Stephen Glass, Redux? ThinkProgress.org Publishes Completely Fraudulent Video Labeling Tea Partiers Racists
We tell lies when we are afraid … afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. – Tad Williams
Oh, my dear progressive friends … will you ever learn?
Think Progress is an unofficial auxiliary of the Democratic Party, apparently run with the singular purpose of generating reams of dubious (and sometimes shockingly bad) propaganda. One of their more recent abortive efforts was to fabricate a video that they they would like to use as evidence supporting the popular left-wing meme that the growing tea party movement is chock-full of racists. Here it is.
How bad is it?
Put it this way: Think Progress made the following statement yesterday afternoon in their original article:
Think Progress has produced a short video demonstrating the vile racism that has been exhibited at some Tea Party events:
DENNIS: The Tea Party does not focus on the pigment of people’s skin.
[...]
TEA PARTY ACTIVIST 1: He’s too black to be President.
TEA PARTY ACTIVIST 2: I’m a proud racist, I’m white.
TEA PARTY ACTIVIST 3: Afro-Leninism! Coming to you on a silver platter, Barack Hussein Obama!
TEA PARTY ACTIVIST 4: Go home wetbacks!
There are four men quoted in the original 53-second video.
Activist 1 is being smeared as a racist by Think Progress, even though he was attending a tea party event with his black wife and bi-racial son. It takes a lot of nerve to edit a video so dishonestly that what remains is the opposite of what the speaker intended. Here is what Activist 1 actually said in the full video recording:
Barack Obama’s just a bad guy. That’s all I can say. He’s … he’s too black to be president. And you look at the color of my wife, it’s not the color of his skin that troubles me, it’s not the blackness of his skin that troubles me.
It’s the blackness inside … his heart. He’s a bad guy.
Think Progress takes an obviously not racist man and edits him into a villain.
Reprehensible.
Activist 2 is a favorite of Think Progress, and no wonder: he says exactly what they hoped to hear a tea partier say, exclaiming: “I’m a proud racist, I’m white.” Think Progress liked this clip so much they played it not once, but twice.
The problem is, Activist 2 isn’t a tea party protester. He is a tea party crasher.
Think Progress is well aware of this, as they pulled the few seconds of video from a nearly six-minute video of actual tea party protesters singling him out for scorn and chasing him away!
Nice outfit, don’t you think? The man is in fact likely a progressive plant, possibly from that day’s failed “Crash the Tea Party” movement. Note that his Nazi shirt is just out of the package, wrinkled and heavily creased across the fold from shipping. This man was isolated by real tea party protesters, holding signs like the one above, from the moment he showed up.
Think Progress pulled the video of him claiming “I’m racist, I’m white” from the 53-second mark of a nearly six-minute video from conservative blog SharpElbows.Net. The video is entitled: “Proof that the Tea Party is not racist.” It consists of real tea party protesters chasing the man away, and provides a link to where the man bought some of his Nazi gear online.
There is literally no way that Think Progress staffers, using a nearly six-minute video of tea party protesters berating a mail order Nazi and likely progressive plant, could watch this video and come to any conclusion other than that tea party protesters revile racism.
Activist 3 is a little more perplexing. I’m not sure what he means by “Afro-Leninism.” Possibly, it is a reference to the 20 years Barack Obama spent as an eager congregant at Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church, which preaches a racist Marxist liberation theology. But I don’t know, and objectively, neither does Think Progress. No intellectually honest person could make the claim that Activist 3 is a racist from his video.
Activist 4?
He is the reason the original 53-second Think Progress video has shrunk down to an even more anemic 50 seconds.
His brief — inarguably racist — shout of “Go home wetbacks!” is provably a video from 2006.
Years before the tea party existed.
To their credit, Think Progress eventually took down Activist 4’s information.
The remainder of the Think Progress video included several still photos that are intended to provide weak evidence of racism. But once again, the pictures include progressives captured (poorly) masquerading as tea party protesters. These pictures are undeniably of participants of the farcical “Crash the Tea Party” attempt on Boston Common.
Think Progress has committed blatant — and easily falsifiable — fraud. They’ve misrepresented the views of good and decent people.
Painting the father of a multi-racial family as a bigot by twisting his words? Despicable.
Presenting liberal agent provocateurs as real and reprehensible members of a group they intend to undermine by any means necessary? Using video they undoubtedly know proves their contentions false when viewed in its entirety?
Revolting.
Reality would not provide them with the propaganda they sought to exploit for their own political gain. So they invented it.
Real journalists would be fired on the spot for this behavior. The willful perversion of the SharpElbows.net video should end careers.
According to Think Progress’ “About Us” page, Faiz Shakir is vice president at the Center for American Progress and serves as editor-in-chief of ThinkProgress.org. He sets the standards for this group.
Lee Fang, the Think Progress “researcher” that bylines this video, has interned with a similar propaganda site named Media Matters.
In just 53 seconds, they’ve created propaganda so blatantly dishonest as to make their termination mandatory. They’ve abused their readers, and their opponents.
But perhaps that is what they are paid to do.
This also shows that Think Progress was unable to find actual evidence of their thesis.
If they had real footage (footage that did not require time travel, massive editing, or agent provocatours) they would have used it.
It’s like Brietbart’s 100k bounty.
But facts don’t matter, the narrative demands the Big Lie.
ThinkProgress.org’s supporters are postmodernists. They don’t believe in objective truth. Adhering to the narrative is all that matters. Their supporters are only irritated that they got caught! We are dealing with liars—and they are proud of their deceitful shenanigans. Saul Alinsky literally taught his adherent to play games with the truth. He bragged about it. These people consider their opponents as scum of the Earth. They have to right to lie and slime. It doesn’t bother their consciences even slightly.
What Dave really wants to say is that the ivy league was much better when there were no minorities. It’s been a great disservice to water down standards to allow them to attend our country’s most cherished and revered institutions without really having the credentials to do so. The result has been an utter collapse in academia that has escalated to the current Constitutional crisis.
“What Dave really wants to say is that the ivy league was much better when there were no minorities.”
No minorities? Never said that. Minorities should have never been awarded phony degrees. Thomas Sowell graduated from Harvard University and nobody apparently cut him any slack. It was the dropping of standards to accommodate ill prepared minorities, which accelerated the decline. The white students jumped on the gravy train soon thereafter—and then the proverbial crap really hit the fan.
Exactly as you said, minorities were given watered down requirements for the phony degrees they received. It’s like having a country club with high golfing standards. If you start admitting people who are ill prepared to play, soon you’ll have a bunch of mediocre duffers. That just spoils it for the people who play at a higher level.
Lefty, While you’re telling people what they mean, a habit of the left & it does make life a little more bearable for them, do a little exegesis on what Think Progress means. After all, that’s what the thread is about.
Your next assignment is telling us what Obama means about deficit reduction and the Debt Commission come January.
