It started during the 2008 presidential campaign....

[cynatnite]

That's when these teabagging types began their violent rhetoric.

[JuniperLea]

1. Yes... violence, laced with bigotry and pure hate...

And the longer it's allowed to continue, the more emboldened (and dangerous) they become.

[randr]

2. They were Palin fans

Got away with ugly behavior and have been empowered to act as children ever since.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. No, go back a few years

the violent rethoric started under Clinton, oh about 1996....

It calmed down after Bush got into office... or rather changed it's nature...

And went to phase two during the election

[Bucky]

9. I think you mean 1992. His 1993 Memorial Day speech before laying the wreath was violently heckled

This is what the RW radio nuts stir up when they stir up their shit. All for a profit and the cheap thrill of feeling like they're in charge of something powerful.

This is why the Glenn Beck advertiser boycotts matter.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. You are correct, but this really took off

during the Impeachment, which was a joke.

And this is not Glenny, (though he is part of the problem)... nor will boycotts work.

Why?

They are the MINORITY, as in really bad. But they got the financing from hell. You and I know FOX has not made a red cent and scaife continues to lose money hand over fist... but they are winning in other ways.

The problem is that the people inciting this... are finally, and predictably, losing control.

Every civil war has phases... and all those who stir shit think they can control the darkest demons in the human soul.

[leftstreet]

4. They magically appeared in the M$M with the healthcare Town Halls

They managed to restrain themselves during the Bank Bailout Town Halls, and the Military Escalation Town Halls

oh, wait...

[flakey_foont]

5. Christina Pelosi made a documentary on 2008 campaign

that was shown on HBO...cannot recall the Title...but parts of this movie were extremely disturbing as there were scenes showing interviews with some extremely angry (and ignorant, I might add) proto-teabaggers........."He's a communist! blahh blah blah"
There was one amusing scene with a young fellow wearing a T-shirt proclaiming that OBAMA IS A SOCALIST (his spelling, maybe not exactly but he spelled it incorrectly nevertheless) and the interviewer asked him what a 'socialist' is; the laddie said he would google it, and the interviewer stopped him and said, 'no, YOU tell me what it means. No googling" Of course, Einstein had no idea what it meant

[cynatnite]

7. I remember that. n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. The sad fact is, a lot of this crap has its roots in the Hillary campaign

MarKKK Penn, Larry Johnson, Ferraro, and the rest of those tools in her camp stirred up a lot of this racist horseshit, and the birth certificate crap had its origins there, long before anybody ever heard of Oily Twatz.

[cynatnite]

8. Okay, so what's happening now is Hillary's fault?

:wtf:

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. Yes, and no.

She's obviously not stirring up the teabaggers now. And the degree of her involvement with this shit during the campaign could be debated one way or the other. But she did hire someone like Penn, who was a known right wing scumbag, so yeah, she did originate a lot of this.

[cynatnite]

13. She hired an asshole, but it doesn't make her responsible in any way for this...

you can keep thinking that if you'd like.

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. She knew what she was getting when she hired Penn.

Look at the guy's track record. He's defended every evil piece of shit on the planet. You hire someone like that, you know what they're gonna do.

[SoCalDem]

10. Actually it started when Lincoln was president, probably

There are "some people" who feel that anything that "someone else" gets, is somehow being TAKEN from them.. These are highly volatile people, easily persuaded, and they somehow believe that THEY are the "persecuted people", when in fact, THEY are the ones doing all the persecuting.

During the election, they were not all that crazy about "their candidate", and they were probably a bit afraid to "go racist" before the election, but now that Obama IS president, they have the perfect "cover"...

1...everyone can criticize a president
2...get enough crazies in your group to throw blame onto them
3...rile up the crazies & then disavow them when they "act up"
4...dress up your crazies & elect them..(the ones who are good actors)

[spanone]

12. they do not like their Black President...it has.nothing to do with healthcare.

[madokie]

15. Its all about the color of his skin

his policies are next

[BlooInBloo]

14. Birtherism comes from the primaries, actually.