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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 05/02/2010 : 04:23:07
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Join the Tequila Party right now; if the Moonie Review hates it, it must be ok.
Imagine a group of angry demonstrators toting swastika-festooned protest signs calling politicians Nazis, shouting obscenities and racial remarks and throwing rocks and bottles at police officers sent to keep order. No, these are not Tea Partiers. They are the mob that turned out last week to protest Arizona's new immigration-enforcement law. This group of liberal rowdies has been dubbed the Tequila Party.
For the most part, liberal media coverage overlooked all the leftist violence. Typical headlines described the protest as "mostly peaceful," with media outlets avoiding details about why they had to use the qualifier "mostly." Reporting a near-riot by the opponents of the Arizona law doesn't fit the dominant media storyline.
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My favorite part of this lying lame wit's rant is this:
Negative views like this are part of the embedded narrative of Tea Party coverage. But the storyline suffered a tectonic shift when an April 12 CBS News/New York Times poll of self-identified Tea Partiers found that they were not illiterate rednecks, but tend to be older, better educated, higher income, married people. They make up 18 percent of the population, compared with 20 percent who self-identified as somewhat or very liberal.
The Tea Partiers do not incite violence; they are salt-of-the-earth middle Americans who are desperately worried about the misguided policies and wrongheaded vision being promoted by President Obama and his congressional allies. Contrast them with the younger, less educated, lower income, angry, racially motivated mob that turned out in Phoenix. The Tequila Party and gangsters like them represent the core and the pride of the liberal base. If an angry, shouting mob throwing bottles at police is the face of contemporary liberalism, it's no wonder Americans are turning against them in droves.
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I don't recall hearing about any serious violence in AZ, although the day of May 2 is yet young; could be. On the other hand, we've all heard the threats tossed hither & yon by the "salt of the earth" teabaggers and seen the heavily racist signs produced by the "better educated" of them.
It is my understanding that the fish wrap is up for sale. This pathetic editorial should drop the asking price considerably.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 05/02/2010 : 08:52:01 [Permalink]
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Objections to the Arizona law are coming from all over the political spectrum, including from tea party members, themselves. The idea that it's only liberals who have their knickers in a bind over the law is just wrong. There are lots of conservatives who view this "let me see your papers" law as an affront to basic human rights. Which means that his whole argument is nothing but a strawman. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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The Washington Times: vicious liberals!