After that, what he means by what appears to be an incoherent policy towards a soon to be nuclear armed Iran, it of “no preconditions” fame, even as they kill Americans. No big deal there,eh Lefty.
When you’re done with that and have posted with a small resemblance of lucidity I’ll get back to you with more assignments, a talent such as you have ought not to be wasted.
Oh, and Lefty, no sneaky “what about you” weaseling. Once a day is enough.
Like every other leftist in history, you twist David Thomsons words and misrepresent them. You just give us more and more evidence that honesty is anathema to the left. It’s amazing how you can sit here and so obviously lie.
No- That is really what Left means to say.
No, I really think I’ve seen enough of David to judge him. He’s that kid who flirts with controversy by using the word “niggardly” who then backs off and accuses you of being uneducated because it’s a perfectly good word. He never actually says that minorities ruined the ivy league. No. David wouldn’t say that, far too smart to say something overtly racist.
Why do that when you can simply imply that anyone who got into the ivy league who was a minority didn’t “really” deserve it. Just like how minorities who are poor “really” didn’t deserve those loans for houses. Sure there outliers, like Thomas Sowell, but on the whole minorities are ill equipped educationally and financially they’re just not as good as the rest of us Americans.
You ever here David complain about GI’s watering down the ivy league? All those vets who entered these schools because our people wanted to do something nice for them. Like the School for General studies at Columbia that churns out phony degrees for veterans.
But David doesn’t rail against GI’s does he. Or maybe he does, all I ever hear is about minorities and that tells me something.
It’s amusing to see a race-obsessed Lefty put words in somebody else’s mouth and then quibble about the false statement. And the race card? It’s not original and certainly not accurate in this case…but it is consistent with Leftist ideology.
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lefty,
When you fail to properly use the the word “they’re” versus their or there you loose all credibility. You are not so bright, are you? Lying and stupidity are your strong suits, aren’t they?
Grow up and learn to write. Fool.
T
Strike that I meant David is the type of guy who feels that the term “wetback” has gotten a bad rap.
Tim – Erm, “loose” my credibility? I didn’t see anything wrong, but then again I’ve got pimples and boils and cankors to squeeze out. I don’t have time to proofread everything like uh, well not you thats for sure.
Niggardly is a perfectly good word. Only a complete moron would think otherwise. Then again, you are a liberal, so that goes without saying.
Dave never said that minorities ruined the Ivy Leagues. He said that those who decided to give out degrees to individuals who hadn’t earned them, did so.
Like all liberals, you have to believe that everyone else is a racist, otherwise you would be forced to recognize that it is you who is the racist.
I love the way liberals actually believe that they know what everyone else is thinking.
When anyone else hears voices in their heads, we get them psychiatric help.
It’s almost to be expected that creative editing will be used in the digital age. It happens all the time, on both sides, its just a matter of degree. Harmless editing to produce the accurate soundbite, to shameless editing to create the damning soundbite.
I’ve lately been watching Keith Olberman, to see how he does it. I think the man is more narcisstic than big O.
Olbermann…his face has more plastic than your car’s dashboard!
I think the man is more narcisstic than big O.
You’re setting a pretty high bar there,
“Painting the father of a multi-racial family as a bigot by twisting his words? Despicable.”
Wouldn’t such deliberate distortion of the man’s words and openly proclaiming him to be a racist qualify as libel? If so, I’d contribute to a legal fund to sue ThinkProgress.
There might be cause for a lawsuit here. This man’s not a “public figure” so the defense the left uses so often to get away with smearing well-known conservatives won’t fly in this case.
I believe they are trying to redefine “public figure” as being anyone who is seen in public.
I’m not really seeing the problem here.
OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012′
(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-media choice)
-It’s never too early to campaign-
I’ve been to a couple of Tea Party events and racism was not evident. However, the Democrats ARE going to use this as a way of discrediting conservative candidates in the upcoming election. Many people who have not been politically involved will start to pay attention, read articles posted on the web and read the comments. My son has pointed out to me that young people may be quickly turned away from conservatism by careless comments, and I think he’s right.
One of the reasons the Civil Rights movement was successful is that the leaders and majority of participants remained civil, even when their opponents were not. The militancy of groups like the Black Panthers did more harm than good. It is imperative that Tea Party supporters stay focused on the issues and the facts, and not resort to name calling even when provoked. While your comment may be intended as a joke or a snarky observation, it might well be seen as evidence of unhinged hatefulness on the part of tea party/ conservatives by a newcomer interested in learning more about the tea party.
This election cycle will involve many voters looking for an alternative and every remark matters. Don’t post comments online that you don’t want to see on the front page of every newspaper in the country as representative of the conservative position on this administration and it’s policies.
I agree completely with everything you said. However, your remarks would probably have more impact had you not chosen to remain anonymous. We have to step into the light and stand up for our country.
I agree…sorta like,…theBUckwheat, Mark the Great,wwb, banned by huffpo etc.
Just say “hey!!..I agree with that”, and be happy we still have a place to post and great opinions.
Very passive aggressive.
Nope. I’m just aggressive.
“The militancy of groups like the Black Panthers did more harm than good.”
I wish I could agree. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. Black radicals played the part of the bad cop—while non-violent leftists plays the good cop role. This helped the latter to extort a lot of goodies from the Johnson and Nixon administrations. The Piven and Cloward types never punched anyone—but still did enormous damage.
I have been to several TP events and I took over three hundred pictures for Pajamas TV web site and not one was racist. Sure there were some that made fun of Obama but there were many that pilloried Pelosi and Reid as well. I have never been to an event that the people in attendance were so in tune with each other over their common anger at the deaf members of Congress. There were no signs or handouts about abortion or gay rights. There were no politicians trying to take over the meeting. But when ANY speaker mentined the run away spending in DC the crowd went wild.There were yong and old, black and white, Asian and arabian. We all had ONE common goal and that was to throw the bums out in November be they D or R!
They’ll fire someone right after they get on disowning Michael Moore for pulling the same kinds of editing tricks.
I don’t think “wetback” refers to any race, but rather to people whose backs are still wet from crossing the Rio Grande illegally. The term is undoubtedly meant as derogatory and an insult, but it is aimed at illegals, not at any particular race of human beings. So, however offensive it may be (and it is intended to be offensive), it seems inaccurate to label it racist.
Um, if we are willing to quibble about Mexicans being a “race”, perhaps. But out here in the Southwest, it’s certainly understood to be a derogatory reference to an entire group of like ethnicity.
I’m sorry but you can put your own racist views however you wish however 1. Wetback is not racist. 2. Mexicans are not a race. 3. Hispanics are not a race.
No matter how you cut it wetback is only racist if you are a race supremacist like hitler, etc.
