I'm not having it with her, readers:
"Palin mocks Obama, tells GOP to ‘reload’
NEW ORLEANS — Sarah Palin strode back onto her party’s national political stage yesterday, mocking President Obama and telling Republicans, “Don’t retreat, reload.’’
The 2008 vice presidential candidate said the slogan, which drew a standing ovation, is a plea for political action. “That is not a call for violence,’’ she said at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, responding to those who have questioned such language at a time when lawmakers have faced threats over their support of the health care overhaul....
The gathering of more than 3,000 Republican activists comes as Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele deals with the fallout from revelations that his organization spent almost $2,000 at a sex-themed California nightclub.
Related: RNC Caught With Its Shirt Off
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Of course, the Globe wants to set down with her for a long time:
"Tea party is on guard for Hub stop
Sarah Palin is slated to be in Boston Common Wednesday for the Tea Party Express “Just Vote Them Out!’’ tour — a cross-country rally that will end with a protest in Washington on tax day, April 15. This is the first time the tour is coming to Boston, home of the original tea party, and activists are expecting thousands of fired-up activists to attend.
But keep an eye out in the crowd: There may be some misfits afoot. Conservative talk-show host Sean Hannity warned Friday about a rogue website that’s encouraging mischief-makers to crash tea party rallies. How will they infiltrate?
Oh, so we have a little COINTELPRO action going on, 'eh?
“Whenever possible, we will act on behalf of the tea party in ways which exaggerate their least-appealing qualities (misspelled protest signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc.) to further distance them from mainstream America and damage the public’s opinion of them,’’ suggests the site, called crashtheteaparty.org.
The site says it is the project of a nationwide network of Democrats, Republicans, and independents who are sick of the tea party movement. But its creator, Jason Levin, says he is just a 36-year-old technology educator from Portland, Ore. He is thrilled that his idea went viral, thanks to Hannity....
I really don't want to comment on the obvious connection to a certain religion, readers.
Well, conservative blogs and websites were immediately abuzz with warnings to keep their eyes peeled for crashers. Warned one post: “Next tea party you go to be on the lookout for trouble makers. Chances are they could be agents of these idiots.’’
Yup, THAT is what WE ARE HERE FOR!
We are WATCHING the WATCHERS!!!!
Another cup of bitter brew, Globe?
"A GOP divide on Palin’s Hub rally; Some key figures plan to stay away" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | April 13, 2010
Unsure where they fit in among the restive masses of the “tea party movement,’’ leading figures in the Massachusetts Republican Party are split over whether to join a rally tomorrow with Sarah Palin and several thousand activists on Boston Common....
State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, a Democrat-turned-independent gunning for disaffected voters in the governor’s race, will be at the rally....
Related: The Collapse of the Cahill Campaign
I don't think anything can help your stinking, corrupt carcass, Cahill.
You are supposed to be the most trusted official in the state!!
The unusual divide in the party highlights the extent to which Republican and right-leaning candidates here and across the country are wrestling with whether and how to harness the antiestablishment fervor of the tea party movement.
Republican Party officials said they believed that many of the attendees would gravitate toward the party’s message of lower taxes, less spending, and smaller government, but some were not sure those enthusiasts would vote for GOP candidates....
If there is a third party they get it.
The rally is the second-to-last stop, before Washington, D.C., on Palin’s nationwide “Just Vote Them Out!’’ tour, and it will bring her fiery rallying cry of “taking our country back’’ to the home of the original tea party the day before taxes are due. Organizers expect at least 3,000 people from across New England. Despite the politically motivated crowd, gubernatorial candidate Charles D. Baker, a favorite of the Republican Party establishment, plans to be miles from the rally, at the Massachusetts Senior Care Association’s conference in Worcester....
Baker has walked a fine line in his comments about the tea party. In an online forum with readers of Boston.com last week, he praised the movement as “another example [of] civic engagement, which is always a good thing,’’ but pointedly avoided offering an opinion on Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate who has been a conservative media star. “Sarah Palin is simply one person,’’ Baker wrote. “To me, what makes the tea party work is the involvement of thousands of people on the local level across this country.’’
See: Having Tea With Charlie Baker
Now that cup I actually enjoyed.
Cahill, who on some issues has been running to the right of Baker, plans to make a full-court press at the rally....
