BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Amos
Date: 29 Mar 10 - 04:12 PM

Sawz, you sound kinda desperate there, buddy. Do you think there is a difference between one overheated nutball and a whole organization of them?


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Riginslinger
Date: 29 Mar 10 - 04:13 PM

Yes, Move.On is most definately a terrorist organization.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 29 Mar 10 - 10:54 PM

Being as Obama doesn't want to call Al Qaeda terrorists, or call it a war on terror, why should we begin labeling those groups terrorists, that we simply don't agree with????

Some people are just too easily whipped up by the media frenzies!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 29 Mar 10 - 11:34 PM

Bobert nailed it above. Hate is on the rise, just like pre OK City. Go Google Hutaree. Honestly now, do you think they watch Fox or MSNBC?

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Sawzaw
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 11:44 AM

"Do you think there is a difference between one overheated nutball and a whole organization of them?"

Do you Amos? That is the point.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Amos
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 12:10 PM

Yep.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Sawzaw
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 12:18 PM

Are UC Berkley students a terrorist organization??

Overnight, an impromptu riot to protest budget cuts and tuition increases at the University of California-Berkeley snowballed to include more than 200 people and resulted in flaming dumpsters, broken windows and dancing in the streets.

The Daily Californian reports that the riot emerged from a campus dance party and metastasized into an all-out fiery clash between students and police.

    Officers physically pushed the crowd back so that Berkeley fire personnel could extinguish the flames. Sporadic fights broke out within the crowd, causing police to advance their line on the growing mob and use batons to push it back.

    Members of the crowd hurled glass bottles, plastic buckets, pizza and other objects at the police line. The crowd's size and intensity fluctuated as the police and protesters clashed and multiple members of the crowd were detained by police.

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Mob attacks UC-Berkeley chancellor's home

BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 12 2009 (UPI) -- An angry mob descended on the home of University of California-Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, breaking windows and throwing torches, police said.

Eight of the estimated 75 people who took part in the Friday night attack were arrested on a variety of charges, including attempted arson and assault with a deadly weapon, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday.

The crowd voiced anger over student fee increases and budget cuts.

"No justice, no peace," they chanted before smashing planters, windows and lights, the newspaper said.

Campus spokesman Dan Mogulof said several threw torches at the home, where Birgeneau was awakened by his wife, Mary Catherine.

"These are criminals, not activists," Birgeneau said in a statement Saturday. "The attack at our home was extraordinarily frightening and violent. My wife and I genuinely feared for our lives. The people involved in this action will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I want to emphasize that they represent an extreme minority of our students."

The attack came a day after university police arrested 66 people tied to a four-day protest this week at the school's Wheeler Hall, which also was the site of a Nov. 20 occupation and clash between students and authorities."

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Amos
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 12:30 PM

Students protesting for greater access to education is at least a worthy goal, even if the mob got out of control and resorted to property damage. I don't know if I would even call them an organization, let alone a terrorist organization. You keep bringing in these sketchy associations to divert the thread from its original subject, Sawz. Why not post an article demanding to know whether Japanese whalers are a terrorist organization? This is a silly rhetorical device designed to nullify the subject by redefining the topic with ridiculous associations.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: beardedbruce
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 12:33 PM

Amos,

"Students protesting for greater access to education is at least a worthy goal,"

So, having decided that the opinions of others as to what is a worthwhile goal ( cutting the cost and control of governemnet, and keeping medical costs down), YOU decided what is appropriate to demonstrate about????

Shame, shame...

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: pdq
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 12:36 PM

For those who missed the UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement...   

       ...and fight the 60s wars all over again

       Back with Barry

       This is gettin' scary

       Back with Barry's Boys!

{appologies to the Chad Mitchell Trio}

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Amos
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 12:56 PM

Are you asserting that access to education is not a worthwhile goal, Bruce? Or is it their exercise of unhampered speech?


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: beardedbruce
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 01:07 PM

Amos,

Are YOU asserting that concerns over the growing government control and increasing tax burden are not worthwhile goals? Or is it the exercise of unhampered speech by those that do not agree with you?

