It's grainy and wobbly, but the hatred comes through. The "Vote McCain, Not Barack Hussein!" people are not just angry, but look potentially violent. This is a Palin rally in Henderson, NV (near Las Vegas). Note that almost all the Obama supporters are African American.
Palin has saupposedly dropped her "pals around with terrorists" taunt, but no one told these people!
Ridiculous: a politician goes on one of the nation's most visible cable TV shows and says she didn't know what she was getting into. The name, "Hardball" says it all. It gives the impression that Christofascists don't live in the real world. (Do they?). Palin didn't know what she was getting into with her Couric and Gibson interviews. The media combines fluff and hard questions. Shows like "Hardball" mean that you better be ready to talk fast, respond fast and, most importantly, don't look like a dummy.
Bachmann, Palin, and who knows who else. Where do we get these people from? Values Voters? Their values include very low I.Q.s (they do seem to be in fashion, don't they?).
...And Defeating. They're Stranded And Screaming From An Icefloe That's Melting. Very Quickly.
So, while they're busy hurling epithets and screaming against Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the Republicans' territory is getting smaller and they're getting more desperate. Some Republicans are actually switching to Democrats to save their own political skins. Of course, amidst all of this neocon mudslinging is the elephant in the room: George W. B**h, who just happens to be a Republican. (CBS) By CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller
Not once this year has President Bush appeared in public at a campaign rally for the Republican Party or any of its candidates. And on Tuesday night, when he attends a million dollar fund-raiser for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, it will be the last political event he does before Election Day.
The Republicans have learned (the hard way) that too much mudslinging by political Christofascists can have the opposite affect. The comments made in the video below by Michele Bachmann about Obama being anti-American backfired beautifully:
(Washington Post)
Those comments, made to Chris Matthews on "Hardball" last Friday, alleging that Barack Obama held "anti-American" views immediately lit up the blogosphere, energized the campaign of former Blaine Mayor Elwyn Tinklenberg (great name!) and turned Bachmann's race from an afterthought into one of the most high profile House races in the country.
Tinklenberg has raised more than $800,000 in the aftermath of Bachmann's comments and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee communications director Jen Crider has called this a "$1 million mistake" on the part of the Republican incumbent.
Considering the other blunders that Bachmann has made in the past, I would strongly suggest that all of her consituents vote for Tinklenberg to save face. Watch the clip and see just how much like Palin Bachmann sounds. She sticks to one talking point like glue simply because she can't answer the other questions (notice how frustrated Chris Matthews looks). Hurl! Sling! "Do you think they'll ever notice that we're (sssh!) Republicans?" And Republicans, in defense, are using the same meme as Bachmann: "I never said that!"
Despite the way the blogs and the Democratic Party are spinning it, I never called all liberals anti-American, I never questioned Barack Obama’s patriotism, and I never asked for some House Un-American Activities Committee witch hunt into my colleagues in Congress.
Contrary to Bachmann's implications, viewers of Chris Matthews' Hardball can sense overt implication. She's counting on people reading between her lines and extending her phraseology. Look at the clip twice. Go here to view extended clips - the entire frustrating, self-righteous glare of Bachmann is horrifying. Those extended silences after Matthews' questions aren't due to reception. Bachmann's face freezes when she tries to think of an answer.
Representatives Patrick McHenry and Robin Hayes warmed up the crowd at a rally for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). McHenry called the event the “biggest crowd John McCain has gotten in North Carolina” and said that voters had a critical choice between McCain and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) this election. Someone in the audience yelled out, “It’s like black and white” to loud laughter. McHenry let the remark pass.
Representative Robin Hayes, who prefaced his comments by saying it was important to “make sure we don’t say something stupid, make sure we don’t say something we don’t mean.” Republicans, he reminded the crowd, were kind people. Plus, he added, the liberal media had shown itself eager to distort such remarks. With the crowd duly chastened and put on best behavior, he accused Obama of “inciting class warfare” and said that “liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.”
