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These might be of interest:
The news side of the Washington Times fully developed a story that some of you out there have done a good job of raising: the Black Panther voter intimidation story.
Frankly, this should be a HUGE story.
Our editorialists
opine on it.
No, onto Sotomayor, here’s
another really good angle (if I do say so).
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Pete| 5.29.09 @ 10:59AM
Cleary those nice gentlement with the billy-clubs were there to support McCain...see, they wore military style clothing in honor of McCain's service. Your tax dollars in action...gives you a warm feeling all over, does it not?
Daisy| 5.29.09 @ 12:40PM
ACORN's finest. Black Panthers = Brown Shirts.
Murphy| 5.29.09 @ 12:48PM
For the love of God, spare me.
These hysterics do not substitute for reasoned dissent.
Oldefarte| 5.29.09 @ 1:07PM
This is asinine, ridiculous, and absurd [beyond that, it's political extortion]! You have to consider this situation in totality with Democrats' ars-kissing of Hispanics with this Sotomayor nomination; their futuristic efforts toward passing immigration reform [and a motor-voter style fast tract of illegals to legal status]; their use to date of corrupt organizations such as Acorn to stuff ballot boxes; all toward the purpose of facilitating Democratic Party voter registration and the elections of Democrats. Additionally, Attorney-General Holder call all of us A NATION OF COWARDS concerning his intrepretation of racial inequality. Americans elected Obama as the nation's first black president partially due to their misplaced historical guilt over the slavery issue, and Obama and liberals are taking full advantage of America's stupidity by expeditiously as possible placing POWER RE-DISTRIBUTION mechanisms in our culture in order to maintain their power base. Since monitary reparation for slavery isn't possible[to date], Democrats' political power grabs are the next best thing. It amazing that Democrats screamed bloody-murder about the fictious voting irregularities against Republicans in 2000 in the state of Florida [and filed numerous lawsuits and legal actions thereafter to redress their being wronged]; but now are totally silent and unaware [after all the MSM hasn't reported about these Black Panther voting intimidations and back-paged Sotomayor's opinions concerning the voting of felons]of these happenings!!!!!
NavyBrat| 5.29.09 @ 1:50PM
I find myself wishing that someone would've told these Black Panther schmucks to preform an unnatural act upon themselves. That way, when these thugs commenced to giving the guy a "wood shampoo," there would be NO WAY to sweep this under the rug, as is currently being done. At the next election, I hope they're outside MY polling place. I'll volunteer for the "wood shampoo" at the hands of these members of the Black Klan. Then, just sit back & watch the circus.
ds80| 5.29.09 @ 2:34PM
ACORN: the modern day Ku Klux Klan.
Endorsed by none other than the Grand Kleagle himself, Boy President Barry.
Murphy| 5.29.09 @ 3:17PM
ds80 et al --
Comparing ACORN to the KKK or to the SA is something possible only for a person completely ignorant of history.
It is utterly shameful that you could have grown to be an adult and still be capable of such ridiculous, such completely stupid and ill-informed nonsense.
Why don't you read someone other than Hillyer or Vadum on this organization. Have some information at your disposal when you sign on to rant.
But more importantly, go to a library (a large public building that stores books available for free loans) and learn something about the history of the KKK and the SA.
You should at least learn about the KKK. They are a part of American history, and it is disgraceful that you could know so little about them.
(And by the way, ds80, we have a word for people who call black men "boy" as you do above: racists.)
Murphy| 5.29.09 @ 3:19PM
I have been reading the American Spectator for a few months now and conclude this:
The American Spectator is the closest thing I've found to an outright Neo-Nazi forum.
You people are the worthless dregs of American society. Hillyer, that means you.
Fucking racist ignorant Nazi assholes.
Smitty| 5.29.09 @ 3:42PM
So, Murphy/Jeremiah/Tom Paine, now that you've f-bombed us and called us A-holes what new name are you going to morph into, sack of sh!t? If anyone is a Nazi it's you and your fellow lying, thieving fascist whores. Why don't you do humanity a favor and go fuck yourself?
Tim| 5.29.09 @ 3:57PM
E-tard.
Oldefarte| 5.29.09 @ 4:28PM
Murphy, why don't you simply get the hell off this site and go comment on the NYT, etc web site----no one wants to see your constant/imbicilic, one word LABELING of bloggers whose opinions that you disagree with. Go join your fellow liberals and kiss EL CHOSEN ONE'S glutamus maximus!!!!!!!!!!!
