Rep. Maxine Waters Wants Journalists to Interview ‘Teabaggers'

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Do Democrats actually believe referring to Tea Party attendees by a provocative sexual term will help bring the country together?

And why would a member of Congress need journalists to find out what's on the minds of her constituents?

Such questions seem quite important as more and more leftwing politicians refer to folks whose opinions they disagree with as "teabaggers."

Most recent on the list was Congressman Maxine Waters (D-Cali.) who on Wednesday told radio's Bill Press, "I want journalists to be all over those rallies and those marches with the birthers and the teabaggers" (YouTube audio embedded below the fold with partial transcript, h/t Sean Hannity):

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What I've been interested in is hearing from those people that everybody's referring to. The people who were on the Mall in the rally, what are they saying? What's on their minds? Do they believe that they are simply angry at the President's policies or at something else?

 

What I'm surprised about is not enough of our journalists are in the Mall talking to the very people that the questions are being raised about.

I think it's not enough for African-Americans to say what they think, what they suspect. Let's hear from the people. I think that if you put the microphones in front of them, if you do the interviews, they'll tell you what they believe, and what they think. It will come out. I think it's very important for them to define themselves.

And so, what I'm looking for is, I'm looking for the very people who carry the signs who are referring to the policies in very, very strange ways like "Obamacare" and "Bury ObamaCare with Kennedy." I want those people talked to; I want them interviewed. I want journalists to be all over those rallies and those marches with the birthers and the teabaggers. Let's find out what they think.

Forgive me, Congresswoman, but said people have been going to town hall meetings for months telling elected officials what they think.

Why do you need journalists to ask them? Why don't you ask them yourself?

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.


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video gone. I'm a refugee

video gone.

I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.

 

Did anyone grab it?

Did anyone grab it and now have a link to the video?

BTW, whenever I see a video, I use youtube-dl or my DownloadHelper Firefox extension to grab it right away.

I praying that someone on the site has the same habit.

Poor Maxine

Seems she has been teabagged once too often.

Wow!

 
"This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."

THAT didn't take long, did it?

Gary

Levi Johnstoned: The One Trick Phoney!

YouTube has the audio....

Looks like Ms. Waters

Looks like Ms. Waters wants to go fishing but doesn't want to bait her own hook.

 

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

She's prejudiced

She doesn't think she needs to invetsogate them. She's already assumed she knows them. She's completely prejudiced, by the definition of the term. After all ...

  • Since she needed to ask for the interviews, that proves that she doesn't have any proof of what the protesters think. But ... 
  • She simply assumes that all of the protesters are racist morons.
  • She has prejudged them. She's a bigot.

In the act of accusing others, she proves her own prejudice. And therefore, she also proves who the true moron is.

KC... Right you

KC...

Right you are.

Maxine proves she is a moron every single time she ever opens her mouth...she always has.

It really hurts to listen to her...I don't care what, where, when and why....and lord knows I have in the years gone by.

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

And that says even more

And that says even more about the people who keep electing her to office.  She's representing her district - that's the sort of stuff they want to hear.

"I dont need to read a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber."

Walter Brennan, The Colonel, Meet John Doe, 1941

At night, Max Pain in the

At night, Max Pain in the a$$ probably doesn't stray off the main streets in her own district.

This stuff is fantastic

The more these people open their mouths, the more people will see how incredibly desperate they are to maintain power.  I want the Dems to talk as much as possible now, only good can come of it.

apology!

Good thing I saw it earlier.

A House member using a graphic sexual term like "teabagger" is unbecoming.  Maybe she should be made to apologize for bringing shame upon the entire body.

Sorry, I am not racist....

I will NOT treat you special JUST because you are black....

Not for nothing, but are

Not for nothing, but are you sure you didn't accidentally use a picture of Tyler Perry in drag for this story instead of Maxine Waters? 

frustrating

What frustrates me is that the people saying "teabaggers" know what they are saying and what it means. I hope people wake up and get rid of the terrible congressmen next year!

When I first heard "teabagger"

I didn't know what it meant. I thought I should be embarrassed until I found out what it meant and then I was glad I was not in the know.

Two very good....

 

...questions, Noel.

Do you think you will get an answer any time soon??

Pantryman

 

 

I'm white and friggin-A straight proud of it !

Didn't she just break her OWN law??

Didn't the house just desperatetly barf up some stupid list of 'things you can't say'?  Didn't they just stomp all over the bill of rights by destroying 'freedom of speech' and saying if you say any of those things you're toast?

And wasn't one of the things on that list something to do with 'sexual indescretions'???

So Maxine 'We're-all-about-socialism' Waters has broken her own rules here!  True it wasn't about the president - but they were all frothing about 'decorum and civility'.  Now Waters is making lewd sex insults about ordinary citizens who protest her crazed communist policies?

Keep talking libs - you're doing a better job of destroying your credibility than we ever could have dreamed.

"I want journalists to be

"I want journalists to be all over those rallies and those marches with the birthers and the teabaggers"

Sure, that's what we need.

Forget journalists being all over the rich, the powerful, the establishment, the elites, the tax cheats, those in Congress day after day making laws and regulations and taxes and cash for themselves.

Forget all that. No. We want journalists to be all over the citizens who have concerns. All over folks who criticise Obama. Just like... name any Banana Republic you care.

Liberal nutjobs shouting 'racist conspiracy' to anyone criticising Barack Obama are all crazed... RACERS

TEA protesters are the real news!

Well, you know, Jack, that, and the fact that Jimmy Carter says Republicans are racist, is the "real news" that journalists should be covering; not this ACORN nonsense, which is obviously a racist plot of entrapment against a black organization dedicated to helping the poor.

Get your priorities in order!

Maxine, Maxine

You been out of touch for somewhile, the DNC's media parrot has died.

edit.

 

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

another black racist

she is the same Cong. Maxine Waters who, after the violent assaults, murders and arsons of the L.A. riots, referred to the black street gang members in lauditory terms as some sort of "soldiers in the revolution".

 

→ RayRay

Maybe it's worse than that.

Maybe Maxine is labelling Homosexuals as Conservatives.

Now I've got her clearly on Homophobic hate speech, and you've got her on racism.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Some Maxine Waters Background

Organized labor is by far Waters' biggest campaign contributor and has supplied more than two-thirds of her Political Action Committee (PAC) donations.

Her largest labor support comes from the Laborers' International Union of North America and the Service Employees International Union. Other Waters campaign donors include the American Association for Justice (formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) and Viacom, which owns CBS and many cable networks.

In August 2005 Waters threw her support behind Cindy Sheehan's campaign to discredit President Bush and the Iraq War effort.

Also in 2005, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) named Waters as one of the 13 "most corrupt" members of the U.S. Congress.

The CREW report cited a December 2004 Los Angeles Times investigation disclosing how a number of Waters' relatives had made more than $1 million during the preceding eight years by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that Waters had helped.

Waters declined to be interviewed about this matter, saying only that her family members "do their business, and I do mine."

During the Los Angeles riots in the wake of the infamous 1992 Rodney King trial, Waters described the violence (in which 58 people were killed) as "a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice."

Waters further asserted that racial injustice was rampant in America. She claimed that the L.A. tumult could rightly be called a "rebellion" or "insurrection," but not a riot.

"Riot implies to me wild, crazed, uncalled-for actions," she explained, "and I'm not so sure that's quite appropriate for what took place in Los Angeles."

It was "unfortunate," she said, "that "it takes things like this rebellion to wake people up."

Waters co-sponsored Rep. John Conyers' bill calling for reparations for slavery to be paid to African Americans.

She loves rebellion

Rebellion means more federal and state rebuilding and Enterprise Zone dollars she can steer to her family and friends.

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire....

Retired Geek Satire on Maxine Waters

Democratic genius Maxine Waters has found the answer to Global Warming.

Maxine Waters said she was preparing a report advising NASA to land the 'Sun Lander' at night, to avoid heat damage to sensitive electronic equipment.

Maxine said all of a sudden she had an epiphany - 'DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!.

The extra hour of Sunshine was the obvious culprit - causing Global Warming.

Maxine said she plans to present a bill, banning 'Daylight Savings Time' in order to save the planet.

Thats funny RG

 
What a simple fix? : ]

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Maxine speaks, and removes all doubt!

And don't forget, Maxine wanted to know if the Mars Rover could bring back the flag that Neil Armstrong planted there!

 

MB

Your kidding right? Not that I would be shocked, 

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

trains and automobiles

One congresswoman asked for a train to Hawaii if I remember correctly.  Don't feel like searching right now, too busy being a racist I think.(meaning anything I do is racist according to these morons on the left)

-Jon

So she could burn it.

So she could burn it.

Waters is a racist

Waters is too stupid know what teabagging is, in addition to the fact that nobody would ever do it with her.

She has a long history of hating white people - that makes her a racist.

