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Preach Black Man!!! Massive turnout in B'More. There were prolly more people standing in line at The Fudgery.[1]
Anyways, wouldn't you know it, there just had to be a handful of bad apples that ruined the nonpartisan, all-American assembly. Witness this outbreak of Caucasian Craziness in Jacksonville, FL.
The Republican Party of Duval County is backing away from their promotion of an event that featured numerous controversial comparisons of President Barack Obama with German Dictator Adolf Hitler. The event, a Tea Party held at the Jacksonville Landing on July 2, was organized by the First Coast Tea Party. However, the Duval County Republican Party promoted the event with e-mails that stated “Paid by Republican Party of Duval County.” Duval Republican Party Chairman Lenny Curry also broadcasted live from the event on the party’s weekly radio broadcast hosted by AM 1320.The obligatory "Action News" report.
The event, which was attended by Florida State Representatives Lake Ray, Charles McBurney and Mike Weinstein and Florida State Senator Stephen Wise, drew about 1,000 people to the Jacksonville Landing. Local party officials were on stage, along with numerous members of the Jacksonville business community.
While partisan rhetoric at any rally is expected, controversy has arisen over numerous signs that were prominently displayed at the gathering, including two that featured Barack Obama in Nazi garb. One sign, in fact, had altered Obama’s appearance to resemble Hitler. Other signs compared ACORN, the community organizing group accused of voter registration irregularities, with the SS—the Nazi organization responsible for enacting the Holocaust and the group responsible for most of the crimes against humanity committed by the Third Reich.
Several local GOP activists privately expressed shock that elected officials would be seen at any event that featured comparisons of Obama with Hitler. What surprised some of them the most; however, was the fact that the Duval County Republican Party would feature pictures from the event—complete with Obama/Hitler comparisons—on their Facebook fan page.
While the party has stated that they did not officially “plan” the event, the fact that they heavily promoted it and featured the controversial pictures on their website, has left them open to the ensuing controversy.
And of course, another of the inflammatory images.
Seriously, folks, we get it. You don't like the President. You wanted your guy to win, even though who exactly "your guy" is is still a bit puzzling. But at some point, doesn't all the anti-Semitic imagery get a bit played out? How do you take this photoshopped image to Kinkos with a straight face? I suppose people are certainly entitled to their opinions, and signs invoking the Holocaust are certainly protected by free speech. But c'mon, is Obama really trying to establish a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination?
It's called "hyperbole". Google it sometime.
Question: Is all the Obama = Hitler imagery a bit much, or do the TeaBaggers have a valid point about the oppressive regime of The Beige One?!?
Duval GOP In Controversy Over Obama/Hitler Comparisons At Tea Party [JaxPoliticsOnline]
[1] Name the semi-popular late 90's R&B group that got discovered here.
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The Tea-baggers are way over the top. We had an amusing moment here in Texas when Governor Rick "No Stimulus Funds" Perry was booed at his own party.
http://www.blacknbougie.com/2009/07/deep-sigh-of-week-tea-bag-parties.html
I'm actually from Baltimore so I feel like I'm cheating. But members of Dru Hill used to make fudge and sang.
@ OneChele
I guess that whole "successionist" thing didn't go over too well, huh?
@ Christina
An answer is an answer. You get the Cyber CapriSuns. Take a bow.
How melodramatic. They ought to audition for Broadway.
There's nothing wrong with dissent. But this is a bit much.
I was so hyped to go to Fudgery as a kid because I was a Dru Hill STAN. The music is still timeless but these dudes look a HOT MESS now.
As for these Tea Parties...people can go out there and bitch and moan about the President and the Government (who doesn't), so I don't have a problem with this. Do you.
Disgusting, knuggle-dragging, but expected. People called Bush Hitler, too.
'Oppressive regime?' Too early to discern. There's nothing too wrong with 'misreading' the economy, but thinking about another 'stimulus'? The intent may be sincere, but the approach worries me.
Is all this imagery a bit much? Any nazi imagery is too much but AB, please!
After eight solid friggin years of Bushitler and being called a Nazi because my voter card has an R on it, you've got a lot of damned gall to get upset over this. If there is one thing over all other slurs that has been the exclusive domain of the Democratic Left in this nation in the last three decades it has been slurring Republicans as nazis.
@VOD: This is a bit much? Were you asleep during the war? A national Democratic fundraising group (moveon.org) bought a full-page ad accusing the general in Iraq of being a traitor! Because he didn't object to the surge that won the damned war there!
The same general that Obama is now entrusting the entire mid-east theater to... so don't even start thinking this is a bit much. This is peanuts next to what came before.
Do I think Obama resembles the nazis? No, he resembles every dodgy Chicago politician, evar. That comes with a little illegal arm twisting, as we've already seen with the illegal firing or resignation of three Inspectors General in the last 2 months. That's illegal, and it's against a law Obama claims to have helped write, but it hardly rises to the level of Hitler.
@ Spool
What makes you think I was okay with the Bush/Hitler comparisons?!?
What's a Tea Party? I'm betting it's not like the tea party's I have for my birthday? Is it in remembrance of the Boston Tea Party?
Uhhhh..... Spool...
I'm not sure what war you're talking about, but if it's the same war that my friend was killed in over 4 years ago and the same war that's been compared to Vietnam countless times.....
Then there is no war that's been won.
It's basically taking political debate down to it's dumbest level. Instead of engaging in serious dialog on how the President might be pushing too much on big Government they are rather just name call. Fascist, socialist, Marxist with no historical or even substantive comparison. I'm definitely wasn't fond of how Bush started shredding the Constitution with his anti-terror expansion but I never would resort to calling him a Nazi or Fascist.
