"A woman at the DC rally: "We are losing our country. We think the Muslims are moving in and

[jenmito]

taking over. We do not believe our president is a Christain and he led us to believe that. Our president is a liar. God Bless Joe Wilson."

There ya go-"We are losing our country"="We want our country back." She just went on to finish the thought that everyone else is thinking when they say they want their country back. They're stupid RACISTS.

David Shuster just showed this woman and then showed the DOCTORED photo of the rally, saying some RWers claimed there were 1.5-2 million people there when the official estimate was 40-50,000! He pointed out a photo some teabaggers claimed was from the rally but it was actually from years ago because it didn't include the National Museum of the American Indian which was built in 2004!

[flakey_foont]

1. Good Lord!

is there no bottom to the stupidity?

[TheWraith]

8. No. nt

[treestar]

2. Why do they never give airtime to Obama's blind supporters?

That would be fair and balanced.

:rofl: She doesn't believe he is a Christian? :rofl: But she believed him before? :rofl:

[sui generis]

7. please. the media is for once doing their job

thank GOD they're not showing the skitzo Obama cultists - crazy is crazy and I'd rather the other side got free publicity for that.

[TheWraith]

10. You think ANYBODY on the pro-Obama side is as lunatic as they are?

Seriously?

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[TheWraith]

36. I think you underestimate the teabaggers' level of batshit crazy.

And overestimate how "crazy" Obama supporters on DU are.

[sui generis]

42. we all have our own experience with these things

they require no explanation -

Anyway the point is, I'd rather they focus on the anti-Obama crazies; and I do agree they are provisionally more disturbed and more dangerous.

[fujiyama]

57. Who are these "Obama cultists" we should be so concerned about?

Sorry, there is no equivocation with these freaks. The closest could be the ANSWER people, but they were just irritating. I never heard one of them using threats or resorting to violence, which these RW maniacs are very capable of.

[sui generis]

60. I never said anything about being concerned with them

the obama cultists.

And oh really? The obama cultists that told us gay folks to suck it up we knew what we were voting for, after two years of "shut up and vote"

Really - please feel free to take spin after sitting.

You ARE correct, our people don't seem to offer physical violence as a panacea, but's that's the only nod I'll give you.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Silly, small people

What an awful way to go through life.

[mediaman007]

4. They are losing their country. This country will belong to the open-minded,

the honest, and the educated!

[FightingIrish]

11. I recently learned that between Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh,

there is not a single college degree. They all dropped out or flunked out. No wonder they are the champions of the willfully ignorant.

[tblue]

19. Really?! Now, there's who you wanna emulate!

They are angry white men trying to preserve white privilege and power. Frustrated, damaged individuals who didn't get enough love when they were kids, so they act out their frustration with bullying and bigotry.

I have two in-laws who are staunch Republicans, and that I've described is exactly who they are. Both have tough-love mama issues and never amounted to much. Sad.

[WCGreen]

23. Rush is always bragging that he'll do the thinking for his ditto heads...

How crass is that...

[tblue]

25. It's true, tho.

[depakid]

38. What's even more interesting is the observation that they actually like it

irrespective of the fact that many realize that they're being lied to.

It's a fascinating group pathology.

[flakey_foont]

28. I wonder what would happen if

all of a sudden, Nancy Pelosi, Al Franken, Dennis Kuchinich, for instance, ...the creme de la creme of 'libruls' came out agressively AGAINST health care reform....and spoke the same language as the teabaggers....

would the dittoheads then be for Reform?

[LisaM]

49. Wow.

Sort of like the Palin children and high school degrees.

[madmax]

5. 'think'

not even a nodding acquaintance with the word.

[TheWraith]

6. "We want our country back" is code for "We want a white president."

It's as simple as that.

[jenmito]

18. Exactly-that was my point.

:hi:

[tblue]

21. Yup. So is this:

[FightingIrish]

34. Wow! Holding a sign, picking his nose and ogling the tits at the same time

Who says they can't multi-task?

