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At last, we can finally dispense with the notion that the “leaders” of the tea party movement are (a) in touch with reality, and (b) not calling for violence.  Via David Bernstein, this is from MarkTalk, the blog run by Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams.  As for reality:

B. Hussein Obama took power on the same kinds of hateful ideology and is engaging in nothing different than did mass murders like Stalin and Pol Pot.  The only thing missing is the forced death marches and gulags…  oh, but wait,  Obama’s death panels and union provided goon squads will take care of that.

Um, no he didn’t, yes it’s different, and no they won’t.  What an odd place the fantasy-land this guy lives in must be.

And as for encouraging violence:

If we (the Tea Party Movement and American People) fail in our de-worming this will not end well.  It never has before and it will not now.  It would serve the domestic enemies in control well to remember even recent history and the fact that slaves eventually revolt and heads quite literally wind up on platters.

I trust that our responsible friends on the right who consider themselves “loyal opposition” will promptly decry this sort of treasonous BS.

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  2. And here’s more:
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI…

    From the stage, Deborah Johns is the angry conscience of the tea party movement.

    “Question everything your government is doing,” she tells a crowd of about 100 from the bus’s stage in the parking lot of the Winners casino in Winnemucca, Nevada.

    Under a setting sun on the steps of the state capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas, Johns says: “Our men and women took an oath when they put on the uniform to defend and protect this country from enemies both foreign and domestic. I think we’ve got some domestic enemies in the White House.”

    On a sunny afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, Johns works the crowd of about 2,000 into a frenzy.

    “The men and women in our military didn’t fight and die for this country for a communist in the White House,” she says, and the crowd erupts in a chant of “U-S-A, U-S-A!”

    Now, there is some question as to whether Mark Williams and the “Tea Party Express” are the real Tea Partiers.
    http://notpexpress.wordpress.c…

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    p>But you know, that is indeed who’s showing up on 4/14, and who Sarah Palin is speaking for.
    http://www.bostonherald.com/ne…

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    p>In any event … gosh, I wonder why Scott Brown doesn’t have the time to make it up from DC …  

  3. Our friend Rob @ RMG is wicked pissed off:
    http://redmassgroup.com/diary/…

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    This is an open memo to the media attending the TEA Party event this week in Boston with Sarah Palin.  If you see really stupid signs, it’s just our progressive friends trying to paint the TEA Party movement as anything but normal Americans fed up with government intervention in their lives.  The previous link will bring you to Blue Mass Group where they are planning to “infiltrate” the Tea Party with fake signs to make the TEA Partiers look crazy.

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    p>And hearing Rob complain about the “racism” of tea party critics … well gosh, that’s really rich.

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    p>I mean, maybe “infiltrating” the event is indeed a waste of time. This stuff is beyond parody.

    • That’s exactly right.  This Mark Williams dude is authentic, right?  But that Stalin/Pol Pot comment is exactly what I would write if I were trying to be as foolishly outlandish as I could.  You can’t parody or satirize something that is so far out in left field that it’s actually on Lansdowne Street.

      • I think they’re actually closer to Main Street in Haverhill.

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        p>(No offense to anyone from Haverhill, I’m just approximating the trajctory of a very long fly ball over the Green Monster.)

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        The previous link will bring you to Blue Mass Group where they are planning to “infiltrate” the Tea Party with fake signs to make the TEA Partiers look crazy.

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        p>”Make the TEA Partiers look crazy”? I really don’t think they need much help!

        • This is true…

          “Make the TEA Partiers look crazy”? I really don’t think they need much help!

          but I think it’s necessary to state that they are a disgrace to American tradition and the core values of the United States. They are contemptuous of intelligence and their membership is inevitably associated with lower levels of education. They are weak-minded followers, lemmings who follow the loudest-mouthed demagogues, e.g. Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, Palin. They contribute nothing to the progress of the United States and hold us back as a country. They make us look bad in the eyes of most of the world and they actually take pride in that because they are so self-centered and narrow-minded. The Tea Partiers of 2010 are symbolic of the rot in our country. Of course, I generalize. As they do.

          • Maybe I just don’t want to get it.

