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New York Times Op-Ed Accuses Tea Party Of 'Assaults On Public Officials'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 02/02/2013 5:56:44 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Looks like liberals are still trying to peddle the discredited allegation that Tea Party members attacked black members of Congress.

The op-ed page of today's New York Times contains a column by James Sleeper, a long-time left-wing activist, now a lecturer at Yale. The gist is the grudging respect that Sleeper came to have for Ed Koch, the former New York City mayor who passed away two days ago. Sleeper writes of how as mayor, Koch wrestled to the ground a protester who had stormed the stage as he spoke and pelted him with eggs. Sleeper wrote that Koch's asking whether they wanted the other protesters removed looked demagogic at the time, then added "[b]ut not so much now, with Tea Party heckling and assaults on public officials."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andrewbreitbart; assault; jamessleeper; medialyingdying; newyorktimes; nyr; nyt; teaparty

1 posted on 02/02/2013 5:57:00 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Liberal still recirculating lie about Tea Party assaulting public officials. Put up or shut up ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 02/02/2013 5:58:06 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Liberal still recirculating lie about Tea Party assaulting public officials. Put up or shut up ping to Today show list.


3 posted on 02/02/2013 5:58:56 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s not the facts, it’s the seriousness of the charge. Liberals have been lying about conservatives for decades. It’s how they justify their existence.


4 posted on 02/02/2013 6:00:09 AM PST by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

James Sleeper needs to name names so we can sue him back to the paleolithic ~ right down to the skivvies ~ then sell him on the slave blocks in Saudi.


6 posted on 02/02/2013 6:00:44 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Asking for proof of accusations is RACIST.


7 posted on 02/02/2013 6:02:24 AM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
More liberal scapegoating of evil racist old white conservatives.


8 posted on 02/02/2013 6:18:56 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

One needs to understand that, to a liberal, challenging a liberal leader about his political decisions and positions, constitutes assault.

So, the tea party people conducted a lot of “assaults” in 2010 when Obamacare was being discussed. Free speech is not free speech, and constitutes “assault” when a liberal is challenged. It’s as simple as that.


9 posted on 02/02/2013 6:31:40 AM PST by adorno (Y)
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Please keep ‘em coming! Thank you all very much!

10 posted on 02/02/2013 6:36:44 AM PST by RedMDer (HEY LIBS! GUN FREE ZONE T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE NOW. I DARE YA!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

A January 2013 NBC/Wall St. Journal poll shows the Tea Party currently has a 49 percent disapproval rating!

The American people believe the movement did something wrong - the disastrous summer 2011 debt ceiling standoff with President Obama, or the heckling at public meetings, or all the disrespectful signs found at demonstrations - in order to garner such terrible numbers.


11 posted on 02/02/2013 6:41:28 AM PST by Perkalong (GOP 2013 = Whigs 1856)
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To: Perkalong

49% of the populace don’t know who the vice president is.

They only know what the media tells them. If the media told them the tea party was good they’d think it was good.

Instead they think the occupy movement is good.


12 posted on 02/02/2013 6:55:14 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Perkalong

Your ripping on the Tea Party is offbase. The only Americans who have a problem with the Tea Party are liberal scum. This poll you cite is bs!


13 posted on 02/02/2013 7:32:19 AM PST by ohioman
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Be warned.

The last time the news media orchestrated these type of news stories about the TEA Party, there was an attempted car bombing in NYC they tried to pin on the Tea Party because it was a fertilizer bomb like OKC.

The “spontaneous” lie with the attack in Libya was to try and make people believe the terrorist are so in tune with the news they can pick up on a news story and plan an attack around that news story.

The terrorist are not picking up on news stories and planning their attacks around the news, the news is being orchestrated for the attacks.

There’s a terrorist attack coming down the pike, and they are laying the ground work to once again try and blame it on the oh so violent Tea Party.


14 posted on 02/02/2013 7:44:06 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Perkalong

“all the disrespectful signs found at demonstrations”

Just which signs are you referring to?

Are we under some obligation to quietly accept Obama’s destruction of America?

Do his policies show any “respect” for the Constitution that he took an oath to uphold and defend?


15 posted on 02/02/2013 7:47:39 AM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: IMR 4350
There’s a terrorist attack coming down the pike, and they are laying the ground work to once again try and blame it on the oh so violent Tea Party.

Yup. Needs to be mentioned every day. The government/MSM complex is manufacturing a false flag event. It's important to track the lies, refute them, and establish the data points so that they are memorialized and at the ready in order to trip up the big lie right at the door.

16 posted on 02/02/2013 7:50:28 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Does James Sleeper own a firearm?
When was the last time James Sleeper was arrested for child pornography?
Is James Sleeper still addicted to opium?
How many times has James Sleeper traveled to Thailand?
Is James Sleeper court mandated to disclose his HIV status to potential partners?

The people demand answers.


17 posted on 02/02/2013 7:54:42 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (This Message Contains Privileged Attorney-Client Communications)
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To: Sirius Lee

Too many people simply refuse to admit to themselves that the left would kill thousands of American citizens in it’s quest for absolute power.

To a lot of these people it will always be “Just a coincidence” that the left always has it’s talking points in place prior to a terrorist attack.

To others, they will convince themselves the terrorist are simply picking up on the news stories being orchestrated by the left and planning their attacks around the news.

All will be outraged how the left has “Taken advantage” of the terrorist attack to advance their agenda.

It doesn’t make any difference how much evidence is presented that the left is orchestrating the news for the attacks in order to advance their agenda, people refuse to believe it.


18 posted on 02/02/2013 8:10:07 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I have a FORMER friend (No, I don’t stay friends with fools once I’ve realized it!) who insists the Tea Parry and all associated with it are violent crazed morons, and refuses to consider any facts to the contrary.
The scariest part of that is, this guy is a respected psychologist.

We are in such deep doodoo.


19 posted on 02/03/2013 11:01:00 AM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: Perkalong

You’re not fooling anybody, lib; just thought you should know. (And enjoy your sure to be short stay on FR, dweeb.)


20 posted on 02/03/2013 11:12:38 AM PST by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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