Note how in this transcript of former House Majority Leader Dick Armey’s exchange on NBC’s Meet the Press with Rachel Maddow and David Gregory, the latter presses the Republican to repudiate the Nazi imagery at a Tea Party rally, but Gregory and she fail to answer whether they repudiated “it when MoveOn.org did it to George Bush” (i.e., compared that good man to Hitler).
It will be interesting to see if anyone can come up with comments from media voices eager to link the various T-party movements to Nazi imagery demanding that Democrats repudiate left-wing groups whose members (and sometimes leaders) compared Bush to Hitler and Republicans to Nazis.
Why must Armey repudiate them? Does he belong to a group which made such a comparison? Did he encourage members of that group to do so? Did he countenance such comparisons? Did Gregory ever press any prominent Democratic activist to repudiate the antics of moveon.org or International A.N.S.W.E.R. which organized the anti-Iraq War rallies? Or the name-calling of the Bush years? Did Maddow claim a left-wing group promoted violence because of an imaginary video on its web-page?
Yes, in the course of the countless rallies and protests at various townhalls across the nation, some of the opponents of the Democrats’ health care overhaul have behaved in a boorish manner, waving signs saying “mean things” and attempting to shout down their opponents. They hurt their own cause when they behave that way.
And yet, the overwhelming majority have only done what the First Amendment to the Constitution allows us to do,”peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Despite that, all too many in the mainstream media have focused on the boorish behavior and have determined that it defines the movement. Recently, a friend of mine, a decent, civil liberal and supporter of the President, asked me if I supported the rallies, assuming they included primarily mean-spirited protesters insulting the President. He had no idea how diverse they really were.
It seems that all too many assume the worst of the protesters as represented in two different columns in the Washington Post. Richard Pearlstein, as we recall, called us “political terrorists,” while Robin Givhan thought the protesters’ failure to don suits and ties, cost them some respect. (Well, at least Ms. Givhan paid attention to what the protesters were wearing, rather than assume they were dressed in Brooks Brothers attire as did Ma’am Boxer.)
It is sad that all too many in the MSM deign to demonize any who dare disagree with the President some of their number deify. They seem to have ben caught unawares by non-leftists speaking their minds and taking to the streets to protest. And they choose to find the worst elements among those protesters to define a movement.
You can not win the death spiral blame game. I am tired of leftists who keep tossing Ann Coulter into the game as conservatism at its most vile.
If you have a gripe with Nazi imagery, take it to the person displaying it. At the same time, you might check your own closet for hypocrisy.
I think that the head tilt Obama does in his teleprompter reading looks a lot like Mussolini. From there, I ruminate on other Mussolini like characteristics he shares. Does that mean I want him gutted and strung up from a lamp post? Hardly.
This Obama as The Joker event has really uncovered the soft belly of leftist intolerance. They are reacting like the crazed imams who blew a gasket over the Danish cartoons. They issued death orders and all manner of bloody revenge. I wouldn’t call crazed imams leftists. But I would call them extremists. Going after the rare Nazi symbolism at a tea party is extremism on parade. Do the leftists really think that there is an underground army of bigots just waiting to take up arms and close down Whole Foods and Starbucks?
Contrary to the propaganda of the left, the big insurance companies quietly support ObamaCare. Why? Simple. the individual mandates that require every person to purchase fully-loaded insurance policies is a gold mine. It’s like the Government ordering everyone to go out and buy a Cadillac, Lexus, Lincoln, or BMW. The car companies would be delighted with such a plan.
The continuing blatant bias of the MSM just means they’re pounding the final nails in their own coffin. Not a bad thing if ya ask me.
Liberals complaining about “organizing” and “meanness” reminds me of when they complain about conservatives and Republicans who display human frailties. “But … He believes in God … How can he be unfaithful to his wife?” It’s OK for a liberal, say, Bill Clinton, since they are Godless and have no morals whatsoever — But a CONSERVATIVE! Dammit!
That’s their reasoning behind the complaints, not that thety believe it’s wrong, but because it’s not THEM doing it.
And here they are complaining, again, still, that someone else is doing exactly what they believe in.
“Contrary to the propaganda of the left, the big insurance companies quietly support ObamaCare’
The propaganda of the left???
I thought that the propaganda of the right (as explained at length on these pages very recently) has it that insurance companies are doomed to extinction under ObamaCare. Without a doubt.
So insurance companies are supporting their own extinction???
Is it ironic there is one member of Congress who used to be a KKK recruiter, and he’s not a Democrat.
Also, the nazi imagery is from Lyndon LaRouche supporters, not conservatives. Go to LaRouche’s website, stop harping on conservatives for it. If anything these displays are from far leftists, not those on the right.
Corrected: He’s not a Republican.
I don’t remember these guys taking Pelosi for task for World Worker’s Party and Socialist Organizations displaying their proganda at parades, much less the “normal” leftists making Bush into Hitler.
Tano (#4):
It’s really not that complex. The word you missed in the quote was big. As in, only “the big insurance companies” support Obamacare.
If the top ten percent of insurance giants understand that government intrusion will bankrupt most of their competitors, is their choice that strange? Likewise, was anyone shocked that Walmart, seeing that this legislation would hurt Target and any other smaller competitors, not only signed on, but expressly said this was why they were doing so?
Deplorable? Yes. Suicidal? Not by a long shot.
Corporatism is a sinister distortion in the market. (And was an intergral part of fascism. BTW) So I can understand why free-marketeers and conservatives generally would treat it with scorn.
My question is: why would you support it?
Best wishes,
-MFS
^ I claim an exemption from Godwin’s Law by stating that Corporatism was a feature common to all fascism not just the Nazis.
I yield back the balance of my time. 😉
Best wishes,
-MFS
My question is: why would you support it?
Because his little bronze Marxist god supports it. He needs no other reason.
MFS,
Lets take one step at a time. You agree with me, and contra almost all rightwingers I have heard on this subject, that a public option will NOT mean the end of private insurance?
Only some of them?