Media, Democrats, and the President Have Been in Lockstep with the Tea Party as Terrorists Message
Throughout his tenure, there have been several facets in which President Obama has been demonstrably weak on leadership, with the debt debate coming to the forefront in recent months. Now however, lost in that news cycle has been another failure of leadership for the President – his own request to tone down violent rhetoric in this country. For it was mere months ago that Obama stood in front of a crowd in Tucson that had anxiously sought leadership amidst the chaos of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting; a teachable moment that had The Guardian gushing about how the President had delivered “calm amid the toxic rhetoric.”
That moment of calm has long since dissipated. Where once the President had denounced discourse that places “the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do”, we hear Republicans blamed for holding the American people hostage to their economic policies. Where once we were urged to talk “with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds”, we now hear Tea Party members being denounced as terrorists.
Make no mistake, this ratcheting up of terrorism and hostage-taking discourse directly coincides with recent events in Norway. The instant that Oslo terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik, was labeled as a ‘right-wing Christian’, liberals finally had their moment to seize upon - not just a chance to label conservatives as extreme ideologues but a chance to label them as violent ideologues. This message has been a coordinated and vicious attack amongst the media, the Democrats, and most assuredly, the President.
Prior to the Norwegian massacre, references to the Tea Party as extreme were prevalent, but making the leap in logic to terrorism had been scant. After the Norwegian massacre however, liberals defining the Tea Party as hostage-taking terrorists have become far more frequent. In the last few days it has become practically commonplace.
This past Friday Politico ran an op-ed titled, The Tea Party’s Terrorist Tactics, which featured an illustration of an individual with a dollar sign-shaped bomb strapped to their chest, and argued that the party had progressed from hostage-taking to “the intentional infliction of harm on innocent Americans to achieve a political objective – terrorism.”
Joe Klein penned a piece for Time in which he accused Republicans of being beholden to ‘Tea Party robots’, and worse, that their perceived unwillingness to compromise is something that would have made Osama bin Laden proud. The exact quote being that were he alive, bin Laden “could not have come up with a more clever strategy for strangling our nation.”
Rush Limbaugh ran a montage on his radio show to demonstrate that these attacks on the Tea Party aren’t limited to the ever-biased media, but have been coordinated with their liberal leaders in government. That montage features Democrats echoing the same sentiment ad nauseam, with over 16 different politicians referring to the Tea Party or Republicans as holding the American people hostage.
Former Democratic Congressman, Martin Frost, also in the Politico, cuts right to the chase with an op-ed titled, The Tea Party Taliban. Frost argues that “like the Taliban” the Tea Party sees “compromise as an unacceptable alternative”. He claims that the party’s quest for political purity gives them “much in common with the Taliban.”
In lockstep with the sentiments of his colleagues, the President himself delivered a weekly address in which he denounced the Republican solution to solve the debt crisis as a plan that “would hold our economy captive to Washington politics.”
It is enough to make one wonder, where did our healing President go? Where is the man that calmed during a time of toxic rhetoric? Where is the man who urged Americans to talk in a way that helped rather than harmed?
That man is a myth. He simply does not exist.
We will never hear the President denounce such vile language from his side of the aisle. In fact, we consistently hear the drone of silence from a supposed leader, where such silence equates to consent.
The better question is – Where has our leadership gone?
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I'll go way past this one
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 2:38pm.
I'll go way past this one subject................what has the terrible trio NOT been in lockstep about, as it relates to conservatives, TEA partiers, most Repubs, or anybody else that isn't toeing the line???
It's amazing that you can turn on ANY MSM outlet and hear the exact same thing that is coming out of the REGIME, as well as the ruling class of lib/Dems.
So who is making the daily
Submitted by dscott on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 5:35pm.
So who is making the daily message coordination calls with the MSM reps since Rahm left the Whitehouse? Daly or Jarrett?
Well, we hear that Boy
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 6:31pm.
Well, we hear that Boy Blah-Blah spends more time with the Parrot than he does with Moooooooooooochelle (oh god, let's not even go any further with THAT comparison!!!).................but I'm sure that the marching orders and coming from higher up on the food chain.
It's actually AD
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 2:49pm.
It's actually AD NAUSEAM.
But you are correct.
I remember thinking as a kid, how could THE PEOPLE allow monsters like Hitler and Stalin to manipulate them, and enable the murder of untold millions.
This is how. There's no pretense any more. No shame. Just brazen, naked lust for continual power.
Conservatives just have to keep going around these totalitarians.
Don't be dispirited. Don't let the basterds grind you down. That's what they are trying to do.
THEY HATE YOU way more than Islamo-fascists. Bin Laden. And every enemy of America.
