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Tea Party Turns Nasty: ‘It’s Our Country – Let’s Take It Back’ ["Extremists Come To The Fore"]
London Times ^ | February 05, 2010 | Tim Reid

Posted on 02/05/2010 7:31:32 PM PST by Steelfish

February 6, 2010 Tea Party Turns Nasty: ‘It’s Our Country – Let’s Take It Back’

Sarah Palin is due to address the Tea Party Convention in Nashville tonight

Tim Reid in Nashville

They will proudly boast of how they have galvanised ordinary Americans against runaway government spending, but a dark underbelly of xenophobia has been exposed at the first national gathering of the Tea Party movement.

Here in the vast Gaylord resort in Nashville, where 600 members of the conservative grassroots phenomenon that exploded in revolt against President Obama’s economic policies have gathered, it would be advisable not to wear a T-shirt declaring “I am an illegal immigrant”.

The anti-Government, anti-Establishment movement, which has splintered in the past week with many boycotting this gathering, has billed itself as a revolution born of the widespread disgust at Washington and the way that the nation’s politicians are bankrupting America’s future.

With its raucous protests it has undeniably become a political force that threatens to hand Democrats a disastrous midterm election night in November. Voter anger against spending and debt, of which the Tea Partiers are in the vanguard, played a significant role in the recent loss of the late Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat and could conceivably lead to Democrats losing the House and Senate.

Yet the speech that opened the Nashville event yesterday, an address greeted with whoops and cheers from the mainly white audience, reflects a movement that also appears to have a less attractive side to it.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gaylordreid; teaparty; teapartyconvention
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The London Times states in its main portal to the URL (www.londontimes.uk.co) that

"Extremists Come To The Fore At Tea Party Rally"!

1 posted on 02/05/2010 7:31:33 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

It is not XENOPHOBIA, if you are here illegally.


2 posted on 02/05/2010 7:32:54 PM PST by EBH (The warning bell of Freedom is ringing, can you not hear it?)
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To: Steelfish

Too much Oxford, not enough Georgia Tech.


3 posted on 02/05/2010 7:34:39 PM PST by Publius
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...I happen to believe that anglo-european/judeo christian values and culture made this country great...if that makes me a xenophobe, I don’t care.


4 posted on 02/05/2010 7:35:29 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: Steelfish

I wonder what they said about that first tea party back in 1776?

Likely, it was something very similar.


5 posted on 02/05/2010 7:36:12 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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Tim Reid in Nashville

He was great in "WKRP in Cincinnati".

6 posted on 02/05/2010 7:36:35 PM PST by savedbygrace
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The London Times states in its main portal to the URL (www.londontimes.uk.co)

that “Extremists Come To The Fore At Tea Party Rally”!
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Well, well, well, if just isn’t a YANKY DOODLE DANDY :)

Sounds like what the London newspapers said in 1773.


7 posted on 02/05/2010 7:38:13 PM PST by ak267
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I know-——maybe The Times should be reminded of the “extremists” that voted in MA a couple of weeks ago.


8 posted on 02/05/2010 7:38:17 PM PST by Mears
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To: Steelfish

When did being a fuddy-duddy conservative become radical and extremist? (I kinda like it!)


9 posted on 02/05/2010 7:38:36 PM PST by fullchroma (Obama: GET OUT OF MY DOCTOR'S OFFICE!)
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To: ak267

Very good riposte.


10 posted on 02/05/2010 7:39:34 PM PST by Steelfish
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XENOPHOBIA is Globalese for NATIVIST which is Beltwayian for RACIST which is the local version of the perjorative.

And this effete London Times windbag is so yesterday.


11 posted on 02/05/2010 7:42:16 PM PST by Hostage
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I'd say a conservative is a Romantic, a Surrealist and a Futurist. The past deserves respect, the unknown deserves to be feared and the future is waiting to made anew through human freedom, not through the hands of the state. And if we're not true to all that, we will no longer have a country to hand to posterity.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

12 posted on 02/05/2010 7:42:26 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Dump Dodd in a Museum

Is this radical?

No, just highly successful!

13 posted on 02/05/2010 7:42:47 PM PST by PALIN SMITH (Show them our respectable contempt!)
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london paper is goodier than corncob~~~~


14 posted on 02/05/2010 7:43:01 PM PST by FreeperFlirt
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Meanwhile I assume this paper is largely silent over the Islamic extremists in England who carry signs proclaiming death to the infidels, support for terrorism, and the promise that England will fall.


15 posted on 02/05/2010 7:43:44 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: Steelfish
Venus Flytrap was my favorite character on WKRP In Cincinnati.
16 posted on 02/05/2010 7:44:52 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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Goodness! Sounds like massa gettin’ nervous!


17 posted on 02/05/2010 7:45:25 PM PST by MurrietaMadman (Luke 23:31)
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To: ak267

Very good reply to the snotty Brit fish wrapper.
Bollocks to them!


18 posted on 02/05/2010 7:46:32 PM PST by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever)
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19 posted on 02/05/2010 7:46:48 PM PST by smokingfrog (You can't ignore your boss and expect to keep your job... www.filipthishouse2010.com)
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This is rich, coming from a country where they stamp your passport with "Employment and recourse to public funds not permitted" when you enter the place.

All we're saying is, if you don't bother to get your passport stamped, "employment and recourse to public funds NOT PERMITTED" in the USA.

20 posted on 02/05/2010 7:49:17 PM PST by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed imposter")
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