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Bill O’Reilly On WI Protests: “The Tea Party Doesn’t Shout Anybody Down”

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As we covered here and here, Fox News correspondents have not been greeted favorably by the Wisconsin union protesters and instead have been subjected to screams of “Fox lies!” Bill O’Reilly also noticed this behavior and concluded Tea Party protesters were more civil since the “Tea Party doesn’t shout anybody down.”

O’Reilly’s Tea Party comparison came in response to liberal commentator Alan Colmes suggesting Wisconsin protesters had a right to be upset with Fox, since he believed the network’s attitude towards the Tea Party was much more favorable than it is towards the movement in Wisconsin. In addition, Colmes was upset that the issue in Wisconsin is being portrayed as a budget issue when he believes it is actually a union-busting issue. Conservative commentator Monica Crowley was also upset, and snuck in an insult at the democratic state senators who fled the state, calling them “schmucks.”

However, it was O’Reilly’s potentially controversial assessment that the civility of the Tea Party beats out that of the Wisconsin protesters which is most interesting. O’Reilly claimed “the Tea Party doesn’t shout anybody down – they’re not attacking CNN, screaming at their correspondents.” Later in the show O’Reilly corrected himself and said there was one incident where a Tea Party protester did in fact shout down a reporter. Overall Tea Party protesters may have shouted at their elected representatives at town hall meetings, but for the most part Tea Party members have been wise and don’t attack the messenger. One explanation for such behavior could be that the Tea Party viewed all media outlets as a tool towards defeating their real enemy: big government.

Given the Tea Party’s influence and success, such civility towards all reporters might not be such a bad idea for Wisconsin protesters to emulate. Instead, when an “idiot” (as described by O’Reilly) repeatedly yells “Fox lies” over and over again, and when crowds of union protesters heckle Fox reporters, it’s clear that protesters strangely perceive Fox News as the enemy, and even more damaging, viewers may begin to perceive the protesters as unsympathetic and irrational.

Watch both the clip of O’Reilly’s original statement and his correction from Fox News below:

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  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    Ya cause Bill does all the shouting. Ya hear! LOL

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    I’d bet this is demonstrably false.

  • Nacho

    O’Rielly took it back after the break saying his staff told him it did happen once at a TEA party rally when they supposedly shouted down CNN reporter.

  • Grammie

    Matt, O’Reilly corrected himself in the very next segment.

    You really do need to correct your post asap.

  • Greg

    Publius219 said:
    I’d bet this is demonstrably false.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Ntu7Aapys

  • DwightScrute

    Publius219 said:
    I’d bet this is demonstrably false.

    Why bet? Put your money where your mouth is and show some proof.

  • TangledThorns

    Greg said:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Ntu7Aapys

    Yeah, I go to Tea Party rallies but I expect this to be on Jon Stewart this week.

  • Greg

    Even better… all smirk and giggles as he reports it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENQGaYJeZBo&feature=related

  • Nacho

    “One explanation for such behavior could be that the Tea Party viewed all media as a tool towards defeating their real enemy: big government. ” -Schneider

    I have a better theory, Matt. The Tea party knew FoxNews was their tool and accomplices in defeating their real enemy: Obama.

    The Unions are aware that FoxNews is against them so they treat them as such.

  • just wow

    Publius219 said:
    I’d bet this is demonstrably false.

    Which O’Reilly said following the clip played here . He said in the interest of honesty (paraphrasing as the clip isn’t up yet ) he must mention the CNN clip with the Tea Party .

  • BlueBunny

    Grammie said:
    Matt, O’Reilly corrected himself in the very next segment.

    Fox Lies.

  • ohwell

    Grammie said:
    Matt, O’Reilly corrected himself in the very next segment.

    You really do need to correct your post asap.

    It’s noted right in the original article, which was posted at 9:48pm. You folks need to learn to read instead of just grazing the headlines, like I’m sure many of you do judging by the horrendous comment section on this website.

  • just wow

    ohwell said:
    It’s noted right in the original article, which was posted at 9:48pm. You folks need to learn to read instead of just grazing the headlines, like I’m sure many of you do judging by the horrendous comment section on this website.

    The correction wasn’t posted with the intial story . Thanks for playing .

  • BFD

    “Tea Party doesn’t shout anybody down.”

    Another day, another Fox news lie.

    All the town hall meetings were Tea Party shout-fests.