Maxine

How is that ethics investigation going?

http://www.rollcall.com/news/38577-1.html?referrer=js

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/16/ethics-committee-starts-probes-lawmakers-defers/

Oh just a note:Reverend EW Jackson was on Neil Cavuto.He kicked A.. and took names.Called Rangel and NY Gov whiners.A no nonsense type Man.Said Rangel pay your taxes...lol

Rep. Rangel has reportedly paid his back taxes . . .

. . . and submitted amended tax forms.  The catch is that the IRS hasn't charged him one cent for interest or penalties. 

I guess that kind of "courtesy" comes with being the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

 

Doesn't that just make your head explode?

This, while ordinary citizens who make honest mistakes get raked over the coals, have their cars impounded, liens placed on their houses, go broke paying lawyers, and all kinds of other horrors!

mb - what do you expect

What do you expect from a guy who's friends with Tim Geithner?

 

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

Galvanic

If he paid them in the last 7 days.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/nyregion/10rangel.html?_r=1

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574376720192072820.html

I could of missed it.He paid 10k in 2008 but more was found unreported.

You're right, well99

He is regularly revising his reporting and amending his returns as more fraud gets uncovered.  He's probably not caught up on all his back taxes, and we may not know what that actual number is for a long time, if ever.

 

Galvanic

I agree.I am sure there is more to come. 

"Basically we want to socialize ... take over ...

... uh, uh ... no wait that ain't it ..."

Hey Maxine ... how about getting them to vet our president and his Chicago-land thugs before they go off pretending to be bona fide Hollywood gossip reporters!

I'm not a nutcase "birther", but hasn't it occurred to Obama that Dan Rather could type up a copy on the cheap and resolve this whole "missing document" nonsense? At least the typeset would be right this time around!

→ Crash Scores!

Now that Dan Rather sh*t's funny, I don't care who y'are.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Well, no, the typset

Well, no, the typset wouldn't be correct, because they didn't have computers back then when Obama was born, either!

My goodness, what is with

My goodness, what is with all of these racist individuals claiming the conservative, because they are ANGRY with POLICY and DIRECTION, movement is all about racism!! I've never seen anything like it!

 I just finished reading ANOTHER shout of racism against Lou Dobbs (here is the link... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/16/drop-dobbs-cnn-pressured_n_288506.html#postComment

Once again, a group of left wing, VERY racist groups (look at these radical groups: <b> the National Council of La Raza, the
National Hispanic Media Coalition, the New Democrat Network, and the
Southern Poverty Law Center and Media Matters for America,</b>-none of them are as tame as they claim and ALL have strong partisan agendas).

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/16/drop-dobbs-cnn-pressured_n_288506.html

<b>are trying to ban advertisers from the Lou Dobbs show!</b>

They probably figured they did it to Beck so now Dobbs, ...who will it be tomorrow? This is absolutely scary as it is showing us that the freedoms people used to enjoy such as the freedom and right to free speech and the freedom of the press are being dissolved before our very eyes.

 We have to stop this and if anyone knows of any action committees, please post as I would like to get involved. I've watched Lou for several years and I don't have a racist bone in my body and neither does he.

"Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty."

German 1938

because they are ANGRY with POLICY and DIRECTION, movement is all about racism!! I've never seen anything like it!

German 1938

Propaganda: the Germans are racist to Jews so the Nazi party is going to protect them by sending them to the Ghettos and give them free health care.

So why?

Is teabagger ok but not the N word?

Both are insults right?

“Less 1984 — More 1776"

Dragon

Maybe the thing to do is to make "teabagger" the new N word.  If that could be done, in the future anytime someone uses the T word they would be immediately confronted with the same kind of retaliation that using the N word gets.  They would be told to apologize immediately and then forced out of their jobs and never forgiven.

It beats the heck out of letting people get away with being verbally abusive.

 

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

Turn it around on them . . .

Call Barney Frank a Teabagger repeatedly and watch how quickly the term faes out.

Galv... Good idea! Fade

Galv...

Good idea!

Fade to black indeed.

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

Naw. Barney would just double-check his window blinds next time.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

the new "n" word

I've been saying this myself for a while now.  Except I said it about "redneck".  As soon as "teabagger" came about, I started saying that should be our "n" word.  

Don't get me wrong, I was not raised to say the "n" word and it is not in my vocabulary.  I'm just sayin'.  I'm tired of being insulted too. 

When you apply the

When you apply the definition given to "teabaggers" by the CNN "commentator" it is a horrible horrible insult and it is homophobic.

See, now it's just entered

See, now it's just entered the general lexicon. I think it's entirely possible that Maxine Waters has no idea of the real meaning of "teabaggers."

The point that she shouldn't need "journalists" to talk to these people is spot on. And to even make such a statement shows that she also has no idea of the real meaning of "representative," either.

 

"Four legs good... two legs better!" - George Orwell

→ Post-Racial Brand Flakes

That box comes chock full of nuts, too.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Memo to Ms. Waters, the

Memo to Ms. Waters, Democrats, the Media, and all the other race baiters out there:

When we look at Obama the color we see is not black -- it is red.

If you ask whether I mean by "seeing red" whether I mean it in the sense of being angry or seeing the crimson red of communism -- I answer "Both."

Seeing red

I see mounting decades (centuries?) to come.

Give her my email -- and bring her on.

Give her my email --  and bring her on. I'd be very happy to  tell her face-to-face what I think.

Does she have the guts to hear it?

mclantiere

Does she mean those "non

Does she mean those "non existent" few hundred "angry people"?   

 

Heck, ABC, Politico, NBC, CBS, CNN, USA Today, LA&NY Times, WaPO are "too busy" covering real news.

Dear Maxine...

We are confused by your comments concerning having us journalists talk to people at rallies.

What rallies?

Sincerely,

MSM

I'm confused by what she

I'm confused by what she means by "journalists".  We don't have those anymore in this country...unless she's talking about the liberal mouthpieces on TV.

Oh darn...it says the video

Oh darn...it says the video has been removed.

How am I ever going to live without the words of wisdom from Waters.

She truly is hopeless...I'm being kind...Press isn't any better.

Dumb & Dumber.

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

Hey, BT!

I have to live with these kooky California Congress Monsters and Senators... and Governator.

I don't know how these people got anyone to vote for them.

Oh great! Now I'm probably a racist...

Tc... As a Calif. native

Tc...

As a Calif. native and still paying property taxes there...it breaks my heart to see what has happened to my once great state...my family as well that still reside there, well, with the exception of a a couple libs...whatcha gonna do, we all have them, well, most of us do.

The left have destroyed so much in the last 40 years it's completely mind-bending....all I have left are good memories of how things were once.

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

Help fix CA, BT!

Move back.

Bring friends.

Tc... Heck, I always

Tc...

Heck, I always planned on doing just that eventually...don't see any hope for the state at the age I am now to do so...hopefully in my son's time it will have changed.

Heck...where I am living now MT is a purple state as it is.

If I were younger I would do a lot of things ...settling in for my last stand where I'm at...although lord knows I miss so much about Ca.

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

→ Yes, please

Please move back.  We're getting a flood of Californians invading Texas with their liberal ideas.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

I laugh every time I see that!

CA... It's been happening

CA...

It's been happening all over the country for years...east coast as well here...liberals come here and change things, it takes years and tons of law-suits, but they search and destroy once thriving self-reliant businesses and communities all over the place...turn them to govt. dependent ghost towns.

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

You got that right Cool,

You got that right Cool, they saw the prices of homes here and went ape. 

Now you can't swing a dead cat and not hit someone from California!

For Maine (Vermont and NH

For Maine (Vermont and NH also), the political and economic disaster began with the poisonous flow of urban types from Eastern Massachusetts, NY, Connecticut.

It began in the hippie days when college kids dropped out and tuned in. They came here and began running for local and state offices, became teachers, took positions in environmental NGOs, etc. They funded their radical activity by secretly growing marijuana on large tracts of paper mill land.

They mostly ended up in the southern and coastal Maine area as well as near the state capital. They began lobbying, posing as environmentalists to shut down the paper mills, close off the great northern and western forests of the state by trying to make them "wilderness areas" etc etc. They drove manufacturing out of the state with regulations, and law suits. Our taxes went through the roof.

The worst of the lot was and is the Natural Resources Council, a gaggle of Alinsky style Marxists that is still trying to close down the state to everyone but their socialist friends.

They were arrogant, driven by leftist politics, and were True Believers in the Eric Hoffer of sense of the term. They were the ACORN of earlier days.

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

Oh Yeah?

Only if we can send back all the Fruits, Nuts and Vegetables you've sent us!!!

So there, ha!

She's not the sharpest tool

She's not the sharpest tool in the pencil box, is she.

First checkbox on the

First checkbox on the application:

Are you the sharpest tool in the box?

   No. Go to question 2.

  Yes. Go home.

 

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

Understatment of the day

At least.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

It's California...

More like a Crayon box.

Sidewalk chalk.  Great. 

Sidewalk chalk.  Great.  Big.  Sidewalk chalk. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

LOL

____________________________________________ 
The Emperor, he has no clothes

fav Maxine vid

there's so many to choose from - but this one is my favorite.  Not the sharpest pencil, indeed.

