Tea Partier : "Founding Fathers were anti-gay, and anti abortion!!1!"

[bullwinkle428]

That's right, everybody! As heard on NPR this morning, a pair of "dueling Tea Partiers" were interviewed (cue the banjos).

One woman was insistent that social issues should be kept of out of the movement, in keeping with the whole "big tent" principle. The other interview, a guy from the American Family Association, went "full-metal assclown" and claimed that all of his anti-gay and anti-abortion rhetoric was divinely inspired by the Founding Fathers themselves!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129901232

[BeFree]

1. Heh

What he really means is that the FF's were all whites, and almost all were slave owners.

[Raschel]

24. Yes, and they were pro-torture, pro-rape and pro unwed mothers.

What a lovely bunch. Just like the hypocritical family values pukes of today.

Called the Black man an animal but tortured the Black man and raped their women.

Called themselves Christians while producing out of wedlock children and abandoning them.

Can only deduce there were those in the closet who condemned homosexuality, just like the republicans of today.

[pinboy3niner]

2. Damn--the Founding Fathers were not only GOOD, they were DIVINE!

No wonder the teabaggers want to repeal all those heretical constitutional amendments. I think I'm starting to get it now... :eyes:

:rofl:

[LibertyLover]

22. Nah, according to Franklin posterity would think they

were only demigods :evilgrin: Taken from the movie "1776".

[pinboy3niner]

23. I can think of someone who would refudiate that demotion. :)

[bushisanidiot]

3. The tea baggers are the fringe of the right wing and they need to be exposed.

Too bad there aren't more liberals in the media to stick cameras and microphones in these idiots' faces and get them to tell the american people EXACTLY how they feel.

Instead, the MSM covers up for them, keeping tea baggers in the distance while calling them patriots and giving them kudos for being so "passionate".

[End Of The Road]

4. NPR gets more like FOX every day... nt

[uncommon]

21. It was a guest debate - the host was not involved in the discussion other than asking a

couple of very basic questions. It played out more like NPR was trying to show people what the TP is really all about - they certainly were not supporting it.

[LeftinOH]

5. We should be thankful for the most extreme tea partiers (well, all of them really);

they're making it easier for us.

[spanone]

6. the media should be laughing at these fools, instead they are propping them up

[athenasatanjesus]

7. Funny how every good historical figures agrees with conservatives.

It's also funny how these historical figures opinions are supposed to trump out the political opinions of people living today.

[pkz]

8. I laugh w/ they invoke the "founding fathers"

Fools, they do not know their history very well.

The founding fathers were not even Christians, let alone, all the rights the teabaggers banty about were ammendments, added later

[marew]

13. They don't know and don't want to know.

Their half-baked opinions are based on nothing but their own self-imposed mental myopia.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Wow. Wonder why abortion wasn't illegal in colonial America or until around 1900?

[marew]

10. Nut cases!

How do these people get a platform? Divinely inspired? Yeah, right. Just like when W said God told him to go to war. I am older and I have never in my life seen anything like these crazies spouting meaningless BS like we hear now. The Rethugs courted the bizarre tea party and now they've come home to roost. Downright scary!

[LostinVA]

11. Abortion was actually a part of society back then

As well as a higher number of natural abortions, ie miscarriages.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. Fix the title. It's "Teabagger".

[snooper2]

14. unrec- for not using the correct teabagger term

nt

[pipi_k]

15. Wow, the Founding Fathers must have been pretty busy

back then protesting in front of abortion clinics and Gay Pride parades...



morans
:dunce:

[TalkingDog]

16. De Tocqueville? Wrote about early America....abortion was legal.... Bueller?

Ferris Beuller?

Anybody?

[mmonk]

17. Abortion wasn't illegal until later in some states.

Like always, they are historically inaccurate.

[Evasporque]

18. They were mega-rich dudes who didn't want to pay taxes...

To the BRITISH KING....you stupid fucking morons. (tea baggers)

[Fire1]

19. WoW~ What is HE smokin?!! Probably from his back yard! n/t

[uncommon]

20. I was listening to that on my way to work - what a whack-job --

And I actually felt bad for the Waco Tea Party founder - she was trying so hard to make the Tea Party platform sound more palatable and that guy was just vehement about social issues. And he proved the point - in his own words, 80-90% of Tea Party supporters ARE "social conservatives."

He actually said that the "right to life" in the Constitution was as good as George Washington saying abortion is evil - and also that it would be at all reasonable for modern Americans to live by the moral standards of the founders - people who believed in the legality and often sanctity of slavery and the ownership of women.

Barf.