Get ready to catch your jaw. It’s certainly going drop when you read this nasty piece written by Eric Boehlert of the well funded, left wing hit machine Media Matters for America.
The title of the piece, in and of itself, is hateful and loaded with false accusation. But the content of the post is even more frightening.
The Last Time Right-Wing Hatred Ran Wild Like This a President Was Killed
I’ve been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I’ve watched the increasingly violent rhetorical attacks on Obama be unfurled. As Americans yank their kids of class in order to save them from being exposed to the President of the United States who only wanted to urge them to excel in the classroom. And as unvarnished hate and name-calling passed for health care ‘debate’ this summer.
The radical right, aided by a GOP Noise Machine that positively dwarfs what existed in 1963, has turned demonizing Obama–making him into a vile object of disgust–into a crusade. It’s a demented national jihad, the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times.
I’ve been a part of the American Liberty Tour for about a month now. Our most recent stop was in Tallahassee, where a room full of liberty loving patriots quietly and peacefully discussed ways to get involved in the political process. These people were tea party organizers, 9/12 participants, members of the American Liberty Alliance, and just good old fashioned Americans.
There was no talk of violence. Obama’s name was hardly even mentioned.
This has been the case for the entire tour. People are upset, yes, but they aren’t violent. They aren’t making threats and they certainly have no plans to do so.
It’s interesting to note that Eric Boehlert took a pass on reporting the actual hatred and violence on the left during the Bush years. Anti-Bush protesters would burn effigies of the President and call for his end. In many cases, the American flag was burned and stomped on.
Those who opposed the mindset behind these protest were spat upon, called filthy names and even threatened.
Where was Eric Boehlert during those events? Apparently, Media Matters believes that a group of Americans who meet peacefully to discuss their new distrust of government suggests an evil national jihad is being formed.
The Tea Party Movement represents the true original nature of the American way. This movement represents everything our founding fathers believed in.
But according to Eric Boehlert, the movement is a demented form of jihad.
I wonder if he wishes the Tea Party Movement back in 1773 never happened?
For liberty,
-Eric Odom
I used to support the tea parties - but then I saw some of the signs at the protests. Apparently, many people see it as a time to air their cause, no matter whom they might alienate on the right, the left or the center. Until these fringe groups are reminded that the tea party crosses all affiliations (including Libertarian) and that the goal is to stop the escalation of taxation and no other, I plan to stay away.
who gives the right to impose your views on others ??vote your choice and shut up we elected this mess vote it out OUT SPELLS NOBAMA
(sorry got cut off) anyway the cost for anything in health care is tremendous and some times unresonably so. why? cause they have to make the profit somewhere ..it is a business. the healh care system unfortuately has shall we say holes in the bucket …between costly medical care procedures being taken advanged of, the high cost of malpratice or liability insurance, and other various factors the cost is being shift on to the patient and unfortuately those who have no insuarnce get screwed in paying more for a procedure than the insurance company would if it ccompletely covered it. the insurance works like a discount card even before it is decided how much a person had to pay. this is the same wiether for medications, xrays etc. however putting the goverment in charge of medical care is not the answer either i work in the health care field and the goverment can not even manage the programs it already has with medicaid and medicare. they keep uping the cost of medicare and make confusing for the elderly or keep changing everything or adding requirement to bill to them but cutting the cost of remembursement to the point docters and other professionals are seeking alternative practices,or cash no insuarance system or not taking those patients. not to mention there is a reason that people from canada come here for medical care….my brother lives in canada and they are asigned a dr of which his is horrible…the dr will not do anything and tells he that it is all in head…well after 6 months he finally got him to get him tested on enlarged lymph node and wow i guess it was not all in your head….he has lymphoma. we may all get medical care but you get for what you pay for in this case crap.
i could go on..but i will not. i will just end with rather than fighting with each other why don’t we put our minds together a figure out a way to do what we need to do and not leave it in other peoples hands? that is what the driving factor should be what we as individuals can do together in a way that does not give away our rights or freedoms or subjugate other people cause they work hard.. we need to do this not the goverment. so as they say put your thinking caps on ans come up with solutions rather than problems. otherwise it will be done for us and possible not to our “greater good” at all.