____________________________________________ 
The Emperor, he has no clothes

If Maxine Waters were to resign her seat, the mean I.Q.

...of the House of Representatives would jump 20 points.

She is just that stoopid.

-Dave

I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.

→ Maxine

Why do the Dems think they need Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters?

Isn't that horribly redundant?

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Cool: Ebony & Ivory = No Longer Cool

Unless you're talking about the those two guys on the Folsom Street Parade Committee.

Ebony and Ivory = No Longer

Ebony and Ivory = No Longer Cool. Are you implying BHO's not cool?  RACIST!!!

About as cool as a lighted

About as cool as a lighted match.

 

******************************************************************************
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."                    (Edmund Burke)                                                 

Cool, at least Cynthia McKinney is out of there

Of course, she moved back here to Georgia after she lost her bid for POTUS on the Green Party ticket. 

:-(

-Dave

I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.

→ Princess Leia

GosH, I forgot how much I miss her.

BWAHAHAHAHA

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

WOW! - a demolib and I agree

Where have all the cowards gone? If they would stop being repeaters, and go out and ask questions, like: Charlie R., how do you NOT know about all that money? Charlie G., how do you NOT know about ACORN? Pres O., how do you not know how the American people think about OUR healthcare? Maxine W., exactly how stupid are the people who keep voting for you? 

 

Proud member of the MOB - Move Over Barack, we want our country back! 

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Say hello to the new face

Say hello to the new face of Fascism. Maxine Waters and her ilk are going to do everything they can to demean and demonize the American people to try and shame them back into the shadows.

Well Maxine, we have a message for all of you... and the next time we march to Washington, we'll make sure that there is triple the numbers, or more than 6 million. 

We the real Americans do not need leaders, we need representatives to be our proxies in Washington DC. So we need to break their ability to gerrymander districts so that they're not actually representing the people.

Fascism is finished... they just don't know it yet.

____________________________________________________

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." ~ Ayn Rand

Amen,,

Dont know it is right, dont know or care!

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

zapper! Where the heck ya

zapper!

Where the heck ya been old friend? I've missed your posts and you a heck of a lot.

Anyway, I'm wondering by your post if you were lucky enough to be there last Saturday?

Right you are too regarding what is happening...they ain't seen nothing yet...they're to arrogant and dense to see it.

 

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

I think the glue from

I think the glue from Maxine's wig has affected her brain. 

 

Voters from Waters' district

Voters from Waters' district in California, please do America a favor and vote her out next time she is up for re-election. We need to start removing these people who insult the voters on a regular basis.

most Tea baggers look like party hacks

whenever tea baggers are interviewed they say the same thing - stop the spending, stop the big gov't

GREAT!!! I'M WITH THEM

ONLY ONE PROBLEM THOUGH

Where were they for 8 years of record gov't expansion record spending. record deficits. unpaid entitlements being signed in adding to our debt?

oh i forgot, a republican was in office so it doesn't count.

they show themselves to be exactly what they are. party hacks with no true ideology. if they believed in conservatism they would have protested bush too. medicare part D is awesome isn't it?

 

anyone here really concerned about america's spending should watch IOUSA, or just the short version:

 do yourselves a favor. this is going on while we bicker over republicans and democrats, when they both are killing us economically. A lot of you here argued me saying our economy was fine while bush was in office, but now obama is in, "oh yea the economy is bad" there are actually people out there dumb enough to believe rush limbaugh when he says this is "obama's recession" What? get an education, and stop being brainwashed by republican or democrat talking heads... listen to true conservatives. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TjBNjc9Bo 

 

Dont you have homework

Your English grades must be awful

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

really? thats all you got?

really? thats all you got? sad. go back sleep, i mean go watch fox news. they might tell you you're  great american, and you know what? you are. don't worry about deficits or any of those other tricky adult things hannity doesn't like.

Good grief

 
Where were they for 8 years of record gov't expansion record spending.
record deficits. unpaid entitlements being signed in adding to our debt?

 So quadrupaling the debt is just fine by you, also many of us on the Right were also very unhappy about Bush's spending and certainly Tarp 1.

go back sleep,

How about you wake the hell up!. 

do yourselves a favor. this is going on while we bicker over
republicans and democrats, when they both are killing us economically.
A lot of you here argued me saying our economy was fine while bush was
in office, but now obama is in, "oh yea the economy is bad" there are
actually people out there dumb enough to believe rush limbaugh when he
says this is "obama's recession" What? get an education, and stop being
brainwashed by republican or democrat talking heads... listen to true
conservatives.

 It is Obama's economy, Rush is right. Every policy Obama has enforced has hurt the economy, with the death nails sitting in the Senate (cap and tax) and health careless in the House. How about you bring a comprehensive argument here before you resort to the typical liberaltalking points, bad ones at that!

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Liberal talking points? did

Liberal talking points? did you read what i wrote. i'm a paleoconservative... the kind that got outraged with bush's massive expansion of gov't as well as baracks. 

what i'm saying about the tea parties THEY ARE GREAT IN THEORY. more americans have to wake up and realize how badly our Gov't is spending this country into ruin.  BUT they turned into republicans blasting democrats when this is not a party issue its BOTH PARTIES. None of these people you see on tv ever organized anything to protest bush's massive deficits and budgets which means YES they are completely partisan.

to your point: It is Obama's economy, Rush is right 

people who know our economy better than you or I know that things don't start and stop once a new administration comes in... our problems started way before obama came into office, and most of them before bush too. so to say this is obama's recession is saying he caused the recession which is false. so no, rush is wrong. 

 

You immediately insulted most of the folks here

And now you want me to believe your a conservative? And no,,,,I aint interested in some stupid Bridge either

 people who know our economy better than you or I know that things don't start and stop once a new administration comes in...

Doesnt seem to stop you from acting like an authority in economics, now does it? Your crawfishing is unimpressive. laters

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

thanks for that awesome,

thanks for that awesome, well thought out reply. even though you don't address the topic at hand, you sure sound terrific. and yes i know enough about the economy to know that bush F#&*'d it and obama is making it worse. 

Keep your gratuity

You didnt deserve the few words I wrote. 

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

"i'm a paleoconservative". NO. You're a seminar poster.

Your backhanded comment on Fox News gave you away.

Now we know you're just another lying liberal posing as a 'paleoconservative' (which no real 'paleoconservative' would call himself) trying to use that 'cred' to push liberal talking points.

Nice try, though. You lasted longer than most of the others.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

Come on TG

 Nice try, though. You lasted longer than most of the others.

 I had him cornered from the very begining. I am good at spotting nitwits, bout my only reveling feature. 

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

These idiots can't think we're that stupid.

They just can't.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

Tailgunner--

You probably won't want to bet any money on that...

I can't afford to bet any money.

They've already got it all.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

Er, sajc05, perhaps you weren't paying attention, but I spent..

...three years ripping George W. Bush all up and down the threads of NB and HotAir for his hideous spending.

So did a lot of others here.

As for budget deficits, Obama managed to QUADRUPLE it in only eight months, not eight years, and he isn't finished yet.

-Dave

I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.

don't take my criticisms of

don't take my criticisms of bush as praise for Obama, there is not one thing I like about Obama's policies. however he had a point when he said the previous administration didn't pay for anything, thats true, how can anyone defend that?

bush forced the resignation of his first treasury secretary because he didn't like the way bush ran the economy, cheney said to him when he raised some speculation on how they would pay for there massive gov't expansion  "thats ok, we can just add to the deficit" 

real conservatives ARE outraged and HAVE BEEN outraged for years. not just since january 20th 

 I must say, you have a

 I must say, you have a point there. I've been outraged about the constantly growing deficit since the Cahtah administration.

We really need a clean slate in DC, throw all the bastids out and put some new ones in, when they prove they're bastids throw them out too.

******************************************************************************
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."                    (Edmund Burke)                                                 

Knock it off with the teabaggers - you sound like an MSNBC hack

How gives a sh*t what they say when they're interviewed. They earned the right to be there. Are you forming all your opinions by what MSM interviews you see?

And you're not doing yourself any favors here by jumping on the insult bandwagon by calling the Mom and Pops who've never been politically active in their lives "party hacks." We get enough of that from the usual suspects.

 

There were plenty of REAL

There were plenty of REAL conservatives griping about Bush's spending (and border policy, and other domestic issues).  But that doesn't fit with your little "tea baggers are party hacks" meme, so you conveniently forget it.  Slime.

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

 

Sorry - our memories are NOT so short....

You seem to have bought into the mainstream media's pack of lies that this was 'all Bush's fault'.  You posted a video to back yourself up.  If mainstream media is where you get your news, you'll never want for moonshine.  Try THIS one:

http://www.youtube.c...

And do you remember THIS one...?

http://www.youtube.c...

Or... how about THIS?

http://www.youtube.c...

