Cartoonist Receives Death Threats from Teabaggers

Mean-spirited? (3.00 / 1)

NPR and their Republican ombudsman (someone on the DKos link says she will retire soon) need to listen to some conservative talk radio if they want to hear some genuine, all-out, mean-spiritedness each and every day. That picture, too.  

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by: Elsbeth @ Sat Jan 09, 2010 at 05:23:44 AM UTC

the real tea party (3.00 / 1)

I guess they forgot the Boston Tea Party was nonviolent, aside from the actual tea dumping.

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by: John McClelland @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 00:31:50 AM UTC

He looks familiar (0.00 / 0)

That sign-holding guy looks a lot like the one who was stalking me at the Irving town hall where Pete Sessions performed his live-and-let-die show.

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by: Gangy @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 03:48:20 AM UTC

The photo above was taken in Houston (0.00 / 0)

where he had been attending a teabag rally in Feb.09.  He was asked to leave b/c of his despicable sign.

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by: Libby Shaw @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 15:31:23 PM UTC

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And this is his website (0.00 / 0)

http://www.teaparty.org/contac...

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by: cewake @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 15:38:50 PM UTC

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Taxes (3.00 / 1)

Why are so many people unhappy? Is it really because of taxes?  I wonder what that guy holding the sign does for a living? How much money did he make last year? Does he even have a job? Or is he hired by someone to stand there with that sign? He certainly seems serious...holding some kind of paperwork (maybe a petition)? Did he vote in the last election? Does he have children? Is he somebody's husband or boyfriend? Did he graduate from high school or college? I admire his activism. Does he realize he's a community organizer? What does he read and/or listen to every day?

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by: Elsbeth @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 04:30:18 AM UTC

The racist teabagger's name is (3.00 / 1)

Dale Robertson.  He is head of one of the many teabagger operatives.  There are several organizations that use the tea party name.  I guess this guy is in charge of the racist wing of the teabagger movement.  

Dale Robertson, a Tea Party activist who operates TeaParty.org, is getting stung for an old photo - taken at the Feb. 27, 2009 Tea Party in Houston - in which he holds a sign reading "Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar."

http://washingtonindependent.c...

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by: Libby Shaw @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 15:35:17 PM UTC

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Can't see the dudes face (0.00 / 0)

under the baseball cap.  Is that Harry Reid?

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by: sdhook @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 05:07:06 AM UTC

Reid? The beer belly is too big (0.00 / 0)

The teabagger looks more like Dick Cheney w/o the snarl.  

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by: Libby Shaw @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 15:37:27 PM UTC

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BTW (0.00 / 0)

if you blow up the pic you can clearly see the bottom word is covered and the word photo shopped over it.  Don't know the story but assume the sign was confiscated covered and enterprising taxers added the word.

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by: sdhook @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 16:03:38 PM UTC

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Forgot to ask (0.00 / 0)

Harry's recent comment was in private and he has admitted to the statement. So is it OK for D's to be racist if its in private?

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by: sdhook @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 16:05:19 PM UTC

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I see you have memorized (0.00 / 0)

GOP talking point crapola this morning.  Equating a stupid, ignorant remark, that has been forgiven by the President, by the way, with a life long segregationist and racist from the South ain't going to stick.  

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by: Libby Shaw @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 16:23:01 PM UTC

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Haven't memorized anything (0.00 / 0)

I look at the news MYSELF and make my own opinion.  My opinion is that if an R had made the same statement and the President forgave them they would still be out of office in less than a week.  Can't see how you could argue with that.

In fact consider if that same R had said similar to the following: :

Reid once asked a reporter whether she "spoke English" and urged her to "turn up your Miracle Ear."

He once said you can tell it's summertime at the Capitol "because you can smell the visitors, [who] stand out in the high humidity, heat, and they sweat." He called President George W. Bush a "loser," Justice Clarence Thomas "an embarrassment" and Bill Frist, his predecessor as majority leader, "amateurish." He referred to Alan Greenspan as a "hack." And he had to backtrack after saying the U.S. was "losing" the war in Iraq.

Loser, embarrassment, amateurish, hack?  Look in the mirror Harry!!!  

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by: sdhook @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 17:08:08 PM UTC

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Reid may have said some (3.00 / 1)

pretty stupid and insensitive things but he is spot on with some of it.

He called President George W. Bush a "loser," Justice Clarence Thomas "an embarrassment" and Bill Frist, his predecessor as majority leader, "amateurish." He referred to Alan Greenspan as a "hack."

I suppose Frist's attempts to have the guvmint interfere with Terri Shiavro's case was AOK.  And Greenspan said Wall St.'s evil financial derivative swaps and sub-prime loans were harmless.  I say this stuff is straight from the depths of loserville, as were the WMD's in Iraq.   W. has been deemed the worst U.S. President in modern history and  his Administration delivered the worst economy in modern history.  

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Y'all sure have a lot to be proud of including Rudy Giuliani who said 9/11 didn't happen on W.'s watch.  I guess Rudy thinks we're all stoopid.

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by: Libby Shaw @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 18:48:01 PM UTC

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Rudy Obama connection (1.00 / 1)

Rudy was just using the same rhetoric as Obama.  He was "handed a mess from the previous administration".  Works both ways in the real world.  

By the way speaking of WMD's, did you notice that the underwear bomber (AKA Jockey Jihadist) was arraigned on  charges which include trying to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempted murder, willful attempt to destroy an aircraft, placing a bomb on a plane and possession of a destructive device. I think Sadam smuggled all the WMD's out of Iraq in the laundry disguised as dirty underwear. Who's gonna search that? Brilliant.  

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by: sdhook @ Tue Jan 12, 2010 at 01:52:28 AM UTC

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I'm no teabagger, but ... (0.00 / 0)

it was John Lennon who recorded his song "Woman is the Nigger of the World", making the point that women are/were (1972) treated like, you know.  Was he being a racist, or a feminist?  Or both?  And was Lennon's way of making a point - while artistically superior - substantially different from Robertson's?  It's worth thinking about before knee-jerking to any conclusions.

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by: Dale Napier @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 22:20:47 PM UTC

You're right. (0.00 / 0)

Dale Robertson is an artist. How could we have missed that?  

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by: Elsbeth @ Tue Jan 12, 2010 at 06:36:13 AM UTC

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This is no knee-jerk reaction (0.00 / 0)

I could plaster up more than a few photos from the teabagger events this past summer in which attendees showed up with vile and racist signs and assault weapons.  When in Washington D.C. in Sept. I witnessed a sign depicting President Obama as Hitler.  

There are a bunch of seriously sick puppies in the teabagger movement.

 

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by: Libby Shaw @ Tue Jan 12, 2010 at 16:36:52 PM UTC

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http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20090816 (0.00 / 0)

http://www.ringospictures.com/...

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by: sdhook @ Tue Jan 12, 2010 at 23:50:27 PM UTC

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A few photos?? The hipocracy continues (0.00 / 0)

This link http://www.ringospictures.com/... has around 200 pictures depicting Bush as Hitler as well as many antisemitic posters.  All from protests in one city from 2004-2009.   What shall we call this group of citizens?  Knee-jerkocrats, hipocrocrats? Progressives?

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by: sdhook @ Wed Jan 13, 2010 at 13:35:07 PM UTC

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