Mark Murray, MSNBC Girly Man
Posted on 06/15/2010 5:20:12 AM PDT by markomalley
Rick Barber -- a Tea Party Republican competing in a congressional run-off down in Alabama -- is airing the first TV ad this reporter can remember that advocates taking up arms against the United States.
Seriously.
In the ad (below), Barber has a discussion with men dressed up as America's founding fathers. "I would impeach him," Barber says at the beginning, obviously a reference to impeaching President Obama.
Barber continues, "Today we have an Internal Revenue Service that enforces what they call a 'progressive' income tax... Now this same IRS is going to force us to buy health insurance, cram it down our throats or else. Now I took an oath to defend that [the U.S. Constitution] with my life, and I can't stand by while these evils are perpetrated. You, gentleman, revolted over a tea tax! A tea tax! Now look at us. Are you with me?"
One of the men dressed like a U.S. founding father -- George Washington? -- replies, "Gather your armies." And to drive home the point, there are clear images of pistols in the ad.
(videos at link)
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Amen
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."-- Thomas Jefferson
Sounds to me like he’s calling for arms against the ENEMIES of the United States.....
Yet another metrosexual wienie with his knickers in a twist. They know what’s coming and they are wetting their pink panties. Nothing to see here...move on.
Good commercial!
Washington saying “Gather. Your. Armies”? That’s not advocating taking up arms?
Groups that wish to “up arms against the United States’:
1) Black Panthers
2) La Raza
3) friends of Bill Ayers
4) Environmental Liberation Front
5) ACORN
Ironically, these groups are NEVER mentioned as armed revolutionary organizations yet let a conservative person just mention ‘guns and government’ in the same sentence,and this person is immediately labeled a ‘right wing kook’ by our non partial media.
Wow! A candidate who’s actually saying what 40% of the country is thinking.
No. What it says to me is gather your army of voters and change things. A 'call to arms' only in the metaphorical sense. Taking things so seriously and being so sensitive to a turn of phrase is a typical liberal response. Just as they flipped out (or pretended to) over Sarah Palins' bulls eye map. I have no doubt the vast majority are feigning outrage, but it plays well in the media. I'm sick to death of coddling these idiots.
I think it’s probably less than that. “What would happen to my favorite TV shows?”
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I have been reading the Partriot’s History of the United States. I am about half way. I have enjoyed reading about every era. The founding fathers were brilliant men but they were also flawed humans and knew it.
I highly recommend it. My wife is also amazed that I would take on a 900 page book. I’m not much of a bookie.
Exactly. It is about gathering our army of voters. I liked the guys passion.
Sorry, it just hands me a laugh just how “scared” these
girly-men and manny-girls over at MSNBC manage to get over
anything that speaks bluntly, that shows “visible guns”, that nvokes the Founding Fathers in a hypothetical “advisory” role , as this video does. (Though my speakers are out, and I didn’t watch it)
Sad thing is, it’s all an act: like everyone on the Left these days, they are students in how to pull off the fine art of ‘moral outrage’, but it’s all an act, a rhetorical device that used to be limited to ad hominem debate. NOW it’s everywhere, with spin doctors monopolizing face time and voice time on ALL media venues: radio, TV, awards shows,etc.
To “roll it back” to our “Constitutional footing,” you’d have to roll it back before Andrew Jackson’s and Abraham Lincoln’s Presidencies. Those are the men who insisted on the primacy of the Union of the States.
Why stop at 1900? Why not 1820?
Like I said in a previous post, that was just the point I’d gotten to in my review of American history. I’m sure I’d want it rolled back even further. My primary focus is on individual freedom, property rights, and gun rights. Seems 1900 is a good starting point.
I have no problem at all with the ad or any messages associated with it.
You’re going to run into that old devil of the 19th Century - slavery. Property rights, individual rights .... I guess you can even count gun rights, if you consider the question of armed separation from the Union.
Who should have preeminence? The individual States, or the Union? What parts of the Federal government do we consider legitimate, and what rights should be determined at the state level?
Sounds like you are getting a great door into the whole vast literature of American History. Think that bug has bitten you so badly that you’ll become a “bookie” now?
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