CBC member: Health bill protesters called Rep. Lewis the N-word

[kpete]

Source: The Hill


CBC member: Health bill protesters called Rep. Lewis the N-word
By Roxana Tiron - 03/20/10 03:27 PM ET

Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) claimed Saturday that healthcare protesters at the Capitol directed racial epithets at Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) as he walked outside.

Carson, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus along with Lewis, told The Hill that protesters called Lewis the N-word.

Tea Party protesters held a rally outside the Capitol on Saturday, which included speeches by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and actor Jon Voight, and then proceeded into the halls to lobby members at the 11th hour.

Lewis was one of the leaders of the civil rights movement alongside Martin Luther King. Jr.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/88041-cbc-member-says-health-bill-protesters-called-rep-lewis-the-n-word

[babylonsister]

1. What a bunch of graceless, senseless morons. nt

[Joe Bacon]

42. Teabaggers are FOXHOLES!

Fox created them.

Hate Radio encouraged them.

Our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press (CCCP, where have you seen that acronym before?) encourages every step they take.

They do not have what it takes to be an a-hole.

They don't even have what it takes to be a b-hole.

They are FOXHOLES.

They are Screwpert Murdoch's brood and they need to be sent a message that as long as they act like FOXHOLES, there is no place for them.

[FarLeftFist]

56. They also shouted 'faggot' at Barney Frank-link inside:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/20/90772/rep-john-lewis-charges-protesters.html#ixzz0ikoqXkRV

[Joe Bacon]

59. Hey, they're in DICK's ARMY, remember

Yep, old Limp Dick Armey is controlling these FOXHOLES!

[nimvg]

67. Sorry To Say, But...

...the scores from the sixties were never settled. That's apparently going to happen now.

We're overdue for another civil war. We're due and it's time and it's gonna happen. It needs to happen.

[stlsaxman]

101. the "scores from the Sixties"?- the SCORES???? Listen, Pal- if ANYONE had a "score to settle" it

certainly was NOT the whites enforcing Jim Crow. If anyone had a score to settle it would be those who were oppressed- the Civil Rights Act was just the beginning of that. Whites had NO score to settle.

So- you're "sorry to say"? yeah, you're sorry alright. If you think Whites have a score to settle over Blacks gaining equal rights, you're a sorry excuse for a human being.

[kestrel91316]

102. +1000

[chill_wind]

119. "Another civil war needs to happen"? You can't be serious.

:wtf:

[pattmarty]

192. Is that the "war of northern aggression"?

:sarcasm:

[No Elephants]

155. What scores might those be, nim?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

181. The 1860's.

:(

[Fire1]

184. Sorry, ain't gonna happen. n/t

[rhett o rick]

73. FOXHOLES! I like it. nm

[Joe Bacon]

75. Feel free to spread the term FOXHOLES!

That's what they are.

[rhett o rick]

106. I am in. nm

[TxVietVet]

94. You've nailed the racist teabaggers

with their own conservanazi bu$hit.

[No Elephants]

154. Great name for anyone incited by FOX! Belongs in the DU Dictionary!

[wordpix]

82. i happened upon this group of idiots at the Capitol today - had a conversation with one

The guy had a sign: "Keep your hands off my health care!" He looked like at least 65, so I said, you're on Medicare, right? He at first said no, and then I said, Gee you look like you're old enough for Medicare. So he then says, "Well I've worked for it so why not?" Well it was all downhill from there. I said I'd like Medicare, too, and I'm in my 50's and have paid in a lot of years, too. And young people who need it should have it, too, if they want it. He then spouted on about not giving it to everyone "for free," and I said, the idea is everyone pays into it, and young people who pay in contribute and don't typically need the amount of health services older people do. Well he just couldn't understand something that difficult.

Then some really angry bastard came up and yelled something at me and I said, "You guys really need to think about the insurance companies making billions each year, and they're kicking people out of their health insurance benefits when they get sick." This a-hole then said, "This is America---they have a right to make all the money they want." The guy looked like he'd pop me one any minute, but he was moving on with the all white crowd.

I finally just had to say, "Gee, you've really persuaded me with your anger and bad manners."

Then I went to the Impeach Bush rally in front of the WH. What a relief. Black, white, yellow, brown, young, old, people were playing drums and dancing and I caught the end of Ralph Nader's speech where he said we need a bill that says every grown child of every Congressman is drafted for a US war first.

[CBHagman]

100. Good for you for taking them on.

It takes guts to conduct an actual conversation.

I'll be carrying around one of my paychecks so that if I bump into a 'bagger of the right age, I can show him/her what I paid in Medicare taxes and in health insurance premiums, the one for them, the other for me, and then ask if they think anything's free.

[No Elephants]

156. Thanks for being at the peace rally.

[LiberalFighter]

176. There has to be other ideas that can explain it too.

Like maybe he, his son, or grandkids played sports in high school. If they did, not everyone played or had anyone that played. But they still paid taxes that made it possible.

If he or anyone in his family votes. Not everyone votes but they still all pay taxes that made it possible.

If he or anyone in his family fishes or hunts. Not everyone does but they still all pay taxes that make it possible.

If he or anyone in his family borrows material from the library or use other services. Not everyone does but they still all pay taxes that make it possible.

[annabanana]

2. Jeepers.. Some of those fools are so deranged that their

middle amurca "just plain folks" masks are slipping a bit...

[Ken Burch]

32. They still can't accept that "the good ol' days" ended in 1964

And they still don't understand why Disney won't release "Song Of The South" on video or DVD in the U.S..

