Keith Olbermann and Janeane Garofalo Weigh in on the 'Tea Party' and the Bachmanns
Keith Olbermann and Janeane Garofalo weighed in on Michele Bachmann's husband, Marcus Bachmann and the fact that most people who are as vehemently anti-gay as he is, usually turn out to be someone who is gay themselves and has some real issues with their own sexuality.
I was glad to see someone finally addressing the issue of just how damaging the type of "therapy" Bachmann and his clinic are using is to anyone who is unfortunate enough to find themselves subjected to it.
Janeane also thankfully called the "tea party" exactly what it is -- an astroturf Republican re-branding effort that is not grass roots but sponsored by a whole lot of big money. And as they noted, their efforts are apparently fizzling if this is any indication. We can only hope.
From the Minnesota Independent -- Tea party convention featuring Bachmann, Bradlee Dean cancelled:
Organizers for the Freedom Jamboree, billed as the national tea party straw poll convention, announced on Wednesday that the event has been canceled due to low attendance. The conference had pulled in two of Minnesota most controversial figures, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and rightwing preacher Bradlee Dean. It was also being organized by Iowa’s Bob Vander Plaats, whose organization, The Family Leader, sparked an uproar in the state after it released a presidential pledge on marriage.
“Everything was set up,” said William Temple, one of the organizers, told the Kansas City Star. “It was just the tea parties themselves weren’t prepared to spend the money to travel and bring their families.”
Roll Call notes that the organizers also had subpar fundraising in addition to low attendance, and it’s the second tea party convention in two years to be canceled because of low attendance.
Janeane is correct. She is describing human nature.
Some of the biggest advocates against Americans' ability to consume tobacco publicly are former smokers. Some of the loudest voices against the right for Americans to smoke have thousands of Marlboro miles themselves.
They have declared that since they decided not to continue to act upon those urges, that noone else should be able to as well. As a result they have stolen the right for private business owners to decide for themselves if tobacco consumption can take place at their facilities.
They can be proud of themselves while they are breathing in exhaust fumes on their way to purchase a super-sized Big Mac value meal, before retiring to their Lazyboy and sedentary American Idol-watching lifestyle for the remainder of the night.
Thanks for thinking healthy.
"When you're president -- as opposed the head of a private equity firm -- your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot." - President Barack Obama
... you can therefore never be against it. The one case is projection, driven by fear and denial. The other is (unless you believe Phillip Morris "Doctors") the result of experience with what I am told is a fearsome and unhealthy back-monkey.
Presumably the anti-smoking forces don't pretend they've never smoked.
Thank you, Finrod. The comparison between anti-tobacco activists and self-hating, closeted gay bashers is more than a little strained.
Speaking from the experience of being the only non-smoker in a family of seven (six of whom smoked liked chimneys) I can tell you with great confidence that there is no one on this planet who is more anti-smoking than someone who has lived in a secondhand smoke-filled environment against their will.
After I stood by my sister's hospital bed while she died from lung cancer at the ripe old age of 52, I can assure you there is no one on this planet who is more anti-tobacco than I am, a life-long nonsmoker.
My other family members (most of whom have quit smoking, thankfully) feel it would be hypocritical to be too "pushy" about being anti-smoking, now. Not me.
BTW...Finrod is correct. Anti-smoking and homophobia are not even kinda equivalent.
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss
living with someone who stopped.
A couple of things--Smoking is an unhealthy habit not only for the smoker, but for anyone in the area, Gay is not.
To start to smoke or to stop is all choice, Gay is not
BTW as a smoker who hasn't in over 13 years, I do not recognise this lifestyle from before or after my decades of smoking
One, I don't drive to get one thing, two I have never eaten anything from McD's in my life, no lazy boy, never saw American Idol.
Thanks for making groundless generalisations.
me-oww!
Bachmann signed Family Leader's- Pledge,which equates homosexuality with second-hand smoke.
If you are in the same room with gay people --hold your breath and exit quickly lest you might "catch" it.
Marcus must have inhaled.
First they ignore us..then they ridicule us..now they are feeding us chicken crap- sign my petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/fda-stop-feed...
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I wonder if he signed the pledge too.
me-oww!
that spent about 20 years pressuring city councils and businesses to go non smoking.
Give credit where credit is due. To those of us who did the work not to some boogy men you hate.
Ain't life grand!
Christianity. What a damnable disgrace.
Translation: He really hates himself for being gay and is trying to prove otherwise.
Janek
You do the math.
...at the bagger convention seems to have the same immense draw that Palin's film did – audience equaled zero …....Bwa-ha-ha-ha!! When you are born stupid it's a lifetime gift.
"we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and [to] bid defiance to the laws of our country." …..Thomas Jefferson
Maybe, next time... offer free Coors, Moon Pie and pork-rinds? Maybe a lynching, crucifixion or tractor-pull? http://gawker.com/5817774/all-kinds-of-people... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm...
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/search/label/Mic... http://twitter.com/#!/cher/status/91559423360778240 http://www.slate.com/id/2299300/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoMILJGetdA&fe... http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressreleases/201... http://www.thenation.com/article/161883/%E2%8... http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/07/15/yet-... http://gawker.com/5817711/are-women-as-good-a...
http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/P...
