UPROAR BUILDS Over Joe Biden’s Tea Party “Terrorist” Remarks
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 5:40 AM
Sarah Palin said Vice President Biden’s terrorist remarks “appalling” and “vile.”
Uproar continued to build yesterday after it was reported that Vice President Joe Biden said that tea party Republicans were acting like terrorists.
FOX News reported:
Vice President Biden was criticized Monday over reports of a private meeting he had with House Democrats in which Tea Party Republicans were compared to “terrorists,” though Biden denies he described Republicans that way.
A senior Democratic official told Fox News that Biden made such comments in reaction to a heated conversation with liberal House members like Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., who were venting that Republicans got too much out of the debt ceiling deal unveiled the night before and “acted like terrorists.”
The comment drew an immediate rebuke from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., one of the most outspoken Tea Party-aligned lawmakers in Congress.
“With the president holding the American economy hostage, I would prefer to think of myself as a Freedom Fighter,” Paul said in a statement, calling the remarks “insulting.”
But the Democratic official stressed that Biden made the comment to move the conversation along. According to the official, Biden added that despite the Republicans’ behavior, “we got a lot out of this deal.”
The vice president’s office also downplayed the quote.
“The word was used by several members of Congress. The vice president does not believe it’s an appropriate term in political discourse,” Biden spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said.
And these are the same people that lecture conservatives about a new tone.
Disgusting.
UPDATE: Michele Bachmann emailed supporters late Monday night to ask them to sign a petition demanding an apology from Biden.
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succotash commented:
All of my life I have respected the office of President and Vice-President whether I voted for them or not. NOT NOW Obama &Biden act like street thugs,their language and demeanor are horrible . They show no respect for the American people therefore I do not respect them. These are indeed sad times for this country.
jay commented:
I’ll be happy to be part of sending Biden the Moron home in 2012. He was the most stupid senator for years – now this. Unfortunately, my taxes will let him live like a king for the rest of his life.
Carbon Pootprint commented:
Negotiating with Progressives in DC and New York on how much more debt this country takes on is just like negotiating with a pedophile on what kind of sex act you’re wiling to let them commit on your child or grandchild. Progressives should be treated like pedophiles and be barred from coming within X amount of miles from any position of power. Happy New Civility Day Traitors.
toongoon commented:
“The word was used by several members of Congress.”
Gee, I guess that makes ok then when the second in command just follows their lead.
We are leaderless, no doubt it.
patman commented:
Joe Biden: The glue that keeps America so tightly held together.
tarpon commented:
Stupid joe is just well stupid.
Sickofobama commented:
Did Turtlehead and Boner defend the Tea Party against Bite Me’s comments?
No.
So they approve as well.
We must recruit folks to join the Tea Party until it makes the RINO Party a thing of the past.
kansas commented:
A democrat appalling and vile? Shocked I tell ya. Shocked.
Cutlers bad knee commented:
What would happen if the GOP had said this about Acorn or seiu . Now we all know that answer don’t we ! Go back to the home Joe its medication time you halfwit……
Opus#6@AmericanPerspective commented:
These thugs are terrified by the good people of America. Sad times indeed.
CoolCzech commented:
Liberals can take their self-righteous hypocritical BS about “tone” and “new tone” and STICK IT.
How’s THAT for a New Tone??
Militant Conservative commented:
Which party is sticking to the constitution?
Projection is a democrat issue.
Powder is dry and ready for the revolution.
Scott commented:
All part of their plan…Ten will get you twenty that our National leadership including Obama and Biden presided over discussions to develop new talking points…The use of terms such as extremists and terrorists were authorized. Expect to see these terms again from other democrat politicians and media hacks…We are dealing with low forms of life who preside over the highest offices of our land.
SeniorD commented:
Nothing new here. The TEA Party is a popular grass root organization. The elite Professional Politicians in Washington have learned (the hard way) it is not about to be ‘managed’ or ‘controlled’ by any Political Party. The Republicans, the natural ally of the TEA Party have turned their oh so pointed noses at the TEA Party and found, gasp!, untrained, unelected common people. Why, the Republican Party ‘leaders’ say, ‘they don’t even know how to compromise to get ahead!’
As for the Demodonks, how could a band of uncivilized, neo-barbaric creatures from fly-over country DARE to think they know what they want? They must be given what we, the intellectually superior, deem right and proper for them
Oh, and please pass that Wagu and arugula salad my dear colleague. Dealing with the huddled masses can really drain one.
JKB commented:
Now, wait. Obama and the Dems treat terrorists very well, bowing, negotiating and generally respecting them. Just be glad he didn’t call the Tea Party an ally. If that were the case, we’d know they were to be betrayed and compromised.
