Head of the St. Louis Teabaggers vows to "destroy the left," teabagger-style.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Head of the St. Louis Tea Party vows to "destroy the left"
By karoli Friday May 07, 2010 11:00am

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/head-st-louis-tea-party-vows-destroy-left

Bill Hennessy is co-founder of the St. Louis Tea Party, self-published political guru and a sales guy who also works in tech. He's also an angry man with a message: Blame "the left" for everything wrong in the world. Hennessy has a platform and a voice and he's not afraid to use it, particularly in furtherance of his primary goal, which he lays out in a post castigating fellow Tea Party agitators for failing to put a stop to a sales tax increase:

The tea party is out to destroy the left in America. If we’re not going to do that—if we’re going to just wave yellow flags and wear clever t-shirts—then let’s go back to our regular programming.

Seriously, ask yourself not what you believe, but what you will DO. The time for standing in a park shouting is over. It’s time for action.

Ordinarily Hennessy's threat would be a shruggable event. The politics of personal destruction don't play all that well on the main stage, and the idea of "destroying the left" reeks of John Bircherism with a large dose of indoctrination by right-wing anti-taxers.

Except for this: Bill Hennessey, right-wing radio pundit Dana Loesch, and Big Government publisher Andrew Breitbart are using Kenneth Gladney's bogus injuries as their proxy for race-baiting and union bashing to leverage gains in the upcoming midterm elections.

After all, war is war. When you're out to destroy people, truth just doesn't seem to make that much of a difference. It doesn't seem to matter that Gladney's injuries didn't come close to matching up with what he claims was done to him, or that his original "lawyer" was also his employer, or that the whole dustup began over insulting imagery on buttons he was handing out at a town hall meeting. For these folks, and Hennessy in particular, it's war. All-out, scorched-earth kind of war.

[RKP5637]

1. Looks like he's right out of the SS in WWII. n/t

[Kookaburra]

2. One thing stuck out to me

"Clever shirts"? Really? If that's his idea of clever, then I doubt he's any threat to us God-hatin' libruls.

[Bill McBlueState]

3. teabagger-style?

You mean, talk a lot about something, but being so busy eating potato chips and Twinkies that you never actually do it?

[rurallib]

5. No - it means being so uninformed you argue against yourself and your best interests

[Scuba]

13. Nailed it.

[Webster Green]

4. Looks like a typical wingnut wussie blowhard.

I look forward to fighting it out with the teabaggers, if that's what they want.

I'm down.

[iris27]

6. "Hennessy has a platform and a voice and he's not afraid to use it,"

And yet, though I live in St. Louis, this is the first time I've ever heard of him.

Not that I'm complaining...

[Sherman A1]

15. Same Here

I live in St. Louis and have no clue who this guy is.

[spanone]

7. bring it on, billy boy

[Rex]

8. Then that means he will fail miserably or embarrass himself out of the race.

Excellent! I love it when they go out in public, Teabagger style! Do it! :thumbsup:

[KonaKane]

9. Clever shirts??

Yes indeedy, all those misspelled, witless slogans really started to win me over!

[graywarrior]

10. Destroy...kill...maime....

It's all about destroying people who disagree with you. What an ass. I'm so sick of these emotional bags of wind.

[dana_b]

18. seriously!

wth does he intend to do - really kill us? That's the only thing that would stop us from being "lefties". what an ***hole.

[graywarrior]

19. He thinks we're pathogens...lol

[MadMaddie]

20. I know graywarrior they have violent thoughts

and wish harm on everyone. They want to blame everyone for their failures.

[SpiralHawk]

22. "Blame everyone else for their failures" Yup - Republicon Teabaggery in a nut shell

Whine whine whine -- then blame others for their own shortcomings and failures.

Pathetic.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Domestic terrorist - Brown and Lieberman are coming for him.

Wouldn't that be a kicker.

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. He's out to destroy the "left" side of the cake, the side he didn't eat the night before.

[progressoid]

14. Alerting

No Sex Threads!

;)

[frylock]

16. another pasty blowhard jagoff wrapped in the flag..

get the dickwad alone for a little one-on-one and i bet he changes his tune right quick.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

17. Don't just sing it. Bring it.

You can't destroy what will save your ass despite your ignorance.

We'll always be here son. And we'll even help you when things get really rough, long after the RW sponsors fund you have gone away.

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. The St Louis teabaggers are horrible

The progressives in St Louis have a major battle on their hands.

[troydavis77]

23. I just re-read Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style

That book allows me to better understand the teabaggers.