Right-wing group launches TV ad claiming Sotomayor led a terrorist organization.
By on Jul 14th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Right-wing group launches TV ad claiming Sotomayor led a terrorist organization.
A TV ad by the right-wing Committee for Justice claims that Judge Sonia Sotomayor “led a group supporting violent Puerto Rican terrorists.” The ad also links Sotomayor to “Obama’s buddy Bill Ayres, the unrepentant terrorist who bombed American buildings in the seventies.” Watch:
The claim that Sotomayor led a terrorist organization apparently refers to her service on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, a mainstream civil rights organization. It seems that, in the right-wing mind, a group that protects Latinos from race discrimination is exactly the same as al Qaeda.
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This reminds me of a line I heard in a movie once.
Desperation, the worlds worst cologne
July 14th, 2009 at 7:32 pmkinda lame – reminds me of election season /vomit
July 14th, 2009 at 7:35 pmMmm, She knows the law very well and these guys could be looking at a huge lawsuit for slander or liable.
Hope they get sued for everything they’ve got.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:36 pmEugeneDebs says:
This reminds me of a line I heard in a movie once.
Desperation, the worlds worst cologne
July 14th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
***
they put it on
with a turkey baster.
:<)
…
July 14th, 2009 at 7:36 pmThe claim that Sotomayor led a terrorist organization apparently refers…
I beg to disagree. I don’t believe this garbage is referring to anything factual -beyond the fact that Pres Obama personally knows both Ayers, and Sotomayor. The rest is the usual fearmongering from the right wing.
These smear artists are simply making up an unsubstantiated claim and running with it.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:38 pmRight-wing group launches TV ad claiming Sotomayor led a terrorist organization.
– - Wow, this Supreme Court “rush week hazing” is really brutal.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:38 pmGregor Samsa says:
The claim that Sotomayor led a terrorist organization apparently refers…
I beg to disagree. I don’t believe this garbage is referring to anything factual -beyond the fact that Pres Obama personally knows both Ayers, and Sotomayor. The rest is the usual fearmongering from the right wing.
These smear artists are simply making up an unsubstantiated claim and running with it.
Yeah, but . . . birth certificate! Muslim!
Sotomayor is Hispanic (scary!). She was nominated by a Black Democrat with a funny name (scary!).
July 14th, 2009 at 7:39 pmBefore long, the new mantra will be that all Democrats love all terrorists. No matter who it is, the repugs claim they are “pallin” around with terrorists” or they are members of terrorist organizations, or those who support Democrats are terrorists.
Everyone they don’t like (that is everyone who is not a WASP) is a terrorist and we should all be very afraid of them.
It’s time to retire that line — it has not worked and will not work, it only reinforces the uneducated, bigoted cretins who make up their 25%-of-the-population base.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:43 pmThe REPUBLISCUM Channel at it`s best……….are their tin hats screwed on to tight again? or is it because their tent is small.They will say anything to show their base that they are marginal at best.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:45 pmWas the TV ad paid for by SarahPac?
July 14th, 2009 at 7:45 pmHow come the Reich doesn`t mention the Bush – Bin Laden hook up?
July 14th, 2009 at 7:47 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
So now Sotomayor pall around with terrorists??? Desperate wingnuts take desperate measures. Pass the popcorn please…
July 14th, 2009 at 7:55 pmSototmayor is a shoe-in. Meanwhile, the GOP will lose the entire southwest this week. How stoopid is that?
July 14th, 2009 at 7:58 pmBucky Boy @ 2
Unfortunately, you can only sue for libel if the slander was “injurious to your personal or financial standing.”
July 14th, 2009 at 7:58 pm(http://www.ehow.com/how_2040838_sue-someone-libel.html) She only has grounds to sue if she doesn’t get confirmed (or if someone physically attacks her based on the slander).
I don’t really have anything to say here, but I feel that somehow I should. It’s like you’re all calling me by name…
July 14th, 2009 at 7:59 pmWatch Sean Hannity try and misquote Sotomayor, and get caught by David Boies.
