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Riot is the Voice of the unheard
Wall Street Journal ^ | 4/6/2010 | Taranto

Posted on 04/06/2010 1:59:51 PM PDT by Wontsubmit

"The Tea Party emerges as not only outrageous, but they have turned up the volume in ways that even Code Pink have not been able to do," Rep. Maxine Waters said the other day on MSNBC. A video (warning: some adult language) from Breitbart.tv has been making the rounds interspersing quotes from that MSNBC interview with clips from a 2007 "antiwar" rally where Waters fulminated about then-President Bush and other members of his administration.

The Breitbart video very effectively makes the case that Waters is guilty of hypocrisy. Her behavior at the rally is at least as unattractive as her description of the tea partiers' conduct. On the other hand, so what? When has a politician ever complained about the other side's incivility without being guilty of hypocrisy.

But a look further back into Waters's history reveals her hypocrisy to be far worse than is typical. The last time America experienced political mob violence--the Los Angeles riots of 1992--Waters was there offering excuses and justifications.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; maxine
On how they always accuse you of that they've been doing ...
1 posted on 04/06/2010 1:59:51 PM PDT by Wontsubmit
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To: Wontsubmit

What has Rep. Maxine Waters been “smoking” as of late?


2 posted on 04/06/2010 2:01:33 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Wontsubmit

I don’t know, according to a poll, the Tea Partiers are mainstream people - the kind, I suppose, that Waters finds outrageous. Personally, Waters is fully capable of being outrageous.


3 posted on 04/06/2010 2:11:37 PM PDT by popdonnelly (I'm so old, I remember when free enterprise was praised, and communism was shunned.)
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To: Wontsubmit

Tea Parties: When you Parents start Protesting, it doesn’t seem cool anymore....


4 posted on 04/06/2010 2:15:17 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Biggirl

Maxine isnt smoking anything. The audacity and arrogance of America’s first negro has rubbed off on her. Obama and his arrogance has become a black entitlement.


5 posted on 04/06/2010 2:16:53 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Wontsubmit

“All riot! Ees ze wango ze tango! One two three four!”

6 posted on 04/06/2010 2:20:06 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Wontsubmit
The same day, in an interview with Katie Couric on NBC's "Today" show, she described the rioting as "a spontaneous reaction to inequality and injustice."

C'mon, Maxine, they do the same thing when they win a sports championship!

7 posted on 04/06/2010 2:25:38 PM PDT by JimRed (To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Wontsubmit

White Riot, by “The Clash”, 1977

White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own

Black man gotta lot a problems
But they don’t mind throwing a brick
White people go to school
Where they teach you how to be thick

An’ everybody’s doing
Just what they’re told to
An’ nobody wants
To go to jail!

White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
All the power’s in the hands
Of people rich enough to buy it

While we walk the street
Too chicken to even try it

Everybody’s doing
Just what they’re told to
Nobody wants
To go to jail!

White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own

Are you taking over
or are you taking orders?
Are you going backwards
Or are you going forwards?

White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own


8 posted on 04/06/2010 2:56:40 PM PDT by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
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To: Venturer

Water as like this long before she even knew Obama. Ms. Waters is seething in hate and ghetto mentality. And the completely mis-educated people of her district keep sending her back even though things never get any better for them. Some people you can’t help or reason with. You just have to ignore them or push them away. The only way to deal with a Waters is to tell them off and then move on. Let them call you racist, homophobe, mean, whatever. Nothing can be done to change their mind, so don’t even try.


9 posted on 04/06/2010 3:46:46 PM PDT by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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To: Clock King

I like what you say.
There is song in there somewhere ...


10 posted on 04/06/2010 4:02:25 PM PDT by Wontsubmit
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To: Clock King

I like what you say.
There is a song in there somewhere ...


11 posted on 04/06/2010 4:02:47 PM PDT by Wontsubmit
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To: Wontsubmit

The next time they party in DC around the capitol, if the queen and her court want to parade past the partiers again, all the partiers should just turn their backs on them in a moment of silence.


12 posted on 04/06/2010 4:09:32 PM PDT by Always Independent
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