Tea Party activism is not about political dissent - It's about vile, storm trooper sound bites

New York Daily News ^ | Monday, March 29th 2010 | Mike Lupica (Sports Columnist for liberals who don't watch sports)

[presidio9]

We are 100 yards, no more than that, from the front entrance to the school. There is a stop sign here, and underneath the word "Stop" someone has spray-painted "Obama."

Stop Obama.

Why has somebody done it? Because in the current climate, people have been convinced they can. Or, more likely, that they should.

My son is in the seat next to me in the car. He says, "This isn't the only one. There are others in different parts of town."

At least here it is only vandalism about this President and the country's new health care bill, not phone threats left for some members of Congress. It is not an honorable old hero of the civil rights movement like Rep. John Lewis hearing the kind of racial insults he heard nearly 50 years ago in America. Or other congressmen being spat upon, all in the name of democracy at work.

At least here it is not Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, being called a "baby killer," or a brick through a lawmaker's window. It is not Sarah Palin on her Twitter page - this woman who officially puts the twit in Twitter - posting the following message:

"Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD."

As always, you wonder where this patriotism and righteousness and Tea Party activism was during Bush-Cheney. You wonder if all the people who want to take to the streets - and to the television cameras now - decided they weren't needed for eight years because they thought the country was going so good. Or maybe they have just convinced themselves that the Obama who must now be stopped didn't just inherit this America, he created it.

This is no longer about political dissent. It is about storm trooper sound bites, and hate. This isn't the kind of honest debate on which our system of government has been built. It is vile, back-alley fighting, getting worse by the day, with no end in sight. People say that opposition to all Presidents, even the most unpopular white ones, sounds like this. No, it doesn't.

"It's so good to be here for the showdown in Searchlight [Nev.]," Palin says on Saturday. "So proud to be with all you who are proud to be Americans."

Palin is in Nevada because Sen. Harry Reid is a Democratic candidate she and other lovers of America are "targeting" this November. Of course, the implication, as always, is that anybody on the other side of the debate - about health care or anything else - isn't nearly as good an American as she is.

Palin is such a fighter and great American that she quit on her stool as governor of Alaska because there was more money to be made in the other 49 states, shouting about death panels and health care and "European socialism" and writing unreadable books. In so many ways, she is a perfect media darling for our times. She doesn't scrawl graffiti, she thinks in it.

If you even think that this President ought to be given a chance, that he might have some good in him, that he doesn't hate America the way the radio idiots say he does, then you must be someone just like him and she will help shout you down. You are another lousy, lefty Socialist who doesn't understand the new health care bill is unconstitutional. Why? Because the screamers say so, that's why. They learned it online.

"The country does not like this [health care] bill," Republican strategist Mike Murphy says on television Sunday.

The country. Another guy speaking for the whole country, coast to coast, Washington Heights to Starbuck, Wash. Is America divided over health care right now? Sure it is, the way it was divided over Social Security under FDR and Medicare under LBJ and just about every important social program in the country's history.

Will a bill be presented to my children and their children on this bill someday? It likely will be. And economists say that Iraq will eventually be a $3 trillion war for this country. But all those who have taken to the streets because of the bill that Obama signed the other day must think that Iraq has paid for itself, no matter how much money it continues to cost this country, how many dead or broken bodies.

But Obama is the one who must be stopped, on health care and everything else. Stop Obama. Sometimes you wonder what that really means. Sometimes you probably find yourself wondering just how much you have to hate this President before you love America enough.

[andy58-in-nh]

Whenever Progressives aver that "dissent is patriotic", you can be certain they are out of power. Their sole concern is with their rights, not those of others because for them, "rights" are only a means to their ends and not fixed, inviolate principles of humanity bestowed by God or nature.

Moreover for Progressives, words in general only mean what they desire them to mean, and only for as long as it takes to obtain what they want: power, control and the wealth created by others with which to purchase the loyalty and complacency of the general populace. The chilling effect you feel is Liberty being placed on ice. Dissent now becomes not patriotic but "seditious" and its supporters not patriots but a dangerous tea-bagging rabble to be observed and constrained in the interest of public safety, which at this rate will soon have a "Committee" created in its name, as I believe once happened before.