[Initech]

50. More like 1864.

[Ken Burch]

52. Well...even though there was Appamatox...they still got to do Jim Crow after that.

Nuthin' like a little lynchin' now and then to cheer up the Stars 'n Bars contingent.

[No Elephants]

158. Every time someone goes off about Stars and Bars, Bonnie Blue, etc. I back away.

[mod mom]

55. It's worse-try the 16th century:

THESE ASSHOLES ARE AGAINST THE ENLIGHTENMENT, THE ROLE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND EVOLUTION:


Blogging the Social Studies Debate IV
By TFN
9:20 – The State Board of Education will resume debate and amending proposed new social studies curriculum standards for Texas public schools this morning. Board members are getting a short lesson on parliamentary procedure right now.

9:27 – The board is taking up remaining amendments on the high school world history course.

9:30 – Board member Cynthia Dunbar wants to change a standard having students study the impact of Enlightenment ideas on political revolutions from 1750 to the present. She wants to drop the reference to Enlightenment ideas (replacing with “the writings of”) and to Thomas Jefferson. She adds Thomas Aquinas and others. Jefferson’s ideas, she argues, were based on other political philosophers listed in the standards. We don’t buy her argument at all. Board member Bob Craig of Lubbock points out that the curriculum writers clearly wanted to students to study Enlightenment ideas and Jefferson. Could Dunbar’s problem be that Jefferson was a Deist? The board approves the amendment, taking Thomas Jefferson OUT of the world history standards.

9:40 – We’re just picking ourselves up off the floor. The board’s far-right faction has spent months now proclaiming the importance of emphasizing America’s exceptionalism in social studies classrooms. But today they voted to remove one of the greatest of America’s Founders, Thomas Jefferson, from a standard about the influence of great political philosophers on political revolutions from 1750 to today.

-snip


http://tfninsider.org/2010/03/11/blogging-the-social-studies-debate-iv/

[awoke_in_2003]

63. This state is fucked up...

how do you talk about the founding of this country and our government and NOT talk about Jefferson? That is like talking about the Civil War and not bringing up Lincoln (hope I didn't give them any ideas)

[No Elephants]

159. Our Constitution is based on Virginia's, written by....yep, Thomas Jefferson.

And, tho' Thomas Jefferson was in Europe at the time, he and Madison communicated a great deal sbout the penning of our Constitution, via diplomatic pouch.

Whenever anyone insists Jefferson did not influence our Constiution, you are dealing with a RWer.

[LiberalFighter]

187. RW's aren't known for intelligence

[awoke_in_2003]

202. yep, he had a hand in it for sure...

RW'ers also like to downplay Thomas Paine's role in our founding- can't give any credit to a vocal atheist, dontcha know

[Alcibiades]

71. Hit the nail on the head

These folks are clearly opposed to enlightenment rationality, or any rationality. The idea that this country was founded on a secular, sometimes anti-clerical, rational philosophy that believed in science and thought to use it to maximize human freedom is one that they cannot stomach, especially since it's true.

[kestrel91316]

103. Exactly. They have an ignorant, uneducated, pre-Enlightenment mindset

that is EXTREMELY dangerous to all of us.

[yellerpup]

173. The tea baggers need renaming. I propose: White Trash Party.

Ignorant, racist, selfish, stupid trash. Lowest of the low and they have no chance of pulling themselves up. When all you have to trade on is your skin color then you ain't got dick.

[The Wizard]

182. Renaming

Let's be honest. The Ku Klux Klan.

[yellerpup]

190. Your suggestion catches the true spirit of the "movement."

Yeah, let's go with KKK. :hi:

[No Elephants]

157. Pat Buchanan: "I cry every time I hear 'The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down."

and (despite what I say and write) "I'm not a xenophobe."

For all you who think MSNBC is a Democratic station, Why is Pat Buchanan all over that station? Hmmmm?

Are there no Republican pundits who are less racist?

[Ken Burch]

160. So Pat obviously doesn't have a clue as to what that song is about.

It's sung from the viewpoint of a rural Southern farmer that didn't give a damn about the Confederacy and had nothing to do with slavery. If it was a right-wing anthem, Joan Baez would never have recorded it.

[No Elephants]

162. I'm guessing Pat mourns the end of Dixie, just like so many racists. .

I heard him say it on MSNBC a few years ago. He did not elaborate.

I'm guessing he and Baez may have different views of the song.

[No Elephants]

164. Let's let the lyrics speak for themselves, then guess what Buchanan meant.

Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train,
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
In the winter of '65, We were hungry, just barely alive.
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,

(Chorus)
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing,
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin'. They went
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La,

Back with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she called to me,
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"
Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,
But they should never have taken the very best. (Chorus)

Like my father before me, I will work the land,
Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand.
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, But a Yankee laid him in his grave,
I swear by the mud below my feet,
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat. (Chorus and fade)

[old mark]

175. I cry every time I hear Pat Buchanan......nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Vile, bottom of the barrel dead enders.

[Solly Mack]

4. Disgusting

[The Wielding Truth]

5. Where are the rational people in this country?Why haven't they

stood up to these selfish fearful slugs? We at DU are here to enforce the good along with some others. Why, if not, are we not in the majority and why isn't it showing?

[Cirque du So-What]

6. In light of the teabaggers' propensity for racist remarks

it's unconscionable that a single meeting of theirs goes without being documented. It may come in handy at some future date when reconstructing the sordid history of this hate group. I'm sure the SPLC (and maybe even the FBI) would be most appreciative.

