UPDATE: AP - Tea Party Outraged Over Rep. Steve Cohen TYT Interview (w/ Transcript & Captions)

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 03:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFdXi3wnXyk   Posted on YouTube: April 02, 2010 By YouTube Member: TYTInterviews Views on YouTube: 11503   Posted on DU: April 04, 2010 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 7029

 

Vote for The Young Turks (Once Each Day) on the Audience Choice Voting Poll at www.vote.streamys.org/ (3/22/10 through 4/11/10)!

Summary: This interview is gaining national attention and has outraged Tea Party leaders, according to this http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=jacksonsun&sParam=33186823.story|AP story> (not to mention dozens of angry blogs on RW websites). More interviews with members of Congress and others (including Michael Moore, Jesse Ventura and the managing editor of Time Magazine) can be found on our http://www.youtube.com/user/TYTInterviews|TYT Interviews Channel>. Cenk Uygur and Michael Shure interviewed Rep. Steve Cohen about Tea Party craziness and if any Republican will step up to move the party in a sane direction. You can http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2010/4/2/124320/0994/Diary/Update-Tea-Party-Outraged-Over-Rep-Steve-Cohen-TYT-Interview-w-Transcript-|read the transcript here>.

[CLANG]

1. The Teahadists are angry? No! I don't beleive it!

[ihavenobias]

2. A quick sample...

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/03/house-democrat-all-thats-missing-from-the-tea-party-are-the-robes-and-hoods/comment-page-1/

http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/04/03/steve-cohen-d-tn-09-called-racist-by-democrats-returns-the-favor-to-tea-partiers/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2486202/posts

[CLANG]

21. I'm sorry I forgot the sarcasm smiley!

[ihavenobias]

22. Don't be sorry, I got the sarcasm, I just used the opportunity to post some reaction from the Big 3.

Vote for The Young Turks (Once Each Day) on the Audience Choice Voting Poll at www.vote.streamys.org/ (3/22/10 through 4/11/10)!

[CLANG]

23. Ha! That's kind of what I figured.

[Turborama]

43. My word, there's some serious projection and cognitive dissonance in those replies!

At least the embedded vids help raise the viewing numbers and attract wingnut trolls for some re-education by the TYT army, I suppose.

Slightly OT but related to my comment, I think the new YouTube comments layout sucks. You can't see the ratings for comments very easily and it's impossible to see the replies to individual comments in context.

[ihavenobias]

56. FoxNews.com has now done a post about it.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/05/rep-cohen-tea-partiers-hardcore-anger-robes-hoods/

[Turborama]

58. Wow, that's quite a neutral article about it by Faux

I think they're scared of TYT.

Cenk has continuously pummelled them and there's been nary a response. I could be wrong, but I have yet to hear BecKKK react to one of Cenk's multiple Pwnages, for example.

Limbaugh hasn't responded to them, either.

I've kind of been looking forward to a war between TYT and Faux or Limbaugh, it's obvious who'd come out on top.

[AzNick]

46. I love how the freepers can't even spell "rascist"

The stupid, it hurts.

[libodem]

3. KKK

Without the hoods and robes. I feel more irrational hatred of the Republican party with every passing Tea party protest. Effing social security medicare pensioners out on a free Koch brothers corporate astroturf bus ride around the country. Where do you think they find all these fat, old, white, horse's asses. Don't they have jobs? But noooo. They are fat. They are old. They are white. They are on Medicaid and Social Security looking for a free vacation to see the country. They don't have jobs, They are on the government dole. Fat, toothless, old white, droolers. Wonder if free depends and tubes of Preparation H, are part of the tour package?

[movonne]

19. You got it right...

[Ken Burch]

41. Which gives me an excuse to post my favorite "Callaghan" cartoon on the subject:

[Generic Other]

4. we laugh but it is in all seriousness a very scary development

Makes me more uneasy than the Bush years. He was just one powerful ignorant man. This is a mob of powerless ignorant men.

[Angry Dragon]

17. Do not forget there are also women

[Capitalocracy]

5. K&R... The truth causes outrage, but keep it up

It's the only way to expose their hypocrisy. It's good to see people speak frankly about what's really happening.

[SocialistLez]

6. I like this Steve Cohen dude

I just did some research on him.

I'd be proud to be one of his constituents.

[socialist_n_TN]

26. I wish he was my rep, but .....................

he's in the Memphis area. My rep here in the Peoples Republic of Nashville and Davidson Co. is Jim Cooper. He's also a Dem, but he's not as outspoken as Cohen. I wish Cohen would run for Senate. He actually introduced a medical marijuana bill when he was in the State house. Seems to be a good guy and a REAL Democrat.

[SocialistLez]

27. My rep is retiring

I'd give him a C+. (Vic Snyder) I like that he voted against the war and I'm pretty sure he was the only House rep for the state of AR to vote FOR the health care bill.

The one woman I want to win his seat has a sucky campaign site. I've donated to her campaign and I plan to vote for her in the primary but I feel with this tea nuttery going on her chances are somewhat sucky.

She's VERY liberal but she hasn't taken any stands on any issues, at least not on her website.

