot on the TV who is only in it for his own personal gain, isn’t a credible source of info.
That;s the state of the GOP in 2009. Lost, drifting, without a captain or a compass and heading right onto the rocky shore.
This is a hoax. I’m calling bs on this right now. This guy made an ass of himself the other day, and what better way to take the focus off of his ridiculous antics than to stage a little bit of good old racial oppression and bigotry.
One of two things will happen – we’ll never catch the “perp,” probably because they don’t exist, or we will in fact find out the whole thing is bogus.
There’s no way this could legitimately have happened outside ACORNSEIU trickery, because otherwise it’d be like suggesting that here in Georgia you could find moron dumbass right wingers stupid enough to do something self-defeating like this on some shithead impulse they got after listening to Boortz or another Georgia right wing radio teabagging ass-head, and I think we all realize that that’s WAY too much to ask anyone to believe.
For all of those so eager to point the finger, let’s not forget that there are instances of people drawing swastikas on their own doors, and then reporting the incident.
Hopefully, no one posting here would condone such a despicable act. Nor should anyone, without more, automatically blame the act on a proponent or an opponent of the current healthcare proposals under active consideration by the Congress.
It is once again, the “guilt by association” BS tactic the left uses over and over and over again.
So Hitler was completely innocent and it was all those pinheads who sieg heil’d, soldiered and gassed, who were to blame? If only YOU had been around back then to stop all that. Actually, I think it’s blind tribalistic authoritarianism that Oliver is talking about.
By claiming they have some moral obligation to condemn it is to fall into that other trap which is to say that if somebody doesn’t condemn something, they must condone it. That’s just stupid.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim. Sound familiar?
This is a hoax. I’m calling bs on this right now.
So’s your ideological compadre, Jim David Adkisson. I suppose he’s also a hoax.
So Hitler was completely innocent and it was all those pinheads who sieg heil’d, soldiered and gassed, who were to blame?
Ok, I’ll mark that down as the stupidest thing I have read all day.
Thanks.
Beck went after Scott yesterday and the swastika showed up this morning. Not to hard to figure this one out.
Ok, I’ll mark that down as the stupidest thing I have read all day.
Thanks.
Need a baseline so you can top it tomorrow, eh?
Ok, I’ll mark that down as the stupidest thing I have read all day.
Alright, let’s see how smart you are. Exactly how did Hitler gain so much power then?
Past quitting time you coward?
Hitler was able to manipulate large segments of the German population into believing that doing evil to some was in the best interest of the rest, mostly with lies. How is this any different from the MO of today’s conservative leadership?
I’ll have to be gone for a couple hours. Have at it.
Interesting. Say, does “blind tribalistic authoritarianism” including employing tactics like encouraging your ideological followers to “snitch” to political operatives on fellow Americans things like, say . . . healthcare matters?
If not, then I guess that, in line with your sarcasm, Stalin was compleletly innocent too, and all the little “progressives” around him were to blame?
“Collectivization,” . . . remember? No, you probably do not know much about it.
Might have been fine, well . . . except for the fact that he murdered 20 million or more of his fellow Soviet people through the “collectivization” efforts, and enslaved generations in labor camps. We don’t even really know what the numbers were.
Just one example — Uncle Joe was especially effective in noticing that nearly all the grain food in Eastern Europe was being grown in the rich soil of the Ukraine, and that small landowners and tenants — the Kulaks — grew most of that food and populated that land.
So, since he wanted what they had, he officially declared them the enemy (changing the definition of “Kulak” along the way a few times), and had his bureaucrats set impossible production levels for the Ukraine to meet, in order to feed the poeple in Russia and the other states driving the engine of the emerging industrilization process of the Soviet Union. He literally stole all of their food from them. As a consequence, Stalin starved millions and millions of the Ukrainian people to death, in addition to murdering or enslaving Kulaks in labor camps, anywhere he could “find” them. As I recall, one of his final definitions of “Kulak” went something like this . . .”Who are the Kulaks? Those who oppose us!”
That was who the Kulaks were! Try reading “Harvest of Sorrow” sometime.
Now, one of Uncle Joe’s particularly “endearing” tactics in implementing his policies vis-a-vis collectivization, included a program of encouraging the children of Kulaks to “snitch” on their parents, and indeed of publicly encouraging all people in the Soviet Union to “snitch” on their countrymen, over civil matters — including hoarding food.
The tactic was referred to as “mutual surveillance” and has been correctly called the bedrock of the Soviet totalitarian system.
If I was local law enforcement in Smyrna, GA and I was assigned to this case, I’d be checking the local SEIU office to see if any four foot swastika signs were missing from their inventory.
And that’s why you’re under house arrest, Denny.
Clearly this is a Democrat Party setup! If Republicans did this, it wouldn’t be a Swastika; it’d be a backwards letter B!
Stalin was compleletly innocent too, and all the little “progressives” around him were to blame?