You are THE ENEMY. It's come to this.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Thanks
Submitted by Rusty Weiss on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 2:56pm.
Thanks for the correction!
A lot of these coordinated talking points amongst the media and the Dems are obvious. But sometimes the obvious needs to be stated.
:)
Rusty
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Indeed it has
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 2:58pm.
And that's ok because I consider the bogus potus and the dems enemies of America(not their twisted version of it) anyway. I've considered him an enemy automatically ever since Joe the Plumber.
Him, the MSM, the dems, and the billionaires helping them. ALL of them are enemies of America.
The military better figure out if their oath to the Constitution means anything at this point too and decide which side they will be on.
I just wonder who in the rest of the world, whatever free parts are left will come to our aid or support?
-Jon
Redifining Terrorism
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 2:53pm.
Breivik is not a terrorist, as globally defined. Breivik struck at his perceived enemy's ranks, not at random civilians. The American left is distorting the definition of terrorism to suit their needs to vilify the right, and eventually to justify violence against them. Thus it is with every proletariat.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Vile
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 2:55pm.
The"leader" agrees with the vile language. His famous speech in AZ was, obviously directed at Conservatives and his followers are excused. Last time around we were gun toten Christain racists and now we are terrorists with bombs straped, ready to explode. What will be the next intelligent name toward The Tea Party and Conservatives??
That is slander, defamation
Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 3:05pm.
That is slander, defamation of character. I really hope they go to hell, real soon. Every last treasonous one of them.
Mob tactics
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 3:10pm.
This is a time-tested tactic of those who want an excuse to slaughter the people they disagree with.
They get the media, politicians, teachers, and others to keep insulting, mocking, demeaning and threatening those they don't 'like' (in this case, over half the American people).
Then they start making veiled calls for violence, like saying 'I'm not saying we SHOULD kill them, but would it be a bad thing if someone did?'
They stir their followers, the gullible and the inherently violent up to anger. Eventually, one of them does something to act out on that violence.
They continue stirring the people up to anger, driving them to more and more violence.
Eventually, some member or other of the targeted group does something to defend him/herself.
The mobsters seize upon that moment of defense as 'proof' that the targeted group are evil and must be destroyed. They openly call for more violence against the targeted group who are 'out of control'.
Ultimately, their friendly politicians will pass laws that say members of the targeted group are 'enemies of the state' who must be 'driven out or exterminated' for 'the greater good' or 'to protect the public peace'.
Hello, Nazi Germany.
No surprise
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 3:16pm.
I and a few others here have made the comparisons between what's going on today and Hitler 1939. Some people have said he was more like Stalin or Lenin, but as you pointed out, they are all complicit in labeling the TEA party like that. Just right out of Hitler's playbook. Too bad a few of my friends "poo-poo'd" the idea.
What scares me is that only the Republicans who actually identified themselves as TEA Party or at least sympathetic in Congress may now be targets. Then there are those people, especially since it's not a true organization but people with the same ideals, they may or may not be targets unless it's like the situation where someone might suspect someone they know is connected to it and does Janet NoBrainitano's "See Something, Say Something" nonsense and a lot of innocent people could be rounded up.
Actually, anyone not part of the Dems, the bogus potus, Soros(and others like him)and the MSM are the ones not innocent, everyone else is.
Oh boy. I hope it doesn't get as ugly as it sounds like it could.
-Jon
Yeah, Jon............a while
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 3:41pm.
Yeah, Jon............a while ago I took a lot of heat from one of our resident libs for comparing the rise of Obama and the rise of Hitler........but I still stand by what I said, and I know a lot of other like-minded people have come up with the same comparison.
It's not that far-fetched - especially when you break down all of the weak arguments that some people might lay out, and get down to what is REALLY happening.
Barack Obama
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 3:13pm.
will forever be known among the ranks of actual historians as the Great Weakling, the pencil-necked geek who very nearly brought down America in his own narcissistic drive for power and fame. Groomed by the likes of Frank Marshall Davis and Bill Ayers, he is the embodiment of the political opposite of American republican democracy.
And his sycophants in the press will one day be the textbook examples in every J-school classroom of the dangers of subjective news reportage. The truth will out. Hope springs eternal.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
tea party terrorists?
Submitted by ohio granny on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 3:13pm.
I have a question to ask the media, democrats and little barry and that is if we are terrorists does that mean we can start shooting and bombing?
Of course we won't do that because we think human life has value. But maybe you could be just a little bit honest when you are talking about the tea party. I know that would be expecting too much from all you liars in the media, democrat party and obama.
Lies, name-calling, petty insults -that's all the democrats have
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 3:37pm.
But because they have the MSM's 24 hour pro-democrat spin machine, they can get away with it.
