Tea Party Protesters Yell “Nigger”, “Faggot”
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They are who we thought they were. These people are the lowest of the low. And they prove it, time and time again.
There are people in America who want to make this country better, a greater place, and they are always opposed by knuckle-dragging savages. And they always, eventually, lose.
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“YOU’RE TAKING THEM OUT OF CONTEXT”-Matt Drudge
You have far to high an opinion of your fellow American. Post-WWII prosperity was a rare moment in our history when we didn’t simply rely on our vast resource wealth and abundant open land. Good does not always win over evil.
Good does not always win over evil.
Sure it does. Sometimes it just takes longer than we’d hoped.
They are FOXHOLES!
Fox created them.
Hate Radio encouraged them.
Our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press (CCCP, where have you seen that acronym before?) encourages every step they take.
They do not have what it takes to be an a-hole.
They don’t even have what it takes to be a b-hole.
They are FOXHOLES.
They are Screwpert Murdoch’s brood and they need to be sent a message that as long as they act like FOXHOLES, there is no place for them.
Exactly.
counting down to the look over there meme
10 – 9 – 9
Or better yet…the “They’re not real conservatives” excuse.
Or “you dont have it on tape to prove it” excuse
Or “well liberals said ________ about Bush in 2003″ excuse
The base of the modern Republican Party, charming as ever. Thanks Rush et al. Mission accomplished!
[...] Oliver Willis: They are who we thought they were. These people are the lowest of the low. And they prove it, time and time again. [...]
Yeah, that’s really going to result in Reps. Lewis and Frank voting Nay. Shows how clueless these wingnuts are about advocating. #1 rule of advocacy is to be positive and non-partisan.
And don’t forget the “those are REAL MURIKANS who might’ve voted for your side” excuse.
These people are about to get their asses kicked by a librul black man with a Muslim name, so they are about to lose all their semi-popular-fascist credo.
It was one thing when angry screamy people, predominantly white and frequently Southern, claimed that they just weren’t gonna let this happen.
It’s another thing when they pull their little TeaTard and ‘Revolution’ and Obama = Stalin routine and “IWANTMAHCOUNTRYBAK” shit and still lose.
They will look like the weak losers they are, instead of the giant rebels they imagine themselves to be.
I am my brother’s healthcare.
What I find so sad is watching the media tip-toe around what the Tea Party Movement is really about. It’s not about taxes. It’s not about healthcare. It’s all about racism. It’s whites that are angry that we have a black president. Period.
They have to create things to get angry about. About how the federal government has raised their taxes (it hasn’t. In fact, they got a tax cut). About how Obama wants to take their guns. About how Obama wants to ban sport fishing. Obama is a Muslim. Obama wasn’t born in this country. etc., etc.
It’s about race. When you hear Rush Limbaugh say that HCR is “reparations”, I mean, what else do you need to hear?
They see White Privilege being lessened and the playing field evening out and they scream “I want my country back! I’m scared!”
Noone should be shocked when you see these people unhinged like they were today.
We’ll see if HCR passes but if it does, it’ll be interesting to see how these morons react.
Sadly, the Republican party has hung its future on getting enough knuckle-dragging savages to the polls by any means necessary, so I expect we’ll see more of the same.
I guess it’s easier to see them now that the white hoods are prominently displayed on their pointy assed empty heads.
I know I shouldn’t be shocked Luv, but I must say I am “taken back.” The level of vicious, ugly, attacks and mob mentality that this movement exhibits will continue to shock me, and I’m glad I can still feel the shock. I never want to get used to this type of hatred. I never want to accept this as part of an “acceptable” behavior from the opposition. And I don’t want to hear that the media focused on a “few signs,” or “no one was hurt in the demonstration,” and the usual “stop playing the race card, the liberals did much worse when Bush was in office,” comments.
When I saw some of the signs they were carrying I must say my heart sank and my mouth dropped open. One sign read, “If Brown can’t stop this, a Browning can,” with a picture of a Browning gun. And the people that spat on Rep. Barney Frank, why weren’t they arrested for assault.