"Brainwashed" indeed?  Rush didn't make these.  They were made by ordinary citizens who, despite media malpractice and cover-ups galore, got hold of the facts, laid it out in the real-life timeline, and put the truth out for all to see.  And Fox News, bless them, for reminding people that Bush was sounding the warning bells for this in 2001 - at the START of his first term in office.

 Now the same crook politicians who created this mess are in charge of 'fixing' it thanks to dupes who fell for their lies hook line and sinker, and voted Obama into office, thus vouchsafing Frank and Dodd as foxes guarding the chicken coop.

The only way Bush really failed was in not blowing the whistle louder on Frank, Dodd, Obama et. al for using the US economy like a latrine to get political power and millions of dollars in their pockets.

How's that 'hope'n'change' working fer ya?

 

bush fed chair artificially

bush's fed chair artificially kept interest rates at ZERO, do you know what that does buddy? it creates a bubble with lmost completely free money. Bush encouraged sub prime lending with dodd... sean hannity used to brag about how under bush more blacks were home owners. 

 get your facts straight about bush and his role in this.  

Wrong again

I never complimented Bush for what he actually did.  I only said he was right to sound the warning bells so early.  Every point I made was utterly valid (despite your insinuations).  The Republicans spent too much and expanded federal government too much.  Right now Obama is seizing control of private enterprise.  Despite Bush's faults, he never did that.

Plus, if you agree that 'free money' is a bad thing, what are  you really arguing about?  I'm with you on that one.

I think the government should be cut off from every aspect of private industry.  I think they should disband each and every 'czar' that's been appointed by Obama or Bush (or any predecessor).  I think every business that Obama has seized control of, the banks, the auto industry, the mortgage industry, student loans, should be liberated from government control.  I think every institution that the government has siezed control of before Obama came into office should also be liberated.  Schools, farms and so on.  I think the government should be utterly banned from seizing control of anything else,  including energy and the medical industry.  I think there should be a blanket ban on any government control (that is to say, running of) any of these things.

Can you truly look at any of the things that they've seized control of and say they're doing a bang up job?  They can't even run the Post Office.  Obama admitted that FedEx and UPS are better at parcel delivery than they are.  Why would anyone want this pack of government losers to run anything?  I wouldn't trust them to open a can of sardines that was already open.

'(B)ush fed chair artificially'....??

Was this done before or after some Iraqi reporter tried to 'feed' Bush his shoes?

Well, anyway, how are you supposed to feed Bush a chair?

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

sajc05 is a Ball Gagger..

because you see " the wearer can still be heard, but it renders their speech completely
unintelligible, distorts their facial features, and,should the wearer
attempt to talk, excessive drooling will result."

Let's just start calling 'em Ballgaggers. See how easy and fun this can be?!

Bush caused it all eh? Not quite.

 

 

 

 

really thats what you read,

really thats what you read, i said "bush caused it all" ???

i'm just saying that people are outraged over obama's spending and expansion of gov't, yes fine so am I. but i was also outraged when bush did, why? because i don't blindly follow party lines i have a conservative ideology that doesn't make me a hypocrite like others.  

 

mod, ball gagger?

ROFL!

Damn, you owe me a keyboard for that one. :-)

-Dave

I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.

"Where were they for 8

"Where were they for 8 years of record gov't expansion record spending. record deficits. unpaid entitlements being signed in adding to our debt?"

In case you didn't notice, Republicans lost congress in 2006, and lost more seats in 2008, and they lost the presidency, partly because Republican voters were fed up with Republican politicians behaving like Democrats when it came to spending.

And now it has gotten even worse, as Obama spends more than anyone in the history of the world in his first 6 months, not to mention his unprecendented attack on the American way of life....and he's not done yet.

But, I guess, according to you, there should never be a breaking point. If you didn't protest Bush's budget deficit that averaged 2% of GDP, you shouldn't protest Obama's budget deficit that ballooned to 11% of GDP in his first 6 months. If you didn't protest Bush's attempt to spread freedom through the world, you shouldn't protest Obama's attempt to limit freedom in America.

Get outta here, lib boy. We don't live in a freakin' vaccuum. And stop pretending to be a real Conservative. Who do you think you are nwahs?

"If you didn't protest

"If you didn't protest Bush's attempt to spread freedom through the world, you shouldn't protest Obama's attempt to limit freedom in America"

spreading freedom around the world? okay could be a good thing... um... who's paying for that freedom around the word? i thought he cut taxes right? oh i see so bush's "spreading of freedom" has just added trillions of unpaid debt to our country. our borders are defenseless but as long as we borrow trillions to make sure a country on the other side of the world is secure i can sleep at night

George washington would laugh at you... i wont though, it's too depressing.  

"If you didn't protest

"If you didn't protest Bush's attempt to spread freedom through the world, you shouldn't protest Obama's attempt to limit freedom in America"

spreading freedom around the world? okay could be a good thing... um... who's paying for that freedom around the word? i thought he cut taxes right? oh i see so bush's "spreading of freedom" has just added trillions of unpaid debt to our country. our borders are defenseless but as long as we borrow trillions to make sure a country on the other side of the world is secure i can sleep at night

George washington would laugh at you... i wont though, it's too depressing.

 

"Get outta here, lib boy. We don't live in a freakin' vaccuum. And stop pretending to be a real Conservative. Who do you think you are nwahs? "

I'm sure you think you know what a real conservative is but you;re not one trust me... spending our country into ruin to "spread freedom" is actually not conservative at all.  would any conservative sign medicare part D? 

 ah... so you git outta here. oh i forgot fake conservatives can't take opposing view points.  

 

For our deluded, holier than thou "paleo"

 ah... so you git outta here. oh i forgot fake conservatives can't take opposing view points.   Actually, we conservatives don't like being scolded and lectured by other people on what a "real" conservative is.  That's all. 

spreading freedom around the world? okay could be a good thing... um... who's paying for that freedom around the word? i thought he cut taxes right? oh i see so bush's "spreading of freedom" has just added trillions of unpaid debt to our country. our borders are defenseless but as long as we borrow trillions to make sure a country on the other side of the world is secure i can sleep at night  I see here.  You want America to be very, very whiny.  The thought of a power-projecting United States makes you cringe with embarrassment.  Such are the thoughts of an ingrate.  Spreading freedom WORKS.  The history of the past 65 years has shown this.  That is, if you bother to look. 

We spend $500 billion, if that, defending ingrates such as yourself.  Of course, you want to blame the fact we have a national debt on our hyper-evil military establishment, when in fact it is partially your own damn fault for not watching over your Reps and Sens and making damn sure that they spend money wisely.  I'd look more closely at other things, like, say, the "stimulus bill"...either one, by Bush or His Majesty The Shahinshah, take your pick. 

Either we spend that paltry sum now for smaller conflicts and trying to put out brush fires before they become conflagrations, or we blow a LOT MORE later.  If you don't buy that, I suggest you look at the history of WWII.  We got caught with our pants down, and as a result we ran up deficits that would make you very very ill.  I would rather spend a little now than a lot later. 

If you ask me, another way we could save huge amounts of money is to privatize Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.  You do that, and we will have more than enough money for things like the military. 

George washington would laugh at you... i wont though, it's too depressing.  Interesting.  So you are as well imbued with the arrogance to presume what George Washington would think?  You are no "paleoconservative".  You are a reactionary, a Libertarian...but not a "paleoconservative". 

I'm sure you think you know what a real conservative is but you;re not one trust me... spending our country into ruin to "spread freedom" is actually not conservative at all  and making America whiny is even less conservative. And let's just say you get your dream of making America completely whiny on the world scene...and reduce your hated defense budget to $0.  Great!  You have spilt the budget in deficit in half.  You basically eviscerated the country for NOTHING.  And by the way...since the government will never do with less, it will use that money to burn elsewhere.  would any conservative sign medicare part D?  Have you seen anyone defend Medicare part D here on NB?  I sure as hell haven't...except Leftists and Socialists. 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

you obviously have no idea

you obviously have no idea of the history of WWII, so stop making yourself look bad by saying some how iraq would mass the military might of 1939 germany... you don't really believe that do you? ... i mean really? boy the rove machine did a number on you 

 

I know what washington would say because he said it many times while in office. the duty of the president is to the american people not iraqi people.  

→ Surrender monkey

I hope you don't mind if I watch while Unsane dismantles you?

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Cool, this is going to be fun to watch

Uns may be the one person on this planet that has read more about WW II than I have.

-Dave

I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.

cool & Dave

Mr. Shy runs out for extra tortilla chips and guacamole...

 

For sajc

 you obviously have no idea of the history of WWII, so stop making yourself look bad by saying some how iraq would mass the military might of 1939 germany  Um...what?  This sentence is barely coherent, but I am going to guess that you think that I am comparing Iraq's military to that of the Wehrmacht.  If you believe that, I would suggest you go back over and read it again, and again, and again.  You whined about how having a military is the only factor in making America go broke, and how if we just stopped "spreading freedom" - and basically abandoned the winning strategy of the past 65 years, one which brought free markets and governments to damn near a billion people without firing a shot (or at least relatively very few in proportion to the results) - and turned America whiny, WE WILL JUST SAVE SO MUCH MONEY!!!!!!  I responded to this by pointing out that during WWII, we ran up deficits that would make you projectile vomit.  And I further pointed out to you that right now, it isn't the $500-600 billion we spend on the military that is putting us in the hole.  It is Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and other Nanny State crap...not to mention a bunch of Congresscritters bringing home bacon to their districts. 