[LonePirate]

7. They are as disgusting as their obstructionist speakers for not denouncing their language and hate.

[Grassy Knoll]

8. Thank you Becky and friends.......

You've done your country proud.

:applause:


:sarcasm:

[Joanne98]

9. We need the video!

[mascarax]

10. Tea Party = Racist/Bigot Party

And, of course, Bachmann is right there. Because that's what she is.

[mfcorey1]

11. Make sure there is a provision for mental health care....

because they are imploding all over the country.

[FarPoint]

12. A man who has marched with Martin Luther King,

had his skull fractured in the 1961 Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(U.S._politician)


snip>

Lewis became nationally known during his prominent role in the Selma to Montgomery marches. During the first march police attacked the peaceful demonstrators and beat Lewis mercilessly in public, leaving head wounds that are still visible today.

end>

yea call him an "N" and I'll show you a pulsating racisit!:grr:

[madmax]

34. Not one of those

bastards have half the courage of their convictions that Mr. Lewis has had all these years.

Those who marched in the south in the 60's had courage. God Bless You, Mr. Lewis.

[No Elephants]

163. John Lewis is a giant, but anyone who calls anyone an "N" is likely a racist.

And I say "likely" only because some people accept use of the word by African Americans as non-racist and I am making no comment on that, one way or the other.

[DeSwiss]

13. K&R

- What else does one expect to come from the mouths of racists???


"Teabaggers In Formal Wear"

[NeoConsSuck]

81. Teabaggers in Formal Wear

Love it!! You should make T-Shirts with that picture and caption. You'd sell a million!

[JBoy]

14. Cornered, frightened rats.

[nimvg]

62. Yeah...

...cornered rats that'll strike back like a motherfucker in November.

[No Elephants]

165. I sure hope no one alerts on your posts.

Supposedly, the Democratic Party's base is dispirited; and few things mobilize our base more than racism, homophobica, or other ideological enemies of human rights.



BTW, in mid-term elections, the party in power always loses some seats, so don't be giving racist shits any credit for it. After all, I'm sure they tried very their best in 2008 to keep an African American out of the Oval Office, but President Obama handily beat Senator McLame and Governor Even Lamer, despite the pathetic best efforts of racists. See, America is better than racists. How's that for American exceptionalism?

I can't say you're honest, because you are posting on a board that is only for Democrats, and you probably have more than once screen name here, too. However, I do congratulate you on at least semi-owning both your racism and your resemblance to cornered rats. Most people deny both, but you've given yourself away. Not exactly honest, but at least not skilled at deceit.


The more you post, the more you'll fire up the base. The more you fire up the base, the better I like it. So I'm hoping you post here a lot, nimrod. Raise your post count, you!

[Bgno64]

15. They're killing their own movement

Good.

These idiots are too stupid to see that this behaviors dooms their movement to a historical footnote. Suburban soccer moms, young independents - they're going to be swayed by the N-word, just not in the teabaggers' direction.

[Hoyt]

23. I hope you are right. But here in a red state, it will attract "members."

[No Elephants]

166. Anyone who is attracted by the N word is probably a "member" already, anyway.

America is not yet post-racial. The post-racial meme is, IMO, a myth created and attempted to be propagated by RWers. However, I believe that racists are in a pathetic, impotent, embarrassing minority. The majority of Americans are more repulsed by racism than attracted by it.

[madmax]

16. Animals n/t

[Barbara2423]

17. No surprise there, It's on the tip of McCain/Palin's tongue.

Bachman might beat them to it first. She is really dumb. I'm betting on which GOP/FAUX news talking heads will say it first.

[BrklynLiberal]

18. Absolutely right.....

[Alcibiades]

72. Much more so with the Palin wing

Than the McCain wing.

[SoapBox]

19. AND to go along with this...see these signs!

Shocking...but not surprising from this crowd.

See the "gun" signs here and here:

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/20/code-red-gun/comment-page-4/#comment-6077186

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/20/tea-party-protests-nier-f_n_507116.html

So maybe Sen. Brown, what he thinks of those posters?

He doesn’t have his page filled with Rushpublican’t propoganda yet…thus no email but he does have phones:

Offices of US Senator Scott P. Brown

317 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington D.C. 20510
[phone]

2400 JFK Federal Building
55 New Sudbury Street
Boston, MA 02203
[phone]

Call...Call...Call!

[Bgno64]

21. From Stein's account:

"It was absolutely shocking to me," Clyburn told the Huffington Post. "Last Monday, this past Monday, I stayed home to meet on the campus of Claflin University where fifty years ago as of last Monday... I led the first demonstrations in South Carolina, the sit ins... And quite frankly I heard some things today I have not heard since that day. I heard people saying things that I have not heard since March 15, 1960 when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus."

Of course they're saying the same thing - it's the same goddamned people, their ideological descendants.

[TxVietVet]

97. Yep, their true colors are showing

The teabaggers are the conservanazis' new KKKlan.

[No Elephants]

167. During his campaign, the Brown turd claimed he had never heard of the Tea Party, BUT he had been a

speaker at one of their meetings in Worcester the year before.

How could any Republican politician so out of touch that he never heard of the Tea Party win?

How could any politician caught in a flat out lie like that win?

Boggles the mind.

[TankLV]

20. Gee - what a surprise - NOT! And of course, the repukes andFUX will deny it...

Who to believe, Who to believe...

