Outrageous!… NY Times Sunday Hit Piece Pictures Tea Party Protesters With Weathermen Terrorists
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, April 3, 2010, 9:36 PM
Sunday NY Times Hit Piece Pictures Weathermen Terrorists With Tea Party Protesters
Another GOP office in Ohio was attacked two nights ago. A note was tied to the brick that was thrown through the window that said, “Stop the Right Wing.” A democratic donor was arrested for threatening to kill GOP House Whip Eric Cantor and his family earlier in the week. A brick was hurled through a GOP office in Michigan last weekend. Harry Reid supporters attacked the Tea Party Express Bus and threatened Andrew Breitbart last Saturday. And, a democratic leader compared conservatives to the KKK in a radio interview this week.
Also, far left Rep. Emanuel Cleaver backed down from his original statement that he was spit on by tea party protesters during a protest on Capitol Hill. And, it is clear now that the Black Caucus members and state-run media completely fabricated their story that the members of Congress were called the n-word by the tea party protesters. No one was able to collect the $100,000 reward for proof because there was no proof. It was a set up.
So, with all of this evidence what is the state-run media to do?
…Compare the tea party protesters to the left-wing Weathermen terrorists, of course.
American Power reported tonight that The New York Times is posting a tea party protest-Weatherman mashup picture in tomorrow’s Week-in-Review section.
Unreal—–
These leftists in the democratic-media complex will not stop bashing the tea party movement no matter what the truth is.
American Power has more on the hit piece that goes with the protest photos.
Maybe the Vatican was right. Maybe the Old Gray Lady is possessed.
More… Ann Althouse has a different perspective on the Gray Lady’s tea party post.
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Palinfan commented:
Good! Let the NYT keep this kind of crap up. It shows:
1) a concerted effort by the Left to paint the tea partiers as dangerous radicals.
2) that you can piss off a whole bunch of people currently in the tea parties who are also old enough to remember dangerous radicals marching a few decades ago.
Palinfan commented:
Oh, and don’t forget that our president had his career launched in the livingroom of two Weather Underground terrorists.
Dell commented:
Palinfan
April 3rd, 2010 | 9:41 pm | #2
Oh, and don’t forget that our president had his career launched in the livingroom of two Weather Underground terrorists.
You’re right…and one of them is in the top photo. That’s Bill Ayers – second in from the right.
Militant Conservative commented:
WE are the true Americans. WE love the country and THEY do not. WE (in most places) have the Rights to conceal and carry, THEY do not. THEY are radicals to the constitution. WE are radicals FOR the constitution. GEE which one do you want to have win. DUH. Come to Atlanta April 15th chump, me and my fellow deputies will make sure you know the law. MIRANANDA rights and all. some of us will be in uniform and others will not. Good luck. powder is dry.
down with dems commented:
What’s the difference in those two pics? Take note of which group is waving an American flag. That’s all you need to see, say, or know.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Their confused, we all know the Weathermen are Barack’s friends.
Dell commented:
Ya now, with Ayers in that picture this might just do more harm to Obama than it does the Tea Party. Seeing the killer as he was during his “bombing years”, and knowing how close he STILL is to The Won (he’s been to the White House several times), isn’t going to set well with the Commander-In-Thief tomorrow morning.
Daneil commented:
Wasn’t Obama’s buddy Bill Ayers associated with one of those groups? And didn’t the NYT write a puff piece about him pining for the good old days? You’d think they’d be happy to see such a return to “normalcy”.
Opus #6 commented:
They are living up to their moniker:
The New York Slimes
Blue Star momX3 commented:
The media wing of the democrat party can not stop attempting to destroy the TeaParty movement. Because we are an obstacle to attaining their socialist/marxist goals of total control. They know that We the People are powerful. AND THEY want ALL the power. We have the power of NO. We have the example of MLK- non violence- to make peaceful resistance. Non-violence.
logic101 commented:
It seems like the coverage the administration gets from the press isn’t just based on a political affinity with the left. Mix in buckets of good old hard cold cash.
From the Washington Note, Steve Clemons writes, “…But an unhealthy pattern is developing in this White House — a trend that may very well have been a part of other presidencies as well — but what is happening today needs comment.
Some journalists seem to be putting their self interest above their responsibilities to the public as well as their employers.
As Howard Kurtz and Glenn Greenwald have both commented, many White House correspondents and other top tier journalists want to write Obama books.