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 05:30 PM

Planning to shoot law enforcment people and protesting are worlds apart in the logical mind... The illogical mind??? Maybe a different story... I donno... My mind can't get from protesting to planning cop shooting... Just can't get there...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: beardedbruce
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 06:44 PM

Bobert:

"Planning to shoot law enforcment people and protesting are worlds apart in the logical mind... "

I agree. But the Christian Milita ones arrested were no more representative of conservatives than the Black Panthers that DID shoot police were of all blacks back in the 60's/70's .

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: akenaton
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 06:49 PM

All political movements are of necessity "terrorist".

Organisation of humanity is a terrorist act.

All governments....especially "democratic" governments engage in terrorism, against their own people and against the people of other nations whom they perceive to be weaker, but an ideological danger.

Once again we are being diverted into splitting hairs, the enemy is obvious but we continue to tolerate it because we fear we may lose what we have gained through terrorism.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Sawzaw
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 07:09 PM

Well Well Well. Teabaggers don't like taxes being heaped on them and stuff rammed down their throat and when they protest. So bitter, angry Bobert cranks up his hate machine another notch and calls them terrorists.

Students riot, terrorize the Chancellor and his family, set fires, battle with police and destroy personal property to protest higher tuition and they are Angels.

Unhampered speech means you can terrorize people by attempting to burn their house down with them inside and left wingers will give you a pass.

You and Bobert live in symbiosis like Felix and Oscar. A mutual admiration society.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: beardedbruce
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 07:10 PM

he said he recognizes that the movement involves people with "mainstream, legitimate concerns" about the national debt, government expansion and big spending.

"I wouldn't paint in broad brush and say that everybody who is involved or have gone to a tea party rally or meeting are somehow on the fringe," Obama said. "I think that there's a broader circle around that core group of people who are legitimately concerned about the deficit, who are legitimately concerned that the federal government may be taking on too much."



That is what Obama said- I guess some here need to tellhim how wrong he is...

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Amos
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 07:18 PM

"These people could be anybody. I wouldn't put it past the Democrats to plant somebody there. They're trying to label the tea party, but I've never seen any racial slurs."

-- Dale Robertson, self-proclaimed founder of the Tea Party, quoted by the Washington Times.

The only problem? The Washington Independent caught Robertson at a Tea Party rally last month holding a sign with a racial slur. Story here> "Dale Robertson, a Tea Party activist who operates TeaParty.org, is getting stung for an old photo Ñ taken at the Feb. 27, 2009 Tea Party in Houston Ñ in which he holds a sign reading ÒCongress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar.Ó

After the ResistNet listerv promoted ÒLiberty ConcertsÓ to be held by TeaParty.org, a source passed on this photo of Robertson, after the jump.

Update: Josh Parker of the Houston Tea Party Society tells me that Robertson was booted out of the event for this sign."



Read more: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/03/29/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html#ixzz0jhl2NfSx

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 07:23 PM

Perhaps the truth might at last start to trickle through to the demonisers of Obama that,far from being a radical of the extreme left, he is a decent moderate politician, who would be quite at home politically in the centre-right in most democratic countries.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 08:41 PM

Tea Party people didn't give a flying fuck about taxes when George Bush was the president...

(But he was a Republican and white, BOberdz...)

My point, exactly...

But back to Tea Party people... Look at the rallies... These are the same right winged base that the Repubs have always taken for granted and either vote or don't vote depending on their mood... They ain't the folks who got the big tax cuts under Bush... They ain't the upper 5%ers... No, they are the Joe the un-Plumber (what does he really do???)... So ya'll can take the tax argument and flush it... That dog don't hunt... Oh, BTW... 95% of them have had their taxes go, ahhhhhhh, down under Obama so ya'll just quit with the stupid arguments and get to meat of the problem: Obama is black and he is a democrat... That's ths tory here... The rest are lies piled upon lies...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Alice
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 10:12 PM

Someone has started a page of photos of Tea Party signs using "creative" spelling and grammar. They call it Teabonics.

Teabonics on flickr

My favorite so far is
"Make English America's offical Language"

(offical is underlined twice)

They seem to have trouble with "ial". Several spell socialism as
socilism.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Alice
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 10:17 PM

Oh, now I have a new favorite Tea Party protest sign.

These are like the signs you see at Engrish.com.


"Remember descent the highest form of patriotic"

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Sawzaw
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 10:29 PM

"Tea Party people didn't give a flying fuck about taxes when George Bush was the president."