The fact that dems consider folks who think the Constitution actually means what is says are 'radical extremists' says a lot about what the dems think about the Constitution.
They call us out of touch with reality even though they're the ones that don't seem to understand that you can't just go into debt indefinitely, or that's it's reckless to raise tax rates when the economy is struggling and joblessness is high, or that by and large the American people rejected the leftist agenda in 2010. They can't even grasp that compromise is a 2-way street.
They want to make the U.S. into a European style redistributionist welfare state and give the gov't more control over people's everyday lives (right down to what you're allowed to eat!) like some kind of authoritarian hell hole, and they call US un-American.
Reckless fiscal and monetary policy is destroying the dollar, draconian environmental regulations are killing jobs, union cronyism is driving away business and sending state and federal debt spiraling out of control; dem policies are ruining the middle class, and they say we're the ones who are killing the American Dream.
To put it as bluntly as possible, comparing what the democrats have done and continue to do to this country to terrorism would be a grievous and unfair insult to terrorists.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
most divise President ever
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 3:37pm.
I don't believe obie has much of a chance at reelection simply because when voters are staring at the ballot they have to consider 'Do I want four more years of this?'. Most will not.
One of the principles of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is to sow chaos in order to confuse the people so that they will accept radical change that they otherwise wouldn't. This will only work with people who feel helpless. However the character of many (maybe most) in this country is independent individualism and not inclined to seeing government, and especially the Federal Government, as a necessity for day to day concerns. If the established government breaks down Americans will just form new groups and alliances and carry on. obama is going to be the victim of the whirlwind of his own making.
As strange as it seems but the media is doing to obama what they did to George Bush. They constantly feed negative stories which turns off the public. They are creating a poisonous atmosphere which the public hates and will vote against obama to (hopefully) get rid of it. The hope for a positive feeling in the country is what many thought they were voting for when they voted for obama and now it is just as bad but with a terrible economy. Someday maybe the people will come to realize that it is the media itself which is creating the poisonous mood and will turn on them.
Dear Make Believe Media
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 4:00pm.
&%$#@! all of you Liberals that call me a terrorist.
On the plus side, by doing this, Liberals are admitting that falsely calling us racists has not worked. They've moved on to a new attack.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Obama too big an idiot to be a Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 4:12pm.
The theme is correct, but we're missing one main point.
Obama is a dupe, a sock puppet. He is nowhere near bright enough to be the brain behind this coup d'etat (that would be "coop de tat" to Obama - Kind of like Marine Corpse) that is currently under way. He has proved time and again that he borders on downright stupid. Besides he is a coward, plain and simple. If his backers walk, he folds like a cheap suit.
I suspect that the real brain is George Soros and a group of other delusional SOB's who truly want to rule the entire world. The man is a Nazi and learned at an early age just how destruction works.
Regardless of who is shoving a hand up the sock puppets butt, Bambi is just the blabber mouth, but he is still extremely dangerous. He is untouchable because of his race, and literally can and will get away with murder, and the vast majority of the MSM are too damned stupid to even be curious about what is happening.
We have two saving graces that other countries didn't have when they were toppled. We have a Second Amendment and 250,000,000+ gun toting citizens who will literally fight the bastards if it comes to that; and we have a military currently that I do not believe will do the will of this RBFSOB if push comes to shove, which it is soon.
Watch for two moves soon. One to literally confiscate weapons in the hands of most civilians, and one to drastically reconfigure the military, either through retirement of top leaders, drastic budget cuts and reconfiguration of mission, or both. When you see that happening start practicing at the range.
You're right about all of
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 4:24pm.
You're right about all of that, bubba, as far as I'm concerned.................the only 'positive' that I can add to your statement is that, as far as I can tell, Boy Barry didn't manage to put together his 'civilian corps' (try pronouncing that, Soetoro!!!) that he was talking about during the election................you know, the one that was going to be as big, and as well trained, and as well funded as the military??? Maybe he found out the hard way that most of those moooooooooooochers and deadbeats thought that he was just going to pay their way from his 'stash'.........
And speaking of 'stash'.............the way this guy acts sometimes, I'm not sure if he's still got a stash of a variety of substances that he bragged about using in his book.
Maybe we can also start calling him Soros-toro.
Evil has many faces with or without boots*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 4:38pm.
" The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentrations camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice."
CS LEWIS, THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, MAY 1960
Spot on, Cajun. Absolutely.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 4:51pm.
Is it just me, or does anyone else have this desire to beat the absolute living shiite out of Harry Reid every time you see him speaking in that breathy, soft, little "voice of reason" as he READS a speech handed to him by one of the troika?
