Glenn Beck and the Tea Party allstars

cycloon · **Joined:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3300

There's no concrete Tea Party link, is there? It's all confused and probably also going to be smothered in mis-direction as well, of course. Regardless, it's horrible.

And regardless, Palin and co can bugger off.

ACG · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:30 am

cycloon wrote:

There's no concrete Tea Party link, is there? It's all confused and probably also going to be smothered in mis-direction as well, of course. Regardless, it's horrible.

And regardless, Palin and co can bugger off.

yeah, we're still in that weird period after something big has happened but when we've got very little information on it. it's every stations headline story, but there isn't nearly enough known of what is happening or happened to fill all of the time dedicated to it.
so it's just random speculation time for now.

msnbc already has a "profile" of the suspect, random bollocks pulled off various internet accounts - which may or may not be his - and public records - which are incomplete.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:56 am

The Mail is touting the idea that the shooting is somehow linked to her 'pro-abortion' position. This makes sense for them, as they won't have to blame the Tea Party movement that they are shaping up to promote in the UK.

somersetchris · **Joined:** Fri Dec 31, 2010 3:37 pm **Posts:** 19

'I define terrorist': The bizarre YouTube ramblings of the 'Safeway massacre suspect'

The comments section is getting interesting

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How transparently biased of the Daily Mail to choose his love of "Mein Kampf" for headline material, over his love of "The Communist Manifesto." The insinuation being, of course, that he was a "right winger" (despite the Nazis being national SOCIALISTS) and thus by an incredibly loose association, a Tea Partier. And of course the liberal media is going to blame this on the "hateful rhetoric" of conservatives like Sarah Palin, which they've always claimed to be violently inflammatory. Yet forgotten is the violent political rhetoric of Barack Obama - for instance, speaking about the fight against Republicans, he told his supporters If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." And then he ordered his followers to "get in the faces" of anyone who opposes him. But sure, let's blame the political atmosphere on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party, if that's what floats your boat.

- William, New York City, USA, 9/1/2011 2:01

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1AXWdfFWA

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:34 pm

Ah, the classic "Nazis were socialist coz it was their name lolz" argument. Some things never get new.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:35 pm

This is blood-chilling.

Waterstones · **Joined:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:26 pm **Posts:** 298

I think it would be wise to let the dust settle on this before pointing fingers.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:47 pm

Unsensational coverage on BBC teletext page 125.

ACG · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:49 pm

bluebellnutter wrote:

Ah, the classic "Nazis were socialist coz it was their name lolz" argument. Some things never get new.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:00 pm

Waterstones wrote:

I think it would be wise to let the dust settle on this before pointing fingers.

What, if anything, does that mean?
We are referring (or at least I am) to the overheated polemic unleashed by right-wing commentators and the NRA which has led to this febrile political climate, in which these things have happened.

Waterstones · **Joined:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:26 pm **Posts:** 298

Because it's coming out the shooter was a leftie,not only that but the left-wing blog Daily Kos website is shitting bricks at the moment and has caught wiping a post off their website from someone who posted the day before the shooting commenting that the congresswomen who was later shot was dead to him because she voted against Nancy Pelosi as Minority Leader,now there's no evidence at the moment that it was the shooter who was the person who made that comment but he could have seen it and decided to go out and do it based on that comment,I just think it's wrong to jump the gun and start pointing fingers before the facts are in.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:51 pm

Oh for chrissake go back over that and punctuate it. I can't make head nor tail of it.

ACG · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 3:06 pm

Waterstones wrote:

[...]there's no evidence at the moment that it was the shooter who was the person who made that comment, but he could have seen it and decided to go out and do it based on that comment. I just think it's wrong to jump the gun and start pointing fingers before the facts are in.

sentence A is having a fight with sentence B there.

Adam · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 3:14 pm

The general tone of US right-wing blogs and comments is "It's far too early to start making sweeping generalisations about his affililiations with the Tea Party. And anyway, he's almost definitely a lefty".

Samanfur · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2011 3:48 pm

From what I understand from the fact that we now have a name and several social networking accounts for this nutjob, he was your traditional paranoid loner whose house was peppered with anti-government posters and who was constantly running his mouth on this stuff.

It's terrible to say it, but I really do hope that this'll be the wake-up call to give the GOP, the Tea Party and the right in general the well-deserved kicking they've been looking for for a while over their behaviour. Several American left-wing commentators've already leapt on the idea that if you teach your neanderthal supporters that you must not trust, fear and hate the government and the Democrats in general, this sort of thing is a foregone conclusion.

I'm reminded of a few months back, when Mama Grizzly herself took abuse from the press for presenting her map of Democrats to kick out of office in the mid-terms (Gifford included) on her Fox show and website, and showed each of the politicians she was targeting as a photograph in a gunsight with crosshairs.

I hope she's got enough campaign funds left to pay her speechwriters overtime. I have no doubt that the likes of Palin, Beck, O'Reilly et al will be as quick as DM journalists to deny that their conduct has anything to do with this.

Palin's certainly been one of the first to open her mouth about anything else so far, yet she seems strangely quiet about this.

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