But now that Obama is jacking them up, they do give a flying fuck.

Sounds logical to me.

Oh and the $400 dollar tax break? How does that stack up against the $600 rebate from GWB?

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 10:49 PM

The tea party was established by Dick Army and his lobbying group to serve as a diversion from recent Republican sins and promote the same old interests of the extremely wealthy. Steer the anger and outrage of the common man victims of Wall Street crimes and you will secure votes of the unwashed public for the interests of Wall St.

View it as a stage play and it makes more sense.

Act one - the set up and the theft
Act two - Hiding in plain sight while others fight
Act three - The great irony.


We are currently in Act 2 which is my favorite. It involves steering the anger of the common man away from the robbers and to direct their wrath at the goverment, no matter how violent or chaotic such a campaign will become, is crucial for the saftey of the 13 banks, the 13 bankers and 11 familes who own them. These families will do anything to avoid the personal blowback following the greatest deliberate financial theft in recorded history. Just like a desperate bank robber, but on a monumental scale, they will bribe, they will take hostages, they will make demands, they will create diversions, they will murder (by proxy).

Steering the outrage of reasonable people as well as the blind thrashing by the irrational angry victims of the God and guns crowd, is the chief concern of well to do bank robbers. Calling the goverment totalitarian, fascist or communist is only half of the diversion.

The savagery committed by men with such clean uncalloused hands is felt in ; every state capitol, every public classroom, in every small business, in every manufacturing plant, in every forclosure, in every lost job and in every man woman and child who do not have $400 million dollars to cushion their fall.

It reminds me of how the Pope is not concerned by the deaf children who were raped by clergy , but was only concerned of how the church may remain safe and secure and how to harbor the pedergasts safely away from controversy.

The final act of this evil financial play will involve the evil that is done after robbery in Act 1, after the diversions and fighting in the streets in act two. It is about the tragedy that tears apart every family and every nation while the robbers come out of hiding. It concludes with the irony that the victims of the great theft were unable to keep their eyes on the ball, to see who the real villains were, and end up blindly killing each other. In the end we see the victims serving the very people who destroyed their life.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Sawzaw
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 10:53 PM

Is the SEIU a terrorist Organization??

African American man beaten by SEIU Union Thugs in St. Louis at townhall protest

Left wing racial hatred and violence at it's ugliest.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Sawzaw
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 11:28 PM

Are Japanese whalers are a terrorist organization?


According to a report from the news agency EFE, yesterday three crewmembers of a Japanese whaling ship suffered injuries from corrosive acid thrown at them by protesters from the anti-whaling group, Sea Shepherd, in the waters off Antarctica. The environmentalist group, which has been dubbed by some a "terrorist organization," has been known to resort to militant tactics before in order to disrupt Japanese whaling vessels, such as lobbing stink-bombs and shining laser beams, but acid may be the most dangerous tool in their arsenal. While Sea Shepherd justifies its tactics as a way help end the practice of whaling, some are wondering if maybe they have gone too far.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Don Firth
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 12:34 AM

If you squint a bit, a dachshund does look a bit like a mole. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 01:01 AM

Don Firth: "If you squint a bit, a dachshund does look a bit like a mole. . . ."

GfS: last time you posted about small animals, you seemed to favor ferrets.........not so satisfying anymore??...Too small???

Winking!
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 01:12 AM

All kidding aside........

Remember back in the 60's, the slogan and bumper sticker that said: "suppose the gave a war, and nobody came"

Perhaps we should not be recruited into somebody else's contrived cause, and these 'examples' of media hyped incidents, and or their interpretations.....fanned to bring civil unrest, and to suck everyone into it!

How widespread, and/or violent should it get, before those who got sucked into making it more than it is, get before we second think about promoting it???

We, who are musicians, should be on the side of peace, and use our instruments as weapons for peace, not for promoting causes that nobody is sure of the origins, or where it is leading the country to.

Peace, GfS

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 05:39 AM

""Yes, Move.On is most definately a terrorist organization.""

This one puzzles me Sawzaw.

Do you actually believe that there is an organisation arranging to have its members stick a finger into the mouth of opposing protesters, and have it bitten off?

To what end?........Infect the enemy with HIV?..........Have them convicted of cannibalism?.......WHAT?

If that's terrorism, it seems strangely ineffective.