[Zoeisright]

60. They are racists. This proves it.

Of course, we didn't need any proof - the fact that they didn't exist before President Obama was elected is proof enough.

[Mad_Dem_X]

78. +1

[chowder66]

22. Cleaver (D-M.D.) had been spit on by a protestor

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/20/tea-party-protests-nier-f_n_507116.html

""It was absolutely shocking to me," Clyburn told the Huffington Post. "Last Monday, this past Monday, I stayed home to meet on the campus of Claflin University where fifty years ago as of last Monday... I led the first demonstrations in South Carolina, the sit ins... And quite frankly I heard some things today I have not heard since that day. I heard people saying things that I have not heard since March 15, 1960 when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus." "

Where are the arrests? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


________________________________________

7 anti-war activists arrested

http://www.salon.com/wires/us/2010/03/20/D9EIITQ00_us_anti_war_protest/index.html


and.....Two Arrested For Chaining Themselves to the White House Gate to Protest Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy

[Lorien]

79. Seriously, WTF???! The spitter-who could have HIV and an intent to kill-

wasn't arrested? The gun sign guys are still roaming free after advocating violence against Health Insurance Bill supporters-which basically means violence against the President-while the DADT protesters were arrested and detained??? Whose calling the shots at DC law enforcement?

Heck, during the BushCo years people were being arrested for simply wearing anti-war t-shirts!

[wordpix]

86. not surprised---this was an ugly, ugly all white crowd

[No Elephants]

172. The crowd is responsible for its racism, but not for the lack of arrests.

That would be the police.

[Ildem09]

24. God Damn their America, its not the US of A but the US of KKK

I'm sooo angry at these motherfuckers. I'm not African American. but your goddamn right I'm Gay and I'm damn proud of it too. FUCK me, I havent been this angry in a long time

[PatrynXX]

25. thats not really surprising. just an excuse to hold a kkk rally

thats what Keith keeps pointing out. Where's the minorities at these rallies?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. The MEDIA should be calling the TEABAGGERS out

[flamingdem]

95. YES THEY SHOULD !!! nt

[davidhilton]

27. reporting on this, is like reporting the sun is in the sky.

lets face it, most of the teabaggers are extremely racist. from the vids and photos, i
gather their movement is 99.9% white, racists, and very misinformed. I'm not surprised of this teabagger behavior.
Im sickened by it, but I've grown to accept it as the norm - for them.

[SoapBox]

28. CONTACT ABC, CBS, NBC and ask if they are going to cover this...

I sent messages to ABC, CBS, NBC asking if they are going cover the gun-signs AND the slurs.
The links are direct to the contact form:

ABC:
http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=World%20News%20with%20Diane%20Sawyer

CBS:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml?tag=ftr

NBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29104230/

Write and ASK them, are they going to cover the,
“Warning: If Brown Can’t Stop It, A Browning Can”…with a picture of a GUN, signs! And
what about those slurs?

[No Elephants]

168. Thanks for the links. Great idea. We should always demand coverage of RW crap.

BTW, you might mention that Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown spoke at a Tea Bag rally in Worcester, MA last year, yet claimed he'd never heard of them when campaigining for Sen. Kennedy's seat a year later. They need to cover that, too, instead of fawning all over the poster boy.

[Politicub]

29. Rush Limbaugh will proclaim this guy a hero

Limbaugh says all sorts of racist things on his show, yet he gets a pass. This POS is probably being cheered on Fox news. And now they have their new Joe the Plumber-like person -- They can call him Joe the Klansman and make him Glenn Beck's co-host.

[Wetzelbill]

30. maybe the least surprising story ever

But they need to be seen for who they are and they are the type of people who call John Lewis the N Word and who mock a guy who has Parkinson's. That's their movement in a nutshell.

[geckosfeet]

31. 3, 2, 1, - OK - cue the "it was just a few bad apples" response - annnd roll it!

[eilen]

84. No, most claim it was a Democrat/Acorn/Seiu/Liberal Media/Socialist plant

seriously.

[geckosfeet]

87. Yes - there is that line as well. Not to mention the old standby - commie pinko.

[SoapBox]

33. MORE shocking signs from the TeaTantrum people...

Here is a link on Huff Post with a slide show of more signs...

These wack jobs should be picked up.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/20/tea-party-protests-nier-f_n_507116.html

[RedSpartan]

35. Behold, "The Party Of Lincoln." n/t

[Ken Burch]

161. These days, the GOP is "The Party of Booth".

n/t.

[CTLawGuy]

169. most of the "party of Lincoln"

hates him.

[Ken Burch]

36. Jon Voight was at this rally. People need to bust HIS balls for this!

(Hopefully, Angelina is doing that right now.)

[Barbara2423]

91. No wonder his liberal daughter can't stand him.

[CLANG]

120. Jon Voight on GW Bush opposition:

"And they — what I hear, you know, talking about our president. When I hear people saying quite unthinkable things about our president, when I see our president defaced, which is defacing our country. He's the leader of our country. He's the leader of the free world. It — my heart is very heavy.

(And next I will post his denouncement of the Teabaggers) ....Oh, wait!

[No Elephants]

174. Last I heard, they don't speak.

[Omaha Steve]

37. K&R!

[baldguy]

38. Is anyone *really* surprised?

[Cleita]

39. Well, that blows any credibility they could have had and just shows them to

be low life racists.

[Kingofalldems]

40. Special Prosecutor needed---to investigate this movement and

all associated with them, including news media outlets.

