CBS News confirms use of right-wing racial epithets
March 25, 2010 8:51 am ET by Eric Boehlert
This seemed to be largely overlooked from CBS's exclusive about voice mail death threats that Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI.) received in the wake of his role in passing health care reform. (And yes, please ponder the irony of the staunchly pro-life Stupak getting death threats from staunchly pro-life activists.)
Right-wingers have been in denial, insisting far-right protesters would never resort to racial epithets. Sort of like right-wingers were initially in denial last summer, claiming far-right protesters would never resort to marching around with swastika posters. (Hint: They did. A lot.)
But note what CBS reported [emphasis added]:
"Congressman Stupak, you baby-killing mother f***er... I hope you bleed out your a**, got cancer and die, you mother f***er," one man says in a message to Stupak.
"There are millions of people across the country who wish you ill," a woman says in a voicemail, "and all of those thoughts that are projected on you will materialize into something that's not very good for you."
CBS News also obtained copies of faxes sent to Stupak, which include racial epithets used in reference to President Obama and show pictures of nooses with Stupak's name.
UPDATED: Funny if it weren't so sad. Right-wing bloggers go all Zapruder on a video clip, trying to prove that an African-American Congressman wasn't spit on during the Tea Party rally. Except check out the 1:26 mark, where it appears he was. And at 1:44, the Congressman wipes the spit away.
UPDATED: But oops, according to Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism, the spitter was probably one of the "agents provocateurs" sent by Democrats. What's next, is Breitbart going to claim there was actually a second spitter?
Because Scarborough didn't hear any of this stuff.
You so totally miss the point of any of this. Violence on either side is wrong (and looking at that list 1/2 of them are very FAR LEFT extermists and the other 1/2 are not proven to be left or right or anything other than crazy people). The point is that the violent rhetoric has taken over the MAINSTREAM GOP! This isn't isolated fringe radicals, these people are what the GOP now considers it's base. That's scary! And what's even more scary is that the leader's of the GOP won't denounce this behaviour. It's sick! And what's worse is your absolute refusal to see that this is wrong! It's not ok because xyz did it too. It's wrong no matter WHO does it! Get that through your thick skull!!! Stop trying to make comparisons and denounce what is very obviously a serious situation.
The leaders of the GOP are not saying that this is wrong, and that's really the problem. By not condemning, they are implicitly encouraging their base to go ahead with these acts. If these words and actions were coming from the left, I would expect the Democratic leaders to come out strongly against it. Read some of the comments from the press and from other Congressmen, things like "What do you expect?" and "They are just expressing themselves". Does that sound like they are rejecting this type of behaviour to you?
As a life-long Republican voter for President, I spoke out against Bush because he was a horrible president who, with the aid of an irresponsible Congress, almost destroyed our country. He was what he has been his entire life . . . a screw-up who didn't CARE that he screwed up. There was always one of Poppy's friends who would come along and clean up after him. That's why I never voted for the man . . . EVER.
Oh, and I never heard anybody in my personal life or on television who wished he would "bleed from his a**, get cancer and die." Funny, I don't remember that happening.
It was more an examination of the reasons someone might want to kill any President for misleading the nation. Come to think of it, replace the 'Bush' segments with President Obama, and it still plays.
Go to the latest Beck-Wallis thread. Your boy took Wallis completely out of context and distorted what he meant. You probably don't care though.
Back to this topic:
Did you see the gun sights targeting vunerable Congressmen who are vunerable? Is that not violent?
Do you want more examples?
Keep up, Beck-clone.
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Find me ONE example of a leading Democratic politician pulling something like this, just ONE
Find me examples of Dems spitting on Republicans and go to the Wallis thread, Beck took a quote horribly out of context, if you care about the integrity of your arguments, you'll go there and denounce your boy.
Find me a Democratic politician's website that has Republicans in gun crosshairs.
It's a false equivalency.
Are you seriously saying that none of this has to do with health care reform?
This has beeen happening since the election when McCain/Palin crowds hurled racial slurs and shouts of "kill him" when all the palling around with terrorists crap was thrown out.The emptyheaded U betcha girl said nothing after stoking it at rallies!.McCain even got defensive when John Lewis expressed concern of how they were stoking violent racism.Republicans even attacked Homeland Security for its report citing concerns for right-wing violence.In the meantime Congressional Republicans keep apologizing for and to Rush Limbaugh;agreeing with Glenn Beck and using Fox News for Propaganda.The rhetoric has become very much Republican mainstrean as they cater to the teaparty fringe.They never saw any racism on display or racist signs???They let this go too far and now WE all will live with the after math of their partisanship at all costs mentality. They were assisted by the main stream media which has not been that forceful in condemning this behavior or covering Republican complicity of it!!!
You must be joking.
Do you really believe whatever support Amy Bishop may have had for Obama had anything to do with her alleged rampage?
Do you really believe Joseph Stack's manifesto was left/liberal per se rather than libertarian?
Only after it became obvious that these dimwits are actually acting on rhetoric that has sometimes come from the Republican senators and representatives themselves does Boehner show up on TV and say it's wrong. What he ought to be saying to his own party is that the atmosphere they are creating is wrong. And the feces that coming out over the right wing radio and out of Fox News is wrong and has no place in civilized politics.
Mag, buddy. Please quit flailing about on this issue.
Most people don't care that there isn't proof these nut jobs are right wing or not. All they care about is that this is wrong. I HATED the patriot act but; I didn't protest that by threatening anyone, I wrote my congressman. I didn't care for Bush as president but; he was elected so I lived with it.
Instead of being an apologist come out and tell all your conservative friends that this kind of behavior is wrong.
BTW If you are really ballsy enough to do that, why don't you post their civil responses to your request.
After all that, for you to question whether it's conservatives and/or tea partiers who are making the threats is laughably ignorant.
This is Amy Bishop.
Ala. blogger claims a role in Giffords-office vandalism
Nice slight of hand mmfA.
Choke on that, liberals.
There are actually a whole host of issues that fall into this category, and the amazing thing is that conservatives tend to fall on the wrong side on almost all of them. Take tobacco, for instance. Which party has the tobacco industry in their pocket? How about the gun lobby? What about the issue of corporate pollution, or any other environmental question? Which side has always opposed any kind of safety regulation, be it for cars or the workplace?
Rep. Stupak looked over the merits of the bill, and decided that, on balance, there would be more lives saved than lost. And that doesn't even take into account the economic angle. After all, for many women, abortion is, regrettably, an economic issue. You can see this by noticing that the abortion rate went down almost every year of the Clinton administration. Why? Was it because of his principled stand on the issue? His judicial appointments? His stirring oratory? No, it was because the economy improved. Notice that it started crawling up again under his successor.
Unfortunately, so many so-called Pro-Lifers are really just Pro-Birthers, and thus they see no contradiction in making death threats against someone who is already born.
Right - a "magic loogie" that came from the nearby grassy knoll.....
BTW Rep Cleaver was not spat on, at least not intentionally. Look what Cleaver is saying now.
Rep. Cleaver claims someone "allowed" his spit to land upon him. As when in shouting some spit may fly.
Let's see if MMFA offers another UPDATE