Wash Journal today-Repubs strategy-cast dems as "angry"

[w8liftinglady]

Call them,and let them know why we are angry.
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[Skidmore]

1. They are baiting us now.

Time to chastise the press for doing the Rs work for them and not listening to what Dems have to say.

[EFerrari]

2. Line is busy. This should be interesting. n/t

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

3. You mean there's finally something truthful

in what they say?

Darn tootin'. I'm angry. You have to be brain-dead not to be angry.

[liberal N proud]

4. Dem response should be Hell YES we are angry

Angry at the shape this country is in.
Angry at the way the Republicans have tread all over the Constitution
Angry at the deficit levels
Angry at the manipulation of the people and Congress to start an illegal war
Angry...

[donco6]

31. I totally agree.

If you're not Angry, you Haven't been Paying Attention.

[liberal N proud]

44. That would make an excelent campaign slogan for any Dem.

[acmejack]

Unfortunately, they know all my numbers.

I am always trapped with the "You've called within the last thirty days" bs. So many outrages, so little time! I will have to listen for you folks, make us proud!

[Skidmore]

5. Who is this Beth Founy?

[laruemtt]

6. i guess we have to learn

how to "nicely" send people off to die in a war based on lies and "smile nicely" when we bankrupt the country. yeah, that's the ticket with the shallow masses - NOT!!!!!

[mandyky]

7. Someone say - anyone not angry isn't paying attention!!

LOL

[rodeodance]

29. should be lots of verbal OUTRAGE!

[ShortnFiery]

8. Right out of Rove's office

I guess Rush did not get the outcry that old Rove-Co. depended on. These evil republican power-broker bastards and rich connected operatives are SHAMELESS!

[Clark2008]

9. Guy from Louisiana pays no attention to reality.

Thinks Dems have no plans because he chooses to believe Rush and not read anything past the propaganda.

:eyes:

[pearl]

12. Boy o boy

Just the very framing of this question. Friends, I may have a
stroke. I turned the sound down.

[rodeodance]

10. Who said this (IP)?

[rodeodance]

13. "We can do better"--is a Dem strategy (USA Today article).

[rodeodance]

14. gee, I just heard an 'angry" Repug caller talking about lack of fiscal

responsibility.

[Clark2008]

11. The independent voter from Oregan FINALLY making

some sense.

"Of course they're mad and I'm mad, too!"

[rodeodance]

40. yes, that was a good one.

[laruemtt]

15. yay! a republican who is angry -

and there's a ton of them. of course the media can't see beyond black and white with no gray shades.

[w8liftinglady]

16. soldier thinks dems don't want to protect america

maybe he can tell me why 56 soldiers are running for congress

[mrcheerful]

19. Well how hard is it for repiglets to claim they are in the armed services

[w8liftinglady]

22. they don't bring THAT up,if possible

[derby378]

17. Repuke: "We've got bin Laden where we want him"

And so we don't have to catch him, apparently. We'll let him die a natural death in whatever cave he's hiding in. Brilliant strategery!

[mrcheerful]

20. Bin who?

[W_HAMILTON]

30. Same thing they said about Saddam all of those years

We've got him in a box, yadda yadda.

The worst terrorist attack on our nation happened under this administration, and the guy's terrorist organization that was responsible for it is a free man.

Strong on terror my ass.

[mrcheerful]

18. Another chicken hawk we are safer under repigs, These bed wetters

who wet the bed every time shrub says terrorists and national security. We must stay the course, the terrorists are no longer targeting our troops. Roflmao

[Warren Stupidity]

21. Democrats must embrace their anger

and patiently explain to the american people why they are angry so that the people will share their anger.

[rodeodance]

36. but the educator -in-chief has the bully pulpit

[mrcheerful]

23. Boy they didn't listen to Jimmy Carter. He was talking about the way the

Kings were spied on and the repiglets are under the impression that he was talking about shrub, Talk about brainless sheep. Flag waving won't save them.

[rodeodance]

32. of course Carter was making a reference to Bush and snoopying

[w8liftinglady]

24. great democrat calls!!!!!!

[chat_noir]

25. 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!'

Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"


Network - 1976

audio clip: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork2.html

[rodeodance]

26. portraying the Dems as angry-unstable, emotional!--not good folks

[rodeodance]

27. is it a Repug tactic?--or ? either way--it is portray as undesirable.

[tecelote]

28. Hell Yeah!

America using torture makes us angry!

Profits over people makes us angry!

The President breaking the law makes us angry!

The list could go on and on.

Basically, destroying America by the unethical and morally reprehensible Republicans makes us very angry.

And, you're going to see more of it because American citizens are angry!

[rodeodance]

33. McCain was 'emotional" and they dissed him good--than Hil. C. was

portrayed as emotional and agray and they are dissing her. It works-so they do it.

[rodeodance]

35. Whow--someone calling the Repug Party facist!! whow.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

38. Another disingenuous question from WJ - how do you attempt to

"defend" the implied argument you shouldn't be angry (unbalance party) when you have every right in the world to be so pissed off you could spit nails? Instead of discussing why the Dems are angry WJ is posing the Dems as "unstable, no plan, yadda, yadda, yadda." They are just helping Rove do his amoral, unethical job.

Keep trying to get through but the phone is busy. Think we need to ask the host to use the question, "Reps corrupt or just a Dem strategy?"

Anyone notice that the Reps who get through never discuss the issues, just parrot the party line calling Dems names. That is all they have.

[rodeodance]

39. yes, lots of name calling.

[SicSemperTyrannis]

34. I'm way past angry...the NeoCons have been allowed to....

...get away with far too much fo far too long.

[rodeodance]

37. This segment demonstrates that both Repugs and Dems are angry! yes,

[rodeodance]

41. Zell Miller's name brought up with anger.

[W_HAMILTON]

42. Zell on Earth!

He made a good point.

[W_HAMILTON]

43. Did they bring this up as a tie-in with what's going on over the cartoons?

Could they be trying to correlate all the Muslim "anger" over the cartoons with Democrats' anger about what this administration is doing? I wouldn't put it past them...