[Pen-l] tea-bagging

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matt Rothschild writes on the _Progressive_ site
> Well, someone tossed a teabag on the front stoop of The Progressive Wednesday.

I’d seen two busloads of the baggers drive up across the street near
the Capitol here in Madison, Wisconsin, but I didn’t know they were
going to leave their calling card.

I don’t dismiss this phenomenon as a mere stunt by Fox News or some
fake grassroots effort by the Republican Party and their corporate
bosses.

No, there’s something real going on out there.

And it’s not pretty.

One person at the Madison rally held a sign that said, “Obama is the
anti-Christ.”

Another sign read: “Obama’s Plan: White Slavery.”

At other protests around the country, teabaggers held up signs
accusing him of treason.

Some compared him to Hitler (HuffingtonPost has a collection of the
worst photos).

One said: “Barack Hussein Obama: The New Face of Hitler,” and it
depicted Obama in a Nazi uniform and with a Hitler mustache.

Another said: “The American Taxpayers Are the Jews for Obama’s Ovens.”

This is ugly, dangerous stuff.

Fox News and the Republican Party are playing with fire here. Already,
there is a heightened threat from far rightwing white supremacist
groups in this country, so much so that Homeland Security has alerted
the public to it.

And when the fulminators on the rightwing airwaves gin up the rhetoric
against Obama, they’re all but recruiting for these groups.

Let’s face it, there are a lot of nuts out there. And a lot of guns to
go with them.

By inciting these hate groups, Fox and Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey
may be loosing forces they’ll later regret.

Teabags are harmless. Bullets aren’t.<

didn't the GOPsters encourage right-wing populist resentment in a
similar way back in the 1990s (that time against Clinton)? weren't
some of them actually semi-allies of militia types?
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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