Anything with “Obama” on it is running at a huge premium in the book publication market.
But the kind of books that sell need “inside access” and this is something that the communications team at the White House doles out minimally, and increasingly, only when favors are part of the arrangement.
What I have learned after discussions over the last several days with several journalists who either have regular access to the White House or are part of the White House press corps is that there is a growing sense that access is traded for positive stories — or perhaps worse, an agreement that things learned will not be reported in the near term…”
Corky Boyd commented:
One has to ask how many arrests have been made on violent tea partiers?
Nest, Hhow many Weatherman were arrested in the days of rage? After the the bombs they set off in the Pentagon? After their bombs failed to detonate in the Capitol building?
Wasn’t Obama’s buddy Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dorn somehow involved with these folks? Well yes, they ran the operation.
The NY Times couldn’t have picked a worse comparison in their effort to slime the Tea Party movement. Tea Partiers wan’t constitutional government. The Weathermen wanted to destroy it.
CommieBlaster commented:
Isn’t it time for an American Velvet Revolution?
http://commieblaster.com/velvet-revolution/
Jones commented:
THE PRESIDENT is friends with some former Weathermen- I don’t see the problem
Chippy commented:
The NY Times does puff pieces of Marxists all the time. Ayers and Obama are just an example.
Not Intimidated commented:
The good news is that the Tea Party has shrugged off every single attack by Obama, the Democrats, and the press.
As more of the country becomes familiar with what’s in ObamaCare, and as the Congress next pushes cap and trade and amnesty, support for the Tea Party will grow exponentially.
Don’t despair. We’re going to take back the country in November. We’re going to hit the Democrats so hard that they and the press will regret they ever heard the names Obama, Pelosi, and Reid.
The day of reckoning is coming, and there’s nothing the Democrats or the press can do to head it off.
down with dems commented:
They had to take a swing at the Tea Party after that David Letterman interview… can’t let the TP look like a bunch of normal, articulate, educated folk.
Ron commented:
“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Valerie commented:
The hysterical grey old lady has been printing fantasy for at least a decade, now. That’s why her circulation is so poor.
AuntieMadder commented:
Dell
April 3rd, 2010 | 10:14 pm | #7
Ya now, with Ayers in that picture this might just do more harm to Obama than it does the Tea Party. Seeing the killer as he was during his “bombing years”, and knowing how close he STILL is to The Won (he’s been to the White House several times), isn’t going to set well with the Commander-In-Thief tomorrow morning.
The lamestream media doesn’t publish the White House visitor lists or report on most of the visitors to the White House. So, comparing the Tea Party to the Ayers’ old terrorist group will fly right over the heads of everyone except us tin-foil hat wearing, radical conservative birthers. I’m sad to say that nothing sticks to The Won and this is no exception.
DocScience commented:
Patriots/terrorists, cops/criminals, victim/rapist, it’s all the same from the view from the moral heights of Manhattan.
Were these people raised by wolves?
Paul - Independent Conservative commented:
Interesting. I’m watching what’s going on and all the attention people are giving to the NYT. I didn’t read that paper since at least 10 years ago and I don’t give a damn about what it publishes. For me, the NYT is not a newspaper, it’s toilet paper. Conservatives and the Vatican need to ignore losers who are dying for ratings and circulation. MSNBC, CNN, NYT, Washington Post, etc, are run by subhumans. Why do we care?
ddiddly commented:
My kneejerk reaction was to get righteously indignant, then I remember that the Old Gray Lady is caught in a vortex pulling it down into the sewer and taking BHO’s approval rating with it. WE will have the last laugh, and if they want to get violent along the way, I think we can handle that, too.
AuntieMadder commented:
OT: REQUEST INFO ON RECENT, YET HARD TO LOCATE, POST
Hey, GP readers. I’m trying to find an article or news story about a reknowned atheist who recently either converted to Christianity or remains an atheist but has decided that Christian teachings are a good thing.
I’m 95% positive that the story was posted here in the last few weeks, but with so much BS going on in politics, I only scanned the story very quickly and then moved on, so I don’t remember much about it now. I’ve looked for it page by page here and via the search feature but can’t find it.
If you remember the article and can tell me either who the atheist is that was featured in it or the approx date of the post, I’ll be very much grateful.
Thanks.