sigh….it is a sad state the we are resorting to throwing verbal dagers at one another. the simple truth is nothing is free and there is a price for everything. on the most recent debate of the health care reform i have no problem with a general insurance for basic preventative care. the costs that are associated
the anti-Bush protests were some of the most peaceful I have ever attended. Sure there might have been a few who were out of line but the protests (around 10 million in the February before the Iraq war) were very peaceful. You simply are a misinformed person or are so blind by your anger that you can’t see straight.
cindy.
In South America the 21st century socialist movement was started by a German guy named Dieterich who lives in Mexico. He was born in Germany in 1948 which means that because just about all Germans supported the NAZIs during the 3rd Reich that the NAZI ideals had a strong effect on him as he was brought up. Now he’s pushing a global socialist movement because the national socialist movement failed to achieve the agenda of creating a perfect utopia. In South America anyone who is against Chavez is called a racist and in fact the “racist” is now the new identified scapegoat of the global socialist movement. Obama, Reid and Pelosi and Obama supporters are part of the new global socialist movement and it is obvious when you think of how they are synchronously calling anyone who are against their Agenda, racists, which they have been instructed to do. Let’s not forget that:
1. Obama has/had an email on his website where Americans can turn in other “bad” Americans to the federal government. Bush didn’t do this. Hitler did this.
2. Obama is trying to start his own militia, just like Chavez, Just like Hitler. Bush didn’t do this.
3. Obama’s czar wants to use Chavez’s method of shutting down the opposition (to socialism) news media. Bush didn’t do this. Hitler did this.
4. The democrats have HR45 in the committee which requires gun registration, licences and a determination of who morally should be allowed to own a gun. They seem to have copied hitler’s ideas here. Bush did not do this.
5. The federal government funds ACORN which funds SEIU. SEIU sent people to stop the “bad” anti-tax and anti-obama administration protesters. This means that the federal government has intercepted and tried to stop Americans from protesting. I thought this only happened in places like China. Hitler didn’t allow protests against him either. Bush never did this.
So if you ask yourself this, why do the democrats, Obama supporters and liberals in the federal government seem to be acting like NAZIs? The answer is that their Agenda, which is socialism is the same thing as the NAZI agenda, which is world domination, “common good above the individual good” (from the NAZI manifesto), disarm the opposition, use government to impose morals on the people. These global socialists have been advised indirectly by the NAZIs through Dieterich.
After WWII the left, who are in control of the education system, decided that Hitler would tarnish socialism beyond repair if students were allowed to learn history correctly and thus they decided to brainwash everyone into thinking the NAZIs were right wingers when in fact they are far left socialists. They also removed the study of the forefathers and any study of socialist run genocides in the world. Surprised? We have a bunch of ignorant kids finished up their educations who don’t even know that gun control has led to countless millions of deaths by genocide around the world.
The NAZIs did nothing that differentiates them from normal socialists, they invaded other countries like the USSR, they took over industries, they committed genocides, they as a governing body decided what was moral, they took from one group and gave to another group, which are all things socialists do.
Socialism has become a religion for many throughout the world. You can show them evidence that socialism is evil and does not work and they ignore it and have a blind faith in their Agenda. But do you trust them to be good people. Do you trust a mugger to be a good person. No. Socialists are criminals. Period. You cannot reason with a criminal, he wants your property and does not care if he deserves it or not and he is willing to sacrifice your life if you get in his way. Sound like a socialist? Once the USA is disarmed the global socialists will start killing for “moral” reasons again, because if you are against them you are so evil and vile to them that you are not even human and should die. They are waiting for the USA to be disarmed because if they do not they will set themselves back again, like how they were set back after the NAZIs. If Americans are armed they can demand their government stop a genocide (in Australia for example) but if Americans are disarmed and they want their government to stop a genocide our government will say too bad and will probably filter the internet so that we don’t know about it anyway and the media that are allowed to exist will not report it.
