Alan Grayson: depicts burning KKK cross to spell Tea Party>>MOD ALERT<<<

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New fundraising e-mail from Alan Grayson: You can’t spell “tea party” without a burning cross.




Fun fact: So unhinged has this guy been over the years in his criticism of political opponents that he was once accused of being “one fry short of a Happy Meal” by … Anthony Weiner. During his first stint in Congress, he called one of Ben Bernanke’s female advisors a “K Street whore,” sneered that Fox News was an enemy of America, said that letting Republicans control government is like letting Al Qaeda fly planes (he digs terrorism analogies), and most famously accused the GOP of wanting people to die quickly because they opposed the surefire, can’t-miss, liberal technocratic dreamscape of ObamaCare. In spite of it all — or rather, because of it all — he got reelected last year. And now, via David Freddoso, this:

From last night: Rep. [MENTION=52952]alan[/MENTION]Grayson and his $-raising email features burning cross that makes the "T" in "Tea Party." http://t.co/bBmmKEnsYc

— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) October 22, 2013

The newsy part here isn’t that a sitting congressman would stoop to it. It’s par for the course for Grayson. The newsy part is that he chose to stick it in a fundraising e-mail to goose Democratic donors, which tells you where he thinks the party’s base is at. And he’s not the only sitting congressman to take a tack like this lately. Via Newsbusters, watch below as Steve Cohen casually reassures the MSNBC faithful that tea partiers are “domestic enemies” of the sort Cohen swore an oath to defend the Constitution against. Tom Friedman, while affirming that he doesn’t see the tea party as a terrorist group, nonetheless compared them to Hezbollah in his last column. Other lefties — all the way up to Rachel Maddow’s graphics department — have been having a renewed love affair with the concept of sedition over the past week in the wake of the government shutdown. It’s edifying to watch all of this play out side by side with concern-trolling about civility and bipartisanship as a solution to D.C.’s problems.

Update: Grayson’s not sorry, of course.

“Tea Party members have circulated countless altered pictures depicting President Obama and the First Lady as monkeys. Tea Party members also called my fellow Member of Congress, civil rights hero John Lewis, a ‘n***ger,’ and Rep. Barney Frank a ‘(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*),’” Grayson wrote verbatim in a written statement. “One could go on and on, because there is overwhelming evidence that the Tea Party is the home of bigotry and discrimination in America today, just as the KKK was for an earlier generation. If the shoe fits, wear it.”

The bit about racial epithets is, I believe, a reference to the incident outside the Capitol on the day ObamaCare was passed in 2010 in which some black Democrats claimed bystanders were shouting slurs at them. Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 to anyone who could produce actual evidence that it happened. As of last December, the money was still unclaimed.

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/...cant-spell-tea-party-without-a-burning-cross/

Where is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, NAACP, Urban League...Where is Obama on this???

I really think Grayson is mentally disturbed. He should be removed from office. I can't believe this idiot actually got back into office. Who are these people who vote for someone like this???

This is the same moron, you may recall, whose own deep thoughts about policy come from riding the teacups at Disney World and then declaring that every American deserves a federally mandated week’s worth of paid vacation. No, I’m not kidding.

Have to wonder if that picture is photoshopped or did he really burn a cross?

Grayson who compares the Tea Party to the KKK doesn't seem to understand it's not the Tea Party killing black children, it's his own kind!
Grayson also forgets that the KKK was a democratic organization.

 

I don't see the problem here. Am I missing something?

 

Its hilarious to watch the manufactured outrage over what most Americans think is a justified comment made by Grayson.

 

There is no TEA Party racial issue except for that which liars would like to claim.

[video=youtube;hMdPTpOyUk4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMdPTpOyUk4[/video]

This type of flame bait rhetoric only exposes Grayson as an a**hole as well as those that support his false claim.

 

You mean what most liberals think is justified.

Bush, a progressive, shocked the true conservatives with his unsustainable spending and progressive policies. Obama literally promised to be worse inspiring a movement. The possibility for change was during the first election yet the Republican elite ran democrat lite candidates but between bad and worse, people were willing to choose just bad. Liberals just cannot imagine that the socialist movement of the Democratic Party could be opposed by anyone with a brain (part of their filter) so it has to be racism (the other part of their filter).

Liberals view the world through an obsession with race.