  • Nacho

    ohwell said:
    It’s noted right in the original article, which was posted at 9:48pm. You folks need to learn to read instead of just grazing the headlines, like I’m sure many of you do judging by the horrendous comment section on this website.

    That was updated and not part of the original piece.

  • Grammie

    ohwell said:
    It’s noted right in the original article, which was posted at 9:48pm. You folks need to learn to read instead of just grazing the headlines, like I’m sure many of you do judging by the horrendous comment section on this website.

    No, it wasn’t when I read it.

    Continue on, though, with your smirking self righteous ole self as if this never happened.

  • Pablo

    Nacho said:
    The Unions are aware that FoxNews is against them so they treat them as such.

    Yah, they protested Glenn Beck and everything. Lookout, world!

  • Pablo

    BFD said:
    All the town hall meetings were Tea Party shout-fests.

    They were? Everyone who thinks ObamaCare is a disaster is part of the Tea Party? Everyone who wanted questions about Constitutionality and the proper role of government answered are from the Tea Party? How do you know this, BFD?

    This seems like mental shorthand for “People I’ve found a quick way to dismiss.”

  • Pablo

    it’s clear that protesters strangely perceive Fox News as the enemy

    There’s nothing strange about it, Matt. Hell, the White House was selling that a year and a half ago. It’s part of the plan. Murdoch loves it, no doubt. The best way to get the kids into something is to condemn it and tell them they can’t have it or shouldn’t be doing it.

    Fox News: Sticking It To The Man. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Scott-Heckman/1446404196 Scott Heckman

    Grammie says:
    February 22, 2011 at 10:24 pm
    ohwell said:
    It’s noted right in the original article, which was posted at 9:48pm. You folks need to learn to read instead of just grazing the headlines, like I’m sure many of you do judging by the horrendous comment section on this website.

    No, it wasn’t when I read it.

    Continue on, though, with your smirking self righteous ole self as if this never happened

    Of all people Hagzilla calling someone self righteous you and that certfiable Chimeri, Dollar , The Assley and Blackdung are all self righteous.
    O’reilly like all of Fox News shills for the GOP the Tea Party and all that hates muslims, blacks and unions.
    Fox is the problem not those who protest.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Pablo said:
    There’s nothing strange about it, Matt. Hell, the White House was selling that a year and a half ago. It’s part of the plan. Murdoch loves it, no doubt. The best way to get the kids into something is to condemn it and tell them they can’t have it or shouldn’t be doing it.

    Fox News: Sticking It To The Man. :)

    So, legalize pot then?

  • Greg

    “Tea Party doesn’t shout anybody down.”- Bill O

    A classic: Crazy followed by reasonable… makes great TV. Why not covered by FOX?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgec9WX21ik&feature=related

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Publius219 says:
    I’d bet this is demonstrably false.

    Put up or shut up.

  • Greg

    “Tea Party doesn’t shout anybody down.”- Bill O

    But this lady commits assault. Why not covered by FOX?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXvzYch9Jkg&feature=related

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Publius219 says:
    I’d bet this is demonstrably false.

    Put up or shut up.

    Wow Shelly rolls in looking like a jackass as usual. After it was corrected in the article and multiple youtube videos posted showing O’Reilly is full of shit, Palin Jr comes in looking as stupid as her hero…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Scott-Heckman/1446404196 Scott Heckman

    Liberal Tormentor.
    Why listen to racist, Islmaphobe, Union hater and tea party lover like Michelle in Hanoi, she is nothing but a Conservative Racist Tool, just like Beck.

  • Greg

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Publius219 says:
    I’d bet this is demonstrably false.

    Put up or shut up.

    “Tea Party doesn’t shout anybody down.”- Bill O

    Another classic… notice the phrase, “Lets burn her” directed toward an Obama supporter. Charming! Why not covered by FOX?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BZsD2BMTsc

  • Pablo

    Publius219 said:
    So, legalize pot then?

    That’s fine by me. You can stop by, we’ll burn one!

  • BatBoy

    Matt wrote: “One explanation for such behavior could be that the Tea Party viewed all media outlets as a tool towards defeating their real enemy: big government.”

    I respond: “Maybe it is because they are just older and wiser.”

  • Yoda002

    I guess O’reilly doesn’t realize there is youtube out there.