Ella commented:
We had better start thinking and preparing for what they will do after we demolish them in the 2012 elections. After we have been called the worst vile names they can come up with, what will be next? Will this remain non-violent?
donh commented:
So VILE… and after a weeks long build up of calling me a terrorist…… Democrats drag out Gabrielle Giffords of all people to steal the headlines when it came time to vote. This is the woman who was supposed to compell a new higher standard in political discourse, but they just exploit her for moral sympathy like John Edwards did with his cancer striken wife.
ahem commented:
There is no dignity left in the office. Obama and Biden have seen to that.
WTFPRESIDENT commented:
Joe is an imbecile. How any body in their right minds would vote for such a doofus…just goes to show the IQ’s of those voters. And they call us ignorant?? Haha jokes on them.
mg4us commented:
Agree with #1succotash. . . the president and VP are vile disgusting people. Dividers not uniters.
For straight-talk, Sarah Palin always hits it out of the park with simple speak connecting to the real “We the People”. .
yep the silent MAJORITY who labor and toil daily yet have the thieves in DC only pillage and plunder our GREAT County’s resources away. . .
and I do not just mean natural resources which GOD has blessed this land with but also human capital, intellect & self determination. . .
Our unemployment rate has skyrocketed. . .with around 20% of capable and eligible people out of work. . many for over a year or two (and employment is at the lowest level as % of population). . .with many unemployed or UNDER-employed (meaning doing jobs they are overqualified for) are those in their prime contributing years of 45-60. . . the years where they give back the knowledge and experiences they learned working 20-30 years prior. .
or the new college graduates that can’t find meaningful jobs (sorry McDonalds) that leverages their education and degree. . .and starts them on the learning curve of real life work experience
or the minds of kids in school indoctrinated with educational political correctness (Calif just passed a law to teach gay marriage to elementary school kids) rather than focusing on Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Science. . .
but worst of all is the number of “fellow” American that have become ADDICTED to government handouts. . or paying ZERO income taxes. . .rather than do the RESPONSIBLE thing and support themselves and their family
Dark clouds are building over this land. . .but there is HOPE if we get through 2012 and vote real CHANGE to restore our Country and our values!
Run Sarah Run!!
indccc commented:
The following quote is what Our Vice President said, he said…“What happened was there were some people who said they felt like they were being held hostage by terrorists,” he said. “I never said that they were terrorists or weren’t terrorists, I just let them vent.”
Added Biden: “I said even if that were the case, what’s been happening when you now have taken and paid the debt and move that down so we can now discuss, the nuclear weapon’s been taken out of anyone’s hands.”
Totally incoherent. Apparently Joe also told Gabby Giffords that she is a member of the cracked head club, just like him.
No wonder they don’t let him out in public very often.
Tom Stelene commented:
Then the TEA Party should be on the left’s good side like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are – and Hamas!
Does this mean the left will now ask: ‘What did we do to make them so angry at us? We must understand their grievances and rage and be sensitive to that!’
Perhaps we can expect leftist critical self-examination to understand what they did to make the TEA Party – fellow Americans – so angry at them? Can we expect soon to see leftist ‘understanding and sensitivity’ to the TEA Party’s grievances?
No. That all applies only to foreign U.S.-hating terrorists – who will not be called ‘terrorists’ because the left does not want to offend them. ‘Terrorists” are now fellow Americans who merely disagree with the left.
CoolCzech commented:
Well no WONDER Liberals get off on frisking white suburban grandmas from Minnesota, but task-task us not to get alarmed over the specter of a someone walking thru the airport in burka!
They figure Suburban All-American Granny MUST be a terrorist.
Conservative Ken commented:
Will anything these imbeciles say STICK!? Oh, political correctness is only for non liberals.
cal rifkin commented:
By this point, everybody knows that a lib will always get a pass. That is because they’re “right” on the issues and agree 90+ % of the time with their media accomplices. Describing media bias as anything but tedious just isn’t real. A dim who would go against that grain would become a star. They’d get lots of attention, have sig. traction and suction, and be loved and hated by the media elites.
mercador commented:
It is amazing to me that these people in this administration can be acting like a complete bunch of uncouth morons. The way they speak in public is without any respect for their office and for the American people. I believe that it is time to clean up this mess. I hate to say it, but this reflects bad on us, the public that put these idiots in their offices. Respect for each other has gone out the window. It has become all about power and the parties (D&R) with the middleclass footing the bill.
StrangernFiction commented:
[Three Republican Senate sources tell TWS that senators who vote against the deal will be ineligible to serve on the so-called “supercommittee” for deficit reduction that the legislation creates.]
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/08/02/good-news-fiscal-conservatives-likely-barred-from-debt-deal-supercommittee/#comment-252908
Westie commented:
I’m sure the statist in BOTH PARTIES are in agreement that the unwashed taxpaying US Citizens give them the poopy pants. These un-Representatives need to be scared, we see right through them and their little scam party is about to end.
