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After the very ugly looking antics perpatrated by the left over Kavanaugh, we’ve seen a wild swing in polling in the GOP’s favor. While the left wings prominent politicians encourage an increase in these ugly antics, the left wing media is attempting to provide them cover by trying to prohibit anyone from calling what is clearly a mob by its proper name, a mob. This attempt was tried by both Brooke Bawldwin and Don lemon.
We’ve all seen and heard about the numerous occasions when prominent members of GOP are accosted by mobs at restaurants, at work, out in public, and are chased away. We’ve seen the “protesters” claw at the Supreme Court doors. We’ve seen dozens of Antifa protests attended by hundreds or even thousands at a time, with no shortage of property damage, clashes with police, and even violence.
I am opening this thread to ask the left, when has the tea party done anything similar to what I’ve cited. Please post. Also, please post videos of the lefts obvious mobs. Let’s compare and contrast these two.
Now, I’m going to post how the media characterized the tea party. See if you can spot the hypocrisy in the narratives.
Sep. 2010 – Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: “Beneath the surface, the Tea Party is little more than a weird and disorderly mob, a federation of distinct and often competing strains of conservatism that have been unable to coalesce around a leader of their own choosing.”
June 2010 – NY Times Opinionator: “In a bracing and astringent essay in The New York Review of Books, pointedly titled “The Tea Party Jacobins,” Mark Lilla argued that the hodge-podge list of animosities Tea party supporters mention fail to cohere into a body of political grievances…He calls Tea Party activists a “libertarian mob” since they proclaim the belief “that they can do everything themselves if they are only left alone.”
April 2010 – Slate: “Historical fraudulence is like a disease, a contagious psychosis which can lead to mob hysteria and worse. Consider the role that fraudulent history played in Weimar Germany, where the “stab in the back” myth that the German Army had been cheated of victory in World War I by Jews and Socialists on the home front was used by the Nazis to justify their hatreds…It may be true that the Tea Party will disintegrate before it acquires any real power, as more and more of its leaders are revealed to be fanciers of racist jokes and bestiality videos. But one can’t be assured of it.”
May 2010 – HuffPost: “It doesn’t make me nervous as all,” the congressman said, when asked how the mob-like atmosphere made him feel. “In fact, as I said to one heckler, I am the hardest person in the world to intimidate, so they better go somewhere else.”
April 2010 – The Root – “Imagine that white members of Congress, while walking to work, were surrounded by thousands of angry black people, one of whom proceeded to spit on one of those congressmen for not voting the way the black demonstrators desired. Would the protesters be seen as merely patriotic Americans voicing their opinions, or as an angry, potentially violent, and even insurrectionary mob?”
August 2009 – Politico – Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s office is calling the protesters who swarmed him in Austin over the weekend a “mob,” and blaming the chaos on the local libertarian and Republican activists….”This mob, sent by the local Republican and Libertarian parties, did not come just to be heard, but to deny others the right to be heard.”
August 2009 – LA Times– Headline: “Town hall attacks on health care — mob rule or democracy in action?”
February 2010 – Christian Science Monitor: “The left paints the movement as a largely white and middle-class mob – and as including kooks who equate President Obama with Joseph Stalin.”
March 2010 – Think Progress: “Last weekend, as the House vote on health reform legislation neared, Republican lawmakers whipped tea party crowds into an angry mob.”
NYT -“According to Nocera, President Obama’s debt-ceiling deal with the Republicans violated a basic rule: “Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them.” He adds: “Much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people.” These “intransigent” spending cutters were indifferent to “blowing up the country” in pursuit of their goals. They are indifferent to “inflicting more pain on their countrymen” via “the terrible toll $2.4 trillion in cuts will take on the poor and the middle class” and the extra unemployment it will bring.”
We’ve all seen and heard about the numerous occasions when prominent members of GOP are accosted by mobs at restaurants, at work, out in public, and are chased away. We’ve seen the “protesters” claw at the Supreme Court doors. We’ve seen dozens of Antifa protests attended by hundreds or even thousands at a time, with no shortage of property damage, clashes with police, and even violence.
I am opening this thread to ask the left, when has the tea party done anything similar to what I’ve cited. Please post. Also, please post videos of the lefts obvious mobs. Let’s compare and contrast these two.
Now, I’m going to post how the media characterized the tea party. See if you can spot the hypocrisy in the narratives.
Sep. 2010 – Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: “Beneath the surface, the Tea Party is little more than a weird and disorderly mob, a federation of distinct and often competing strains of conservatism that have been unable to coalesce around a leader of their own choosing.”
June 2010 – NY Times Opinionator: “In a bracing and astringent essay in The New York Review of Books, pointedly titled “The Tea Party Jacobins,” Mark Lilla argued that the hodge-podge list of animosities Tea party supporters mention fail to cohere into a body of political grievances…He calls Tea Party activists a “libertarian mob” since they proclaim the belief “that they can do everything themselves if they are only left alone.”
April 2010 – Slate: “Historical fraudulence is like a disease, a contagious psychosis which can lead to mob hysteria and worse. Consider the role that fraudulent history played in Weimar Germany, where the “stab in the back” myth that the German Army had been cheated of victory in World War I by Jews and Socialists on the home front was used by the Nazis to justify their hatreds…It may be true that the Tea Party will disintegrate before it acquires any real power, as more and more of its leaders are revealed to be fanciers of racist jokes and bestiality videos. But one can’t be assured of it.”
May 2010 – HuffPost: “It doesn’t make me nervous as all,” the congressman said, when asked how the mob-like atmosphere made him feel. “In fact, as I said to one heckler, I am the hardest person in the world to intimidate, so they better go somewhere else.”
April 2010 – The Root – “Imagine that white members of Congress, while walking to work, were surrounded by thousands of angry black people, one of whom proceeded to spit on one of those congressmen for not voting the way the black demonstrators desired. Would the protesters be seen as merely patriotic Americans voicing their opinions, or as an angry, potentially violent, and even insurrectionary mob?”
August 2009 – Politico – Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s office is calling the protesters who swarmed him in Austin over the weekend a “mob,” and blaming the chaos on the local libertarian and Republican activists….”This mob, sent by the local Republican and Libertarian parties, did not come just to be heard, but to deny others the right to be heard.”
August 2009 – LA Times– Headline: “Town hall attacks on health care — mob rule or democracy in action?”
February 2010 – Christian Science Monitor: “The left paints the movement as a largely white and middle-class mob – and as including kooks who equate President Obama with Joseph Stalin.”
March 2010 – Think Progress: “Last weekend, as the House vote on health reform legislation neared, Republican lawmakers whipped tea party crowds into an angry mob.”
NYT -“According to Nocera, President Obama’s debt-ceiling deal with the Republicans violated a basic rule: “Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them.” He adds: “Much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people.” These “intransigent” spending cutters were indifferent to “blowing up the country” in pursuit of their goals. They are indifferent to “inflicting more pain on their countrymen” via “the terrible toll $2.4 trillion in cuts will take on the poor and the middle class” and the extra unemployment it will bring.”