Hannity is such a turd.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2164
July 14th, 2009 at 8:02 pmI guess that now since the American people are woke up, there’s nothing left for the GOP to do but go overt racist. Their little gimmicks don’t work anymore.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:02 pmKeep it up guys – there won’t be a single woman or Hispanic to be found that will vote for re=Thugs in any national election for the foreseeable future.
Their hate defines them. They can’t help themselves and they can’t run from it.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:03 pm*
“.. bombed American buildings in the seventies.”
I know of a group bombing the discourse in the 2000s.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:04 pmThey’re terrified of the brown woman.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:06 pm*
Trittydi, I just gave you a thumbs up vote.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:06 pmAnd to think the money wasted on this useless ad could have been donated to a food bank. Hmmm. Does that make them compassionate or fiscal conservatives??
July 14th, 2009 at 8:07 pmgummble-bee-itch,
Yep, that’s the problem for rightwingers: An increasingly diverse crowd at the top of the food chain.
As the demographics change nationwide, though, they will find this garbage tougher to sell…
July 14th, 2009 at 8:10 pmIf you’re not a nut-job, whacko republican and christian nut-job whacko member of a church in a house that’s actually a nut-job, whacko right-wing cult, you are a terrorist. So by that standard I guess we are all terrorists.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:19 pmHey wait a minute! These guys can’t have it both ways…I thought it was all Clintons fault.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:24 pmThe Reich has gone overt on not just Racism,but bigotry and hatred and if your not White,Reich and wealthy and G-d fearing just like them and not to forget their family values……….
July 14th, 2009 at 8:28 pm>>>
that voice…
wasn’t that the storm lady
from the nom ad?
???
July 14th, 2009 at 8:33 pmWatch the Sessions exchange with Sotomayor. She more than handles her own.
http://axisofreason.com/2009/07/14/sessions-and-sotamayor/
July 14th, 2009 at 8:36 pmDr. Hussein Matt says:
Has any of the teabaggers tried to link Sotomayor to ACORN yet?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yes. I think it was Beck. Media Matters covered it yesterday
July 14th, 2009 at 8:37 pmComing from a crackpot racist club. This is rich.
These teabaggers won’t condemn racist rallies, racist “jokes” about President Obama and African-Americans’ slights.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:38 pmFor anyone who is unfamiliar with the new vote-up button you are all welcome to practice using it on this comment. :D
July 14th, 2009 at 8:38 pmThe only thing Sessions got across to the public watching the hearings was, he’s dumb as a fence post. This guy couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:41 pmWasn’t Sotomayor one of the Chicago seven? No?
Maybe she was with Napoleon at Waterloo? No?
There was some big deal war in Europe about 60 years ago or so – A bunch of people died – wasn’t she responsible for that? No?
Was she the one that took us to war in the Middle East on trumped up lies a few years back? No?
How about the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs? No?
Krakatoa? No?
Hurricane katrina? No?
OH!! — Those were OBAMA? I just KNEW it was someone with Empathy.
Okay – don’t tell me, don’t tell me – let me guess again . . . .
July 14th, 2009 at 8:43 pm*
Oh, she has executive experience as well. Thanks for the info.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:44 pmDidn’t Sotomayor pal around with Charles Manson?
July 14th, 2009 at 8:46 pmHas there ever been such a thing as a Puerto Rican terrorist? I can’t think of an instance.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:49 pmWhere are the lawsuits, this is just plan ridicules? So after watching Session’s fall flat on his a$$ today along with the Repugs do, they really think their “baseless” ads are going to work?
Doesn’t this fall under “defamation of character?”
July 14th, 2009 at 8:52 pmTHAT’S IT, Mr. Cobb!!! It was MANSON!
No?
July 14th, 2009 at 8:53 pm*
ElBruce says:
Has there ever been such a thing as a Puerto Rican terrorist? I can’t think of an instance.
There were a couple of groups that were fighting for the independence of Puerto Rico in the 70s and 80s, if I recall correctly.
I believe they were classified as terrorist organizations by the US government.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:54 pmThis ad is directed at the same ignorant whack jobs that are running out to buy up all the guns and ammo while insisting Obama is ineligible to be US President.
They’re still in the minority overall but an extremely armed and dangerous one and in many areas they are actually in the majority.