@ Wilma
Yes, it's a reference to the Boston Tea Party. Except that Americans today use tea bags...which is truly a ridiculous visual. LOL
Comparing a black man to Hitler is always in epic fail. Its illogical to the point of being comical. I find it funny that these teabaggers cheered Bush through 8 years of increasing the federal deficit and only get off their butts when Obama took office. They will say its not about race and Obama, but that has been the only change. Bush bailed out AIG. Bush bailed out GM and Chrysler. The teabaggers began this "protest" on the day Bush's taxers were due. But, somehow those events are attributed to Obama.
Some people went really hard at Janeane Garofalo for saying these teabaggers are racists. What other conclusion is there to draw for people who will wrongfully attribute the actions of a white man to a black man and then compare that black man to Hitler? Or, people who will cheer a white man for doing something, but condemn a black man for doing the same?
I don't think any of these "good ol boys" from the "good ol party" have ever drank a cup of tea in their lives (unless you consider ice tea)
Just the stoopid Bitters popping smack in the comfort of their ethnic enlaves. They NEVER knew the evil that was Hitler (though their attitudes and thought processes may lead you to believe otherwise) and are using Nazi rhetoric to energize their base and piss normal people off. Most of these people haven't figured out that all their stupidity is being posted on the net and played out for the whole world to see. Hope they don't need jobs, cuz a lot of employers have a low tolerance for Teabaggers on the payroll.
@esquire:
There certainly is a difference, and there has been a change other than the skin tone of the President... you can see it by clicking here.
@spoiled:
Are you suggesting that these protesters ought to be fired? That employers are going to punish people for their political views?
When did that become OK? I swear some of you folks will tolerate anything as long as it makes the opposition stfu.
Guess what.... You CAN be fired for saying the wrong thing to the wrong people at the wrong time. The term is keeping your 'street' self ON The street and NOT at the Home. You would get your ears boxed if couldn't figure that out on yer own. More employers have clauses in their books stating to the effect that they more or less own you, on and off the clock, so doing something that would cause disparagement to the Company is grounds for dismissal. If the folks who employ these mooks feel it's okay to act like Hitler youth then let them shout it out, and not hide in the crowd. The Net is eternal, and records all without distinction. I don't want them to shut up, cause I don't need no knuckleheads acting like my friend then talking stuff behind my back.
@Spool
You are not expecting me to take Pajama's Media at face value are you? This is the outfit that sent Joe the Plumber to find "Average Joes" in Gaza. Also, the article is dated May 27, 2009--way after tax day. What was the teabaggers excuse on April 15? Finally, I don't recall the Hitler poster holders referencing the bond market when calling our president a socialist-fascist-Marxist (I am still trying to figure out how a person can be both a socialist and a fascist).
I think that the Obama/Hitler imagery is designed to shock people. Do they have a point? Not that I agree with, but I'm sure that they sincerely believe in what they are doing. It does take some effort to leave your home and walk around carrying a big sign.
One point I have to make, speaking to the dialogue between spool and others, is that it *has* been very interesting for me to feel how the Bush supporters must have felt. I was one of the disaffected populace who never cared much about any candidate in any other election before Obama. In spite of his imperfections, I still think of Obama as "my guy" and I'm rooting for his success. When I hear bombastic criticisms of Obama I sometimes think "Oh, this is how the Bush supporters must have felt."
On another note, I'm lmao at The Fudgery reference. That was hilarious.
@MsNegroEsquire2004
"Or, people who will cheer a white man for doing something, but condemn a black man for doing the same?"
This!
@esquire:
The chart is from the Congressional Budget office. Make of the rest what you will, but that graph is a comparison: Obama's projected number and the CBO's number.
I could source it back for you, but the numbers have been available ever since Obama's team got the stimulus passed.
re: Socialist vs. Fascist, they're not terribly far off in terms of policy.
@ Spool/MsNegroESQ
I know you didn't just drop a PJMedia link in my comments section. What's next, TownHall.com!?!? Eff' outta here!!!
And yeah, SpoiledDog is absolutely correct, there are indeed limits on free speech. You can absolutely get fired for such nonsense. My job has a very clear list of ethical dilemmas that could result in a writeup or complete dismissal. This could be as mundane as blogging something bad about the company (which I obviously never do), or any number of subjective public displays that reflect poorly on the company.
Needless to say, all employers can use this say criteria to deny employment to someone, if they feel such actions might be disruptive. Call me crazy, but a guy carrying around a poster with the sitting President depicted as Hitler just might qualify as a non-starter.
Then again, these TeaBaggers are still collecting unemployment and COBRA benefits since their factory jobs left long ago. I guess that stimulus thing isn't so bad after all.
@ Zen
I also agree, watching Obama crucified through the eyes of the conservative media does make me wonder what GOP stans felt the past 4 years. I often try and put myself in the other guy's shoes, and yeah, this prolly wasn't cool.
The problem of course is that these folks could never even budge off their support when it became evident (Iraq, Katrina, financial collapse) that Bush really sucked. I guess it's all a vicious circle.
Don't shoot the messenger, AB. Even a busted clock is right twice a day.
Spool32 "won the damned war" When that did happen I must have missed the Fox news flash? Talk about your historical revisionism so I guess we actually won the Vietnam War also. The barometer for winning a war must have gone down very low if you call that a win. More than 4,000 brave servicemen and women dead and countless thousands injured and maimed, billions and billions of dollars spent all fight a war based on bad Intel (Or a damn outright lie). As much as I detest Bill Clinton I’m glad that when I was in the Army he was our commander in Chief so that I wouldn’t be sent off to fight in an illegal, unconstitutional, unauthorized war. It seems like chicken hawks love to pick a fight as long as they or their families don’t have to actually fight the battle.
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