  • TampopoLoco

    No Bill O’ the tea party likes to attack old men in wheelchairs. What an absolute disgrace. No wonder the world hates us.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ik4f1dRbP8

  • Nacho

    Greg said:
    “Tea Party doesn’t shout anybody down.”- Bill O

    But this lady commits assault. Why not covered by FOX?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXvzYch9Jkg&feature=related

    Wow, I had not seen that before. You know if that was a “union thug” that would have been all over FoxNews for 2 weeks straight.

    This crazy lady was saying “No signs!” following her leader Beck’s word like the Qur’an. Beck constantly lectured for months (brainwashed) his followers to portray themselves to be as civil as possible by having no political signs for this one time “honor” rally. No matter how much you tell the crazy ones how to behave and fake it, you can’t take the crazy out of them.

  • Cactus

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Publius219 says:
    I’d bet this is demonstrably false.

    Put up or shut up.

    Why don’tcha have a look at the link posted right above the comment ya quoted? yea? or any of the other links posted since?

    (psst- this is the part where you run out of cogent arguments and go off about Fox’s ratings)

  • Nacho

    Greg, you’re doing all of The Daily Show’s staff work for them.

    Its hilarious. Billo is toast on this one.

  • illusive man

    BFD said:
    “Tea Party doesn’t shout anybody down.” Another day, another Fox news lie. All the town hall meetings were Tea Party shout-fests.

    you’re right we should bobble our head’s in unison and chant “YES WE CAN” instead.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Pablo said:
    That’s fine by me. You can stop by, we’ll burn one!

    Just a logical consistency check. I would but I’m on a p-break at the moment.

  • Lou Sarah

    Sarah Palin is the best! She rocks!! You betcha!!

  • ImNotBlue

    TampopoLoco said:
    No Bill O’ the tea party likes to attack old men in wheelchairs. What an absolute disgrace. No wonder the world hates us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ik4f1dRbP8

    *cough*cough*

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/21/anthony-maschek-wounded-w_n_825874.html

    (If you really want to play that game…)

  • TampopoLoco

    ImNotBlue said:
    *cough*cough*

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/21/anthony-maschek-wounded-w_n_825874.html

    (If you really want to play that game…)

    Sure, but you’ll run out of material in no time. I’ll keep going and going. lol

  • TampopoLoco
  • CosmosDan

    So, what exactly is the ethical difference between shouting down people at a town hall, and shouting down a reporter?

  • Yoda002

    BatBoy said:
    Matt wrote: “One explanation for such behavior could be that the Tea Party viewed all media outlets as a tool towards defeating their real enemy: big government.”

    I respond: “Maybe it is because they are just older and wiser.”

    They’re just being manipulated by the corporate elite. They don’t know any better. It would be nice if the Tea Party would at least learn to correctly spell whats on their signs.

  • CosmosDan

    Greg said:
    “Tea Party doesn’t shout anybody down.”- Bill O

    Another classic… notice the phrase, “Lets burn her” directed toward an Obama supporter. Charming! Why not covered by FOX?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BZsD2BMTsc

    Maybe they thought she was a witch. Does she weigh the same as a duck?

  • skyfet

    He corrected himself before Stewart calls him out on it.

  • SWANEE

    In this segment Monica Crowley used the same reason that I keep hearing over and over again as to what the reason is that they’re trying to pass this kinds of legislation in these states to end collective bargaining:

    The states are broke.

    Can someone please tell where all the money went?
    Who has the money?
    It had to go somewhere.
    Where did the money go?

  • GlennBovineKoldys

    In all fairness to Billdo, he does have a track record of apologies after spouting his BS.

    Little things like the Paris Business Review, WMDs in Iraq, a kidnapped kid enjoying his ordeal, a rape victim asking for it, pink gun totting lesbian gangs, sending stalkers to do his dirty work, just to name a few.

    It is not like Rupert or Jabba the Ailies would allow that crap on HIS “News” channel. Right?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Scott-Heckman/1446404196 Scott Heckman

    GlennBovineKoldys says:
    February 23, 2011 at 5:01 am

    Love the name…..Perfect!!

    You are correct when Billdo said those things he was given a free pass by those who defend him like Michelle In Hanoi, Butt Boy, Hagzilla, Im not Smart, Jeffy The Horse Fluffer, Fox Freak, The Assley and his son Chimeri.
    They all spin it to think it was OK for Billo to say the girl deserved it or Shawn Hornbeck liked it. Billo is scum, just like the fear spreading GOP propanda network he works for.
    Billo’s rip and read track record speaks for itself.