And being a basketball fan I can tell you that the full court press is only applied when you are losing big.
So how many cups of witches brew you going to have, Globe?
"Welcoming Palin to Boston
Locals have always known that the stereotype of “liberal Massachusetts’’ was simplistic, and that plenty of Bay Staters share the Tea Party movement’s concern about government spending and intrusion into people’s lives, even if local fervor has yet to reach Texas proportions.
Then why does the Globe live in a bubble?
Getting people engaged in politics, and feeling that they can make an impact on the local scene, freshens a sometimes-stagnant system.
Unless, of course, they are people who are opposed to the Globe and its agenda.
Palin, whose commitment to grass-roots reform remains her most appealing trait, deserves credit for motivating her supporters.
Don't try to make nicey-nice now!
Still.... Palin isn’t Sam Adams, and the Tea Party Express isn’t a revolution. It’s the expression of anti-liberal sentiments so ingrained that they emerged within weeks of President Obama’s inauguration, before any taxes went up or individual mandates were applied.
As opposed to the ingrained and imprinted Zionism in which we are submerged?
Such views aren’t radical or hateful and are far preferable to have in the open, rather than hidden in living rooms and chat rooms. A lot of good can come from open engagement.
Except on things like war lies, 9/11, etc, etc.
In that respect, Palin’s visit is a plus for Boston, and she should be welcomed by all.
I just rolled up the mat.
Simple rule when dealing with agenda-pushing editorials: Do the opposite.
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As for the opinions:
“Being associated with Palin is a political anchor around the neck of any Republican who wants to win in Massachusetts,’’ says one Republican strategist. “The image of her is that she is not too smart, a little kooky, and way too conservative.’’
My main gripe is the dimwit status.
What Palin really represents is the triumph of charisma over content....
Which is why I wish your paper would stop spending so much print on her -- especially since I rarely see the name Ron Paul in their pages.
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And the resident Globe neo-con picks up the torch for the tea-baggers:
Or the paper you write for, for that matter?
Like any enthusiastic grassroots movement, the Tea Party is bound to attract a sliver of disreputable cranks, some of whom may seek attention from credulous or cynical members of the media. And there are reports that Tea Party opponents have been recruiting infiltrators to crash the rallies and discredit them with fabricated hate speech and extremist rhetoric.
Yeah, that is what is known as a COINTELPRO OPERATION and it is what this government does to discredit dissent.
Head over to the Boston Common this morning, however, and you will find neither fascists nor Klansmen, but a sea of sincere and energized citizens worried about the direction in which their country is headed and alarmed by the Obama administration’s vast aggrandizement of government power....
Yeah, that is what most of us are.
Related: Slow Saturday Special: Tea Bags Steeped in S***
Yup, always have to worry about being co-opted.
“We are not obligated to support the president’s policy because . . . this is the United States of America and dissent is patriotic.’’ So Howard Dean declared in 2003, and so insisted countless liberals and Democrats during the George W. Bush years.
And then they went deaf, dumb, and blind.
If it was patriotism then, it’s patriotism now. Stop by the Common today, and you can see it for yourself.
I didn't. I don't ever want to visit Boston again.
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So how was it over there, Globe?
"Palin, Tea Party Express hit chord in Hub" by Stephanie Ebbert and Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff | April 15, 2010
Waving stars and stripes and Gadsden flags warning “Don’t Tread on Me,’’ a crowd of some 6,000 gathered on Boston Common amid patriotic tunes, heated antitax rhetoric, and much-anticipated exhortations from the tea party movement’s adopted standard bearer, Sarah Palin.
Wow, TWICE more than EXPECTED, huh?
The Tea Party Express — which landed in Boston on the eve of the federal tax deadline, a stone’s throw from the site of the original Tea Party on Boston Harbor — was a noisy and festive assault against Washington’s political establishment that reveled in Republican US Senator Scott Brown’s surprise victory on liberal turf.
The insulting bias and tone is really turning me off.
“Bostonians have never been afraid to stand up and speak out for principles that they believe in,’’ Palin said. “And look what Massachusetts did in January and shook up the US Senate. Boston, if anyone knows how to throw a Tea Party, it is you.’’
