EARL NASH, WTFG "Treason" Correspondent
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At last the "Tea Party" crowd has "come out of the closet" and shown its true colors: red-neck, white, and yellow.
They blame their
economic woes on President Obama, but forget that he was handed an economy that
was in a crash dive, thanks to Cheney and Bush putting their war on a
"credit card" and off the official budget books. If that war treasure was not wasted, the citizens of the country would not be so desperate, frustrated and angry.
For Limbaugh and his crowd of hooligans it was the perfect storm: Bush runs out of the house engulfed in flames, hands the key to Obama and gets outta Dodge. Sure, Obama has made his own mistakes, like putting Gold Man Sach's boy, Timmy Geithner in charge of solving the problem that he and his Bankster cronies invented. But the Big Mess was created during the 8 years while Cheney ran the country into a mountain of debt for his wars and taking the controls off his Fat Cat buddies on Wall Street; remember, Cheney invented outsourcing for the Pentagon and reaped a fortune for his cronies at Halliburton.
What is most disturbing to this reporter, who saw a similar campaign of hatred jinned up against JFK, RFK and MLK is the very real possibility that this will reach that same fatal conclusion. Limbaugh must know that there are enough "lone wolf" type idiots with weapons to make it very likely that, if he and his other vitriolic media mouthpieces keep feeding the fires of hatred and racism, that our first black President, Barrack Obama, will experience an assassination attempt, or worse.
Before that happens, I
now call you out Mr. Limbaugh and your ilk and charge you with inciting an
assassination attempt on the President of the United States. You call others "un-American," but
you virtually advocate violence against elected officials, especially the
President. You are guilty of stirring up
the basest elements of our society, of channeling the anger that should be
directed at Bush and Cheney, into a fever pitch of maniacal hatred against the
President.
Perhaps, not yet, by the letter of the law, but certainly by the spirit of the law, you are guilty of treason and should be arrested. Your right to freedom of speech ends when you cross the line into openly advocating violence against the President of the United States.
If you continue to
engender fear and anger and aim your "loaded gun" minions toward the President,
here is a message in simple street language:
shut your pie hole, you fat fuck.
"I think a lot of those
people today demonstrated
this is not about health
care."
--House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC)
Tea partiers and other anti-health care activists are known to get rowdy,
but today's protest on Capitol Hill went beyond the usual chanting and
controversial signs, and veered into ugly bigotry and intimidation.
A large crowd of
protesters screamed "kill the
bill"... and punctuating their chants with the word "nigger." According to
Civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and fellow Congressional Black Caucus
member Andre Carson (D-IN).
Standing next to
Lewis, emerging from a Democratic caucus meeting with President Obama, Carson
said people in the crowd yelled, "kill the bill and then the N-word"
several times, while he and Lewis were exiting the Cannon House office
building.
"People have
been just downright mean," Lewis added.
And that wasn't an
isolated incident. Early this afternoon, an elderly white man screamed
"Barney, you faggot"--a
line that caused dozens of his confederates to erupt in laughter.
Rep. Barney Frank
(D-MA) make his way out the door, en route to the neighboring Rayburn building.
As he rounded the corner toward the exit, wading through a huge crowd of tea
partiers and other health care protesters.
Shortly thereafter,
the same group of people surrounded Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) as he entered a
first-floor elevator. Above the cacophony, I heard one man call Waxman a "crook" and a "liar."
After the Frank
incident, Capitol police threatened to expel the protesters from the building,
but were outnumbered and quickly overwhelmed. Tea party protesters equipped
with high-end video cameras were summoned to film the encounter and the
officers ultimately relented.
After the caucus
meeting, TPMDC's Evan McMorris-Santoro caught up with Frank, who reflected on
the incident.
"I'm
disappointed at a unwillingness to be just civil," Frank said. "[T]he
objection to the health care bill has become a proxy for other
sentiments."
"Obviously
there are perfectly reasonable people that are against this, but the people out
there today on the whole--many of them were hateful and abusive," Frank
added.
Asked by TPMDC
whether today's protesters were more hateful than at other rallies, Frank took
issue with party leaders for aligning themselves with the movement.
I
do think the leaders of the movement, and this was true of some of the
Republicans last year, that they think they are benefiting from this rancor. I
mean there are a couple who--you know, Michele Bachmann's rhetoric is inflamatory
as well as wholly baseless. And I think there are people there, a few that
encourage it.
"If this was
my cause, and I saw this angry group yelling and shouting and being so abusive
to people, I would ask them to please stop it," Frank concluded. "I
think they do more harm than good."
"This is
incredible," House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) told reporters of
the slurs. "It's shocking to me." He said he hadn't heard such
vitriol since March 15, 1960 when he was protesting segregation laws that
forced him to sit in the back of buses. "A lot of us have been saying for
a long time that much of this, much of this, is not about health care at
all," Clyburn said. "I think a lot of those people today demonstrated
this is not about health care."
What is it about, a
reporter asked?
"It's about
trying to extend a basic fundamental right to people who are less powerful."