There should be harsh penalties for fomenting unwarranted fear and loathing among the dumb and dangerous.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:56 pmWasn’t Sotomayor a member of the Sharks? Oh wait, that was a movie. Never mind.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:57 pmI think I just saw Michael Steele waving goodbye to the last
July 14th, 2009 at 8:57 pmHispanic republican voter.
ElBruce says:
——————————————————————————–
Has there ever been such a thing as a Puerto Rican terrorist? I can’t think of an instance.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I can think of a Mexican one ……………….
Alberto Gonzales.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:59 pmRepublicans Love Facts says:
“Firefighters give chilly reaction to Sotomayor hearing”
And how much were they paid by the Repugs to give those bias reaction’s when Sotomayer was actually following the rule of law in her ruling?
July 14th, 2009 at 9:00 pmNews for wingnuts, trolls, and gopers…the Democrats have the votes…she is in. Get use to it.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:04 pmWow, talk about your paranoid tinfoil-hat-wearing freaks…
July 14th, 2009 at 9:04 pmheadline on the googlenews page:
Senators Hold Tongues, Give Sotomayor a Chance to Speak
FOXNews – ?58 minutes ago?
US senators — generally known for their verbosity — let Sonia Sotomayor get in a word edgewise Tuesday as the judge sought to justify her confirmation to the Supreme Court.
huh.
really??? …”hold tongues”???
July 14th, 2009 at 9:05 pmWhat terrorist group in the USA is worse than the GOP? Consider the hateful christian taliban terrorists, the KKK, and the neo-con warmongers that make up the gopers and they have quite a terrorist makeup themselves.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:07 pmIt must really suck to be a Repignofascist these days. All they have going for them is fear and more fear. I wonder what reality looks like in the brain of one of these meatheads
July 14th, 2009 at 9:08 pmAs a white anglo saxon male, I am sick and tired of the latino women keeping me down.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:09 pmI was trying to remember the last time I saw a positive GOP message that didn’t try scare people, tell lies, and personify the false threat by demonizing someone.
Then I realized how foolish to even imagine that.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:13 pmNot only that, she turned one of the GOP senators into a newt.
He didn’t get better.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:17 pmI’d be interested to know how Hispanic voters are feeling about Republicans right now.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:19 pmMy goodness – Republicans Hate Facts – you said it in a wingnutshell at #8!
July 14th, 2009 at 9:22 pmThe Republicans can’t even get through a confirmation hearing without looking like racist bastards.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:22 pmWhy would you bother to raise the money to make an add to air where it will do absolutely no good whatsoever.
Clearly the add is laughable, as with almost everything the wingnuts do, but in this case, they spent their money and gained nothing.
This is probably a precursor of every election involving a Republican. They are going to be spending lots of money but they will never regain political power.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:31 pmLevi the Dungbeetle says:
Why would you bother to raise the money to make an add to air where it will do absolutely no good whatsoever.
maybe they were inspired by the rave performance of the randall terry fan club during the hearing yesterday – those horrid flyers/ads seemed to have paid off…
July 14th, 2009 at 9:38 pmThe GOP is scraping the bottom of the barrel with this ad. They’re probably having fun thinking up these ideas now, but they’ll be shocked, shocked, I tell you when they fail to regain control of both houses of congress in 2010.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:52 pmmy question is what responsible television station would run this type of drivel.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:59 pmThe Republicans still haven’t accepted that they have lost both houses and the executive branch. They will be shocked when they get out of the denial state.