  • valkyrie101

    the “Tea Party doesn’t shout anybody down.”

    However they do spit on congressmen.

  • essexcountycitizen

    A simple search proves Bill O’Reilly wrong again:

    http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2009/08/memo-details-co-ordinated-anti-reform-harrassment-strategy.php?page=1

    Shouting people down was a sanctioned tactic used by the astroturf teabaggers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Scott-Heckman/1446404196 Scott Heckman

    Looking forward to Jon Stewart’s show tonight. Billo will once again be taken to school by the BEst F!@#$%^^
    News team. Cannot wait. Then watch the Orignal Fox Defender Mary Koldys spin it.

  • Jelperman

    Unlike the Teabaggers, the Wisconsin protesters don’t bring firearms to their rallies, nor do they spew racist garbage.

  • Jelperman

    It’s official:

    Bill “Falafel” O’Reilly is a pathological liar.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    I think Gov. Walker said this the other day.

    “All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people.”

    “The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters. Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees.”

    “Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.”

    OH, I’m SORRY this was not Gov. Walker, it was FDR.

  • Greg

    gordonbloyershow said:
    I think Gov. Walker said this the other day.

    “All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people.”

    “The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters. Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees.”

    “Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.”

    OH, I’m SORRY this was not Gov. Walker, it was FDR.

    “Public-sector collective bargaining arose in tandem with the civil rights movement between 1955 and 1965. This was no coincidence, as both movements were making the same point: How could the nation justify denying some citizens the rights and freedoms that it granted to others? The Wagner Act of 1935 protected the right to organize unions and bargain collectively for many private-sector workers, but it did not cover local, state, or federal workers. Nor did the Social Security Act cover them. By the 1950s, as the civil rights struggle pricked the conscience of the nation, this unequal treatment seemed less and less justifiable. As collective bargaining helped open the door to a middle-class lifestyle for millions of private-sector workers in the 1950s, the inequity became even clearer. Thus, by 1955, a special committee of the American Bar Association had called government labor practices “an apparent anachronism” and concluded that any government “which imposes on other employers certain obligations in dealing with their employees may not in good faith refuse to deal with its own public servants on a reasonably favorable basis.”

    http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/83829/wisconsin-public-employees-walker-negotiate

    Gordon Bloyers- Too dumb for pants

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Did we CRUSH the incestuous relationship between public unions and THEIR Democratic lackeyes yet? – or are taxpayers still funding the corruption.

    To Greg:
    There is a pernicious relationship between PUBLIC unions who elect politicians – using mandated union dues – and those unions negotiating tax-payer funded contracts with the very politicians they elect.

    This battle is enjoined for the type of future this country will have; one of Government preference & control, where winners and losers are politically selected at the expense of the majority, (Mubarak’s Egypt comes to mind), or free enterprise?

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Jelperman said:
    Unlike the Teabaggers, the Wisconsin protesters don’t bring firearms to their rallies, nor do they spew racist garbage.

    But the RACE CARD played was a Bald-Faced Lie! The videos & feeds Proved It!

    Liberals have been playing that tired old RACE CARD LIE for political purposes for 50 years.
    The only TRUE RACISM we see these days comes almost exclusively from the Intolerant Left!

    ———————————————————–
    WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
    ———————————————————————————————————-

    Support Bush…RACIST!
    Vote GOP…RACIST!
    Watch FOX….RACIST!
    Police…RACIST!
    Gun Owners…RACIST!
    Southerners…RACIST!
    Christians…RACIST!
    Want lower taxes…RACIST!
    Enforce immigration laws…RACIST!
    Elderly @ town halls…RACIST!
    Support family values…RACIST!
    Personal Responsibility…RACIST!
    White & disagree with liberals…RACIST!
    Black & disagree (Clarence Thomas)…UNCLE TOM!
    —————————————————————
    Now take a good look around at who the real RACISTS are! – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
    Just pay attention at who’s first to bring RACE into a debate – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
    Who promotes the primitive concept of “GROUP-IDENTITY” – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
    Who uses accusations of ‘RACISM’ to smear political opponents -THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
    Who feigns outrage over Glenn Beck, yet lauds the likes of Olbermann, Sharpton, Shultz, and my personal favorite, the Rev. Wright – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!

