No, the Tea Party isn't just like the rest of America

Washington Post ^ | April 5, 2010 | Stephen Stromberg

[presidio9]

They've been portrayed variously as angry fringe elements, often inarticulate, potentially violent and merely Republicans in sheep's clothing or disgruntled pockets of conservatives blindly lashing out at a left-handed President Obama and the same side of his Democratic Party finally getting its chance to drive home a liberal agenda after eight years of Republican rule and six under a centrist Bill Clinton.

[presidio9]

Um, Steve, the "fairest" liberal media representation has been that they are all red meat conservatives with facist and racist fringe elements. Neither the "teabaggers" themselves or the right-wing carachtersizations you are disputing ever suggested they were in any way a middle-of-the road project. Had I been getting my information from the MSM, your spin on the figures: That at the very least the tea parties are composed of 15% Democrats still would of shocked me. I can't imagine you'd find a single reported Conservative at a MoveOn.Org function.

[TribalPrincess2U]

I can't imagine you'd find a single reported Conservative at a MoveOn.Org function.

How true.

[Vaquero]

BARF ALERT

[cripplecreek]

I can't imagine you'd find a single reported Conservative at a MoveOn.Org function.

Well other than us infiltrators.

[God luvs America]

“28 percent were independents”

these same independents were responsible for zero getting elected- yet obama’s errand boys in the criminal liberal media won’t dare mention this...

[Psycho_Bunny]

Stevie, they ARE the rest of America.

[mlocher]

And 87 percent disapproved of the new health-care law, as opposed to 50 percent in the population at large.

Uh, I think Rasmussen has been reporting that close to 60% disapprove of the new health care law. That makes the Tea Party Movement more like the rest of America than, say, the democratic party. Or Steve Stromberg, for that matter.

[ETL]

New York Slimes compares Tea Partiers to terrorist group Weather Underground...

When Does Political Anger Turn to Violence?
BENEDICT CAREY
Published: March 26, 2010

The mercury is running high, all right, and it has nothing to do with the weather.

Public displays of political anger have been a staple of the American scene for the last eight months or so, but in recent days a handful directed at members of Congress have gone a bit further than noisy, sign-carrying assembly to window-smashing, spitting, threatening faxes and phone calls, even a cut propane line on a barbecue grill. ..."

VARYING DEGREES OF RAGE - The Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, second from right,
during the Days of Rage in 1969, and anti-health reform protesters in Washington on Sunday

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/weekinreview/28carey.html?ref=weekinreview
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Notice how the 60-something Tea Partier with the red shirt has arms stretched out like commie-terrorist Bill Ayers in the first photo (Ayers is 2nd on right).-ETL

[presidio9]

I am the laziest speller I know, but I’m still embarassed by how I handled “characterization” in the post you responded to.

[jessduntno]

Bill Ayers, second from right...”

I would have paid BIG money to have run across him in the street then...or now, actually.

[peeps36]

The Tea Party is made up of our neighbors, friends and family members. The arrogant media will go down in flames trying to paint the Tea Party into a corner. What a bunch of ignorant scumbags.

[presidio9]

Also, not one of the tea partiers is wearing a helmet, like several of the WU freaks. That means that if they came to fight the police, they are going to get thier asses kicked a hell of a lot faster. Plus the’re a lot older.

[reefdiver]

For every 1 individual at a TEA party event, there are more than 10,000 Citizens who agree and would like to be there, but because of family commitments, travel time or other concerns cannot be there.

But - They will vote Conservative this election cycle,

Will the RNC blow it? I think so, based on their past

[2ndDivisionVet]

Survey: Four in 10 Tea Party members are Dems or independents (Uh-oh, there goes that meme)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2486806/posts

[Brad from Tennessee]

Republican Scott Brown was elected by Massachusetts voters to fill the senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy. Brown campaigned as the 41st vote needed to derail ObamaCare. What part of that historic event does the news media not get?

[ETL]

Also, not one of the tea partiers is wearing a helmet, like several of the WU freaks. That means that if they came to fight the police, they are going to get their asses kicked a hell of a lot faster.

There IS no intelligent comparison that can be made between the communist terrorist group Weather Underground and the pro-American members of the Tea Party movement. The Tea Partiers are not seeking to blow up anything or fight the police. Most of the police are probably on their side, as well they should be.

[therut]

The MAN who banned “assault weapons” was a CENTRIST?????? Saounds like the rewriting of history has started.

[Soothesayer]

Most of the comments below the article were absolutely disgusting. Democrats supporting liberty and justice?!

[ETL]

"Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal".--James (Jim) Cone,
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

[UB355]

Actually 66 percent