[Lifelong Protester]

41. So who is the Nazi-like group then? These tea-baggers

are racist homophobes who harass the disabled. Then they carry signs that show Obama or anything our party touches as part of the 'Nazi' movement. I know these people are stupid, but jeez! Don't they have at least ONE person that can see their own hypocrisy? (Just a rhetorical, don't try to answer).

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

43. Aaaand anyone expect it to get reported anywhere but MSNBC and some blogs?

I don't.

[Jennicut]

49. CNN reported on it about 10 minutes ago with Don Lemon and Dana Bash.

So, at least it is out there for people to know.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

195. I'm impressed

Even FOX has reported it.......I guess they are done covering for these scum.

[jwirr]

44. We should all put on black armbands to signify our mourning for our

nation. We worked to change all of this in the 60-70 and then ratass raygun came along to make sinfulness popular again. I hope what comes around goes around comes back to bite them.

[Deep13]

45. In the 1920s, the Nazis had thug enforcers called "Brownshirts."

They were crude, violent, bigoted and out of touch with reality. Basically the teabaggers of the 1920s.

[nimvg]

64. Yes, But...

...they also got control in the thirties and killed six million Jews.

[Deep13]

68. That's precisely my point.

Of course, once the Nazis had political power, the SA was broken up by force because the thing that forced the change was then a threat to the new Nazi government. These teabaggers really can't see beyond the ends of their noses.

[No Elephants]

178. Who are you hoping to kill, nim?

[Dappleganger]

46. Brought to you directly from the McCain/Palin rallies! nt

[polichick]

96. True. nt

[humbled_opinion]

47. Why are the y allowed to openly display

HATE. When we are looking back on this period asking ouselves how did we not see this hate manifesting itself in the coming evil, it will then be too late, I am afraid.

[laughingliberal]

48. Disgusting. nt

[Initech]

51. So the Tea Klux Klan finally shows its true colors, eh? Disgusting.

[CLANG]

121. Tea Klux Klan! Perfect. I'll be stealing that on from you!

[Initech]

199. I stole it from somewhere else here but I think fits perfectly.

[Rage Inc.]

53. These people make an excellent case...

...for actually having death panels!

[npk]

54. A friend of mine at the rally called me

He said he saw a man driving a truck with a bumper sticker that read, "FIGHTING TERRORISTS SINCE 1861." There is going to be some violence if this kind of stuff continues.

[wordpix]

83. I was there for a little bit---these a-holes were LOUD & it sounded like a Super Bowl game

There were only a few thousand idiots in front of the Capitol but their roar was loud.

[Ozymanithrax]

57. These are the mercenary troops of the GOP who oppose the Health Care Bill...

And, yes, this is likely to get worse.

[felinetta]

58. Did any of the speakers tell them not to use disgusting language?I doubt it.They are all complicit.

[WCGreen]

61. I am shocked, I tell you shocked....

NOT!

[jillan]

65. I'm watching CSpan and it is being reported that they SPIT on him

OMG - what a bunch of animals:grr:

[Tx4obama]

66. Rep Ryan (D-IL) on House floor calling for the repubs to denounce the teaparty'ers n/t

[jillan]

69. Crickets.

Assholes.

[alp227]

70. N-word? 'Nuff said.

And I thought that Teabaggers thought that liberals were obsessed with the race card!

However, Teabaggers would never dare call Clarence Thomas by that word. Because Clarence Thomas shares the libertarian political views of the Teabaggers compared to those other blacks obsessed with welfare and socialized medicine. :sarcasm:

[CLANG]

122. Nah, they just call Thomas a "good" n-word.

[CBHagman]

74. Do have a look on YouTube for footage.

If I'm not mistaken, there's a YouTube member named NewLeffMedia who has put up footage and interviews of the teabaggers, basically giving them a chance to put their ignorance and bile on display. It's nauseating but very educational, if learning how ignorant some people are can be called an education.

[TxVietVet]

99. NewLeffMedia interviewed teabagger idiots

Thanks for the lead.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=NewLeffMedia+&search_type=&aq=f

[Historic NY]

76. Teabaggers showing their true colors.....

[Mad_Dem_X]

77. Disgusting excuses for human beings

This just proves that the teabagger movement is nothing but a cover for racists and homophobes. Most of these scumbags don't even know *what* they're protesting; they're just mad because we have a person of color as President!

[gauguin57]

80. May they rot in hell. May they Rot. In. Hell.

I'm sure right after yelling racial and anti-gay slurs, they went off to church to proclaim how effing CHRISTIAN they are. PUKE!

[icee]

85. I predict there wll violence if the vote is for HCR. And if it gets big,

the police may not be able to do anything about it. Years ago when I lived in Ohio, I knew some of these people. Their houses and garages were full of guns. They had grednades, bazooks, boxes of explosives. Now, maybe they're nicer now, but I would doubt it.

[wordpix]

89. they are NOT nicer---I saw this group today at the Capitol & they're horrible

and I wouldn't doubt they've got a houseful of guns. :scared:

[icee]

90. I feel a minor revolution coming. I was in Chicago for the 68

Dem convention. I saw people there acting the same way these are.

[kestrel91316]

104. They can go ahead and try. They will fail, and die in the process.

They are a TINY minority and they are morally dead wrong.

[icee]

124. A tiny minority? Yeah, maybe, but I have a hunch they are the tip

of the iceberg. I would say more but broad-brushing of these people as "morally dead wrong" is a little beyond the pale to me. I see a lot of things morally dead wrong. Good luck to you.