[presidio9]

In the future, PLEASE be sure to include a [MAJOR BARF ALERT] when posting tripe such as this.

Consider yourself informed: When ESPN personalities dress up as political commentators, goofy subheadings like "BARF ALERT" are redundant. In any case, I don't do "BARF ALERTS" or "MEGA BARF ALERTS." If I ever called into Rush, I would also never say something idiotic like "MEGA DITTOS"

[FrankR]

I don't think I've ever seen these libs so tight @$$ed about anything as much as the TEA party movement.

All the people of the United States that they have been pi$$ing on for the last 30 years are awakening, and they've had enough of it.

The lib/progressives ("libprogs", or we could slang it out to 'leapfrogs' for short) live in the D.c. capsule where they think their only audience is the folks who attend their gala parties. I believe they thought the people outside the beltway was just a sitcom they seldom watch on TV.

But just like the "Langoliers", that "chomp, chomp, chomp" sound they are hearing is the patriotic citizens of the United States coming for them.

Now, with the exception of some obamabots, SEIU thugs, and ACORN...there have been NO violence, NO arrests, and NO racial slurs (except for the ones they made up, with no proof). A bird pissed on someone's head and they claimed a TEA party member spit on them.

So there they sit...huddled in a corner shaken to their boots; the lamestream press is wearing out keyboards trying to support their master's desire to discredit the TEA party movement...but, it....ain't....workin'.

They think the rules are just the same as when the White House radicals marched in the 70's...but they are different; in the 70's they were bored college students with no goals except the destruction of America.

Now, those hippies are in the catbird seat, but the protests are coming from the ADULTS.

The protest marches are the people who have went to work everyday, paid their taxes, raisted their children, served their country in the military, and made America strong. These are the people who ARE America...we dont' know WHAT that bunch in the White House is, except a bunch of leapfrogs who would like to see us all destroyed.

Oh, and finally....there is a WHOOOOOLLLLLLEEEEEE lot more of us than there were 70's college brats.

Everytime I see an article like this New Yord Daily News Article, the Roy Orbison song, "Running Scared" comes to mind...be cause they are.

Their bull$h|+ lines aren't working anymore; Alinskyism isn't working the way their taskmasters claimed it would. It's a book on how to pout and piss off mommy and daddy...there are no "rules for radicals" in it that some spoiled child somewhere in America doesn't do ten times a day without having even read the book.

The kenyan gets more arrogant by the day, especially since they "deemed" obamacare into existence, but, these type people keep getting "too big for their britches" and soon they will assume their power gives them lordship over the ones to PUT them there, and that's when the in-fighting begins.

Yes, leapfrogs...the Langoliers are coming...be afraid, be very afraid.

ROTFLMAO

[andy58-in-nh]

I don’t know, Laz. That silver-haired woman with the glasses looks awfully angry, like she might whip out an “assault rifle” at any time and hose down a crowd of innocent disabled black lesbian midgets...

[a fool in paradise]

The Telegraph is doing the job that the US media won't. Exposing the double standard of blowhards like those at the NYet Times:

The Tea Party protests are nothing compared to the seething rage of the anti-Bush crowds
London Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) ^ | March 29, 2010 | Stephanie Gutmann
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2482375/posts

So, according to Frank Rich of the New York Times, the Tea Party protesters are indulging in a “small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.” There is a “tsunami of anger” gathering across the land, he writes, and an “accompanying rise in right-wing extremism”...

In the meantime, let’s not flush recent history down the memory hole. Zombietime.com, a very reputable website that has been around for years specialising in photographing political rallies and public gatherings, has a very interesting gallery of photos from the Bush years. Go here to see people at rallies holding signs with legends like “Save Mother Earth. Kill Bush.”

[King_Corey]

Ping for later ammo against Lefties that say TEA Party is extreme.

[JudgemAll]

I am not cooperating with this government on any investigation, from here on out, as they seem to block appeals to the chain regarding Zero’s legitimacy as a president, and as they block all appeals and all voices opposing the manufacturing of mediocrity and of a mediocre president into something insanely vile and disgusting (giving him the Dr.Spock crime incitement treatment of cowering from criticizing him).