Not that I'm not enjoying anything tea bagger-related running into problems, but they just went after the wrong crowd. Sure the baggers profess God and Country, But this was hardcore evangelical. Now work up a good ol' anti-black and anti-brown show and that'll sell some tickets.
And as they noted, their efforts are apparently fizzling if this is any indication. We can only hope.
this is delusional.
on a macro scale, they've shifted the dialogue hugely to the right giving cover to obama for his republican agenda and making legitimate previously outrage invoking assaults on fairness and decency.
they've successfully infested Congress and numerous major state legislatures attaining majorities (real or effective) where they're terrorizing working people, stealing taxpayers livelihood to enrich corporations and plutocrats. and their eviscerating regulations to open the floodgates of corporate rape of the environment and poisoning of people.
they've launched an all-out assault on woman's reproductive rights effectively eliminating the ability to attain an abortion in some states and ensuring disadvantaged women don't receive the health services they need.
they're spreading their gospel of gun worship making loaded guns in public spaces common in many areas including bars of all things - this is insanity!
whatever the state of the teascum's outward public blustering is, they are far from "fizzling". Takes a blind fool to think so.
Translation: "The Kochs wouldn't pay for it."
I think we see just how committed the TeaBaggers are - no bus, no donuts, no show.
Seriously, would a straight man marry Michele Bachmann?
that the Tea Party is actually dying, but the media aren't willing to let it die. The Tea Party gets covered if it organizes a sleepover at a members house. The unions in Wisconsin that turned out thousands of members to protect Walker's tactics were pretty much ignored. I guess the unions and their supporters need to start dressing up in Uncle Sam costumes, making outfits out the American flag and singing hymns at their protests. That seems to the be the real to getting media coverage.
them. I need to read what I write.
Bachmann’s mispronunciation doesn’t do too much beyond make for some amusement.
However
It is not a word you would just drop into conversation unless you used it on a regular basis. She pronounced it the way a person would if they just saw it written. What is apparent from her mistake is that it was scripted but not properly rehearsed.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Dr. Suess
I doubt Bachmann would care for the comparison, but it Definitely came off as a Palin-style gaffe.
just what'd happen if'n a 1,978 year old long-haired very Semetic rabbi, spouting parables of peace, love and caring for the poor and despised, in Aramaic Hebrew, went flip-flopping past with a gaggle of worshipful young fisher boys just then... "Yo, Nazi lady... that's חֻצְפָּה, Chutzpah" spitting right into her bitch's eye?
P'tooi! GAY AVEK FERCOCKT NAFKA and your little MESHUGGE FAYGALA GONIF too, already!
Then his pappy'd get like real pissed-off and turn both Bachmanns into despicably deformed, festering feral sows for children to bugger with cattle prods and cut chops from still wallowing, slithering and trying to form lies and hateful imprecations. Until it got like really old and Yahweh saw it was lame and rained white hot plasma, isotopes and positrons for forty days and forty nights. The end.
Let's lay off the stereotypes.
Ed-words
Mrs. Marcus Bachmann, like her nutty hubby, is committed to the Booble. The O.T. in Leviticus, and the N.T. in the gospels of the raving homophobe and misogynist zealot Saul-Paul of Tarsus, make homosexuality an "abomination," which brings the penalty of stoning to death. (I think Shariah orders beheading for the same abomination.) What LGBT (my word: "Queer") people and many progressives and freethinkers know from science and reason is that Queers are born, not made. If it were possible to fulfill the mythical gay agenda and turn all little boys and girls into raving gays and lesbians, as this nurture argument goes, then the nature argument is false. (There appears to be no room for a middle, although I myself muse on it from time to time.)
The naturists, mindful of the bumpersticker slogan "Homosexuals Prove Darwin Was Wrong," point out the illogicality of a god who condemns gays but goes on putting so many on earth, implying an arbitrary, even perhaps perverse god, certainly not one worthy of respect, much less worship. The Bachmanns want to have it both ways. Since the O.T. condemns homosexuals and the O.T. as we all know is the literal word of "God," then homosexuals must be an abomination. One must suppose that the Prosperity Gospel allows Marcus to accept Medicare funding for his homo no more clinic, even as his lunatic wife runs for president lambasting Medicare. The most abominable thing, however, may be her marriage itself: to a deeply closeted, self-loathing closet queer. He should be congratulated: he has at least reached the status of "Saint" Paul: a self-loathing homophobic misogynist.
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
Two points.
Many of the Tea Partiers are rural, small town and lower middle class so their ability to keep traveling around unless the Kochs hire the buses and pay for the hotel room, is finite.
Now that the Republicans are seriously going after Medicare, SS and Medicaid, not just talking about it, that so many working class, and poor rural communities rely on, many of the tea partiers may be having second thoughts about exactly what it means to want smaller government.
They are bouncing over last winter's chug holes on their rural roads, grandmaw broke her hip and Medicare won't cover enough of it, the local rural hospital shut and their daughter is pregnant by a 1st cousin and needs prenatal care. Their local small businesses, or farms are losing money and their brother just lost his job and moved in with his wife and kids.
Who is going to pay for all that?
Not the Koch brothers, or Mittins, or Randie Paul or Sarah or Bachmann or any body else except government.
That does not mean they won't vote Republican though.
So lets home some less rabid more rational populists candidates show up
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