Similar derogatory terms are also used regarding Germans, Italians, Poles, or any other ethnic group. It may not be nice—but they are not necessarily racist. Sometimes they even serve as abbreviations. During both world wars American soldiers of German descent commonly described their foes as Huns. Were they engaging in self hatred? I don’t think so. The term wetback was not initially a slur directed at Mexicans per se. It was a way to more accurately label only those who entered the United States illegally.
How about the Chinese well built weight lifter they called a “Chunk”?
How about Jeresy Shore chicks calling each other “guidettes”?
How about calling a woman…a “cougar”…or…a chick?
Or a guy a…dude? That too?
Mocking…is just that. Not racism. What’s even less humorous…..is the death of humor in this country. “Somebody” might be offended or have their self respect “diminished”.
Oi vey.
Dogs bark.
Birds sing.
Democrats lie.
Genetics.
A marxist and subversive administration is getting its KGB-style “smear-and-destroy” department at work.
No surprise there.
Expect more lies and more lies and more lies.
Joseph Goebbels would be proud of this effort!
i doubt it man. he’s probably rolling in his grave. if these 2-bit amateurs worked for him they would be, well, fired. probably worse. ah, the benefits of being a BAD propogandist in an open and fair democratic (republic) society, as opposed to a fascist regime! when you do such a poor job, you just get props from MSNBC. and the derision of sane folk. i am to the point where these poor dopes are just laughable. they are a joke. but deep down they really have to be sad dark small people dude. try if you can to pity them ya know? thats what they deserve.
Actually is was not Goebbles who perfected the art of propaganda, it was a white man under the Wilson Admin. who Goebbles took the concept and ran with it.
Indeed Goebbels admired Wilson’s propaganda. “Propaganda techniques were first codified and applied in a scientific manner by journalist Walter Lippman and psychologist Edward Bernays (nephew of Sigmund Freud) early in the 20th century. During World War I, Lippman and Bernays were hired by then United States President, Woodrow Wilson, to participate in the Creel Commission, the mission of which was to sway popular opinion in favor of entering the war, on the side of Britain. . Bernays coined the terms ‘group mind’ and ‘engineering consent’.” Something we see openly in politics today, creating consensus via push poling and shaping the message to attract voters, even when or esp when said politicians have no intention of doing what the propagandist says he will.
Every protest usually has a handful of nefarious individuals. So it is to be somewhat expected. But I have been to 4 Tea Parties. And I agree with Bob Owens here. When I saw individuals holding racist signs or wearing offensive clothing, I knew right away that they were plants. And nearly every single one of them were driven away by fellow Tea Partiers. I actually talked to one of these goons, and they no clue what the acronym T.E.A. stood for. That right there made me suspicious. All this nonsense comes down to is the Left is desperate. They know that the Democrats are likely to get massacred in November. So they have pull old reliable, The Race Card, in order to try to win voters. It’s extremely childish.
But the irony in all this behavior, is the Left acts like their side would never put up with extreme individuals at their protests. And I remember seeing the protests during the Bush Administration years. They were a whole lot worse. Just look at the WTO and anti-war protesters. Almost every single time they got together, violence would break out. This hasn’t happened ONCE at a Tea Party protest. So that just goes to show you that the Left’s behavior is a large example of psychological projection.
The biggest lie here is yours, Mr. Owens! PERHAPS this it what they were paid to do? Of course they were paid to do it. Sorry I put a scare into you. Excellent digging and please keep it up. This story needs to be on the national stage but, perhaps only Fox will have the balls to do it. Progressives are liars and this is but more proof. Can’t find a racist? Make one up. Just like the Capitol steps. By the way, this is from a white man with a gorgeous black wife and a great bi-racial son.
Activist 1 should sue TP’s asses off for defamation. A slam-dunk, open-and-shut case.
If anyone can identify him, please suggest he do so.
I’d have to agree- I’m not sure what the actual legal case would be (libel? defamation of character? something else), but hopefully he see’s what’s out there about himself and sues the bejeebus out of them. About the only way they could get out of it would be to fire the lead editor on the project and post a very public apology for the shoddieness of the “journalism” on that piece.
I’m all for open debate, even heated debate, since it makes people (who care, anyway) inform themselves and clarify their own positions- but outright fraud should be nailed. Is there a way someone other than the individuals could sue? Fraud? Conspiracy charges of some kind. I’m thinking federal charges at that level, since to me, this kind of fraud is a crime, and very well organized (ahem), and since it uses the internet, crosses across all state boundries at once- but I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, so I’m guessing it’s just up to person #1.
What angers me about this is that I am actually for open debate. I want the people at think progress to argue with facts, even with their bias, since libertarians and conservatives have their own bises as well. I’m angry because this is so juvenile, and yet they are claiming to want to help lead the country in a better direction- to what? If you can’t argue honestly, why even bother. (I’m being rhetorical here, I know why they bother)
Dear Bob Ownes…
Did you goto high school?
“Activist 4?
He is the reason the original 53-second Think Progress video has shrunk down to an even more anemic 50 seconds.
His brief — inarguably racist — shout of “Go home wetbacks!” is provably a video from 2006.”
Wetback is not a racist slur… anyone with a high school education should know this. If wetback is a racist slur then calling hitler a NAZI is a racist slur as well please fix this middle school mistake.
I don’t take a back seat to anyone with respect to racism. One of my progenitors was the subject of a major movie on heroism in the Civil War. I grew up in a mixed-race neighborhood and had plenty of non-Caucasian friends. Before it was fashionable, my parents taught me to live by the very same standard as preached by Martin Luther King: to focus on the content of a person’s character.
What concerns me about Barack Obama is that the only character that I see expressed is one of a socialist, a person who sees their mission in life is to “spread the wealth around”, like he told Joe the Plumber.
A person is known by the friends he chooses, especially the friends he asks to move across the country and to work under him in a common cause. Who do his friends revere and speak highly of, and whose pictures do you find illuminating their private spaces? Che, a man who murdered thousands, and Mao a man who caused the deaths of around 100 million people.
But, to be very truthful, as part of his character, I see very few things that are truly true. Most things are half true at best. Even the claim that Obama is black is a half truth. According to the dictionary, because his mother was Caucasian, Barack is mulatto, a word that we are forbidden to utter. It is only relevant to me because of the fact it is a forbidden truth. I don’t say this to hurt him. But I do recall that in his first autobiography, he told us that his mixed race status caused identity issues. So he finally decided he was ‘black’. What is ‘black’ if you can select it? I guess it is the same ‘black’ as our first black president, Bill Clinton. When a man who is clearly Caucasian can be called black, and a person can decide to be black, it cannot be an attribute of racial heritage. In other words, ‘black’ is not a race but an ideology.
I don’t care about the color of the skin anyone in the current administration. I am very worried about the color of their ideology. It is red and the sooner we can openly admit it and deal with it, the sooner we can throw the whole lot out of the sacred and special job of being the guardians of our precious liberties.