WAKE UP AMERICANS! The USA is the last stand. Everyone else is being disarmed. History has shown what will happen next over and over again. WAKE UP! You cannot allow the democrats to even gain one step forward in gun control, we have to fight it. By protecting you 2nd amendment rights you are actually probably saving your own life, because the socialists will target you as a “racist” or a “bad” and “undesireable” person. When we are disarmed and they control the government and the government has all the guns, you know what comes next…
Start with this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwdO2FLg1Rs
Part I of “innocents betrayed — the history of gun control” and watch all 6 parts.
It is admirable that people are interested in politics, but the things I have heard out of this Tea Party movement, including the twisted use of the word liberty scare me.
People in this country, even politicians, have the liberty to believe in any political system which they choose. I have seen enough hard working college graduates go without health care to know that something must be done. I have been charged twice the “fair and usual” price of an x-ray and reading by a physician’s assistant. I have seen people struggling through mental illness succeed, find homes and jobs, with the help of my tax dollars.
Health care and education can not be left up to private industry. Call me a socialist if you will, but I believe in a safety net and pay my taxes proudly.
Wow the guy that wrote this message “attacking” you seems to be the most sensible person in the entire country. The corrupt corporatations of America are responsible for this fear mongering that you call “Tea Party”. I only wish that people could see through this thin viel that is being created and that Obama does not fall victim to these plain calls of violence. When this escalates the blood of the mindless innocent will be on your hands.
Reflecting 4/15/09
Concerned Citizens,
Wednesday I witnessed a sight that rattled my patriotism and reminded me of small meetings in quiet alleys when the word freedom was only whispered. The Tea Party gatherings were the collective outrage of our constituents. It was the first time in my thirty four years I believed change could come. My wish is that we can take that unyielding scream for action and rise from our knees and renew our conviction that our voices will not fall to silence. No great reward comes without sacrifice and no great cause can witness its full potential without reason. We all gathered for something, most of which was scattered ideas and hope for change. I offer this one unifying PLEDGE to bring those gatherings into an undeniable protest for reform. Let us build on momentum and move forward. Join PledgeAmerica.org and don’t let April 15th 2009 just be a day men gathered, but a day that changed the face of America and brought its Government back in control of its people. I have faith, Yes We Can. Let us now, this day, fight and carry forward the battle to wake our constituents and rise in victory with the valor of those who have died to give us these rights. Let there be a calling, writers be heard, artist be born, congressman be not afraid, citizens be free, today, be the day voices be screamed, and those who deny this strength be afraid. For this day we are on the mountain tops, in the streets, quiet alleys, stadiums, and in every corner of this great country, not whispering in fear but yelling a yelp that will be heard round the world. Join me brother, and make your pledge.
If you agree please forward this email and end the wasted breaths for change. Help answer the all to often question…”I don’t know how to fix it…Someone needs to do something…I don’t know how…but…?” The answer is a collective force to walk straight into battle with Moveon.org. They and others control Government. We can one day bring it back to its people. No one man can move a mountain but men gathered with purpose can tear it to the ground and rebuild it new. It is now citizens must sacrifice their time as congressmen should and join this organization. When our work is done we will lay down the burden to the constitution and return to our lives and teach our children if need be they to one day should rise. Forward this and Join the Revolution, or quiet your tongue and speak no more of change. Words or pointless without action in matters of country. Forward this and be of men who did more then wait for change. Echo those who died for freedom and respect those who rose to fight in its name. They were citizens exactly as you and I.
I look forward to working with you,
Become a Member
http://pledgeamerica.org/members.html
America is going down the tubes and the left keep their heads in the sand and tell us to support our President. These are President Obama’s own contradictions. I ask is this the leadership and change that you voted for?
