We've seen the hate blessed by the Republican leadership today. There is a diary on the front page with the Dachau picture comparing the Holocaust to health care reform. (Link to picture of Dachau)
Msnbc.com's First Read provides a description of some of the signs:
Here are some of the more jaw-dropping signs seen at the rally:
"Get the Red Out of the White House."
"Waterboard Congress"
"Traitor to the U.S. Constitution" (Picture of Obama on sign)
"Ken-Ya Trust Obama?"
"Un-American McCarthyite" (with picture of Pelosi)
"I'm the King of the World: Remember the Titanic?" (Drawing of Obama in the mold of the 'Jovial Sambo' from the Jim Crow era doing the Leo Titanic pose."
msnbc: First Read
More on the epic fail, after the fold.
Few are more Village than msnbc's First Read crew. And this is their opinion:
NOTE: It is important to know that this rally was set up by the GOP. While other groups certainly got people to show up, the folks who came here ultimately came at the invitation of the Republican Party. The GOP provided the speakers and the music, etc.
msnbc: First Read
The hate will come back to haunt the Republican Party, for now they have scared the Village. Even Broder cannot stomach this, I bet.
Racism is strong in the Republican Party.
And regular Americans will think these people are nuts.
So I say thank you to Bachman and Boehner, for they are destroying the Republican Party. This is not America and they will frighten the middle class.
(I'd do a copy of the picture, but I don't know how and don't have it anyway. I'll research and see if TPM or somebody has one and link it)
Update I:
Fixed Point Theorem has a picture of history repeating itself: a Klan march from the 1920s in DC.
Todays Republican Party is becoming a modern Klan.
Update II: From mahakali overdrive in the comments:
One sign read: "Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds," a reference to theories of Jewish world dominance centered around the prominent Jewish family of Rothschilds.
The right has a long history of hating Jews and perpetuating fantasies of Jewish world domination.
It's not very different from the Klan or John Birchers.
Update III: Here is a Link to an action diary by MeMeMeMeMe with with contact info for some of the main Republicans involved.
Update IV: bruns has a report in the comments of what was just on MSNBC:
MSNBC's Schuster (4+ / 0-)
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just showed images of the sign. He also state that the
"Ken-Ya Trust Obama?" was SIGNED by congressman King.
Now switching to Fox...
by bruns on Thu Nov 05, 2009 at 12:07:00 PM PST
Update V: HuffPo has the their view of The 12 Most Offensive Signs From Bachmann's Tea Party