What else would you call them?
August 10, 2009 2:19 pm ET by Jamison Foser
Oh, boy. Now Newsbusters' Brent Baker is upset that former CNN reporter Bob Franken describes disruptive protesters who hang a congressman in effigy as "a crazed group of people" and a "mob."
The other right-wing media mogul you should worry about
Palin's book and Obama's bow: a media week to forget
Media Matters: The Palin chronicles
The people texting in their votes in sympathy with the American Idol laughing stocks don't have any direct effect on my life.
As much as the GOP might look dead-in-the-water today, the type of people being swayed by the teabaggers have had negative effects on my life in the past, and it's possible that they could in the future.
We have neighbors that are far left and dear friends(we are on the right), our ideology will NEVER agree...but at least we can talk. I fear for America's future, because we are led by liars who will twist the truth to buy a vote.
No-one arguing against criticism, I have many things about the present administration I don't like. But whats going on from the right is not that it is hate and a seemingly disregard for fact,truth or reason. Death Panels? Rounding senior citizens for euthanasia? Government takeover of healthcare? Socialism? To have reasoned debate there have to be reasonable people. Hanging someone in effigy is not a call for debate. Your right though that many of the protestor at these public forums are being lied to and mislead by those who are twisting the truth but it's coming from your side.
Did you even consider truth and falsehood at all?
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
.....Abraham Lincoln
As Nixon proved, you can tax the rich 70% without destroying them.
Notice how your entire political framework is built on emotion and (a false picture of) fairness. Facts and history are nowhere in sight.
Facts are - Dems wanted everyone to take out a mortgage on a home...thus the housing bubble (Thanks Barney, Dodd, and others on both sides of the aisle).
Economic meltdown started with this housing problem, leading to people holding back on spending (i.e autos)
Then we elect the most anti-business President ever... is anyone really surprised that businesses and the stock market are in turmoil?
Tax those rich liberals in LA 70+% and we'll see how long the love fest continues.
Ah, memories.
When Bush's policies caused the mainstream media to lose half their wealth, they agreed that Bush was worthy of such abuse. But they strangely forgot to actually supply the abuse. When Bush's farewell tour came along, out came the kid gloves.
When did Bush receive death threats at various Congressional offices?
When did Bush even have opposing viewpoints at ANYTHING he did (the answer to that is, um, well, never)?
When did Bush have an entire media organization dead set against him from day 1?
The equivalencies are not even close, and aside from that, Bush never got any real criticism in his first 4-5 years. It wasn't until after Katrina that people started taking notice of his ineptitude, at least in the media.
He had it easy for a long time, and then was rightfully called out for his blunders.
Bush Hung and Burned in effigy
There was the book published on how to assassinate G.W. Bush:
Assassination of Bush
More on the book CHECKPOINT
As for the rest of your inane post, those paying attention saw it very differently.