Armey Meets With Author Of Town Hall Harassment Strategy Memo To Plan Purge Of Moderates From GOP
Armey Meets With Author Of Town Hall Harassment Strategy Memo To Plan Purge Of Moderates From GOP
In late July, ThinkProgress first reported on a memo detailing how conservative activists can successfully disrupt Democratic health care town halls. The memo, authored by a Tea Party Patriots volunteer named Bob MacGuffie, was distributed on a listserv controlled by FreedomWorks — the corporate front group run by Dick Armey that is dedicated to organizing tea parties and other anti-Obama efforts around the country. A member of the listserv, Jenny Beth Martin, blasted out the memo on June 13th, declaring, “We here in CT have developed a strategy for holding our elected officials accountable. We show up en mass at the ‘town hall’ meetings they have!” The tactics included:
– Artificially Inflate Your Numbers: “Spread out in the hall and try to be in the front half. The objective is to put the Rep on the defensive with your questions and follow-up. The Rep should be made to feel that a majority, and if not, a significant portion of at least the audience, opposes the socialist agenda of Washington.”
– Be Disruptive Early And Often: “You need to rock-the-boat early in the Rep’s presentation, Watch for an opportunity to yell out and challenge the Rep’s statements early.”
– Try To “Rattle Him,” Not Have An Intelligent Debate: “The goal is to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda. If he says something outrageous, stand up and shout out and sit right back down. Look for these opportunities before he even takes questions.”
In town hall after town hall during August, the strategy was used to target members of Congress who are considering support of health care reform. Although Armey disputes his relation to the memo, both Rolling Stone and Talking Points Memo have verified that FreedomWorks staffers, like FreedomWorks Florida coordinator Tom Gaitens, control the Tea Party Patriots listserv which distributed the memo. Armey has gone so far as denying even knowing Gaitens, who has worked for FreedomWorks for years and can be seen in the last ten seconds of this ABC News segment handing a microphone to Armey.
Now, the Courant is reporting that Armey plans to go to Fairfield, CT on November 11th for a “strategy session” with conservative activists and MacGuffie, the original author of the town hall harassment strategy.
An announcement sent out by MacGuffie proclaimed that he, like Armey, has actively supported Doug Hoffman’s bid to rid the NY-23 special election of moderate Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R-NY). Now, both Armey and MacGuffie are planning to purge the Republican Party of more moderate politicians.
MacGuffie has declared that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) are RINOs (Republicans in name only) who “have routinely abandoned or betrayed us.” Similarly, the next step of Armey’s agenda appears to be an intensified crusade to challenge moderate Republicans in primaries. The Politico reports that Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC), Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL), former Rep. Rob Simmons (R-CT) and other Republicans who have strayed from rigid party-line positions face primaries from candidates inspired by the tea parties and town hall disruption type tactics.
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Dick Armey is destroying the Repug Party. When you toss out the Moderate who do you have left? The 20% who are truly nuts? The old, white dudes? Man, talk about a VERY small tent. Good Luck with that Dick. You’ll need it.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:43 pmIt seems the Republicans are bound and determined to have a purge. Maybe they should study Uncle Joe Stalin. He really liked purges.
Nothing says American like a good old fashioned purge.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:44 pmThis is great news, campers! Let them continue to drink the Palin/Armey kool-aid and purge the more moderate members of the republic party from their increasingly smaller tent — that will ensure that they stay in the minority for years (or decades) to come…
Yer doin’ a heckuva job, Armey…
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:44 pm– Try To “Rattle Him,” Not Have An Intelligent Debate
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:45 pmWow, someone’s getting desperate. Encouraging shouting matches instead of debate, the GOP follows this advice and I give them total party destruction in about 12 months.
Wow…Rethug vs. Cancervative in the primaries?? Those could get very nasty…
Nothing like letting them do our work for us.
[snicker]
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:45 pmand so it begins… the further disintegration of the Republican Party
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:45 pmstand up and shout out and sit right back down
The right wing’s idea of an exchange of ideas.
