Posted on 08/23/2009 12:00:54 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
“IT is time to water the tree of liberty” said the sign carried by a gun-toting protester milling outside President Obama’s town-hall meeting in New Hampshire two weeks ago. The Thomas Jefferson quote that inspired this message, of course, said nothing about water: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” That’s the beauty of a gun — you don’t have to spell out the “blood.”
The protester was a nut. America has never had a shortage of them. But what’s Tom Coburn’s excuse? Coburn is a Republican senator from Oklahoma, where 168 people were murdered by right-wing psychopaths who bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. Their leader, Timothy McVeigh, had the Jefferson quote on his T-shirt when he committed this act of mass murder. Yet last Sunday, when asked by David Gregory on “Meet the Press” if he was troubled by current threats of “violence against the government,” Coburn blamed not the nuts but the government.
“Well, I’m troubled any time when we stop having confidence in our government,” the senator said, “but we’ve earned it.”
Coburn is nothing if not consistent. In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, he was part of a House contingent that helped delay and soften an antiterrorism bill. This cohort even tried to strip out a provision blocking domestic fund-raising by foreign terrorist organizations like Hamas. Why? The far right, in league with the National Rifle Association, was angry at the federal government for aggressively policing America’s self-appointed militias.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Frank Rich is scared by Senator Coburn? Good. He should be.
Every single person who has ever attempted or succeeded in the assassination of a president has been either an outright traitor (J. W. Booth) or a leftist of one flavour or another. Period. No exceptions. Not a conservative, or anyone remotely resembling a conservative, in the bunch.
Coulter ran down the complete list of assassins and would-be assassins in her book, 'Guilty', and an excerpt dealing with this subject is sitting on the front page of anncoulter.com right this minute.
Another rotting red herring from a rabid rots-from-the-head-down lefty loon.
Another column fit for only birdcage lining.
What a crock. Timothy McVeigh was a coward that murdered children. He did not pop off any shots at politicians, which actually would be a act against the government. I’m more suspicious that McVeigh actually had something to do with the goverment.
Either Frank is letting his imagination get away with him, or he is simply attempting to paint all anti-obama protesters as “nuts”.
Probably a bit of both.
Attitudes like this make me think of all those urban flat cocktail parties where liberals extend their pinkies and discuss how misguided everyone is, except for them. These are people who lean close and “confess” that they automatically hate anything from Texas, etc.
I’ve been to many of these parties. You can bet, they are a real joy. /s.
An American citizen exercising his 2nd amendment rights? Why what else COULD he be but a NUT, right Frankie??!! Now THAT’S journalism the leftist way—attack anyone who dares disagree with you and then accuse them of being narrow minded.
Don't worry Rich, the real men of this country will take care of you since you are afraid to do it yourself!
I thought Rich was a true believer in the “messiah”...
if he really “believed”, he would know that zero would “rise” on the third day even if somebody did waste a bullet on him.
sarc/off
Where is your concern for those citizens being intimidated or actually physically attacked by union thugs and ACORN types? Where is your column that takes to task the inner city gangs that actually gun down people almost daily? Where was your column taking to task those who made comments, some on the airwaves, that referred jokingly to the deaths of Bush and Cheney?
You sir, are a hypocrite.
Frank Rich, the theater critic, political views are pure Obama drama, totally worthless.
It is that time again.
Drama Queen Frank Rich is menstruating again.
To leftist polemicists like Frank Rich, all conservatives are Tim McVeigh, a vicious and ugly calumny for which someone ought to correct him. Politely, of course: though in truth he deserves a fine thrashing.
We’re going to remove Obummer the Constitutional way - at the ballot box along with his cronies kooks.
That is what you call a fast exposure setting
With a very expensive camera, hope she did not break it.
Sorry posted on wrong thread.
Yep, and it will be extremely satisfying!
I don’t claim to speak for anyone else, but I for one will not so much as lift a finger in defense of Frank Rich or those remotely like him. I’m not going to act to harm any of them, but I’m not going to stop anyone else who does.
How dare Rich rip off the title of Barbara Tuchman’s WWI book to shill for Kenyancare...ridiculous.
;^)
True and let’s not forget “SPIT” on... why does the “SPIT” on bother me? What kinds of diseases do those nasty things have? Yeah, spit is weapon in itself. So every time a Left Wing Kook spits on a Conservative, CHARGES must be filed.
Why do I get the feeling he likes it?
Seems to me he’s probably safer with armed citizens around than without.
I suspect these media clowns are doing more damage than good for their cause by emphasizing the guns. They might get a little milage out of it painting protesters as radicals, but eventually their audience is going to notice that there’s “all these guns” but no one is getting shot.
With this group in charge I’d be afraid to live in N.Y. or D.C.
You know they have hurt or overall security.
So how do ya feel about that Frank Rich? Your socialist buddies are making you less safe.
And just what the hell did the “magic negro” mean by that?
“All wee-wee’d up” what a dork this punk is.
Old Gray Disease-Infested Whore (NYT) writer all wee-weed up that citizens have more rights than government employees! Full story at 10!
In America, the Militia are not "appointed" by anybody. They are.
You have the National Guard, the State Guard, and the Unorganized Militia. That's every person of military age who isn't in the Armed Forces or one of the Guard outfits.
Here is the thread that I intended to post on, one should never have 2 FR tabs open in the browser while composing a response.
Naked woman pole dances on train
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2322699/posts
More embarassed about flubbing the post, than the content.
Just so you understand the context, see above.
TF
That’s Frank Rich and a little weird looking *friend*.
Obozo will be just fine. I am more concerned with the safety of America’s seniors, the disabled, and America’s vets if O gets his way.
Rich is wee weeing all over himself. Sorry Rich, none of us are tempted to feel pity for O.
Holy mackerel. That explains a lot.
How ..... precious! Isn't he just special?!
Looks like they're having a festive time.
Pinch Sulzberger made some ..... changes ..... at the Times when he came in.
Someday it'll be the weekly alternative birdcage liner in Soho and TriBeCa. That's where he's taking it.
The comments to that stupid piece are as funny as the column.
I hope EVERYONE brings a gun to every appearance by this POS prez. Screw him and all his communist supporters. The
revolution is coming and he isn’t the one to unite this country, heck, he’s dividing it and has a dumbass smirk on his stupid face as he does it.
I suppose I should be surprised.
In 2004, Rich dismissed Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ, as “nothing so much as a porn movie, replete with slo-mo climaxes and pounding music for the money shots”.
In the late 1990s, he (Rich) met Alan Conway, a con artist pretending to be Stanley Kubrick, and arranged to interview him, believing Conway to be the famous film director. Upon contacting Warner Brothers, however, Rich discovered that the man he met was an impostor.
Rich wrote the book The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina, which criticized the American media for its support of the George W. Bush administration’s policies following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Frank Rich is, indeed, a nasty little man.
Did you know that a shocking 34% of conservatives use the wrong fork for shrimp cocktail? The horror!
I didn’t hear about that, but I confess I do love shrimp cocktail.
I'm too slow to try and follow two threads at one time.
A man who supports the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms carries a military style AR-15 type rifle during a Obama opposition rally in Phoenix on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009.
Frank Rich looks like he uses a hay fork for shrimp cocktail.
June Brashares who crashed the Republican National Convention was sitting two seats away from Josh Marshall (Talking Points Memo) in the press area near the California delegation
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