            The larger problem for Democrats, however, is they write off the Tea Party as primarily racist and paranoid, as New York Times columnist Frank Rich recently did. That stereotype is also wrong.

            To be sure, there are undoubtedly racists and conspiracy theorists in the Tea Party movement. But the fringe does not define the movement.

            • Journalists are the last to realize what’s going on outside their favorite bars it seems.  As the one you quote, he blithely says something without bestirring himself to see if it’s even true.

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              p>I know that it sounds far-fetched that the majority of Tea Parties would be racist only because an American movement that large that doesn’t buy lots of white sheets is supposed to be respectable.  But given that most Republicans think Obama is a secret Muslim, and a plurality think he wasn’t born in the US, at some point the wannabe Kool Kidz are going to have to relearn their country.  Yes, the loudest conservatives (aka Tea Party) is occupied are dominated by paranoids with obvious racist tendencies.  

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              p>I don’t like that a large political movement can get by on such outmoded format.  I don’t like that racism is potent enough to motivate thousands of people.  It’s not a pretty commentary on American race relations, or the dream of eternal and constant American progress, but you don’t get to dismiss reality just because it’s not likable.

    • “Sarah, Paul Revere Didn’t Quit Halfway to Lexington!”

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      p>If that makes the teabaggers (especially the RMGers) feel like they are being mocked, it’s their own damn fault.

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      p>Or maybe I should bring a six-pack and hold the sign –

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      p>”Dick Armey is no Samuel Adams!”

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      p>Sadly I doubt most of the ‘baggers will even get the references.

      • …but he DID get captured and thus didn’t make it to Lexington.  Not sure how this fact fits the analogy, but just pointing it out.

        • Revere was captured at a British checkpoint between Lexington and Concord. He had already passed Lexington.

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          p>Of Revere’s group, only William Dawes escaped capture, but if I wrote Dawes on the sign, I am sure that the Teabaggers would really be scratching their balding white scalps.

          • I was actually wondering after I posted if I had gotten my geography correct.  Point is he didn’t complete his intended journey, though not of his own volition.  As for using the Dawes reference with this crowd, I think that’s instructive.

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            p>If there is anyone reading this who would doubt the need for a universal knowledge of some basic history, I would say that such is a prerequisite for intelligent and civil discussion about politics.  If such existed we wouldn’t have to put up with the nonsense of people calling protests of taxation WITH representation “tea parties”, for example.

    • It’s just more EaBo manufactured outrage:

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      No infiltration (0.00 / 0)
      The Blue Mass poster says:
      1) WEAR Something Blue (So People Know Why You’re There)
      If you could read, you’d realize that they are going to MAKE FUN OF YOU, not to infiltrate you.

      And that last question is a good question: where are all the black folks at these Tea Party rallies? How come having a basically white-only party is not considered racist but asking why the Tea Parties are whiter than the extremely white Republican party is considered racist?
      by: Yellow Cake? @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 12:40:44 PM CDT

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      p>Here’s betting EaBo will attempt to blame any fresh examples of teabonics on the liberals…

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      p>EaBo calling people racist is indeed funny, but a whole ‘nother discussion.

    • Does it mean the infiltration was a success?  How will we/they know the fake stupid signs from the real stupid signs?

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      p>Maybe we just want them to think we infiltrated their little shindig so they are all suspicious of each other.

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      p>Or maybe they want us to think they think we think they’ll think we infiltrated the event.

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      p>Someone should let them know the infiltrators are white, male or female, between the ages of 24 and 72, and carrying American flags.

    • The Tea Party-backed GOP gov candidate for NY has some pretty nasty emails to explain. Via TPM:

      +An October 2009 email with a photograph showing President Obama and the First Lady dressed in 70s-era blaxploitation pimp and prostitute costumes while attending a formal event at the White House…

      +A December 2008 email showing a video of African tribesmen performing a traditional dance. The video is entitled “Obama Inauguration Rehearsal.”

      +A September 2009 email entitled, “Easy Steady Big Fella….XXXX,” with a photograph that graphically depicts a horse having sex with a woman.

      +A January 2010 email, containing a hardcore pornographic video entitled “Miss France 2008 F[]ing.”