OBAMA:
1. I’ll have no lobbyists in my administration. He does.
2. I’ll read every bill, line by line, before I sign it. He didn’t read the stimulus bill.
3. I will have no earmarks. there were over eight thousand earmarks on the stimulus bill.
4. I’ll be out of Irag in sixty days. Nope.
5. I’ll close Guantanamo. Nope. (but a good nope)
6. My administration will be transparent. It’s not.
7. I’ll put an end to red-state-blue-state politics. The nation has never been more polarized. Actually it was once, in 1861. I think Lincoln was president)
8. Cap and Trade will not impose a cost on families. Obama covered up an internal report that said it would do just that.
9. My focus will be on Afghanistan. It’s not, it’s on Letterman.
10. I won’t raise taxes on anybody earning less than $250,000.00. Not true if he gets his way on cap and trade and health care.
11. Health care won’t cover illegal aliens. (It did until Wilson called him a liar. He went on to say we should make illegals legal and kill the issue.
12. I’m for a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. He betrayed our allies and reversed course.
13. Obama-care won’t include a tax. It does.
14. I didn’t even know ACORN was getting that much federal funding. Either he’s a liar or ignorant, pick.
15. If we pass the stimulus bill, unemployment will not go above 8%. It has.
16. I have no intention of running General Motors. He is
It goes on and on. He has brought avowed Marxists into his inner circle as his closest advisors.
And there are still some morons that say we should support the president.
steme says he/she has never seen such viciousness. Where was he/she during the previous 8 years? I’ve been to 4 tea parties now, including the 9/12 march on DC and I have not seen any viciousness within the crowd.
I’ve seen very friendly, concerned citizens of all races, ages, and political persuasions who are concerned about the direction of the country. They are concerned most of all about the debt our nation is amassing, but they are also concerned about the loss of freedom, the growth of government and the suggested take over of the health care system.
These people are concerned that Congress has turned a blind eye and a deaf ear toward them. They are concerned that We the People no longer rule government but rather government rules us. This is not the foundation of our country. Our country was built on a government that is: Of the people, By the people and For the people.
I have a problem when one calls another “racist”, or a “national demented jihadist”. These people do not want “Freedom of Speech” to be heard. They feel that if they call names that will shut you up. When did the First Amendment get deleted from the Constitution? It seems that if you are for this healthscam and socialist government that is being imposed on Americans, then you can speak all you want, but if you oppose censorship, totalitarian government or anything that has occurred in the past 9 months by this government, then they tell you “to shut up and sit down” as one famous leader has stated, or that you are a far right anti-bama-ite, a racist, or any other adjective that they can think to call you, to intimidate you into being quiet and not create any opposition to their left-wing socialist agenda of government controlling businesses, healthcare, banks, jobs, illegals, and all the other things that they have aim on for the country. I, for one, will not be silenced by these tactics, for truth is mightier than the venom left rhetoric and will prevail. All people that believe in our country and our way of life should be more inspired by these tactics and confront the lies and deceit that is being spewed, and continue to debate the issues, continue to oppose the socialist agenda that will destroy this country. If we “wshut up and sit down now”, it will be too late in the next few years to correct the harm and damage that the socialists will do. Let the socialist play their childish name games. They will be the loser if we stand together and defeat this obstrusive government now, while we can.
The constitution is not a cornerstone it is the foundation of this country but it is not an empty document which one can merely assert one’s own values into as the pseudo-political movement here is doing.
When Bush was president his critics or those who raised questions about his rationale for going to war in Iraq were verbally abused, had their patriotism assassinated, or were called traitors. Now that Obama is president open contempt is the order of the day from you ignorant people.
Tea party? The colonialists were protesting the fact that they were subject to a political authority over which they had no say and assessed taxes upon them. Obama is the duly elected president of the United States who won by 2 1/2 times the margin of Bush in 2004. Between the elections of 2006 and 2008 the Democrats won substantial majorities in both houses, including the largest majority in the Senate in a generation. That is representative democracy and when you win you govern. That is what he is doing.