Is it just me, or have y’all noticed that there isn’t anything posted from the usual right wingers, (as of my posting?) Hey, I’m calling you out. Your silence speak volumes! How come you have nothing to say? I’m just askin’?
These people are the children and grandchildren of those that fought against The Civil Rights Movement. And just like their parents and grandparents, they will eventually resort to violence and assassination attempts on liberal politicians/commenters.
We have to be prepared for it. We shouldn’t be shocked when it happens. These people ALWAYS resort to violence because they know their ideas can’t win.
You know you’re a redneck when you say “gunless communism by gay black muslim” is next.
Looked at the link; do you guys actually have any evidence (ie video or audio) of the allegations beyond their say so?
Not saying I know one way or the other; but given the number of times your team has played the race card for political advantage (Oliver knows that card well) you’re gonna have to do better than heresay. Sorry.
Frank’s got an opinion on this:
http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/11/20/faggot-is-new-conservative-way-to-argue/#comment-192195
Funny how all of our wingnut friends have an opinion on EVERYTHING.
Except this.
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Brian Baird – Washington (Vancouver, Olympia) – (202) 225-3536
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Mike Michaud – Maine (Bangor, Lewiston, Presque Isle, Waterville) – 202-225-6306
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Loretta Sanchez – California (Garden Grove) – (202) 225-2965
Dan Lipinski – Illinois (LaGrange, Oak Lawn, Chicago’s southwest side) – (202) 225 – 5701
Joe Donnelly – Indiana (South Bend, LaPorte, Michigan City, Kokomo) – (202) 225-3915
Marion Berry – Arkansas (Jonesboro, Cabot, Mountain Home) – (202) 225-4076
Jerry Costello – Illinois (Carbondale, Belleville, E. St. Louis, Granite City, Chester) – (202) 225-5661
Nick Rahall – West Virginia (Beckley, Bluefield, Huntington, Logan) – (202) 225-3452
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The phrase that John Boener, Michelle Malkin, Steve King, Michael Steele, Michelle Bachmann, and Paul Broun all need to look up is, I believe, “qui tacit consentit.”
Burn said:
Or “you don’t have it on tape to prove it” excuse.
Well, Haplo9–Burn knew you were coming. Maybe if you had read all the comments
you could have saved yourself from being exposed as a typical wingnut. You guys are
boring and predictable all around. And let’s face it–in your world, if FOX didn’t videotape
it–it didn’t happen.
Try the news on the internets.
Hilarious that “we’re” playing the race card when the tea party is out throwing a whole deck and more on DC streets.
Funny that a blogger that enjoys using the sexual slur “teabagger” with such frequency would be offended by rumors of someone having called someone else a faggot.
Even funnier that you chose this particular headline to call them something you rarely call them….’Tea Party Protesters’.
Suddenly now you’re above using epithets.
Bush league, Oliver.
Morning Dennis . . . .
I haven’t had my coffee yet this morning so I won’t be looking “over there.”
Any comments on the ACTUAL post—
Tea Party Protesters Yell “Nigger”, “Faggot”.
Yes? No? Or is it just easier to blow smoke up Oliver’s ass?
C’mon Dennis, be bold–the mighty forces will come to your aid. Tell us what you really think of people screaming Nigger at Congressman Lewis, Faggot at Congressman Frank and spitting on
Congressman Cleaver. Prove to everyone that no matter the politics you see what happened for what is was. Racist, homophobic rage.
I’ll go get my coffee.
CNN: “Democrats have condemned the epithets; no word from Republicans.”
There were no Tea Parties before a black man was elected president.
Simple as that.
Yup…just like November 2000-November 2008 didn’t exist!
They really do live in an alternate bizarre reality where everyone looks like them. My family and I have always lived in a very diverse area. There is no one racial group that is the majority in my kids’ schools. We’re white and it has always been a plus to live in a culturally rich area. When we go out to the country or somewhere with a lot of white people, my kids look around nervously and ask why everybody is white. They think it’s weird and boring.
I fear what the neo-fascists will resort to when they finally come to grips with reality that white people are no longer the majority.
