It depends on it's use, if it's intended to be offensive or not. I know negro is not the preferred term these days, but Harry Reid was born in 1939, I think he can be forgiven.
We need a term for this phenomenon, this ratcheting of the ludicrous into ever greater depths, driven by an internal logic of justification for the previous ludicrous. How about "doin' the Limbaugh - how low can you go?"
Democrats losing ground against Tea Parties April 3, 8:44 PM Robert Moon Democrats are finally starting to notice that their strategy of race-baiting the Tea Party movement into silence is backfiring. Opposition to Obama's Constitution-trampling leftist insanity is bi-partisan, and while dishonestly painting the vast majority of Americans as extremists and bigots might rally the liberal fringe, it is alienating the electorate. This has continuously been demonstrated by elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, by virtually all the polls, the town halls and Democrats having to spend a full year twisting the arm of their own super-majority to get ObamaCare passed. But now, even openly liberal sources like CNN are increasingly noticing. [...] Imagine that. People continue to notice what Democrats stand for and are doing to this country even when they get called names for daring to question authority. Link
Keep deluding yourselves Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! You know what, when you wake up tomorrow everyone will be a teabagger. It's the Invasion of the Body Snatchers in real life. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! You guys are really amazing.
Imagine that, using projection again in painting moderate Health insurance reform as extremist, and the extremists as moderates.
Tea Party: A Brewing Movement Written by Joe Wolverton, II Thursday, 01 April 2010 Always anxious to be in the mix of controversy, the menagerie of media talking heads have bivouacked around the Tea Party encampment and fired volley after volley of “slings and arrows,” hoping to wound and weaken the movement. From the “legitimate” news desks of Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, to the satirical sets of the Daily Show and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, commentators of every stripe have taken their best shot at the Tea Party Movement and have filled the air with insults and inquiries all aimed at discrediting the Tea Party Movement and subsequently vitiating its potency and its ability to influence the outcome of elections. As one would expect from such outlets, the barrage of blows from the liberal media has had the subtlety of an anvil over the head. Ironically, however, the campaign to disparage the Tea Party Movement will likely have the opposite effect, given the tenor and source of the attacks. While the pundits and partisans parade through the sets of one news program after another, taking potshots at the Tea Party, their recriminations will only spray fuel onto the fire that burns in the bellies of dedicated conservatives who have consecrated their time, energy, and talents to the restoration of the timeless principles of liberty and limited government upon which this grand Republic was founded. Link
It's not an attack, we are just noticing the insanity and uninformed nature of your members. Your critics don't have to answer for that, you do.
Democrats (not Tea Party Dems) race bait and incite racial violence. They lied about the spitting, etc. Here's a hateful, threatening voicemail message in response to those Democrat lies. Guess this caller didn't get the memo with Cleaver's retraction. Are Democrat claims of violence now inciting violence against innocent citizens? This morning I received a violent, hateful voicemail that threatened my safety should I ever travel to Pittsburgh and make it known publicly. The audio can be heard in the following video clip. Article with video Congrats, race pimps!
Survey: Four in 10 Tea Party members are Dems or independents By Sean J. Miller 04/04/10 03:29 PM ET Four in 10 Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents, according to a new national survey. Link
It was sold on the basis of lowering premiums. He is now saying the same crap he said about the stimulus, it will take some time. Unemployment is at 9.7%. He lied then and he is lying now. But, stocks of health insurance companies are soaring under Obama. Blue cross blue shield doubled under Obama, for example. Big corporate america is doing just fine while mainstreet starves and deficits soar. This is why the teaparty movment is doing so well.
Much of the stimulus hasn't been distributed yet, and the T.P.s aren't anti-corporate when they are advocating in favor of the hegemony of the private insurance corporations.
In addition, the tea party folks realize Obama spent 3 trillion dollars in deficit spending to create 200,000 job for one month. All other months but 1, this deficit spending lost jobs.
We haven't even had one full year of deficit under Obama, yet. And how does one go about "rejecting" an acquired debt? The entire epithet screaming spittle-spewing Tea Party crowd has been one long self-incitement to violence, taking a break only when they are the violence that the Republican media crew wants to incite. And they don't have to race bait themselves - they're the fish. They are the response to the race baiting - their electoral support is the Republican reward for the Southern Strategy.
Jack you need to get your information from somewhere other that limbaugh, hannity, beck, levin, et al. When did Obama take the office of the presidency? That was January 19, 2009. Now when did the 2009 federal fiscal year begin. Can you say October 1, 2008. Now who was president in October of 2008? For the first year of Obama's presidency he inheritied the george II budget.
Nice to see someone use the Neoliberal epithet. I just started using it in my mind a while back and really don't remember actually hearing it used much. As far as I'm concerned, neoliberal and neoconservative pretend to be polar opposites, but are really joined at the top of that aforementioned pyramid.
