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Name-calling: Tactic of (All Too Many) Obama Supporters

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About those who use the “teabagger” slur to describe those protesting the President’s big government policies, I wrote last month

That term, a sexual slur, shows they would rather deride us than engage with our heartfelt opposition to the ever-increasing size (and ever-encroaching power) of the federal government.

Today, Jim Geraghty offers a thought in a similar vein:

I think I saw on Twitter the other day someone making the case that “teabaggers” is the new Godwin’s Law. Once you see someone using the term, it’s a marker that they’re not interested in exchanging ideas or persuading the opposition; they just want to call someone names.

That does seem to describe huge segments of the left nowadays.  Just look at all the leftists claiming those protesting Obama’s proposed overhaul of our health care system are racist.

UPDATE:  Althouse takes issue with Jimmy Carter’s unfounded accusations:

Jimmy Carter’s supremely sleazy accusation requires a solid, sound rebuke. It is an effort to place the President of the United States beyond criticism.

Imagine if, before last year’s election, someone had argued: If a black man becomes President, anyone who dares to criticize him will be called a racist.

(H/t Glenn)

Comments

  1. OMG. Have you stopped calling it a takeover and changed to an overhaul? Progress, indeed.

    And are you claiming that none of the opposition are racist? Given the incredible amount of racism on the right, seen in watermelon and witch doctor photos from GOP officials, for example?

  4. “it’s a marker that they’re not interested in exchanging ideas or persuading the opposition; they just want to call someone names”

    Another one where we might have agreement, Great!
    But I would add the following:
    Libtards
    Fascists
    Socialists
    Obamabots
    Nazi
    Goebles
    Etc.

    Of course, this would eliminate 96% of the righty blogers / commenters

    As an aside, I take umbrage with the claim that you Tea Folks are protesting “the ever-increasing size (and ever-encroaching power) of the federal government” when in truth you are simply protesting Obama.
    There were no protests when republicans was running up the deficit. If McCain won and he passed a stimulus plan (which he would’ve done) and the stock market has run up the way it has, you would be calling him the greatest economic mind of the century.

    Just admit it, you are protesting him. Its an obvious truth, so stop making your protests more than they are.

  5. torrent – do you really believe that there is “an incredible amount of racism on the right”? when everyone hated Bush and said even worse things and worse imagery and worse slogans, were those people just racists against Texans? Why can’t one simply disagree with a policy?

    His point isn’t that there are NO racists. There are much less than people claim and the name calling and race card is tantamount to someone shouting “well, YOU’RE FACE IS STUPID” when they couldn’t think of a sufficient counterargument.

  8. Are you looking on MSNBC rusty? They’re known to edit them out.

    Hyperbolie is your specialty, gillie. Besides, since Fascism and Communism are halmarks of the left, and since the President appointed a communist as a tsar, I think you can hardly call it an insult. in fact, I think Nazi fits here, given Bob’s love of it (what do they teach at Harvard?) and the links to articles supporting it both from him and Thomas Friedman’s words.

    As to Goebles, I for one reserve that to people who follow his tactic of repeating the lie over and over again, hoping it will be seen as the truth. Since this is a favoured tactic of you and Tano, the term fits. It’s not an insult, it’s a statement of fact. Not that you need it but let me link to my list of examples of you playing the big lie.

    Oh wait “You’re just protesting Obama” Look you’re at the big lie again. Never mind.

  11. I submit that Carter is a racist. What Jimmie is saying is, that because Obama is black, we shouldn’t take his ideas seriously; that just because Obama is black he should be immune from scrutiny and debate.

    The soft bigotry of low expectations.

  12. #4

    Oh yeah. We were never critical of Bush’s spending nor critical of McCain.

    I think Beck was saying this morning that the right criticizing Bush is like a dog whistle. Liberals just don’t hear it.

  13. Don’t you think if ObamaCare really was the wonderful, deficit-neutral, effective health care plan that would make everything perfect forever at no cost to the taxpayer… like they claim it is … its supporters would talk about the plan instead of the opposition?

  14. V the K…hits the target!!! Torrent Prime and Gillie never fail to amuse me by their pseudo indignation as if it magically gives their viewpoint some legitimacy. The group you two represent need to gather some new “catch phrases” built upon reality that you can toss out to the masses and garner some type of subtance for your viewpoint. Being Native American (not one born here that arrived on a ship from Europe or other places unknown). I find that the “racism argument” has lost its effectiveness. Rangel, Jefferson, et. al. have all been busted because of misdeeds and not because the “Man” is treating them unfairly. Barney Frank is a mess. Not because he is gay. He is a mess because he is an unhappy, bumbling legislator who missed it on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

  15. Let us also remember what gillie, torrentprime, and Tano consider non-racist behavior that they themselves fully support and endorse.

    Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst last week drew new recriminations from his colleagues Tuesday, with a member of the Congressional Black Caucus suggesting that a failure to rebuke the South Carolina Republican would be tantamount to supporting the most blatant form of organized racism in American history.

    Making an obvious reference to the Ku Klux Klan, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said Tuesday that people will be putting on “white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside” if emerging racist attitudes, which he says were subtly supported by Wilson, are not rebuked.