I’d prefer to see video and audio of it before I make a comment on it, Leota. Ignorant people say ignorant things. That’s true of the words alleged to have been hurled at these congressmen, and it’s true of everyone here calling these people ‘teabaggers’. Let those without sin cast the first stone.
Not according to Oliver and and a host of other nutroots conspiracy theorists, Jaim. The tea party idea was created well before Obama took office.
It’s not as simple as that.
Yes, the Teabaggers are just like Civil Rights protesters in Selma, Alabama during the 1960′s.
Have a nice day Dennis as Obama and the Dems hit another homerun re: HCR, and once again the GOP is made to look like the pack of racist buffoons that they are.
a) If the past is instructive, it is possible no such remarks were made.
b) If they were made, they certainly were not representative.
c) Of course , we have the usual crap about “When are the Republicans going to denounce the remarks.”
Because 1) This is a “When did you stop beating your wife” trap. Denounce the remarks and you admit they were made.
2) The people who attend Tea Party rallies don’t belong to the Republican Party, anymore than people who toss garbage cans through windows at G8 conferences, belong to the Democratic Party.
So enjoy looking down your noses at them now. You will be seeing them entering Polling Booths in November.
There were no Tea Parties when Bush spent the country into a whole. Now a black man is president and they come out in force yelling the N-word.
Cause, meet effect.
Also, Leota, for when you’re done with your coffee….
Here’s our esteemed blogger before on Clarence Thomas and his wife:
Clarence Thomas’ Wife Is Part Of The Tea Party
Clarence Thomas exhibits faux resentment and self-inflicted paranoia. Wrong for him. Ok for Oliver and the nutroots, though.
Bloggers with short memories or just a wierd sense of self-justification?
You decide.
I think we can take John Lewis’ word on this, someone who was there at the inception of the Civil Rights movement and was no stranger to being threatened and beaten by whites.
As for Barney Frank, he probably knows what it’s like to be called a “faggot.”
Do you really think either of them would make stuff like this up?
But please, I’ll let you and Dennis continue to defend the indefensible.
You sure do spend a hell of a lot of time on a blog hosted by someone you think is crazy.
Or did terrorists break into your house and force you, yet again, to be the most prolific poster on this horrible, no-good web-blog?
Yes, ignorant people say and do ignorant things . . . .
Except, I fail to understand how seeing video or hearing audio precludes you
from commenting. Are we to believe the person arrested for spitting on
Rep. Cleaver never did it because there was no video–thus you have no comment.
Are we to believe that the great American hero Congressman Lewis lied about being called a nigger?
Is that where we’re at? No video–didn’t happen? No audio–no comment?
What a wonderfully, safe world you inhabit Dennis.
How in the hell did history ever get written as there was a decided dearth of video cameras throughout
most of it. Those eyewitness to history needed to get real. Hey maybe we’re being lied to about The Plague
—haven’t seen any youtube clips on that one yet.
Thanks Dennis. Sadly, you never disappoint–but maybe one day . . . .
Not all teabaggers are racist homophobes, but a lot of racist homophobes are teabaggers. How much of the tea party do you think would be left if you took out the racist homophobes?
a) if the past is instructive, it’s certainly more likely than not that such comments were made.
b) if they were made, they were certainly representative of at least some of the protestors(especially considering that the “faggot” comment drew laughter from the other protestors)
c) you can’t claim support and compliment the Tea Partiers when it works for you politically, then distance yourself when it doesn’t. The GOP has gone “all in” for these guys, they need to take responsibility when things get ugly.
I always assume there’s people showing up to vote who are doing so out of anger, fear, ignorance or just plain hatred/spite. All we can do is counter anger with reason, fear with courage, ignorance with truth, and hatred and spite with compassion and hope. Win or lose at the polls, it’s how we all come out ahead in the long run.
Dennis. Dennis. This post is NOT about Oliver or something he previously posted. I repeat—
(head in palms)
(head smacks onto desk)
(spills coffee)
(goes to sit outside in the sunshine and hope Dennis finds a new hobby.)
