Bachmann: Democrats manufactured tea party racial epithets

By Andy Birkey
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 8:33 am

bachmannnewsmaxRep. Michele Bachmann appeared on Scott Hennen’s radio program on Thursday and spoke out about reports of violence and racial epithets surrounding tea party protests: She denied they existed and that Democrats brought the anger on themselves.

“The media wants you to believe that tea party patriots are toothless hillbillies,” she said. “This is a very sophisticated crowd. And then these charges from Democrats that they were spit upon, that there were racial epithets — there’s no one who saw anything.”

Except there was. According to CNN, reports of homophobic and racist statements were corroborated by several lawmakers and a producer for CNN.

“No one condones violence but they are trying to distract because the Democrats clearly and simply, completely ignored the will of the people,” Bachmann said. “The people are rightly angry about that.”

She offered this advice to Tea Partiers: “The best thing that people can do right now, channel that energy into defeating these people. They are literally stealing our country our liberty our private property out from under us.”

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24 Comments

tedmore
Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 9:29 am

In typical GOP fashion, she spouts the exact opposite of what is the truth; that the GOP is fomenting and encouraging this behavior. This social retard has the gall to point at the victim and insist it their fault. Her term in office will end soon.


John Q Progressive
Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 10:21 am

“This is a very sophisticated crowd”??????? That’s NOT what Karl Rove said. He said, “This Tea Party movement is largely novices, relatively politically unsophisticated people, and as a result sometimes their rhetoric is raw and angry”.

Since they’re both accomplished liars, it’s hard to know which one to believe.

The Tea Baggers are like four-year-olds. When they run out of arguments, they resort to name calling. The names they use tell us exactly who they are.


T-Bag Jones
Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 10:31 am

This stupid bitch is going to get someone killed, including possibly herself. The nutjobs are attacking both sides. She should just shut the fuck up!


Thomas Butler
Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 10:35 am

4 year olds with guns and bricks and web connections – somebody is going to get hurt


Truth to Misinformation
Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 11:38 am

Bachmann is a dangerous dumb ass.


ZeraLee
Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 3:26 pm

I say potato, she says tomato.
I say Democracy, she says Theocracy.
I say necessity, she says ideology.

Come November, let’s call the whole thing off.


Jimmy
Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 7:11 pm

If slurs were spopken they may have been spoken by Tea Partiers or by imposters. I wouldn’t know which; I wasn’t there and apparently neither was Mr. Birkey or any of the preceding posters.

Too bad Cleaver didn’t press charges. If he had we would know, wouldn’t we?


majii
Comment posted March 26, 2010 @ 7:47 pm

Sticking up for anyone when he/she has done the wrong thing is neither a sign of courage nor of dedication.

It takes a real coward to support someone who is in the wrong, but it takes courage to condemn those you like/support when they are in the wrong.

Doing the latter shows that one has a set of principles that don’t change based on circumstance. Doing the former shows one has no principles.


John Bryans Fontaine
Comment posted March 27, 2010 @ 12:38 am

TEA PARTY RACISM: What The Media Won’t Show You About Teabagger Racism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38VioxnBaI


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Jimmy
Comment posted March 27, 2010 @ 12:31 pm

@John,

Of 38 slides I counted 4 racist signs. I researched the “Congress = Slaveowner” guy; he is a kook and was asked by Tea Partiers to leave.

http://biggovernment.com/category/media-criticism/

Nice music though.


Henk
Comment posted March 27, 2010 @ 4:11 pm

Johnny,

Maybe you could send those four slides to your friend Michelle, those are four more than she says exist.


Henk
Comment posted March 27, 2010 @ 4:11 pm

Oops, that should have read “Jimmy.”


Jimmy
Comment posted March 27, 2010 @ 4:25 pm

Henk,

First, you’ll have to demonstrate that those four were at Tea Party events. For all I know they were at the DNC national convention. Then you have to prove they weren’t imposters.

Turns out nobody was spit on, someone involuntarily ejected saliva WHILE SPEAKING. Sprayed it rather than “sayed” it.

This is why I seriously doubt anything the left says. Lies, exaggeration, and trickery.


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Eric
Comment posted March 29, 2010 @ 10:24 am

Henk,

…and to prove that the world is really old, you’ll have to physically produce an actual fossil. (Reports from third parties don’t count.) And then you’ll have to carbon-date the fossil. Then you’ll have to prove that it wasn’t placed in the earth by some tricky mad scientist who knows how to fool carbon-dating tests. Then you’ll have to…


Jimmy
Comment posted March 29, 2010 @ 11:55 am

Exactly, Eric. That’s precisely what scientists have done and continue to do. Science deals mostly with facts and truths, not lies and trickery. Well, except for global warming….


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Globalwarmingguy
Comment posted April 2, 2010 @ 10:17 pm

If you watch the video you will see that two of the aides were videotaping the crowd with their phones. Two points: 1) Why unless they were hoping to incite and capture crude comments and 2) Why don’t they produce their video proof? Also, the original report was they ha the guy who spit arrested but this didn’t happen – why not?

It was just a PR stunt that worked. Calling for Bush’s execution wasn’t bad because that was free speach. True liberals (not Democrats) are a bunch of whining children. Finally, of the tea party guys are too stupid for you why do you like the idiot that thinks Guam will capsize if we add more troops.


Douglas Anderson
Comment posted April 13, 2010 @ 7:35 am

Tomorrow Glenn Beck’s army of zombie retirees are marching on Washington in protest of, well, everything. It’s the Million Moron March..” – Bill Maher
How could the good people of Minn elect a dumb,anti american like Michele Bachmann.Where was her voice when we are fighting a war we didn’t have to fight.4,500 dead for nothing.


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