(I should also point out to you that in the Constitution, Congress has the power to fund an Army and a Navy.  As hard as I have read it, I can't find anything saying Congress pays for our doctors or for our retirement.)

So essentially I am making a strictly financial comparison here.  But if you want to match wits with me in regards to WWII, feel free. 

I know what washington would say because he said it many times while in office.  Great.  So you know what Washington would say when governing a country that was primarily focused on internal self-development and consisted of the Eastern Seaboard and the eastern portion of the Mississippi River valley, with about 5 million people.  Unfortunately for you it is not the late 1700s anymore.  The United States is now a continental sized country, with 300 million people, and with an economy which is far beyond anything any of the Founders would have known as it is not primarily agrarian.   the duty of the president is to the american people not iraqi people.  It is when the Iraqi people are led by a tyrant that has threatened his neighbors and the world order, which, since unfortunately for you the United States is interconnected with this thing called the Outside World, poses a problem for the American people.

Yes, you may want to just not have a military, turn the United States into a whiny nation with 300 million sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and pretend that If We Just Ignore The Big Bad World It Will Just Go Away and otherwise hermetically seal off the United States completely and totally from the Outside World, but historically, it doesn't work.  One, the economy of this country has, forever, been built on trade.  We broke off from Britain for, among other reasons, Britain's refusal to allow its colonies to trade with whoever they wished.  Two, the world is a dangerous place, and hiding doesn't work.  You may remember an event from WWII that took place on 7 December 1941.  THAT was the result of the United States not paying attention to things like the Panay incident and the politics of the Empire of Japan.   (To say nothing of Germany.)  We got caught with our pants down and had to play catchup, and fortunately we had the "fatal five minutes" at Midway to help us out.  And yes, we did eventually win but at much greater cost than it would have taken if we just busted a few people in the mouth at the right places at the right times, as we do now. 

Finally, it is amazing to me that people like you want to fall back on George Washington, conveniently forgetting all about what Thomas Jefferson had to confront the very next decade.  Was TJ a President, or a bey?  George Washington was not calling upon the United States to be whiny and powerless, and hiding from the world.  Indeed, as events would show even in the early 1800s, this could not be.  (Libertarians, isolationists and reactionaries always miss that inconvenient time period and series of events.)

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

I like this quote, Unsane:

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for War."  George Washington

Yeah, G. Washington, what an isolationist/pacifist!

"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"  Sam Adams 

Good ol' George

"We shall continue the utmost vigilance against the most dangerous enemy" - George Washington (1732-1799).  This quote can be found on the entrance to the old Brooke Army Medical Center building.   

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Score

 
Unsane:
Pick a number, any number, and follow it with a bunch more numbers.

Troll: Do the same thing but precede it with a minus sign.

Sorry Free.  : )

Hint to trolls: Don't try to argue military history with Unsane or Dave, you'll regret it. These guys know their stuff!

Gary

Levi Johnstoned: The One Trick Phoney!

Well............................

Remember the sign carried by the guy in DC recently?  It said, "It doesn't matter what's on this sign, they'd call it racist anyway."

Same way I feel about this post.  No matter what I'd write, this escapee from HuffPo wouldn't be satisfied.  So why bother?

What was my first clue?  The way he casually uses the term "teabagger," in his first sentence above, which has become somewhat of an insult to conservatives.  If he REALLY was one of "us" whether he totally agrees with what is happening in the conservative movement today or not, he wouldn't use that term any more than he would use "n*****" to describe Halfrican-Americans.

 

 

i'm a conservative that

i'm a conservative that wants a party. not a republican with the ideology of oppose oppose oppose. 

i know that term is insulting, i should not have used it.

i go to the huffpo all the time and argue with those democrats who think they're party is so superior and that anyone who opposes obama is racist... they're idiots over there.

i disagree with obama as much as you, but i don't do it while praising bush out the other end of my mouth, i think he did enough to hurt this country he is beyond any defense.  the people at these protests seem to have no idea that we had deficit woes or gov't expansion before january 20th. so it's my opinion that a lot of them are just partisans. spending is okay when an R does it. 

"i go to the huffpo all the

"i go to the huffpo all the time and argue with those democrats "

 Really?  And what is your screen name there?

same thing

same thing

25 posts over 18 months

25 posts over 18 months hardly constitutes serious debate with the Liberals.

Now, that being said, I read some of your stuff over there.  You at least defended some conservative principles, but in total, your positions are what I might call 'Conservative Lite'.  Not deeply conservative, but certainly right enough to provoke attack by the HuffPo Libs.

American I Drool must be in

American I Drool must be in reruns...

Not true. Bush got hammered over spending.

Bush got hammered by the right over the Medicare prescription drug bill, over signing nearly every spending bill sent to his desk, over McCain-Feingold campaign censorship, and other liberal outrages.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

Sorry this is OT

but BOR has lost his freakin mind! He just told some woman from some organization that he wants a public option if it can save "the folks" money. However, if it doesn't save money, "I won't support it." he says. Phew...good thing almighty BORe.

Re BOR

Saw that; typical Bill. He's the self-appointed watchdog for 'the folks'. The problem is he's as dumb as Maxine, and apparently just as anti-corporation and anti-profit.

Health care insurance is already one of the most highly-regulated industries in our country, regulated at the state level. How anyone could think that if another level of government steps in with another layer of regulation, that might lead to cheaper insurance, is beyond me. They want no pre-existing conditions, which means we all will pay more for our insurance to make up for those that have those conditions. They will add an inevitable layer of mandates which will make all states' insurance as expensive as Massachusetts.

Congress is determined to give us health insurance with more benefits, and that alone cannot mean cheaper.

Yeah slick~

and earlier he was trying to assert a gulf between O and Acorn. I think he's trying to 'balance' the Fox coverage because of all the attention Beck is getting. He'll lose audience though if he keeps this up. He's not my favorite by any stretch, but I'm not watching Olby, that's for sure!

BK... I saw/heard that as

BK...

I saw/heard that as well...typical BOR.

Maddening, but typical of his blind arrogance at time regarding certain areas that affect us all.

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

No, I don't think calling people tea baggers

Do Democrats actually believe referring to Tea Party attendees by a
provocative sexual term will help bring the country together?

No, I don't think calling people teabaggers will bring the country together any more than  calling people "Halfrican Americans."

But you bitch about one and not the other.Thats an inherent consistency problem.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

I can honestly say...

I have never heard the term "Halfrican Americans." Have you seen that term used here, shawn? (And I hope it's not in the body of this post- I'm not sure I read it. I'm simply responding to your comment.)

No, Rush said it

 

LIMBAUGH: Hey, Barack Obama has
picked up another endorsement: Halfrican
American actress Halle Berry. "As a Halfrican American, I am
honored to have Ms. Berry's
support, as well as the support of other Halfrican Americans,"

Obama said.


He didn't say it, but --
anyway, there are those out there -- greetings.

http://mediamatters....

 It kinda of hard to pretend bigotry is not existent in the argument when you're making jokes like these. It hard to to whine about "teabaggers" and ignore jokes like these.

Here ya go. Don't make jokes like these. Its a BIGOTED joke. Its a one drop joke.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

"It kinda of hard to

"It kinda of hard to pretend bigotry is not existent in the argument when you're making jokes like these."

You pretend to be a Conservative, so how hard can it be?

Shawn~~

Thanks for the info. Like I said, I haven't heard it. The Rush clip was from January and nine months later, it's obviously not garnering much publicity. It seems to me that it must be more of an isolated incident. The term "teabaggers" is certainly not.

It's also unfair to characterize this movement as a one-issue movement, that issue being Obama. The issue is really Progressivism. 

"The Rush clip was from

"The Rush clip was from January and nine months later, it's obviously not garnering much publicity." 

This goes to show how lame nwahs is...the msm and politicians regularly label protesting Americans as teabaggers.....a legitimate derogatory name....yet his main concern is Rush....one guy...calling someone halfrican 9 months ago, a play on words that was never really considered racist/bigoted until Rush said it.

That one guy

Rush is the self-proclaimed leader of the conservative movement. I don't know what Beck thinks about that, but Rush has adopted the title.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

Compare and contrast time

One is a lewd slang term describing a sexual act. The other is a play on "African-American" to indicate mixed black/white heritage. Oh yeah, clearly the same level of egregiousness.

Even if I accept your premise about how supposedly offensive "Halfrican-American" is, you honestly see no distinction between a single talk radio host saying this and the plethora of news anchors and ELECTED OFFICIALS saying "teabagger"?  And multiple times at that?