I’m curious about what Michele Bachmann will have to say about these people who (according to DiSalle) are not Republicans.
Oh come on now…it’s OBVIOUS these were just Democrat plants (in a shameful attempt to make Republicans look bad).
Right Dennis? Frank? Farris?
There is video and audio! Dems make false allegations. Lower than Low, as usual! How bright is that? We all know to carry cameras and record Union Thugs, liars, etc.
Leota, the idea of spitting on someone apalls me, as does calling them the n-word. Those both go without saying, so I don’t know why you feel the need for me to say it for you.
‘Faggot’, I don’t like that word either, but there I have a problem with someone acting put out about it if that person uses the ‘teabagger’ epithet with the aplomb that Oliver does.
One crazy guy in a crowd calling someone the n-word? Why is that a big story on a blog that completely dismisses the harsh treatment doled out by liberals in the same manner toward Clarence Thomas. Doesn’t make sense. Not unless one is a hypocrite does it even begin to make sense.
You doubt Michael Steele or anyone else saw even one Oreo cookie thrown on the stage where he was speaking, Jaim. There is video of Lewis walking by the protesters and at this point there is no hint of the n-word being yelled out.
“FOX News–if we didn’t see it ourselves, it never happened!”
The beef, durablend…..where is the beef?
Media Lying About Racist Attacks on Black reps by Tea Party Protesters...VIDEO PROOF
Dennis found a link to a right-wing site that says we’re all full of hot air.
Why not just read the sign from the Google image search Obama teabagger protest images first search result?:
Dennis, looky here:
Nope, you can see it with your own eyes folks, teabaggers and tea partiers aren’t racist at all, they look to MLK, Jr., as their role model for civil protest and disobedience……………………..
So calling someone a nigger appalls you. Calling someone a faggot – just irks you.
Comedy Gold.
Crooks and Liars, too.
What does calling someone a ‘teabagger’ do to you, Marco?
I’m going to guess not much.
Comedy gold, indeed.
Yes, Dennis. Perfectly equal. Perhaps one day, you’ll find your own Harvey Milk to fight against the injustice your movement faced for losing an election.
Ok, I’ll take that as a “no” then. Thanks.
I should also note Leota – it’s “wingnut” to ask for evidence of an incendiary allegation? Right.. Try not to tread too far down the partisan hack trail blazed by Oliver.
I didn’t say it was perfectly equal, just that you’re a complete dickwad to act upset at Barney Frank being called a faggot when at the same time you delight in calling people who for the most part honest Americans ‘teabaggers’.
Heh. In the last photo you linked, did you notice the web link on the guys sign on the far left? Try visiting it. Not entirely sure that group of people is what you think it is..
The tea party idea was created well before Obama took office.
Srsly? So when was the tea party idea created? Can you link us something that uses the words ‘tea party protest’ that was written during the Bush Administration?
Based on my occasional bouts of sick fascination with Free Republic, I’m not the least bit surprised by this.
Parthy, you guys are just unbelievable. You either have the worst memories in the world or you just conveniently forget and then play dumb when you contradict yourselves.
Remember this:
Rick Santelli Rant Just The Product Of Conservative PR?
If you follow the link to the Playboy article that Oliver was hawking that particular day you’ll find this:
Try not being boring and predictable.
Oops . . .too late.
It is fascinating that the Usual Trolls will find a reason to pretend that the Sarah Palin Rally Racists and now the Teabagger epitheters don’t exist. They realize that racist and even homophobic (pathic?) tendencies are bad, but really believe that their team could never do anything bad. Rush Limbaugh a racist and race inciter? No way, it must be the Socialist Nazi Libtards (you know, the ones who fought for Civil Rights and Gays in the Military, those Nazis) who are the real Bad People. I think the kids like to call this “cognitive dissonance” or something like that. I’ll stick with my lyin’ eyes, no matter how much faux outrage and concern they gin up.
All right amigo, a web domain was purchased. And there it sat inactive until… Rick Santelli’s February 2009 onair wigout. And there were no national protests until… April 2009. Rather odd, no?