    Remember, this is the same Obama Party leader and person endorsed and supported by Obama who brought forward this gem last month, also with the full support and endorsement of gillie, torrentprime, and Tano:

    “At a heated closed-door meeting of House Democrats last week, Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat and member of the Congressional Black Caucus, complained about the Blue Dogs holding up the health bill in Energy and Commerce Committee, noting pointedly that all are white men.”

    And don’t forget Jimmy Carter’s recent blabbering that opposition to Obama is racist.

    Notice that? You can denigrate people by their skin color and namecall them all as thugs and terrorists — as long as you’re black and they’re white.

  16. here are some of the photos LW. . .http://912marchondc.ning.com/photo

    here are some of the demographics of DC . . . local folk

    Ethnic Makeup of Washington, D.C.[17]
    Year White Black Asian NativeAmericans Other Hispanic (any race)
    2007 36.3% 55.6% 3.1% 0.2% 4.8% 8.3%

    “District of Columbia Fact Sheet 2007”. United States Census Bureau. 2008. http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US11&-qr_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_DP5&-context=adp&-ds_name=&-tree_id=307&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-format=. Retrieved 2008-11-02

    So Beverly, yes there is a larger majority of white folk (74% white) but the East Coast and Southeast are a tad bit more diverse.

    But hey, you can alway count on Colbert for a good laugh.

    note the comments from Beck around 4:00min

    http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/223279/march-31-2009/the-10-31-project

  18. Don’t you think if ObamaCare really was the wonderful, deficit-neutral, effective health care plan that would make everything perfect forever at no cost to the taxpayer… like they claim it is … its supporters would talk about the plan instead of the opposition?

    Hear! Hear!

  19. Calling Obummer a liar is not racist because he is constantly lying about things especially when it comes to the monstrosity health proposal.

    He has lied over several matters including the latest of his weeping tales and the WSJ called him out of those particular lies. In both cases the people entered into a contract for health insurance by deliberately giving misleading information. The woman failed to mention the heart murmer and she failed to mention that the skin specialist said she had a pre-cancerous condition (nothing to do with acne). The man also failed to reveal that he had a CT scan that showed he had gallstones. However in the man’s case Obummer’s lie goes further because:

    1. he was not having chemotherapy – it was stem cell treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

    2. the cover was restored and he had the treatment.

    3. He died three and a half years later in January 2009.

    Considering that the insurance company has the right to drop a policy holder who has told lies like both of these people did, then these cases do not prove a point….

    However, Obummer in his latest speeches highlights the fact that the man died…. but he lies by not stating that his death was 3 and half years later…..

    …. if only my sister had been allowed to live that long… and we live in a country with universal health coverage.

  20. BTW I think it is perfectly legitimate to refer to leftist progressive liberals are libtards, since they do live in a state of arrested brain development due to the brainwashing….

  21. I really don’t get the charge that Tax Day Protests or the Tea Parties were motivated by either personal animus or – pace Carter – Obama’s hue. I just don’t.

    Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton or John Edwards had won instead? What? They take a second bite at the healthcare apple and we’d all just shrug and go home? Good grief.

    I’d really like to hear someone own that.

    Best wishes,
    -MFS

  23. Wonder which party has currently a former Klue Klux Klan member?
    I’m trying to find some of the audio of this former Klan big shot. He refers constantly to the negro race as being uppity and troublemakers. Outrageous yes. Democrats of course ignore it. Just like they ignored ALGOREs father voting against the civil rights act. Funny, yet tragic.
    http://www.impiousdigest.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47:the-kleagle-who-killed-the-civil-rights-workers&catid=11&Itemid=100143

  24. Rusty, are you talking about the DC which has only 36% of its population being white, with 75% of its electorate as registered Democrats, in which 92% voted for President Obama in 2008 and indeed has gone Democrat every election since 1964?

  27. Not to mention the liberals have destroyed black families, keeps them poor and crushed under their heel. Gotta boot ’em out of private schools. Can’t have them actually learning anything. Too many might wander off the plantation.

  29. but going to Dan R’s question posed by BDB:
    So, how can we turn ourselves toward a more constructive direction, beginning to support and push the positive ideas, agendas and people that can deliver us the actual results we want and America needs?

    who isn’t at the ‘table’ and why?

  32. Judging the righteousness of a cause with a paint-store sample fan and some census data is ludicrous on its face. You can keep that proto-Apartheid crap, thank you.

    Who isn’t at that table? Americans, for starters. People who actually believe in the content of character as the only acceptable yardstick.

    Best wishes,
    -MFS

  35. It’s almost like liberals conveniently forget about the strong opposition the Clintons faced in the 1990s over the very same subject…

    Oh, I think the vast majority of Democrat politicians and pundits who are throwing the racism charge around know its a lie. They are doing it to shut critics up — to make people afraid to criticize.

    It’s what they always do.

  37. Question in reviewing the comments…

    Is gillie admitting that he opposes Clarence Thomas’ judgements based on his race? Or that he disagrees with Republicans because Michael Steele is the chairman of the GOP?

    After all, if he refuses to accept the protests against big government are motivated by anything other than race, then surely his opposition to those august figures is motivated by his racism.

    I’d ask gillie himself, but he’s already fled this thread.