Then on Sunday:
On Sunday, the Washington Times’s Christina Bellantoni stopped by a polling place in North Carolina, where she reported that a “group of loud and angry protestors” — almost all of whom were white — were shouting and mocking voters — nearly all of whom were black. Bellatoni noted that people “were shouting about Obama’s acknowledged cocaine use as a young man, abortion and one man used the word ‘terrorist.’ They also were complaining that Sundays are for church, not voting.”
Today, on C(hristian) B(roadcasting)N(etwork):
Palin also reaffirmed her view that Obama had been "palling around with terrorists" because of his association with Bill Ayers, a 1960s-era radical who helped found the violent Weather Underground group to protest the Vietnam war. The group was responsible for bombings of several government buildings.
"I would say it again," she said.
Sorry about all of those quotes, but it was a long time in researching them and I think they should be quoted in full.
We live in a democracy where every citizen is allowed to vote. Unfortunately, some of them vote against people instead of for people. Palin knows that. And she knows that she can get away with all sorts of lies on Pat Robertson's CBN simply because she's a "person of faith." She knows that she has fanned the flames of racism and bigotry, but she's too ambitious to care.
Palin also claimed religion and God had been "mocked" during the campaign, although she offered no evidence to support that.
Pat Robertson ate it up. He couldn't care less that Palin's rally crowds have shouted things like "kill him!" because, after all, Pat called for the assassination of Hugo Chavez.
Sarah's a gal after ole Pat's heart!
Here's her statement for CBN's "The Brody File."
"From the information we have" - what calls? what emails? Give specifics!
I really hate to say it, but this ugly campaign will get uglier. Whether or not Barack Obama wins, he will have to have more security surrounding him than B**h. Mrs. Mooseburger: are assassination attempts on Barack Obama worth all of this rhetoric loose rhetoric?
And to think she still actually says the words B**h and Repub****n
When A Christofascist Lies,It Isn't Even "Pretty In Pink"
Who in Congress would you assign to another McCarthy -era HUAC witchhunt? Is anyone dumb enough to do it? Michele Bachmann, you say? BINGO!Calling someone a "commie pinko!" seems to suit her ever vicious, ever ungrammatical style.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: So you believe that Barack Obama may have anti-American views?
BACHMANN: Absolutely. I’m very concerned he may have anti-American views.*
Yesterday - Same idiot, different venue, different tune:
HOST: You do feel his [Obama’s] views are anti-American?
BACHMANN: I feel his views are concerning. (note bad grammar - should be "are of concern" - then again, it's the new Republicanspeak) I’m calling on the media to investigate them. I’m not saying that his views are anti-American. That was a misreading of what I said. And so I don’t believe that’s my position. (Again, bad grammar - like a child who is covering something up with a grown-up style she's not comfortable with.) I’m calling on the media to take a look at what his views are. (Hmmm...can't she research it herself? Is she saying that the media may have missed something these last two years?)
Alright. So Bachmann is in the news, asking newsmen to investigate Barack Obama and other members of Congress who might not have worn flag lapel pins in the last several weeks. Or bringing to light congressmen who have funny first, middle or last names. They could be suspected of being anti-American!
And what's Bachmann's standard for being anti-American? Not a member of The Assemblies of God Church? Not white? SAT scores a little too high?
No matter what Bachmann's ideas of being anti-American, rest assured she'll tell us someday. And it will, of course, be bad timing.
*Her comment was denounced by Colin Powell as "nonsense" in an October 19, 2008 interview. Powell said: “This business of... a congressman (sic) from Minnesota who’s going around saying, ‘Let’s examine all congressmen to see who’s pro-America and who’s not pro-America. We have got to stop this kind of nonsense and pull ourselves together and remember that our great strength is in our unity and our diversity.”
A Gallup poll conducted in December of last year indicates that a majority of America's plebiscite would be O.K. with a gay President. But according to polls on same-sex marriage, the country would not allow that President to be married to his own sex. Make sense? No. But then the Christian Right who spearheads hate in this country is not about to make sense where (their) morals are concerned.