 

Really? Do they?
How exactly do you know this?

 

And they say death panels don't exist...

 

Would you consider a democratic congressman who think the island of Guam may tip over and capsize if the troops move from one end of the island to another a problem? Would you consider a president who's been to 57 US States a problem? If not, then the democratic congressman who compares a peaceful (so far as I know, Tea Partiers are not out at nights, hunting people) organization to KKK, and whom Anthony Weiner(!) called "one fry short of a Happy Meal” should not be a problem for you either

 

Garyson's statement sounds reasonable to me.

I think it would be interesting to do a study of what States the Tea Party is the strongest in and compare that to what states George Wallace was strongest in in the election of 1968.

I suspect there would be a pretty strong correlation.

 

"Most" Americans? This thread has all of 11 posts and you think we have the slightest idea of what the consensus of America is regarding this subject? Is America even remotely aware of Grayson's comments?

Those questions aside which totally destroy your rhetoric, allow me to be then one of the very "few" Americans that oppose Grayson's comments. To an extent, there has been rhetoric from some wings which would call themselves "tea partiers". But to alienate an entire conservative movement and to equate it with a lynch-mobbing, law-breaking organization(That's historically Democratic!) is proof of the ones who truly are "racist"

Indeed, I read a quote(from a poster) of Coulter's who points it out well: That it's the Liberal base that is the most conscious of "race relations:", Liberals were the very first ones to proclaim racial relations aren't mended. Indeed, they made an entire big deal out of Obama's race in '08! It didn't come to mind for them that perhaps, the vast majority of America(and including I at one point in time) supported the President for the ideas he represented.

On that same notion, they also can't conceive that Americans are well aware that we're 17 trillion in the red. That whether our deficit is 800 billion or a trillion matters not, it's still far more significant than the Founders could've ever conceived would happen to this country.

They also can't conceive that maybe, just maybe the American Public understands on a basic level the security the Private Market brings, and the gross violation that is the ACA. And with that ruling, comes the fear if not the national reality that soon government will be the ultimate consumer, controlling both goods and prices and even income production.

Perhaps Liberals feel as though they will be victorious today as they continue manipulating and pulling the strings of social politics. And I'll give them this: That may very well be true. I don't see a conservative rebound for some time. But just as equally, I foresee the Democratic destruction. For the fact that they haven't governed for 6 years is a fact. They played politics for 6 years, for that ever illusive "super majority" perhaps to return.

Perhaps you and your fellow Liberals absolutely despise the Founders, they despise the political responsibilities that they have as the ruling party. Instead they want to blame it on 30 House members. And you've even got the "moderate" Republicans on your side. But despite that, you're on as shaky ground as ever. The truly ironic thing is this shaky ground was once stable and propelled you in 2008.

The Youth Vote.

The youth will be aware that they have to pay more so that the elderly can get "covered", they will be aware if the geopolitical situation worsens and oil increases. They will be aware if jobs plummet.

The Liberals, your political group had every opportunity and was given the exclusive privilege of power to govern to avert various problems. But no, first it was the bailouts, pork projects, billions of dollars to your donors and friends. You were re-elected in 2012, gun control, immigration. Anything, ANYTHING but the economy.

Your idea of improving the economy? Raising the minimum wage. And I have to agree with Senator McConnell. Focusing on people's lowest potential is hardly an economic policy. If the Youth want to aspire towards a future, we may have to create a Jobs Party, since the Democrats are uninterested in creating any.

 

^^^^ this!

 

Grayson's email is so racist and bigoted and not one of the usual suspects can speak out against it. You would think doing so would actually give them some publicity that they all crave so dearly, maybe even give them some credibility.

 

You have to give these Liberals a begrudging tip of the helmet. In the war they are waging on America they, themselves, borrow the most obnoxious aspects of Palestinian press manipulation and propaganda.

The Palestinian stratagem.

A course of action which virtually assures they will never win, but that they also, will never lose to their foes. And that the argument will last forever and lead to greater and greater viciousness and brutality between the sides.

(And who said we have nothing to learn from the Israeli-Palestinian 'conflict'? )

It is used when your cause is so repugnant and indefensible that it can't generate any positive press. And losing the Media war means your cause has LOST.

Period.

So, to prevent losing everything you give up the possibility of ever winning the fight but you gain a perpetual stalemate.

