Early Morning Swim: Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bigotry in Tea Party Movement, GOP
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 23rd, 2010 4:51 am by HL
Early Morning Swim: Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bigotry in Tea Party Movement, GOP
Blistering.
At some point, we have to decide as a country that we just can’t have this: We can’t allow ourselves to remain silent as foaming-at-the-mouth protesters scream the vilest of epithets at members of Congress — epithets that The Times will not allow me to repeat here.
It is 2010, which means it is way past time for decent Americans to rise up against this kind of garbage, to fight it aggressively wherever it appears. And it is time for every American of good will to hold the Republican Party accountable for its role in tolerating, shielding and encouraging foul, mean-spirited and bigoted behavior in its ranks and among its strongest supporters.
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This is the party of trickle down and weapons of mass destruction, the party of birthers and death-panel lunatics. This is the party that genuflects at the altar of right-wing talk radio, with its insane, nauseating, nonstop commitment to hatred and bigotry.
Glenn Beck of Fox News has called President Obama a “racist” and asserted that he “has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
Mike Huckabee, a former Republican presidential candidate, has said of Mr. Obama’s economic policies: “Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff.”
The G.O.P. poisons the political atmosphere and then has the gall to complain about an absence of bipartisanship.
Read the whole thing. Herbert has never been better.
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Late Late Night FDL: Down On Loving (Democrats)
Featuring two new videos from Northern Lights final show and The Soft Pack.
Featuring two new videos from Northern Lights final show and The Soft Pack.
What’s on your mind tonight?
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Meet the Republicans
Paul Broun, Republican Representative and moronic statement machine. His influences…pretty much what you’d guess them to be.
Paul Broun: Should have followed Morganna the kissing bandit
Lost over the last few days in a deluge of imbecilic comments by the John Birch Society and the Council of Conservative Citizens Republicans, was this completely over-the-top and unintentionally hilarious statement of Georgia Republican Paul Broun:
If ObamaCare passes, that free insurance card that’s in people’s pockets is gonna be as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the War Between The States — the Great War of Yankee Aggression.
“The Great War of Yankee Aggression”? Really, that’s how you are still referring to it? Who the hell is this guy, Theodore Bilbo? (worst hobbit ever — even the Sackville Bagginses hated that guy [ed. “NERD!”])
But if nothing else, Broun has a history of profound thoughts…
While watching an NFL game, Broun became entranced by a “gentleman with this big type hair wig on” holding a “John 3:16” sign. “As I sat there in my office that fall trying to figure out life, I picked up the Bible and read John 3:16,” Broun said. He suddenly transformed into a true believer, a cadre of the Christian right.
Anyone who grew up in the 70s and 80s and watched sports remembers that guy.
And, as Digby noted a while ago, that ubiquitous guy in the wig with the John 3:16 banner — is now doing life in prison on multiple kidnapping and terrorism convictions.
So he certainly makes an inspirational symbol for a Republican Paul Broun.