Also this:
“Santelli-inspired websites quickly appeared attempting to organize tea parties. ChicagoTeaParty.com bills itself as the official home of Santelli’s tea party. The site belongs to Zack Christenson, a Chicago radio producer. Christenson had bought the domain last August, thinking it might be a good name for a group. Within 12 hours of Santelli’s rant, Christenson had retooled the site, and 4,000 people quickly signed up. On Facebook, dozens of Santelli groups formed, ranging from fan clubs to draft-president movements to tea party plans for Chicago, Texas, New York, and Los Angeles.”
Retooled it? From what?
Dickwad? Wow, only things missing from your reply are ribbons and bows.
“Stop insulting me, dickwad!”
Gold. Just gold.
Lol.
Gee, I wonder whom I should believe, these gentlemen, at least one of whom is a Civil Rights veteran (on the Good Side), or the Rush Limbaugh et al Right and anonymous wingnut blog commenters.
Oh, they called Barney Frank a “faggot”. Get it? That’s hilarious! Sometimes the mask slips completely off their face and they don’t even bother to put it back on. Well, keep on defending those assholes, Wingnut Trolls. They are who we though they were, and apparently, so are you all. Well played.
Ann Althouse says “So what?” to all of this because voting for a big healthcare reform bill naturally comes with racism and homophobia.
Ruh-Roh, there’s more (via NY Daily News):
Wow. Racism, gay-bashing, and Antisemitism. Who could have predicted…?
Let’s have a look at the replay: “They were shouting, ‘Don’t take away my Medicare, we don’t want socialism, you’re throwing our country away.’” I wonder what the Wingnut Right and their Dear Leader, St. Dutch Reagan thought about Medicare when it was in the legislative phase. And why wouldn’t they want to expand Medicare if it’s so sacred and definitely not Socialism? Huh. That’s weird. Anyone know?
And please Wingnut Trolls, please keep defending these assholes and their spokespeople (Palin, Bachman, Beck, Limbaugh and the rest). Keep on showing your true colors. Don’t bother putting the mask back on. We know how you feel. Let it all out. Thanks in advance.
NYTimes:
Keep pretending this never happened, Wingnut Trolls. Hope you enjoy being on the wrong side of History, yet again. Keep trying to balance this story. Keep whining about the lack of “civility” from Teh Left. Keep telling us that Teh Left is the real bastion of racism.
Dennis, I can’t believe you on this one! Come on! You insult me when you find excuses for them. And to say that you need proof!?!? Most of your posts are either nullifying their racists comments or trying to find a comparrison done by progressives. Dennis there are no comparrison. I know what’s it’s like to be called NIGGER to my face by a crowd of angry White people when I went to a co-worker’s wedding in an all white neighborhood. I even know what it’s like when some so called well meaning White folks have told me that Black People brought the wrath of White People upon themselves during the Civil Rights movement. I know what’s it like to be SPIT on! And I know what’s it’s like to be sexually harassed! So, when I read what seems as your defense of this reprehensible behavior, I shutter.
I don’t know Dennis, I want to keep that “special place,” I said I have for you active, but baby you make it so difficult. Sigh…
I was trying to be “Fair and Balanced” for Dennis’ sake.
Thanks for dredging up that mouldy oldie, Denise. Because THERE WEREN’T ANY MOTHERFUCKING OREOS THROWN AT MICHAEL MOTHERFUCKING STEELE. PERIOD. There were one or two found on the ground outside the auditorium, with no evidence whatsoever that they’d been thrown at Steele (there is a shopping center almost directly across Hillen Road from the college – perhaps that was the source of the cookies).
The only thing around here that’s “thick in the air like locusts” is the shit you people are flinging.
I heard some Liberal Blogger once wrote “fuck”. Why is Teh Left so uncivil and unserious. Why are They so consistently on the wrong side of History?
It’s kind of odd that someone complaining about “faux resentment” keeps getting his undies in a bunch pretending that “teabagger” is some evil, deplorable, slur.
Is it incredibly juvenile? Oh, absolutely. Insulting? Of course. It’s like calling someone “donkey-punchers”. Or, “Cleveland steamers”. But a slur on par with the n-word or “faggot”?
