The Real Anti-Americans
In today’s Human Events Pat Buchanan has a great article on the Left’s lies about the Tea Party:
As Democrats, after a Sunday rally on the Capitol grounds, marched to the House hand-in-hand to vote health care reform, Tea Partiers reportedly shouted the “n-word” at John Lewis and another black congressman. A third was allegedly spat upon. And Barney Frank was called a nasty name.
Tea Partiers deny it all. And neither audio nor video of this alleged incident has been produced, though TV cameras and voice recorders were everywhere on the Hill.
Other Democrats say their offices were vandalized and they’ve been threatened. A few received, and eagerly played for cable TV, obscene phone calls they got.
If true, this is crude and inexcusable behavior. And any threat should be investigated. But Democrats are also exploiting these real, imaginary or hoked-up slurs to portray themselves as political martyrs and to smear opponents as racists and bigots.
This is the politics of desperation.
Majority Whip James Clyburn accuses Republicans of “aiding and abetting … terrorism.” New York Times columnist Frank Rich compared the Tea Party treatment of Democrats to Nazi treatment of the Jews during Kristallnacht:
“How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.”
Kristallnacht, “Crystal Night,” the “Night of Broken Glass,” was the worst pogrom in Germany since the Middle Ages. Synagogues were torched and hundreds of businesses smashed. Shattered glass covered the streets. Women were assaulted and men beaten and murdered. After that terrible night, half the Jews remaining in Germany fled.
To compare a brick tossed through the window of a congressional office and two shouted slurs to Kristallnacht suggests a growing paranoia on the left about the populist right.
Tags: Civil Rights Act, Human Events, Racism, Tea Party
March 30th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Pat Buchanan is a tool. But at least he hit the nail on the head for this one.
March 30th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
And you hit the nail on the head with that comment Kate – my sentiments exactly.
March 30th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
The Tea Party are as much terrorists as the people in Ottawa who protested Ann Coulter were.
March 30th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
I’m not quite sure what you’re trying to say Brian… No one has said that the Ann Coulter protesters were terrorists…just ignorant censoring goons.
March 30th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Greg,
I’m actually quoting an earlier blog post from last week about the Ann Coulter stop in Ottawa, which said the following:
“Chants of ‘let us in’ and ‘this is our school’ were repeated by a group of troglodytes that hadn’t bothered to register in advance. 2,000 of these terrorists, and that is exactly what they are, surrounded the building with sticks and stones, clearly posing a risk to all inside.”
I’m not saying these people were right- in fact, I don’t think they were at all. I may not agree with anything Coulter has to say, but I think she’s totally got a right to say it, and let the people decide for themselves. HOWEVER… to label them as “terrorists” is just as incorrect as labeling the Tea Party as terrorists, in my opinion. If these people are “terrorists” though, then so are the Tea Party. Calamitous protest is the strategy the Tea Party typically engages in, and that’s exactly what the Ann Coulter protesters at Ottawa did.
My point is, if you’re going to defend the Tea Party, I don’t think you can attack the Coulter protesters, and vice versa.
March 31st, 2010 at 5:43 pm
The tea parties are completely peaceful, feature songs, chants and the occasional rude comment, but people at the tea parties are generally friendly and relaxed, and are not chanting death threats, or swinging sticks and throwing stones at others. As well, they are protesting something that directly affects them: taxes and government over-involvement in their lives.
The protestors in Ottawa were chanting death threats, some called for Coulter’s murder, they were swinging sticks and throwing stones, and many were not even protesting something that affected them because they werent even students!
Tea Partiers peacefully organize and peacefully voice their opinions without disrupting other events. The Ottawa protestors were not peaceful in their organization nor in the voicing of their opinions, and they were there with the express purpose of disrupting a peaceful event.
Its quite easy to defend the tea parties and condemn the ottawa protest because one is PEACEFUL and the other is little more than a coming together of a bunch of violent hateful bigots.