And we even learn a thing or two from books we read which we disagree with, like how to counter the fools who use the book above as a means to power.
Posted on 08/26/2011 1:29:22 PM PDT by denydenydeny
Even though it will be pointedly ignored by mainstream media types wed to the narrative that the Tea Party is a spontaneous uprising of people who were apolitical before Obama sent them around the bend, I'm guessing many of you read with interest Robert Putnam and David Campbell's distillation of their intense research in political attitudes of Americans that shows that the "Tea Party" is the same ol' rightwing base, but just with a new name. And they're the most Bible-thumping-est part of the rightwing base (as well as the most racist – these things tend to go together). Write Putnam and Campbell:
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Whats this calumny about ‘most racist’? Evidence?
Should we be surprised. At least this person is willing to grant the idea that Tea Party folks have the ability to read. And of course, all of the anti-Christian rhetoric is worked in on wanting to ban books. Conservatives and people who follow Jesus are their most feared opponents.
And we even learn a thing or two from books we read which we disagree with, like how to counter the fools who use the book above as a means to power.
And why should I care?
Oh, by the way...
Obama and Bloomidiotberg have already banned the Constitution, and most of all the Bill of Rights.
No religious types allowed to honor the victims of the 911 Mass Murdering Muslim Maniacs.
It’s the UK Guardian what do you expect ? On;y the ignerent pay any attention to what it says
Wow. In terms of pure bigotry the Tea Party membership is going to have to go a long way to top that one.
No mention in the article about the progressives wanting to edit “Huckleberry Finn” due to PC concerns.
So let me get this straight, one high school PTA want to prevent the book Slaughterhouse 5 from being onthe sylabus and “Think Progress” gee no agenda there makes a big deal out of it and all of a sudden every tea party memeber everywhere is now a book burning nazi?
Sloppy crappy eurotrash “journalism”.
Marcotte is a barking moonbat loon.
Those are complete lies.
One of the few tenets of the Tea Party is to uphold the Constitution, which is maybe the single most important document promoting free speech. The Tea Party is for individual rights and limited government. Libertarians are respected supporters of the Tea Party.
The Tea Party is FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE. It is silent on social issues and is tolerant of all sides who support it’s goals of limited government.
It is The Left more than the religious right who want to ban books and politically incorrect speech. They seek to ban books that are deemed insensitive in the areas of sex and gay rights. They will smear and destroy anyone who opposes their ideology in all areas. Intimidation is a powerful weapon for them to shut up potential dissenters.
The good thing is that the Tea Party has developed a pretty good coat of teflon. More and more Americans are realizing how ridiculous and vicious these attacks are.
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Manual for destroying any civil order.
There is no Tea Party. There is a Tea Party Movement, and how does a movement ban books?
I wonder what the screw heads at the Guardian think is worse?
Telling a child who is not yert an adult they won;t be reading a certain book in school as part of an assignment because they are too young?
Or telling students who just became adults who are old enough to drive/vote/drink that they don’t have free speech on college campuses due to “speech codes”?
Gee, I wonder what thwe guardian would say and where is their outcry against speech codes on Liberal College Campuses???????
The Left bans books, not the right.
Hitler did it, Stalin did it, Mao did it. Totalitarian leftists all.
Conservatives don’t ban books (though they do care what books get shown to their children).
You’re missing the point. The article is nonsense and I doubt if even the author of this piece believes this nonsense. THE IDEA IS TO CREATE ONE SIMPLE HEADLINE / SOUNDBITE. That’s all. It will get thousands of Facebook postings and no one will read the stupid article but millions will see the seven word headline and learn to hate the Tea Party.
This is EXACTLY why the Tea Party’s ideas poll at 70-75% but the Tea Party itself polls at 18%.
A leftist trying to understand the Tea Party is like Robert Byrd in 1964 trying to understand the Civil Rights movement.
Yeah, and it was a bunch of atheists that protested and eventually killed slavery.
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