Really?
Here’s a simple little litmus test to determine the relative nastiness and malice of a slur. Ask yourself, “can I picture, at some point in history, someone being called ‘x’… as they’re being viciously beaten, possibly to death…?”
N-word? Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s happened.
“Faggot”? Yup, I’d definitely take the odds on that one.
…”Teabagger”?…
Eh, not so much.
To put it in baseball terms, the n-word and “faggot” would be major league all-stars, while “teabagger” would have a fifteen day contract with the Harrisburg Senators. So, let’s stop feigning the vapors over that one.
Also, now you’re of the opinion that you should actually watch a video before analyzing or commenting on it? These are exciting, flip-floppity times…
More VIDEO PROOF of what didn’t happen at ABC News dot-com.
Here’s some unbelievable fuckery from NRO and a reader. Seriously. (ht SadlyNo!)
Racism Today [Jay Nordlinger]
A reader sends in an unusual and thought-provoking letter. See what you think:
As everyone sweats out the final Obamacare tallies, I’m struck by a couple of other stories. In one case, someone reported hearing an anti-black epithet used at a political rally. In another case, dogged police finally arrested the perpetrator of an intolerable crime. The perp is a 16-year-old kid who made a potentially offensive comment on a Wal-Mart overhead speaker. That these things are even remotely newsworthy leads me to one conclusion: Racism in America is dead. We had slavery, then we had Jim Crow — and now we have the occasional public utterance of a bad word. Real racism has been reduced to de minimis levels, while charges of racism seem to increase. I’ll vote for the first politician with the brass to say that “racism” should be dropped from our national dialogue. We’re a good nation, among the least racist on earth . . .
Thought-provoking? Sigh.
OREO FAIL.
Do shut up.
There was media there. Where can I find the tape of this incident?
They called *themselves* “Tea Baggers” early on, when they were feverishly trying to define themselves. Some of them still call themselves “Tea Baggers”!
I’ll stop calling them “Tea Baggers” once they stop stapling teabags to their funny little hats in such a way that the tea bags *slap* them in the face over and over while they walk around screaming.
If there’s one image of tea bagging that comes to mind, it involves a small sack or pouch repeatedly and rythmically slapping against someone’s face.
If you call yourself a “teabagger”, and then go on TV to have tea bags symbolically slap you in the face all of the time, and well, you’re kind of asking for it. It isn’t MY fault that they chose an uninformed name choice for their movement of uninformed people. Nope. No one had ever seen them before, it was fresh and new and they could have called themselves anything. …. and it isn’t MY fault that Steve Jobs called he new product the “iPad”. I’m just kind of glad he did, because I need to see that little bit of self-inflicted humor once in a while. Hahaha.
I don’t know if any racial slurs were used, and like most things in life it’s one person’s word against another’s. However, saying “tea-baggers, Republicans, and anyone associated with the two are racist” is no different than saying “All black people are thieves”. I don’t like generalizations, even though I have been known to use them for humor, but I am not perfect. I think that if you look at it objectively, both sides have used incendiary statements to prove their points. Sen. Byrd (D) was part of the Klu Klux Klan, Strom Thurmond (R) was pro-segregation, Harry Reid with his “negro dialect” statement, Trent Lott and his “Strom Thurmond” statement, so racism isn’t party exclusive. I remember Jesse Jackson himself saying some bad things about Obama. Also the whole Fox News is Republican P.R., I don’t hear those people criticizing MSNBC, and they say some hateful stuff about people they don’t agree with. Even here people are name calling. I don’t care who you align yourself with, there is hate on both sides.
I also might add this in reference to Republicans being racist. http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/12/13/194350.shtml
I know its from a conservative news org. but you could do some research and find out for yourself. Obama himself should know about Dirksen, but again it just proves my point that there is hate and racism on both sides.
Days later and NOT A SINGLE VIDEO showing the N word or F word being used. Despite the fact we know now that Jesse Jackson Jr. had a film crew there they have NO EVIDENCE!
Yea that’s my point.