Quote of the Day
“Who the f*** are you to lecture me, you little brat?!”
As James Taranto writes, this leftist shouting at 14 year old Tea Partier Tricia Willoughby in Wisconsin defines the new civility:
This weekend’s Tea Party rally in Madison, Wis., drew familiar figures like Sarah Palin and Andrew Breitbart, but perhaps the most interesting speaker was a 14-year-old girl named Tricia Willoughby. Tricia wowed, among others, Rachael Larimore, who writes for Slate.com’s ladies blog, XX Factor.
“What’s impressive is her strong voice, her confidence, and, let’s face it, her youth,” Larimore writes. “The Tea Party is often seen as being made up entirely of cranky middle-aged people who don’t like paying taxes. But here is a smart, engaging young woman speaking with the poise of someone older.”
Showing considerably less poise is the bitter, pudgy middle-aged man featured in a YouTube video of the left-wing counterprotest. “Go home, you little brat!” he shouts at the 14-year-old, struggling to make himself heard over his comrades’ boos and noisemakers. “Who the f— are you to lecture me, you little brat?!”
Apparently the Pudgester is taking a cue from former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, whose New York Times blog post the morning of the rally was titled “Civility Is the Last Refuge of Scoundrels.” Yesterday he followed up with a column titled “Let’s Not Be Civil.” Wait, weren’t Krugman and the newspaper that employs him issuing demands for civility just a few months ago? Nah, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
Something else caught our attention about Tricia Willoughby. Larimore points out that “a quick Google search”–which turns up a post by blogger Stacy McCain–”reveals that her parents are pro-life activists in Madison and that Tricia is in a debate club. Cynics will point out that–gasp!–she is homeschooled, as if that ought to discredit her.”
Larimore concludes: “There is much debate over what long-lasting impact the Tea Party will have, if any. If there are many more like Tricia Willoughby, I wouldn’t underestimate it.”
Read the whole thing.
(Via Ann Althouse.)
I find it interesting that he has a New Jersey accent and slicked back hair with a grey streak like Pauly in “The Sopranos”.
However you can trade videos all day like the one where Tea Party folks physically assault a guy with a loudspeaker at a Marc Rubio event.
They wanted violent, pro-government riots (a repudiation of every anarchistic, free-thinking idea the 60′s generation thought) and they have had them in Madison. They wanted the power of the state, and to have the state crack down on dissidents who opposed Socialism: the police refused to enforce the law at Madison. They wanted to bankrupt the United States, and to transfer its wealth to totalitarians and dictators: they have succeeded. Ayers, who wanted to execute 25 million wrong-thinking Americans to purify the body politic in 1970 (which, by today’s population would be 75 million or more), now has his acolyte in White House. Decades of their work is about to come to fruition in violence and death.
Ah the joys of Democrat civility.
Keep up the “good work” there.
Hey Pudgester,
I live in a deep blue state and am homeschooling a few more Tricia Willoughbys (I hope) right now. You can scream profanities all you want, but these budding Tricias are among you, soon they’ll be surrounding you and eventually they’ll be the country’s leaders.
Have a nice, pathetic life, you paragon of civility. You’re doomed.