I mean, he has that cute little tip-of-thumb-to-tip-of-index-finger way of pointing at us (without looking up from the text, of course) as he "breathes" his way through as nasty a collection of words as I have ever had to listen to.
I need a drink everytime he pops up on TV.
Oops! There he is now on Fox. Time for another!
If the oportunity arises*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 5:03pm.
For people like Reid, Krugman, Pelosi, Mathews, Maddow, and all of the other useful idiots, I would have only one question.
When this country becomes a third world tyrannical hell hole, occurrences that we have witnessed before in world history, how do you feel about your name going down in history books as co-conspirators?
Reid has an Chancellor
Submitted by Bhaal on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 6:17pm.
Reid has an Chancellor Palpatine feel to him. Palpatine before his encounter with Mace Windo.
Now that I think about it, Bhaal ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 7:41am.
... I do sense a slight shutter in The Force every time I see that little weasel on the TV.
You may be on to something.
Don't be too sure about the "civilian corpse," Killa.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 4:45pm.
There is a ton of money (read stash) in the Obamacare bill to set up a huge bureaucracy to "enforce" the rules of Obamacare and damned near anything else that Bambi wants to do with it.
Hey, they can call them "healthcare workers" and arm them because their job will be so dangerous.
These bastards are piling the money into all these bills so that they can pull this off with force if necessary, but it may not be the way Congress is rolling over for them.
I know how insidious and
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 5:02pm.
I know how insidious and sneaky these guys are......so I wouldn't take any of it lightly...........between the 'healthcare workers' and the IRS and the armed DOE and whatever else these guys can pull off - I'm paying attention.
And as for Harry 'the weasel' Reid??? Quite possibly one of the most dispicable and quietly craven little sunnuvabitches I've ever had the displeasure of watching or listening to in my entire life..................he's almost in the same league as Soros-toro. They're both dirty musty pieces of schmegma.............
Think of this killa*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 5:20pm.
Having read great portions of the AHCA (that I could translate) has some interesting opportunities for those that you just mentioned. The Health Care Commissions, 2500 of them, will be "manned" by Union member health care providers, Doctors and Psychiatrists who are great followers of eugenics, forced abortions, death panels, through government run health care. People like Dr Ezekial Emanuel, Cass Sunstein and John Holdren, all who had a hand in writing that bill.
"this is how the world ends
not with a bang but with a whimper........TS Elliot, The Hollow Men
Soros-toro? I like it, Killa!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 6:26pm.
Maybe he's really Soros's kid!
I just hope I live long enough to see the whole pack dragged off screaming and yelling to a military prison and executed for treason.
Treason
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 8:27pm.
This is real treason that we are seeing these last couple of years and especially in recent times.
You are right that Soetoro couldn't be Hitler himself, but at the very least, Goebbels or someone high up there. It doesn't change the fact that the ACTIONS we are seeing are those out of Hitler's playbook, out of the SS.
I keep wondering when the balloon will go up, or the other shoe will drop. It's like watching a dam breaking, you know it's going to be a huge wall of water, you know it's going to happen, but you just don't know when, even if you see the cracks already.
I feel like a lot of us are like Almighty Evan who was trying to warn people. And even his kids knew how to recognize signs of trouble coming by observation(in this case, the animals). Not the best movie, but a good one for thought. Even if it has Wanda Sykes in it.
-Jon
The media and the Democrats
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 5:33pm.
The media and the Democrats can be in locked step all they want, but frugality will win the day. Their blabbering will end up as it is, blabbering.
I would hazard a guess and
Submitted by Antisocial-ism on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 6:30pm.
I would hazard a guess and say that in just over a year from now the Dems and the media are going to know true terror.
Being relegated to minority status in the House, Senate and Presidency.
This "Terror" couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of turds, either.
Evil
Submitted by BurnInHellObama on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 8:10pm.
This bunch in Washington is evil. I will hate them with all of my heart until I die.
Plant and a Troll
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 8:56pm.
Do not feed the Plant.
Do not feed the Troll.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Maybe the MSM should look up the definition of the word.....
Submitted by big.league.slider on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 2:37am.
My dictionary lists the definition of the word "terrorism" as meaning "the use of threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes"
Now, does that more accurately describe Obama and the Dems, or the Tea Party?
I can see why the liberals
Submitted by jessieH on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 2:10pm.
I can see why the liberals would say the Tea Party is a threat. The Tea Party is cramping their style, watching what the liberals are up to. It threatens their way of life- corruption, theft, underhanded deals with union leaders, fraud, collusion, buying off media outlets, ect, ect, ect... Yes, I can see how they would think the American people are terrorists. Luckily, we outnumber them by about 250 million to one.