Yet if you aren't at least a bit concerned over some of the things on display at the tea party, you aren't thinking it through. Many of the demonstrators' lurid signs bore insane and repugnant messages about Obama. Some utterings, as from the marcher who called the Constitution an extension of the Bible, are extreme. The anger among the marchers was worryingly inchoate.
The tea partiers' main problem is lack of responsible leadership to bring focus, coherence and moderation to their movement. (TV conspiracy crackpot Glenn Beck is a sad choice for a movement guru.) It's more ironic that former House big shot Dick Armey is a key organizer and the current GOP is cynically fanning the flames given that he was part of the Washington GOP establishment responsible for the big-government overreach the tea partiers claim to despise.
The tea party movement deserves to be taken seriously. But until and unless it finds a way to police its radical fringes and articulate its critique in a constructive, rational way that appeals to the great middle it will not be. And must not be, except as an example of how not to win allies or influence debate."
1 posted on
09/17/2009 8:32:27 PM PDT by
pillut48
To: All
So glad the DMN is all over this kind of signage at a rally!!
Oh, the hypocrisy. I keep hearing liberals talking about those terrible signs at the tea parties maligning Obama--I WANT EVIDENCE!
2 posted on
09/17/2009 8:36:20 PM PDT by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: pillut48
Tea Party movement must contain its extremes
Or what? They'll wake up to find a Marxist president in the Oval office whose party has super majorities in both houses of congress?
3 posted on
09/17/2009 8:36:34 PM PDT by
Question Liberal Authority
(Why buy health insurance at all if you can't be turned down for any pre-existing conditions?)
To: pillut48
Dick Armey spoke, but he is not an organizer! We organize only to the extent that we communicate and cooperate, no one is giving orders, and no external funds are being used.
4 posted on
09/17/2009 8:39:55 PM PDT by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: pillut48
Dick Armey spoke, but he is not an organizer! We organize only to the extent that we communicate and cooperate, no one is giving orders, and no external funds are being used.
5 posted on
09/17/2009 8:39:56 PM PDT by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: pillut48
The Pravda Media willfully supressed coverage of these banners at the so called "antiwar/peace" rallies:
6 posted on
09/17/2009 8:44:24 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: pillut48
nuts who lack the education to know the difference between a communist and a Nazi Communism is NOT antifascist. The Communists protested AGAINST the US going to war against Nazi Germany until Hitler betrayed their beloved Joseph Stalin, butcher of millions.
7 posted on
09/17/2009 8:46:02 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: pillut48
But until and unless it finds a way to police its radical fringes. The radical fringes I know about are inside the Whitehouse.
9 posted on
09/17/2009 8:51:37 PM PDT by
oyez
( damnant quod non intelligunt)
To: pillut48
This juvenile lib-tard crap got printed in the newspaper? This wouldn’t pass for middle school journalism. FAIL.
10 posted on
09/17/2009 8:51:39 PM PDT by
darkangel82
(I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
To: pillut48
I love this, what we are seeing in the Lame Stream Media are the loud ferocious roars of a dying lion.
11 posted on
09/17/2009 8:52:39 PM PDT by
txroadkill
( 9/12/2009 another win for the Gipper!)
To: pillut48
unless it finds a way to police its radical fringes and articulate its critique in a constructive, rational way that appeals to the great middle LOL. I was there. A million and a half of pretty much nothing but the "great middle". IMO, that was part of what was so uplifting and inspiring, this was middle America awakened.
12 posted on
09/17/2009 8:52:57 PM PDT by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
To: pillut48
I love this, what we are seeing in the Lame Stream Media are the loud ferocious roars of a dying lion.
14 posted on
09/17/2009 8:55:53 PM PDT by
txroadkill
( 9/12/2009 another win for the Gipper!)
To: pillut48
Amazing to see, from the Dallas Morning Spews
I consider them a liberal rag L0L
16 posted on
09/17/2009 9:00:33 PM PDT by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: pillut48
Typical DMN BS.
They chat you up for a while and then give you a black eye.
17 posted on
09/17/2009 9:03:42 PM PDT by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: pillut48
21 posted on
09/19/2009 1:13:18 AM PDT by
SuziQ
To: pillut48
I have often stayed with relatives in Dallas and they used to have a subscription to this toilet paper. The Dallas Morning News is one of the goofier Democrat publications, no doubt about it, and that’s coming from somebody who sees Philadelphia Inquirer headlines in local stores on a daily basis!
How is the Dallas Morning News doing these days?
Dying like the rest of the Democrat newspapers, I hope?
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