Sorry but a lot of folks in the Tea Party ARE racists. There was at least one Mormon hater running for a recent local election. You just want to hide this because likely you're a racist, as well. Or do you want to try to claim that the fact that your pastor thinks that southern slavery was justified is not racist? Or do you want to claim that the Southern Poverty Law Center is GOOD when it provides information about the recent Spokane (attempted) bomber, yet "biased" when it calls out your pastor? Sorry but racism is not a point of view deserving of equal air time. Someone who says that a racist is in fact a racist is just telling the truth; someone who points out the very real racism within the Tea Party movement (which is NOT to say that all Tea Party members are racists) is just providing information and not "bias."<br>
<br>Besides most of the arguments below are pretty bad. "Racism wasn't in the video, so it didn't exist." Or "a right wing movement" = "ALL rightwingers"!?! Give me a break, Doug! This is crap rhetoric and you should know better. Either you are incapable of reasoning well or you know how to do it but realize it won't support your 17th Century beliefs. Either way, I will not talk to you in a civil manner until you USE YOUR REAL NAME.<br>
<br>
Sorry but I'm not going to talk to racists using fake names. You want me
to respect you and think you are something more than a racist coward?
You want me to engage in intelligent conversation? Then USE YOUR REAL NAME. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Glenn Schwaller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vpschwaller@gmail.com">vpschwaller@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Just one Campbell?<br>
<br>
After the NAACP accused the Tea Party of racism, NPR's political<br>
editor Ken Rudin said that the organization was “responding to … an<br>
ugly spectacle of members, African-American members of Congress, who<br>
when they came out from voting on the health care reform several<br>
months ago, they heard epithets from people outside, so-called Tea<br>
Party protesters outside. Emanuel Cleaver, a black congressman from<br>
Missouri, said he was spat upon. So they called – they passed this<br>
resolution to, you know, to stop tolerating bigotry.”<br>
<br>
Rudin didn't mention that multiple videos of the congressmen walking<br>
through the protesters showed no evidence that any racist language or<br>
physical assaults occurred. Conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart<br>
offered $10,000 to anyone who could produce footage of the alleged<br>
spitting incident, and nobody was able to do so.<br>
<br>
oh how about 2 . .<br>
<br>
Last September, NPR reporter Terry Gross described town hall protests<br>
against President Obama as “a right-wing movement that has been<br>
interrupting town hall meetings, staging tea party protests, and<br>
challenging Obama's citizenship,” implying that the entire movement<br>
was based on wild suspicion over Obama's birthplace rather than<br>
rational anger over economic issues.<br>
<br>
And this doesn't even touch on the issue of $5 million dangled from a<br>
"Muslim Brotherhood" organization, nor George Soros' $1 million<br>
donation to NPR as evidence of the organization's political bias.<br>
<br>
Nope, none there!<br>
<br>
GS<br>
<br>
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Joe Campbell<br>
<<a href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">philosopher.joe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> State one left wing point of view that NPR broadcasts, Roger. Just one.<br>
><br>
> They broadcast news. You are so used to listening to the lies on Fox that<br>
> you confuse them for "points of view."<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:17 AM, lfalen <<a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> If NPR wants to broadcast left wing points of view and supporters are<br>
>> willing to fund it, more power to them.<br>
>> Roger<br>
>> -----Original message-----<br>
>> From: "Robert Dickow" <a href="mailto:dickow@turbonet.com">dickow@turbonet.com</a><br>
>> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:18:10 -0700<br>
>> To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>
>> Subject: [Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?<br>
>><br>
>> > I hear that the conservative congressmen have proposed withdrawing<br>
>> > government funding for NPR. Apparently a newscaster or fund drive person<br>
>> > or<br>
>> > somebody made some disparaging remarks about the Tea Party. Fie! Fie!<br>
>> > Now,<br>
>> > denying public broadcasting all those scarce taxpayer dollars sounds<br>
>> > like a<br>
>> > reasonable and just response to such offenses if you're a conservative<br>
>> > Republican sympathetic with the Tea Party movement, right? Uh huh.sure.<br>
>> > How<br>
>> > dumb can anybody be?! NPR won't suddenly go belly up and go off the air,<br>
>> > slinking off into the shadows with its tail between its legs. Private<br>
>> > donors-- those dwindling middle class stalwarts-- will valiantly step up<br>
>> > to<br>
>> > the plate in ever greater numbers. So what will actually happen, then,<br>
>> > is<br>
>> > that NPR will be unfettered and free to unleash all their rabid commie<br>
>> > pinko<br>
>> > liberal gun-hating womens libber staffers to say all the rabid commie<br>
>> > pinko<br>
>> > tea-barfing they've always wanted to say but didn't because they felt<br>
>> > compelled to be balanced in their commie pinko tree-hugging opinions and<br>
>> > bleeding-heart liberal union thug biased news reporting. Clearly, this<br>
>> > government measure will not serve the common good. And I may be forced<br>
>> > to<br>
>> > mix even more metaphors in the future.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Bob Dickow, troublemaker<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
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