Attending the "Online Tax Revolt" Tea Party today at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC for Media Matters, I saw several posters and signs that echoed the falsehoods, smears and extreme rhetoric launched against the Obama administration and Democratic Congress by many in the conservative media. Here is a selection of them:
“Pull the plug on Obama.” The death panels falsehood, which earned PolitiFact's “Lie of the Year” award:
Claims that President Obama is pushing Marxist policies, which are quite a favorite of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
Claims that governmental policies are rape:
Other signs included one apparently “paid for by the Republican National Committee,” an assertion that non-Fox outlets = Pravda, violent rhetoric directed toward Democrats, and claims that Democrats should be impeached for treason:
