UPDATE: Instapundit has more. And an apt summation, to wit:
No arrests like these at the Tea Parties, either. Until we see scenes like this, I don’t want to hear yammering about the violence inherent in the Tea Party movement.
Just so.
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Next time you hear something about the bad behavior and nastiness of those horrible tea-baggers (or whatever the term of derision is this week), remember: they aren't in Pittsburgh right now:
The video is here. Charming people.
Protesters split into smaller groups. Some rolled large metal trash bins toward police, and a man in a black hooded sweat shirt threw rocks at a police car, breaking the front windshield. Protesters broke windows in a few businesses, including a bank branch and a Boston Market restaurant.
The video is here. Charming people.
11 comments:
Scum.
losers.
they dont even know enough to book a hardcore band before doing that stuff.
like i said: losers.
not a frickin clue how this stuff is supposed to work.
Many of those guys will be tea-baggers in 30 years.
Rich
The teabagger comment is a cheap shot something that is beneath you Rich. I can't believe that you are buying in to the "teabagger" mantra.
You underestimate that movement, and overestimate the anarchist scum that marchs at these organized protests. There have always been a core element of hardcore destructive protestors who protest for the sake of protesting. The primary goal is not the cause celebre', it's the promotion of destruction and mayhem. That's not all of the people protesting, but there is an element bent on nothing but senseless destruction of property.
It's funny you should make a comment like that, because quite a few of the radicals of 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's are now Czars in Obama's cabinet. In truth your comment could be rephrased: "Hey Pot, it's the Kettle calling, you're black"
I don't think these anarkids will be "teabaggers." I don't doubt that a few are future limousine liberals, though. Tea Party people are, in the main, not hyperrich people. It's a largely middle-class phenomenon.
Folks,
have you ever heard of David Horowitz? And we just had a conversation about Irving Kristol. My point was that Radicals tend toward radical behavior. Many of the people protesting Obama were protesting Bush a year ago. Whatever their politics are, it's obviously very confused. They don't believe in much, but they like calling attention to themselves. Kinda' like people who strap on guns and go to Town Hall meetings. And tea-bagger wasn't meant derogatorily. It's just a shorthand reference.
Lastly, Anon, please qualify this statement:
"...quite a few of the radicals of 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's are now Czars in Obama's cabinet."
Quite a few? Name them.
I'll start the list:
1) Van Jones
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Regards,
Rich
And tea-bagger wasn't meant derogatorily. It's just a shorthand reference.
But the term is highly derogatory, Rich. It's the same as calling supporters of Senator Durbin "Dickheads." That's a shorthand reference, too. But I imagine you wouldn't use that one.
As for Horowitz, I would hardly say that he doesn't believe in much but just likes to call attention to himself. Have you read his memoir, Radical Son? If not, you should. It's an excellent book.
Mark,
You said: "It's the same as calling supporters of Senator Durbin "Dickheads." That's a shorthand reference, too. But I imagine you wouldn't use that one."
Well, if Dick Durbin and leaders of the Durbin movement started out calling themselves "Dickheads," urging their own members (pun intended) to mail phalluses to their congressmen to show solidarity with their leader, and waving phalluses around at pro-Dick Durbin rallies, I am absolutely certain that I would call them "Dickheads." Even if some of them decided it was offensive after the fact. Sometimes, you can't get the toothpaste back in the tube. (And I am downright sophmorish about such things).
And I am telling you the truth when I said I thought the tea-people were past that. If I had made that mistake, I would have chalked it up to naivete and learned to live with it.
Rich
Rich,
I call bullshit. C'mon. You know better than that. They have always referred to themselves as tea partiers, not teabaggers. The teabagger term, which has a sexually explicit meaning that has nothing to do with the tea party movement, started with Anderson Cooper on CNN. It's been derogatory from the get-go. And by now everyone knows that. And I know that you do, too. Hence, it's bullshit.
Mark,
You can call bullshit on me, but The truth is, "tea bagging" and "tea bagger" were terms originally chosen by the some of the leaders of the movement itself, (with obvious ignorance of the sexual meaning of the term. Much like, 2 Million 4 Marriage, shortened to 2M4M, which is also gay jargon meaning "Two Men For More." Is it my fault that some right-wingers seem to just choose unfortunate names for themselves?)
Here's the invite I received in Chicago to "Teabag the Fools" in early April:
http://www.reteaparty.com/2009/02/27/rick-santelli-is-as-mad-as-hell-chicago-tea-party/
And Wikipedia says that Fox News, which was instrumental in giving legs to the tea party movement, was using the term tea-bagging frequently. Particularly Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins, who reported that demonstrators were going to "teabag the White House," and quoted a Conservative Web site that was organizing protests to, "Teabag the fools in D.C." Probably until some frat boys from the College Republicans stopped laughing long enough to explain the problem with the term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging#Use_as_a_political_term
And I stand by what I said about the "Dickheads," but I will stop using tea-baggers as a shorthand reference to tea-partiers.
Rich
Is it my fault that some right-wingers seem to just choose unfortunate names for themselves?)
No, but persisting in using the term is why it's bad. And I'm glad you're going to stop using it. Would that Anderson Cooper and the rest of the MSM do the same.
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