Kinda what

I was thinking,,

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Well that single talk show host

 Well Rush has grown fond of calling himself the leader of the conservative movement and in no joking way.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

The Obsessive Devotion

Interesting, but the object of your obsessive devotion pointed out that perhaps the biggest aspect of the Tea Party on Saturday (which turns your stomach) was the fact that it has no central leader. 

That was a golden opportunity for your obsessive devotion to pick up the crown, for as Napoleon would say, it is in fact on the ground.  But he did not.  Why is that?

Hope this doesn't interrupt your unending quest to find more conservatives and conservative movements and organizations to attack, attack, and attack some more.  (Because attacking conservatives and conservative movements is what good conservatives do, right?)

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

And yet I could have sworn only a few months ago

all the networks and MSM outlets claimed Rush was irrelevant and conservatism was dead.  He'll be happy to know he really does have such an enormous influence.

nwahs - check this out

Hey, nwahs.  Take a look at slickwillie's post below regarding Halfricans.  Turns out it's not just a Rush term. 

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

nwahs

Yeah well I guess it must be a typical white person thing.

"Stereotypes are generalizations about a group of people whereby we attribute a defined set of characteristics to this group."

"Prejudice:preconceived judgment or opinion"

Referring people to Mediamatters for info on Conservatives...

Is like sending someone to a KKK site for info on Jews.

islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.

I don't refer to Media Matters

I don't refer to Media Matters for the information, but the evidence of what I've heard first hand. Media Matters is the only free place on the web that I know of, that keeps a repository of Limbaugh clips and transcripts. If you know of another free site, let me know and I'll use that.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

Suggestions

How about rushlimbaugh.com?  Or, how about listening to his show when it broadcasts from 11 to 2 CST? 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Its not free

If I link to the clips, the only people who could get the clips would have to subscribe to Rush 24/7. The Media Matters clips require no subscription. That's why I ask for an alternative free repository of Rush clips and transcripts.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

Reversal dude, You can read it, gotta pay if you wanna hear him.

Try that weak comment some where else, won't fly here..

State controlled health care is Tort Reform.

Transcripts

You COULD read the transcripts.  Those should be available on the free side.   

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

 Where am I going to link

Where am I going to link the clips? You're criticizing me for using Media Matters to link the clips and you have no better site for me to use. Obviously, I've got around a problem that would have stuck you in the dirt and yet you are criticizing me for finding a way to link clips that you wouldn't be able to link.Thats just dumb.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

Endless whining over who moved your cheese

Hmmm.  Where did I criticize you for going to Media Matters?  That's other posters, not me. 

 Where am I going to link the clips?  I'm old-fashioned, n-wwwaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhssssssssssssss.  This is what I recommend: get the transcripts from the free side of rushlimbaugh.com.  Then, you use the key found between the semi-colon (a home key) and the enter key.  To use the symbols needed, sue SHIFT.  Those things are called "quotation marks", as you see in my ample example of using them to open and close that phrase. 

You can always use these to quote your obsessive devotion from his website and his transcripts.  You can also use these to attack other conservatives you likewise constantly attack while claiming all the while to be a conservative. 

I quote far more things than I do link them. The whole linking thing to me is realtively new.  But them, I am an old-school kind of guy.   

If you cannot link audio clips: improvise.  Adapt.  Overcome.  Since you are so desperate to attack conservatives, you'd think you would do anything and everything possible to attack them.

  Obviously, I've got around a problem that would have stuck you in the dirt and yet you are criticizing me for finding a way to link clips that you wouldn't be able to link.Thats just dumb.  Apparently you haven't and are STILL stuck in the dirt or else you wouldn't be whining. 

When Amundsen and Scott raced for the South Pole nearly a century ago, both men took different approaches.  Amundsen decided to adapt to his environment and tried to fit in as much as possible.  Scott tried to make his environment adapt to HIM.  That is part of the reason Amundsen was successful and Scott got killed in the process.  Word to the wise: adapt to the environment, and work around the limitatations, instead of trying to impose your will on everything. 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

*coughs*

*points to the bottom of the page just above the MRC link* 
edit (x2) dratted formatting.

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The Emperor, he has no clothes

Well that links to google search results

And the first hit is Media Matters.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

and...

at the bottom of the page is .... mrc.org and limbaugh.com links, respectively.

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The Emperor, he has no clothes

Can you just link to the clip

Can you just link to the clip of Rush talking about "halfricans" that isn't hosted on MediaMatters?

I don't see it.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

Ok

 

if you're just interested in establishing it was indeed said :  from the bottom of the first page of the google search -

Here is the limbaugh transcript with the "halfrican comment mentioned" and Sharpton.   He doesn't specifically say he DID but he doesn't refute it.

Here is the MRC partial transcript of the  Halle Berry/Halfrican comment with your complete quote from above.  I'm pretty sure the folks here will believe that source.

I read Limbaugh transcripts from time to time - mostly just to get context from some off the wall comment.   The most heavily debated, I've found, are made non pay so if you take an extra couple min  - you'll save yourself a headache.  I tried to find the arm-long list of Limbaugh quotes I debunked (& some were proved) for Acts but I couldn't remember the entire user name.  Suffice to say, MM is hardly the only repository. 

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The Emperor, he has no clothes

Well it seems to be the only repository

 Well Media Matters seems to be the only free repository with the clip and that's why I used it. The only problem I can see for people is they don't want to give Media Matters the hit. Now that would be odd as some blogs on here link to the HufPo and no one says a word about that.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

Typical lib.  Too cheap to

Typical lib.  Too cheap to properly educate himself, so he attaches himself to a taxpayer-subsidized entity disseminating contextually-framed misinformation cloaked as truth to "support" his weak position.  Garbage in, garbage out, as usual, nwahs.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

It doesn't matter if I paid for Rush 24/7

Even if I have Rush 24/7, I can't link to the clips because only people with Rush 24/7 could use them. It amazes me how many people on the internet are ignorant of how it works.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

Improvise, adapt, overcome

What is this obsession with clips?   

You do not need to link to clips.  Get the damn transcript and quote from it.  Stop being lazy.  We can and will all read it if you do! 

If you are presented with an obstacle: improvise, adapt, overcome.   

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

So you're not a fan?

So you're not a fan of multimedia? What you got there, a x286?

Politics is showbiz for ugly people

Your misdirection act

Your misdirection act doesn't fool anyone.  Produce the evidence that supports what amounts to your argument or enhance your reputation as an intellectually lazy and dishonest joke.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

The thanks I get for trying to help

...and you wonder why I see straight past your total BS and call you what you are: a Leftist.  

(If you cannot get audio/video clips, get the damned transcript.  What, am I a Luddite because sometimes when e-mail is ineffective or down, I get out sheets of paper and an envelope and write a letter?) 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

The hilarious part about

The hilarious part about you is that you don't even get half the story, yet you act like some kind of authority who has the whole story.  Then, when you get exposed for your ignorance and dishonesty, everyone else is ignorant.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Referring people to Mediamatters for info on Conservatives...

Is like sending someone to a KKK site for info on Jews.

islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.

'Halfrican-American' is a factually accurate statement.

This current manufactured outrage is intended to put conservatives on the defensive in the same way that using 'Hussein' during the campaign was 'verboten' for conservatives...even though that was also factually accurate.

Democrats' ('D-Baggers'-credit Southc0ast) sole purpose in this is to divert, distract and discourage the truth about Obama and his disastrous agenda from being spoken.

Democrats have no problem smearing blacks and other minorities with the most vicious, hateful and bigoted language merely for expressing disagreement with their party line.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

I agree nwahs

The one thing we can depend on ...you are consistent.

Ass-backward Shawn,

I am not into hyphenated Americans.

As I see it, either you are Amurrican, or you ain't.

Period.

If someone tells me they are African-American, my response is, "So, where in Africa are you from?

It is the same for people who tell me they are German-American, French-American, or Spanish-American.

If someone claims to be a ________ American, then they are telling me they have divided loyalties.

As far as I am concerned, they can move their _________ American asses back to wherever it is they think they came from, and they can take their spawn with them.

-Dave

I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.

Period.

Period.

Dave~Norwegian girl calling...

I'm a Norwegian-American.

I'm now frantically paddling back to Norway -- ready for all that lefse, lingonberries and cod. Actually, I really don't like cod. Do I have to go back?

 

 

P.S. Just a little joke. Don't hurt me! (^_^)I'm not a hyphenated American.

Georgia Girl...Lutefisk and lefse...

Oh yeah...I know all about those...I live in North Dakota, and (you may already know this) which has the densest concentration of Norwegian-Americans in the US. The city where I live hosts the Norsk Hostfest every fall, which is the largest Scandinavian heritage festival in the world outside of Scandinavia. Great people up here...Kind, hard working with a strong work ethic.

Uff-da! Just thought I'd pop in with that! LOL!   

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

Prairie~uff da!

...Just when you think nobody knows that saying -- I love it. I'm making you some lefse for Christmas, gal! ;) Almost all our relatives are in Wisconsin -- lots of Norwegians there as well, but not as many as you have in ND.