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[icee]

188. What? What kind of a question is that? I changed my

signature, because it was too big.

[No Elephants]

179. How did that work out?

[icee]

191. For the demonstrators? Not so well. But the entire crowd was

not demonstrators. Some were innocent people. I saw the cops pull a lady out of Pontiac convertible who wasn't doing anything except sitting there waiting for a light to change. They beat the crap out of her and tossed her back in the care semi-conscious. I and a bunch of others went over to help her. The cops charged again, but this time there wasn't enough of them. For me? Someone ripped the antennae off my car. That convention changed my life forever. I saw insanity from both the crowds and the cops. I also learned to not paint with broad brushes again.

[vduhr]

98. You may be right but...

if it does happen, it will be the biggest mistake these morons ever made. They will expose themselves for what they truly are to the entire country, because it would be too big of a news story for the MSM to pass up. There would be many, many other repercussions for them too. A group that uses killing or violence against others could not possibly continue to exist legally, and they would be reduced to shoot-outs with the Feds in backwoods camps. We are far from what things were like during the civil war era. The speed of information for one thing. The U.S. government certainly has more fire power now, and certainly much, much more than this small group of idiots have - like one puny, weak person fighting a group of huge angry men. They may get their shots in, but they wouldn't last long. That's why I laugh when states like Texas talk about succeeding. They would lose all U.S. goverment support (which they claim they don't want) and would quickly become a third-world country. They then would be desperate (no exports of food, etc. going to them). They would lose all their rights of citizenship, no funds from taxes, nothing, and nothing to fight with. They are just a bunch of blow-hard bullies that will soon dissolve because, what they truly are, are cowards.

[icee]

153. They may be what you say. I don't know. Nor do I broad-brush

people anymore in my waning years. For every one of them, I would bet there are 100 more who is too tired and/or depressed with loss of country to participate. Something is coming. I can feel it. Some of these folks anger, I understand. Some of it, not at all. I would not try to assuage the feelings of ones who have lost their jobs, their homes, their money, their dignity, their purpose with mere words. That won't work. Yes, by all means, turn it over to the military. Let the military take care of these scum. Round them up. Make them watch Lady Gaga sing about wanting to sit on her boyfriend's "disco stick". That should enlighten them.

[Stuart G]

88. I don't know what is happening to this country,.this makes me sick..

[IndianaGreen]

92. André Carson is my congressman. Good thing the tea baggers didn't know he is a Muslim.

André is the grandson of our beloved Julia Carson, who passed away in 2007 after a long illness. André is a strong supporter of LGBT rights, not just paying lip service to get our votes, but actually helping the LGBT community and not being shy about being in our annual pride march.

This is a shocking incident that exposes the racism among the tea baggers.

[NotThisTime]

93. No shock, they are bigots in EVERY sense of the word, every single sense

[Cartoonist]

105. Freepers say it ain't so

They were saying "Kill the Bill" not the N-word.

And then there's this guy:
"They are LUCKY it was a chorus instead of a FIRING SQUAD!!!!!!!"
34 posted on 03/20/2010 8:04:26 PM PDT by biggredd1

Lots of love over there.:grouphug:

[tango-tee]

107. Utterly disgusting, but not surprising,

Pure, unadulterated, one-hundred percent racists.

[Bette Noir]

108. Is anyone still claiming that the tea party isn't racist?

[Stuart G]

109. duplicate thread..sorry.....please delete

Source: MSNBC, AP

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35965961/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

WASHINGTON - House Democrats heard it all Saturday — words of inspiration from President Barack Obama and raucous chants of protests from demonstrators. And at times it was flat-out ugly, including some racial epithets aimed at black members of Congress.........

The tone was set outside the Capitol. Clogging the sidewalks and streets of Capitol Hill were at least hundreds — no official estimate was yet available — of loud, furious protesters, many of them tea party opponents of the health care overhaul.

Rallies outside the Capitol are typically orderly, with speeches and well-behaved crowds. Saturday's was different, with anger-fueled demonstrators surrounding members of Congress who walked by, yelling at them.

"Kill the bill," the largely middle-aged crowd shouted, surging toward lawmakers who crossed the street between their office buildings and the Capitol.



Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told a reporter that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the civil rights era, some among the crowd chanted "the N-word, the N-word, 15 times." Both Carson and Lewis are black, and Lewis spokeswoman Brenda Jones also said that it occurred.

Clyburn, who led fellow black students in integrating South Carolina's public facilities a half century ago, called the behavior "absolutely shocking.""I heard people saying things today that I have not heard since March 15, 1960, when I was marching to try to get off the back of the bus," Clyburn told reporters.




Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35965961/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

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please see this thread here in latest news to continue discussion...
...sorry for duplicate...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4313648&mesg_id=4313648

[theoldman]

110. Just goes to show you how low these people are.

[gateley]

111. I am so horrified at the racism that has apparently become so accepted. Can you

IMAGINE spitting on a Congressman? And hurling racial slurs with no shame? I haven't been this upset and disturbed in a long time. :cry:

[Stuart G]

112. I grew up in the 60s, saw this crap on TV..this is just horrible..2010..

some acting like KKK of 50s..this is who many of the teabag stupid idiots really are....KKK.

[CountAllVotes]

113. you are so right

they've been hanging in the wings lying in wait. Here they are *again*! :mad:

:dem:

[gateley]

116. Me, too and I was horrified then as well.I hadn't been exposed to that kind of

hatred before. But I thought we'd grown and learned. I posted elsewhere that they don't have to wear their robes and hoods any more. They can show up at a nationally televised rally and proudly display their racism to the world. It's like it's become MORE acceptable!