They are not interested in other people’s thought and ideas.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:46 pmThey are not interested in intelligent discussions.
So much for loyal opposition. Now all we will have left is a bunch of raving maniacs.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:48 pmI already read that the police were called in a few distubances in the NY election. Turns out Hoffman supporters are getting agressive. They had some broad who didn’t even live in the STATE heckling voters. This is what the Repug Party has become. A bunch of irrational bullies who would deny citizens the right to vote. And they call Obama a dictator? WTF?
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:50 pmOMG! Whatever in world will Joe Scarborg do now?
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:51 pmDick Armey now has an Army of Dicks?
Q: What’s the difference between Dick Armey & Dick Morris?
A: One sucks toes, the other just blows.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:51 pmIt’s been so long since we’ve witnessed the death of a party in this country that it’s hard to be certain but, I don’t see any way the GOP survives after the purge.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:51 pmThe more you pay to shareholders the more free you are!!
Wait. I dont owe shareholders anything. I didnt take their money.
Why do they want to make a debt peon out of me?
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 pmWell, one has to think by all of this that Armey is a Dick.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 pmSo, they’ve deemed Rob Simmons a RINO? I guess that’s how Dodd will win re-election: Simmons is rejected by the insane CT GOP in favour of a teabagger.
It’s very unlikely to happen, though. Unlike in the NY Congressional races, primaries are actually voted on by the people, rather than the parties. Still, it’s an entertaining thought.
As far as the GOP shedding Graham and Inglis…that’s just sad. It’s SC, so you KNOW the voters are capable of going to the reactionary right. If Graham is primaried out in 2014, you’ll have DeMint and someone who, quite possibly, is so far to the right that DeMint comes off as sane and rational by comparison. Yikes.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:54 pmGreat plan!! Purge the moderates and make the GOPigs an even greater minority!! BRILLIANT!
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:54 pmIt’s the lying bullies like Armey & McGuffie who have abandoned & betrayed the U.S. They are hateful, ignorant throwbacks to everything that was bad about the 1950s.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:55 pmI always thought Dick Armey was the name of a person, not the right wing group he runs with…
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:55 pmArtificially Inflate Your Numbers:
Shorter Dick: Get the whackos out!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:55 pm“The goal is to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda”
Shortere Dick: Act like a whacko!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:57 pmThe Republicans are counting on the fact that most Americans have no real idea of what it means to have a single Party claiming ideological supremacy. Where only one party stands for a country and that party sets the rules for what reality is.
If they keep it up, they are going to have to pick a state to house the gulags. Maybe North Dakota, its kind of like Siberia.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:57 pmShortest Dick: Be the whacko!
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:57 pmThis situation in NY is getting uglier. Turns out there are a lot of disturbances. Now Hoffman supporters are claiming Owen’s supporters are the hecklers. I find that odd, don’t you? A bunch of hippie loving, Liberal, Democrats turning towards violence? I’m sure Glen Beck and Limpballs will have a huge segment on THAT.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:58 pmVery clever these Republicans, amazing they could come up with
RULES FOR DISRUPTING A TOWN MEETING,
all on their own!
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:58 pmTerrorist groups often have manifestos and play books to attack their enemies.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:03 pmOnce the Republican Party is purged of moderates, it will consist of nothing but loyal zealots. Then, lacking the numbers to succeed in the polls, they will take to arms.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:03 pmYes – Go Dick Go! GOP = Minority party 4evah!
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:03 pmlol.. Dick Armey is purging..
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:03 pmDick Armey is trying to grow an Army of Dicks.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:05 pmIf I was a moderate Republican who was targeted by Dick Armey, I would ask the FBI for protection. Extreme, right wing rhetoric, similar to Dick Armey’s, caused Timothy McVeigh to kill over 300 innocent Americans in Oklahoma.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:05 pmOMG! Hundreds of Hoffman supporters were bused in. Also a anti-abortion group that is literally shouting down voters on their way to vote. I wonder how the people of this district feel about these tactics? These people hijacked this district. Absolutely amazing.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:06 pmYES! Hey! Dumbass DICK! If you need a place to meet, you can use my garage! Please, kick all those moderates, women, hispanics, blacks, gays and non-troglodytic humans out of your irrelvant party. Purge Party!