And here we are, down in Georgia...so for us, it's: "Uff da, ya'll!" ^_^

GG Darlin'

LOL-I wasn't talking about you.

Hell, I was adopted, which means I have no friggin' clue, but given my dietary preferences, there has to be a heavy Italian influence in the woodpile somewhere.

BTW-I think Scandinavian girls are really hot.

Oink. :-)

-Dave

I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.

Dave

I am a proud Irish/Scottish/Welsh/English/maybe a bit German/Dutch (hey, you never know)-American.

 

Good gosh Shy!

You're a mutt!! LOL!  : )

Gary

Levi Johnstoned: The One Trick Phoney!

Dave~

You crack me up!:)

Whew...I'm now paddling back to Georgia. No cod for me! The smoked salmon would have been good though. ;)

Why do I get the sense that

Why do I get the sense that Ms. Waters has no idea what she just said?

→ Don't do it jerkydave

It is racist to believe this woman is that stupid.

We must assume she is every bit as educated as she presents herself to be.

I'm laughing so hard I can't hardly finish this post.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

In view of the fact that

In view of the fact that the tea partiers have been urged to use the "tea bag" as their symbol of protest and to send actual "tea bags" to their senators and congressmen to register their outrage over current tax and spending policies, then why the assumption the use of the term "tea baggers" by Waters is intended as a sexual slur.

Jer

Jer... Surely you

Jer...

Surely you jest.

At least you have me laughing.

'Go Green...Recycle Congress'

bt...

Just as serious as I can be.

Jer

Are you honestly this obtuse?

Right, they had no idea what they were saying.  Especially Maddow, who had the look of a 13-year old telling the funniest fart joke in the world when she said it.

Besides, if anything and everything is apparently considered racist now according to the likes of Waters and Jimmy Carter, why is my being offended at the use of "teabagger" any less legitimate than the cries of wolf, I mean "racism"?

Oh, no, don't say that! 

Oh, no, don't say that!  He'll accuse you of being a troll!

Are you actually reading my

Are you actually reading my post.  Where did I say "they".  I specifically referred to Waters, not Maddow.  I'm well aware that Maddow is familiar with the implications of the term.  Noel's blog is about Waters and what she said--not Maddow or Press or anyone's chuckling.

Jer

So I am to believe now that

all of the other commenters have been knowingly using "teabagger" as a sexual reference for months now, but Waters coincidentally used the same term and didn't?  Sure.

All of the other

All of the other commenters?  You mean like Brian Williams, Chris Wallace, Couric, Gibson, George Will, Stephanopolous, O'Reilly, David Gregory, Cokie Roberts, Bill Kristol, etc?  News to me.

I stated my opinion.  It could be wrong.  But, so far, I haven't read or heard anything to convince me it is.

Jer

 

→ Jer

The interview is available for listening now.

Listen for the inside joke chuckle when she uses the word at the end and get back with us.

Are you sure yours isn't just the typical knee-jerk, liberal tendency to defend Maxine Waters?

Would you be defending Patrick Leahy for the same ignorance, and the same chuckle?

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Cool... I don't

Cool...

I don't particularly care for Maxine Waters.  I would be defending Leahy, too, for the "same ignorance".  Who chuckled?  It wasn't Waters...it was the interviewer.  That has nothing to do with whether Waters knew she was using a term with sexual connotations.

I noticed that nearly half of the people who voted at the slangonline dictionary site had never heard the term "tea bag" used as a verb describing a sexual practice. 

Jer

Come on, Jer.

'Teabagger' has been a word discussed in the media for months now.

No one in politics or media by now can credibly say they're ignorant of its meaning.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

Jer

Maybe because of all those putzs in the media who have tried to smear people.Unless Maxine has had her head in the sand for the last 6 months she understood the meaning.Trying to stretch a bunt into a inside the park homerun?Oh are you Jer 2 at NPR?

well00

If she had said "teabagging", I might be more convinced of her awareness of the implications of the word.  But, having listened to the audio, I honestly don't believe she knew.  Whether or not she should have known is a separate issue.  

Jer

No, not "Jer" there or anywhere else.

Jer

To me it seemed like she did know.I guess we will have to agree to disagee(Even though I am right).I meant as Jer2 not just Jer.Guy that posted just above me was Jer2.I had wondered if that had been you.He was wrong also..)

well99

I had checked out those comments earlier today and noticed Jer2 had posted one.  As I recall, I think his full name is Jerry Lewis.  Not me.  But now I'll need to go back and reread your post.

Jer

 

Jer

That reminds me.I need to pick up Dean Martins roast on DVD.

Jer,You actually believe

Jer,

You actually believe she didn't know?  Seriously?  Tell me, have you heard anyone in the Obama Administration use the term?  Have you heard any Republicans or moderate Democrats use the term?  I know that I haven't.  Why?  Because they have reputations to maintain.  The only politicians who have employed the term "teabaggers" so far are either the strident, partisan liberals who represent dark blue states or districts (and can therefore launch obnoxious taunts for the benefit of their Kossite friends from the comfort of their safe seats) or the stupid, hyper-partisan hacks like Harry Reid who are delusional enough to believe that their seats are safe.  Media members have been more liberal (no pun intended) with the use of the term...but even then, you're hearing it from the likes of David Schuster, Jack Cafferty, Rick Sanchez, Lawrence O'Donnell, Olbermann, Matthews, Maddow (not to mention pseudo journalist "comedians" like Behar, Maher and Stewart) as opposed to the Blitzers, the David Gregorys or the Jake Tappers.  Now, if you hear a vulnerable "Blue Dog" like Heath Shuler employ the expression, you might assume that he's unaware of the implication...he's got too much to lose to toss that one out knowingly.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

fitz... I do.  And that

fitz...

I do.  And that is my honest and objective [as possible, considering I'm a Democrat and Obama supporter] opinion.  As mentioned earlier, Waters is of no special consequence to me--not that she is in the same category as the fringe lefty nutcase Cynthia McKinney--but still too much a knee-jerk, race-baiting ideologue for my tastes. 

Nevertheless, after listening to the audio a couple of times, and focusing on the inflection of her voice, her speech pattern and cadence, my conclusion was that her intent was benign, that is to say it was critical of the tea pary demonstrations, but not betraying an effort to malign its particpants with a deliberate sexual perjorative. 

I must confess that I had never heard of the term "teabagging" [in present slang form] prior to the tea party movement.  Maybe I've become a little out of touch in recent years in contrast to the days when I wanted to make sure I was current with all things related to the subject.  Not wanting to be seen as naive or uncool of course, I made it a point to read material such as the Playboy Advisor and the Penthouse Forum to avoid any accusation of 'unhipness'.  If there was ever a mention of "teabagging", it must have been in an issue I missed.  It wasn't until Shuster and Anderson Cooper did their riffs on it--which I only read about here--that I discovered the "other" connotation.  To me, it is not particularly shocking that Waters was llikewise unfamiliar with it.  Referring to an organization that had adopted the "tea bag" as its symbol as "tea baggers" seems perfectly logical and appropriate.  I did note earlier if she had said "teabagging" it would have more convincingly suggested scienter as well as a more sinister motivation on the part of Waters.  But based on what she did say and how she said it, I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Jer

 

 

I just listened to the audio

I just listened to the audio and I believe Ms. Waters didn't really know what she had said.

I've read enough liberal blogs to know that the term "teabagger" is frequently used by people on the left to disparage the protestors on the right.  I suspect that the people who surround Ms. Waters use that term so frequently that it has been lost to her that it might actuallly be an inappropriate word.

I think 99% of those using the term know exactly what it means.

Especially after three or four months of hearing it used.

Just remember, 'D-Baggers', those who you are insulting are your own Democratic constituents.

They're the ones giving you so much grief at town halls that you run and hide from your own voters.

They're the reason this obscene anti-Constitutional plot against our liberty, our right to make our own health care decisions, has ground to a halt.

You could have passed this months ago without a single GOP vote.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

Yes, do it...

I agreed with Crackzine Waters. 

Them there journalists, oh wait..."journalists"...should interview all them there conservative teabaggers.  And when them there liberals are marching on Washington, they should interview them there colored peoples, too.

HEY, BY THE WAY...have we yet gotten the number of war memorials, statues, buildings, etc. destroyed or vandalized by the recent terrorist march on the capitol?  

"Allies to Land at Normandy Tomorrow!"  New York Times headline; June 5, 1944  (h/t M. Malkin)

Never mind the sexual slur she clearly intended to make...

She's siccin' the press on those that do not believe as she does...on those who disrupt and question authority.

She wants the Obama Ministry of Propaganda and Misinformation to bitch slap those that fail to bow down to the superior wisdom of the elitists that populate the left.  This is a call for dirt, for anything that can be used to confirm the racism  or hatred for Obama that exists only in their tiny little minds.

You know the type.  The, "I don't care what my constituents want, I'm going to vote for what's best for them", types.

