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Juan Williams: 'Don't Tread on Me' Flags are 'Timothy McVeigh' Imagery
NewsBusters ^ | Tue, 03/30/2010 - | Matthew Balan

Posted on 03/30/2010 4:19:10 PM PDT by onyx

On Monday's O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, NPR news analyst Juan Williams furthered the left's talking point about the tea party's supposed connection to militias, and even went so far to claim that the Gadsden or "Don't Tread on Me" flags used by the conservative grassroots movement is "the same imagery that was on Timothy McVeigh"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bumrap; culpepper; democrats; donttreadonme; dumbkopf; duplicate; flags; gadsden; inciteracism; juanwillimas; liberalfascism; liberals; militia; reichstag; reichstaggers; setup
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To: Gone_Postal

Hey there, my good friend!

You’re so right about that and I think Juan knew ahead of time precisely what he wanted to say!

Invoking McVeigh did it for me. That was completely out of line and completely uncalled for.


81 posted on 03/30/2010 4:43:32 PM PDT by onyx (Facts don't matter. Proof not required. Anything goes! Racial slurs, death threats.....)
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To: onyx

Juan Williams is a radical leftist who is now slavishly defending every action of 0bama. It’s a toxic mix of political blindness and racial solidarity in action. Quite disgusting to witness. The guy has no credibility in my estimation. Now I have to get one of those damned flags.


82 posted on 03/30/2010 4:43:56 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: Paperdoll
Apparently he is FOX’S token Socialist. He’s on there alot.

I've noticed that they've significally upped the number of socialists and liberals lately. Geraldo is a prime example, but I recall seeing that clown Colmes as well lately.

I don't mind liberals, I hate liars...which tends to have a high degree of overlap.

83 posted on 03/30/2010 4:43:59 PM PDT by highlander_UW (Happiness doesn't come from owning something; it comes from being a part of something)
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To: onyx
My pleasure, Onyx! Use it freely, FRiend!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
84 posted on 03/30/2010 4:44:19 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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To: blackbart.223

There are two houses on my street flying the yellow Gadsden.


85 posted on 03/30/2010 4:44:29 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: John-Irish
After hearing him twice this evening trying to claim that companies were taking these write offs to their bottom lines I'm sure of two things. Juan has never had a real job and two.......he's an idiot...but that's redundant on my part.
86 posted on 03/30/2010 4:44:30 PM PDT by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 161)
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To: blackbart.223
"As to Williams, he is the reason I don't watch Hannity anymore. Williams is on too often. "

Bob Beckel was the tipping point with me regarding Hannity.

I think Hannity feels some personal need to keep that bloated, smug liberal talking point in work.

87 posted on 03/30/2010 4:44:34 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: onyx

” B.A. in philosophy in 1976”

That’s the problem. The government and the media are run by philosophy, political science, and journalism majors who have no real skills and no real job experience.

They are making the critical decisions that the rest of us must live with, while they live in privileged splendor.


88 posted on 03/30/2010 4:45:58 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: onyx

Poor Juan....sucks to be stupid.


89 posted on 03/30/2010 4:47:07 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Socialism is for people who've given up.)
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To: onyx
Juan Williams as a nutty as a fruitcake.



90 posted on 03/30/2010 4:47:37 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Trod Upon

I agree with your every word and I am going to get a flag too!


91 posted on 03/30/2010 4:48:12 PM PDT by onyx (Facts don't matter. Proof not required. Anything goes! Racial slurs, death threats.....)
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To: onyx
Speaking of imagery...For me, Juan Williams conjures up a clear image of Ho Chi Minh...
92 posted on 03/30/2010 4:48:32 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: onyx
Juan Williams: 'Don't Tread on Me' Flags are 'Timothy McVeigh' Imagery

Hey, Juan. Didn't you know it's the height of patriotism to fight and defeat a government that is destructive of your God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, amongst others, even if it's your own government? We have this on the highest authority of the signers of the Declaration of Independence as well as through many other writings by these same signers. They also believed that it was right and proper to so fill agents of the government with fear over an armed uprising that they desist from using the force of the government to infringe on the people's liberty. Juanito, this is just a matter of history. Learn some.
93 posted on 03/30/2010 4:49:06 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Fiddlstix