The event drew three busloads of performers from the national Tea Party Express as well as activists from around the region and as far away as Texas. Many toted signs reading, “I am not a racist. I just disagree politically,’’ and, evoking the former Alaska governor’s quote about her state’s proximity to Russia, “We can see November from our House.’’
As one speaker onstage railed on illegal immigration and urged the president to shut down the southern borders, Nina Clay of Salem applauded and shouted, “Yes!’’
Related: Israel's Solution to Illegal Immigration
Of course, it is OKAY for ISRAEL to BUILD WALLS to KEEP ILLEGALS OUT, huh?
“We’ve had enough,’’ she said. “I’m just tired. They’re violating our rights. They’re just flushing the Constitution right down the toilet.’’
I know the feeling.
Asked to cite a Constitutional violation, the Democrat-turned-Republican cited “Obamacare,’’ and said that although she believes everyone is entitled to have health care, “not at others’ expense.’’
Oh, that must have made the Globe mad!
“Why don’t we do away with the government’’ Clay asked, “and just adopt a bum?’’
I never felt that way; however, after all I have seen the last few years, why not?
They DO NOTHING but LOOT YOU and START WARS!
The polarizing but popular Palin drew wild applause from the crowd with her 22-minute speech....
The rally included tributes to the military and digs at prominent Democrats, including President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, and US Representative Barney Frank. The traveling Tea Party Express road show started in Searchlight, Nev., Reid’s hometown, and officially ends in Washington, D.C., today, to commemorate Tax Day. For some activists, it held particular resonance in Boston, home of the 1773 Tea Party protesting British taxes and hub of a famously liberal state....
The fervently antitax tea party movement is a new force in American politics, and its future impact is still being debated. The movement’s angry ranks remain a puzzle to Massachusetts politicians.
Now I am beginning to REALLY SOUR on the Boston Globe!
Though some speakers yesterday took credit for helping vault Brown into office, Brown did not show up for the event. Nor did Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles D. Baker. State Treasurer Tim Cahill, who is running for governor as an Independent, arrived after Palin’s speech, saying he hoped “to find out more, to see who represents the tea party.’’
That's not much of a full-court press.
Nationally, critics have recently assailed the tea party movement for angry rhetoric, and some have charged racism for its mostly white membership and its fierce criticism of the president.
That would be the implications of the MSM they are talking about there.
In the crowd yesterday, a black woman carried a sign that said: “Look! A Black Tea Partier!’’ A CNN poll released this week found increasing opposition to the movement, compared with two months earlier.
Think I believe a ZNN, I mean, CNN poll?
The movement’s members blamed that on negative portrayals by what they called the “lamestream media,’’ and pointed out that yesterday’s event was peaceful.
Yeah, anyone advocating violence is a GOVERNMENT AGENT!
“Are y’all a racist? Angry? Violent? Angry mob? I know you’re not. That’s why I love ya!’’ Lloyd Marcus, a Tea Party Express performer who describes himself as “not an African-American’’ but American, shouted to the crowd. He was one of three black performers onstage.
Yesterday’s crowd of 6,000, estimated by a Boston park ranger, was much larger than the gathering of about 400 that showed up for last year’s tea party rally.
And I am sure that bothers the powers that be and their MSM mouthpiece here.
Other events on the Common in recent years include the 400,000 who came to see the Pope in 2005, the 2,500 protested proposed immigration laws in 2006, and the 10,000 who rallied against the Iraq War in 2007....
Yup, and it is STILL GOING ON!
Tea party groups have also sprung up around the region, motivated by a belief that federal government is overstepping its bounds by bailing out private banks and trying to make health care mandatory....
The event was largely peaceful, despite the face-offs between demonstrators and counterdemonstrators. Among the critics in the crowd was Nancy Dykstra, who called herself a “recovering Republican.’’ She said she worried the tea party movement was dividing the nation. “We think Sarah Palin is kind of crazy and racist and full of fear and hate,’’ she said.
But when GOVERNMENT and MOUTHPIECE LSM USES IT for its WAR PROPAGANDA it's all good!
The tableau seemed slightly out of step for Boston Common, with southern accents booming from loudspeakers and women in star-spangled denim singing emphatic tributes to the troops.
So what, the Globe have a problem with the wars now, or... "
PFFT!
F***ers!!!!
