I walked past a tea baggers rally downtown yesterday at lunch. As a result of having just read this thread, I looked over the crowd pretty closely. I didn't see a single face of any color other than white in that entire crowd of maybe 5 thousand. I had a good vantage point on a hill above the crowd. Not sure what that means, but normally you'll see a mixture of faces in any crowd. Not so here.

This guy probably more exemplifies that crowd.

And, couldn't find it on youtube, but here's a hulu clip:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/90671/the-...ased-by-ghosts

That's interesting, Glatt. There was a t-bag rally in the city park here yesterday, too. If there is one thing you can say about the 4-Corners, its that it is the land of diversity. Sometimes when I go to the laundramat, I'm the only white person in there. Everyone else is Navajo or Hispanic.

But if you looked at the composition of the local t-bag group, it was all white. I know because I was on foot and walked through the middle of the rally. It was bizarre, actually.

1. Just because you 'don't give them the time of day' doesn't mean they aren't there.

2. Maybe you just aren't hearing the racist remarks. Given your willingness to edit out the people who are likely to be making them.

You can't walk around small town America without bumping a nut on someone who says Obama is a socialist, anti-american, the *n* word...blah blah blah. I usually hear these things right before the person spits on the sidewalk or adjusts their overalls, or spills beer on their "mustache rides" t-shirt. Dumbasses.

the thing about Obama is he doesn't play by the old-boy network rules. He doesn't necessarily cater to the press or the lobbyists or the collateral lines of power that have been in place for a long time, and that's pissed a bunch of people off. (Makes me happy though). Whether or not the birthers or teapartyists are racist, well--how do you prove a negative? How do you prove hatred?

I certainly do have the impression that many of these people are motivated by racism. Probably Merc was right to call me on it when I called the original birther guy posted about racist, because it's true, I have no proof of that. nothing in the articles I read mentioned a racist motivation. But just because it's "convenient" to attribute a racial motivation to those opposing our president . . . doesn't mean it's not true, at least partially.

Or they are in such a minority that they really are not a factor. I certainly edit them out, that is true, but if there were really that many their remarks would be all over the internet both in video and quote. So far there has been very few events, other than the one reportedly made at the Capitol, with thousands of video about and no one could catch the supposed comment. Who knows. But it sure has become a convienient dig. To be honest I have only witness 2 such gatherings and it was in passing. Everything else I have watched is on the internet or TV.

Funny how he noticed that and called you on it...true or not. I guess it's not OK to call people racist just because they don't like our president, but it's OK to call certain politicians nazi whores, among a million other silly names meant to cast aspersions on the "other party."

IMHO (the acronym of the week) those two notions don't jibe. Seems self-serving, to me, and I'm highly amused at the dichotomy.

I think he has his own "good ole boy network", it just isn't the traditional one we would associate with that sterotype.

And that is one thing I really liked about some people in the Bush Admin as well, esp Rumsfield and the way he handled the press. But hey I am a bit more hawkish. Not that is was always the correct way to deal with them but I loved it when he handed them their assess in Q&A press meetings.

But they do border on whorish behavior IMHO.

with that "stereotype"? :eyebrow:

I'm not being a spelling nazi (hehehehee) I just find that to be an interesting choice of a word.

:neutral:

It's not the 'whore' part of it that's the problem, merc, it's the 'nazi' part of it.

David Mitchell on nazi comparisons and Godwin's Law:

From http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...hcare-mitchell

*ducks for cover*

Yeah. That caught my attention somewhat as well.

Angry rhetoric protected, but can be disturbing.

It is disturbing, to say the least, to watch the sheep jump on the sheepwagon of anger and hate.