Molon Labe commented:
Democrat definition of a terrorist-someone/something that prevents them from spending money that isn’t theirs/increasing taxes
Molon Labe commented:
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
Amjean commented:
They use this type of verbal assault to distract us from the real issues, this bill is a piece
of garbage.
Amjean commented:
Also, please note that Greta on Fox asked only Palin about this assault, thereby distracting
her from commenting on the important issue, this bill. Palin did manage to get in a few sentences. I am sure that Palin will have more to say – wait for it.
bg commented:
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OT & btw:
S 627 – Budget Control Act of 2011 [7/29/11
S 627 - Republicans Voting 'Nay' [7/29/11]
S 365 – Text of the Debt Ceiling Deal [8/01/11]
S 365 – Budget Control Act of 2011 [8/01/11]
[Issues: Budget, Spending and Taxes
Date: 08/01/2011
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Thomas (D-IA)]
S 365 – How all members voted [8/01/11]
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JPeden commented:
But the Democratic official stressed that Biden made the comment to move the conversation along.
He must have run out of pacifiers.
redpillpatriot commented:
I have to refer to Claire Wolfe’s qoute on this one
“America is at that awkward stage; it’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”
The 2012 election will have about as much effect as the tea party did on this debt ceiling BS, very little…. It’s too late to work within the system…………………….
redpillpatriot commented:
I meant “quote”
Sophocles Undone commented:
There’s a circus out there somewhere, looking for a runaway clown.
Guy in Ohio commented:
If you haven’t seen this, you should ….
Most Devise President EVER …
MOST DIVISIVE PRESIDENT EVER!
Valerie commented:
The person more deserving of censure is the one who actually used the words. That would be “Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., [and others unnamed] who were venting that Republicans got too much out of the debt ceiling deal unveiled the night before and “acted like terrorists.” ”
These guys were acting like spoiled brats, not members of our great democracy, and they deserve to be named, all of them.
I know the idea is to fasten onto the better-known, more authoritative figure, the the media has done us a disservice, here.
“But the Democratic official stressed that Biden made the comment to move the conversation along. According to the official, Biden added that despite the Republicans’ behavior, “we got a lot out of this deal.” ”
When you want to pop a person out of a temper tantrum, one useful technique is to agree with them. Sometimes you can then get the person to start thinking, again, simply by agreeing with him, and then making the next point which is, “we got a lot out of this deal,” and which is a true statement. The Democrats got the push they needed to start to back themselves out of their self-created corner from the Republicans, who were in turn pushed by the Tea Parties.
Actually, the Tea Party connection to the Democrats has been downplayed, but it is there, too. The Democrats don’t want to admit that the Tea Parties have a point, so they keep trying to lump them with the Republicans.
I think we caught Joe Biden acting like a grownup. We should keep that in mind, for later.
bg commented:
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Valerie # 39
re: [I think we caught Joe Biden acting like a grownup.]
yeah right, in comparison to whom??
Pelosi?? McConnell?? Reid?? McCain?? Obama?? Bueller??
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Carbon Pootprint commented:
Today on the rerun of I Love Lucifer President Obama Delivers Statement on Senate Passing Deficit Reduction Plan
Francesca commented:
#39: No, the grown-up thing to do would have been to tell them to tone it down and act their age. “NO”, to bratty behavior.
jimg commented:
Michele Bachmann emailed supporters late Monday night to ask them to sign a petition demanding an apology from Biden.
Why?
An apology would be worthless. And besides, I don’t want one anyway.
Stop wasting your time with petition nonsense.
Mikey commented:
No fear for what Biden and the socialist Kommies say. America is watching and taking notes. Do you think they gain any votes from and Independent by these comments? They are only playing to their base, and their base CANNOT get Obama and these losers reelected. Also, I believe we Tea Partiers better get used to the slander and lies. Nothing will change. The Progressives, i.e., Kommies are getting desperate. They see their social utopia evaporating before their eyes. Americans have REJECTED the Keynesian, Alinsky way. The find it to be most unpalatable. The tide is going our way. If Obama and the Kommies don’t destroy the country before next year, we may be able to save it. Rick Perry 2012.
Blue Collar Todd commented:
We should take it to the Democrats:
Democrats/Liberals have adopted a racially cleansed version of eugenics. Instead of dehumanizing the Jews like the Nazis did, Liberals dehumanize all of humanity.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/08/nazi-democrats-compare-republicans-to-terrorists-again-and-again.html
In both cases the State is given total power over our lives and decides which life is worthy of life.