Palin even incited the crowd into a quickly aborted refrain of “Drill, Baby, Drill.’’
You are CATCHING all the CODED LANGUAGE, right?
And don't worry, HE IS, HE IS!!
See: Obama’s offshore oil drilling plan spurs push for billions in royalties
Hey, what's one more betrayal, 'eh, Democrats?
Occasionally, a thoughtful debate broke out....
Yeah, only occasionally -- which is more debate than you will ever find in the Zionist War Daily known as the Boston Globe.
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Let's top this post off with some real insults, 'kay?
They were enraged about the growing costs of entitlements, the surging national debt, and everything from the bailouts of the banks to the new health care law.
Early yesterday morning, Valerie and Rob Shirk corralled their 10 home-schooled children into their van for the 2 1/2-hour drive from their home in Connecticut to Boston, arriving just in time to hear Sarah Palin denounce government-run health care at the tea party movement rally on Boston Common.
Why does the Globe ALWAYS PICK the MOST EXTREME ELEMENTS of movements they DO NOT APPROVE OF to present to you, dear readers?
They thought it would be a learning opportunity for their children, who range in age from 9 months to 15 years old and who held up signs criticizing the government for defying the “will of the people.’’
“The problem in this country is that too many people are looking for handouts,’’ said Valerie Shirk, 43, of Prospect, Conn. “I agree with the signs that say, ‘Share my father’s work ethic — not his paycheck.’ We have to do something about the whole welfare mentality in this country.’’
The Shirks were among the thousands of people who attended the rally from around the region, many of them carrying signs with slogans such as, “What Part of Live Free or Die Don’t You Understand?,’’ “Don’t Tread on Me,’’ and “Starve the Beast by Tax Cuts.’’
Some of those attending said the health bill’s requirement to buy health insurance signaled the arrival of communism in America.
Gene Theroux, of Springfield, held up a sign that read “Against Progressivism,’’ which he said meant he was protesting “the movement to socialism’’ and the United Nations’ “sovereignty violations’’ against the United States. The 57-year-old retired Air Force chief master sergeant said he likes his government-run health care administered by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, but he worries about what will happen when some 30 million newly insured Americans enter the system.
Yeah, all a bunch of hypocrites, too, according to the agenda-pushing Glob.
And he likes his VA health care, huh?
“Where does it say in the Constitution that there’s a mandate for all Americans to have health care?’’ he said. “This bill will ravage the health care that I get.’’
Actually, it does not say that anywhere.
Lindsay Lacombe, who wore an “I Love Fox News’’ T-shirt, drove in from Fitchburg, in part to protest the health care reforms.... When it was explained that the new law requires many of the newly insured to make some contribution toward their health insurance, she said: “I’m not a political science major.’’
Globe found a dope for you.
Others came to protest the protesters.
Taylor Light, 19, a sophomore at Emerson College: “I think the tea party is a fear-mongering movement that spreads ignorance, hateful rhetoric, and anti-American ideas,’’ said Light, between debates with others in the crowd, whom he said shouted antigay slurs at him. “I feel a little overwhelmed by the rhetoric.’’
I've stopped believing these liars and their self-serving slander.
As for the ignorance, hateful rhetoric, and fear-mongering, you've been reading too many AmeriKan newspapers, kid.
Eynice Ko handed out a “Pamphlet for the Informed Tea Party Member’’ that cited a Harvard study that found nearly 45,000 Americans die every year because of a lack of health insurance and a World Health Organization report ranking the US health system behind 36 other developed countries in overall performance.
And yet WE COULDN'T EVEN GET a DECENT SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM like NORWAY, FRANCE, or even CUBA for God's sake!
Instead we got a s*** health tax if we don't buy overpriced crap care from the health corporations!
“My goal is to dispel the misinformation that the tea party spreads,’’ said Ko, 21, a junior at Boston University. “If I can change one person’s mind, then I’ll be happy. I think a lot of people here don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re just angry at the government.’’
Yeah, just dismiss the ideas or the legitimate reasons to be angry, you controlled opposition hunk of s***.
Among those incensed with the Obama administration was Jeff McQueen, 51, who recently lost his auto industry job in Detroit. He spent the week attending tea party movement rallies and selling the Betsy Ross version of the American flag, with a Roman Numeral II in the center of the circle of 13 stars. His addition to the $20 flag, he said, symbolized the second Revolution in America, which he said the movement represents.
