Tea Party billboard comparing Obama to Hitler, Lenin removed
Pseudonym @ Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:58 am
Oh yeah, that was nice. I liked the references to other Tea Party groups who say that the billboard does not represent them. That kind of balance makes the news more credible and less inflammatory.
Zipperfish @ Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:02 am
commanderkai commanderkai:
I'm curious, since there have been thousands of examples of things like this during the Bush years, does that make all anti-war/anti-Bush whackos?
Seemingly if one side is whacko, certainly the other side is, unless there's this double standard.
Seemingly if one side is whacko, certainly the other side is, unless there's this double standard.
Yes, the Bushitler crowd were whack-os too. However, the current radicalization of the right in the US is interesting.
You have the US, which is probably one of the most right-wing countries in the world. You had Bush--probably the most right wing president in modern US history with the most right-wing cabinet. By the time he was done, the right-wing in the US had moved so far right that, at the end, they were calling Bush a liberal. And then Obama gets in, and the right-wing makes another hard right, into tea party/Glenn Beck Land. That level of large-scale radicalization hasn't been seen in the US since the 60s I think.
It's interesting because the right and left are switching places--the left desperate to maintain the "status quo" of a generation ago, and the right agitating for radical change.
GreenTiger @ Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:16 am
It's good it is being removed now we can start with an intelligent political discussion.
xerxes @ Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:36 pm
GreenTiger GreenTiger:
It's good it is being removed now we can start with an intelligent political discussion.
Don't hold your breath.
HyperionTheEvil @ Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:43 pm
DerbyX DerbyX:
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
More evidence that teh Teabaggers are a bunch of whack-os.
Quoted for truth.
Quote twice for truth.
HyperionTheEvil @ Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:45 pm
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
commanderkai commanderkai:
I'm curious, since there have been thousands of examples of things like this during the Bush years, does that make all anti-war/anti-Bush whackos?
Seemingly if one side is whacko, certainly the other side is, unless there's this double standard.
Seemingly if one side is whacko, certainly the other side is, unless there's this double standard.
Yes, the Bushitler crowd were whack-os too. However, the current radicalization of the right in the US is interesting.
You have the US, which is probably one of the most right-wing countries in the world. You had Bush--probably the most right wing president in modern US history with the most right-wing cabinet. By the time he was done, the right-wing in the US had moved so far right that, at the end, they were calling Bush a liberal. And then Obama gets in, and the right-wing makes another hard right, into tea party/Glenn Beck Land. That level of large-scale radicalization hasn't been seen in the US since the 60s I think.
It's interesting because the right and left are switching places--the left desperate to maintain the "status quo" of a generation ago, and the right agitating for radical change.
The 'right' isn't looking for change, it wants to progress in nothing, the 'left' represents the middle ground these days, but with this kind of shit from the Tea Party Americans are being fed fear to influence them to make bad choice, voting republican for example
HyperionTheEvil @ Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:46 pm
GreenTiger GreenTiger:
Thanos Thanos:
This is just one billboard that weas put up by a bunch of morons. I'll believe that the American right wing is serious about dialing down the horribly dangerous rhetoric when someone like Glenn Beck finally gets booted off the air. It's no victory to see a billboard out in Podunk County in the middle of rural nowhere come down while an active revisionist fascist and conspiracist, who's said just about everything up to openly stating that he wants Obama to be killed, still gets 3 million viewers a day. So they take down one stupid billboard today. They'll have said or done something equally moronic by tomorrow.
This bill board needs to come down with this kind of thing up there it is hard to have a serious and intelligent conversation about plans for the future.
We're talking Republicans and the Tea Party, they left reasonable discussion behind long ago.
Proculation @ Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:19 pm
HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:
GreenTiger GreenTiger:
Thanos Thanos:
This is just one billboard that weas put up by a bunch of morons. I'll believe that the American right wing is serious about dialing down the horribly dangerous rhetoric when someone like Glenn Beck finally gets booted off the air. It's no victory to see a billboard out in Podunk County in the middle of rural nowhere come down while an active revisionist fascist and conspiracist, who's said just about everything up to openly stating that he wants Obama to be killed, still gets 3 million viewers a day. So they take down one stupid billboard today. They'll have said or done something equally moronic by tomorrow.
This bill board needs to come down with this kind of thing up there it is hard to have a serious and intelligent conversation about plans for the future.
We're talking Republicans and the Tea Party, they left reasonable discussion behind long ago.
*cough* and the left *cough*
HyperionTheEvil @ Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:38 pm
Proculation Proculation:
*cough* and the left *cough*
Considering your bigoted views on race relations which come from the right i think your opinion carries no weight, you're part of the problem. People who simply don't think.
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