[d_r]

115. I know you know

but it still drives me crazy that they are all over 65 and on medicare.

[gateley]

117. I know - I can only shake my head in disbelief at their ignorance. nt

[Mira]

118. When babies are born, if healthy, they are all miracles.

They learn to talk in a couple of years, walk in one, etc.

The ignorance comes from a lack of education.
From the parents who are not educated enough to realize the critical need for interaction with the children, I see them hang on their cell phones in grocery stores, with the little ones in the seat of the cart, NOT learning colors and shapes and being talked to.

On it goes to the fact that Abraham Maslov's hierarchy of needs only allows the parents to spend time looking after food, shelter, clothing and hearth care, there is no time to look after the needs of the child.

Proceeding to schools with underpaid teachers, teaching to the tests, etc. etc. etc.

Once we have health care under control (PRAY)
and get some job programs going (Pray some more)
we have got to tackle education, or we will lose it all.

[MisterP]

205. Arne Duncan IS gonna tackle education--but with the goal of bringing about your (and my) worst fears

political-theater-caused cheerleading hysteria aside, Presidents' policies since 1979/81 have been to turn us into Balaguer and Hipolito Mejia's Dominican Republic: everyone works for $3/hr., 70 days a week, and everyone has to work constantly and keep their nose to the grindstone, because everyone's pensions and Social Security are now in the Caymans. And every step in this process will be hailed as the "GOP's Waterloo!!!!1111"

[cilla4progress]

114. And, y'know what, I'm middle-aged

and these guys are making me look bad! ;-)

[PinkFloyd]

123. They've wanted to use that word since November 4, 2008.

You know they have.

[RedRoses323]

171. Yep

:thumbsup:

[TomCADem]

125. 'Tea party' protesters accused of spitting on lawmaker, using slurs

Source: Washington Post

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus said that racial epithets were hurled at them Saturday by angry protesters who had gathered at the Capitol to protest health-care legislation, and one congressman said he was spit upon. The most high-profile openly gay congressman, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), was heckled with anti-gay chants.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) issued a statement late Saturday saying that he was spit upon while walking to the Capitol to cast a vote, leading the Capitol Police to usher him into the building out of concern for his safety. Police detained the individual, who was then released because Cleaver declined to press charges.

"The congressman was walking into the Capitol to vote, when one protester spat on him. The congressman would like to thank the U.S. Capitol Police officer who quickly escorted the other Members and him into the Capitol, and defused the tense situation with professionalism and care," said Danny Rotert, a spokesman for Cleaver.

Protesters outside the Capitol hurled epithets at Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Andre Carson (D-Ind.) as they left the building after President Obama delivered an 11th-hour speech on behalf of the health care bill. Carson told reporters that protesters yelled "kill the bill," then used a racial epithet to describe Carson and Lewis, who is a revered figure on both sides of the aisle.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032002556.html

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In addition to calling John Lewis the N-word, anti-HCR protesters also shouted anti-gay chants against Barney Frank.

[Cha]

126. Teabaggers attract the

underbelly side..teeming with maggots.

[TomCADem]

127. Racist and Homophobic ... And They Accuse Obama of Fascism?

Rupert Murdoch and his goon squad at Fox News should take a bow for stoking such hate.

[PinkFloyd]

204. In their minds, racism and homophobia ARE American Qualities

That's why they're "conservatives". I've heard them say before how they wish things could go back to the way they were in the 1950's. Now we know just what they mean by that.

[EFerrari]

128. Brown shirts. They're here.

[harmonicon]

136. yep

Maybe this is what Bush always wanted and was unable to create - maybe it was beyond his wildest dreams. Whatever the case, I think you're right. The worst part is that the media - even discounting the media who created them - lap it up and in turn give it legitimacy.

Even though I've never handled a gun in my life, this makes me think more about starting an unabashedly liberal gun owners' group to counteract the NRA... of course it could never have the same draw, since the NRA has never really been about gun ownership, but about racism and oppression.

[paulsby]

147. you have it backwards

gun control is about racism and oppression.

here's a hint.

which racial demographics are (by far) the most prone to be victims of violent crime?

oppression is taking away people's constitutional right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves and their loved ones.

gun control is rooted in racism and fear of "inner city " (a euphemism for black) people with guns.

it is certainly a hell of a lot easier to oppress unarmed people vs armed people

[EFerrari]

193. Really?

National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has once again demonstrated the core values of the NRA's leadership: hypocrisy and racism. As a guest on CBS News' Face the Nation this past Sunday, LaPierre was asked about a recent column he wrote for American Rifleman in which he stated: "There are many politicians willing to sacrifice the Second Amendment as the first step in the homogenization of American culture."

Denying that the statement contained "racial overtones," LaPierre claimed that the NRA "has a proud relationship with the African-American community." Research by the Violence Policy Center (VPC), however, finds that LaPierre's "homogenization" concerns are simply the latest in a long line of racist statements by NRA officials. For example:

-- Current NRA President Charlton Heston, in defending "white pride" in a speech before the Free Congress Foundation, urged the audience to "draw your sword and fight" against a variety of opponents, including "blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand while they seek preference with the other." He told his listeners, "Mainstream America is counting on you."

