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samplegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:36 AM
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Teabagger Rallies Still A Cauldron For Conspiracy Theories, Mistruths, and Exaggerations
Edited on Mon Apr-12-10 08:36 AM by samplegirl
Cristina Corbin of FOX News has spent a few weeks embedded with the Tea Party Express, and writes about how tea party leaders are cringing at what the movement is attracting.

But while organizers have held the tour as a way to stay front-and-center as a political force, the rallies have also attracted the kinds of mistruths, exaggerations and conspiracy theories that make Tea Party leaders cringe. Though the movement is still trying to shore up its credentials as a grassroots power that’s here to stay, the so-called “fringe” and its accompanying antics continue to give critics fodder.

A number of tea party revelers believe Obama is a socialist, a secret Muslim, and someone hell-bend on destroying America.

Some suggest Obama wants to keep Americans unemployed so that they become dependent on government-run programs. Lenin and Stalin have become catchwords to describe Obama in the speeches denouncing his policies.

Going further, swastikas, as well as pictures of Obama’s face next to Adolf Hitler’s, have appeared on signs at dozens of rallies blasting the president and the Democrat-controlled Congress.

Other Tea Party members continue to question the president’s citizenship

– a sign reading “Show Us Your Birth Certificate” popped up at a recent rally in Traverse City, Mich.

The tea party leaders disavow some of the more radical points of view, but the fringe is not isolated.

Ron Moore of Petoskey, Mich., said he stood firm in his belief that the Democrats’ goal was to implement “death panels” to decide who receives medical care and who does not.

“They’ve already started,” he said.

Of course, the leaders of the movement try to draw equivalency with what was going on when Bush was president.

Mark Williams, chairman of the Tea Party Express, said the imagery and rhetoric seen at the Tea Party rallies “pales in comparison” to the protests during the Bush presidency.

Oh? There was no concomitant movement to the tea partiers when Bush was president. There wasn’t a Cappuccino Party Express. There was no attempt to repeal everything Bush did. But America did speak out and elected Democrats to every branch of government as a response to the Bush presidency. That’s known as taxation with representation.

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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:39 AM
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1. We didn't wish bush dead
Edited on Mon Apr-12-10 08:41 AM by Bluzmann57
We wanted him out of office. They don't seem to mind if Obama drops dead.
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samplegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:43 AM
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2. I'm tired of all there nonsense
my local paper is full of these nuts.
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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:45 AM
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3. There was that movie in 2006.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/

I don't remember there being a big uproar when it came out.
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samplegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:46 AM
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4. Nothing that could even compare
to these wackjobs.
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daggahead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:18 AM
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5. Where the HELL were these people when Bush was ...
... busily reducing our freedoms and assuring the largest national debt in US history?

Oh, sorry, I forgot. Bush was white.

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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:49 AM
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6. "the rallies have also attracted the kinds of mistruths, exaggerations and conspiracy theories that
make Tea Party leaders cringe".

They are just only cringing now?

bullshit and feathers.

these ball licking morons have always been about conspiracy theories. This is nothing new.

Hell, the fucking moron tea baggers where born whole cloth out of the "birther" movement. (you may run with that double ententre)

So for them to say it's only now making them cringe, is nothing more then a section of these morons are trying to cobble together a "party" that gives the appearance of being respectable.

too late for that you dumb bastards, you made your shit pie and now you have to keep eating it, even though you are sick of it.

what a colossal bunch of half wits.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:58 AM
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7. I've been doing battle on the Glenn Beck FB page.
I've noticed that almost all of them now hide behind "God". I thought most tea partiers were libertarians, but these people are nut bags.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 11:03 AM
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9. Have any of them friended you on Facebook?
I've met some major crazies there.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 11:39 AM
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10. Yup, so have I.
It seems that a large majority of the people I went to Elem./Junior High/High School are complete teabagger/Obama is a socialist nut jobs. Oh and they all "believe in hard work to achieve wealth" even though most of them are from rich families living off hand outs from mommy and daddy.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 04:59 PM
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11. Just had a conversation with a friend today who had hooked up with high school friends
At a recent reunion they all became facebook friends. He said he is blown away by the racist crap they send out about Obama in addition to lots of other offensive crap.

I have deliberately avoided my high school friends on FB. Actually I pretty much avoid them in RL also. The majority were wealthy Repukes. I don't care to return to any of the high school political discussions we had. Yuck.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 11:02 AM
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8. Until the tea party purges the racists and the birthers from their events
they deserve the labels of crazies and bigots they are complaining about.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 06:00 PM
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12. ...and absolutely nothing else. n/t
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