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:06 pmTerrorist groups often have manifestos and play books to attack their enemies.
It is also a standard tactic in totalitarian communist organizations.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:07 pmFree bar vouchers for those that get on the bus and act whacky!
Free food! Free Beer! Free Bus Rides!! Vote against cheaper health insurance!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:10 pmSo the snake that is the GOP has turn around and is starting to devour its own tail.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:13 pm“Army of Dicks.”
Priceless!
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:14 pmModerate Republicans are the same as Blue Dogs. Everybody hates the Blue Dogs.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:14 pmLet’s relabel these tactics:
1. Lie (”artificially inflate” sounds too innocent)
2. Act like a braying ass
3. Be stupid
Armey needs to be asked if these tactics are supported by our American history and foundation – from the Founding Fathers to the Bible. Make him justify these tactics, if he can.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:14 pmAll this effort to get one representative who cant change health insurance reform [the bill is in the senate duh]
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:15 pmCampaign signs, buttons, literature, and other forms of political speech are prohibited (at least here in Ohio) 100 feet from a polling area. If any of Hoffman’s bussed in stooges violated this ban in NY they should be arrested and villified in the media. What are the chances of that? I continue to dream of a “more perfect union”.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:17 pmThe following is a description of tactics used by Hitler’s Brownshirts. It bears a striking resemblance to what is going on inside the crazy wing of the GOP.
The term brownshirt tactics refers to the usage of fear, terror, and images thereof to make people vote for a specific party, notably the populist demagoguery party that promises to be tough on terror, while in reality being the one clandestinely instilling the fear in the first place. The name comes from the color of the uniforms of the Nazi members of the SA.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 pmAs with all propaganda, for it to be maximally effective the link between the message and the one benefiting from the action must not be revealed. It is a risky strategy for a party to employ their own violent party members. It is safer to provoke or incite others to carry out acts that scare people (e.g., baiting terrorists, or using hate speech to manipulate mentally disturbed persons to commit crimes), as long as this provocation or incitement is not generally understood by the electorate. In either case it may be expected that an electorate not trained in critical thinking will vote in higher numbers for the more hawkish party.
I wonder why MSM isn’t reporting the incidents in NY.? You know they have a ton of press up there. Could it be the MSM is a little leary of letting the public know about the GOP tactics? After all, the MSM helped create them. By labling these clowns as ‘Mainstream’ they help create the image that these people are average citizens. Not the 20% fringe group they are.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:23 pmWe are finally seeing what a certain element of our country has been exporting for decades. Coordinated political disruption targeted on replacing moderate to liberal governments in order to further the economic gains of a small, but influential group with no loyalty to anything but profit.
Evidently the Republicans figure what is good enough for every other third world country is finally good enough for the US.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:23 pmThe implosion of the rethuglican party is so much fun. The race to the bottom by the knuckle dragging, bottom feeding, troglodytes. Hang on to that base. What is the average age? 65+? Wingnuts.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:28 pmFollow the money. Who is paying dick’s bills? I bet its the same war contractors, drug lobbies, and media monopolies that corruptly OWN our government.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmRather than PARTICIPATE in our democratic traditions, the party of no is only able to obstruct and destroy the fabric of our society.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmBeef up the security, and arrest these foul nazi-like authority craving lunatics.
These are scary times in our country and I’m not talking about unemployment, loss of jobs overseas or affordable health care.
I’m talking about the republican party and what they have become. Never before in the history of our political system has one party been so infested with such a vast number of crazy people, liars, nutjobs, extremists, corporatists, religious zealots, Anti-Americans, conspiracy theorists, fascists, racists and war mongers at one time.