“This movement stands for smaller government, reduced taxation, and support for our Constitution, which I feel has been trampled on by the Democrats, and George W. Bush,’’ said McQueen, who now receives health insurance through COBRA. He was not sure how much longer he would be able to afford his insurance....
Oh, he was AGAINST BUSH, too, huh?
Like SO MANY OF US that have been TERRIBLY DISAPPOINTED by Mr. Obama.
For the Shirks, it was a day for their children to seek inspiration from Palin and the other speakers, who questioned Obama’s patriotism and at least one of whom referred to him repeatedly as Barack Hussein. The couple, who rely on Medicaid for their health care, were also upset about the nation’s new health reforms.
Here comes the hypocrite charge.
When asked why her family used state-subsidized health care when she criticized people who take handouts, Valerie Shirk said she did not want to stop having children, and that her husband’s income was not enough to cover the family with private insurance.
How many times do I have to type SINGLE PAYER, readers?
“I know there’s a dichotomy because of what we get from the state,’’ she said. “But I just look at each of my children as a blessing.’’
Oh, I CERTAINLY AGREE THERE!
Children are what keep us old farts alive.
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Related: Palin, celebrity in chief
And look at how much print and space the Globe took up on her.
Oh, I'm sorry, I have it all wrong.
The sacred treasure we share as a people — also known as commonwealth. Taxes are its sacrament.
Sigh. I can't read this agenda-pushing garbage anymore.
The myth is that America was born in rebellion against taxes, and today’s Tea Party movement takes off from that illusion. (The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was not a protest about oppressive taxes. American colonists took the government’s right and duty to levy taxes for granted — but they wanted it to be their government.)
Then my Zionist inculcated and indoctrinated state schools lied to me.
I was told something about taxation without representation and the Stamp Act. Teachers really made a point of it being key to a war or something.
Then again, given the newspapers record.... I really liked the profs!
In fact, the so-called Tea Party phenomenon that now drives Republican politics is less a movement than a spasm because its radical preference of individual over group undercuts the minimal solidarity required for any authentic political organization, even their own. Absurdly cloaking their fiscal solipsism in the rhetoric of patriotism, the anti-tax crowd assaults the core value of citizenship.
Here we are trying to save it and we have to take such insults from the LSM?
The Republican Party is by now almost fully hostage to such political nihilism, which puts it well on the way to self-destruction. Alas, when a major party so narrows its civic sense, the destruction can be general.
Same road his Democrats are on.
But aren’t the Tea Party radicals the real Americans? Wasn’t the fabled “rugged individual’’ born on the nation-shaping frontier — the forever unregulated realm in which “the free and the brave’’ could throw off shackles of government?
No. On the contrary, the steadily receding frontier may have been the single most powerful stimulus of national government, a centralizing authority in Washington responsible for the orderly transition of vast territories into states, with, yes, taxes required for everything from surveys to canals to the protection of pioneers.
Well, if they were doing that instead of funding wars and banks and all the unmentionables in Jimbo's article here, I wouldn't mind.
But the leaders of today are not doing that, and even worse they are borrowing us into oblivion.
Taxes paid, on one side, for the decimation of Native Americans, and, on the other, for the abolition of slavery....
Yeah, the MASS-MURDERING GENOCIDE of the natives and the BLOODY CIVIL WAR were paid for by, yup, TAXES!
Maybe if there was no tax revenue it would be hard to keep a war going, huh?
Maybe you could KEEP THAT MONEY and PUT IT TO BETTER USE YOURSELF, 'eh, America?
We may dislike the tax bite, but we loathe the destruction of civic pillars and the deliberate unraveling of safety nets. Citizens long for leaders who will remind us that what we do this week has nobility in it. And if we have to do more of it — pay higher taxes — so that teachers and librarians, and those they serve, are not humiliated but enriched, we will.
Yeah, that is always there solution.
Meanwhile, NO NATION EVER TAXED ITS WAY to PROSPERITY in the HISTORY of the WORLD!
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Oh, right, this is the same guy that said to be a Christian is really to be a Jew.
I'll file this opinion piece right where it belongs (flush).
