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The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC has threatened to stop providing all social services unless the DC City Council drops plans for a gay marriage bill. Under the bill, headed for a council vote next month, religious organizations would not be required to perform or make space available for ...
Religion, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Washington DC, catholic church
Little Bulldogs has an excellent post exposing the relentless anti-Muslim bigotry of the owner of Jihad Watch: Fisking Robert Spencer. I wrote on Monday how MPACUK was trying to turn the peaceful praying of a few thousand Muslims at Capitol Hill into a political event. Now it’s the turn ...
Tim Blair joins the crowd of right wing bloggers trying to spin up the attendance numbers at the Washington DC tea party, responding to my post about Metrorail ridership by quoting the Heritage Foundation, who, as we all know, are completely unbiased (ahem): BIGNESS ENSMALLENED. ...Comparing September 12, 2008, ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail
This video shows what happened when a man walked through the Washington DC tea party with a sign that said, “Public Option Now!” He had a police escort, and obviously needed them. Imagine what would have happened if the police weren’t there. [Video]
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, Fanaticism, Unfaithful Monkey
Another dozen pictures, “cherry-picked” out of thousands of similar photos all over the web.
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, Fanaticism, birthers, Racism
Again we must revisit the issue of attendance at the Washington DC tea party, because, amazingly, the right wing blogosphere is still trying to artificially pump up the number, with very scientific-sounding calculations. Here’s the Washington DC Metrorail service information for Saturday, September 12, 2009: September 12, 2009: ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail
A few more photographs from the Washington DC tea party, that speak for themselves.
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, Fanaticism, birthers, Racism
Brendan Nyhan has a good post on the spread of the two million protestor myth across the right wing blogosphere — one of the most embarrassing episodes I’ve witnessed among people who pride themselves on “fact checking.” After all, who cares about basic fact checking when there’s an ideology to ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail
Glenn Beck, naturally, falls right in line with the absurdly inflated crowd numbers that are all over the right wing blogs. His source for this claim? A ... university somewhere. He can’t remember the name. Just some university that did a ... study. [Video] UPDATE at 9/15/09 11:33:47 am: One ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail, Glenn Beck, Video
Here’s Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams on the Anderson Cooper show, denying there are any extremists at the tea parties, they’re just a tiny minority of fringe elements, no racists, only a few Obama-with-a-bone-through-his-nose pictures, everything’s just fine. And then Anderson quotes what Mark Williams wrote on his own ...
Racism, birthers, Fanaticism, Extremism, Washington DC, Demonstration, Protest, Tea Party, Video
This is so pathetic I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Dozens — if not hundreds — of right wing blogs are running with this quote, portraying it as a statement about the tea party held last weekend: ‘We believe it is the largest event held in Washington, D.C., ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail
Open talk of revolution, Hitler, Hitler Hitler, pictures of dead babies with a fanatic screaming “Repent,” and more people with signs that say, “We came unarmed ... this time.” Bad, bad craziness. [Video] Here’s a Google search for ‘we came unarmed this time’. This open threat of violence is everywhere ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, Fanaticism, Video
The threatening clenched fist logo of the “9-12 Taxpayer March on DC” (organizer of the Washington DC tea party) is clearly based on the logo of the Progressive Labor Party — a group whose stated purpose is to “smash capitalism.” Unity and resistance are what the fist represented ...
Logo, Communism, Washington DC, Demonstration, Protest, Tea Party
A few more photos from the Washington DC tea party demonstration, starting with one of the most repulsive posters I think I’ve ever seen. “Stop him now before it’s to [sic] late! It’s not about Obamacare it’s about power! When we smell the burning flesh from the ovens it will ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Hitler, Nazi, Barack Obama, Satan, Coup, birthers, Racism
Since we now see some right wing bloggers claiming that Hitler-Nazi imagery was hardly even visible at yesterday’s tea party in Washington DC, here are a dozen photos we’ve found with a quick look around the web. There are lots more; it would take a week to post them all. ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Hitler, Nazi, Barack Obama
One of the announcers yesterday, Amy Kremer, National Coordinator of the Tea Party movement, is the person who saw nothing wrong with circulating a picture of Barack Obama as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose, and pledged to support the creep who did it: Tea Party Leader ...
Featuring a tea party attendee with an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle, talking about getting ready for civil war. [Video] Here’s the article that accompanies this video: Tea party movement has anger, no dominant leaders. No one on the tea party express seems concerned with the vocal fringe of the crowds ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, Fanaticism, Video
According to the Washington DC Fire Department, there were between 60,000 and 70,000 people at today’s tea party protest. (Nowhere near the 2,000,000+ being claimed at some right wing blogs.)
At least five of the featured speakers at today’s tea party in Washington DC were connected to the Ron Paul cult. Here’s a display the Paulians set up, right in front of the Capitol building. Also present at the tea party — the insane Birther movement, with professionally printed ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, Fanaticism, birthers, Puppets, Ron Paul
ABC News has issued a statement to correct the false crowd numbers reported by Naderite Matt Kibbe at today’s tea party demonstration: Protest Crowd Size Estimate Falsely Attributed to ABC News. Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration’s health ...
Stephen Green has a “response” to a comment I posted earlier in one of the tea party threads. He deliberately omits the link to LGF, which makes this a rather odd sort of response — one I’m not intended to see, I guess. Vodkapundit » A Response to Charles Johnson. ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Hate Speech, White supremacism, White Nationalism, Robert Stacy McCain
A sign that was distributed widely at today’s Tea Party in Washington DC: It’s disgusting enough on its own, but the group that created this is the American Life League — a “pro-life” group. Yes. A pro-life group that celebrates death. Lovely. UPDATE at 9/12/09 2:12:43 pm: And then ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Hate Speech
I’ve lost count of the number of “Obama = Hitler” signs I’ve seen on C-SPAN’s live feed. Here’s a thread to discuss the Washington DC tea party, as one of the worst “hip-hop” groups I’ve ever seen rants away with no rhythm.
Showing up in force today at the Washington DC tea party protest — the John Birch Society: Birching the 912 Rally in DC. Birching the 912 Rally in DC Description: Activist members and supporters of The John Birch Society have been gearing up to be in DC for the ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, John Birch Society
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you your elected Republican officials. Only one, Trent Franks (R-Arizona), issues an unequivocal denunciation of the Birth Certificate loons. Most of the others avoid the question, and one or two seem to be Nirthers themselves. [Video] It really stinks that Huffington Post and Mike Stark ...
Nirthers, birth certificate, Barack Obama, Conspiracy Theories, kooks, GOP, Washington DC