This is how you fight HATE, FEAR and LIES with the TRUTH.
GRAYSON: (W)e have now reached the point of absurdity. OK. The right has fomented a national nervous breakdown. They keep pushing the panic button on their followers over and over and over again, trying to get them stoked on hatred and on fear. And they've succeeded. They've succeed in driving these people to the point where they're threatening my 5- year-old son.
Now why don't you just say you're sorry? That's what you ought to be saying, I'm sorry. Don't try to push it off on the Democrats. Say you're sorry. Apologize to my 5-year-old.
CNN.com/transcripts
A short transcript and more below the fold.
Not just a Congressman with Guts, but a pissed off father who will not take the teabaggers bullshit without a fight.
You can read the whole transript here at CNN.com/transcripts
But here is an abbreviated version
GRAYSON: You know, listen, people like you -- people like you -- and it's very apt that your name is Marks -- people like you, your dreams turn into other people's nightmares. And it's time you owned up to it.
MARKS: We as conservatives believe we have winning principles and we stick by these principles. Small government.
GRAYSON: Your principles are violence.
MARKS: I don't think anyone and my principles are --
GRAYSON: Anger, hatred and violence.
MARKS: In fact, in the charter of my personal organization, it says if you are a person that does do the so-called acts that happen towards these congressmen, you're kicked out of my organization.
GRAYSON: Oh, yes.
MARKS: You can go look it up online. We are a public organization.
GRAYSON: See if that helps to bring back the dead.
SANCHEZ: Let me ask you, Jordan --
MARKS: I don't understand how that has to do with anything with bringing back the dead?
SANCHEZ: What did you mean by that? What did you mean by that, Congressman, about bringing back the dead?
GRAYSON: What I meant is that these are death threats including one to my 5-year-old son. Now, if they're actually acted upon, you think expelling someone from your organization of 12 people is somehow going to bring back my son?
Hate.
Fear.
Lies.
Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
Death Panels in Health Care Reform.
Tax cuts for the Super Rich.
Strawmen and total Bullshit.
This is all the right wing in America have to offer us.
I recently discovered how to make Teabagger heads explode. It is simple, just ask them what their ideas are. Guess what? Besides ending strawman boogeymen like Socialism and ACORN they have NOTHING.
They have lots of things they hate and fear, but as far as reigning in Wall St, providing people jobs, dealing with polluters or anything that actually matters, they have absolutely nothing.
These are not Tea Parties, they are HATE RALLIES.
This is all the Teabaggers and their GOP/Fox puppetmasters have to offer. They have NO new ideas, no jobs plan, nothing positive to offer working class Americans, and Congressman Grayson nails it here when he demands an apology for the death threats he has received. The simple truth is you can't tell people Democrats are death panel plotting socialists and expect nothing violent to happen to them. When you compare X to Hitler you are willfully asking people to respond to the worst sort of evil. What did they expect? Of course, Republicans and their teabagger proxies refuse to take responsibility. They are perfectly happy to incite hate and fear and let the lone wolves take all of the responsibility for their dog whistle calls to potentially violent rebellion.
As for the insane idea pushed by teabagger Marks that if any teabagger does anything violent they will lose their membership in the tea party club, well, that's just pathetic. If someone does harm another American because they were scared into acting against the strawman of socialism, death panels or whatever other conspiracy driven bullshit we can only imagine what the previous unindicted war criminal administration would have done. Most likely they would ship them off to an undisclosed location without legal counsel where they would be tortured into confessing a link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. Though I am not advocating this kind of response, one can only imagine how a Republican Presidency would respond to Democratic activists that had even the loosest connection to the kind of behavior exhibited by teabaggers and their GOP/hate radio/Fox driven hate rally sponsoring enablers.
If you were a parent and you received a death threat at home that your child had to listen to, how would you respond?
So cheers to Congressman Grayson for standing up and fighting back. There is a reason conservatives hate him so much, because Alan Grayson tells the truth and hate and fear are all that Conservatives have nowadays.
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Cheers
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Crossposted at ProgressiveElectorate.com