[intheflow]

43. +1

I don't know whether to :rofl: or :puke: !

[NJCher]

45. and isn't it ironic that

...we had bush kissing the Saudi sheik. He walks hand-in-hand with him at the Rose Garden. He damn near let them buy out our ports. And I need say no more about how close the bush family is to the ruling family of SA--not at DU, anyway. We all know.

But because Obama's middle name is "Hussein," they think he's a Muslim.

These people are very, very simple. Everything is black or white. There is no gray, no middle ground, no subtlety.


Cher

[jenmito]

50. Yes...

could you imagine if OBAMA did all those things? Not to mention flying the bin Ladens out of the country after 9/11! You're exactly right.

[begin_within]

9. It was never her country anyway.

It rightfully belongs to the indigenous tribes that have been here for many thousands of years, and the "United States of America" is only an occupation of the land.

[tblue]

24. Yup. Stolen from NATIVE Americans and built by Africans.

[begin_within]

53. Thanks

I was expecting to be lambasted so your post is wonderful.

[jenmito]

54. Exactly! n/t

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

56. +1 n/t

[Parker CA]

12. I saw that clip a few minutes ago. Her real thoughts behind those words were so very clear.

[jenmito]

27. Yup-she nearly just came right out and said she doesn't want a Black president and she won't

accept him as such. She's a racist as are most or all of those teabaggers.

[BlooInBloo]

13. Clutch the pearls!! There goes the neighborhood Judy!!!

:rofl:

[tblue]

14. Here's the photo:

/snip
"It was an impressive crowd," he said. But after marching down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol the crowd "only filled the Capitol grounds, maybe up to Third Street," he said.

Yet the photo showed the crowd sprawling far beyond that to the Washington Monument, which is bordered by 15th and and 17th Streets.

There's another big problem with the photograph: it doesn't include the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the corner of Fourth St. and Independence Ave. that opened on Sept. 14, 2004. (Looking at the photograph, the building should be in the upper right hand corner of the National Mall, next to the Air and Space Museum.) That means the picture was taken before the museum opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn't show the "tea party" crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.
/snip

:spank:
BUSTED!!!

Edited to add the link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/912-tea-party-photo-false_n_286082.html

[jenmito]

20. Thank you...

that's the picture and explanation Shuster gave.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

32. I'm sure that Keith O will point that out!

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

52. This needs to be it's own thead!

Series

[liberalmuse]

15. No, we're losing our country because the racists are coming out of the woodwork.

I'm very alarmed at the overt racism aligned with stupidity that is raising its ugly head. I'm really afraid for people of color in this country right now. That is why Wilson's outburst needs to be publicly condemned by Congress, and why we need to nip this ugliness right in the bud. Fuck Palin. Although racism has been part of our culture for a very long time, she was the one who made it 'okay' for these fuckers to come out of the closet. I will not accept this!

[jenmito]

26. I agree...

they've been here all along but people like Palin gave them "permission' to take their hatred to the streets and not care who sees them. That's dangerous.

[BlooInBloo]

30. Bigger problem: the vastly greater number of white folks who refuse to speak out against it....

They're who really *allow* the zombie to live.

[quiet.american]

16. None of these people must have jobs- or maybe they all work for each other.

There's no flipping way I could say anything like that to the media, especially national media, and still expect to find a job waiting for me.

[Rebubula]

22. Meh...

...some folks are just idiots being led around by the nose.

I am growing tired of these people. This sort of idiocy cannot be maintained...I hope.

[jenmito]

29. I think it's dangerous. And why can't it be maintained? We have to wait for them

to die out of old age. The younger generation is much more open-minded, luckily.

[gauguin57]

31. Well, that says it right there.

Don't tell me, you effing teabaggers, that you're not a bunch of racists.

[DinahMoeHum]

33. Hey lady! Psss psss psss, miaow miaow!!

what a loser.