I hope by 2010 & 2012 the American people haven’t forgotten how/why and who got our country into the mess we are in today. The Democrats aren’t perfect but they do care more for the average American. I hope all of the independent voters out there aren’t fooled by the right wing tea bag stunts, the repeated republican lies and distortions.
Perhaps the end is really near when people like Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Michele Bachmann, Steve King become the leaders and insane, twisted vocal mouthpieces of one of our political parties.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:32 pmNow, both Armey and MacGuffie are planning to purge the Republican Party of more moderate politicians.
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Meaning they will challenge any moderate Republican candidate in the GOP primary with a wingnut. This will be good for the Democrats, since a moderate Republican would grab far more of the political middle than the wingnut would, which would normally be a problem for the Dems.
Who knew that Dick Armey and Bob MacGuffie would expend so much energy helping the Democrats?
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 pmThe Reublicans are now run by two Dicks..
Dick Cheney and Dick Armey.
Not a good sign…!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:34 pmHAPPY FEET
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:34 pmWhen you reach the low that the repugs have, what’s left? This could be the end of the cancervites.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:35 pmtarazan, two dicks without a set between them
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:37 pm“Try To “Rattle Him,” Not Have An Intelligent Debate.”
that goes without saying
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:39 pmNow, both Armey and MacGuffie are planning to purge the Republican Party of more moderate politicians.
Well if they did that they will need more buss as it will take lots of bused in people to shout down there own side.
its good to be a Dem watching this from the outside as its good entertainment and hell its free.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 pmHow do you regain the majority if you purge anyone from your minority party?
It’s so stupid, it’s sad, and yet still funny. Kick out the moderates then they’ll be independents, and you’re left with people who vote in crayon according to the voices in their heads.
It’s the moderates who should be purging.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:43 pmNot Have An Intelligent Debate
Armeyite 1: Uggah uggah boogah boogah!!
Armeyite 2: Oogey Oogey Boogety Boogety!!
Sane Person: What??
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:43 pmArmey and MacGuffie are planning to purge the Republican Party of more moderate politicians.
I guess that Tent is getting smaller and smaller then.
Graham and Snowe are RINOs who “have routinely abandoned or betrayed us.”
Is this Repukian Fascist Code for “Voted for something that helped Amerians.”?
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:49 pmEvidently it is difficult for Republicans to talk with anyone who doesn’t parrot the same way they do. They are just following the KISS principle.
The 2012 Republican National Convention is looking for venues. It appears to be between Rosie’s Roadside Diner in Nashville and the defunct Dollar Store outside Chattanooga. By the first of the year, just about any phone booth will probably do.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:50 pmOT… I have found a way to simply describe the lie we have been fed about the so called ‘liberal media’… a term which the conservatives whined so much – that the spineless media began to repeat.. and even believe.
simply put -
FOX news article ‘Liberals are Dirty Hippies’
CNN news article ‘Are liberals dirty hippies?’
wonderful representation we get. Truly the Daily Show is about the most credible ‘News’ source we have.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:53 pmThe big question today — apart from all the other obvious ones — is how is Michael Steele feeling right this minute? How would you feel if you had your “gig” highjacked by the likes of Dick Armey and a band of know-nothings?
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:55 pmNobody does a Circular Firing Squad better than the Repiggie Party these days.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:58 pmLindsey Graham is a RINO? In whose world?
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:59 pmDirty hippies? I resemble that remark.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:00 pmCheney is out there defending torture, and Armey is out there trying to purge his party of anyone who is even moderately sane.
Why is the Republican Party so proud of their Dicks?
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:01 pm“Fairfield, CT on November 11th for a “strategy session” with conservative activists”
Hasn’t he seen the harm they have already done ? Hasn’t he seen how they are now turning on the repubs ?
