TagsTagsThe big news this morning: New York police have cleared Zuccotti Park of Occupy Wall Street protesters, arresting nearly 200 of them in the process. The police action was quickly challenged as lawyers for the protesters obtained a temporary restraining order barring the city and the park’s private landlord from ...
The Westboro Baptist hate cult pickets Comic-Con; hilarity ensues. See the rest of the photos at Comics Alliance. (Hat tip: John Cole.) UPDATE at 7/23/10 10:43:52 am: More excellence here: The SDCC ‘God Hates Fags’ counterprotest had the best, nerdiest signs ever.
Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps, Hate Speech, Protest, Counter-Protest, Comic-Con
Tea Party wacko Rick Barber, who’s running for Congress in the GOP primary in Alabama’s 2nd District, was last seen at LGF when he posted a video calling for President Obama to be impeached and openly inciting anti-government insurrection. Well, he’s lovingly fondling his Revolutionary War pistol again, ranting about a ...
Tea Party, Protest, Extremism, Fanaticism, Rick Barber, Incitement, Slavery
We have a new candidate for “craziest tea party candidate:” Rick Barber, running for Congress in the GOP primary in Alabama’s 2nd District, who created the following advertisement showing him stroking a Revolutionary War pistol and calling for President Obama to be impeached, and concluding with a “founding father” who ...
Tea Party, Protest, Extremism, Fanaticism, Rick Barber, Incitement
Here we go again with Dale Robertson, the founder of TeaParty.org who was photographed with a misspelled racist sign at a teabag protest in Houston. Robertson made the Hatewatch page of the Southern Poverty Law Center today after he sent out a mass email attacking President Obama for traveling home to ...
Tea Party, Protest, Extremism, Fanaticism, Bigotry, Racism, Dale Robertson, Southern Poverty Law Center
Mark Williams, talk radio host and chairman of one of the largest tea party groups, Tea Party Express, was previously featured at LGF when he went on CNN and called Barack Obama an “Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug.” That was right after he said that there were no racists at the ...
Tea Party, Protest, Extremism, Fanaticism, Bigotry, Mark Williams, Tea Party Express
Remember when Joseph Farah of World Net Daily gave the opening night speech at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville — a full tilt loony Birther rant that also advocated a Christian theocracy in the US — and got a standing ovation? Remember how Andrew Breitbart got out in ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Bad Craziness, Andrew Breitbart, Joseph Farah, World Net Daily, Lou Dobbs, Birthers
From a tea party demonstration at an appearance by Barack Obama in Buffalo, New York. (Hat tip: KT.)
Uh… Also see: What’s In a Name?
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Bad Craziness, Andrew Breitbart
On CNN’s American Morning, Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots (who has evidently been coached to use the phrase “core values” as much as possible) says the tea parties don’t tolerate racist behavior. [Video] Very few of the commenters at CNN are buying this; reactions to Martin’s statement range from fairly ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Bad Craziness, Racism, CNN, Video, Comments
Let’s do a little thought experiment, shall we? Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black. Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that ...
At a tea party in South Carolina over the weekend, former GOP presidential candidate Tom Tancredo said about President Obama: “If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don’t we just send him back?” Absolutely unbelievable. This kind of unabashedly racist rhetoric has become completely open on the right wing: ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, South Carolina, Racism, Bad Craziness, Constitution Party, Tom Tancredo
Make no mistake. Show up at a tea party with signs that say “I Like Ham,” and “Oy! My Bunions!” and you’ll get your ass kicked. [Video]
Who’s Chang, and how did he get into this guy’s refund? Nice tin foil hat, by the way.
Teabonics really does seem to be mutating into a separate dialect of English.
From various sources including Flickr and Twitter, a slideshow of some of the tea party festivities, mostly around Washington DC’s Freedom Plaza. (Click the picture to start the slideshow.) %%SLIDESHOW=/slideshows/201 0-04-15-TeaParties|%%
At today’s tea party protest, a sign that raises the question: can we call them “teabaggers” now? (Hat tip: Ana Marie Cox.)
CBS News and the New York Times took a poll of Tea Party Supporters: Who They Are and What They Believe. As with all polls, both pro- and anti-tea people will find things to support their arguments. I haven’t made any secret of how I feel about the tea party ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Poll, CBS News, New York Times, Far Right
As we noted last month, Andrew Breitbart has been claiming that Reps. John Lewis, Andre Carson, and Emanuel Cleaver lied about hearing the ‘N’ word screamed at them by Tea Party protesters. This claim has been picked up by numerous wingnut bloggers, and I’ve received at least a dozen hate ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Bad Craziness, Threats, Racism, Andrew Breitbart
As we noted last Sunday, Rep. John Lewis and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver said tea party protesters screamed the “N” word at them repeatedly as they walked to the Capitol. (They also screamed “faggot” at Barney Frank.) Now Andrew Breitbart is calling Representatives Lewis and Cleaver liars. He denies any racist slurs ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Bad Craziness, Washington DC, Threats, Racism, Andrew Breitbart
Wow. The racism that underlies much of the tea party movement is coming to the surface more and more, and yesterday in Washington DC the mask came completely off: Protesters hurl slurs and spit at Democrats. Washington (CNN) - Civil rights icon and veteran Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, said anti-health ...
Racism, Threats, Washington DC, Bad Craziness, Demonstration, Protest, Tea Party
Right here. These signs were at yesterday’s sparsely attended demonstration in Washington DC. And yes, that’s Barack Obama with a Hitler mustache emerging from a donkey’s ass. (Hat tip: Gus 802.)
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Houston, Bad Craziness, Washington DC, Threats
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said today that there is no difference in beliefs between the GOP and tea partiers. “There really is no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the tea party activists believe in,” Boehner said during an appearance on the conservative Mike Gallagher’s radio ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Bad Craziness, Extremism, John Boehner, GOP, Republican Party