Thomas| 5.29.09 @ 4:41PM
Murphy,
There is much similarity between the Black Panthers and the KKK. Both organizations sought to advance their social agendas through violent intimidation of others. In the past, the KKK used threats of violence to intimidate black voters into staying away from the polls. In 2008 in Philidelphia, the Black Panthers used the same tactics to intimidate white voters to stay away from the polls, or vote for their candidate.
Acorn bears more of a resemblance to Tammany Hall than to the KKK. They use a combination of legal thuggery and street thuggery combined with vote fraud to advance their social and political agenda.
Interestingly, all of these groups were either organs of the Democrat party of allied with it.
Basil Plumley| 5.29.09 @ 5:34PM
Nice job Murphy, Tommy Pain, Jeremiah, Sybil
Coming from one of the biggest liars and most dishonest poster on this forum, the irony of you calling us out is not really amazing.
When one is trapped by their lies and dishonesty, there is nowhere to go but down. You should be barred from this site and put on the Island of Misfits Toys. If you actually were a member of the 101st, you must have been the biggest pussy in your unit. You can't handle much; especially the truth.
Oh Smitty, as to your last sentence, please don't ask for the impossible, if you know what I mean.
ds80| 5.29.09 @ 5:41PM
Awww. Poor Murphy had his world view shattered by a little criticism of his idol?
BTW: "boy" means a pre-adolescent male. That you chose to interpret it differently reveals YOUR racism.
If we offend you so, why not take your marbles and leave? Or, you can stay and (1) practice more pubescent invective, (2) get your panties more in a wad reading *gasp* criticism of Liberals.
Your choice.
Murphy| 5.31.09 @ 11:26AM
ds80
If "boy" means "pre-adolescent male," why did you call Obama "boy"?
Normally I wouldn't notice such a thing, but that fact that you and your cohorts have chosen this week to be a time of flinging accusations of "racism" at Obama and Sotomayor, I just thought it might be pertinent.
The rest of your post is filled with witless hyperbole. No one is my "idol." I criticize Obama all the time. I just don't spend my time flinging absurd accusations of "racism" at him.
Outside of the narrowing echo chambers of right wing (white wing) talk and blab, you should know that people are mocking people like you relentlessly. "Conservatism" is becoming a topic of mirth and contemptuous laughter.
Daisy| 5.31.09 @ 1:08PM
Because Obama's a PUNK, bonehead. He proved it once again last night with his $1,000.000.00 Broadway date with Michelle. Gauche. The Obamas are behaving like trailer trash and it's embarrassing. Spare us your bogus racism fix; it's just more proof that you've got nothin'.
Wingnutty| 5.31.09 @ 1:17PM
You lefties just don't get it. ONLY CONVICTED WHITE COLLAR FELONS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO VOTE!! (remember, t you can't say white collar without saying "white"!
Wingnutty| 5.31.09 @ 1:25PM
ds80
If "boy" means "pre-adolescent male," why did you call Obama "boy"?
Same reason Strom Thurmond called black men "boys"; that is, when he wasn't busy banging black "girls".
Murphy| 5.31.09 @ 1:42PM
Daisy --
Everyone knows that when people on the right accuse the Obamas of being "trailer trash" they are really calling them "niggers."
Again: the wink and nod racism on the right must be exposed for what it really is. The Orwellian attempt on the right to obfuscate language reveals the proto-fascist impulses of corporatist "conservatives" like Limbaugh, Beck, and many on this site.
Murphy| 5.31.09 @ 1:48PM
The right -- accurately called "reactionary" -- basis its entire rhetorical system on these kinds of projections.
The reactionary right ruthlessly fights for an economic elite, and calls its opponents "elitist";
The reactionary right resists the increasing political and economic autonomy of hispanics and blacks, and calls its opponents "fascists" and "racists";
The reactionary right cheers endless government spending on militarist and triumphalist fantasies, and chides its opponents as "statist";
The reactionary right supports a "unitary executive" completely unheard of at the founding of our nation, then calls its opponents "totalitarian."
The hypocrisy is endless on the right.
Murphy| 5.31.09 @ 3:32PM
Some of you, of course, are wondering why it is racist to compare Sotomayor to David Duke, as Limbaugh has done, or a hispanic activist group to the KKK, as Tancredo has done.
The reason is simple.
The KKK was the most deadly (and most successful) terrorist organization ever to operate against this country. It killed more Americans than Al Quaeda has done over several decades. It used beatings, rape, murder, vandalism, and other forms of violence to terrorize civilians for political gain.
And it didn't just want to terrorize civilians. It DID terrorize them. Its program of terrorism worked and help maintain a system of Apartheid that oppressed blacks and other minority groups -- including Catholics -- for almost a century.