Mo commented:
This “terrorist” is going to work like hell to add you to the unemployed in 2012 Joe!!!
matt commented:
Have you NO SHAME Mr Vice President…A sitting Vice President calling millions of his own citizens terrorists?
dave commented:
To Hell with You People
August 2, 2011 11:24 A.M. By Jonah Goldberg
Look, I am past exhausted talking about liberal media bias. It’s real, we all know it, and people who deny it aren’t even fooling themselves. But some things just have to be pointed out. This morning I watched the first 15 minutes of the Today Show. I don’t particularly love or even like the program, but I find it useful to see what the producers think is the big news of the day. And sometimes Chuck Todd is on, and I like him. If I sound defensive about watching the show it’s only because I am.
Anyway, the first ten minutes was about Gabby Giffords’ return to the House yesterday. I’m not sure it merited the full ten minutes or trumped the hard news that later followed, but it’s a great story and everyone is rooting for the lady, so I’m fine with it.
But think about this for a second. The Giffords shooting sent the media elite in this country into a bout of St. Vitus’s dance that would have warranted an army of exorcists in previous ages. Sarah Palin’s Facebook map was an evil totem that forced some guy to go on a shooting spree. The New York Times, the Washington Post, all three broadcast networks — particularly NBC whose senior foreign-affairs correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, devotes, by my rough reckoning, ten times as much air time to whining about Sarah Palin as she does about anything having to do with foreign affairs — flooded the zone with “Have you no shame” finger wagging. A memo went forth demanding that everyone at MSNBC get their dresses over their heads about the evil “tone” from the right. Media Matters went into overdrive working the interns 24/7 to “prove” that Republicans deliberately foment violence with their evil targets on their evil congressional maps.
Everyone “knew” the shooter was a tea partier. Except he wasn’t. He wasn’t even a conservative. He was a sick, demented, nutball. And it still didn’t matter! More bleating and caterwauling about the “tone” followed. More chin stroking and tut-tutting from Meet the Press roundtables and “very special segments” on the Today Show. More pizzas were ordered for the Media Matters galley slaves.
Finally, president Obama, our national-healer, gives a speech. It was a good speech. Indeed it was one of the first speeches in a long while that got anything like bipartisan support. Civility. New tone. No more martial metaphors. These were the takeaways.
So flashforward to this week. Tom Friedman — who knows a bit about Hezbollah — calls the tea partiers the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP bent on taking the country on a “suicide mission.” All over the place, conservative Republicans are “hostage takers” and “terrorists,” “terrorists” and “traitors.” They want to “end life as we know it on this planet,” says Nancy Pelosi. They are betraying the Founders, too. Chris Matthews all but signs up for the “Make an Ass of Yourself” contest at the State Fair. Joe Nocera writes today that “the Tea Party Republicans can put aside their suicide vests.” Lord knows what Krugman and Olbermann have said.
Then last night, on the very day Gabby Giffords heroically returns to cast her first vote since that tragic attack seven months ago, the vice president of the United States calls the Republican party a bunch of terrorists.
No one cares. I hate the “if this were Bush” game so we’re in luck. Instead imagine if this was Dick Cheney calling the Progressive Caucus (or whatever they’re called) a “bunch of terrorists” on the day Giffords returned to the Congress. Would the mainstream media notice or care? Would Meet the Press debate whether this raises “troubling questions” about the White House’s sensitivity? Would Andrea Mitchell find some way to blame Sarah Palin for Dick Cheney’s viciousness? Would Keith Olbermann explode like a mouse subjected to the Ramone’s music in Rock and Roll High School? Something inside me hidden away shouts, “Hell yes they would!”
The Today Show even had Debbie Wasserman Schultz on this morning for five minutes talking about Giffords. No one thought to ask her what she thought of Biden’s comments? It’s not like she’s the Democratic party’s national spokesperson or anything. Oh, wait. She is!
Instead, after the full ten minutes on Giffords, we get an update about the debt-limit situation (which is supposedly an Armageddon-level issue) and Kelly O’Donnell basically carries water for Biden on the issue by completely muddying whether he said anything of the sort at all. (His office says, no, no the vice president didn’t call them terrorists, he just politely agreed with all the Democratic congressmen in the room that they “acted like terrorists.” Ah, this is a distinction a team of a million Jesuits working around the clock would have a hard time slicing.)
And yet you know the next time there’s the slightest, remotely exploitable tragedy or hint of violence, the same reporters, editors, producers, and politicians are going to insist that blood was spilled because of the right wing’s rhetoric.
Well, go to Hell. All of you.
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Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Sarah Palin said Vice President Biden’s terrorist remarks “appalling” and “vile.”
Vile words from a vile man…
Emery Saks commented:
Well judging from the reader comments, I guess we can tell which way this forum leans … LOL
But in all seriousness, it’s just plain disheartening that our elected officials – Executive and Legislative – can’t get it together and overcome their political bickering to help American citizens who are struggling to find a job and pay their bills.