      +A July 2009 email showing a photograph of an airplane landing directly behind a group of black men. The caption reads: “Holy Sh

      t. run niers, run!”

      When one recipient complained about the “Obama inauguration” email, calling Paladino a racist, Paladino responded by apologizing “if that is offensive.” He added: “I’m not a racist and have never related Obama’s color to my political distaste for him….I’m not sensitive to ethnic humor.”

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      p>Racism? What racism? LOL @ eabo.  

      • In response to Olbermann’s commenting on the lack of non-white people at Tea Party events, Eno responds, not with counts or statistics, but with a scripted video.

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        p>Well, gosh, there is a black guy who’ll show up on a Tea Party video. How unsurprising.

    • Eno again:

      The previous link will bring you to Blue Mass Group where they are planning to “infiltrate” the Tea Party with fake signs to make the TEA Partiers look crazy.

      These guys just don’t care about getting anything right. BMG hasn’t “planned” anything.

      • Here’s the plan:

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        p>Arrive dressed exactly like them, and blend in as best you can.  Carry a sign that has one of their slogans.  Shout the same things and applaud at all the same places in Palin’s speech.  Then, on the pre-arranged signal, we’ll execute sub-plan X-39a as described in the email you all got.  They’ll never know what hit them.

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        p>The only way our plan can fail is if each participant assumes everyone around him/her is an infiltrator and confronts them.  I sure hope that doesn’t happen.  Don’t let them find out.

  4. I read the post you linked to, don’t think I see widespread support from the comments.  But that’s a pretty nutty post.

  6. Flickr?    All just liberals out to make tea partiers look bad.    I mean, c’mon, do you really think the tea party activist types are homophobic, bigoted ignoramuses?  This is just a smear campaign by Move On and Acorn to discredit real Americans, the tea party members, who see through the liberal fascist agenda of Barack Hussein Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi.    Tea partiers are just God-fearin’ Americans defending their nation and their way of life….  

  7. This is tangential, but has anyone else noticed that there seems to a trend for conservatives to treat “liberals” the way that racial and ethnic minorities have been treated in the past?

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    p>For example, there was the doctor who said that he refused to treat “Obama voters”. There was someone else who gloated because he claimed he just laid off his first “Obama voter” — a national talk-radio host (Neil Boortz) is even telling business owners that this is how they should proceed, by singling out employees based on their politics (I wonder if skin color serves as an effective proxy to them?…)

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    p>There seems to be a movement to demonize and treat people who identify as “Democrats, liberals, or Obama voters” as second-class citizens.  Derogatory names meant to humiliate and de-personify are assigned to these people (Moonbats, the enemy, mental disease, etc.) To conservatives, the simple existence of “those people” is ruining our country, with the subtext being that “those people” should be eliminated.

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    p>This really sounds a lot like the feelings behind racial strife in this country 50 years ago, just being directed slightly differently.  

    • I heard a sermon by Bishop Desmund Tutu several years ago, in which he identified this as the key starting point for genocide and oppression. The value of dehumanizing the target is that it releases whatever restraint the mob might otherwise feel.

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      p>Such dehumanization was part of apartheid. In the case of Bishop Tutu’s sermon, he was specifically addressing the Israeli view of the Palestinians. I agree with you that the rightwing is taking the same tack towards “liberals”.

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      p>BTW, is it legal to terminate someone’s employment based on their perceived voting choices? Just wondering.

      • I think it is probably legal to terminate someone for any reason, unless you do so because they are in a protected class. I don’t think political affiliation is a protected class in Massachusetts.

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        p>The case in question (which hasn’t been proven) allegedly took place in Texas. I suspect that there are fewer things that are protected down there.

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        p>This is where things are going though. We are having an “us vs. them” pushed upon us. If you’re not with them, then you must be against them.  

        • Retaliatory firings for a legal act are actionable under civil law. They can be difficult to prove, but such cases are hardly uncommon.

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          p>Also, there is the issue of voter coercion involved, which is absolutely illegal under criminal statute. An employer cannot make voting or not voting for a candidate a condition of earning a paycheck. Nada. No way.

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