Enjoy tomorrow. :)


94 posted on 03/30/2010 4:49:13 PM PDT by onyx (Facts don't matter. Proof not required. Anything goes! Racial slurs, death threats.....)
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To: onyx
Hey Juan, check this link out. You might just learn something:

http://www.foundingfathers.info/stories/gadsden.html

From the site:

"To accompany the Navy on their first mission, Congress also authorized the mustering of five companies of Marines. The Alfred and its sailors and marines went on to achieve some of the most notable victories of the American Revolution. But that's not the story we're interested in here. What's particularly interesting for us is that some of the Marines that enlisted that month in Philadelphia were carrying drums painted yellow, emblazoned with a fierce rattlesnake, coiled and ready to strike, with thirteen rattles, and sporting the motto "Don't Tread on Me."

Mr. Juan Williams can kiss my ever-lovin', hairy, camo'ed Marine Corps ass!
95 posted on 03/30/2010 4:49:30 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: onyx

“THE GADSDEN FLAG: In January 1776 Col. Christopher Gadsden left Philadelphia,where he had served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and a member ofthe Marine Committee, to return to South Carolina. He brought with him to Charleston the flag he had designed for use by the commander in chief of the American Navy, whose vessels were assembled in the frozen Delaware River. His presentation of this flag to the Provincial Congress of South Carolina on February 9, 1776, is recorded in the congressional journals:
Col. Gadsden presented to the Congress an elegant standard, such as is to be used by the commander in chief of the American navy; being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattle-snake in the middle, in the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath, “Don’t Tread on Me!”
This flag was that day ordered preserved in the hall of the South Carolina Provincial Congress.
And this note from the maintainer of a web site on American flags:

Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 23:36:58 -0500
From: Duane Streufert
Subject: Re: Don’t Tread On Me Flag
Dear David,

Eventually I will have info on the “Gadsden Flag” on the Page, but for now I’ll quote from a book I have on hand. (This flag is of a yellow background with a coiled rattlesnake and the words “Don’t Tread On Me” beneath it.) Less well known is the 1st Navy Jack, having 13 red and white stripes witha rippling form of a rattlesnake stretched across them, and the words ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ below.

“The American Revolutionary period was a time of intense but controlled individualism - when self-directing responsible individuals again and again decided for themselves what they should do, and did it- without needing anyone else to give them an assignment or supervise them in carrying it out.

Such a person was the patriot Colonel Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina. He had seen and liked a bright yellow banner with a hissing, coiled rattlesnake rising up in the center, and beneath the serpent thesame words that appeared on the Striped Rattlesnake Flag - Don’t Tread On Me.

Colonel Gadsden made a copy of this flag and submitted the design to the Provincial Congress in South Carolina. Commodore Esek Hopkins, commander of the new Continental fleet, carried a similar flag in February, 1776, whenhis ships put to sea for the first time.

Hopkins captured large stores of British cannon and military supplies in the Bahamas. His cruise marked the salt-water baptism of the American Navy, and it saw the first landing of the Corps of Marines, on whose drums the Gadsden symbol was painted.

Patriotically Yours,
Duane Streufert


96 posted on 03/30/2010 4:50:06 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Their Walls Are Built Of Cannon Balls, Their Motto Is "Don't Tread On Me".)
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To: Lucky9teen

Put one on my kayak too.


97 posted on 03/30/2010 4:50:12 PM PDT by Renegade ("Bring it on while I still don't need glasses to shoot your eye out ")
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To: proudofthesouth
I’ve always, always hated tattoos and could never imagine myself getting one. But with what is going on in this country that is one image I’m sorely tempted to get a tattoo of!

Years of Ft. Bragg, years of riding, years of raisin' hell, and I never got a tat. But like you, I am asking around to find the best shop in town to get a Gadsden.

98 posted on 03/30/2010 4:50:13 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: onyx

Anything to take the attention off the HC bill. If you through enough mud against the wall, eventually something will stick!


99 posted on 03/30/2010 4:50:56 PM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: ought-six

Juan Williams is Afro-Panamanian.


100 posted on 03/30/2010 4:51:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Islam is incompatible with American traditions and values)
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