Something like that. Stalin was a malignant narcissist. In a better managed time he would have been spotted as such and banished from the cave. I’m partly joking. Seriously, I am not convinced that MN’s entirely believe what they preach, but see it more as a means toward an end – their own empowerment. I wouldn’t be surprised if Hitler’s real motivation was to build massive monuments to himself. Successful MN’s are very good Machiavellian psychologists and sociologists. They know exactly who and how to manipulate within a given context, and ideology is only a tool to them. Their basic MO is always the same: Persuading “BTA”s that evil done to some is in the best interest of the rest.
I see conservatives and/or any opposition who intelligently questions Obama’s fearless charisma during this time of economic turmoil as a good thing. But I’m also seeing more BTA’s amongst today’s movement conservatives than anywhere else in America. It isn’t the words of ideology that convinces me of this but the behavior. They’re everywhere in every possible belief system, but especially concentrated today around Limbaugh, Fox News, Coulter, etc. But that is just my opinion.
One of Oliver’s motives at this blog may be to throw bits of red meat out here for us comment dogs to fight over – all in good fun. But I also think he’s motivated to do what he can to nip nutjob mob behavior in the bud, which he also believes is concentrated amongst today’s movement conservatives.
To follow up, if I were a Republican, I’d be hoping for some bright light in my party to stand up and say “OK, it’s time to cool the rhetoric so that we can have a rational debate. Here are the things we don’t like about the proposal”, which would restore some sense of dignity, self respect and dare I say it rationality to the party. Instead, where are they? Romney? Hello? What say you? Huckabee? McCain, even? Is this the sort of thing that makes you proud to be Republican? Is everyone so afraid of Rush and O’Reilly? How sad. How frickn sad. Ronnie must be spinning in his grave.
I agree Gumby, but there’s a distinct lack of intestinal fortitude in the GOP right now. In other words, they’re chicken shit scared of the mighty goon(s) of talk radio.
if I were a Republican, I’d be hoping for some bright light in my party to stand up and say “OK, it’s time to cool the rhetoric so that we can have a rational debate. Here are the things we don’t like about the proposal”, which would restore some sense of dignity, self respect and dare I say it rationality to the party.
That might happen. And swine might break the sound barrier.
Dignity? Self respect? Rationality? Pfaw!! Have you read any right wing blogs lately? Seen the videos of the GOP “base” turning out at town hall meetings? Listened to the most recent GOP candidate for president or vice president?
The GOP needs to clean its house of its racist fringe elements before it ever makes a national comeback. Instead, the racist fringe elements are becoming the base.
Have fun never winning anything outside the south ever again, GOP.
Republicans Maintain Lead Over Democrats on Generic Ballot
You’re wrong, Jaim. And you’re daily repeated blathering about Republicans never winning again is getting old.
NJ and VA governors races are decidedly in the good guy’s favor and Dems look like dolts right now.
“Uh, maybe because he routinely carries and it’s no big deal to him to do so? Sorry, but I know people that have concealed carry permits and carrying a gun to them is as routine as putting on wristwatch.”
LOVE how you just ignore the whole, “BTW, the President was there.”
Jesus, who do you hang out with, the Posse Comitatus?
Probably.
Sigh…Oliver, HOW do you do it? How do you put up with this bullshit?
Instead, the racist fringe elements are becoming the base.
If by “becoming” you mean “have been for the last 40 years,” then I can dig it.
Gassy Old & Paranoid = GOP
What a crock of shit.
“New Hampshire allows law-abiding citizens to openly carry firearms.”
Sweet!
I’ve deleted posts in the past where people joked about assassinating Bush or Bush being killed. I warned someone if they did it again I would notify the Secret Service. So, pardon me if I don’t think its the best thing in the world for someone to take a loaded gun to a protest at an event where the President is going to be.
It’s within our rights to do a lot of things, but its up to us to gauge when the best time to do these things are.
Sigh…Oliver, HOW do you do it? How do you put up with this bullshit?
And I don’t even drink!
Q.I.B.
I know, I know. It just boggles the mind, is all. I don’t even know what the Repubs stand for any more as far as a policy platform or ideology. Nothing, I suppose. Because thinkin’ ’bout policy and shit is faggoty liberal woolly headedness.
They’re just nihilists now, anarchists. Against everything, for nothing. Lusting for power for power’s sake, poisoning the wells if that singular goal is not attained. Left with nothing but empty rage. Hulk not Control House! Hulk Smash Things! (Hmmm… Hulk probably not reattain majority by smashing things)
I guess my fleeting observation was that there may be an opportunity for a level headed voice from the right (presuming such a thing can be said to exist and isn’t itself a contradiction in terms) to emerge from the chaos and show some moral and ideological leadership.
Or maybe that swine’s hitting Mach 2 about now.
Its fake…
This congressman would do anything for attention.
“First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.”
Swastikas are everybody’s problem.
This quote is from was said by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
‘But hey GUNZ R BAD!’
Who the fuck would suggest that guns are good?
What fucking good has a gun ever done on this planet?
‘Please explain how somebody exercising their rights under the law and the constitution is not “rational.”’
Exactly what purpose would anyone have for wearing a sidearm to this kind of event? Would you want this tool to wear a gun to your kids’ open house at school?
Jesus Christ, the whole notion that guns are great is just an excuse for people to advocate that everyone should be armed; as if that would make people safe or some shit. Didn’t everyone have weapons in the old west? Did that stop crime and killing?