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House Democrat Leaders: Tea Partiers Are Racist, Nazi, Gun Nuts
The Weekly Standard ^ | April 16, 2009 12:31 PM | Posted by Brian Faughnan

Posted on 04/16/2009 11:58:07 AM PDT by lewisglad

If the Obama administration has taken flak for suggesting that conservative groups might be home to domestic terrorists, it looks like some House Democrat leaders are willing to go even further:

But in an interview on Fox TV in San Francisco, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) chalked up the GOP grass-roots effort as “AstroTurf.”

“This initiative is funded by the high end; we call it AstroTurf, it's not really a grass-roots movement. It's AstroTurf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class,” Pelosi said.

Other House Democratic leaders took a different tack: One senior aide has been circulating a document to the media that debunks the effort as one driven by corporate lobbyists and attended by neo-Nazis...

In addition, the tea parties are “not really all about average citizens,” the document continues, saying neo-Nazis, militias, secessionists and racists are attending them. The tea parties are also not peaceful, since reporters in Cincinnati had to seek “police protection” during one of the events, it states.

The suggestions that these tea parties are driven by DC-based groups is laughable; Liz Mair takes a critical look and concludes the charge is baseless. Besides the points that Mair makes, it's worth noting that while there have been dozens of tea parties, few have featured conservative candidates or representatives of DC think tanks and lobbying groups.

As far as the charge that these rallies are composed of Nazis and terrorists, that's hard to reconcile with the pictures of participants. There are too many young children and grandparents. Further, even a strong Obama supporter like Susan Roesgen didn't turn up any violent types at the Chicago Tea Party, despite her best attempt to provoke a strong reaction.

There probably aren't many Democrats who genuinely believe the charges levied by their leadership. Nate Silver guesstimates that about 250,000 people have attended the tea parties - so far. Do Ms. Pelosi and other Democrat leaders think they're all neo-nazis?

If this is a conversation they want to have, however, perhaps Ms. Pelosi can explain the role of Marxists and North Korean sympathizers in the U.S. anti-war movement, or discuss how George Soros bought such influence in the Democratic party. It's not a debate that would help Democrats, since it's relatively easy to show the role of fringe extremists in the Democratic grassroots.

'Senior Democrats' ought to have the courage to publicly assert what they're whispering to the media. But if they're afraid to admit that they're slandering hundreds of thousands of grassroots organizers and activists, is it too much to hope that some reporter will share a copy of these secret talking points?


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To: lewisglad
One senior aide has been circulating a document to the media that debunks the effort as one driven by corporate lobbyists and attended by neo-Nazis...

Written by David Axelrod, and distributed by Rahm Emanuel, no doubt.

21 posted on 04/16/2009 12:13:07 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: lewisglad

Now as conservatives worried about being tagged as “racists” (gosh...is there ANYTHING worse?), we are supposed to bend over and point out all the black people that showed up at the Tea Parties.

Sorry, but if there was not one black face at any Tea Party, in the entire United States, that does not make us racists.

It is instead an indictment of American blacks, and their dependency mentality, and perhaps THEIR racism.


22 posted on 04/16/2009 12:13:28 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: lewisglad

The left accuses us of everything they are and do.


23 posted on 04/16/2009 12:13:32 PM PDT by Lera
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To: lewisglad
Maybe the Dems would have felt more at ease were there a few FREE MUMIA or CHE GUEVARA signs displayed by the tea partiers. /s
24 posted on 04/16/2009 12:15:02 PM PDT by mellow velo
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To: lewisglad
"“This initiative is funded by the high end; we call it AstroTurf, it's not really a grass-roots movement. It's AstroTurf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class,” Pelosi said. "

The woman is a liar. She knows better.

sw

25 posted on 04/16/2009 12:15:47 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: lewisglad
The United States Post Office (wall) could become America's cour d’honneur during the reign of this Marxist administration.
26 posted on 04/16/2009 12:15:54 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: lewisglad

Since everything the libs disagree with is racist, this charge means nothing.


