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Video: Dingell says town-hall protests remind him of the Klan
Hot Air ^ | August 11, 2009 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 08/11/2009 9:03:11 AM PDT by RobinMasters

Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Steny Hoyer have called the constituents speaking out against ObamaCare at town halls “un-American,” and that didn’t slow them down. Will calling them “racists” do it? MS-NBC’s Ed Schultz tosses a softball to Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), last seen being flummoxed by his own constituents last week.

At the time, Dingell dismissed his critics as “infiltrators.” Today, they’re the equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan (via The Weekly Standard):

What message has the House Democratic leadership sent this week to voters in their district? If you show up to town halls to criticize us, you’re un-American Klan members. Somewhere in here, there’s a killer GOP television spot just itching to run in the summer of 2010.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: angrymob; dingell; slur; townhalls
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To: RobinMasters
"Video: Dingell says town-hall protests remind him of the Klan"

They seem fearful they're not going to get their free stuff anymore if 'those uppity white conservatives' keep exercising their Constitutional rights to protest bad government.

41 posted on 08/11/2009 9:47:05 AM PDT by jiminycricket000
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To: MrB
We will be labelled as terrorists and be subject to homeland security scrutiny and punishment.

Technically, that's already been done - recall Nepalitano's homeland security memo from a couple months ago describing us as terrorists and profiling us by our bumber stickers.

What could possibly be next?

42 posted on 08/11/2009 9:49:53 AM PDT by ProfoundMan (RightyPics.com)
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To: RobinMasters

Dingle reminds me of Hitler


43 posted on 08/11/2009 9:52:46 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: RobinMasters
Video: Dingell says town-hall protests remind him of the Klan

AKA "the good old days", John??

44 posted on 08/11/2009 9:55:13 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: RobinMasters

Since this seems to be the chorus, I wonder if the Dems focused group the “race card?” I would believe that it would be possible to now tackle the head Dims electorally by repudiating their tactics of using race hate. Never mind the blue duds who should fear the liberalism of the college campus radicals weighing them down.


45 posted on 08/11/2009 10:24:27 AM PDT by junta (Conservatives, the word "racism" is now ours.)
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To: cripplecreek

“Why Rhett, I’ve told you about washing your hands after the weekly cross burning!”, “See, it’s comming off”..

Great Line from “Blazing Saddles!”


46 posted on 08/11/2009 10:24:39 AM PDT by shredderman (Living in a Blue State, with a Blue Wife, But I'm Red to the bone.....)
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To: ProfoundMan

“Appropriate action” on the part of the government against this “domestic terrorist threat”.

Have you seen the advertisements for “internment and relocation specialists”?


47 posted on 08/11/2009 10:50:58 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: RobinMasters

Dingle reminds me of a stupid racist.


48 posted on 08/11/2009 3:40:10 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea
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To: RobinMasters
Dingell says town-hall protests remind him of the Klan.

He's really laying it on thick - with a trowel !

49 posted on 08/11/2009 6:56:31 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: RobinMasters

Dingle reminds me of Hitler’s yes man.


50 posted on 08/11/2009 8:11:17 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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Headline?

Loud talking a threat to our democracy, FBI to use "flag" cookies to monitor
"Terrorism Laws Will Be Expanded," Dingle
"These KKK-types, Nazi unAmericans are more dangerous than Al Qaeda."

51 posted on 08/11/2009 8:24:21 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: RobinMasters
Dingle's got a short memory.

In the summer of 1989, Mr. Rostenkowski, then a congressman from Illinois and the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was besieged by a crowd of 50 senior citizens in Chicago . . . the protesters -- shouting "coward," "recall" and "impeach" -- forced him to sprint through a gas station to his car. . . [if I remember correctly they proceeded to rock his government limo]

The protesters were angry about [a new Medicare law] . . .That law was soon repealed . . . the television images of Mr. Rostenkowski under assault struck fear in the hearts of politicians . . .

"Politicians were traumatized by the Rostenkowski episode," said Henry J. Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution."

Next citizens will be charged with terrorism for speaking loudly in the presence of a Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) leader or stalwart.

52 posted on 08/11/2009 8:26:03 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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