-- Current NRA Board Member Jeff Cooper, in dismissing urban gun victims - the majority of which are young black males - wrote in Guns & Ammo that "the consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition." Cooper also refers to persons of Japanese ancestry as "Nips" and has suggested calling black South Africans from the Gauteng province "Oran-gautengs."

http://www.commondreams.org/news2000/0516-03.htm

As the poster said, they're more about racism than they are about gun rights.

[harmonicon]

198. um... yeah, maybe look somewhere else to discuss your agenda.

Your response has nothing to do with my post.

[paulsby]

200. it has everything to do with your post and with facts

it is gun control that is racist, in its origin , as well as its effect (disproportionately disarming those more likely to be victims of violent crime)

[harmonicon]

201. NO ONE mentioned gun control until you showed up. My post has NOTHING to do with that ..

and I have no intention of discussing it with you. If you have a bone to pick, go pick it somewhere else, because it doesn't involve me.

[paulsby]

203. i could make an army of darkness reference

but that would be snarky, and god knows i avoid that at all times :)

[harmonicon]

206. Army of Darkness references are always welcome, whatever the context...

because it's the single greatest film ever made.

[Richard Steele]

142. They always were. nm

[Enthusiast]

144. They are exactly the same.

They serve exactly the same purpose.

[DesertFlower]

129. they are despicable.

[HughMoran]

130. It never has been, and never will be about healthcare.

It's about a Democrat who is also black man succeeding. If he was a black Republican passing healthcare, they'd be worshiping at his feet. But no, he's on the wrong team, so as they lose their composure the underlying racism of the 'white straight man' party bubbles to the surface. It is, of course, not a surprise to those of us who've been pointing out the "stuck at age 15" base of the Republican Party.

[TomCADem]

131. What about the anti-gay chants against Barney Frank?

Are racism and homophobia two sides of the same hate field coin?

[HughMoran]

133. I was going to edit to also include the word "bigot"

...perhaps I should have.

[Enthusiast]

145. It is also about

defending the insurance industry.

[CLANG]

183. Or the white sexuality-conflicted men party

The WS-CMP.

[tonekat]

132. Once more, the mask drops off the right wing

And it's ugly under there. Read the comments that accompany the linked article in the Washington Post. Many of them are appallingly, unapologetically racist.

It's official. They're a mob, not "concerned citizenry".

[thereismore]

134. "Lewis, who is a revered figure on both sides of the aisle" (?) I don't think repigs revere him! nt

[No Elephants]

180. Agree. That's bs.

[onehandle]

135. Teabaggers again today, threaten President Obama with gun violence. --->

From Huffington Post.



Tea Party Protests: 'Ni**er,' 'Fa**ot' Shouted At Members Of Congress
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/20/tea-party-protests-nier-f_n_507116.html

[Left Coast2020]

138. I hope this comes back to bite repugs in Nov.

Are voters watching this and taking notes? Hope so.

[Tanelorn]

140. Wouldn't some of this be considered incitement to riot.

At the very least there should be some grounds for assault
charges be laid. Where are the cops?
That yellow sign must breach some sort of law. Freedom of
expression must certainly NOT mean the promise of violence.

[Enthusiast]

146. That depends entirely

on who is doing the incitement.

[paulsby]

148. not if you understand 1st amendment law

the standard was LONG AGO established under brandenburg.

do i really have to repeat the standard to you?

it (used to ) astound me how few people (on this website and elsewhere) understand the BASIC concepts of free speech.

and there were grounds for assault charges to be pressed in regards to the spitting, but the congressman victim declined to press charges

[era veteran]

150. The spitting is something I could not walk away from

The least I would have done is press charges. I would have asked him to name his seconds. Pigs

[No Elephants]

186. Spitting is at least attempted battery, not only assault. And you do not need a victim's

consent to press charges.

Knowing how to repeat a legal standard, like that articulated in the Brandenburg case, and knowing how to apply it to a given set of facts are two very different things. So is inciting violence, period, very different from advocating that a sitting POTUS should be shot.

[RyanClark]

137. Cleaver has some class not to press charges

Pisses me off though, I'd put the punk who did that in his place if I could, as a fellow Missourian.

[Drunken Irishman]

139. They all have class because if I were there, I would've decked a few people.

[CLANG]

185. He didn't press charges out of fear of reprisals, I'd bet.

[chill_wind]

194. I'm very sorry that he didn't. It's 2010. I'm for zero tolerance

on this.

[Hekate]

141. Can they possibly get more despicable? This is sickening. nt

[Enthusiast]

143. The Tea Party is defending

"your freedoms".

[PinkFloyd]

149. Something really bad will come from this.

It won't surprise me one bit if some wacko involved in the teabag movement ends up killing a bunch of people at a protest someday. Every time you see them on TV they look like their out of their damn minds.

[Hubert Flottz]

151. Round up the tea braggers and send their asses to Afghanistan

where they can tote their guns 24/7...and bring the soldiers home.

These neanderfu?ks are up to no good. Put Dick Armey's Army in the Army if they really have the guts and nuts to fight.

[Hubert Flottz]

152. Don't look back...

What those Tea Braggers did yesterday is in the past. I'm sure that left alone, they will do better tomorrow.

[NuttyFluffers]

170. i sense purposeful agitation to make a tragedy unsurprising/"excusable"

shaking the hornet's nest of psychos to see if that can change the political landscape. it's like the prelude to a... tragedy. i hope secret service is extra vigilant of late.

[No Elephants]

189. Yes, let's really hope they're better than they were in the 1960's.

[grahamhgreen]

196. Wow - they really are idiots - he might be voting AGAINST the mandatory crapsurance bill!