The 2010 and 2012 elections will be just as shocking to them once they reach acceptance of their inevitable future.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:07 pmRepublicans Love Facts says:
“Firefighters give chilly reaction to Sotomayor hearing”
Funny thing about that white firefighter, he got his job by filing a discrimination suit after he didn’t pass the test:
http://www.slate.com/id/2222087/
“According to local newspapers, Ricci filed his first lawsuit against the city of New Haven in 1995, at the ripe old age of 20, for failing to hire him as a firefighter. That January, the Hartford Chronicle reported that Ricci sued, saying “he was not hired because he is dyslexic.” The complaint in that suit, filed in federal court, alleged that the city’s failure to hire Ricci because of his dyslexia violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Frank Ricci was one of 795 candidates interviewed for 40 jobs. According to his complaint, the reason he was not hired was that he disclosed his dyslexia in an interview. That case was settled in 1997 with a confidential settlement in which Ricci withdrew his lawsuit in exchange for a job with the fire department and $11,143 in attorney’s fees”
Of course this kind of discrimination suit is fine with republicans, as long as a white guy files it.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:34 pmI think the repugs and wingnuts know that they are pretty much done. They are so desperate that they are willing to try anything to make dems look bad. Most people can see through their lies. The ones that believe this crap lean so far right that they just keep going in a circle. That is why they will never get anywhere.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:45 pmLet these fools waste money on “pals around with terrorists” ads. It depletes their coffers, stimulates the economy, and will have no more effect than it had on the outcome of the last presidential election.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:51 pmWhatever happened to “Country First”…?
July 14th, 2009 at 10:53 pmLeftside Annie says:
Whatever happened to “Country First”…?
July 14th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Ensign and Sanford changed it to “Cuntry First.” ;)
July 14th, 2009 at 10:59 pmSorry for that. I couldn’t resist. I’ll take whatever down votes I deserve. :-)
July 14th, 2009 at 11:00 pmLeftside Annie says:
Whatever happened to “Country First”…?
Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:04 pmAs stated by Graham, she is almost certain to be confirmed. So all this hearing is, is a chance to beat her over the head and mobilize the base about how wonderful you are representing them.
And the “good” congress critter from Alabama is spouting reich-wing talking points already debunked.
Not to mention the Judge’s answer that the jurist who supposedly counts her a dunce is actually a good friend and sitting right behind her for support.
So all they are doing is bullying her.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:08 pmMay I add that the Bush Co Cabal’s answer to confirmation hearings was to say whatever would play good and then do what they wanted afterwards.
The problem with Justice Sotamayor is that she’s answering honestly and being respectful to the process.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:09 pmActually Zooey I liked your comment. I had to give you a thumbs up for it. Sometimes you have to stoop to the level of a repug to make a point. You wouldn`t be able to make a comment like that if these holier than thou repugs practiced what they preached.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:16 pmHas it really become this bad? Are the Republicans this desparate? If you watch MSM, you would think the Repugs are relevant. But looking at this you realize how desperate they have become. Why am I suprised? Just this morning Liz Chaney was shilling for her father ‘Darth Chaney’ while Mika and the gang were slamming Starbucks Coffee. Have we finally crossed the border into sureallism or unconditional consumerism. I think I will gag now.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:28 pmit’s all playing to the base… fundraising and such…
very sad to see the degradation of the system…
public financed elections would clean it up… it’s gonna have to…
so so so much to do…
July 14th, 2009 at 11:30 pmZooey….you are such a naughty girl!!
And I like it. :o)
July 14th, 2009 at 11:34 pmOh, yeah, I know a guy who knows Kevin Bacon who knows William Ayers (etc). This is like one of those baseball games where about 10 million people claim to have attended. I think about 10 million people must be palin’ (oh, look, it says Palin) around with William Ayers.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:42 pmWanna see a real terrorist? Click here!
July 14th, 2009 at 11:43 pmRight-wing group launches TV ad claiming Sotomayor led a terrorist organization.
Bring it on goppers. It is this foolish nonsense that is killing your party and turning away a huge voting block.
Is the party of NO committing suicide?
Who are they trying to impress – 15% of old racist white men out there?
Good riddance.
July 15th, 2009 at 12:05 amTo sum up the GOP in Bob Uecker/Harry Doyle terms…
“A swing and a miss. That does it folks! Stay tuned for the post-game show. Wait, that was the post-game show? Then stay tuned for 30 minutes of colorful station identification. Lord help us all!”
July 15th, 2009 at 12:05 amI’m sorry to go off topic but; has everyone seen the two recent, and damning, polls?
In the first one, only 6% of scientists call themselves Republicans. Ouch!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/10/only-six-percent-of-scien_n_229382.html
In the other we see the imminent demise of Bible Spice’s political career. Welcome to obscurity, Ms. Palin.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/13/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5154259.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody
I now leave you to your regularly scheduled conversation.
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now you’re loving ACORN,
eh?
