FOX Uh huh: "What do they think 1776 was all about and wasn’t there some violence back then?”

[kpete]

KILMEADE: Over in Kentucky, J says, “while I don’t condone the threats in any way, what do they expect when they basically stole from the American people? What do they think 1776 was all about and wasn’t there some violence back then?” But true, but that was a revolution against an occupier.

CARLSON: Uh huh.

KILMEADE: This is a policy.

DOOCY: Meanwhile, in New Jersey, one of the original 13 colonies, Koz writes, “I don’t like violence and it is wrong. Having said that, why should Democrats be surprised? Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground bombed the Pentagon and now he is a respected speaker of the left. Why should Democrats expect anything differently?“

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/25/fox-threat-emails/

[Joanne98]

1. Bastards!

[riderinthestorm]

2. My head hurts just trying to wrap my brain around the stupid! This is getting ridiculous! nt

[Laf.La.Dem.]

3. "while I don’t condone the threats in any way"

"don’t like violence and it is wrong"

I love the way they always say this crap! The next word is always BUT :mad:

[OHdem10]

4. They have to go back 30 years to find violence on the Left.

Their morality floors me.

Every time a GOP even Congressmen open their mouth they show
they live by faulty logic and screwed up morality.

Since the Weather Underground did things 30 years ago,
this makes it right for Teabaggers to do bad things now.

My Catholic upbringing taught me--Two wrongs do not make a right.

And they consider themselves the great moral force for the nation.


My Lefty friends, please do not take this wrong.

Today' s Left are not WeatherUnderground. They are more
Pacifist than Confrontational.

If Fox wants to continue to encourage and defend the types
who do these things, it says more about Fox and the people
who work there than anything.

[Liberal In Texas]

5. Is that all that douche Doocy's got? One radical from the '60s?

Pathetic.

[fascisthunter]

6. The Tea Party was a Protest against Corporation Shoving Products(tea) down our throat

with the Monarchy's force. Since when have right wingers been against corporate dominance????

[Dappleganger]

7. I have little patience for fools. nt

[kestrel91316]

8. Have they somehow forgotten that Obama and the Congress were JUST ELECTED 18 months ago?

That they are doing the will of THE PEOPLE who elected them????

They have no obligation to do the will of the people who voted for the other guy.

[gratuitous]

9. I remember learning about 1776

And yes, lately things are looking a lot like that. But instead of taking up arms to overthrow an oppressive robber baron regime as in 1776, the American people peacefully, non-violently, methodically and totally threw their oppressors out of office in 2008. And now the hard work of undoing so much of the damage that's been done in the last 30 years has those oppressors squealing like stuck pigs. Easy way to tell which side someone's on: If they're complaining about the robber barons and what they've stolen from us, they're probably on our side; if they're complaining about a more equitable distribution of the enormous wealth of our country that's generated by all of us, they're probably on the other side.

[sufrommich]

10. I'm pretty sure our founding fathers weren't revolutionaries

in order for future violent mobs to justify violence because their side lost the election.

[Oregone]

11. The Revolutionary War was about paying taxes to different people

Big deal. In the end some other well to do pricks got the goods and called the shots? Whats the point?

[MiniMe]

12. 1776 was about disagreeing with another country, not our own

It was the civil war when the country fought itself. Perhaps Kilmeade means that the teabaggers were like the South, they do want to secede after all.

[JHB]

13. They certainly share the Confederate's propensity for listening to their own hot air...

...and mistaking it for reality.

[maxsolomon]

14. a "revolution against an occupier"?

no, Amurka was a COLONY of an EMPIRE that fought for it's independence. 1812 was a war against an INVADER who never fully OCCUPIED the country.

OCCUPATION is different. the native Amurkins fought against an OCCUPIER. we OCCUPY iraq.

the overheated rhetoric has boiled their brains.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. More like 1861...

[struggle4progress]

16. Oh, what a good analogy! Remember, back in 1776, King George and Fidel Castro were conspiring

to make healthy care available to everybody!