More tea baggers

[heironymouspasparagus]

Tea baggers hard at work...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iowa_obama_billboard

[Townsend]

I believe they prefer "tea party".

But yes, it's not helping their cause all that much.

Palin's asking the NAACP to remove the resolution condemning the tea party for racism.

[heironymouspasparagus]

That's an adjective, not a noun.


And this interesting little tidbit explains the Murdoch Effect.  Even when confronted with the truth, incorrect beliefs become more firmly entrenched.

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/07/14/1235220/Given-Truth-the-Misinformed-Believe-Lies-More?art_pos=4

[nathanm]

Wow, the NPR interview linked from Slashdot is interesting stuff. Thanks, Mr. Asparagus.

[Townsend]

The billboard was removed.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=13&articleid=20100714_13_0_Iowabi139868

[bugo]

There's an anti-Obama billboard just south of Poteau.  It features the Obama "O" symbol on fire.  Are they saying they want to burn the President?  Maybe the Secret Service should investigate.  Whoever paid for that billboard is petty, childish and disrespectful.

[Hoss]

There's an anti-Obama billboard just south of Poteau.  It features the Obama "O" symbol on fire.  Are they saying they want to burn the President?  Maybe the Secret Service should investigate.  Whoever paid for that billboard is petty, childish and disrespectful.

Welcome to Oklahoma, the reddest state in the country (no, I'm not talking about communism, either).

[Conan71]

There's an anti-Obama billboard just south of Poteau.  It features the Obama "O" symbol on fire.  Are they saying they want to burn the President?  Maybe the Secret Service should investigate.  Whoever paid for that billboard is petty, childish and disrespectful.

Isn't Elohim City down around there?

[heironymouspasparagus]

North of Poteau in Adair county.
North of Sallisaw...

[guido911]

Whoever paid for that billboard is petty, childish and disrespectful.

Damned right. Can't we just go back to the day when throwing shoes at a sitting U.S. president was not petty, childish, or disrespectful? Thank you.

[nathanm]

Damned right. Can't we just go back to the day when throwing shoes at a sitting U.S. president was not petty, childish, or disrespectful? Thank you.

I'd rather go back to the days when it was considered petty and disrespectful.

[swake]

Damned right. Can't we just go back to the day when throwing shoes at a sitting U.S. president was not petty, childish, or disrespectful? Thank you.

I didn't support comparing Bush to Hitler and I don't support the Obama comparison.

The difference here is, that kind of disrespectful and inflammatory rhetoric, even under the deeply unpopular Bush (who had far lower approval ratings than Obama has now), was still mostly relegated to the fringe of the left. The right has now mainstreamed this crap. Congratulation Guido, you are no longer the fringe.

But, that is also why the right will have a hard time winning any national elections.

[Red Arrow]

The difference here is, that kind of disrespectful and inflammatory rhetoric, even under the deeply unpopular Bush (who had far lower approval ratings than Obama has now), was still mostly relegated to the fringe of the left. The right has now mainstreamed this crap.

As I remember you must be correct, the mainstream left NEVER said unkind things about Bush II.  I won't argue about specific references to the WWII German leader.

[swake]

As I remember you must be correct, the mainstream left NEVER said unkind things about Bush II.  I won't argue about specific references to the WWII German leader.

there is a gulf of difference between being upset and disagreeing over policy or decisions in a democracy and the screams of socialist!, communist!, Muslim!, Hitler!, fascist! that is so common from most of the right today and threats of revolution, succession and second amendment solutions coming from even Republican party leaders. Especially from the person (Palin) that looks today at least like the likely Republican presidential candidate.

[guido911]

I didn't support comparing Bush to Hitler and I don't support the Obama comparison.

The difference here is, that kind of disrespectful and inflammatory rhetoric, even under the deeply unpopular Bush (who had far lower approval ratings than Obama has now), was still mostly relegated to the fringe of the left....

Meet the "fringe" left:

MSNBC:

Senate Majority Leader:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/07/politics/main693713.shtml

Congress:

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/rep_stark_apologizes_for_sharp.html

Paul McCartney:

Finally, as for being called a "socialist", well I guess the right has been successful in turning 55% of Americans into mindless rubes:

In other words, 55 percent of likely voters think "socialist" is a reasonably accurate way of describing Obama.

http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/230874/55-percent-likely-voters-find-socialist-accurate-label-obama