tea-party-likens-gays-to-drug-addicts

[Bill Thompson]

do you think the tea party is just a fringe group?

No. I think that partly the reports on them are exaggeration and I think partly every large group has radical wack-jobs.

 

[Bill Thompson]

What is this "Liberal Progressive Radio' you speak of and dont you feel lonely being the only person in the country that is listening to it?

i had to stop recording and studying them. I was making it a hobby. But I had to stop because I got a job to occupy my time. But this makes me wonder about the people who study Rush Limbaugh and his kind all day for the golden nugget of when he clearly is absurdly stupid. It makes me think these people do not have jobs and should be looking inward more than outward.

 

[leftysergeant]

I can't believe any large group believes this.
I think this is Liberal propaganda rubbish.

It is much easier to find faults in Liberal Progressive Radio rants.
So when we find one guy on the Right who is off his rocker, the Left has to make a big deal of it as if the whole Neocon side is just like that one guy.

Stop that. We do not say they are all alike. Each one of the drongos on the right-wing radio sewage outfall in Seattle is different.

(Aside from the fact that they are all batcrap crazy.)

 

[DC]

I can't believe any large group believes this.
I think this is Liberal propaganda rubbish.

It is much easier to find faults in Liberal Progressive Radio rants.
So when we find one guy on the Right who is off his rocker, the Left has to make a big deal of it as if the whole Neocon side is just like that one guy.

Ah but this logical view spoils your fun. Sorry about that.

LOL that was a funny one.

 

[Bill Thompson]

Oh really?

It is fun to have a scapegoat for all our problems. Find some idiot in a politial party that opposes us and claim that that whole party is just like that one example. There. We have done it. Now we can claim that the existance of war, the existance of racism, the existance of any misery in this world is because of that one group.

This is how the Nazis made themselves feel better too. Progressives and Liberals today are no different. Ironcally, sometimes they both call themselves "National Socialists"

 

[bikerdruid]

No. I think that partly the reports on them are exaggeration and I think partly every large group has radical wack-jobs.

i have seen little or no evidence that the tea party is not all a bunch of bigoted whacktards.
is there anyone in the movement that is not:
-bigoted?
-fundamentalist christian?
-anti-science?
-anti queer-rights?
-misogynist?

 

[cesarz]

Glenn Reynolds

 

[bikerdruid]

Glenn Reynolds

even if he is sane, one sane person does not a viable political movement make.

 

[cesarz]

Few person doesnt mean that who movement is crazy also.

 

[Bill Thompson]

The way your demonize and criticize the political right my using propaganda tactics reminds me of how the Nazis did the same sorts of things. You find one or two extremists to focus on and there you find a scapegoat for all the world's problems reminds me of how the Nazis did the same thing to the Jews. The tea party members become "teabaggers" and everyone thinks it is a good thing and the accept it. It is just as unfair. It is just as wrong. Sadly, it is just as effective. "Teabaggers", huh? Wasn't sexuality and accusation of perversion used as a weapon by the Nasis as well in a variety of ways?

 

[tyr_13]

The way your demonize and criticize the political right my using propaganda tactics reminds me of how the Nazis did the same sorts of things. You find one or two extremists to focus on and there you find a scapegoat for all the world's problems reminds me of how the Nazis did the same thing to the Jews. The tea party members become "teabaggers" and everyone thinks it is a good thing and the accept it. It is just as unfair. It is just as wrong. Sadly, it is just as effective. "Teabaggers", huh? Wasn't sexuality and accusation of perversion used as a weapon by the Nasis as well in a variety of ways?

Propaganda tactics like reporting the things they have actually said and done and the things they actually advocate?

The 'Tea Party' isn't a unified political group; it's a bunch of different groups striving to claim legitimacy through a common name. Nothing advocated by the Tea Party should be taken as actually advanced by it's members, so it should ideally be a non-entity politically. It cannot claim that people should take their ideas seriously by claiming popular support from its members because there are, no true Tea Partiers.

 

[leftysergeant]

Glenn Reynolds

He has ties to Pajamasmedia, so I would suggest you not hold him up as utterly rational.

 

[leftysergeant]

Few person doesnt mean that who movement is crazy also.

Well, the absence of non-psychotic grown-ups among them does leave the teatards looking kind of crazy.

 

[cesarz]

He has ties to Pajamasmedia, so I would suggest you not hold him up as utterly rational.

Well if this automatically make someone not rational - what would we say about people that voted guy with absolutely no expierience to most important job in the world?

 

[fuelair]

The way your demonize and criticize the political right my using propaganda tactics reminds me of how the Nazis did the same sorts of things. You find one or two extremists to focus on and there you find a scapegoat for all the world's problems reminds me of how the Nazis did the same thing to the Jews. The tea party members become "teabaggers" and everyone thinks it is a good thing and the accept it. It is just as unfair. It is just as wrong. Sadly, it is just as effective. "Teabaggers", huh? Wasn't sexuality and accusation of perversion used as a weapon by the Nasis as well in a variety of ways?

The teabaggers started wearing the funny little hats and CALLING THEMSELVES TEABAGGERS some months before the more intelligent around them started using the name in jest for the obvious reason. THEY chose the name, we did not choose it for them. We do not want them to lose a sense of their history.

 

[stokes234]

The way your demonize and criticize the political right my using propaganda tactics reminds me of how the Nazis did the same sorts of things. You find one or two extremists to focus on and there you find a scapegoat for all the world's problems reminds me of how the Nazis did the same thing to the Jews. The tea party members become "teabaggers" and everyone thinks it is a good thing and the accept it. It is just as unfair. It is just as wrong. Sadly, it is just as effective. "Teabaggers", huh? Wasn't sexuality and accusation of perversion used as a weapon by the Nasis as well in a variety of ways?

Thats one hell of a godwin you've got going on there. No, making a big deal about a political party having untroubled ties with homophobic spokespeople is not the same as murdering millions of jews and starting a war that killed tens of millions more. If the left-wing pointing out homophobic sentiment reminds you of the nazis, you should re-read your 1930-1945 history.

 

[Biscuit]

BaC - I know there is a lot to answer here but I was wondering if you could answer my follow up on the Vince Foster LOR challenge.

Can you tell me in which government report it was declared a forgery?

 

[Magyar]

Well if this automatically make someone not rational - what would we say about people that voted guy with absolutely no expierience to most important job in the world?

AH, How about the poster child for the Republican scream fest for the last decade (at least) for term limits?

 

[KoihimeNakamura]

i have seen little or no evidence that the tea party is not all a bunch of bigoted whacktards.
is there anyone in the movement that is not:
-bigoted?
-fundamentalist christian?
-anti-science?
-anti queer-rights?
-misogynist?

I know several people who are like that. Also Asians, hilariously enough.

 

[bikerdruid]

Well if this automatically make someone not rational - what would we say about people that voted guy with absolutely no expierience to most important job in the world?

you mean 'dubya'....right?
who had not only no experience, but is a lying moron.