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Waters: Probe 'birthers and the teabaggers' at rallies for racist views (media should investigate)
The Hill ^ | 9/16/09 | Mike Obrien

Posted on 09/16/2009 1:14:08 PM PDT by pissant

The media should investigate the racial views of conservative activists like the ones who descended on Washington last weekend, one liberal congresswoman said Wednesday.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said that it's not enough for African-Americans to levy allegations of racism against the right-leaning protesters, and that the media must look into their views.

"I want those people talked to; I want them interviewed," Waters told the liberal Bill Press Radio show in a podcast. "I want journalists to be all over those rallies and the marches with the birthers and the teabaggers."

"What I'm looking for is the very people who carry the signs who are referring to the policies in very, very strange ways like 'Obamacare' and 'Barry Obamacare with Kennedy,'" she said. "What I've been interested in is hearing from those people that everybody's referring to -- everybody on the Mall, in the rally."

Tens of thousands of conservative activists took to the National Mall last weekend to protest the Obama administration, specifically its stance on healthcare reform. Examples of incendiary rhetoric touching on racial overtones from some protesters have emerged on blogs in the days since the rally.

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To: pissant

Maxine Waters is a moron.


61 posted on 09/16/2009 1:50:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jimrobfr)
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To: pissant

No problem here. Take a page from the history of the effort to restore the second amendment.

Charles D. (Chuckie) Schumer, the anti-gun nut that never stops giving was the most fun to ridicule. And the easiest....

The standard technique for countering Schumer’s was to discredit by simply publishing the verbatim text of his speeches and photo-ops with no editorial comment at all.

Similarily, the best defense against statements by Maxine Waters is to give her self-inflicted ridicule wide spread coverage.

By far the best example, not the only one, was when she nailed herself to the wall at the senate hearing on oil companies.

Just Google “Maxine Waters Socialized oil” and you’ll get a couple dozen links to video....


62 posted on 09/16/2009 1:50:53 PM PDT by LoneStarC (1)
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To: tet68

Isn’t the Congressional Black Caucus in its self, a RACIST organization? Also the Congressional Hispanic Caucus?
Why is my mail to the Congressional White Caucus being sent back as Addressee unknown?


63 posted on 09/16/2009 1:51:42 PM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: samadams2000
You can't call them servants! That's RACIST!

On second thought, I'd pay good money to see Waters called a servant to her face.

64 posted on 09/16/2009 1:55:12 PM PDT by LTCJ (God Save the Constitution - Tar & Feathers, The New Look for Summer '09)
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To: Jim Robinson

That’s RACIST


65 posted on 09/16/2009 1:55:13 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant; All

Maxine check this out!
A federal court jury convicted Jefferson on four bribery counts, three counts of money laundering, three counts of wire fraud and one count of racketeering. He was acquitted on five other counts including wire fraud and obstruction of justice.

Jefferson, a 62-year-old Democrat, was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 4, 2007, about two years after federal agents said they found the cash in his freezer. Authorities said the cash was part of a payment in marked bills from an FBI informant in a transaction captured on video.

Jefferson had pleaded not guilty. He faces a maximum possible sentence of 150 years in prison, with sentencing tentatively set for October 30.


66 posted on 09/16/2009 1:56:29 PM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: pissant
Examples of incendiary rhetoric touching on racial overtones from some protesters have emerged on blogs in the days since the rally Hmmmm... it took these bozos three days of combing through everything said or written by 500,000 people to find something, ANYTHING, that might conceivably be viewed as "rhetoric TOUCHING on racial OVERTONES." Powerful stuff, there, liberal bloggers.
67 posted on 09/16/2009 1:58:24 PM PDT by Walrus (My congressman is toast in 2010 --- how about yours?)
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To: pissant
"What I'm looking for is the very people who carry the signs who are referring to the policies in very, very strange ways like 'Obamacare' and 'Barry Obamacare with Kennedy,'" she said. "What I've been interested in is hearing from those people that everybody's referring to -- everybody on the Mall, in the rally."

Well, I guess they did know there was a march on Saturday.

68 posted on 09/16/2009 1:59:46 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: pissant

Actually, wouldn’t it be a good thing for the media to investigate what we have to say? She wants the “media” to investigate. Sounds to me like this would be a great thing, because they would actually have to air and print what we believe in and in the process show “the rest of the world” conservative principles are alive and they work. I doubt the media will take Waxie Maxie up on this challenge - it would not fit the narrative.


69 posted on 09/16/2009 2:01:23 PM PDT by majormaturity
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To: pissant

70 posted on 09/16/2009 2:01:44 PM PDT by BJClinton (Any "healthcare reform" without tort reform is a fraud.)
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To: pissant

That would be great, then it would at least mean they would have to cover the rallies, sounds like a win win to me.


71 posted on 09/16/2009 2:04:26 PM PDT by dila813
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To: pissant

Maxine Waters - Do they come any uglier, both mentally and physically???


72 posted on 09/16/2009 2:06:15 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: pissant

Maxine, you’re more than welcome to my bi-racial/national/lingual household. When, and which media outlets would you like to bring?


73 posted on 09/16/2009 2:08:45 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: pissant

I hope they take the bait.


74 posted on 09/16/2009 2:09:49 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

Maxine...I got yer “investigation” hangin’ right heah, darlin’. (Heh, heh...heh, heh...)


75 posted on 09/16/2009 2:30:07 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: cripplecreek

> We’d love a chance to talk to the media.

No you wouldn’t.

A more dishonest gang of liars never existed. They will twist your words and pretext your context until they have you saying what THEY want you to say.

In print.

For all the world to see.

No, don’t talk to the whore press.

Write your OWN messages and get them published as letters and opinions in your local newspaper.

If the local newspaper is a commie rag (most likely), start your own or start/join a blog.


76 posted on 09/16/2009 2:33:45 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: pissant

No one needs to probe Maxine to know she is a racist. Her hatred of white people is obvious.


77 posted on 09/16/2009 2:38:35 PM PDT by pallis
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To: pissant

Decent blacks must hang their heads in disgust when they hear racist blacks like Waters, Conyers, McKinney, Rangel and Sharpton take a brain dump in public and nothing comes out.


78 posted on 09/16/2009 2:39:46 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat." - Claire Wolfe)
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To: pissant

Actually, this is a very clever idea on her part. I’m sure the media would focus their interviews on the goofiest and nuttiest types present. Why, ACORN or other groups might plant some actors with scripts just to reinforce the idea that all these protestors are really klansmen.


79 posted on 09/16/2009 2:59:22 PM PDT by DugwayDuke
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To: cripplecreek

Yeah. Let’s get some investigative journalism on the American people engaging in their right to free speech and peaceful gathering.

Ignore the criminal activities of ACORN and Charles Rangle, however.

Makes perfect sense.


80 posted on 09/16/2009 3:07:53 PM PDT by DesertConservative
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