:)
July 15th, 2009 at 12:12 amYes, every lefty or pseudo-leftie belongs to a terrorist organization. I belong to one. It’s called atheism. Why, if those atheist scum bags had it their way, they’d take “under god” out of the pledge, and never put it back. That there is our state-sanctioned right to rub our religion in the faces of others since its inclusion in the pledge in the nineteen fifties by Eisenhower.
And yes, Obama’s “buddy.” Obama is no prize pig, given he’s not nearly as liberal as he should be, he’s certainly no friend to Ayers. WHY do wingnuts make such a big deal of that man? He’s not even in prison anymore. The way they talk about him, you’d think he was Hannibal Lecter, locked away in an Insane Asylum forever, just waiting to rip the face off of anyone who got too close to him.
July 15th, 2009 at 12:16 amWhat the Sam Hill are the GOoPers even trying to insinuate? Do they even know?
July 15th, 2009 at 12:28 amMinus 5 says:
Propaganda much?
____________
After reading your comment… I have to ask…
Do you even know what propaganda is?
July 15th, 2009 at 12:34 amThe vast majority of Americans are sick to death of Repub lies & fear-mongering. But the Repubs just don’t get it.
July 15th, 2009 at 12:46 am.
There goes that Reich-Ving projecting dreams of terrorism again.
What was that…
… FEAR the Marxist/Commie/Socialist/Fascist/pinko/racist Latin woman?
What’s next?
She’s sexist too?
.
July 15th, 2009 at 12:58 amGregor Samsa says:
ElBruce says:
Has there ever been such a thing as a Puerto Rican terrorist? I can’t think of an instance.
There were a couple of groups that were fighting for the independence of Puerto Rico in the 70s and 80s, if I recall correctly.
I believe they were classified as terrorist organizations by the US government.
Four Puerto Rican nationalists attacked the US House of Representatives on March 1, 1954.
July 15th, 2009 at 1:08 am.
Dear Minus 5,
Yep I remember Clinton…
… And how the G(no)P ran he and Hillary down and got him to lie about his adulterous lifestyle, sorta like the NEW G(no)P.
You know, that LIAR/ADULTERER Newt… oh wait, he not the NEW but left overs from the prosecution of Clinton. NO?
p.s.
What’s a blow job compared to LYING to the Senate, Wars of aggression(Iraq/Afghanistan), Conspiracy to commit TORTURE, outing a covert CIA agent and her team operating in Iran, WARRANTLESSLY WIRETAPPING AMERICANS IN CONTRAVENTION TO THE FIFTH AMENDMENT AND FISA, suspending HABEAS CORPUS, illegal detention policies that include NO DUE PROCESS and NO/LITTLE COUNSEL, illegal “black sites” and a goon squad ready to take out world leaders?
One pals in comparison…
… And IT ain’t wearing a blue dress.
HINT:
Reality is NOT a T.V. game show!
.
July 15th, 2009 at 1:10 amThe Committee For Justice is a right wing mouthpiece that appears to have been formed to support Bush’s judicial nominees. I would not get overly agitated by these types of claims. It is easy to see they have a political viewpoint that has nothing to do with evaluating judges based on their actual record. The way to combat the policy wonk groups is to publish the truth. It serves no purpose to rant and call them names, but that does play into their hands to claim liberals are vicious, mean, etc. This group will have no effect on the Sotomayor nomination. These claims from the group is a way of fund-raising.
July 15th, 2009 at 1:25 amMarie, haven’t some of the trolls here already accused of that? I recall the Mighty Hypocrite/Vapid Venus troll writing drivel about our “terrorist friends,” etc.
Now for a confession, a fellow I dated for a while in college roomed in the men’s dorm next to someone who was later implicated in trying to make a bomb. I talked to this person on the communal phone a few times, when he answered it first. I can imagine that if I were ever to run for office, the reich-wingers would endlessly harp on my so-called guilt by association.
Marie says:
July 15th, 2009 at 2:10 amBefore long, the new mantra will be that all Democrats love all terrorists. No matter who it is, the repugs claim they are “pallin” around with terrorists” or they are members of terrorist organizations, or those who support Democrats are terrorists.
