The Smearing of the Tea Party

[runningman]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

yes. the difference is that nobody cares what he says.

[Shpira]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

I disagree with that...that said I have no interest in this topic definitely.

[dig72]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

The Tea Party saying that they're victim of a media character assassination is more pathetic than that 8 minute video that Palin put on her facebook page crying foul before anyone from the shootings in Tuscon were buried. Any political movement can take control of their media image - part of the solution is getting control over their own supporters and putting a muzzle on the more extreme members which can make them look bad. Any group that says that they're at the mercy of the media's whim are undisciplined, uneducated or just plain unwilling to take control of the image they're putting forward. Any political movement worth it's salt would get a decent media consultant to make sure that they're putting their best foot forward each time they're making it into the news.

So all Saddam Hussein needed was a decent media consultant?

[vinnie97]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

yes. the difference is that nobody cares what he says.

Concurred.

And really, the left has no room, NO ROOM to point fingers, as the evidence continues to mount:

"You're Dead": Tucson Survivor Eric Fuller Tells Tea Partier Trent Humphries On ABC This Week

http://www.prisonplanet.com/media-bu...ty-leader.html

While the establishment media continues to run with the hoax that violent political rhetoric, tea partiers, and the second amendment were responsible for last weekend’s Tucson shooting, leftists continue to brazenly issue death threats against anyone who disagrees with them, with the press complicit in burying the story.

For over a week, pro-Obama leftist blogs like Huffington Post, the Daily Kos and Media Matters, enthusiastically backed up by the likes of the New York Times and the Associated Press, have blamed vitriolic conservative political rhetoric for the massacre that killed six people and seriously wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, despite the fact that shooter Jared Loughner was a liberal, skull-worshipping occultist who liked to dress up in women’s clothing.

In the meantime, the only vitriolic rhetoric witnessed has come from the mouths of the very vultures who are seeking to exploit the tragedy to ram through their control freak agenda to shut down free speech and eviscerate the second amendment.

After the media blamed Tea Party figurehead Sarah Palin for the shootings, she was bombarded by scores of vile and obscene death threats made by leftists.

Following a taping of ABC’s “This Week,” a liberal angry that Tucson Tea Party leader Trent Humphries disagreed with his call for draconian gun control laws directly identified Humphries, took his picture, and then shouted “you’re dead,” according to the Pima County Sheriff’s office, who subsequently arrested J. Eric Fuller, charged him with a misdemeanor and had him involuntarily committed for psychiatric evaluation. At the 50 second point in the clip embedded above, Fuller can also be heard saying, “you’re dead,” while Humphries is talking.

In a statement Humphries said, “I was asked to give my thoughts on gun control laws and perhaps the passage of new laws. … A gentleman in the audience who I had never met before began booing and made the comment ‘you’re dead’ while taking my picture. I was escorted from the location of the filming and spoken to by several deputies about the incident. I told them I was very hesitant to press any charges against this gentleman, but after they urged me to do so based on the gravity of the situation, and the lessons learned from the recent tragedy. I allowed them to proceed as recommended,” he said.
“This is another sad piece to add to an already tragic set of events,” Humphries added in the statement. “My hope continues to remain that we as a community be allowed the ability to heal and focus on those things that will best help our city and its citizens recover from this deadly tragedy,” he said.

Fuller, who was injured during the shootings last Saturday, blamed “second amendment activism” for the massacre during his appearance on the ABC show. He also blamed gun rights for the massacre during a Friday appearance on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
The fact that Fuller followed his appearance on Democracy Now by making direct death threats against a Tea Party leader is noteworthy given the fact that Democracy Now tried to pin the responsibility for the deaths on Alex Jones and Congressman Ron Paul during an interview with Chip Berlet, a Ford Foundation-funded debunker
who routinely attacks anyone who suggests that powerful men plan global policy as a lunatic or a racist.
Imagine if a conservative or a Tea Party leader had made death threats against a leftist gun control advocate during a live ABC taping. The statist blogs, along with the Washington Post, New York Times and Associated Press, would be up in arms – loudly proclaiming the perils of violent political rhetoric and ordering that so-called right wingers be silenced.

And yet what was the reaction to Fuller’s open and public death threat against Tea Party leader Humphries? Barely a whimper. Local news stations and Fox News reported on the incident, while the likes of ABC and the AP tried their level best to hush it up.

ABC News omitted the “you’re dead” comment from the transcript and during her brief end of show whitewash afterthought, host Christiane Amanpour failed to tell viewers exactly what Fuller had said. Amanpour also completely failed to explain that the threat was directed towards Trent Humphries, a Tea Party leader who had mildly disagreed with Fuller about gun control.

“Upon further reflection, the idea that ABC News actually has a videotape of Fuller making this disgusting comment at a town hall meeting they sponsored, and they chose to not bring any attention to it is an outrage,” writes Newsbusters’ Noel Sheppard.

