Detroit Metro Times: Tea Bag truth

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Tea Bag truth
A sad collection of angry, undereducated people who are being manipulated and used

By Jack Lessenberry


Late last week, hundreds of ignorant Tea Party morons were as ecstatic as pigs in a Dumpster full of stale doughnuts. Bart Stupak, the Michigan congressman who cast a difficult vote to make health care reform reality, was stepping down!

"That'll show 'em!" the know-nothings cried. How dare Stupak vote to provide all Americans a chance to have health care insurance! Fanatic anti-abortion protesters were happy too.

Never mind that Stupak may be the most anti-abortion Democrat in Congress. Never mind that he only voted for health care after President Obama signed an executive order declaring it illegal to use any federal funds for abortion.

No, the Christian nutball universe saw this principled man as having sold out to baby-killers. His courageous act was denounced by people calling themselves good Roman Catholics — who remained silent about revelations that their pope, the onetime "unenthusiastic" Hitler Youth member Joey Ratzinger, helped cover up and protect child molesters before he became CEO of the church of the pederasts.

The wacky Catholics are in a class by themselves. The Tea Partiers, some of whom packed three buses that careened state to state, seemed less interested in abortion. They were fixated on the crackpot idea that Stupak had expanded big government by voting to require people buy health care from private insurers, thus giving capitalism many new customers. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14968

[mdmc]

1. Odder still, an anti Stupak "wacky so called good Roman Catholic" will k/r this thread

done.:kick:

[SocialistLez]

2. The first 9 words are priceless! NT

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. LOL

[Initech]

3. The teabaggers are misdirecting their anger at the wrong people.

[SocialistLez]

5. Yep. They should be mad at the bankers, companies who offshore jobs,etc.

[political_Dem]

6. It's not the fact that the Teabaggers are being manipulated. It's whether they care.

I still maintain that this movement is not motivated by anything legitimate. It was falsely created by RW handlers who are using the Southern Strategy to stir up hatred and trouble against the POTUS. This group of "angry, defiant Know-Nothings" is something out of Lee Atwater's dreams.

I tend to think that the racism of the Teabaggers is so virulent enough that they don't care that they are manipulated. The main factor of their participation is that they get that black Muslim Kenyan out of office so they can get their America back. As a result, there is a means to an end: a lily-white, country-club nation that runs as if the Confederacy won.

That's why these conservative politicians and the media are falling all over themselves to cater to these ignorant, bigoted fools.

The reason why the Teabaggers have legitimacy in their fight is because of the color of their skin. Because there are others who are angry with Mr. Obama at this moment, the Teabaggers' needs and protests are given much more weight in the press.

Why else would their rantings and ravings about Mr. Obama's "birth certificate" be taken seriously? Why else would the word salad-like, racist, separatist blatherings of a woman who couldn't even withstand one term as Governor be popular? Why else would the misspelled and often grammatically incorrect signs that continue to being shown in front of the media eye be treated as if they were part of the intelligencia?

Plainly because there is a media who clearly "doesn't see" the racist intent of this movement and often endorses such hatred due to its constant coverage. And it won't stop until all the states in this nation pass laws that restrict the rights of anyone who is culturally and racially different than this hateful, insular-thinking group.

[RedCloud]

7. Why not dip these teabaggers in the Gulf of mexico to soak up the oil?

[one_voice]

8. LOL!

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[marmar]

9. There's nothing between the ears to absorb it.

nt