Maddow on Bachmann’s Teabagger Rally: Don’t Know Much About American History?
Are you familiar with Michelle Bachmann yet? Perhaps you are on the receiving end of her many email newsletters without being entirely sure why. Bachmann is a congresswoman from Minnesota who appears to have seen which way certain winds are blowing in the Republican party, and has recently gone about trying to make herself over into some sort of Glenn Beck meets Sarah Palin combination. Yesterday, perhaps in an attempt to grab some of the spotlight before Sarah Palin reseizes the airwaves during her upcoming book tour, Bachmann threw a teabagger ‘Superbowl for Freedom’ party in D.C. where she encouraged people to ‘kill the [healthcare] bill.’
Rachel Maddow took some time on her show to vet a number of yesterday’s highlights, including Rep. John Boehner’s constitutional misstep, as well as taking a peek into the past statements of rally goers like Mark Levin who recently described Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor as “Ruth Bader Ginsburg plus about 50 pounds.”
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TfT says: Can we grow up please, and stop with the “teabagger” terminology? These are citizens peacefully protesting against the government takeover of their health care.
I just don’t get how you folks can think your commentary is serious when you use the term “teabagger”.
Honestly, grow up and get over yourselves.
The unemployment rate is 10.2 and you post a “teabagger” headline?
rblrdr says: What a bunch of disgusting people! Waving Hitler signs and comparing the Holocaust to this Health Care initiative… WTF? The term “TeaBagger” is far too dignified for this sorry lot. Take away their Medicare, their Social Security, their unemployment compensation and send the dumba$$es home.
rblrdr says: @TFT
There is no government take over of anyones Health Care in this people. And the majority of those teabaggers already have government health care.
Fidoohki says: rblrdr? Did you read what you just wrote. You act like if a person takes Social security they should
blindly obey the Goverment in all things?
Fidoohki says: Btw Mark Levin is so off the mark with his Sotomayer comment… that has to be at least 100 pounds
easy. :P
ImNotBlue says: Why is this news? How is this significant to the cable news, or news landscape? How is this anything other than you posting a story you liked for political reasons?
Glynnis, please answer those questions… I want to know the relevance of this story.
ImNotBlue says: Hey, sfernando… knock it off. Your BS is just as disgusting and uncalled for as the BS from the other side. If you can’t debate thoughtfully, find somewhere else to be stupid.
TfT says: Glynnis needs to bone up on her own history and perhaps issue a correction to this report.. Even a quick google search will reveal this:
The Preamble to the United States Constitution is a brief introductory statement of the fundamental purposes and guiding principles
So Glynnis might need to wake up and smell the coffee — Maddow is not as smart as she pretends to be, or she can mess up just like anyone else can.
Rachel’s snark toward the congressman comes back to bite her in the butt.
From newsbusters:
MADDOW (waving hands): Nnn, Constitution doesn’t have a Preamble. Not. Nope. Stop it. That would be the Declaration of Independence. Ooh.
Actually, Rach, the Constitution DOES have a Preamble, and I doth quote:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Of course, if she or her crack fact-checking team at MSNBC had done their homework, they would have found “We hold these truths to be self-evident” does indeed come from the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence and not the Preamble to the Constitution as Boehner said.
Alas, when one fact checks, especially as arrogantly as Maddow does, you should be completely accurate or you end up looking like a bigger jackass than the person you’re mocking.
Did Maddow cover the ads by Corzine that were calling Christie fat? Did she cover Mike Malloy calling for Glenn Beck to commit suicide on the air?
And I agree with the others here, stop with the teabagger references. I won’t go so far as the obscene comments by sfernando, and find them over the top and uncalled for. But I do believe that if someone calls someone a tea bagger, they deserve to be called c*cksucker in return.
