So, Shithead...Why Did YOU Pick Him?

[CliveStaples]

Hey Clive, you watching this? This is what I mean by "wacky right", whether he's wearing tea bags or no. Clear now?

Well, I imagine that "terrorist" is an inaccurate description of most OWS folks. But it may be accurate for some.

Idk, I think of myself as being a pretty reasonable person (although I have some strong libertarian tendencies), but I don't remember very many people on the Left slamming the OWS movement for the various crimes it committed (rape, theft, public masturbation, public defecation, and apparently conspiracy to commit some sort of crime involving "explosives", but I don't know if charges were actually filed in that case, so it's not necessarily clear that a crime occurred at all).

Of course, it may have happened and I simply missed it. But the impression I got from the coverage among left-leaning blogs and news sources was that the OWS was Super Awesome Go Fighting!

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Well, you got me, those two examples really are the equivalent of the countless examples of the same behavior seen at any teaparty rally, on proud display.

Hmm. Do you have examples--enough to show that this kind of thing is commonplace at "teaparty" rallies? (I'm assuming that we're thinking of the same thing when you say "teaparty", and that things like Neo-nazi demonstrations aren't being labeled as "teaparty").

Here's the thing: we do disown that sort of behavior, rare enough that each example is newsworthy. You can't without losing probably half of your party membership.

Well, the first part is dubious. Do you have evidence to support your claim?

The second part sounds like mere demagoguery. I'd ask for evidence that half of the Republican party is anti-Semitic, but I'm very doubtful that such evidence exists. If you've got it, though, I'd love to see it.

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You should understand, we hate a lot of teaparty eccentricities, it's just that those eccentricities are the racism, bigotry, xenophobia and religious zeal on easy display at any teaparty rally. We don't hate the rah rah America stuff, though we take offense to the idea that the teaparty's heavy use of American iconography implies that the aforementioned evils are representative of all Americans. Those guys should invent their own flags and symbols instead of stealing the ones that belong to everyone.

Do you have proof for any of these accusations about "teaparty" rallies?


DeistPaladin, you watching this? Ryantology's opinions are what I think about when I hear "wacky left". Your ilk isn't coming across as very reasonable, at the moment--not that my ilk is =(