Posted on 02/28/2010 2:41:17 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Rich: Tea Partiers Are Terrorists, Beck and Palin Are Their Leaders By Noel Sheppard Created 02/28/2010 - 17:35
New York Times columnist Frank Rich isn't just convinced suicide pilot Joe Stack shared many views with the Tea Partiers.
He also believes some of the movement's members are basically domestic terrorists whose leaders include Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.
"What made that kamikaze mission eventful was less the deranged act itself than the curious reaction of politicians on the right who gave it a pass — or, worse, flirted with condoning it."
Yes, Rich's "The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged [1]" was the kind of column we see too often from his ilk these days basically blaming all that's wrong in the nation -- even a disgruntled man flying his plane into an IRS building -- on regular Americans concerned about the direction of the country:
It is not glib or inaccurate to invoke Oklahoma City in this context, because the acrid stench of 1995 is back in the air. Two days before Stack's suicide mission, The Times published David Barstow's chilling, months-long investigation of the Tea Party movement. Anyone who was cognizant during the McVeigh firestorm would recognize the old warning signs re-emerging from the mists of history. [...]
Barstow confirmed what the Southern Poverty Law Center had found in its report last year: the unhinged and sometimes armed anti-government right that was thought to have vaporized after its Oklahoma apotheosis is making a comeback. And now it is finding common cause with some elements of the diverse, far-flung and still inchoate Tea Party movement. All it takes is a few self-styled "patriots" to sow havoc.
So, a Times reporter confirmed what a far-left leaning legal organization wrote last year, and this mean's he's right?
What would REALLY be shocking is if Barstow AND Rich DIDN'T agree with SPLC's views.
But this is common for liberal shills like Rich: reference articles published by your own newspaper to prove your point. This allows you to completely misrepresent the truth with impunity:
Equally significant is Barstow’s finding that most Tea Party groups have no affiliation with the G.O.P. despite the party’s ham-handed efforts to co-opt them. The more we learn about the Tea Partiers, the more we can see why. They loathe John McCain and the free-spending, TARP-tainted presidency of George W. Bush. They really do hate all of Washington, and if they hate Obama more than the Republican establishment, it’s only by a hair or two.
Nonsense. Tea Partiers certainly didn't agree with Bush's policies, and likely were not McCain supporters in 2008. But their hatred for Obama is far greater than for the Republican establishment.
Rich knows this, for this is what he wrote last [2] May:
At those tax-protesting "tea parties" on April 15, signs and speakers portrayed Obama as a "fascist," a "socialist," a terrorist and Hitler.
A month earlier, Rich wrote [3], "Even the anti-Obama 'tea parties' flogged by Fox News last week had wider genuine grass-roots support than this so-called national organization."
So, less than a year ago, Rich saw this movement as clearly anti-Obama. But now that the Tea Parties have indeed become a powerful force, the Times columnist views them as being almost equally opposed to Republicans as they are the current White House resident.
As anyone that has attended a Tea Party knows, nothing could be further from the truth. But facts weren't getting in Rich's way, for he was clearly on a conservative-bashing roll:
The passion on the right has migrated almost entirely to the Tea Party's counterconservatism.
The leaders embraced by the new grass roots right are a different slate entirely: Glenn Beck, Ron Paul and Sarah Palin...But these leaders do have a consistent ideology, and that ideology plays to the lock-and-load nutcases out there, not just to the peaceable (if riled up) populist conservatives also attracted to Tea Partyism. This ideology is far more troubling than the boilerplate corporate conservatism and knee-jerk obstructionism of the anti-Obama G.O.P. Congressional minority.
Wow. So some Tea Partiers are "lock-and-load nutcases." This image allowed Rich to crescendo towards a truly disgusting conclusion:
In his Times article on the Tea Party right, Barstow profiled Pam Stout, a once apolitical Idaho retiree who cast her lot with a Tea Party group allied with Beck's 9/12 Project, the Birch Society and the Oath Keepers, a rising militia group of veterans and former law enforcement officers who champion disregarding laws they oppose. She frets that "another civil war" may be in the offing. "I don't see us being the ones to start it," she told Barstow, "but I would give up my life for my country."
Whether consciously or coincidentally, Stout was echoing Palin's memorable final declaration during her appearance at the National Tea Party Convention earlier this month: "I will live, I will die for the people of America, whatever I can do to help." It's enough to make you wonder who is palling around with terrorists now.