  • The Real Royal King

    The Tea Party may not have shouted down its sponsor, FOX “News”, but it certainly shouted down a number of elected officials trying to address their constituents, and it shouted own constituents trying to ask questions.

  • The Real Royal King

    SWANEE said:
    In this segment Monica Crowley used the same reason that I keep hearing over and over again as to what the reason is that they’re trying to pass this kinds of legislation in these states to end collective bargaining:

    The states are broke.

    Can someone please tell where all the money went?
    Who has the money?
    It had to go somewhere.
    Where did the money go?

    And people like Ms. Crowley run hard and fast from any discussion of the situation in Texas, a state with a negligible public union presence and no collective bargaining, brought to its knees with schools closing, teachers being fired, classroom sizes soaring, elderly, female and children’s health programs being slashed, the mentally ill be cast on the street, prisoners being released, solely by the fiscal policies of its REPUBLICAN officials who drove Texas into a US $34B deficit.

    And people like Ms. Crowley fail to acknowledge that the Wisconsin’s governor first act in office was to slash business taxes, running the deficit even higher.

    And people like Ms. Crowley engage in the most blatant sort of intellectual dishonesty when they fail to note the good teachers and public employees in Wisconsin have agreed to the health and pension contributions sought, seeking only to maintain their hard-won collective bargaining rights. No fiscal reason for the hostility towards hard-working American men and women trying to support their families and themselves.

    People like Ms. Crowley offer only one thing: a deceptive rational for union busting and worsening working conditions for hard-working American men and women trying to support their families and themselves.

    Ms. Crowley is the most despicable sort of liar. She is fortunate to work where she does.

  • The Real Royal King

    Greg said:
    “Tea Party doesn’t shout anybody down.”- Bill O

    Another classic… notice the phrase, “Lets burn her” directed toward an Obama supporter. Charming! Why not covered by FOX?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BZsD2BMTsc

    You put up and Tormented Michelle-in-Utah ran. As she always does.

  • tgk

    Here’s my question:

    How in the world did this story ever get published without the part where O’Reilly corrected himself? What was it, 3-5 minutes later? Come on folks, if we don’t demand better, we’ll continue to get mediocrity.

  • greg454

    “Unlike the Teabaggers, the Wisconsin protesters don’t bring firearms to their rallies, nor do they spew racist garbage.”

    —Have you shot anyone at our rallies? No, we’re simply exercising our SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS! As for racist rants, hey, didn’t Obama call his own grandmother a racist? Didn’t he spent 20 years listening to Jeremia US of KKKA Wright? Obama doesn’t even like being half-white, why do you think people call him Barrack and not Barry?

    HOOTERS CELEBRATES MARRIAGE
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/02/hooters-celebrates-marriage.html

  • ImNotBlue

    I have a question…

    First off, let me say this was goofy commentary from O’Reilly. No, the Tea Party never shouted down a cable news reporter like this, but they did enough shouting down of other people and politicians to more than make up for it. That, of course, does not excuse these protesters, but at the same time it does not make them as “unique” as O’Reilly first stated.

    His second statement clarified his comments, and addressed the mistake… but the damage was already done.

    Anyway… on to my question. Why is it that when something like this happens to O’Reilly or someone on FNC (and lets face it, they’re only human, they will get it wrong from time to time), there are those who will hoot and hollar about liars, institutional bias, and a whole host of other conspiracy stuff. But when Maddow, or someone on MSNBC, makes a “mistake,” their assumed eventual appology becomes the topic (even if it doesn’t happen), with none of the same conspiracy chat.

    Is it just personal bias… or do you people really see a difference between right-leaning mistakes, and left-leaning mistakes?

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    This is the left, ladies and gents. The left that the liberal media desperately tries to hide.

    SEIU Protester Harasses Black Tea Partier: “Do You Have Any Children… That You Claim?” (Video)

    A pro-public union SEIU rally turned ugly Tuesday outside the Colorado Capitol in Denver.
    The Colorado union supporters started out the day chanting, “Tax the rich!”

    During the rally several of the pro-union protesters took turns harassing a gay black conservative tea partyer who was participating in the counter-rally.

    The SEIU supporters called him stupid, uneducated. They called him “son.” They harassed him. They asked him how he could vote against “his own best interest.”