Zooey, I gave you a vote up. I must confess that I sometimes call Ann-thrax C. “Ann Cunter.”
July 15th, 2009 at 2:12 ami wonder if they are referring to faln. i guess they are too stupid to even know their name.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:15 amMinus five says
WWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
July 15th, 2009 at 2:23 amSorry… O.T.
… And big sorry to our friend Daryyll
US Anglicans vote to allow ordination of gays
http://rawstory.com/08/afp/2009/07/14/us-anglicans-vote-to-allow-ordination-of-gays/
:)
.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:26 ampags2 says
Four Puerto Rican nationalists attacked the US House of Representatives on March 1, 1954.
And the operative word here is “nationalist” which aren’t “terrorist” by definition standards.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:28 amIts not fair to Americans to have such a weak right wing. The founding fathers used checks and balances to keep america sane. I am all for critical investigation of the SCOTUS nominee but this is just a joke. By appearing so paranoid and stretching the truth this video not only undermines their intentions but undermines the very essence of America.
IF there was something in her past that was a smoking gun, I seriously doubt there right wingers would have the patience to find it. They would rather make up lies than think. They must hate America because they refuse to do their responsibility and balance the left wingers. They talk but are too lazy to be diligent.
I hope for America’s sake republicans get with the game or else we are going to have a 100% democratic government, which really won’t be good for anyone.
July 15th, 2009 at 3:25 amSooooo…
July 15th, 2009 at 4:27 amThe Rot-Wingers are afraid of Puerto Rico now? Is there anyone left on the planet that doesn’t scare these wussies?
The last time I checked, Puerto Ricans are still US citizens. I’m sure there are quite a few groups out there with ties to the Repuglican Party who are a lot bigger threat to US security than the Puerto Ricans!
What, was Sotomayor palling around with Dick Cheney?
July 15th, 2009 at 5:33 amWhat scares me more then anything about this (and many other topics) is the rift that is developing between the right and left. I’m a right wing leaning veteran (21 yrs U.S. Army)
I’ve followed the various debates between the two sides for a few years now. And I realize differing opinions are a big part of what makes us a great as nation.
But right or left you must agree that with Obama in office, and the choices and decisions he’s making the politics and rhetoric has gotten really bad between the two sides and done nothing but increase the divide and create animosity amongst the American people.
I’ve never seen a our country so divided, so “at each other”
Flame me if you wish and I’ll debate,..but please refrain from useless comments meant only to bolster your side of the argument, with no basis on facts or actual events.
Thoughts?
July 15th, 2009 at 5:34 amWell, the way things are going with the Sotomayor nomination and the various reactions from the right, I think the GOP can kiss Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada bye-bye in 2012.
I predict that Obama will get 83% to 85% of the hispanic vote in 2012.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:36 amScoutSSG says
Flame you for what? Debate WHAT? You didnt make any points. You didnt say anything other than give your opinion about the divide in the US. I will give you a few of MY opinions as a lefty. A serious leftwinger. I dont think you are going to do much about the divide as long as the hateradio keeps pushing people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Micheal Savage who do virtually nothing other than push propaganda and attack liberals. There is no left equivelent of say an Ann Coulter. I also dont think there will be much in the way of rapproachment as long as the major conservative party is dominated by the far right. Eschewing any compromise attacking the left with the most ludicrous and frankly insane lies and propaganda. Obama isnt a citizen. Obama is a communist. When the GOP hits rock bottom and it isnt far from that now and regains their party from the lunatic fringe, reings in the nutbags like Rush instead of having to appologize to him everytime they say the most obvious truths that arent praising him THEN we can probably move toward at least taking the dialogue toward dialectic and reason. We can talk TO each other rather than at each other. This kind of BS TV ad we are talking about is a symptom of what I am talking about. Dont expect the left to resume their position of punching bag. Those days are over.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:51 amSuch is the nature of bigotry.
Conservatism in America today is nothing more nor less than anti-liberal bigotry.
When you’re talking to a right-winger, you should bear in mind he thinks you’re a traitor because you disagree with his brilliant ideas on public policy. If you get a wingnut talking about any liberal for long enough, he will eventually decide that the lib is a traitor, and will usually say so.