Liz commented:
What? Comparing us to Obama’s homies? That is odd.
ddiddly commented:
Hey Auntie M, Moonbattery ran this a couple of days ago. Is it what you were looking for?
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/04/theophobe-leade.html
AuntieMadder commented:
That’s the story, ddiddly. Thank you!
Btw, I don’t know where I read it. Can’t find it here and have never visisted Moonbattery before. Oh, well…they say that as you grow old, the memory is the second thing you lose. I can’t remember what the first thing is.
Mashiki commented:
Really they’re not even trying to be subtle anymore. None of the media is they’re in full blown, we have to take them down no matter the cost mode.
pm commented:
Just started to read the moonbattery link. Looks fascinating. Thanks guys.
This might be related: Atlasshrugs tonight has lots of pictures of peaceful protest by EDL disrupted by violent muslims with weapons –
Glad to know Dawkins is waking up, there’s hope for the world…
sarainitaly commented:
I think the headline on this (most excellent post) needs to read:
Outrageous!… NY Times Sunday Hit Piece Pictures Tea Party Protesters With Obama’s terrorist pal, Bill Ayers, and his terrorist group Weather Underground
(during the Days of Rage that left Richard Elrod paralyzed after he was kicked in the neck by Brian Flanagan from the Weather Underground).
Perhaps the weather underground is more closely related to the SEIU thugs that kicked Kenneth Gladney.
Andreas K. commented:
Well, if calling the Tea Party people “Weathermen” is okay, then calling Obama a marxist and his thugs in the street the new SA, well, than that is okay too (even though it’s much closer to the truth anyway.)
It’s interesting to watch though. It shows how scared they really are by now.
Dan Maloney commented:
Err, That Times story was published last weekend. 3/28. It was part of the coordinated effort to smear the Tea Party movement. It didn’t get much traction.
non_dhimmie commented:
Indicted militia dude…a democrat….others they are “not sure”….must all be democrats….heh
Mitch commented:
Oh, and here’s a photo of the NY Times’ stock price:
http://media.share.ovi.com/m1/s/1915/72f67c32efe0401d87ec1fef78be7602.jpg
mmm commented:
We respect the American flag and wave it with pride for our country…..the weatherman stood on the flag disrespecting it showing contempt for our great nation.
RebeccaH commented:
Tea Partiers haven’t smashed windows, overturned and burned cars, bombed a university building, shot cops, or robbed banks and armored cars. The Weathermen and their assorted fellow travelers did all that. So keep insulting us, NYT. It will only make your inevitable demise sweeter.
JPL17 commented:
What chutzpah! Pinch Sulzberger’s trying to get political mileage from comparing the Tea Party to the violent, exteme leftist Weather Underground of Bill Ayers. But all his adult life, Sulzberger has held exactly the same radical, violent leftist political views that Ayers holds! And if you didn’t know that — and I expect the average NY Times reader doesn’t — then you might come away from this article thinking, “See how moderate the Times is?” What a frickin’ joke.
I swear, the Times should be forced to display a prominent disclaimer on page 1 of every edition: “WARNING: This newspaper is owned, written, edited and published by the same spoiled rotten wacko leftwing America-hating, Ho Chi Minh-loving SDS / weather underground radicals who brought you those awful and violent 60′s and 70′s, and who since then have gotten rich and powerful but never manged to grow up.”
Do you think that disclaimer gets it all? Or should I add, “virulently anti-Catholic,” “elitist,” “anti-traditional family” and “willing to spill national security secrets for Pulitzers”?
Arch commented:
The Left has good reason to fear the Tea Party movement. It’s a real grass roots effort, not instigated or controlled by a political party. It’s leaderless, spontaneous and ad hoc. Fighting an organized party is something they understand. Effectively opposing a set of principles such as fiscal discipline, self reliance, smaller, less intrusive government and freedom from government is their worst nightmare.
Healthcare is a perfect example of their dilemma. They put out the initial House bill and when people read it, they were appalled. The back room deals and kickbacks came to light and the healthcare bill and Congress both lost support.
There were three bell weather elections in which democrats were expected to win. – Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts. The message was loud and clear. Blue dogs are doomed in November. Independents who supported Obama in 2008 by 2:1 are now supporting conservatives by the same ratio. The dems lost the center.