27 posted on 04/16/2009 12:16:37 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Bahamas!)
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To: lewisglad

they are all living in lala land


28 posted on 04/16/2009 12:16:59 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“Wow. Guess the black people and Asians that showed up to our protest didn’t get the memo. /s”

Ditto here. In Virginia Beach, a small handful of blacks, Asians and Hispanics showed up. They were well-behaved and carrying/wearing anti-pork gear, so most likely they weren’t ACORN plants. The Tea Party movement is catching on across the board. That is the nasty, inconvenient little truth that so annoys the left.


29 posted on 04/16/2009 12:17:21 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Meanwhile, the sheeple graze mindlessly while awaiting slaughter at Hope and Change Ranch)
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To: mellow velo

Leftists all are a bunch of Che wannabes.
Never forget, they’d just love to put dissenters “to the wall”.

And the latest DHS memo is an enemies list.


30 posted on 04/16/2009 12:17:26 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: Bosco
and people who weren’t listening before are now

Yes indeed they are.

31 posted on 04/16/2009 12:17:27 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: lewisglad

“not really all about average citizens”

Here’s DUmocrats definition of their citizens being themselves (you’ll really enjoy the last one)...I’ll bet not one of these trash got a vist from the Secret Service or the FBI:

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee193/trodas_cr/support_resistance_in_iraq.jpg

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210202/replies?c=33

http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/files/Democrats_anti-war_rally_NY_Image2.jpg.jpeg

http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/palineffigy.jpg

http://chenzhen.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/flagburning.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BL-1IKSbhV4/RgGXCtUcfyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/_7m64k649xo/s320/effigy003.jpg

http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/04/0304/0304/i-love-newyork.jpg


32 posted on 04/16/2009 12:17:41 PM PDT by RasterMaster (DUmocrats - the party of slavery, sedition, subversion, socialism & surrender)
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To: lewisglad; All
I've read a lot of news reports today on the tea parties, as well as comments left by rabid liberals, and through all the sneers and nastiness, I'm seeing a very distinct thread of frustration, exasperation, and even fear, that we Conservatives are not buckling under and accepting Obama's socialist makeover of this country without a big fight.

In fact, it looks to me like that, underneath it all, the libs are truly dismayed at the tea parties and the fact that Conservatives are beginning to strike back, using the libs own tactics against them.

33 posted on 04/16/2009 12:17:52 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Jane Austen

“Since everything the libs disagree with is racist, this charge means nothing.”

If anything, it’s a badge of honor. If it irritates the libtards, it’s a good thing.


34 posted on 04/16/2009 12:18:19 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Meanwhile, the sheeple graze mindlessly while awaiting slaughter at Hope and Change Ranch)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

throw in a bit of 10th amendment “stick it” talk, and their heads will explode.


35 posted on 04/16/2009 12:19:10 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: lewisglad

Let’s show them in 2010 what the Tea Parties were really about.


36 posted on 04/16/2009 12:19:15 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: lewisglad

Given that the Nazis were socialists, I would say this fails.


37 posted on 04/16/2009 12:19:19 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Defend America from the Communist.)
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To: ScottinVA

Yes.


38 posted on 04/16/2009 12:19:50 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Bahamas!)
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To: lewisglad

Libs always accuse of doing EXACTLY what they do.


39 posted on 04/16/2009 12:20:28 PM PDT by TankerKC (Revenge and Envy--the new Principles of Freerepublic?)
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To: MrB

The liberals’ constant public whinings over the last 8 years were attended by students and out-of-work `community organizer’ types, masked or not, and assorted other human geeks & freaks and societal derelicts.
From the photos I’ve seen it was clear the people attending the tea parties were either taxpayers taking a day off work or retired people or good looking children—all normal Americans, attitude: “loaded for bear”.
The congressional politburo should be scared.....


40 posted on 04/16/2009 12:21:01 PM PDT by tumblindice (You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all .... etc.)
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