    In this clip the SEIU supporters asked the black tea partyer,
    “Do you have any children that you claim?” **

    http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/02/seiu-protester-harasses-black-tea-partier-do-you-have-any-children-that-you-claim-video/

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)
  • The Real Royal King

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    This is the left, ladies and gents. The left that the liberal media desperately tries to hide.

    SEIU Protester Harasses Black Tea Partier: “Do You Have Any Children… That You Claim?” (Video)

    A pro-public union SEIU rally turned ugly Tuesday outside the Colorado Capitol in Denver.
    The Colorado union supporters started out the day chanting, “Tax the rich!”

    During the rally several of the pro-union protesters took turns harassing a gay black conservative tea partyer who was participating in the counter-rally.

    The SEIU supporters called him stupid, uneducated. They called him “son.” They harassed him. They asked him how he could vote against “his own best interest.”

    In this clip the SEIU supporters asked the black tea partyer,
    “Do you have any children that you claim?” **

    http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/02/seiu-protester-harasses-black-tea-partier-do-you-have-any-children-that-you-claim-video/

    Greg ably responded to one of your tiresome demands, Tormented Michelle-in-Utah. You ran away. Now that you have slunk back with one of your screeds, it might be a good time to respond to Greg.

  • The Real Royal King

    You do realize, Tormented Michelle-in-Utah, that you are again clogging our blog with one of the more-widely discredited, disreputable sites on the internet? Again.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Yeah Royal Dimwit, I wouldn’t want to admit that is my side either. Divert attention and attack the messenger. Saul would be SO proud.

    Oh and I didn’t “run away” yesterday, I left after posting my comments and didn’t see the responses. There might be some cases of tp members shouting people down, but the left is so much worse they aren’t even on the same planet. If you don’t acknowledge that, you are either delusional or a liar. In your case, I think it’s safe to say you are a delusional liar.

  • ImNotBlue

    The Real Royal King said:
    You do realize, Tormented Michelle-in-Utah, that you are again clogging our blog with one of the more-widely discredited, disreputable sites on the internet? Again.

    Funny, you never seem to complain when someone uses Media Matters.

    Why is that?

  • spacegod

    ImNotBlue said:
    Funny, you never seem to complain when someone uses Media Matters.

    Why is that?

    Uh, cuz MM isn’t widely discredited or disreputable, nor engorged with hyperbole and bs, mostly allowing the newsmakers to hang themselves with their own words?

  • BadGenome
  • kvon

    But Fox News is their enemy? Do you really think Jesse Waters is going to be less of a piece of shit if you’re nice to him?

  • BadGenome

    kvon said:
    But Fox News is their enemy? Do you really think Jesse Waters is going to be less of a piece of shit if you’re nice to him?

    We can try it here and see if you’re less of a piece of shit if someone’s nice to you.

    You have a very nice moustache, sir. I quite admire it.

  • The Real Royal King

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    here might be some cases of tp members shouting people down, but the left is so much worse they aren’t even on the same planet.

    In other words, you have nothing?

  • kvon

    BadGenome said:
    We can try it here and see if you’re less of a piece of shit if someone’s nice to you.

    You have a very nice moustache, sir. I quite admire it.

    Thank you! I remember quite a number or racially charged posters and firearms at the 2 Tea Parties I went to, care to explain?

  • writer

    See? The Tea Party also has left wingers in attendance.

  • BadGenome

    kvon said:
    Thank you! I remember quite a number or racially charged posters and firearms at the 2 Tea Parties I went to, care to explain?

    I have never attended such a gathering, my good man, so I cannot say for certain. Is it possible, though, that you might have been carrying said posters? Or, perhaps, being possessed of an oversensitivity to ideas with which you disagree, you are seeing racism where none exists?

    (What is a racially charge firearm, anyway?)

  • ImNotBlue

    spacegod said:
    Uh, cuz MM isn’t widely discredited or disreputable, nor engorged with hyperbole and bs, mostly allowing the newsmakers to hang themselves with their own words?

    Yeah… except it’s not.

    See, you believe that because you agree with it. All the “hyperbole and BS” are accepted as a result of your bias. But that doesn’t make it right.

  • Jelperman

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    But the RACE CARD played was a Bald-Faced Lie! The videos & feeds Proved It!

