Chicago tea party patriots shout down a woman who lost her pregnant daughter-in-law (and the fetus). The woman said her daughter-in-law had no insurance.
Can this be true? Lord, I hope not. Surely I’m missing some context here. Surely there’s a better explanation than a mob shouting at a grieving mother-in-law.
And thanks, Bro. Jay, for the link.
Dating Jesus 
Heartless.
Unfortunately, it IS true.
My God.
I suppose some of these people call themselves Christians, too. WWJD, people? Do they ever consider that? Or, is it only relevant when it comes to finding some Bible passage that supposedly supports anti-choice or anti-marriage equality? WWJD?
Are these the descendants of people who used to flock to see lynchings and beheadings? Maybe so…
Does anybody see any non-white faces in that crowd? I don’t.
There’s your motivation for that type of display. Racism. Anti-Obama racism.
It can’t be healthcare, because if they read the bills they would realize their Republican leaders are getting everything they’ve demanded.
I hate to believe that, but you don’t see a lot of people at color at these meetings.
…which reminds me of the rally outside a town-hall meeting in the early fall — on the pro-health-care-reform were people of various shades and at least both sexes and people of all ages from kids barely big enough to hold up a small sign to an octogenarian who proudly held hers. On the anti-health-care-reform were middle-aged white
men, mostly. And no, I have nothing against middle-aged white guys, I’m just describing what I saw.
Of all the townhall and tea-bagger videos I’ve seen, I can remember seeing only two which showed black people…..
One was in Phoenix, I think, which made the news when a black man showed up packing heat.
Another was a townhall put together by Whatisname….the guy who was texting during the President’s address to the joint session…who counseled a black woman to seek out charity for non-covered healthcare issues. That was, I believe, during the summer break.
After that….zippo…..
Perhaps people of color have better ways to spend their hours?
Orrrrrrrrrrrr — they (to generalize like crazy here) haven’t, as a group, been able to accrue all of whatever it is that the tea-baggers feel the need to retain and defend.
Attention? Dignity?
For starters. And privilege and money and….. what is it again that the tea-baggers want? I keep forgetting…….
A New World Order? That’s how most of my emails run, anyway.
For starters. And privilege and money and….. what is it again that the tea-baggers want (and maybe want to keep for themselves)? I keep forgetting…….
I saw many people of color at the two Hartford tea parties I attended and even more in Washington DC on September 12 .
BTW tea-bagger is vulgar. Not as vulgar as a $787 billion dollar stimulus package, and 10.2% unemployment…but it’s close.
I stand corrected.
That’s a good thing.
Thank you.
“BTW tea-bagger is vulgar.”
Well, here’s the thing. The term definitely has a sexual connotation, and prior to this year, I guess, using the term would definitely be considered vulgar.
But while Wikipedia discusses all of that first, it goes on to a section called “Use as a political term,” which says:
“An article in Salon.com by Alex Koppelman traced the controversy to a photograph by David Weigel posted on The Washington Independent website on 27 February,[12] showing a protester holding a sign that read “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You!!”[13]….
“In a 14 March report on Fox News, Griff Jenkins said, “ReTeaParty.com has a headline, ‘Teabag the fools in DC on Tax Day.’ They want you … to take a tea bag, put it an envelope, and mail it to the White House.”[14] Several critics of the protesters, including Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Anderson Cooper, used the sexual slang in their broadcasts. Cooper later apologized, calling the term “silly” and stating that his use of it detracted from his serious reporting.[15][16][17][18][19]
“The term’s growth in the political arena earned attention by the Oxford American Dictionary, and it achieved finalist status for the OAD Word of the Year.[20]”
I did not know this. To be honest, until rather recently — like, when the phrase started to be applied strictly to certain protesters, I’d never even heard the vulgar phrase before. I am married. I am really married. My apologies.
……. and we all know that you don’t know ANY vulgar phrases!
I actually wrote about 32 percent of them, vulgar phrases.
Was it ever at any point “tea-partiers?”
“…who counseled a black woman to seek out charity for non-covered healthcare issues…”
Yeah, “Madame, YOU go and seek charity while *I* get tax-payer covered healthcare.” Bullshit.
Amen to the bullshit.