Palin and Huckabee are angry at NPR.

[Cats Cats Cats]

They obviously can't make you show up.  I just use the word force based on getting no unemployment benefits and having no job.  Yes, there are people that have the choice to be homeless/eat or get taken advantage of.

[Red Arrow]

They obviously can't make you show up.  I just use the word force based on getting no unemployment benefits and having no job.  Yes, there are people that have the choice to be homeless/eat or get taken advantage of.

Or in a better economy, get a different job.

I won't say it's easy.  I've been through some difficult times at jobs where I stayed for other reasons.  Being hourly, salary non-exempt, or salary exempt and the way each are treated is also a factor.

[Cats Cats Cats]

The people who would get abused by that are the same that would be living pay check to pay check.  So yeah, if you can get a new job in a week to pay your rent.  Good for you.

[guido911]

NPR got BURNED by James O'Keefe.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-npr-execs-call-tea-partiers-gun-toting-racists-hidden-camera-video-suggests-they-did/

Schiller resigned today.

[Conan71]

NPR got BURNED by James O'Keefe.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-npr-execs-call-tea-partiers-gun-toting-racists-hidden-camera-video-suggests-they-did/

Schiller resigned today.

Of course you know it was all trumped up and O'Keefe probably used over-dubs...blah blah blah

[guido911]

Of course you know it was all trumped up and O'Keefe probably used over-dubs...blah blah blah

Juan Williams responds:

Where is RM and the other lefties in this forum to defend NPR, especially given NPR's condemnation of Schiller's remarks and Schiller's immediate resignation?

[we vs us]

NPR got BURNED by James O'Keefe.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-npr-execs-call-tea-partiers-gun-toting-racists-hidden-camera-video-suggests-they-did/

Schiller resigned today.

So what was the controversial part again?

[guido911]

So what was the controversial part again?

If you want to attack the veracity of the video, let's hear/read it. Give me a link on how this video is contrived/controversial, especially after Schiller's "immediate resignation" after it went viral.

[Hoss]

If you want to attack the veracity of the video, let's hear/read it. Give me a link on how this video is contrived/controversial, especially after Schiller's "immediate resignation" after it went viral.

[we vs us]

If you want to attack the veracity of the video, let's hear/read it. Give me a link on how this video is contrived/controversial, especially after Schiller's "immediate resignation" after it went viral.

No you misunderstand.  I don't see what's controversial about his Tea Party statement. 

But unfortunately, douchebags like O'Keefe are out there taping people's private conversations; and unfortunately they get caught saying these things; so I think Schiller did the right thing, which was to just minimize the damage by acquiescing and then getting the hell out of the limelight.  This will blow over much faster that way. 

[RecycleMichael]

Where is RM and the other lefties in this forum to defend NPR, especially given NPR's condemnation of Schiller's remarks and Schiller's immediate resignation?

What is with you? You post something and then call out people to argue with you?

Chill dude.

[Red Arrow]

No you misunderstand.  I don't see what's controversial about his Tea Party statement. 

So are negative stereotypes acceptable if you don't like a group? 

[we vs us]

So are negative stereotypes acceptable if you don't like a group? 

Overall?  No. But I don't particularly see much of that as a stereotype.  I see it as a fairly accurate description of the Tea Party these days.  By the time you roll all the Obama-as-KenyanIndonesianMuslimWitchdoctor stuff together with the anti-Muslim hysteria together with the anti-immigrant legislation sweeping some of the more conservative statehouses you've got a pretty solid pattern of xenophobia emerging. 

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .

[Red Arrow]

Overall?  No. But I don't particularly see much of that as a stereotype.  I see it as a fairly accurate description of the Tea Party these days. 

Pretty standard answer for someone believing in a stereotype.

[we vs us]

Pretty standard answer for someone believing in a stereotype.

. . . . and you ignored the last part of what I said.  Which is:  there's a lot of loud, demonstrable anti-foreigner stuff going on with the different Tea Parties across the country.

We can get into the answerless argument about when a stereotype becomes truth, but in my opinion it's getting harder and harder to ignore that part of the Tea Party.  Especially because they seem intent on screaming it from every corner.