July 11, 2010

The Tea Party Anthem

Category: Music, Opinion — jerry @ 11:02 am

Posted here to demonstrate my “fair and balanced” attitude toward the racist Tea Party movement, to honor free speech, and also because I would so hit that:

5 Comments »

  1. Is that one of Palin’s litter?

    Comment by Adam — July 12, 2010 @ 8:55 am

  2. I don’t think the tea party movement is racist. Whatever it is you don’t like about the group - just spit it out - maybe that it has a lot of religious folks or it wants lower government spending or lower taxes - but I think saying its racist is a really cheap shot. IMHO, They don’t like what’s coming out of Washington (not just now but especially now) are mad as hell and don’t want to take it anymore.

    Maybe it’s the ACORN of the right for those who like to chew on analogies.

    Or how about, its the libertarians of the republican party.

    Comment by Mike — July 13, 2010 @ 1:54 pm

  3. Maybe not all are racist (indeed there are a handful of minority “Tea Partiers”), but racism is pervasive throughout the organization.

    I stand by my characterization.

    http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-gaggle/2010/04/09/new-poll-finds-tea-partiers-have-more-racist-attitudes.html

    Comment by jerry — July 13, 2010 @ 4:59 pm

  4. I can’t connect the dots between these poll results and concluding its a racist organization. And that’s before getting into whether they had samples that reflected the group and the non-group and how they asked the questions … The same type of poll might also have said they white people are racists compared to non-whites. And law-abiding citizens have more racist attitudes that law-breakers.

    They should have asked “Are you a racist?” - instead of those other questions :) Then we would know for sure!

    I stand by my assessment that calling the tea party which is a dis-organized group (people may change their identification as group members from day to day - there’s no ID card after all) is a cheap shot.

    Comment by Mike — July 13, 2010 @ 5:44 pm

  5. Again, I don’t want to paint with TOO wide a brush. They’re not all racists. (And I wouldn’t even say that whites are necessarily more racist than other minorities).

    I’ve posted a lot of videos here which you’ve probably already seen of Tea Party members carrying racist signs and making racist statements. Again, these members weren’t necessarily representative of all Tea Partiers…but there is a strong component there. I haven’t seen a lot of, um, the “nonracist” Tea Baggers expressing their outrage at these signs–as I would, and I believe most Democrats would, if we were at a Democratic campaign function and folks were parading around with Michael Steele placards showing him in cannibal-garb with a bone in his nose.

    Glen Beck, Teabagger, gets famous calling our President a “racist” and saying he has “problems with white people”. Rand Paul, Teabagger, believes we should allow restaurants to discriminate against serving blacks. There are regular reports in the news of the Tea Party movement leaders making racially offensive statements. (GOOGLE “Tea Party racism”, etc.)

    And the Tea Party folks I’ve know personally–one used to frequent this blog ad nauseum–have always struck me as racist. There is a lot of particularly personal animosity against President Obama that I don’t believe would have been shown to a President Clinton or a President Edwards (both of whom I think are actually further to the left than Obama)–and I believe that this is racially motivated.

    Comment by jerry — July 13, 2010 @ 6:52 pm

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