In Wingnutania, disagreement is a thoughtcrime, punishable by ceaseless character assassination of the perpetrator and his/her family. This is the mind of bigotry.
In other news, Rush Limbaugh’s Kidneys Are on Fire:
July 15th, 2009 at 6:20 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rOSR-QYjpE
ScoutSG, you’re just now noticing the “rift”? I guess that must be because your side is collapsing. Folks over on this side of the divide have “noticed”it since reagan was sending cakes and bibles to Iran and funding death squads in Honduras. Eugene has already done a fine job of defining the “rift” you just noticed in our current situation, so i won’t repeat that, but I’d like to know where you, as a 21 year veteran of the military stand on the smearing of John Kerry’s military record by George Bush and his buddies on the right. Did you think that was fair? Decent? Honorable? Did you vote for Bush? If so, how? How could you vote for someone who doesn’t have an honorable discharge?
July 15th, 2009 at 6:23 amDon’t ya just love it when “Joke” Scarboro warns Democrats how bad it will be for them in the next election if they investigate Cheney; his concern is sooo convincing.
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July 15th, 2009 at 6:31 amThe hilarity of this “palling around” with terrorist nonsense is best shown in the Bush Crime Family. First it was Poppy and Grandpa Prescott who were not only palling around with Hitler during WW 2 but also heavily involved with Hitler as a trade partner. Then along comes Chimpy McFlightsuit who openly met with the Taliban in Texas in the late 1990s, whose family is a trade partner with the bin Laden family, and who arranged for the departure by aircraft, of more than 100 members of the bin Laden family just after 9/11 when the airways of the Unted States were closed.
These seem to be pretty serious examples of palling around with terrorists yet neither Faux, Rush, or any other ranking member of the conservative-biased media EVER mention this topic. I wonder why that is????
July 15th, 2009 at 6:49 amI know these attacks are baseless, and that (hopefully) most people will not fall for them.
However, they are getting pretty scary considering it will fire up the “base” that already believes this crap. This is irresponsible and is further evidence that the Republicans, and especially all the right wing groups paying for these ads, don’t care one iota about this country or the ideals that it was founded on.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:24 am“SHE IS A TERRORIST!!!”
Do something about it – go bomb abortion clinics, kill gynocologists in their churches, and shoot up some Jew Museums! That ought to stop these terrorist scumbags!!
/snark off (if you couldn’t tell)
July 15th, 2009 at 7:27 amI want to clarify one of my previous points before some people howl about it.
I am NOT blaming all Republicans for this ad; however, I AM blaming all the elected (at least congressional) Republicans for creating this climate and fueling any fire that will demonize Judge Sotomayor. It is the same type of attitude/mentality/encouragement that fostered the “Obama is a arab terrorist traitor” ideas that the McCain campaign willingly let grow and did nothing to discourage until he was directly confronted with it at a rally. The subtext of comments that led to shouts of “he’s a terrorist” and “kill him” at Palin rallies when she referred to Obama.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:34 amWhat saddens me the most is that I would love to trust in my government again. I would like to believe that they were talking about real issues and debating differing solutions to our most serious problems. Instead, all I here (and I follow it relatively closely) are ridiculous accusations and baseless attacks as if every piece of legislation is an opportunity to campaign.
The only thing congress can get done are the stupid resolutions like the one honoring mothers on mothers day. Although I love my mother, I don’t think she cares that congress passed a resolution nor do I think that is the business of congress.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:38 amI agree with ScoutSSG that the rift between right and left seems to be wider than ever. To me it seemed to widen a great deal during the Bush II administration. The whole ‘you’re either with us or you’re against us’ rhetoric (while claiming to be a ‘uniter’!) didn’t help.
Now we’re being subjected to Rove demonizing Congress by claiming that it’s “dangerous” to fill them in on intelligence matters and soon, after Sotomayor is confirmed, he and his minions will probably start demonizing the Court and the teabaggers will eat it up.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:46 amOf course, the right wing of America worships Sarah Palin whose husband was part of a group that supports gun ownership while at the same time wanting Alaska to secede from the nation! Terrorists (domestic or foreign) come in all shapes and sizes. Then there’s their worship of Dick Cheney, you know, the guy who had his own assassination squad who killed whistleblower Americans and people like Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan to silence them from speaking more truth!