The Palestinian stratagem means you abandon the idea of playing fair or bi-partisanism. You are going for an assured stalemate with your opponent in the eye of the unfamiliar, low information American.

You get it by lying, spreading myths and spinning the truth, obfuscation, hiding the facts, telling half-truths, using the worst archetypes to play on people's deepest fears and appealing to our darker natures.

You throw so much dirt and dust and crap into the 'air' that the average Joe can't tell who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. When anyone tries to get to the bottom of any matter by Googling the subject there will be so many bogus news articles, promoting the lies your side has invented about their foes, that the average Liberal won't be likely to dig any deeper to find the real truth.

If that was their original intent.

Thus, these tactics help in recruiting new dumb arses from our citizenry, from our most vulnerable and gullible members.

Most of the Libs here would never support Obama or Obamacare if they knew the facts and the truth AND if they were able to control their emotions (Ha!) long enough to get past their initial impulses to fight Conservatives, 'automatically,' without even thinking about it first.

And that last one is a BIG "IF."

In fact, if Liberals were usually possessed of the facts of a matter and they were able to control their emotions they wouldn't be Liberals at all.

They might not be Conservative, but they'd be embarrassed to be considered Liberals.

Anyway, the Libs have borrowed from the Palestinians in their approach to this dispute with the Right. And I wouldn't be surprised to find that some radical Islamists are behind this strategy.

You can certainly find enough Middle Eastern Muslims in the Obama White House who could (might have) (probably did!) help them land on this strategy as well as to help them execute it as skillfully as they have.

And for all of you who ask "what's the harm in having a few Muslims in America or in our government or our White House?" Well, one look at this new era of dastardly, despicable lies and outrageous media tactics and realize you FAIL in terms of being a reliable watchdog of our way of life or as an astute political observer!

So, in conclusion...

Spreading this vulgar, grotesque and highly inflammatory racist material is straight from the Middle East and tailored for OUR sensibilities.

Thanks Libs.

You are disgusting.

 

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They've gotten to the point where they believe they have nothing to lose by resorting to these Palestinian style media memes.

 

Just one time I would like to see the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or even Obama speak out against this type of rhetoric.

 

But somehow calling Obama a communist, a muslim, hitler, etc etc is perfectly fine...But how dare a Democrat sling right back! No no now its an "outrage".

 

Have to wonder with the IRS investigating and denying Tea Party groups what they gleefully gave to Obama's brother if they will eventually outlaw the Tea Party. They have been portrayed as terrorists, arsonists, racists among other things. All they want is smaller government and less taxes.

 

Sounds like borrowing from the democrat playbook upsets you.

 

Yet Obama and his ilk have been denied nothing, unlike the Tea Party.

 

Yes but to most leftwingers . . . that really is the meaning of terrorism.

 

Would you be respectful in talking to or about those who are burning down your home?

Or burning a cross in your yard?

Or introducing the same dynamics from the never ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict into our American political climate...virtually GUARANTEEING we will NEVER AGAIN enjoy peaceful two party political bi-partisanship?

It's Obama and his manipulation of our Dimms.

No wonder he wanted Muslims in the White House. They have helped him complete the political divide in America he has sought to bring about. It is now assured. A fait accompli! Until the end of the Republic.

Obama and his shady staff members and associates have sewn the seeds of a thoroughly toxic political climate in this country.

How do you speak respectfully to that? To those who support it and help perpetuate it?

 

Agreed...things are going to get a lot worse. This administration has divided everyone and people like Grayson fit right in.

 

People need to understand that the KKK was always the paramilitary wing of the Democrats.

And they need to understand that NAACP was started by a white man, that Martin Luther King was a Republican, and that the Civil Rights movement was started by Republicans and hated by Democrats. All true, but the truth never seems to get out thanks to the media in the pocket of the democrats for decades now.

 

Obama asks for civility, then ignores the vilest attacks within his own party. Since libs are quick to accuse all tea partiers of being white, that makes hate messages like this OK in their book.

Grayson should be watched very closely. He's sending dangerous signals that it's OK to hate your fellow countrymen. I'll be surprised if Democrats don't rise up about this outrageous picture. If they don't object... we're in more trouble than we realize. It's like 'peaceful' Islamists sitting idly by while their brothers blow up little children.