I hope you have a barf bag handy. If not, get one.
A swarm of health care protesters, many holding Tea Party signs, heckled members of Congress with racial epithets and abusive language as the House votes on health care reform.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a "faggot," causing the surrounding crowd to erupt in laughter. A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said a protester spat on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.). Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a leader of the civil rights movement, was called a "ni**er."
Although Frank shrugged off the incident, Clyburn was shocked and told reporters that he hadn’t experienced such treatment since leading protests in South Carolina in the 1960s.
"It was absolutely shocking to me," Clyburn told the Huffington Post. "Last Monday, this past Monday, I stayed home to meet on the campus of Claflin University where fifty years ago as of last Monday… I led the first demonstrations in South Carolina, the sit ins… And quite frankly I heard some things today I have not heard since that day. I heard people saying things that I have not heard since March 15, 1960 when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus."… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Raw Story>
The GOP has sown the wind by appealing to the lowest instincts of their rabid base: hatred, racism, homophobia, etc. I can only hope that the GOP are the ones to inherit the whirlwind, not their intended victims. Behavior reminiscent of the ‘Brown Shirts’ in 1930s Germany is not tolerable in 2010s America.
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Amen, Brother, Amen!
Thanks FG!
they have hit a new low Tom, but they were already slithering like snakes in the mud. They really have such hateful hearts, sad, I wonder if they ever ask their God for forgiveness? How can they believe in God and then act like that? It boggles my mind!
Sue, I don’t know how to answer that, except that my God and their God are not the same.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Republicans = Fascist, Racist, Bigoted, American Christian Taliban Terrorist and Nazi’s. Including the Kapo Nazi Eric Cantor and Judas Iscariot Lieberman.
A war is coming and the Nazi’s do not have enough Military, Police and Woman and Children Murders like Blackwater {Ze} to stop the American People from dragging all of them from their offices and publicly executing them all for Treason.
The Lord will send down the Angel Of Death Upon Them and all the Evil Seed Of Satan that they have Spawned.
I pray its sooner rather than later.
God Bless.
AP, my good friend, as you know, I would never invoke human or Divine wrath on anyone. That is their way, not mine. If we adopt their tactics, will we not become like them?
It’s getting harder to pretend that this Tea Party movement isn’t based on pure racism and hatred of anyone who doesn’t look and think like them. Someone should tell these people that’s it better to remain silent be thought a racist than open their mouths and remove all doubt.
Abi, that’s excellent advice. The GOP leadership is too rabid to follow it.
I read this yesterday and thought that these people don’t even have common manners. To spit on someone and call someone else a n**gger? WTF is wrong with these people? That’s the influence of the White Supremacists coming into the Teabaggers. I hope at least they were arrested for assault.
Lisa, they certainly chould have been arrested. To the best of my knowledge, they were not. Do you remember when people were arrested for wearing anti-bush tea-shirts at Bush rallies?
And they seem to be getting away with it~! CNN, of course, barely covers it, Faux glosses it up (shockingly) and print / web just passes it along like so much more facts, just the facts. It’s stunning.
I’m beginning to understand, TC, that we are experiencing a critical mass in social / political evolution…. it’ makes all kinds of sense. Nothing else can equate all of this madness… Checking industrialized history, we are watching the typical playbook senerio that leads to great change or great regress. Today I am going to ride the surf of the www to keep close on the vote. MAY THE GODDESS MAKE IT SO!
Good piece. 🙂
Gwen, I agree. What we are seeing from the right are the tactics of desperation.
And these people are against “progressives”, but it’s OK with them to take this country back to the pre-Civil War days, I guess. For people who eat, sleep, and quote the Bible (as well as carry their guns. I forgot what Commandment that was in…), they certainly are the most un-Christian ones I’ve ever seen. Which book of the Bible mentions Jesus calling people of another color or sexual orientation evil names? Or when did he taunt the sick and throw money at them? And when the crowd got hungry after listening to his speech he had someone bring him some fish so he could eat in front of them, right? Then there were the times he told all the sick and lame people to leave him alone: he wasn’t responsible for what they’d become. He wasn’t paying for it! Yep, that’s the Conservative Bible Project for you……..
