Jared Loughner And The Right Wing Vortex

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Wednesday February 02, 2011 · 10:50 AM PST

2011/02/02 · 10:50

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. That is what the purveyors false equivalency are trying to do.

I listened to Scarborough, and all about how the Giffords shooting "everybody's fault" and how we are just as responsible for the heated rhetoric on the Left as is the Right. And it is all horsepuckey. A clear line can be drawn between the destructive language of the Right and this atrocity.

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Saturday December 11, 2010 · 6:23 PM PST

2010/12/11 · 18:23

One hope is that we have learned our lesson from this session of Congress. I hope that we learned that appeasement is never a good idea in the face of obduracy. The apologetic attitude taken by the Democrats for and during the achievement of a healthcare, emboldened the Republican opposition to it and the vow to "repeal and replace" it.

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Monday November 15, 2010 · 9:38 AM PST

2010/11/15 · 09:38

This I believe is among the earliest versions of this wonderful rant explaining our disgust with the Tea Party. Keep this viral and pass it on!

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Friday November 05, 2010 · 10:02 AM PDT

2010/11/05 · 10:02

This is a glimpse into what the 2010 election looked like at the local level, and what a Central New York Tea Partier has in store for CNY if she wins.

I started research for this blog after the debate took place. It took me a long time to finish because I did my own transcription of the audio, and so the election in New York's 25th Congressional District had already taken place at the time this is being published.

The election is close here in the 25th, Onondaga County, where the majority lives came in heavy for Democrat Dan Maffei, but Wayne County where Tea Party Republican Ann Marie Buerkle had success gave her a slight lead of 625 votes. We are now waiting for the results from absentee ballots, a good deal of which are military, but most are from Onondaga County.

This race got some national attention. American Crossroads GPS, Karl Rove's group targeted Maffei, and Sarah Palin endorsed Buerkle. However, President Clinton gave Dan his endorsement, and Democrats heavily supported Maffei.

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8 votes Show Results

Does Ann Marie Buerkle Resemble Your Republican Candidate?

8 votes Vote Now!

Does Ann Marie Buerkle Resemble Your Republican Candidate?

Yes

6 votes

1 vote

A little

1 vote

A lot

0 votes

One Nation March: Here's How It's Done! Syracuse, NY 2007!

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Thursday September 23, 2010 · 1:51 PM PDT

2010/09/23 · 13:51

Hey, it can be done!

My simple point is: Go! Show up! It was soon after this that we turned CNY Democratic. Some of you quibbled whose picture I showed and why I showed their picture. Well, this was our party, they were invited, so was SEIU, I believe the NAACP was there, and a lot of other people showed up. As they no doubt will in DC on 10/2/10.

The point is that the One Nation March can succeed. If we could do what we did in CNY, as part of a national effort then, we can make Glenn Beck look like an ant!

Do it! Go! I can't go with you, but if we did it before in Syracuse, we can do it again here, and put the fear of God into our Palin Minime Ann Marie Buerkle. Dan Maffei is no Senator from Arkansas (forgot her name,) we are New Yorkers here! So we can win!

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Monday September 13, 2010 · 8:46 PM PDT

2010/09/13 · 20:46

On Saturday, October 2, 2010, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, at the National Mall in Washington DC, a momentous event will take place.

On thst day, the AFL-CIO, the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza and nearly 200 other progressive groups will participate in the One Nation Working Together March. It will be a multiracial labor and civil rights movement that will change the political landscape of this country.

At least one celebrity will be there, Ed Schultz who tirelessly promotes this event on his shows, both on radio and tv.

The mission is nothing less than to remind the country of where the real center of political gravity lies - in the people.

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Sunday September 12, 2010 · 9:21 AM PDT

2010/09/12 · 09:21

To the Editor:

The attacks on 9/11 were perpetrated by religious intolerance and hatred toward the West. Nineteen men who considered us the infidel, and hated our lifestyles thought that gave them the right to do the inexcusable. Many people died that day who had every right to keep on living. The anger that people feel towards Islamic radicals is understandable.

And yet, as the President said today, the only to combat that kind of intolerance is not to embrace it ourselves, but to show the world that we can live without it.

Do we truly honor the memories of the people who died on 9/11 by the intolerance we exhibit towards fellow Americans who simply wish to exercise their right to worship in their own house? Is Ground Zero truly such a Holy of Holies that only people of a permitted faith can be allowed to even come near it?

To my mind the answer is no.

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Monday September 06, 2010 · 9:21 PM PDT

2010/09/06 · 21:21

With all the promotional fanfare that he learned as a Morning Zoo DJ, Glenn Beck finally took the chance on promoting the one thing he was always promoting - Glenn Beck! He did it without any trickery, but he did it with all the slick schmaltz he could muster. It was amazing that he could do it all with Hollywood production values, and still cultivate the image of a populist!

Yes, that was some grassroots get out there! Not like the poor effort that Al Sharpton put up in a. . . Highschool!

Sharpton ought to be ashamed of himself for not putting up a Jumbotron on his stage. I wonder how those plain old folks on the National Mall did it! Maybe with bakesales!

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How many think that Glenn Beck is The Savior?

22 votes Vote Now!

How many think that Glenn Beck is The Savior?

Aye! Hosanna! He is truly the Real Anointed One!

5 votes

Nay! For he is The False Prophet who enables the Lawless One!

6 votes

I don't read the Bible enough, but I'm sure he's just shilling for himself!

11 votes

Park51: Pay Attention Right Wing! Let Me Draw You A Picture!

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Thursday September 02, 2010 · 2:38 PM PDT

2010/09/02 · 14:38

First of all, it's not a mosque, it's a community center. It has a restaurant, basketball court, 500-seat auditorium, a swimming pool, theater, a culinary school, a food court, a performing arts center, a fitness center, a childcare area, and a bookstore. Some people call it a mosque because it's prayer room will fit up to about a thousand people, but - so what? By the way, it's already a prayer space. And it's privately owned. Perhaps if Rauf built an OTB on the site that would be okay right? And there are already mosques in the neighborhood.

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Monday August 30, 2010 · 2:09 PM PDT

2010/08/30 · 14:09

Dear Mr. Beck:

You say that you want to restore America's honor?

Wonderful! Let me help you!

When exactly did Americans lose their honor?

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Monday August 16, 2010 · 6:28 PM PDT

2010/08/16 · 18:28

Why are Progressives angry? To read some of Obama's apologist's columns, it's because we are knee-jerk reactionaries who will pick up our ball and go home if we don't get our way! Of course, "our way," was to insure that reform had teeth in it, and not just gums!

Now, from my unsophisticated point of view, we are tired of the Great Equivocation! Why do we keep having to have this conversation Mr. President?

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Sunday August 01, 2010 · 8:10 AM PDT

2010/08/01 · 08:10

Here's what's coming if we don't act America!

So lately the Dems are feeling a little down qbout their chances in November right? Well folks, it seems that we need a little pick me up - R. Lee Ermey style! And what would ol' Gunny tell you to do?

Number One, quit whining! If you don!t get out of Gunny's butt, and into the field of fire, besides not winning and getting your butt kicked, you will let the enemy impose his destructive ideology on this land. A good example is in Colorado, and namely Colorado Springs, where the TABOR laws have full sway.

Number Two: What with the Tea Party, and GOP hypocrisy, Republicans are not the people's choice for this year's midterm elections. Any poll outside of Rassmussen could tell you that.

Number Three: Now, it is either attack or die. With all of the things that Republicans claim to be planning to do, we may lose the momentum of reform to two years of gridlock. Nobody wants to return to that.

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