I have come to dislike most (again, most) American conservatives. They are, again in general, uncivil, rude, anti-intellectual, self-interested and lacking in compassion or concern for their fellow citizens. European conservatives are not like this at all. Their parties have not been taken over by demagogues and entertainers. Most of the comments posted here by conservatives are just like what we hear in Fox and elsewhere and for the last eight years most conservatives here have treated liberals and Democrats like they are enemies worthy of being put on Nixon’s famous list. It as if war was declared by the GOP on anyone who questioned any of Bush’s policies in particular his “war on terrorism.” And now the same hatred is turned on a duly elected president. And some of us are starting to return the vitriol rather than just take it.
You lost. Now think about that and think before you shoot off your ignorant mouths at meetings with politicians and maybe you wouldn’t appear or be the fools that you are.
What do you mean by true patriotism? I will not follow the dictates of a president that I believe are bad for the country. We are currently increasing the national debt at nearly 5.5 billion daily, all of which we depend on foreign countries to lend us. It doesn’t matter which party is in power. Washington is fundamentally broken. Both parties have been fiscally irresponsible. Though the current administration is well intentioned, it is attempting to make major changes in how this country is run. Obama is attempting to emulate president Roosevelt. The difference is that when FDR cam in, the ratio of outstanding federal debt to GDP in the U.S. was about 16%. This year it will be about 85% and that does not include the present value of entitlement liabilities - SS, Medicare, medicaid, and prescription drugs or guarantees, such as to those for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debt that total at least $5 trillion. The words cut and eliminate are foreign to both parties. We as Tea Party members are trying to get the government under control and move back to the principles under which this country was founded, the Constitution.
It’s a funny thing that you should mention Lee Harvey Oswald and that he was a communist. You know who else is a self-proclaimed communist? Van Jones–Obama’s right-hand-man and advisor. I think it’s even more funny that there’s more coverage on the protests in Iran than there is on the American Tea Parties. They’re making the Tea Parties look like a bunch of right-wing racist, extremist, bible-huggers… “demented national jihadists”, if you will, when really it’s all about the constitution.
One of the most-used words in the liberal vocabulary is ‘fascism’. Fascism? Definition of FACISM… “a. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a DICTATOR, stringent socioeconomic CONTROLS, SUPPRESSION of the opposition through TERROR and CENSORSHIP, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism…”
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That sounds like socialism to me.
Terror–being afraid. Like I’m AFRAID that if I don’t vote for the left-wing I’ll be a racist. I’m AFRAID that if I support the Tea Party I’m part of an organization set out to kill the President of the United States. Or like I’m AFRAID that if I disagree, I’m a FASCIST.
To me, the Tea Party is not really about left or right wing. I just want to conserve the constitution, which is a corner-stone of this country.
I commend people for creating Tea Parties, but only if they are actually geared towards correcting the problems in government and not geared towards party bashing on either side… The true is that Obama did not start the problems with our government, he is doing his best to correct them–just as every president before him has tried to do. It is not an easy job, and because of our party system, there will always be people who disagree with the current president, be the current president a Democrat or Republican.
Let’s show true Patriotism and show support for the man who was voted into office to lead our country. Let’s tell our representatives and senators what our needs and wants are and hold them responsible for making the honest changes that are needed without being influenced by special interest groups.
i have never seen such vicousness in protests since obama became president. there have been more death threats to obama than any other president. a man was killed in kentucky with the word “fed” written on him. and the emergence of groups like this, while admirable with its goals, are suspicious debuting only during obama’s presidency, when such acts started with regan, and exacerbated by both bushs. in fact the only president who reduced the defecit in the last 30 years was a democrat. what hypocrisy.
Funny thing is, though, that Lee Harvey Oswald was not a “right-winger” by any stretch of the imagination. He was a communist. Defected to the USSR in 1959, and returned. Tried to stir up pro-Castro sympathy. Tried to assassinate a general whom he viewed as “fascist”.
But then, it would be a shame to let history and facts get in the way of a good leftist rant, wouldn’t it?
THE TEA PARTIES ARE THE NEW FACE OF THE KKK ….