All these agents and medias are cowards in the face of evil and manufactured evil.

They should take a good look that people do not read the news paper, and that means people are not cooperating with the vile propaganda and hence not with the investigations at hand in the future.

A people who do not trust the media and the government is a people which has rejected and seceded from it in heart and materialy so in the future. Their little hollywood tricks of making people laugh of mediocrity is not going to last long when people lose jobs and get sick. John Steward pushing his footages of gay love and colonoscopy is just that: vile ugly prostitutes to be forced onto us as unwilling customers of them.

And these vile prostitutes are in the media and the government itself.

Cooperating with an FBI agent today has become like being forced to make a f2g gang banger happy.

[presidio9]

Lupica is a newer version of Olberdork. Former sports writer who couldn't hack it there, so he becomes a political hack, since nobody there expects truth.

To be fair: Before there was Olberman, there was Lupica. You are correct that he has been losing his following as a sports columnist, because it's clear that he doesn't watch a lot of sports anymore. When he watched every Yankees game and talked to the players all the time, it was clear that he had access to information you didn't have, so he was still interesting. These days, I bet he hasn't watched an inning of spring training, and it makes you realize that he grew up a Red Sox fan in New Hampshire. That's why he lives in New Caanan: Greenwich and Stamford kids grow up Yankees fans. New Caanan is on the front line of Red Sox Nation.

[ModelBreaker]

“Stop Obama. Sometimes you wonder what that really means.”

Hmmmm. Obviously a very deep question. Perhaps it means the graphic artist wants to prevent Obama from imposing socialism on the US. Just a guess.

Of course, this is a sports writer. In his language, Obama is the quarterback of a very bad football team of thugs. But they got to the superbowl. Now the bad team wants to score a touchdown and end the game.

If the bad team wins, they get to take all the money from everyone watching the game everywhere. And, they get to make everyone watching the game do whatever Obama’s team wants, no matter how stupid it is. And, if the bad team wins, they gets to change the rules so that, for all future superbowls, the other team will have to carry 300 pound weights strapped to their pads while they are playing. So the bad team would never lose another superbowl.

Somebody in the stadium just figured out that the thug team will get all his money and make him do stupid things and that it will go on forever. He shouts “Stop Obama.”

To make thing simpler for the sports writer:

(1) The stop sign tagging is just like when the spectator yelled, “Stop Obama.” And what he means deep down is that he wants the good team to prevent Obama from getting a touchdown, taking everyone’s money, making them do stupid things, and rigging the superbowl forever.

(2) The article the sports writer just wrote wrote is like when the security guards in the stadium jump on the spectator and beat the crap out of him.

(3) Next November will be like when the rest of the spectators figure out what’s happening and beat the crap out of the security guards.

Is that clear?

[presidio9]

Wow, some sportswriter’s got a little sand in his vagina.

I thought it was understood that that image was reserved for this guy person.

[motherof 3]

Can’t find an address to email Mike photos of “Stop Bush” that he and his son must have missed.

[Republic of Texas]

Where were Lupica’s Final Four picks? That’s all he’s good for. If that.

[mrsmel]

I would just take it for granted that he says that and worse. I’m sure he calls us “khaffirs” amongst other things.

[Eagle Eye]

The hand wringing drowned out any other real message.

[WayneS]

Consider yourself informed: When ESPN personalities dress up as political commentators, goofy subheadings like "BARF ALERT" are redundant.

EXCELLENT point!

[WayneS]

Yeah, but he wasn’t talking politics at the time...

[WayneS]

...with learning disabilities... who are holding puppies....

[JimRed]

Try the NY Post. Or the Wall Street Journal.

You're right of course; I was thinking of the Post. Not enough coffee! I don't consider the WSJ among the NYC newsrags.

[JimRed]

Any mention of SEIU thugs surrounding the homes of bank presidents.

Maybe we should surround the homes of SEIU leaders the same way.

[JimRed]

I meant the Post; need more coffee!