This is how Cultural Marxism works. Even those opposing it..
give power to it. The Left screams…you are a white supremacist..
you are a racist!! And the only acceptable response is to deny it.
The opponenst of this vicious game are draw into playing by its
rules and thereby legitimize the whole program. How about pulling
the plug? How about saying..
Why.,.yes! I am a racist! So what?
I believe in preserving my culture, and my values just as every other
group in the world does. Whats wrong with wanting to survive? After all
whites are only 7% of the world population. We are the minority. We
are the threatened ones. Why cant you leave us alone to be ourselves?”
Why not say that instead of playing this sickening game?
To take your line of rhetorical questioning one logical step further–
WHY CALL YOURSELF ANONYMOUS?
well?
The name I use on Pajamas Media is ehunter. I live in Maryland USA.
I will say what I said to you or anyone else in public.
I will say it on a public podium or on any TV program. I guarantee you
I will not be intellectually beaten by the clowns on the Left.
The Tea Party is already coming apart at the seams. Beyond waving
flags and being against “big government” there is no intellectual substance
to the Tea Party, no leadership, no coherence. Our enemies await..and they know this. The Tea Party movement will fade away as soon as Obama is
gone..and the Left will be manufacturing a new Obama. The left won
i 2008 because the inarticulation and dullness of Bush and McCain made it possible. We are making the same mistakes again. For example the Tea Party elected Rand Paul..as a fresh start, bold new beginning..and within 10 days of his election he was being humiliated on national TV by the likes of Rachel
Maddow.. a doctrinaire Jewish lesbian whose mind is a straitjacket of Leftist
cliches. And she won by forcing Rand Paul to play the game I described above.
What has her being born a Jew have to do with anything? It is obviously not important to her. Why is it important to you?
I’ve had an instance where someone who was upset with something I said online, actually tracked me down in the real world and harrassed my family. As a result, I try to give as little identifying information as I can, even on friendly forums, because you never know who is lurking.
Anonamous 14
You are the very type of person we have to make sure is NOT part of the Tea Party. Fortunately, the left is actually doing us a favor by planting phony bigots, because the process of finding them and driving them out, allows us to drive out the REAL bigots like you.
As a result of this, the TEA Party could end up with a much lower percentage of bigots than other organizations. Then the left will be even more desperate in searching for non-existent ones.
The Tea Party should emulate the tactics of Martin Luther King. Make their criticism sharp and biting, but also completely civil and factual. Weigh people on their character, not their skin, being completely evenhanded regarding race, which the left definitely is NOT. Let the left be outrageous liars. The Tea Party should be the party of reason.
The Tea Party is DOOMED. It is intellectually VOID. You have already agreed
to play the game handed to you to by the left. And you will play it
exactly as they direct and you will lose. Tell me.. ONE THING..one
thing that distinquished you from the Left? You are playing a rigged
game with a set of worn greasy cards and the outcome is inevitable.
You say you are against discrimination and “racism” Really? How are
you going to stop terrorism? Wait till the bombs explode and then track
down which muslim did it? Spend the next 100 years watching muslim immigrants
continually 24/7 at the cost of billions of dollars and then shrug your shoulders when the car bombs go off? Will you get down on your hands and knees
and mop up the blood in Times Square and face up to what YOU did..or retreat into your vague abstract daydream and say “oh all muslims arent bad..blah blah” How SELFISH your noble ideals are..its much more important to you that
YOU feel good about YOURSELF than to actually face reality and do something. As for meI choose to be insensitive bigotted bastard and demand that Islam has no place in America and we should “discriminate” as fast as we can in order to save ourselves.
You just when full racist.
You can politely infer that forcing academic institutions to admit minorities has softened academia. You can blame the economic meltdown on *cough* subprime borrowers who defrauded banks held hostage by liberal do-gooder policies.
But everyone knows you don’t go full racist.
You do, and you’ll go home empty handed in November.
You keep trying to compromise..but there is nothing left to compromise with.
Which city do you want to give to illegals immigration next?
Which group of muslim graduate students do you want to allow
to enter MIT to learn missle ballistics and nuclear technology?
Which black nationalist group will you treat as equal?
And what will you give them next time to appease them?
And each year the numbers and the demographics put you closer to being
in a position where YOU will have no choice in the matter.
Listen to yourself..you are already running scared..you already
sense that the sum total of the non white racial interests already
outnumber you. You already sense that these groups havent given
up one iota of racial identity and plan to use it to the fullest
to turn history their way. I suggest you read up on the plight of whites in
Zimbabwe, or South Africa, or hell read about California. The Golden State.
Keep playing this “Im not racist” game…the Left is completely in control of it and they know what the outcome is.
It’s not the fact that minorities were let into academic institutions; it’s the fact that minorities were let in solely based on their skin colour and not on merit. So actually, it’s the people letting them in who are racist; they determined enrolledment based on skin colour rather than ability.
But you know, this lefty. You aren’t stupid. You’re just willfully dishonest.
I love the way the left builds strawmen, than call themselves noble.
Nobody ever said that admitting minorities weakened the schools. What they said was that forcing schools to admit students who weren’t prepared weakened the schools.
That is an accurate statement. The fact that many of those unprepared students were also minorities is completely irrelevant, accept to those who fixate on race. Liberals, for example.
“Activist 1″ should probably sue. They’ve made a libellous accusation tha he is racist when any reasonable man would know he is not.
I did some research on the other people in the video, and not sure any of them are tea partiers. Also, the signs are from infiltrators, and the I’m a racist t-shirt is quite interesting too.
http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/think-progress-race-lies-and-videotape.html
Think Progress are such liars!
So let me get this straight…the left claim the moral highground on virtually every issue under the sun and yet they regularly have to lie through their teeth to back up their claims. Very Strange. As they are effectively admitting to themselves that they are wrong if they have to fabricate “evidence” one wonders why they can’t they face up to the truth? Is there a mental deficiency here? Cowardice? Basic intellectual dishonesty?
Those bozos at “Think Progress” need to be brought to account for their toxic lies. This kind of BS affects too many lives to be ignored.
Thanks much for the link!
We need to start identifying these pretenders by name (someone on conservative sites must know who they are) finding out their affiliations should not be that hard. Then publish this information.
Hold-my guess is “think progress(gag) is likely one of the Orgs that fall under Media Matters and The pig Soros Open Society institute and possably Teresa Heinz Ugly Kerrys Tides foundation. It sees almost all these groups are funded by Sors the Pig , the late Peter Lewis of Progressive insurance and the Sandlers who screwed up wachovia Bank so badly. Go look and see whoBoth Berwyk and Ezekiel Emanuel “work” for. Both worked for Soros financed orgs.
unthinking “progress” doesnt need anything other than to face CRIMINAL charges. All too often these oukes are never held accountable, so they continue to perpetuate the same communist lies. Unthinking “progress needs (1) to be sued along with the pig Soros, whos really behind this.(2) be charged crimnally under RICO.
“Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We [African Americans] had a great gig. Three squares, room and board, all our decisions made by someone else. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we say that belong.”
- Outgoing Tea Party Express Chairman Mark Williams
Keep digging your graves.
Hi Puppet sleazits. How was the 5 on 2?
Bringing back Your Master?
It was satire genius. Ya know, sarcasm.
I am quite aware of sarcasm, you apparently aren’t.
I know that, and you know that. However, it was not a wise thing to do. The concept of irony is completely lost on these “progressives”. Best to expose their endless lies and leave it at that so you don’t give them any ammunition. Don’t expect them to be honest, because they won’t be.
Satire, from a pretend letter purportedly from the NAACP chair after they slurred Tea Party folks as racist. Linky: http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201007150012
Sure, it was a brainless screed. But so was “I ought to cut his nuts off.” Or “57 states.” Or talking about FDR’s televised fireside chats. Williams was stupid for posting it – but I honestly believe he just lost it at being condemned as racist by an organization that, today, arguably does more to harm blacks than help them.
With regard to fraud exposed in this article, there are two things I’d like to say:
1. Fraud as one of emanations of general dishonesty is a very endemic feature of all anti-Capitalist Liberasts simply because they managed to reject moral values native to Conservative people (it doesn’t mean there are no dishonest Conservatives, though).
I who lived 50 years in the USSR don’t remember a word uttered by Commies that I could trust.
2. Since most Americans didn’t live in a Commie state, like myself, normal common Americans are still not psychologically ready to realize that Liberasts always lie. It’s simply because normal honest people judge by themselves.
Thus, very often Liberasts’ lie and propaganda are being taken “at face value,” without checking their credibility.
I assume that todays’ only 48% of those who disapprove Obama (instead of 98%) is a result of such blind acceptance of Liberasts’ words (it’s clearly a coincidence that almost all Blacks voted for and still support Obama: can I accuse the Blacks of racism? Sure, not.)
Don’t judge Liberasts by words, judge by their deeds.
P.S. Me term “liberast” (from “liberty” + Greek “erastos”, “lover”) covers not only rabid Liberals like Soros, but NAACP, ACORN, and alike, too.
Activist 1 should sue!
“Pravda,” right here in the good ‘ol U.S. of A.
Well, what else do you expect from a group that will do anything to silence the opposition?
Liberals lie to others. They lie to themselves. In fact, their liberalism is a manifestation of the ‘plastic reality’ in which they nest their inner thoughts. They are angry because they cannot reconcile their good intentions with their continual failure to achieve those intentions. To have self esteem, they must continually give themselves a pass, or change the rules so the rule they broke last week no longer applies. What turmoil, what chaos.
When these people get into power, their use of power knows no limits, as you well know coming from the land of the gulag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote an article Live Not By Lies about life in the Soviet Union that was published in the Washington Post on February 18, 1974. The following is a key passage that pertains to the corrosive signals socialism sends that pervade society:
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Things have almost reached rock bottom. A universal spiritual death has already touched us all, and physical death will soon flare up and consume us both and our children–but as before we still smile in a cowardly way and mumble without tongues tied. But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength?
We have been so hopelessly dehumanized that for today’s modest ration of food we are willing to abandon all our principles, our souls, and all the efforts of our predecessors and all opportunities for our descendants–but just don’t disturb our fragile existence. We lack staunchness, pride and enthusiasm. We don’t even fear universal nuclear death, and we don’t fear a third world war. We have already taken refuge in the crevices. We just fear acts of civil courage.
We fear only to lag behind the herd and to take a step alone-and suddenly find ourselves without white bread, without heating gas and without a Moscow registration.
We have been indoctrinated in political courses, and in just the same way was fostered the idea to live comfortably, and all will be well for the rest of our lives. You can’t escape your environment and social conditions. Everyday life defines consciousness.
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Economist and professor Yuri N. Maltsev, who grew up in the Soviet Union, wrote, “Lenin's slogan, "Marxism is Almighty Because It Is True," was displayed practically everywhere in the former Soviet Union.” Yet socialism is the attempt to make lies work. When government adopts lies, lies become official policy. Telling the truth makes you an enemy of such a State. Socialist government lies to its citizens, factory workers lie to their bosses, their bosses lie to upper management, citizens lie to each other, parents lie to their children and finally reality itself becomes malleable plastic because people must lie to themselves.
You properly brought up excerpts from the life experience of those who lived in the USSR.
I think todays’ situation with the Socialist-in-Chief & Accomplices Co. could be a lot better understood if Americans had more contacts with former “Soviet citizens” who came here for political reasons: we smelled the formerly creeping but now rushing Socialism already in the first Americans’ “Fall” when American people allowed smearing Joe McCarthy, and then – in all those Beatnicks’ “Coffee Houses”, Hippies and punks, San Francisco Sex Revolution Summer 1967 – all those bastards were praised and lauded in the USSR.
The difference between ThinkProgress.org and most of the right wing liars… ThinkProgress.org has a note on their site already noting the erroneous clip. Hannity is still spewing BS about his never seeing a teabagger with a racist sign.
It was a reward of up to $10,000 announced to those who could produce any tangible evidence (like video) of racist signs amidst Tea Party (except for professional provocateurs who intentionally penetrated the Tea Party with such signs.)
No one won $10,000.
You just prove that Liberasts always lie.
I have never seen a racist sign at a tea party event. Why is this becoming a popular myth amongst people who haven’t been to one? I urge leftists to really play this myth to the hilt. The more shrill they get, the more quickly the great middle will conclude that racism has become a very cheap currency. It may be too late because at least around where I live, it doesn’t work anymore around here. Time to find a new drum to beat.
Show me one, just ONE, who was neither an infiltrator nor shown the door within minutes of unveiling the sign.
Oh, and I want to start a movement to call those who use the t******** word, c***s. I’m sure I can come up with an appropriate acronym. The whole idiot sophomoric “humor” of it is so yesterday.
Like most liberals, you don’t know the truth when you see it.
And left up the equally false remaining 50 second. Big deal.
I think we are starting to see an end-game strategy here, with some interesting twists. The ‘normal’ political animal, faced with defeat will retreat and strategize for the inevitable loss and counter-stroke. Top drawer politicians don’t walk down roads that can’t be walked out. Gibbs did this recently. On the other hand, if investigations would reveal criminal wrong doing, we see a much more desperate, rear guard, ‘doubling down’. Can you say, Cloward/Piven?
you can tell the racists are “progressive plants” how? by just looking at them? or maybe because what they’re saying is so racist that obviously, they’re not really teabaggers because teabaggers aren’t racist…
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They were generally spotted as plants because they knew nothing about what the Tea Party actually stood for, while the real tea partiers did. But in the end does it matter? What does matter is the tea parties quickly spotted any racists in their midst, and immediately criticised them and drove them away, putting the lie to the lefts racism charge.