Ten outings, and they won't even be able to write to their Congressman.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 05:48 AM

Sorry, that was Rig.

Nevertheless, my comments re Sawzaw's lengthy cut 'n paste stand.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 08:00 AM

Yeah, GfS... And alot of us do use the stage as a forum to talk about stuff... I know I do and have had complaints from promoters for it becuase the Sawzes in the audience don't like it... But I don't go on and on... Just a little here and a little there...

Mah man, Sparky Rucker, now??? Different story... His motto is that "if yer gonna get the song yer gonna have to listen to the sermon"... lol... BTW, Sparky can sho nuff deliver a sermon, too...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 12:05 PM

Cool, Bobert!....Sing on..play on....point the way!!!
All this contrived crap HAS to be put in it's place...it's an exercise, in lameness...and all too luring!

Regards,
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Riginslinger
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 07:25 PM

"Ten outings, and they won't even be able to write to their Congressman."


             Congressmen don't listen anyway.

    The Southern Poverty Law Center is another one.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Sawzaw
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 01:49 AM

Don T.

When a member of one organization bites off the finger of a member of another organization, it should be obvious which organization is more terrorist like?

That is the purpose. Which is the terrorist organization? Which is the violent organization?

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Sawzaw
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 11:19 AM

Tea Party 48% Obama 44%

On major issues, 48% of voters say that the average Tea Party member is closer to their views than President Barack Obama. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 44% hold the opposite view and believe the president's views are closer to their own.

Not surprisingly, Republicans overwhelmingly feel closer to the Tea Party and most Democrats say that their views are more like Obama's. Among voters not affiliated with either major political party, 50% say they're closer to the Tea Party while 38% side with the President.

The partisan divide is similar to that found in the President's Job Approval Ratings and on the Generic Congressional Ballot.

"Unaffiliated voters are continuing the pattern they established in 2006 and 2008 of opposing the party in power," notes Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports. In his new book, Scott makes the case that "the American people don't want to be governed from the left, the right, or the center. They want to govern themselves." In Search of Self-Governance has received positive reviews from across the political spectrum and is available at Rasmussen Reports and Amazon.com.

(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.

Eighty-seven percent (87%) of those in the Political Class say their views are closer to the president. The Obama Administration has created a significantly larger government and political role in the economy.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of Mainstream Americans say their views are closer to the Tea Party.

Last week, Rasmussen Reports released data showing that 47% of voters felt closer to the views of Tea Party members than to Congress. Only 26% felt closer to Congress.

The new polling found that just 33% believe their views are closer to the average member of a Labor Union than to Congress. In fact, a plurality of voters were undecided when asked about that comparison. While 48% of Democrats said their own views were closer to the average union member, most Republicans and unaffiliated voters could not choose between the two.

In a head-to-head comparison, 45% felt closer to the average Tea Party Member while 35% felt closer to the average union member.

Fifty-three percent (53%) believe their views are closer to the average school teacher than to Congress. Teachers scored six points higher than the Tea Party members when compared to Congress.

In a head-to-head match-up, 47% said they felt closer to the average school teacher while 41% said they felt closer to the average Tea Party member. Once again, the results betray a heavy partisan difference. Democrats prefer the school teachers, Republicans are closer to the Tea Party, and unaffiliated voters are evenly divided.

Earlier polling found that just 16% of voters nationwide consider themselves part of the Tea Party Movement. However, views of the Tea Party remain more positive than negative among voters. Just 11% believe Congress is doing a good or an excellent job.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 03:10 PM

""When a member of one organization bites off the finger of a member of another organization, it should be obvious which organization is more terrorist like?

That is the purpose. Which is the terrorist organization? Which is the violent organization?""


Well, to me there is another question to be answered first.

A verbal exchange of views took place, and then one party escalated the situation into physical violence.

Was that party the one you describe as a terrorist?........NO!.......See below.

""Rice told investigators he felt threatened by the man and punched him in the nose, A fight ensued, during which part of Rice's finger was bitten off,""

""Rice said in a phone interview Thursday. "I felt like I had no choice other than to defend myself.""

Maybe the man he punched felt even more threatened and also felt that he had no choice but to defend himself.

You make a very poor case for calling the man who first offered violence a victim, and the man he assaulted a terrorist.

