Posted on 03/25/2010 8:48:41 PM PDT by Nachum
IOWA CITY, IOWA -- He had no plans to throw bricks, issue death threats, spit in faces or scream racial slurs. But Randy Millam, 52, intended to make a scene, so he woke up early Thursday morning to prepare for President Obama's visit.
Millam sat at his kitchen table in Lowden, Iowa, with 14 Sharpie markers and a piece of foam board, working to condense a year of frustration into a 3-by-3-foot catchphrase. "Chains We Can Believe In," he wrote, drawing the communist hammer and sickle on the poster's top left corner. Then he grabbed an American flag, inserted batteries into a megaphone bought on the cheap for $25 and guzzled a 24-hour energy drink. Just as Obama took off in Air Force One for Iowa City, Millam loaded into his muddy Ford Fusion and drove 50 miles across the cornfields of eastern Iowa.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
DNC lying propaganda is in full force.
Give the man a medal. TOo bad there was no picture of him.
The anti-Obama protesters had plenty of focused and valid issues they wanted to highlight. The legislation is unconstitutional, the legality of passing it is questionable, the legislation was voted on before there was even a real bill for the American public to see, and so on.
A student, someone who liberals present as a paragon of civic virtue and wisdom, probably someone whose parents paid for his education (and his dumbass iPod and sunglasses as well) and who has probably never held a job or paid taxes, mocks them.
The difference could not be more stark. The commentary by that student's sign is all the liberals generally have to offer.
I’m a former print journalist. Sad but true. I read the lede for this story and I almost had a projectile vomit. Here’s the lede:
>>>He had no plans to throw bricks, issue death threats, spit in faces or scream racial slurs.<<<
I’ve covered a fair number of demonstrations, near-riots, political events, and speeches. If ever you needed proof that the print media is inhabited by narrow-minded, bigoted, hate-filled leftists, this is it. Imagine the follow ledes:
He’s not a rapist or a pedophile. He’s just looking forward to his wedding.
He’s not going to smash heads with iron pipes, steal elections, or use mob-style threats to quash the opposition. He’s simply one of the candidates for the local union local holding an election for the group’s president.
She’s not on therapeutic medication, she doesn’t want to castrate men, and she’s not on a mission against patriarchial injustice. She’s simply the new director of the local women’s shelter.
And if there is any more proof needed that I made the right choice when I left the print media behind 12 years ago, this is also it.
Please flood this reporter and his editor and his publisher with your disgust at his opinated and wrongheaded prose. If you live in the area, flood the letters to the editor. If you want to really up the ante and state law is appropriate, complain about hate speech to the appropriate agency.
I’ve gotta brush my teeth now. Yeech.
Me Like!
That gives me an idea. I think I'm make a sign too....
Keep Your Chains!
Or...how about....
No Change = No Chains
No real shock but apparently the writer is unfamiliar with the Gadsden flag and it's historical aspect.
Lowden Iowa is Everytown, USA.
Randy Millam is Everyman.
Journalistic tricks aside, they really captured the heart of what is driving the Tea Party here, and what is driving about 60% of Americans completely crazy. Good article.
PSYOPS in full swing, trying to make the people connect violence with peaceful protests. Expect more Alinsky tactics from the Dems.
In other words, he's not a Democrat-Fascist.
We can know that because of the gloating of the Democratic leadership. They seem so sure we know our place.
In the past they had control of 38% of the voting public. Now they think they have control of a big majority of the voting public.
They believe that the rights of the people are really the rights of the government. We will see about that.
I think we have a bit of droll irony here about the alleged right wing vandalism. Even the Wash Post knows this is big news now.
More people know these accusations are phoney baloney than the media thinks.
“He had no plans to throw bricks, issue death threats, spit in faces or scream racial slurs.”
But yet, they can’t prove it was even done...
If anyone really believed that those protesters were a tenth as dangerous as the media describes them, then I doubt that this 'student' would be found within a mile of that place.
Great story. Hard to believe that the Washington Post published it.
It’s actually a pretty unbiased account of what has gone through this man’s mind, and his reactions to an over-reaching government which has gone madly Socialist.
Comments at the end of the article, however, are a different story. About half are by liberals, defending their boy king, and yes, blaming Bush.
The left and the MSM do not seem to be able to grasp a simple fact, Obama lost the debate on healthcare with a majority of the American People. They can’t grasp that the Tea Party movement is not comprised of a political group ala ACORN. Oh no, it is comprised of CITIZENS. Everyday, ordinary citizens, moderates, conservatives, and even some old school democrats who are dissapoointed that their party was taken over by leftists.
Failing to understand this movement and the anger in this country, Obama and his party resort to the tired tactic of screaming racism and attempting to classify criticism of the Health Care bill as being “politically incorrect” or “hate speech.”
The punch line is that the same people they are denegrating are the very people who they think are going to vote for them come November. The dems are in effect saying: “hey, you racist, sexist, homophobe idiots, stop complaining about healthcare. Just because you have read the bill and know what is in it does not mean that you know what is in it. You are not allowed to disagree with us and must be silenced. Now, vote for us this November and show us that you got the message.”
Yep, I am sure the voters will get right on that.
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