In general, the right has always been much better at policing racists in their midst than the left has been, witness the vile racist comments from the black panthers, or the great clansman robert Byrd, lauded as the conscience of the senate.
But why isn’t this disgraceful story in the New York Times? Just imagine how some ambitious pup reporter would have played this up, aided and abetted by the editorial people, if the story had been about some adjunct of the GOP that that had been caught out fabricating calumnies about lefties? No, seriously – it would have run for months, a Pulitzer in the making.
The fact that if it gets to the MSM it will rate a few embarrassed column inches and be tidily forgotten in 24 hours, is beyond contemptible.
Fraud like this should result in firings.
No, fraud like this should be dismissed with contempt. This is why the Tea Parties are going nowhere. They waste their energy trying to prove they’re “not racist”. Haven’t they learned yet, there is no defence against that charge? Logic has nothing to do with it. Facts are irrelevant. It’s the unanswerable trump card in any argument. And it only works because they are so scared of it.
They should rather look around them, notice that the overwhelming majority of their members are White, and realise that nobody else is interested in their issues. Then face the fact that they are a de facto White movement, and stop apologizing for it. Trying to counter charges of racism is self-defeating, because, as James Edwards explains, “racist” simply means “White person”.
STFU. Demographic surveys of Tea Party rallies and groups have in fact been done. Those surveys show that on on average, the Tea Parties are about 80% white. However. The last census of the United States shows that of ADULTS in the USA, 79% were white. Therefore, the Tea Party movement is essentially identical in makeup to the statistical breakdown of “race” in the USA. Only a complete moron would therefore claim that the Tea Parties are white supremacists.
Such morons fall into 2 camps. (1) the Lefties who want to believe it and (2) the white racists who want to believe it.
I am ashamed and embarrassed by you fellow Americans. It doesn’t matter whether you are “republican” or “democrat”. Any tactic used to divide us is to the good of the true enemy. When social inequality is as high as the great depression? Wake up people….none of them are serving “we the people”. You all get your panties in a wad over race and you are racist, of course you are, we are forced to be by top policies,and a corporate media that plays it…. I see it every day “methinks you protest too much”. When statistics show the the top 1 percent own 43% of our wealth and the top ten own most of the rest, What kind of society can we have with 10% owning everything and the rest live on less than 1%?????? Race has nothing to do with it…class does, the rich versus the poor, which is most of us. Stupidity is the new american way and you epitomize it. I bet you all back the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy and the two stupid wars that cost a trillion a year. I bet you love the corporate state that enslaves us and ruins our world. I bet you love being worried about your health, and your 401k, and your job, and your kids education while the wealthy billion dollar corporations are bailed out and subsidized so they will bring the terrible low paying jobs to your district. WE subsidize the WEALTHY, not the poor or the colored, they don’t get sh****t. My name is DONNA….a poor white woman that has lost a third of her income the last year and am at wits end making ends meet. I have worked my whole life for something and now for nothing, and took a huge cut for the same company who hired me back at reduced wage, and no benefits after 6 FREAKING years. Free trade and NAFTA means get screwed. You fight your own interest, fools. I least I see the true enemy. Oh, by the way, this was posted on Reddit.
You forgot to mention the “wealthy” pay most of the taxes…the taxes that run this entire country. 47% pay NOTHING & depend on the other 53% to do it all. You’d better hope the Bush tax cuts continue…with all the govt mandates that’ll soon hit businesses, like healthcare, cap & tax & “new & improved” regulations, a new round of job cuts is sure to come.
I don’t even have a reply to someone as blind as you. Rich people, corporations? They have all the advantages, none of the dis? God help you, they won’t.
While I sympathize, Donna, I do have to point out one small fact.
I’ve never in my 40+ years been given a job by a poor person. However, several corporations run by rich people have employed me over the years.
Without wealth, there is no funding available to hire people.
Please give this due consideration before your next rant.
Actually, most corporations are owned by middle class people. Thanks to pension funds/401Ks/and such, being the biggest owners of stock in the country.
and wealth is funded by you and me.
Donna you need to emigrate from here to Cuba.
Donna,
How do you think wealth gets created? Is it by government? While you want to hate all of those greedy business people, corporations, and rich people do you once give a thought that these “greedy” folks provide you a job? If you don’t like them or the job you have the FREEDOM to go out and do what it is you want to do for yourself!
While I agree that individuals can be greedy, I also know that government doesn’t solve this problem – they make it WORSE. The government bureaucrats are greedier by far…. from the Heritage Foundation research: the federal gov’t provides total compensation on the order of 30 percent to 40 percent above similarly skilled private-sector workers. (http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/07/Inflated-Federal-Pay-How-Americans-Are-Overtaxed-to-Overpay-the-Civil-Service)
We all need to fight against the corrupt federal government and work hard to be the ethical people we desire to see in the private sector.
Donna, you mind if I talk to you a little? Your post impelled me to make a few notes…
1. You said: “It doesn’t matter whether you are “republican” or “democrat”.”
I doesn’t matter ONLY if Reps and Dems are the same [s*^#.]
But if their ideologies and actions are different, they CAN’T be NOT DIVIDED. Just like the North and the South Armies were divided during the Civil War; just like Soviets and USA were divided during the Cold War; just like Taliban and NATO are divided in Afghanistan.
The only case when the opposite sides were “united” is the WWII when Americans and Soviets were fighting together against Germany, but it was a temporary alliance the dubious reason of which is to be analyzed in a different place.
2. “When statistics show the the top 1 percent own 43% of our wealth and the top ten own most of the rest, What kind of society can we have with 10% owning everything and the rest live on less than 1%?????? Race has nothing to do with it…class does, the rich versus the poor, which is most of us.”
This your blistering tirade clearly reveals that by your class-consciousness (or ideology) you are a Commie.
I who lived 50 years in the Communist USSR, should tell you that there is NOTHING more dangerous for any society than this absolutely false, Marxism-based bloody ideology.
Unfortunately, fervent adherents of it are immune to any reasoning and… intellectual honesty.
Thus, whatever I say won’t convince you because you are deadly poisoned by Commie propaganda. It’s almost incurable…unless you are courageous and smart enough to start your ideologial life from the very outset.
By the way, with all those complaints that “most of us are poor”, America is the richest country in the world not only because of those notorious 10%, but also because the poorest people in America are still richer than the richest people in some countries (except, of course, for those who ruined their own lives by drugs, alcohol, sexually transmitted AIDS, and laziness.)
Just take off your blinders, exhale your hatred for the truth, and take a look in an HONEST (I mean, not faked by Libs) statistics.
3. “Stupidity is the new american way and you epitomize it.”