[TrogL]

35. The sky is falling - authoritarian leader please save us

Typical behaviour for an authoritarian follower.

Chant three talking points memorized from leader, praise leader.

[depakid]

37. What's been impressive throughout this whole deal is just how many women are among

the proudly ignorant and/or hateful.

If I had to guess, I'd d say this is a direct result of too much time listening to hate radio and Fox "news."

Or the morning infotaintment.

[LynnTheDem]

39. Why must we have so many stupid people in this country????!!

There must be a few other countries short on stupid people...

[graywarrior]

40. Man, I am really getting sick of their fucking lunacy.

I attend classes with kids from Iran, Iraq & Pakistan. They're nice kids. And knowing they are dealing with this, along with other indigenous people in the country makes my blood boil. Makes me want to just fucking scream!

[burning rain]

41. She's mistaken. The real problem is, Obama's a smoker.

He's gonna give this country away to the smokers. And you know what those smokers are like--they move into your neighborhood and the property values tank. :facepalm:

[customerserviceguy]

44. How ironic

the photo offered didn't show the Museum of the American Indian.

Now, there's a people that really lost a country.

[jenmito]

46. Good point...

that IS ironic! :hi:

[AspenRose]

47. So, in other words....THEY LIE!

:rofl:

[Pool Hall Ace]

48. Don't we have a wall of separation between church and state?

I thought we did.

Admittedly, history was not my best subject. So why would it matter anyway if President Obama were a Muslim? He's not, by the way. He is a Christian.

[jenmito]

51. Yes...

just like those people have a wall of separation between their brains and reality.

[saltpoint]

55. Most of the fundie nutbags who claim that Obama is not a Christian are

themselves as far from being a Christian as an anvil from the moon. And at least as dense as the anvil.

In the first place, there's no Constitutional mandate for a president or anyone else to be of this, that, or another faith. They can Constitutionally be whatever they wish. Politically, there are some that work better with voters than others, granted, but the same far-Right screamers who invoke the Constitution against liberals forget that among the blessings that document sanctions is the freedom of selection and alignment regarding religious faith.

My strong hunch is that the louder a teabagger or Beckhead is screaming, the greater the chance that he or she has not even read either the Bible or the Constitution.

[midnight armadillo]

58. We are losing the country

Trillions of $ to Wall St for fucking up the entire economy, the health insurers and big pharma are helping to write health reform laws, more financial regulation will go nowhere, hundreds of billions on defense companies, and foreign wars for oil. Now the Supreme Court has the potential to rule that corporations can directly contribute to campaigns. With the forthcoming carbon cap-and-trade system Wall St will be able to speculate on the condition of the Earth's atmosphere. Millions are poured in to Congressional campaigns while everyone stands around and claims that donations never, ever influence votes. Looks like the government doesn't even run itself anymore - the CEOs are rather nakedly in charge.

No wonder the right wing is so pissed off. It's a shame so many of them are ignorant and easily manipulated. The question is: when is the left wing going to also get pissed off and stop thinking that Obama & the Democratic Congress are going to deliver any of the left wing agenda without massive pressure?

[Colobo]

59. Why doesn't she go to Australia or something?

New Zealand, perhaps?

[treestar]

63. Those countries are communist

They have national health care!

:sarcasm:

[Odin2005]

61. These people are becoming unhinged.

A REPUBLICAN co-worker of mine, a evangelical-type who voted for McCain but likes Obama, just told me yesterday that HE was disgusted by these people. He asked me "Where did all these racist John-Birchers come from?".

[jenmito]

64. That's good to hear...

hopefully there will be more of him as time goes on!

[renate]

62. I love David Shuster

I don't know for a fact that he's been the only one to point this out, but I do appreciate that he and his staff went a step further than just accepting a bogus photo from the teabaggers as proof of anything other than that they're lying liars.

[jenmito]

65. Chris Matthews and Ed Schultz also pointed it out! n/t