Obama, Pelosi and Reid all urged Congress double down and rush through energy, amnesty and card check before November. If they do, we won’t see a rerun of 1994. It will be 1854 all over again. So why are they committing political suicide? They have wanted these big social and major economic changes since Woodrow Wilson.
Tea Party demonstrators are older, better informed and much more likely to vote in a midterm. No credible poll expects the democrats to hold the House in November.
megapotamus commented:
The real question here is just what obloquy is the Times trying to attach? In other words, just what is wrong with being a Weatherman? Recall that a journalistic expungement of Ayers’ crimes was published by the times on 911, coincidentally if you believe not in fate, in which he denounced his youthful actions as too little and too timid. Did the Times express any concern with that sentiment? Ah, that would be, no. So perhaps like Rahm, when he denounced MoveOners as retards and then apologized to the retards, the NYT is set to apologize to Bill Ayers for this scurrilous association.
In tactical terms though, any occasion to re-visit the verminous reign of Lefty terrorists in the 70s can only be an asset. Like the BFD tee shirt, this seems to demonstrate how stupid these Lefties are as media operators.
czekmark commented:
This is too ironic, equating tea partiers with Obamas radical friends. Somehow I don’t think that is the message NYT wanted to send.
d_fitz commented:
NYT FAIL!!
The Tea movement will keep growing.
wolfwalker commented:
I had the same thought, czekmark. Folks, consider who published this. Both the editorial staff and the (rapidly dwindling) readership of the New York Slimes admire the Weathermen. From their point of view, it’s a compliment to compare the Tea Partiers to the sixties radicals.
It might even be possible that somewhere in the dim, distant recesses of what little brains the NYT has left, they’re finally starting to recognize the size of the tidal wave that’s building, and trying to position themselves to ride it. Maybe even, eventually, pretend to be leading it.
JPL17 commented:
It might even be possible that…they’re finally starting to recognize the size of the tidal wave that’s building, and trying to position themselves to ride it. Maybe even, eventually, pretend to be leading it.
I seriously doubt it, wolfwalker. While I agree with you 100% that the Times loves the Weather Underground, they, like Obama, are too smart to publicly admit it. By comparing the Tea Party with the Weather Underground, the Times is instead trying to accomplish 2 of its major strategic goals:
#1: The comparison viciously SMEARS Tea Partiers, whom the Times despises, and always will (probably with a similar hatred that the Bolsheviks had towards the kulaks); and
#2: It helps the Times maintain its absurd public face, which is, “We [the NYTimes] are the moderates here.” Which, of course, is the biggest lie of all.
JKB commented:
Looks to me like they photoshopped grandpa’s arms as well. His forearms and hands look like they’re from the Thing. All the more to make him look menacing.
Of course, in the top picture, we have a group of dirty, long-haired radicals shouting down with America but in the lower picture, we have someone’s grandpa and uncle walking with a large group of clean cut people rallying under the America flag.
kansas commented:
So the Tea Party is now good since it is equated to the Weather Douches?
eaglewingz08 commented:
Maybe that mashup photo was the NYSlimes’ vision of complimenting the Tea Party movement. Since the Slimes loves the weathermen and Bill Ayers/Dohrn community activist types, by juxtaposing the two groups the paper gave its official seal of approval to the tea partiers. It would be the same if they posted a picture of Stalin or Castro or Chavez next to the tea partiers. That too would be in the Slimes’ mindset, a sign that the rag was warming up to the protesters.
Ex Dem commented:
the hysterical desperation of the left is noted by all. We don’t have to do anything, they are burying themselves with this stuff. Don’t stand in their way, let the left completely destroy themselves
Valerie commented:
Meanwhile, the Examiner is still trying to get to BO’s educational records.
http://www.examiner.com/x-37620-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m4d3-Investigation-reveals-numerous-bogus-claims-on-Obama-resume
The NYT is participating in a shell game, trying to make itself the news.
JDubya commented:
So if the Tea Party is equivalent to the Weathermen, then it must be patriotic dissent, since the Weathermen were Ayer’s group and Ayer’s is Obama’s beyotch.
Thanks for making the Tea Party a patriotic organization.
Valerie commented:
So how do we stop this mess? How do we best promote the general welfare? I would suggest some policy changes.
Thomas Friedman – part of the solution (yes, in the NYT)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04friedman.html
I have my differences with Mr. Friedman, but he has a point, today: small business is our engine for employment opportunity. His recommendation is national policy that will allow small businesses to proliferate.