    Liberals have been playing that tired old RACE CARD LIE for political purposes for 50 years.
    The only TRUE RACISM we see these days comes almost exclusively from the Intolerant Left!

    Oh really? All those Teabaggers calling Obama a Kenyan Muslim? The posters of Obama dressed up like a Zulu witchdoctor? The owner of TeaParty.org with the “NIGGAR” sign?, the Tea PartyMinuteman leader in Arizona who was just sentenced to death for stalking and murdering a nine-year-old Hispanic girl as she begged for her life?

    Yeah, those were all made up by the Librul Media. Asshole.

  • ImNotBlue

    Jelperman said:
    Oh really? All those Teabaggers calling Obama a Kenyan Muslim? The posters of Obama dressed up like a Zulu witchdoctor? The owner of TeaParty.org with the “NIGGAR” sign?, the Tea PartyMinuteman leader in Arizona who was just sentenced to death for stalking and murdering a nine-year-old Hispanic girl as she begged for her life? Yeah, those were all made up by the Librul Media. Asshole.

    Let’s see…

    Calling him a “Kenyan Muslim” isn’t racist… in fact, it’s pretty similar to what Bill Maher has done.
    The wtichdoctor may or may not have been racist, I’d have to see the sign.
    The “NIGGAR” sign guy was removed, as I recall.
    And the Arizona person wasn’t with the Minutemen, rather she was a thief and a criminal who tried to use the Minutemen as a way to steal. She was kicked out of Minutemen groups BEFORE this crime, so to say she’s “one of them” is false.

    Anything else I can help you with today?

  • Glackin

    ImNotBlue–”The witchdoctor may or may not have been racist.”? Please describe a non-racial depiction of President Obama as witchdoctor. I can’t quite wrap my head around what that could be.
    The other day anchor babe Megyn Kelly got all hot and bothered because F*x News didn’t compare people to Nazies EVERY day, and besides, a congressman should show more restraint than a cable flak. Today it’s okay to drown out Sen Spector or various Congressmen, but Bilgeo thinks it’s terrible that a cable flak got razzed. You Flamers and your pet network sure have some complicated ethics.

  • ImNotBlue

    @ Glackin

    About half of what you said doesn’t make sense, or is so garbled I have no idea what you’re trying to say.

    Megyn Kelly denied what her guest said, which was that FNC makes “Nazi comments” nightly. That was clearly untrue, and there was no evidence to support it. If you have a problem with such a statement, but only because you WANT it to be true, that’s your issue… not FOX’s.

    As for the “witch doctor,” I’d sure like to see it. Of course “witch doctor” imagery has been used before… the only difference now, is that Obama is Black. To me, for something to be racist, it has to attack Obama BECAUSE OF his race… an attack on Obama, even though he HAPPENS TO BE Black, isn’t the same thing.

  • Glackin

    @ImNotBlue: Let’s start making sense. How many times a day/week/month is it acceptable to compare those you don’t agree with to Nazies? What’s the limit? Simple enough for you, flame?
    Why is it acceptable to shout down members of congress, but not F*x reporters?
    WHERE did you see a witchdoctor that wasn’t black?
    The attack on Pres. Obama was based on his race. That is racism.
    P.S. I bet you would like to see the picture. Probably hang it on your wall.

  • ImNotBlue

    @ Glackin

    In my book, never. But unlike your book, and those crowing about FNC, it’s wrong for both Republicans AND Democrats. But, again, unlike what has been assumed by the angry-left, FNC has done that rarely… not “frequently,” as was said. It was an exaggeration, and selective outrage… of which I equally have no patience for.

    I don’t believe I said anything about what was more approprite. In fact, earlier in this thread, I said O’Reilly’s comment was goofy and incorrect. But let me turn the question abck to you… the left was very upset when that happened by the Tea Party… but have no problem here. Why is that?

    Please see ther critique of Christine O’Donnell, for more “witch” criticism.

    As for the attack… I still can’t say one way or another, as I haven’t seen the poster. Do you have a link for me?

    I don’t understand the anger from you lefties, when someone like me asks for proof. You’d think I asked for a kidney! I like to know what I’m talking about before I make my comment. Perhaps that’s not how you play things… but I’m not sure that’s something to be proud of.

  • njoy-d-ride

    Comparing and contrasting the Wisconsin protesters with the Tea Party is bad for the Wisconsin protesters and good for the Tea Party.

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