If you have some time, you can look her up if you want. Her name is Joyce Elliot.

[socialist_n_TN]

30. What part of Arkansas?.............

nfm

[SocialistLez]

31. NFM?

Central AR...Little Rock area.

[socialist_n_TN]

36. No further message............

I would think that any urban area even in the reddest states (like TN) would be the most liberal part of the state. I'll ck out Ms Elliot. Thanks for the tip.

[SocialistLez]

38. Ahh okay. I looked up NFM on the glossary and didn't see it

For the most part, Little Rock/NLR is fairly liberal.

At the same time, the local news covers the tea party. It would be nice to see the breakdown on WHERE these tea party people live.

Central AR (Little Rock/NLR/Pulaski County) went for Obama,voted heavily against Initiated Act 1 ( a ban on unmarried people from adopting and fostering foster children) and the gay marriage ban.

Ms. Elliot BTW is labor friendly and GLBT friendly which is good in my book.
I suspect she's a single-payer supporter but she doesn't come right out and say it.

http://www.joyceelliott.com/

[tnlefty]

34. A belated welcome, socialist_n_TN!

:hi:

[socialist_n_TN]

37. Thanks so much lefty................

What part of TN? I'm in Nashville.

[tnlefty]

42. The 3rd district...

between Chattanooga and Cleveland...out in the boondocks, down in the boondocks, down in the boondocks,...I have an earworm now.:rofl: That earworm also shows my age.

ETA: I've been a thorn in the sides of those who put our annual fundraising dinner together, asking why they never ask Rep. Cohen to speak. I didn't attend last year when your Rep. was the speaker. Hope you like him better than I.

[socialist_n_TN]

49. Ah yes, over in solid red state TN............................

Although the surrounding counties here in middle Tennessee aren't much better now days. Well, I should be used to it. I grew up in Alabama and have been in Tennessee for 31 years now. Being a leftist in the South is not so much of a political persuasion as it is a calling. :)

[Celebration]

45. He's mine

It ought to be an interesting race next fall. Our black ex-mayor is running against him..........we'll see what happens in the primary. The ex-mayor, Willie Herenton, is a piece of work--paranoid, being investigated for corruption, etc. Thank God he is not our mayor any more. He needs to retire from politics completely. But, he has a chance of beating Cohen.

[Nostalgic]

7. This is great to see.

At last it's not just Alan Grayson speaking out.

[K8-EEE]

8. Tea Party Outraged at (fill in blank)

Puleeze they're outraged when they open their eyes in the morning, when they shut them at night and every waking hour in between. These people are addicted to pout-rage like crack cocaine and nothing I mean NOTHING will make them non-outraged.

[20score]

9. Good interview!

[unapatriciated]

16. +1 K&R

[juxtaposed]

10. truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bitwit1234]

11. Oh so they wave their guns and scream -kill kill

put a target on them, reload. And when someone complains they are out of control and dangerous they get angry? I am really scared that this country is involving into what happened in Nazi Germany. The white supremacist have always had this type of mentality, but they were not as embolden as they have become now, with the militia groups etc. But they tea bags, average or suppose to be average Americans who urge killing and violence, this is unheard of. And until the authorities start to reign them in and let them know that threatening to kill, causing riots and such is not acceptable they will continue to do so.

I am sick of the law enforcement agencies we have now, they are as chicken s**t at they come. What are they afraid of.

[Capitalocracy]

12. It smells like fascism

I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't start rounding up liberals for torture and murder in secret prisons if one of the crazies actually became president. I know it sounds extreme, but it happens in other countries around the world all the time, and usually with help from the U.S. We're not exempt.

[tblue37]

13. They aren't afraid--they are complicit. nt

[Caretha]

14. Best interview

I've seen on the TYT.

[zonkers]

15. Wow, the Palin/Elvis, McCain/Captured Prisoner analogies are dead on. Go Steve Cohen!

[The Wizard]

18. The Tea-liban

is like a festering boil that's been irritated by the Republican leadership, and it will be the Republican leadership that has to suck the pus from that festering boil.

[TxVietVet]

24. That ought to gag the conservanazis.

Yep, it's their racist baby. :puke:

[DeSwiss]

20. Steve Cohen is the best!

I've watched his career blossom since he was a city councilman and he always spoke the truth.

- He's the real deal.

K&R


Well, at least you spell as well as Joe...."

[Shining Jack]

28. "I am Joe the..."

Wow,what a clueless bunch.

[DeSwiss]

39. I know....

...while laughable in one sense, it's truly a shame and yet insightful that Teabaggers can't spell.

[Rozlee]

35. Did their parents meet each other at family reunions?

They don't even look like they have gene pools. Maybe something more like gene puddles or something. If they keep reproducing, in a few generations, mankind might devolve back into the primordial ooze.

:scared:

[DeSwiss]

40. Their ancestors may have met in a puddle.....

...but if so, it was one that formed from something one would find after using those plungers they're holding aloft.


- Could those plungers be their family's seal?