So, some Tea Partiers are domestic terrorists, and Beck and Palin are their leaders.
And this guy writes a regular column for the New York Times.
Of course, like so many things, Rich is quite clueless about the Tea Parties, for here's what he wrote [4] almost exactly one year ago today:
G.O.P. pseudopopulism ran riot last week as right-wing troops rallied around their latest Joe the Plumber: Rick Santelli, the ranting CNBC foe of Obama's mortgage rescue program. Ann Coulter proposed a Santelli run for president, and Twitterers organized national "tea parties" to fuel his taxpayers' revolt. Even with a boost from NBC, whose networks seized a promotional opening by incessantly recycling the Santelli "controversy," the bonfire fizzled. It did so because - as last week's polls also revealed - the mortgage bailout, with a 60-plus percent approval rating, is nearly as popular as Obama.
The Santelli revolution's flameout was just another confirmation that hard-core Republican radicals are now the G.O.P.'s problem, not the president's.
So, on March 1, 2009, Rich declared the Tea Party movement dead.
Should anyone care what he has to say about it or any of its members now?
Hopefully, these Democrats feel true terror for that they have brought on this nation.
Frank’s like 1984’s miserable Winston Smith, if Winston were a rump wrangler. And looney tunes.
Pelosi says Tea Party “Astroturf” yet shares some of her concerns
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday repeated her accusation that the Republican Party is orchestrating some of the activities of the Tea Party movement. Nevertheless she believes the movement shares some views with Democrats.
Pelosi, who has represented California’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives for approaching 23 years, spoke Sunday on the ABC program “This Week” and repeated an accusation she has made regarding the alleged link between the GOP and the Tea Party movement.
Responding to questions from Elizabeth Vargas of ABC the House Speaker again used the term “Astroturf” when referring to what she believes is the Republican Party “hijacking the good intentions of lots of people who share some of our concerns”.
Asked by Vargas if the Tea Party is a force, returning to previous comments she had made when talking about the movement, Pelosi said:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/288283
As you know, I often end my Grega-logues with the phrase: “If you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than Hitler.” At times I’ve changed it to “you’re probably a racist”; “you’re probably a homophobe” and, my favorite: “You’re probably a racist homophobe who wears denim cutoffs.”
Most people get it, some don’t. Especially clueless are those lefties outraged that I would compare people to Hitler — amazingly ignorant that I’m mocking them for doing the same thing with Bush and Cheney.
Anyway, I assumed that the left would finally stop this crap, now that they’ve got their God in charge. But no.
Check out TheRoot.com, a Washington Post blog, whose list “Black Folks We’d Like to Remove From Black History” includes Clarence Thomas and Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele — alongside Idi Amin, the “D.C. Sniper,” Zimbabwe thug Robert Mugabe and Haitian dictators “Papa Doc” and “Baby Doc” Duvalier.
Their point: Black Republicans are as bad as genocidal maniacs.
Meanwhile, during a Senate hearing, socialist Bernie Sanders compared climate change skeptics to Nazi appeasers. How weird is it that a socialist would have the stones to say capitalists are worse than Hitler.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587486,00.html
Frank Rich is obviously seeking to deflect serious investigation into the anti-IRS guy because he knows who was really behind this, and may well have been involved in the planning!
Frank Rich wouldn’t know a terrorist even if one teabagged him.
How rich!
I want my shoe back Frank....can you please pull it from your arse? =.=
Its always amusing to see what passes for intellectualism on the left. Rich is a certified idiot. Remember when he basically implied that people were gonna watch the Passion Of The Christ and then they were gonna go out and commit violence against jews. Of course the people who generally commit violence against jews (i.e., Hamas) have the approval of people like Rich.
He’s gotta get his talking points right. Nancy Pelosi herself says she shares many goals and beliefs with the tea partiers. So they must be cool.
(((PING)))
He has a lot more in common with William Ayers (who also targeted the IRS in addition to military recruiters and police).
Maybe a Medal of FReedom nominee?
5.56mm
“The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.”
Logical action for the federal government from Rich’s column: lock up anybody who doesn’t agree with the Obama admin’s march towards socialism. Dangerous people...dangerous dissenters from the god of socialism. Lock them up.
Don't remember who posted this here last year, but it says it all.
Conservatives are civil, hard working and law abiding citizens who have a hard time saying a profane word or desiring anything harmful to their fellow citizen.
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