It’s a perfect Bill Maher’s mantra duplicate. A twin. Faugh!
4. “I bet you all back the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy and the two stupid wars that cost a trillion a year.”
While Bush has made many mistakes (and some of them were absolutely contradictory to the ideology he initially was representing,) I dare remind you that the “poor” DO NOT create jobs, the “wealthy” do. Thus, the more money the wealthy have, the more jobs are available.
If you don’t understand that, nothing can help you to treat the mental disorder.
But obviously, not all wealthy are creating jobs.
For instance, Hollywood rich jerks create nothing but anti-Capitalist propaganda movies and sex-, violence- and drugs-praising movies, which is not the production of jobs the American “poor” need.
I am talking about wealthy industrial giants that give you and every American jobs we need. The more tax-free money they have, the more jobs we have.
So, in the part where Bush tax-cuts went to those useful entities, tax-cuts had create jobs we need.
Comprendes? Capish? Ferstehst? Wakatta ka?
About “stupid” wars…
I dare remind you that the Afghanistan war was started as a reaction to the 9/11.
You think that Bush didn’t have to chase al-Qaeda?
If so, tell this your splendid thought to relatives of 3,000 victims of rabid Muslims-terrorists.
But since you remind me Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink, I won’t speak with you about wars – it’s senseless waste of time.
5. “the corporate state that enslaves us and ruins our world”
It’s soooo Commie! And baselessly stupid, of course. Didn’t you work in the Central Committe of the Communist Party of the USSR, by chance? It’s their mantra.
By the way, I am not telling that some corporations are managed by bad people and do some bad things. But accusing corporates of “enslaving us” is the same as accuse the Tea Party of racism based on a Liberast provocateur who may have penetrated the Tea Party with dirty signs to compromise the Party. It’s dishonest, it’s stupid… but effective.
6. “the wealthy billion dollar corporations are bailed out and subsidized”
I dare remind you that honest Republicans and Conservatives were fervently objecting the bail out. But with the Liberasts majority on the Capitol Hill and the Socialist-in-Chief in the White house that shameless bail out went trough. It’s the Socialist-in-Chief plot to socialize America.
7. “WE subsidize the WEALTHY, not the poor or the colored”
Not WE, the Socialist-in-Chief and Liberasts on the Hill.
Nobody should be subsidized except for disabled and the poorest elderly.
The subsidizing the poor NEVER made the poor rich. NEVER.
Making the poor rich by subsidizing them is an abominable fairy tale created by Commies, and it is FALSE by its very essence.
It ALWAYS made the poor poorer and lazier.
8. “My name is DONNA… a poor white woman”
I am also a poor white man who lost everything, first – because of American swindlers when I just came to the country 16 years ago; then – because of 9/11, so I had nothing left to lose further.
Does all this make me a Commie begging for the nanny state help? Nope.
Does it make me an adherent of the bloody Marxist class-struggle ideology?
Otherwise, I wouldn’t excape from the Commie nanny state of the USSR in 1990.
Poor Donna, I am sorry for your mental suffering…
This makes no sense at all… you are nothing but a troll. I favor socialist democracies that comprise many of the EU states. You are so capitalist you are sickening. Go ahead and use all your commie labels. Sounds like Cheney to me. More neoliberalist bs. Oh, the rich take care of of all….actually the rich take care of the rich at my expense and yours unless your income is like mega bucks…..crawl back in your hole.
I find it amazing the way the left clings to their cherished beliefs, generations after the real world has passed them by.
This is just sad; ethics means nothing to these people.
I’ve got nothing to prove myself;
http://datatroll.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/the-naacp-declaration-on-the-tea-parties/
The Democrats and their minions complaining about racism.
That’s just too ironic for words.
The Jim Crow boys are pointing the finger at every one else?
Spare me.
ok your not racist then explain why you follow glen beck Sarah Pallin Bill O and limbau people who have been caught making racist remarks and lying thought there teeth more then once are you that stupid I’m not. wake up and smell the coffee friend . it time to put down the coolaid
arnolditstimeforyoutogetglassesandadictionary.thenclimboutofthecellarandshowyourdegreeinenglishgrammar.
Whoa.When you make accusations like these and then ask for explanations you had better provide some examples.
I have never been listening when these so-called racist remarks were made and I have no idea what you are referring to.
Who, what, when, and where was this “racism” exposed ?
Having asked this, I am well aware of racist remarks made by Democrat leadership that got a pass-I don’t know by what means.
Looks like we have another kool-aid drinker who can’t be bothered to check whether the lies he’s being fed have any basis in reality.
According to Think Progress’ “About Us” page, Faiz Shakir is vice president at the Center for American Progress and serves as editor-in-chief of ThinkProgress.org. He sets the standards for this group.
So am I a racist if to me the guy’s name seems to imply that taquiya is the normative form for progressives?
The mere fact that those who oppose the Tea Party must manufacture phony evidence to “expose” the Tea Party as racist is the best evidence of all the Tea Party is not racist. The irony is so thick you need to cut it with a knife.
It is time to review all the anti-war protests during the Bush administration. Let us bring those back up and refresh our memories a bit.So, yeah, the irony is a bit much.
The contrast concerning hate speech, vitriol and demeaning of the president stands in such stark contrast as to leave the Tea Party participants little more than boring.
Not all conservatives attend Tea Party rallies, but most people know someone who has attended at least one, directly or indirectly. What makes people think that folks out here don’t already know these folks aren’t racist ? This hoopla is manufactured out of desperation to hold on and we know it.
Okaaay….The Tea Party attracts racists — and media coverage. But the tea party doesn’t want to be seen as a racist party so it asks people with blatantly racist symbols to leave its public events. And this shows that the Tea Party is not racist, how?
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The military is full of cowards and traitors. But they don’t want to be seen as cowards and traitors. That’s why, as soon as they find out someone is acting like a coward or traitor, they kick them out of the military.
BC, you ought to try thinking sometime. It burns the head like fire the first time, but after a while it doesn’t hurt much. What a mokes!
Oh I see — by your logic, parking meters often attract people who don’t like paying parking meters, so the fines are there to weed them out, and this is the same as the Tea Party attracting racists. Hmmm…no brain pain, yet, but my eyes for some reason want to revolve upwards…..
1) It has been shown that the only “racists” attracted to the tea party events have been left wing agitators.
2) Do you really want to go with the theme that if a racist likes you, that proves you are a racist? Especially with all of the racists who have been attracted to the Democratic party over the years.
3) Do you really believe that you are capable of handling basic logic?
