Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) calls the police after a Glenn Beck post incites the Tea Party

[Newsjock]

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/04/5782756/yvette-clarke-calls-police-after-glenn-beck-post-incites-tea-party

Representative Yvette Clarke of Brooklyn said tonight that she notified the Capitol police force of threatening phone calls made to her office, after Glenn Beck's website posted a video that appeared to show her criticizing Tea Party protesters.

In the video, which shows Clarke talking to the Prospect Heights Democrats for Reform earlier this month, the congresswoman says members of Congress were spit on and called racial epithets during the health care debate, and that the protesters showed the "ugliest sides of the United States of America that you can imagine."

Clarke said in a release that it was "extremely disappointing" that the comments had been edited to appear out of context.

The video is a production of Breitbart TV, the outfit established by the late conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, who drew national attention when he posted an edited video of former USDA official Shirley Sherrod which appeared to show her making racist remarks.

[atreides1]

1. Even from the grave...

Breitbart is affecting people's lives...

[southernyankeebelle]

2. I hope she sues the bastard. If I were a politican I would make sure every thing I'd say was

recorded and if taken out of content then I would sue.

[Freddie Stubbs]

13. On what grounds would she sue?

[southernyankeebelle]

14. Inciting people. Kinda of like yelling fire in a crowded room. People are calling in death

threats.

[Freddie Stubbs]

15. Did he suggest that people harm or threaten the Congresswoman?

Saying negative things about someone is not inciting violence.

We have freedom of speech in this country.

[southernyankeebelle]

16. I guess if she gets killed than that will prove your point.

[Scuba]

3. "You're side behaves like thugs." ... "That's right, and we're gonna prove it!"

[lpbk2713]

4. She did the right thing.

The mindless zombies should be held accountable for their actions.
Even though the people they elect to office never are.

[MineralMan]

5. The Tea Party/Glenn Beck Types Seem

to always be posting nasty rants in comments about news stories, making threatening phone calls, sending threats through the mail, and so on. It seems to be a character trait for them. That's alarming, I think, since many of them are also avid firearms owners. The combination of the kind of anger that would cause people to threaten others for disagreeing with them and access to deadly weapons is very worrisome.

Beyond that, the police do not seem all that interested in such threats.

[Blue_Tires]

6. I love how laughably thin-skinned and butthurt the teabaggers get

they dish it out 24/7/365, but throw a tantrum when someone calls them out...

At least (most) of the "But we can't ever label the Tea Party as racist" DUers are long gone...

[Initech]

7. I know - it's almost as if they're choreographed to respond that way.

[bongbong]

8. The WAAAAHmbulance

It's the only car those wingnuts own..

[Smilo]

9. They don't even like been called

teabaggers anymore.

To me they will always be the teabaggers - a blight on the scrotum of democracy.

[Roy Rolling]

11. New name

Thanks to the DU post they are not Teabaggers anymore, they are called Kochsuckers.

[pansypoo53219]

12. Kocksuckers. the kock brothers.

nt

[Lint Head]

10. Tea Baggers Tea Baggers Tea Baggers Tea Baggers Tea Baggers Tea Baggers

They are hanging their metaphoricals over us all and it's time they had them removed by justice.