I think you might n4eed to re-examine your argument.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 04:16 PM

Do that font again sawz and I will punch you in the nose.


After an absence of 4 months due to a near fatal attack, one person welcomed me back. For the rest of you, you can take your Indifference and smoke it. Indifference is a Burmese Indica \ Northern light Sativa blend.


Palin's Platoon and Beck's Brigade; only lefties may click here

btw since Beck has said many things regarding the bloody murder of progressives he now tries to mention Ghandi at least once every show.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 04:24 PM

Donuel

I disagree with most of what you post, but welcome back.

Bypass, or just stents?


( 9 stents now, and an ICD)

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 04:25 PM

sorry, that was me- no cookies on this loaner machine

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 04:58 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Greg F.
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 06:26 PM

And you're posting this why, Brucie?

Are we supposed to all jump to the conclusion that this was done by "THE FAR LEFT"?

Jesus, Man, you've sunken to new lows (I'll admit, I didn't think it was possible)- your boy Rush would be proud of ya.

I doubt this was the first person to be beat on in the history of New Orleans-

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: mousethief
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 06:51 PM

Is Facebook now a reliable source for real news? Do they have fact checkers? Do they compare independent sources? No? No? No?

This is somebody's say-so and has no more solidity than the used beer offered by a drunk behind the pub.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 08:34 PM

My deeepest hope is that the Tea Party runs a candidate for president since Sawz thinks they would win over Obmaa... Please, Lord, let the Tea Party put forth a candidiate!!! I am being very serious here...

The problem with the Tea Party is that they are a bunch of crybabies that have little or no understanding of the real world... The moderates, who purdy much stay out of politics except at election time, are ceratinly going to find the debates between the Tea Party candidtae and Obama ver enlightening...

Here's the rub, folks...

The Tea Party folks are pissed off at the government but when it comes to ***their*** fucking Medicare or Social Security it's "Keep your hands off what's mine"... That is the Tea Party in a nutshell... They hate the government as long as the government is helping folks they disagree with but whejhn it comes to them persoanlly, they can't get enough government...

I say, "Screw 'um"... If they hate the government that much than I'd like to see them start a movement to turn down anything on the government's menu of services and/or entitlements!!!

Yeah, come on Tea Baggers... Put up ot shut up!!!

B~

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Sawzaw
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 09:51 PM

Is NPR Fair?

....there are problems with the Tea Bag animation. Chief among them is it doesn't fit with NPR values, one of which is a belief in civility and civil discourse.

Fiore is talented, but this cartoon is just a mean-spirited attack on people who think differently than he does and doesn't broaden the debate. It engages in the same kind of name-calling the cartoon supposedly mocks...

...The 90-second animation, which creator Mark Fiore calls satire, rather summarily dismisses participants in the Tea Party movement as inarticulate, paranoid bumblers. The video "teaches" the viewer to speak conversational "tea bag."...

---

Do you believe in civility and civil discourse or mean-spirited attacks on people who think differently than you do?

I am siding with NPR on this one.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: mousethief
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 10:03 PM

From the NPR ombudsman: But if NPR continues using Fiore, it should quickly find a cartoonist to counter his decidedly liberal take. Critics are right to take NPR to task for only representing one side using such a strong visual medium as an animated cartoon with sound and text.

When has FOX ever said anything like this about itself? The idea (put forward on this very website) of NPR being a shill of the "far left" is risible.

Thanks for the link, Sawz.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Sawzaw
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 01:17 AM

Yes Mouse, and if you look you will see a satire of Obama from the same guy but it does not seem as mean spirited to me.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: Sawzaw
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 01:22 AM

"Sawz thinks they would win over Obmaa"

Bobert is trying to project the results of a poll on me the same way he projects his own hatred and racism on others.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 01:31 AM

Bobert? Racist? Dude, I'd love to see things from your perspective, but I just can't shove my head THAT far up my ass.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 01:59 AM

200!..Nope the baggers are not a terrorist group..that is silly! They are just pissed off taxpayers who don't want to be gouged beyond control, to pay for the people who have a disproportionate sense of entitlement!

Whether you agree with them or not, they have the right to bitch about it...Jeez, look at all the bitching that goes on here!..You bitch, they bitch......I think peace, and contentment is better for a musical mind..however turmoil often presses the best, out of us composers!!

GfS