Unless and until the citizens (the legal ones) of the US finally admit that the muslim terrorist living in our white house used code words “hope and change” for DIVIDE AND CONQUER, the left and the right will always be at war. Take the top down and you will have a chance to heal. ThinkProgressive is an arm of the muslim terrorist administration. He has come to destroy the United States and his plan is working. Divide and Conquer were also Hitler’s ideaology and he also used the words ‘hope and change’ in his campaigns. Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, the muslim terrorist in the white house hates America, white citizens (his attorney general won’t prosecute black on white crimes) and our military. Get a grip America; hold on to your Constitution and Bill of Rights and move forward to take our nation back!
Plant is right, I don’t know why these talking heads don’t point that out when talking to the likes of the Hilary dude they have all over the tv channels right now…
PLANTS, by your people…
Go Tea Party
The Tea Party movement is one of those genuinely “grass roots” movements the Left is always saying they adore. Unfortunately for them the movement is not a front for “progressive” or Democratic policies. As a result it must be demonized and vilified. The charge of “racism” is an old tried-and-true weapon that must be hammered home even if it doesn’t fit. The left fervently WANTS the Tea Partiers to be racist and is willing to overlook objective proof to the contrary to make the charge. The thinking is “They don’t agree with us therefore they are racist.”
Also – It’s easy to cherry pick on a few brain-dead morons. It’s funny though how the media always manages to igonore the leftist whatckjobs that are always out in force (and spewing hateful venom) at events like the G20 Summit and any mass event in places like Berkely. Oh – I forgot. According to the MSM, those people are genuine “protestors.”
Lefty, I know you are still out there, chewing your nails, scratching at your boils, popping your pimples, you and BC, who consistently proves there is hope for the severely retarded.
I know what you mean by racism. Racism is sitting in a “church” for twenty years listening to vile attacks on whites, on America, the kind that really do generate hate, and first saying you can’t turn your back on the race hustling, scumbag minister & when your hired brains[?] tell you that won’t do, lying & saying that in twenty f—–g years you never heard a word of it.
Now that’s racism !!
But the best part is, by falsely accusing others of what your hero is quite guilty of, you get to avoid thinking, issues, what issues? You also get to lie to yourself about a superior moral status you don’t deserve and never will have, you may, if only for a moment, feel almost human.
And of course you get to use the word “hypocrite”. Yes, it’s a good thing Hussien Obama turned his back on Rev. Wright, if only to cover his ass & not that he’s playing the race card and dividing the nation & encouraging the rabid from coast to coast.
Lefty, at least you have the Debt Commission to look forward to, the prospect of The O having lied to you & sticking us all with a VAT. while continuing to run deficits must be a dream come true. I’m sure all the insane will love it.
Actually I went to the beach.
Moreover I went to a public beach where the state shuts our private industry, controls the land and the nanny state tells you what you can’t do. It’s not a workers paradise, but it seems pretty popular.
Think Regress’ main concept: Um, we couldn’t actually find anything so we made so cool sh*t up– here it is, enjoy! (Dudes, put down the dope– it’ll make you stupid and fat from all the munchies!)
I am fairly certain the government has had/has a handle on membership, a head count, on supremacy orgs..My quess is the count is fairly low.The FBI knows who they are already.
Unless there are countless folks out there leading a double(secret)life, I have never had occasion to meet up with one, ever. Racists have been pariah in the society we all have lived in for some time now.IOW,you don’t willingly associate with people who make racist remarks-they aren’t on your social list of those one wants to hang out with.
Therefore I am inclined to believe that these “racists” are plants or are mistaken in the belief they would be welcomed by Tea Party people because the left continues to misinform them.
Newspapers and other media outlets present stories on different topics allotting space to each individual topic, So much on sports, so much on economics, so much on the middle east, etc. The accusations of racism leveled by the NAACP, after a MIchelle Obama presentation keep in mind, have effectively supplanted the space and time that would have ben dedicated to the DOJ story that has been so well covered here on PJM.
Rather than deal with institutional racism at the highest levels of government, talks shows and newspapers spend there time bewailing the activities of some nondescript nobodies, and abra cadabra, the more important story fades from public view.
Once again BHOs media team has pulled the wool over the eyes of the American public.
“2. Since most Americans didn’t live in a Commie state, like myself, normal common Americans are still not psychologically ready to realize that Liberasts always lie. It’s simply because normal honest people judge by themselves.
Thus, very often Liberasts’ lie and propaganda are being taken “at face value,” without checking their credibility.
I assume that todays’ only 48% of those who disapprove Obama (instead of 98%) is a result of such blind acceptance of Liberasts’ words (it’s clearly a coincidence that almost all Blacks voted for and still support Obama: can I accuse the Blacks of racism? Sure, not.)
Don’t judge Liberasts by words, judge by their deeds.”
Why do people keep describing a large percentage of blacks voting for Obama as “racism”of some kind or another? If – as you said – most people don’t ascribe lying or other false motives to others, based on their own standards; and since all other things being equal, why wouldn’t they vote for the “native son” so to speak? Using your reasoning any white that didn’t vote for Obama, might be suspected of “racism”. And that idea is asinine on it’s face.
The author argues the 3 “tea party activists” were either misrepresented or party crashers. That may well be true. But even if it weren’t, what does a sample of 3 prove about a population of millions? That’s like looking for 3 left-handed people in a large crowd and then claiming the entire crowd is left-handed.
If smearing the entire Tea Party movement on the basis of a non-random sample of 3 persons is legitimate, then conservatives should be allowed to use the same methods. How about comparing these 3 tea party activists to backgrounds of the 3 randomly chosen liberals such as John Edwards, William J. Jefferson, and Anthony Van Jones?
“Presenting liberal agent provocateurs as real and reprehensible members of a group they intend to undermine by any means necessary? Using video they undoubtedly know proves their contentions false when viewed in its entirety?
Revolting.
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But also the very reason those people were planted in the Tea Party in the first place. Whether planted there by this group or merely taken advantage of by them is irrelevant.
They served their purpose as propaganda tools, a standard tactic of repressive governments.
Like Hitler used a known communist to bomb the Reichstag in 1932, so Obama is using known racists to infiltrate the Tea Party (if these people are investigated thoroughly it’ll no doubt be found they really are racists, but of course leftist ones, who probably voted for Obama after they failed to get Clinton as candidate).
From a government that openly condones election fraud and voter intimidation, do you expect anything less?
I wrote about this back in April:
http://freedomphiles.blogspot.com/2010/04/rise-of-citizen-journalism-or-nazis.html
If this has already been covered, my apologies.
The people at Think Progress knew the whole story about the “I’m a proud racist. I’m white” guy way back on April 17th.
They did a story on it here:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/17/bloggers-nazi-racist-tea-partier/
Knowing the whole story, they still chose, 3 months later, to include him in the video, not once, but twice.
Kinda sad.
What a bunch of garbage ALL these posts are. Blah,blah,blah. Insanity and stupidity rule the right right wing warriors. Unfounded accusations are hurled at any who says something contrary to the right wing simpleton belief system. Grow up!! You should all spend your idle time meditating.