She sounds very much like the man she has so much admiration for...Castro.  Perhaps we should start a contest for who is the most useful idiot in the Congress and in the Senate.  Useful to our enemies I mean. Daily first, then weekly...etc.

islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.

→ I listened

I finally got to listen to Maxine and it's obvious she and the interviewer got a chuckle with the "teabaggers" comment.

Like I said earlier.  She's every bit as intelligent as she presents herself.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Listen again, Cool.  Press

Listen again, Cool.  Press is chuckling...not Waters.  Now, maybe the video shows otherwise.  I haven't seen it.

Jer

Re halfrican

I see nothing wrong with 'halfrican'. It's a simple linguistic evolution not unlike incorporation. The word 'Amerindian' is similar, and probably developed in the same way.

Here's a black documentary filmmaker working on a film about 'halfricans' and she seems to have been using the word for a couple of years: http://www.faraichideya.com

This may be another case of 'magic negro' syndrome, where simply because Rush Limbaugh uses or repeats an uncommon phrase or word in his monologue, the word becomes associated with Rush and all the hatred of him on the left.

Switch to FNC

I think that if you put the microphones in front of them, if you do the interviews, they'll tell you what they believe, and what they think. It will come out. I think it's very important for them to define themselves.

Maxine must be getting "filtered" news; she should switch to Fox.  There she will find numerous interviews of rally-goers.  FNC's Griff Jenkins followed the 9-12 Rally bus (began in Maxine's home state of CA) giving hourly updates. 

I just read on Michelle

I just read on Michelle Malkin's site that ACORN had a gala in NYC for it's 39th anniversary. One of the honored guest was Maxine Waters. No suprise there as she has been affliated with them for years. The real eyeopener was the top-billed guest:

 Chuck Schumer.

Got some esplainin' to do Chuckie...

 

 

Tedious

I am actually embarrassed when Maxine Waters is a guest on the "This Week" roundtable show.

 I was raised in Texas. My small high school class was about 30% black. Most of my black classmates have gone on to achieve college degrees, seven are medical doctors, one is a research scientist and a three are lawyers, one is a mayor.

We all had the exact same high school education and opportunities, I'm white, and only got an Associate's Degree because, honestly, I was not as academically committed as they were.

KUDOES to them. I'm proud of them. At our 30th class reunion, none of my achieved Black friends looked down on me, they certainly never cited racism as an obstacle and to a man/woman, they encouraged me to press on.

 So... am I a racist, too?? 

 

Chuck~

Well, that was just really nice. It was refreshing to read something so nice -- with all the poison so many are spewing lately (i.e., Carter).

I'd say that in reading your post, what you have here is far beyond race (as I feel it should be in life). What you have here is just a bunch of really decent folks -- yourself included. And it shows what happens when you focus on the most important aspects in life...goodness has a way of shining through -- goodness in your humbleness and feelings of being so happy for the success of others, and goodness in those who may have a little more education not being the least bit full of themselves -- but kind and supportive. Sorry if this sounds sappy, but I appreciated this post.

chuckk,  I agree with you

chuckk,  I agree with you 100%, similar circumstances. 

I'm telling you, race is an obsession back East and on the West coast, it's just different.  My wife is from NC, and I even notice the difference there when we go to visit.

In Texas, there are too many of us working and making a living to worry about this kind of crap.  There wasn't any rioting in 1968 or 1969 in Houston or Dallas to the best of my knowledge.  And the cities back East were aflame!  My Granddaddy always told me that folks in Boston were more racist then folks in Birmingham, and seeing what I do now as an adult, I believe him.  But I think they do it with a smile back East.   

chuckk... Nice, uplifting

chuckk...

Nice, uplifting post.  You don't appear to have a racist bone in your body.

I attended schools in a small town in the South, which over a decade after Brown v. Board of Education, did not have a single black student.  "They" had their own run-down facility on the other side of the track, i.e. in "ni**er town".  They were not permitted to step foot inside a "white" restaurant unless it was the kitchen.  They could only gain entrance to the movie theatre through a side door and sit in the balcony, which was so far from the screen binoculars were almost a necessity.  They dared not be caught drinking water from a "white" fountain, nor even consider admittance to the nice public swimming pool.  There was a white, openly racist, highway patrolman who made sure they stayed in their place.  When a black lady walking on the side of the road leading outside of town was hit and killed by a white driver, I was later told he "confessed" to Sgt. Smith [not his real name] who told him "Don't worry about it, she was just an old "ni**er woman."

Thank God, much has changed since those days in the 60's.  But, regrettably, there are still some--both whites and blacks--who still view our society through the sterotypical lens from that era.

Jer

Jer wins the thread

"there are still some--both whites and blacks--who still view our society through the [sterotypical lens from that era.]"

-Dave

I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.

Bring 'em on sweetcheeks...

I want a probe to find racists as well.

There's nothing I'd love more than to have one of these dimtwit "journalists" ask me for an interview. They would likely be very uncomfortable with the fact that I had a camera of my own stuck in their face; recording every little twitch as I eviscerated their agenda driven nonsense. Their video would never be broadcast of course, but the twit might at least have a clue.

"Usually I think too fast and write too slow. Sometimes it's the other way around."

I Don't Think The Democrats Even Realize It's A Sexual Term...

I bet to you they are truly that clueless about that term teabagging because as far as I can tell, the only ones who seem to mean the sexual connotation were liberal media figures like Maddow or Olbersternfuhrer or any of the reporters on MSNBC or, to a lesser extent, CNN. Honestly, I have a hard time not referring to those TEA Party participants as, well, I'll be polite and only say that word once in this posting (which is out of reference to the participants.) It's because these people are so clueless about how they are even going to make a difference. How do you make a difference by putting on a tri-corner hat and claiming you're protesting higher taxes in honor of our founding fathers? I bet you our founding fathers would look at these TEA Party participants in sadness and say, "Has it come to this that our children and our children's children are protesting out of ignorance as to what it is our country represents?" These people are just the same at condemning President Obama as the left-wing protesters did to President Bush (remember "Hail to the 'Thief'"?) They don't give our leaders the chance to lead our country and protect it. I'm sick of it. I support Presidents Bush and Obama, and that's the way I'm sticking to it.

NB's most wishy-washy post this year, perhaps ever

So, you are willing to just become a Happy Little Socialist to give His Majesty The Shahinshah a chance?

There should be an award somewhere in the realm of NB for "most wishy-washy post of the year".  This would surely get it 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

→ Sticks

You're up late at night, running thoughts together without so much as a paragraph separator to help us make sense of those thoughts.

You're castigating me because I attended a tea party and met people of like opinions face to face, and shared a day with them.  You're telling me I didn't make a difference.

But there you are, a faceless nickname, trying to reason with me.

What the heck.  You don't accomplish anything of note attending a concert or sporting event.  Does that stop you?

Glad you saw the error of your ways.  Sure is convenient you had that experience after Obama got elected.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Doan kid yerself...

The woman is sharp as a tack.  Twisted as hell but sharp and up to date.  The jokes must fly like mad and most politicians hear em'.

"She's hep" as the leftover Beatnik I met in the late 60's would say. 

Kinda sweet the way you call all of us that are in fact protesting the higher taxes of cap and trade, so called health care reform, the Czars that have no oversight and all the other wonderful things being stuffed down our craws  "ignorant". (Protesting out of ignorance.)

If anyone posting on this thread is ignorant it is clearly you,  not those protesting the takeover of Chrysler, GM, Banks, turning our back on the Honduras, Poland Czechoslovakia, lending money to Brazil to drill offshore when it's forbidden here on "Green" grounds.  The hypocrisy of this administration knows no bounds...

Did you protest Reid calling Bush a liar? Do you recall that he refused to apologize?  Defiantly stood his ground..like a petulant child.

You go ahead and stick to it.  Like the man that married the whore and refused to admit the truth no matter what his friends said or his eyes told him...'til he read about her arrest for prostitution in the paper.  I hope you wise up before then.

 

islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.

Amazing!

What can I say? These people are completely out of touch.

 First they deny we had more than 5000 people there.

Now they pretend they don't know what we're concerned about.

Maxine, how about referring to us correctly? Such as Tea Partiers?

And we are NOT all 'birthers'.  

 

Ms. Waters...

No matter what childish names you call us...

That is exactly what we the conservatives want...where is the MSM????hhmmmm 

Judgement Day - 2010

            This

            This is the best California can come up with for a representative? Wilson gets a repremand for calling obama a lier, but she can get away with calling the citizens teabaggers? HOW DARE HER! This woman is inept. Just like Pelosi & the rest of the elected servants from California.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Really Maxine?

Can we call Maxine a d-bag?

Please?

Maybe least-ine

D-BAGGERS....Catchy! ! I think you're on to something!

 That's what we should call ALL Democrats...D-BAGGERS. 

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.

Tailgunner

D-BAGGER.  I like it.

 

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

All credit to 'Southc0ast'.

Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.

Democrats are the party of killers, racists, pedophiles, bribe takers, serial sexual harassers, liars, perjurers, obstructors of justice and treasonous frauds.