[Cartoonist]

25. One Freeper makes a good case

over Cohen's credentials:

Prior to his election to the House in November 2006, Cohen was a Tennessee State Senator for 24 years. He is Tennessee’s first Jewish congressman. Cohen is one of only two non-blacks representing majority black districts in Congress

Cohen told reporters that he would seek to become the first white member of the Congressional Black Caucus, but later decided against attempting to join after members of the CBC (influenced by co-founder Bill Clay) indicated that they would not allow a non-black to join

On February 27, 2007, Cohen introduced a resolution in the House that apologizes for African-American slavery and the system of Jim Crow laws that persisted for 100 years after the abolition of slavery.

In March 2005, Cohen was one of three Tennessee Senators to vote against the Tennessee Marriage Protection Amendment, which Tennessee voters approved via a referendum in November 2006

Cohen is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He is the most liberal member of the Tennessee congressional delegation, as well as one of the most liberal members ever to represent the state in Congress.

He is known for his staunch support for environmental protection, opposition to George W. Bush and John McCain over the War in Iraq, and support for a woman’s right to an abortion. To expand funds available for research and development of alternative energy sources, Cohen supports the imposition of an excess profits tax on oil companies.

Cohen has said that he believes that adequate health care is a “fundamental right” of all citizens. Cohen supports gender equality, progressive taxation, medicinal use of marijuana, gun rights and capital punishment. Cohen was the headline speaker at the Marijuana Policy Project’s January 2010 annual gala in Washington.

27 posted on 04/03/2010 4:25:21 PM PDT by kcvl
< Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies>
-

He made no comment himself. I guess he thinks these are bad things, but to me, they are mighty fine reasons for re-election.

[Shining Jack]

29. Thanks ,Cartoonist

...I didn't know about that.Will go to bed less ignorant. :)

[Historic NY]

32. They can't accpet they lost the election...where were they the past 8 yrs.?

[Honeycombe8]

33. Isn't the Tea Party always angry at some Democratic? The news would be if they weren't. nt

[The Wielding Truth]

44. When someone is brainwashed they hate without reason.

Those who have listened to Rush or Limbaugh or Fox slanted broadcasts are sadly being used by the Republicans and by the uber wealthy heartless class to dismiss logic and history to try to usurp power. The fear and hate that is pushed into their minds, pushes out the ideals of equality and respect that each individual is guaranteed in our national creed of Common good.

This respect for the common person and their right to live in accord with the democratically derived law and the study of historically sound judgment has brought our country to greatness.

It was not the unrestrained businessmen who led us through the roughest times.

It was the man or woman who gave great consideration to the everyman and how to better his life.
When we lose sight of the real truth that we, as a country, have struggled to uphold, and give greed and irresponsible selfcenteredness free reign, we are no longer a country of which to be proud.

It is the crude and fearful single-mindedness of these Tea-Baggers who have forgotten our best ideals: which are to accept and support the weakest among us and to believe in those who are different but not lesser than ourselves.

The dream of this country depends on the conscience and actions of the Liberal as well as the honest earnings of reasonable Conservative production for profit or not. The rich who rise to wealth dishonestly should not be worshiped,but their wealth should be expected to do good for others. In that they should be praised.

As John F Kennedy is proud to call himself a Liberal, so am I.

What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then ... we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."

[spicegal]

47. Great description of John McCain looking more like a POW than a senator.

But then, that's been McCain's MO, the political opportunist that he still is, despite the fact it isn't working for him. He just keep turning to the wingnuts in his Party.

[lobodons]

48. Difference between "us vs "them"

Reading posts on various conservative blogs it becomes obvious with the outright hatred and vicious attacks toward "libtards". You can almost see the poster's face as he writes the message all bug eyed, red faced, with steam blowing out their ears and all. Hatred. Pure hatred toward libtards. No wonder violence follows them at their rally's. While here and other progressive blogs its more of a roll of the eyes, shake of the head disbelief at the stupidity and ignorance of the low information racists.

[MightyAfrodite]

50. Get that man the number to ...

the Nation of Islam's bodyguards. He might need some backup!! :fistbump:

[amb123]

51. And the Tea Party response is . . .

JEWBOY! JEWBOY! JEWBOY!

Thus proving Congressman Cohen right. So predictable.

:tinfoilhat:

[KansDem]

52. Just after the 2008 election, when all this shit just started to happen...

A DUer said the right-wing has a "let us win or we'll start shooting" mentality. Well, they lost and now we're somewhere between that and the first shot...

[GrpCaptMandrake]

53. First shots have already been fired

They were fired at Dr. Tiller, at the congregation of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation, at a security guard in the Holocaust Museum, at cops coming to the door in a Pittsburgh suburb; they were fired when a right-wing terrorist flew his plane into a building in Austin, Texas and when bricks were put through windows in local Democratic Party offices around the country.

Watch.Your.Back.

They walk among us.

[KansDem]

57. Good point.

Thanks for the reminders.

Lest we forget...

[spiritual_gunfighter]

54. Steve Cohen is becoming my new favorite Congressman

First he pays tribute to Alex Chilton on the House floor and now he calls out teabaggers and John McCain!

[theFrankFactor]

55. Important! K&R