GOP Rep. Nunes Excuses Racist, Homophobic Tea Partier Slurs As A Response To ‘Totalitarian Tactics’

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This morning on C-Span’s Washington Journal, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) justified the disturbing racist and homophobic epitaphs that angry tea baggers hurled yesterday at Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), and other House Democrats. Nunes insisted that everyone has a right to “smear” whoever they want and that the tea baggers’ behavior was understandable given the “crazy totalitarian tactics” that he alleges Democrats are engaged in:


SCULLY: A lot of angry comments aimed at a couple of your colleagues, including Barney Frank and Congressman John Lewis, using the “n” word as some of the protesters jeered at him as he walked through the halls of the Capitol.

NUNES: Yeah, well I think that when you use totalitarian tactics, people, you know, begin to act crazy. I think, you know, there’s people that have every right to say what they want. If they want to smear someone, they can do it. It’s not appropriate. And I think I would stop short of characterizing the 20,000 people protesting, that all of them were doing that –
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Devin is such a lovely fellow

[Cha]

1. There were no totalartarian tactics.. so where does

that leave the ugly vicious teabaggers and nunes? Ignorant as shit.

[Bolo Boffin]

2. Someone prevented Nunes from voting on these issues?? n/t

[vanlassie]

3. Devin Nunes is a worthless tool.

Unfortunately, he's my rep.... :thumbsdown:

[abq e streeter]

6. Sorry ( very sorry) that he's your rep.

I see that you posted while I was already writing mine. Please notice that I was condemning only those that chose to vote for him, and not the unfortunate souls who did what they could to keep this a-hole out of congress.

[abq e streeter]

4. and is freely chosen by the voters of his district to be their voice in congress

chosen overwhelmingly by 68 % of the voters in 2008; i.e. 125,000 people in his district have endorsed him as the man who speaks for them. To my way of thinking, that makes every one of those 125,000 citizens every bit as despicable as Mr. Nunes. He is no more than their equally hate-filled and ignorant mouthpiece.

[G_j]

5. 20,000 ?

any verification of that?

[h9socialist]

7. Fascism is alive and well . . .

. . . And giving tea growers worldwide a bad name!

[sufrommich]

8. Just like prosecuting the Klan for lynchings was

messin' with states rights, amirite?