Comedy Central is holding the big "can't we all get along" rally in Washington, D. C., on October 30, 2010. The thesis behind the rally is that we can all disagree without being disagreeable, for, after all, as the most popular slogan of the event reads:
"I disagree with but I'm pretty sure you are not Hitler."
http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/
Not Hitler? Hmm...I'm not so sure about that.
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Video of Miller security and handcuffed editor
Posted by Alaska_Politics
Posted: October 18, 2010 - 10:03 am
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From David Hulen in Anchorage --
Here's video shot yesterday by ADN reporter Richard Mauer after Alaska Dispatch editor Tony Hopfinger was handcuffed and detained by security guards working for Senate candidate Joe Miller at a campaign event yesterday. The video starts after Hopfinger was placed in handcuffs and before Anchorage police arrived. The voice in the video is Mauer.
http://community.adn.com/...
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NAACP Delegates Vote to Repudiate Racist Elements Within Tea Party
Today, NAACP delegates passed a resolution to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party, calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.
http://www.naacp.org/...
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October 18, 2010
Categories:2010.NAACP report to tie Tea Party, 'hate groups'
The NAACP is continuing its sharp criticism of the Tea Party movement, releasing a report later this week that it says will detail "various associations between Tea Party organizations and acknowledged hate groups in the United States."
The report isn't yet online, but the press release has a bit of the substance:
The TeaParty.org faction is led by the executive director of the Minuteman Project, a nativist organization that has in the past been associated with the murder of migrant Mexican workers as part of its vigilante "border operations".
http://www.politico.com/...
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Paladino stirs controversy with anti-gay comment
by Ashley Steves
Published October 17, 2010
Party tensions arose across the state after Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino criticized the LGBT community last week, saying he did not want children to be, "brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is as equally valid or successful an option [as heterosexuality]."
http://nyunews.com/...
Must I go on? How about burning books? How about attacking as not American those who think a Muslim Community Center can be build in lower Manhattan?
I don't know about you but I'd call a lot of this behaviour fascist and damn close to NAZI (or, if you will, Hitler). I understand the message the Comedy Central is trying to put out there, but, frankly, I am not so sure I am ready to make nice with the extreme right wing. I am not so sure it will be particularly helpful to try to dismiss the outrageous reactionary antics of the Tea Party and the GOP with light humor. The stakes are too high. I think we need to continue disagreeing with their absurd and dangerous positions, in no uncertain terms, and help America to see what direction they would like to lead us in.
So, Jon Stewart, actually I do disagree with the right wing and I am beginning to think they just might be Hitler.
I am not going to debate anyone about the merits of going to the event or not. I personally am not attending. The stakes are too high for me to giggle all day at the Comedy Central team. But, if you are going, please, have fun, and enjoy your freedom of speech while you still can.