And as any fan of monster movies knows, the monster eventually kills the doctor Frankenstein.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:02 pmThis is great news. The more moderates the Republicans kick out of their party the more they shift to the lunatic fringe of the right. That means they will continue to alienate themselves from independent and moderate voters across the country. So long GOP, it was nice knowing you!
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:03 pmI would like to add centrist media to the list lux
Centrist Media: Hippies are clean as the rest of us, but still hippies.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:03 pmlux – so would the MSNBC article read:
Dirty liberal hippies now have soap and credit cards,
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:06 pmand retain the majority of the world’s remaining sanity.
Lindsey Graham is a RINO? In whose world?
Ugh buggah oogh fleebah
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:07 pmIt is good that Republicans are fighting among themselves.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:14 pmMajority of Republicans are uncompromising people who want the whole country to be run their way, from religion,to marriage to health and many other issues.
Simply it is either their way, or no way at all…and that’s why they are shrinking in Congressional seat numbers nationwide,and became obstructionists.
Now they turned against each others…let them finish each others,so the country might have a better future.
johnbwarner: Michael Steele and dick Armey are always spinning blindfolded so fast, they don’t feel anything until they accidentally bump into each other.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:15 pmIf the “gig” doesn’t pay well enough, they’ll find something else to sell.
This is a Win /Win situation for the Democrats;
Scenario #1: The Democrat Wins…in a district that hasn’t gone Democratic since the Civil War….puting an End to the Myth that the Far Right, anti choice, anti Govt., Ideologically Driven Agenda of the Tea Baggers is what America Really wants.
Scenario #2: The Conservative Wins …encouraging the Radical Right to continue its purging of Moderation …which won’t win many other elections out side of the South.
Either Way… I believe Americans are a lot more in the Purple/middle that the teabaggers and Dick Armey think.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:16 pmSo went the purges starts are they going to give the moderates a tom the hammer delay dance card to as well.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:16 pmmaybe a Gingrich bobble head doll.
In “Up the Organization”, that classic book of management memos by Robert Townsend, he hypothesized that hubris is invariably followed by nemesis.
All true scientists, especially social scientists, owe the GOP a vote of thanks for testing (trying to falsify) this hypothesis.
I’m betting they will fail with others as they failed with me, a former R now an I.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:28 pmGet your chaise lounge, beer, popcorn and score card. This has all the makings for a blow out.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:30 pmAhhh the Grand Old Purge.
And how patriotic of Dick! Spending Veteran’s Day dreaming up new ways to FUBAR the county. Stay classy, GOP!
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:31 pmThey’re going to target Rob Simmons? I guess that means he debased himself for nothing last month!
GOP Senate Candidate Rob Simmons Boasts Of Adding A Tea Bag To The Constitution
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:34 pmNow will dudes who have had more than one wife make the cute or will they be deemed lacking the the area of conservative family values and have to be culled from the herd? What about college experimental drug users? Arugala eaters? What will the rules be? Can I just accuse someone of being insufficiently conservative to get them purged?
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:34 pm“cute”?
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:35 pm“county?” Cmon’ Crazy Lady, countRy!!
Hi dbadass!
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:36 pmWell hello there my feline friend…
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 pmGotta wonder if Rush/Beck got invites?
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:45 pmLet’s see, if they throw Simmons overboard (who has been polling favorably against Chris Dodd in CT) then that must mean that they plan to throw their money and questionable tactics to:
1) Linda McMahon (yes, as in the McMahon who until recently was the CEO of the World Wrestling Entertainment group and who had to defend herself yesterday against allegations of illegal behavior related to having WWE videos removed from YouTube that reportedly simulated rape), or
2) Peter Schiff, (who served as an economic adviser to Ron Paul, not that he bothered to actually vote for Paul in 2008, and whom is the darling of a fringe group of tea baggers who admire his perceived economic prowess by railing against taxes and making gobs of money).
I think that they’ll go with McMahon. She’s blond, she’s pretty tough and she just hired a very connected campaign manager (David Cappiello, who although he lost in his bid for a seat in Congress last year, was honored with a fundraiser hosted by Kissinger at his house in Kent, CT, and whose attendees included G.H.W. Bush).