July 15th, 2009 at 8:00 am“Pallin’ around with terrorists”? Yeah, that worked so well last time they tried it.
July 15th, 2009 at 8:02 amPaid for by the “Committee of Justice”? Bah hahahahahahaha! Oh gawd. That’s a good one. Another Orwellian title courtesy of the American Taliban to dupe ya into thinking they are all for justice and never ever lie, deceive, cheat, or steal to win!
July 15th, 2009 at 8:02 amI’m not interested in a dialog with you or anyone else in the reich. You need and will be removed from office or positions of any influence on our lives and we’re slowly doing that. Once we have more (R) removed from Congress in 2010, then we’re going to start targeting DINOs with primary challenges.
By the way, it’s not the left randomnly killing people they disagree with.
July 15th, 2009 at 8:05 amIf all neocons were rounded up and killed in America, America would be a peaceful country. The American Taliban (today’s GOP) knows this and this is why they’re afraid of all of us and afraid of everything that isn’t pasty white and hateful!
I wonder how many people Dick Cheney killed this week using his personal assassination squad? Just because he’s on the outside now doesn’t mean he doesn’t have access!
July 15th, 2009 at 8:19 amWith these ads there is undeniable proof that these well funded ChristoTalibanists have their heads so far up their own asses that they can’t see sunlight unless their mouths are open.
What are these GOP thug Theocrats thinking? What are they eating or breathing that has turned their hearts and minds into sewer pipe sludge?
July 15th, 2009 at 8:54 amWhen I read this, I thought maybe she was a Sharks fan.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:02 am“Sotomayor led a terrorist organization”
The same can be said of our public school teachers. After all, the Secretary of Education under Bush called teacher unions terrorist organizations.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:03 amThis campaign is spearheaded by Dominionist Evangelicals, who see the U.S. as a whites-only theocracy founded by Jesus.
Those people are utterly crazy, but they have their tentacles everywhere, having already completely overtaken the repiggie party machine.
Whenever you vote for a repiggie, even for local office, you may be voting for a dominionist theocracy. Be very careful how you vote. You can’t trust these repiggies, no matter how much they protest to the contrary.
In the end, they will not buck their party’s power structure, which is controlled by those power-mad holy rollers, and they are afraid of Limpballs.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:21 amHow does those wizards at the Privacy Center come up with such creative, witty, and engaging comment? Flush that crap…
July 15th, 2009 at 10:11 amScoutsSSG says:
Perhaps you are too young to remember the civil rights/Vietnam era. We were a very divided country back then as well.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
BTW: I did give you a vote-down for being a reich-winger.
July 15th, 2009 at 10:33 amI am a VERY LEFT person, damn near a Communist revolutionary, AND a card-carrying member of the ACLU and a card-carrying member of VVAW(Vietnam Veterans Against the War).
No surprise here.
Remember when being a member of the NAACP would disqualify ?
Remember when folks were described as being card-carrying members of the ACLU (even though they **don’t** issue membership cards and secret decoder rings) ?
July 15th, 2009 at 11:17 amI realize this might be getting off topic but this ad is an example of why Cheney’s assassination program needs to be investigated. The far right considers everybody not a loyal member of the GOP to be the same as a terrorist. For them “killing terrorists” could mean killing a lot of people that aren’t really terrorists…
July 15th, 2009 at 11:52 amJust another KKK subsidiary that has to spend their money now or loose it in the next budget cycle from Sessions and Graham…
July 15th, 2009 at 11:52 amSince Bill Ayers came up during election time, I’ve read his books, and have seen him interviewed a number of times. I can’t help but like the man. I find myself in agreement with his out look on life. It’s the usual supects (right wingnuts) that I find terrorizing. It didn’t work then, and it most certaily won’t work now.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:59 amranus69 says:
pags2 says
Four Puerto Rican nationalists attacked the US House of Representatives on March 1, 1954.
And the operative word here is “nationalist” which aren’t “terrorist” by
They went into the House with guns blazing. Four people were injured in the attack. I fail to see the difference from any other terrorists. Nationalist is just another descriptive label.
July 15th, 2009 at 1:13 pm