As for the handful of extreme posters at the event, I honestly have no doubt at this point that they were created and brought to the event by the Left with the sole purpose of getting them on the news, and making the Tea Party protesters look bad. The protesters know that these images are used against the movement, and do not benefit their cause. Either they are brought by a few extremists, who we know exist in BOTH PARTIES, or they are brought by people with the intent of smearing the protesters.
rblrdr says:
November 6, 2009 at 9:24 am
What a bunch of disgusting people! Waving Hitler signs and comparing the Holocaust to this Health Care initiative…
You’re right. The left started this while Bush was president, and they haven’t stopped. The LaRouche Group is mad because Obama won’t go left enough, and go for universal health coverage, but they really shouldn’t compare him to Hitler or the holocaust. On their web site they have STOP OBAMA’S NAZI PLAN and have been lugging those Obama/Hitler signs all over the place. http://www.larouchepac.com/health
And who can forget the thousands of Bushiter images we saw over the last 7 years… For some reason the Left really likes to compare people to Hitler…
kmccarty says: Maybe they like being teabagged them selves? That is is the only way i see why they continue to use this term. Would you like your mother to be teabagged? I bet Rachel Madcow gets teabagged nightly! And I know Keith O get teabagged hourly. And when Chris Matthews got the thrill up his leg he was dreamin about Baryy teabagging him. So let all these fools on the left let us know how they love to be tebagged. And really hope their mother and grandmothers are really rpound of how they turned out. This is the way the Left press works they would have a cow if someone called the first kids teabaggers.
shootfromthehip says: Hey Sarainitaly, you are the reason I stopped coming to this website. You are unreal. “I honestly have no doubt at this point that they were created and brought to the event by the Left.” What proof do you have of this? Why would the left need to do as much when there is a such a deep reservoir of hate against Obama on the right?
I really wish you would just leave this website and take your crazy elsewhere. Please.
shootfrom, welcome back. It’s like you never left. Sarainitaly is exactly right. A dozen goofballs were sent to the gathering with despicable signage to give Keith Olbermann and his ilk a comfortable narrative. Did you see the flagpole tip over as Mark Levin began speaking? I’m not sure that wasn’t contrived, either. Remember the McCain rallies where the MSM reported attendees yelling “Kill him!”( directed at Obama)? Guess what, that never happened. Its been completely disproven.
i am the reason you left? if you left, what are you doing here?
why do i believe there is a good possibility that these signs were made by people on the left? Because they have already done it!!!!!
First of all – the big Hitler Obama posters were done by LaRouche, which is a left wing group. http://www.larouchepac.com/
Here are just a couple, there were many more blogs about people reporting on their adventures at tea parties, carrying around signs to make the Tea Party peeps look bad.
Check out on youtube:
Liberals at the Portland Tea Party
More Liberals at the Portland Tea Party
Ticked of Taxday in LA tea Party- April 15, 2009, 06:08 AM
ACORN, HuffPo Organizing Efforts to Infiltrate Tax Day Tea Parties to Shape Media Coverage
Beware: Lefties Plan To Infiltrate Tax Day Tea Parties
Neil Lambert on Trying- and Failing! – to Infiltrate the Tea Party Movement
My goal was simple: make the most ironic signs possible…
There is much more online, feel free to search for more yourself. Or you can just continue to insult me I suppose….
Also, Tea Party organizers from all over the country urged attendees to not bring anything offensive or that can be used against the group to make them look bad. So, when the occasional whacked out sign does show up, there is very good reason to believe it is not a true tea party attendee.
But, please, just keep on living in denial, and calling me names.
Sunnyr says: I am sick and tired of the “teabagger” reference by these smarmy LOSERS! Get a frickin’ life and grow the hell up, you ignorant dipwads! ENOUGH! It is not funny and you are making yourselves look like a bunch of silly asses! WTG, Tea Party Patriots! Keep up the good work.
Nachi says: Bachman is such a stench in the nostrils. The very epitome of Republicantism today. Another intellectual/moral eunuch.
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