Behavior at the Tea Parties
An excellent and long post from Sean Linnane at
Stormbringer.
If you are planning to attend a Tea Party event or visit your local representatives office during the Easter break, please take the time to read this in its entirety -- Sean puts into words something that has been rattling around my brain-pan since Representative John Lewis lied about the N-word.
FALSE ACCUSATIONS ON THE TEA PARTY
Last week on the eve of the historic coup in the House, I posted DO NOT BREAK THE WINDOWS in response to some radical thought patterns being expressed out there on the right-wing blogosphere. I followed up urging calm & restraint.
True to form, all this past week the Mainstream Media has been repeating the story of racist and anti-homosexual catcalls & slurs yelled at Democrat Congressmen last Sunday, as they walked past crowds of Tea Partiers:�Tea Party� protesters allegedly hurled racial slurs at Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat. Mr. Carson said that "hundreds of people" were chanting, "Kill the bill," and he heard "at least 15 times" the "n � word" being thrown around.
I have a problem with this misconduct - particularly since nobody can produce any proof that any of this ever took place. I�m not from Missouri but I say it anyhow: "SHOW ME."
Another small taste:
There WAS bipartisanship in the healthcare debacle, by the way; it was on the side of the people who were against it. 34 House Democrats who voted WITH the Republicans; AGAINST the healthcare monstrosity which passed by the squeakiest of margins and only AFTER a LOT of bribery and Chicago thug strongarm tactics.
Good stuff and well worth reading and remember, the more they ratchet up the propaganda machine, the quieter and more polite we need to be. Any sort of harsh word, any act of frustration will give them incredible media ammunition. Remember, they are filming us just as much as we are filming them.
Posted by DaveH at March 28, 2010 8:23 PM