Think back to the healthcare debate when media outlet after media outlet alleged that someone had yelled the N-word at black Congressmen. To this day, not one audio or videotape has proven this assertion.

Now, after these same folks dishonestly accused conservatives of igniting the shootings in Tucson – also without a shred of evidence – a liberal activist said “You’re dead” to a Tea Party leader during an ABC News-sponsored town hall meeting.

As demonstrated above, ABC actually has videotape of this being said, yet “This Week” completely ignored it.

If Fuller was the Tea Party leader and Humphries the liberal shooting survivor, this video clip would have been a large focus of Sunday’s program, and would be all over the mainstream media.

Just imagine the field day MSNBC would be having with it.

I'm beginning to think the commie left is actively pursuing a civil war.

[DIDI]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

^^ What that proves is that everyone should consider that they are dealing with a lot of loonies out there, and that you have crap media , as we do If you use inflammatory rhetoric it comes back to bite you in the arse.

yes. the difference is that nobody cares what he says.

Wrong again .

[DIDI]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

So all Saddam Hussein needed was a decent media consultant?

[vinnie97]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

Again, you seem to think only people on the right use "inflamed" rhetoric, and you couldn't be further from the truth (ignoring all the evidence I've already posted). One group turned Jared into a political issue, and it wasn't those on the right.

[DIDI]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

No ! I said EVERYONE !! I think both sides suck most of the time

The media make it political.

[vinnie97]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

Okay, truce for now.

[DIDI]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

I wasn't in a war, no truce needed

[Highsteppa]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

So all Saddam Hussein needed was a decent media consultant?

Lol. Well, let me modify what I was saying - any Western democracy based political movement can do well with the a decent media consultant.

But consider for a moment that Sadam was a U.S. ally through a good chunk of the 80's when Ayatollah Khomeni was running Iran, so he was doing something right for a while. Even if it was due to a philosophy of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", which dominates in short sighted politics.

On a side note, it's nice to see that Vinnie97 and runningman drink for the same source of water that provides them with their hilarious delusions. Keep it up sweethearts.

[Shpira]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

Doing something "right"? Mate doing what suits the US foreign policy is the right term. Doing something "right" geesh
Sorry that just jumped right at me. It would be really nice if everyone who likes to post here would read a little about the history of the Middle East. Not trying to be condescending and not aiming this at anyone in particular but I think it would mean a much more informed and stimulating discussion.

[dig72]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

But consider for a moment that Sadam was a U.S. ally through a good chunk of the 80's when Ayatollah Khomeni was running Iran, so he was doing something right for a while. Even if it was due to a philosophy of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", which dominates in short sighted politics.

'Right', according to who?

And besides, he was always Americas ally, even right up until the events of Sep 11 2001. Yes that's right, Iraq was still helping the US in identifying any kinds of terror threat against her. He did this despite the fact, that the US killed thousands of Iraqis during the first gulf "war" and the hundreds of thousands more Iraqi dead, because of the disgraceful US lead sanctions imposed on them.

In all seriousness, America couldn't ask for a better friend. What more could he do or offer?

And all that Saddam gained for his years of loyal service to his US masters, was a couple of inches.


Absolutely nothing, will help you when the media whores have their sights set on you.

[Highsteppa]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

Doing something "right"? Mate doing what suits the US foreign policy is the right term. Doing something "right" geesh
Sorry that just jumped right at me. It would be really nice if everyone who likes to post here would read a little about the history of the Middle East. Not trying to be condescending and not aiming this at anyone in particular but I think it would mean a much more informed and stimulating discussion.

By "doing something right" I mean more the fact that he was looked upon favorably by the U.S. press and had a positive image with the U.S. media for a while. Not referring to anything in relations to morality and/or contributing anything constructive to the development of the Middle East. Methinks peeps be reading a bit too literally into what's being posted.

[vinnie97]

Re: The Smearing of the Tea Party

On a side note, it's nice to see that Vinnie97 and runningman drink for the same source of water that provides them with their hilarious delusions. Keep it up sweethearts.

Runningman is a rare breed Canadian who can see right through all your thought policing, doublespeaking efforts.

You want delusions? Have a gander to see some of the asinine nonsense mainstream liberals are spouting: www.moonbattery.com (i.e. Michael Moore, paraphrased from last night: "Americans' fascination with gun ownership for the sake of self-defense is rooted in racism.")

Michael Savage is a sage, modern day liberalism is one hideous mental disorder.

Don't take any of this to mean I'm a neocon-loving fanatic who still falls head over heels for the military industrial complex. The biggest threats to national survival today are from nannystate leftists who see the constitution as some outdated document to be used loosely only as a reference when making new laws that don't apply to the hideous ruling class (i.e. Need a Waiver For Obamacare? Get in Line.).