The same Gallup poll also tells us more than just who would vote for who. It also gives us a glimpse of dyed-in-the-wool haters:
4% hate Catholics (John Hagee alone is large enough to account for that figure) 5% are racist(that's an awful lot of single-wides!) 6% are anti-Semitic (excluding, of course, Mel Gibson) 12% are sexist (but only "The Good Ole Boys") 12% are anti-Hispanic (unless you know B**h - he speaks Spanish!) 17% are anti-Mormon (Mitt Romney thought it was higher) 41% are homophobic (but they can't all look like Rod Parsley) 48% are anti-atheist(there goes Christopher Hitchens' bid for the White House!)
O.K., so "haters" may have a margin of error since some might simply think that a person of a particular race or religion could not be qualified. But think again: there are people who hate ALL or most of the above. Is it possible that up to 4% of Americans are neo-Nazis, skinheads or Grand Wizards of some sort? Or are they people who hate everyone except white American Christian heterosexual males?
It's possible. It's scary. The portrait painted by this figure would mean that up to 12 million Americans are very dangerous people. And since hate breeds stupidity, they are also extremely stupid. The poll also gives us an indication of how many self-described Christians are anti-Mormon, anti-gay and anti-atheist (the last is a dead giveaway). And when you think of Fundamentalists, try to think of the person they WOULD vote for. Southern Baptists? Reconstructionists? Assemblies of God? Nope, I didn't think so.
Another significant demographic: 24% of Americans believe that their religion is the "one true faith" (Pew Research). How many of those "Christians" look with contempt (if not outright hatred) on other religions or sects? How many have morphed into neo-Nazis?
It's too bad Gallup can't give us a more accurate picture of religious intolerance. The figures we have now will have to do. It's a puzzle; but one worth solving.
They have nothing to lose. Unless you count their integrity. McCain, maybe. Palin, naaaah! I saw her last night on Saturday Night Live. SNL did well, considering they were, in essence, hosting Governor Palin. I really don't think she knew exactly what was going on. The Alec Baldwin bit was one of the best indirect digs I've seen lately. And his reaction to finding out who she really was was priceless because it was the same as the heads of state she was introduced to ("she's gorgeous!"). The Update's caricature of Todd Palin was something that must have caught her off guard.
Of course, she has other things to think about - like ACORN. Watch her work it into an Obama smear right up there with "pals around with terrorists."
ACORN officials have repeatedly claimed that their own quality control workers were the first to discover problematic ballots. In every state investigating bad registrations, ACORN tipped off local officials to bogus or incomplete cards, spokesman Kettenring said.
Just how many Obama smears have there been?
1. Barack HUSSEIN Obama "He's an A-rab" 2. Rev. Wright and Liberation Theology 3. "Pals around with terrorists" 4. Massive voter fraud (ACORN)
O.K., those are only the top 4. The other two hundred are just a bit too hard to swallow. Does Sarah Palin herself count as a smear? She uses smear tactics - enough to cover most of Washington, but I think she's comes in second to Ann Coulter(geist). If Obama is elected, Coulter will have a field day along with enough half-truths and lies to set her up for the rest of her life. But she would never retire: she has too many people to "perfect."
One Washington Post comment on Sarah Palin's smear campaign:
The problem is not unvarnished truth, but thinly varnished hatred.
As she proved in her speeches accepting John McCain's and her party's nominations, Governor Palin is a person with acute skills of self-expression. She knows exactly what response - and what bigotry - she will elicit when she denigrates the concept of a "community organizer."
The next two weeks will still be as the public wishes them to be: entertaining.
"There are certainly problems and I don't think anyone disagrees on that," said Wang of Common Cause. "But it doesn't get reported that ACORN finds these registrations errors themselves. They flag them as being no good, but they have to turn them in anyway."
"They don't get processed," she said. "And Mickey Mouse is not going to vote."
True, but Mickey Mouse might GET votes...along with Bullwinkle. Such is today's mentality of the Right.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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