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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:01 AM
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Low-life teabagger protestor tears up poster of Rosa Parks at health care town hall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7zfawMm-So



This is the only video of what actually happened at the event this afternoon. The news only showed the woman being escorted away by the police. What happened was the women walked in with signs, the crowd booed and yelled at the women. The women rolled up their posters and put them down. A photographer/reporter approached the woman on the end and wanted to see what the poster was. As the woman went to show the photographer/reporter what the poster was, a man from the bleachers stood up and snatched the poster from the woman and photographer/reporter. As the woman went to retrieve her poster the police stepped in and escorted the woman and the man from the building.

The poster was not of Obama, it was not pro health care, the poster that was taken from the woman and wrinkled up into a ball was of Rosa Parks.

National news coverage only showed the woman being escorted from the forum and left out the fact that it was the man who started the incident. Not to mention it was a poster of Rosa Parks.

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/

SCUM!
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:03 AM
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1. If they had let that sistah go, she'd have been pickin her teeth with his penis.
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:04 AM
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2. When one thinks Teh stooopid cannot get any dumber...
...they prove they most certainly can.

Unbelievable....:mad:
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:08 AM
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3. yeah, if it weren't for rosa parks.... the blacks would still be in the back of the bus
AND NOT PRESIDENT!!!

i am sure that is what that idiot must be thinking. the media, though.... They really need to be cut off at the head.... broken up and not allowed to be what they have become. this is insane.
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:09 AM
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4. GOP has released the beast. They've lost control of the argument, and it is biting them in the ass.
Toting guns to protest rallies.

Insane rants about wanting my country back.

"Obama scares us!"

And now targeting Rosa Parks.

We need to encourage these protests to keep happening. Toss the gasoline on the fire. The Republicans are screwing themselves into a political grave from which they may never emerge.
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:11 AM
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5. I emailed this to all the evening guys @ MSNBC. Hopefully we can get this on air.
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BlancheSplanchnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 03:06 PM
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25. oh GOOD!!!!!!!
I hate national news...ha, no cable, so I miss it anyway.... but I just hate the entertainment-before-context policies. Keep the stories short so there's time for the ads.... uck.
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chiffon Donating Member (527 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:12 AM
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6. Thanks for adding chap 1, after all we saw was chap 2
I wondered WHY the women of color were being led away.

People, this is very telling and very sad.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:13 AM
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7. Recommend
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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:14 AM
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8. Teabaggers are *so* classy. No wonder the MSM loves them.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:15 AM
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9. These people are fucking CRAZY
NO ONE can make me believe that race is not at the core of much of the hatred these idiots useful to the corporatists are demonstrating.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:15 AM
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10. Oh ..... K&R
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BlueIdaho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:16 AM
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11. Teabirthers = Racists...
That's the sign I want to see at these "townhalls."
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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:16 AM
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12. k&r. n/t
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:18 AM
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13. just emailed CNN this:
The story on Senator McCaskill conveniently left out the part that it was the man who was the instigator in the problem. You only showed the AA woman being escorted out. You said NOTHING about the man who crumpled up the picture of - - -

ROSA PARKS.

How about showing the real stories behind the townhall disruptions?!?

Here is a video showing the interaction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7zfawMm-So
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:21 AM
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14. They're not even trying to hide their racism, are they?
This incident tells you everything you need to know.
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smoogatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:52 AM
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20. Bingo.
They want their country back from the scary, scary black man? Maybe they should try winning the next election. I suspect that all this rage has something to do with their awareness that they won't win the next election, or the next one, or the one after that. The demographic train has left the station, and it ain't coming back. So the only way these nutballs have any power at all is through rank intimidation and manipulation of a bored, content-hungry media. The good news is, they're just going to wind up alienating the mainstream voters even more than they did in the last election. The bad news: somebody's going to get killed before it's all over.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 06:27 PM
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29. Quite frankly, I think they're amazed at all the coverage they're getting
And that's only encouraging them to be bolder and push that envelope a little further.

And yes, if this continues, something horrific will happen.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:24 AM
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15. Glad to finally see the FULL story ---
being told. Whe I first saw the MSM clip I wondered exactly what had been going down there. There is not reason those women should have been expelled - not after being treated like that by that old shitbag. :mad:
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:25 AM
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16. And people will still say that racism isn't a huge factor with those filthy tea bagging cretins.
Thank you MSM for helping to perpetuate that lie. The crowd was cheering the woman's removal. HER property was stolen by that racist freak, who then tried to destroy it and the crowd cheers for HER removal.
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greguganus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:32 AM
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17. In this youtube video, McCaskill says "Some women came in with signs that shouldn't of had them"
Edited on Wed Aug-12-09 11:34 AM by greguganus
What's wrong with a poster of Rosa Parks? Was it because McCaskill thought it didn't have anything to do with healthcare reform or what?

You can fastforward to 1:02 to hear her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxqSWKxFB6s&NR=1
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smoogatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:46 AM
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19. Sounds to me as though the lady was making the obvious point
that healthcare is a civil rights issue. Not surprisingly, McCaskill missed it. She's among the dumbest of the dem caucus, IMO.
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Jim Lane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 02:40 PM
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23. Maybe they had a general no-signs rule so that people wouldn't obstruct others' view
I'd hate to be sitting near the door and be unable to see anything except the backs of a bunch of signs being held up. It wouldn't matter what was on the front.

If the rule was content-neutral and was enforced uniformly, I'd accept it as a reasonable restriction on the time, place, or manner of speech. Let people hold up their signs outside and we can all see them on the way in.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:34 AM
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18. Racism. n/t
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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:54 AM
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21. It's time to start locking these people up. Arrest them.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:55 AM
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22. OMG worse than I imagined!!
Asshole gets up, walks across the aisle to the woman, grabs her sign and rips it!!

Sheesh. Talk about premeditated.
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kirby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 02:54 PM
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24. McCaskill is such an idiot. n/t
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BlancheSplanchnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 03:07 PM
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26. this caption and pic make it look like the lowlife is the woman ....
glad I read through; it's a little easy to miss (just sayin' )
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 03:09 PM
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27. yeah but
all of this has nothing to do with race. :sarcasm:
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 03:35 PM
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28. Just posted this to Facebook. Waiting for the usual suspects to say it was just some lone nut. nt
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:54 PM
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30. K&R
:kick:
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