Judi, on one occasion Jesus actually did throw money. Banksters has set up a money changing scam in the temple. He tipped over their tables and drove them out of the temple. He was tolerant of common people, regardless of their sins. He was intolerant of religious hypocrites, the religious right of his day.
This was one of the most disgusting of the many disgusting things I’ve heard the teabaggers are doing recently. I am afraid for this country. I also blame the media for giving them such publicity. These people are, I hope and believe, a minority in this country, and yet you see them on television constantly. They show Tea Party protesters close up so you can’t see how big or small the group really is, which gives the rest of America the impression that this is a huge backlash when in reality the groups are relatively small. This is happening on all the MSM stations, not just Faux News.
Maui, I agree. Anti-bush protesrers got little air time. The only coverage people like these Teabaggers should get is condemnation of their behavior.
I’m beyond shock at what these tea bagging morons will do TomCat. It does expose what’s behind their movement though. A bunch of bigots using a great event in American History to call minorities names and hide among a big crowd to get away with it.
Truth, sadly, bigots is an understatement.
I guess it serves to point out what many of us have always thought. This is mostly about race sadly. It’s unspeakably sad and disgusting.
And not just race, Sherry. Look what they saud to Barney Frank.
What is consistent about these teabaggers is that they consistently find a new low. They are the American brownshirts – and their entire “movement” is based on racism, homophobia and hate. And worse – they take “cover” in the Republican party which for the most part is averse to criticizing their behavior, because, as we all know, the GOP cannot alienate the “base”
and the media – dont get me started. the GOP gives cover to the American Brownshirts and the media gives them credibility – what a combo
my fear – if and when this bill passes it will get worse
DC, I echo your fear. But we have to be prepared to fight them when they do. The best way is to keep exposing them for what they are.
People like the teabaggers and most of today’s ultra-conservative, far, far right Republican Party were considered wacky crackpots not all that long ago. That, of course, was before Fox “News” created the myth and illusion that they were somehow miraculously normal, credible, and mainstream. Watching Fox is like reading old Nazi or Soviet newspapers and newsreels—all the opinion and none of the fact.
Amen, Pope Jack!
They are going to get more angry as time moves on (without them), we, as a country and as a society have got to keep trudging on into the future, in time they will realize that the kind of society we want, is kinder and more inclusive.
That’s quite true, Holte. may the time some come that they matter so little that they stop and smell the coffee.
We’ve all seen them before. In 1942, they were spitting on Jews being herded past on their way to certain oblivion, all the while shouting “die jew!”
They were the ones holding the hoses and loosing the dogs in 1960’s Birmingham.
They were the ones who thought torture was perfectly fine and dandy as long as it was Georgie Bush pushing the needle.
Oh, yes, indeed, we’ve all seen these people before. Self-deluded and self-conditioned to the point of extreme depravity.
Well said, Bee. I can confirm the ugliness in 1960s Birmingham. I went there to demonstrate for civil rights. I had a dog on my face. I was not bitten, but others were. I was knocked flat when they turned a firehose on me.
I don’t know if yesterday’s teabuggery was a “new low” or not. It just shows how little those reactionaries have changed in 50 years. Take away the white robes and burning crosses, and the KKK inbreds from 1960 are interchangeable with today’s teabagging inbreds.
That’s a good point, Tom. I meant a new low for this round of racist bigotry.
Mediamatters posted a quote from a conservative blogger defending the racists:
– “It’s also important to distinguish “angry protesters” from particular individuals who cross the line into the kind real ugliness or violence that should be condemned. There’s nothing wrong with showing anger at the thing that motivates you to protest. That’s what protests are for!”
It seems that health care is a proxy for what these people are really upset with…
What bothers me is that the GOP and leading Tea Party groups tried to distance themselves from their protesters, but all I hear are just empty words. The GOP and Tea Party still supports these people… and using the Breitbart argument, about low level employees and systemic corruption in ACORN, what do these individuals say for the entire Tea Party movement???
Kevin, I agree. Even after these incidents, the GOP leadership continued to appear on the balcony during the debate yesterday to egg them on to even new levels of depravity.