Now, Sotomayor may have made a few remarks that strike you as bigoted; the Council of La Raza may sound strange and alien to you. You might disagree with its platform. But this is NOT a terrorist organization; no one has ever accused it of encouraging violence or engaging in terrorism. To claim otherwise would be to LIE.
Rush Limbaugh and Tom Tancredo are LYING when they make these comparisons; they are trying to use your racial anxiety to stir up hatred and fear, since, like all demagogues, their positions are strengthened when men fear and resent one another. You should reject them.
ds80| 5.31.09 @ 5:01PM
Ok. We'll revisit grade-school English for you Liberals who were too busy picking your noses or had your hand in your pants to pay attention:
"Boy" connotes a young inexperienced male ... which fits the Noob President exactly.
The use of that term also conveniently presents a huge steaming pile of merde for speech-Nazi Liberals like Murphy and Wingnutty to step in.
Which they did. So predictably.
Well, anyway, I'm glad to see the Boy President is so optimistic and hopeful about America (Bush was so serious, what with Iraq and all). With time I might even come to think of him as the Gay President.
Murphy| 5.31.09 @ 5:18PM
ds80 --
It was only in the absurd context of Rush Limbaugh and other "conservatives" calling Sotomayor a "racist" that I even brought it up. I know what the word means and I know what associations it has.
It's not that I want to be a "speech Nazi," but I think "conservatives" have a hard time grasping the idea that words matter. It matters when Limbaugh declares white people an aggrieved minority, no different from blacks under Jim Crow, as he did this week. That is outrageous behavior.
Daisy| 5.31.09 @ 8:15PM
Everyone knows, Murph/Jeremiah Speech Nazi? Well I guess I didn't get the liberal memo. Note to Conservatives: Pick up copy of Speech Nazi Dictionary: List of language dos and don'ts as enforced by the Liberal Speech Nazi Police.
Told you you're a Fascist Liberal. NBC is your indoctrination mouthpiece and ACORN is the Brown Shirt thug enforcement wing of your democrat party. Sorry, I reject you as my thought and speech policeman, little Hitler Jeremiah.
Murphy| 5.31.09 @ 9:39PM
Daisy --
You sound deranged. Try this, just as an experiment: reread your post outloud. Do you really think that way?
ds80| 5.31.09 @ 10:21PM
Murphy - "witless hyperbole"
- -? ?
Nah. It was pretty darn witty.
Murphy: "It was only in the absurd context of Rush Limbaugh and other "conservatives" calling Sotomayor a "racist" that I even brought it up. I know what the word means and I know what associations it has."
Double Nah. The post in which you brought it up did not mention Rush or racism at all ... except to call me one: "we have a word for people who call black men "boy" as you do above: racists"
So your revisionist posting history doesn't hold water.
Basil Plumley| 5.31.09 @ 10:38PM
Murphy| 5.31.09 @ 9:39PM
Daisy --
You sound deranged. Try this, just as an experiment: reread your post outloud. Do you really think that way?
Hey Murphy et al., you should take your own advice. You seem to get most of the ideas for your posts by reading the bathroom walls at the the DNC or Media Matters; just about as relevent.
Daisy| 6.1.09 @ 2:06AM
Murph/Jeremiah, as Basil so eloquently stated: "You seem to get most of your ideas for your posts by reading the bathroom walls at the DNC or Media Matters." (Probably MSNBC, too--watch out for Olbermann in that bathroom stall!). So that's where you get your foul language--and your liberal talking points. LOL, Basil!! Too funny.
Daisy| 6.1.09 @ 2:15AM
You gotta understand something about Conservatives like Rush, me, Basil, etc., Jeremiah--we tend to have wry wit. Sometimes I say things to you just to yank your chain! I must say it brings me joy and laughter. So sorry it's at your expense--no I'm not. Take heart, though, I only tease people I like. It's a compliment!
Marc Jeric| 6.1.09 @ 6:41AM
Ladies and gentlemen; AS pages are infected by ACORN brownshirts. They are paid to do so by Abu Hussein from Kenya from the $9 billion reserved for them in the so-called stimulus bill. You can see their lack of education from the invective, name-calling, and lack of spelling knowledge. Those "community organizations" were called "block committees" in the communist country where I was born. In Russia they were called "soviets". ACORN thugs will be charged with the coming 2010 census, drawing more billions in order to fake the numbers. They will continue to use Obama's money to stuff phony votes into the ballot boxes, as they have done in sat least 14 states last year. They are being "investigated" by the FBI - but their friend AG Holder will squash it.
Daisy| 6.1.09 @ 1:12PM
Thank you for your service, Mr. Jeric. I'm sorry that you have to face this fascist nonsense once again. God help us.
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