I would add that a proliferation of small banks and small insurance companies and small housing lenders would make sense, as well.
The answer to the problems caused by huge, lumbering bureaucracies vulnerable to Congressional meddling is NOT more huge bureaucracies, but a proliferation of little, nimble, entities mostly controlled by people close to the situation.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Another difference: the people in the top photo are wearing various pieces of makeshift “armor” – motorcycle helmets, safety goggles, etc.
They threw bags of human feces at the police.
Tea Partiers don’t wear armor, facemasks, eye protection, because they don’t do things that result in tear-gassing. They certainly don’t throw bags of feces. (Nor eggs, for that matter…) Not at police, not at anyone.
Valerie commented:
This is how we fight back.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Rush-Limbaugh-Chris-Matthews-and-the-regime-question-89848762.html
When some fool gets all offending about something he himself has done, google him, and print the results.
Apparently Chris Matthews thinks that he can say “Bush regime” but if Rush Limbaugh says “Obama regime” it’s suddenly illegitimate.
Valerie commented:
This is how we fight back. Dan Quayle making sense:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/01/AR2010040102181.html
“…attempts to portray the tea partiers as a surly mob have the contrived feel of a political strategy.
We got an early glimpse of that strategy a year ago. Asked in April 2009 about the tea party protests, Obama’s top political adviser offered this view: “Anytime that you have severe economic conditions,” David Axelrod said, “there is always an element of disaffection that can mutate into something that’s unhealthy.”
Suggestions of this kind aim to marginalize millions of voters, activists and community organizers seeking change in a democratic way. If this were a liberal crowd, they wouldn’t be getting grief from Washington — they’d probably be getting funding.
As Democratic operatives view it, the most “unhealthy” aspect of the tea party is that candidates with its support are winning, and many more are likely to win this fall. The movement has enlisted Americans of every background in political activism, some for the first time, and it appeals to citizens on the strength of ideas rather than party affiliation.”
bg commented:
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“what the fascist left have been aiming for is to “equate” good with evil.. that’s the only way they can appease their conscience in the face of the harsh reality they are trying to escape from because it does not fit in with their ideological utopian matrix.. if there is no good vs evil, then all is good even if [the] all is evil..” – bg
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PersonFromPorlock commented:
One difference I haven’t seen noted yet: the protests of the 60s grew out of youth’s natural rebellion against the world’s imperfections. The Free Speech movement, for instance, came before Vietnam was an issue.
In contrast, it’s taken a good ten years of seriously incompetent government to move the Tea Partiers to action. There’s no natural rebelliousness in them.
Pagar commented:
Over at the JOM site,
Comments. Scroll down to 4 Apr, 10:16 AM where Rocco reports that the person the NYTs thinks is William Ayers actually is John Jacobs.
Accuracy is not a NYTs strong point.
No Man commented:
How much will you pay me to read the NYT, or watch MSNBC or Commie News Network?
Check that.
If it’s not mid-4 figures a day, it ain’t enough.
PFP: Yeah: youthful spunk plus the KGB, Comintern, and thousands of useful idiots McCarthy missed.
No need for tea party until JJanuary 2009. By ten years you mean eight of Clinton and near two of Obacommie, right?
Except for not shutting down FNM/FRE in 2001, Bush II as not seriously . . .
Chris Vehr commented:
Although they would NEVER admit it, the Libs fear the potential of the Tea Party movement. This is why there is so much anti-Tea Party sentiment in the press right now. Most, if not all of it, has been proven to be faked.
As humans go, Libs are bottom-feeders.
PersonFromPorlock commented:
No Man:
PFP: Yeah: youthful spunk plus the KGB, Comintern, and thousands of useful idiots McCarthy missed.
…But mostly youth instructing the world by virtue of their superior grasp of morality, as they do even in better times than the 60s.
No need for tea party until JJanuary 2009. By ten years you mean eight of Clinton and near two of Obacommie, right?
I mean six years of an irresponsible Republican Congress followed immediatly by four Years of a spectacularly irresponsible Democratic Congress. ‘No-veto’ Bush didn’t do much to slow the ‘pubby Congress down, either.
Americaneocon commented:
American Power tracked-back with, ‘Tea Partiers and Terrorists: Weighing Moral Equivalence’.
archer52 commented:
It is all part of the plan to accomplish two things-
1. The effort to make the Tea party members overly cautious about being seen as too aggressive, which is working.
2. Setting up the mass middle of America, who doesn’t listen much past a bumper sticker statement or two, so they will associate the real troublesome people with the tea party. That way, when Obama cracks down on you, if necessary (see #1), the mass middle of the population will go. “The tea party is like the militia, and we have decided the militia is bad, thus the tea partiers are bad and deserve what Obama did to them.”
It is classic Mao. Read the book. (www.revoltthebook.com)
Sooner or later, they are betting you and the left are going to lock horns. They want public opinion on their side so they can deal with you as they want.
nick b commented:
“Maybe the Vatican was right. Maybe the Old Gray Lady is possessed.”
Have huge numbers of New York Times reporters been caught molesting children? News to me.
Arch commented:
Archer:
The TPM and Obama supporters have already locked horns in town hall meetings, on the streets, on the web and in the offices, inboxes and phone lines of Congress. The most important contests, however, have been at the polls.
VA, NJ & MA have sent a message loud and clear, Americans support the free market over big government, they do not want any more power to move into the hands of Washington politicians. Most of all, they are furious at Washington spending their money on bills they don’t want (e.g., Healthcare, energy, card check, bailouts, and amnesty).
Democrats in Congress are on a collision course with the American People.
Solaratov commented:
Corky Boyd
April 3rd, 2010 | 10:45 pm | #12
Actually, the bomb in the capitol did go off.
The revolutionaries blew up a bathroom.
Somehow, in retrospect, that seems apropos.
Solaratov commented:
DocScience
April 3rd, 2010 | 11:53 pm | #21
Were these people raised by wolves?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Nothing so noble. Try Hyenas or Jackels.
Solaratov commented:
Perhaps we should use that mashup photograph with the header (in BIG bold letters)
THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT!!
ENDORSED BY BARACK OBAMA’S BEST FRIEND
………………..BILL AYERS………………………
.
.
.
.(Who’s yer daddy now, barry?)
Solaratov commented:
nick b
April 4th, 2010 | 4:12 pm | #73
Go here. Read. While part of it is funny, the incidents are real.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2010/04/journopolitico-violence.html
Scrapiron commented:
I guess including O’Dumbo’s best friend (a terrorists and cop killer) in the photo makes it alright with the NYSlimes. Time for half the few subscribers the NYSlimes has left to cancel their subscription and send the entire rag to the city dump.
Freddy commented:
This is nothing more than the NYt still trying to claim there is something terrible and violent about the Tea Party.
What is shocking is that the NYt has decided that marxism is a good idea.
Ian Christopher commented:
Down With Dems #5
“What’s the difference in those two pics? Take note of which group is waving an American flag. That’s all you need to see, say, or know.”
I offer a third pic to further corroborate your conclusion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kkk1928.jpg
bg commented:
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Ian Christopher @ 2:28 am #86
may i point out the fact that the DEMOCRATS marching
in that photograph are also WEARING WHITE HOODS..
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Ian Christopher commented:
Bg #87
Was your point was that “4 in 10 tea party protesters are either democrat or independents” therefore 40% of the tea party belongs to the Ku Klux Klan? Okay I won’t argue with you.
My point was that just because a” group is waving an American flag.” That’s NOT all you need to see, say, or know.
Ian Christopher commented:
Ps. I can tell you’ve been drinking the tea but I know the latest spin and I won’t argue but to say that The KKK was never a political party it was a racist group of white men that started in the South after the Civil War, when Republicans were almost unheard of in former Confederate states. The mainstream Democratic Party never endorsed the Klan nor claimed to have founded it. Originally, the Klan was mainly a white southern orginization and these days the south is a Republican stronghold and these same sentiments still linger most in those states that are now considered “red.”
Ian Christopher commented:
Pps. Let’s look at something a little more recent in Klan history. In December 1988, David Duke changed his political affiliation from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party and most Klansmen followed suit.
freebird commented:
WHO WROTE this article in the NYT ? Need the name to contact them.
Weathermen ? !
Retired Americans and their families protesting unConstitutional taxation, etc. = bomb hurling radicals calling for overthrow of our system
yup same thing
bg commented:
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Ian Christopher @ 1:32 pm #88
that’s one scary looking skeleton you’re constructing..
but don’t let that stop you from trying
to squeeze orange juice from an apple,
carry on..
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