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:02 pmHurry up Dick…there are teabaggers sitting around impatiently twittling their thumbs, not knowing what to do…hurry up and issue orders!
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:06 pmDick Armey could care less about the GOP. He is raking in millions for the reichwingnut lobbyist group he represents. This circle jerk is all good for the Democratic Party. The Tea Baggers are the old 20% that still thinks W was a good man.
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:23 pmWouldn’t W have had to be purged what with the spending and all?
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:26 pmThe melt down of the Republican Party is going down in the history books.
George W. Bush, witness your legacy.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:18 pmPurge away, Dick. Twenty-percent party identification and dropping….
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:31 pmWhich one of you left your protest strategy handbook out for the Republicans to find? Come on, fess up.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:32 pmlux says @59
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I agree but lets take a closer look at this so called, alleged liberal media which the right wing cries about:
During the eight years of Bush did the ‘liberal media’ give a 24/7 national platform to 9/11 truthers? To those concerned about Bush’s former alcohol and cocaine abuse? To those who questioned Bush’s Texas and Alabama Air National Guard duty…or lack of? Did they cover Bush’s screwing of stockholders in Harken Oil? Did they bring up Neil Bush’s involvement in the S&L scandal?
Yet during Barack Obama’s first 10 months into his presidency the same alleged ‘liberal media’ has given a 24/7 national platform to birthers, to those claiming Obama is a Muslim not a Christian, they’ve covered his ties to William Ayers and Reverend Wright, they’ve questioned on programs whether President Obama is the anti-Christ, they have people on their programs who call Obama a socialist, a fascist and a communist, they have bobbleheads who are more critical of Obama in his first 10 months then they were in Bush’s full 8 years as president.
The liberal media myth is just that, a myth by right wing radicals and whiners. Now shall we talk about the extreme right wing controlled AM Hate radio….any trolls out there??
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:44 pmThis is the way corpotate fascists roll.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:45 pmNo heart, no soul.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:45 pmApe-Man says:
This is the way corporate fascists roll.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:45 pm A
Ape-Man says:
No heart, no soul.
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I must add, no loyalty to their own country, no compassion for their fellow American worker or American families.
Excellent point, Uncle Fester.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:42 pmThat’s a f9ucking given.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:44 pmLike the Titanic, the Republicans have hit an iceberg and keep telling themselves everything will be fine.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:50 pmApparently no icebergs were hit in Virginia tonight.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 pmDick Armey’s Teabaggers
this stuff writes itself
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:43 pmDick Armey will be a guest speaker at the 2009 Psycho Seminar:
http://alanfolsom-joethephilosopher.com/joe/Psycho_101.html
Mr. Armey will explain how dead politicians can be revived.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:05 pmOwens takes the NY 23rd… How’s that workin out for ya, D-baggers?
November 4th, 2009 at 12:48 amOWENS WINS! DICK’S ARMEY CAN’T SHOOT STRAIGHT! NEWS AT ELEVEN!
November 4th, 2009 at 7:59 amJust so I’m clear, “moderate” and “tolerant” are inter-changable here, right?
November 4th, 2009 at 8:33 amIf I was a moderate Republican who was targeted by Dick Armey, I would ask the FBI for protection. Extreme, right wing rhetoric, similar to Dick Armey’s, caused Timothy McVeigh to kill over 300 innocent Americans in Oklahoma.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:30 amFight on, dewshbaggers, fight on…
November 4th, 2009 at 9:51 amSo the republicans have purged the “too liberal” republicans, now they are purging the “too moderate” republicans, then it will be the “not conservative enough” republicans, then the not “far enough to the right” republicans, and so on, and so on until they are a party of One. Now that’s a brilliant election strategy. I’d like the meet the One. What a perfect little republican he or she will be. Palin or Bachmann come to mind.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:53 am