Tweet
It’s seems like our coverage of the lobbyist-funded radical right wing has gotten to some of them. Last night, I received a series of a few emails from the same individual, who was, to put it mildly, fairly angry.
Here are some excerpts:
If I were a liberal, I would not confront a Right Winger . You may get your ass kicked damn good. You better have good health care to pay for the damages inflicted upon you. Do you really want to confront somebody who clings to God and guns ?
…
Let us fight ! Let us ignore the freaking idiots ! Let’s fight for VICTORY because WE THE PEOPLE DO NOT ACCEPT DEFEAT.
If a LIBERAL confronts YOU, Kick their ass .
Don’t waste time arguing with a person who has suffered brain decay .
JUST KICK SOME GOOD ASS .
Sounds really peaceful, right? Fine, upstanding citizen. There was also this picture you see on the right, among a few others, attached to the email.
Nice.
The rest of the email was quite a bit of rumination on left-wing anti-war protests of the past, and how those were similar to what’s happening now. The last email I got included this link to a post by Michelle Malkin, complaining that the left is "smearing" these "taxpayers" as mob rule. I have two responses to that.
First: We won. That thing in November called an election, remember that? We won that. Now we get to pass a few laws. Laws like health care reform. That’s how it works. Vote us out in 2012 if you can.
Second: They’re on the defensive. If Malkin feels she has to defend the teabaggers against "smears," we’re clearly winning. So keep on exposing these shock tactics for what they are: Corporate-funded mob rule.
6 Comments
this is disturbing stuff. I’m disgusted by these bullying tactics–and even more disgusted that Republican members of Congress are actually egging this on: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/06/akin-lynch/ We’re seeing the mainstream media’s inherent inability to cover true lunacy–their insistence on “balance” means they are incapable of calling out extremism when they see it.
Violence is a symptom of “brain decay”. What an unevolved person who wrote that.
FWIW (not a lot) I saw Malkin’s POS book on Obama already marked down 50% at my local bookstore. Lots of inventory.
I imagine one of the deep-power guys — someone such as GHW shrub — smiling and rubbing his hands together.
When peasants can be induced to fight amongst themselves, they can’t organize to storm the castle.
I see this as a great win-win opportunity for the Democrats to gain more ground. If the Republicans back the crazies (silently or openly), they risk driving away moderate, fair-minded Republicans. And if they condemn the crazies, they risk driving them to a third-party that will nominate Palin and never have a chance.
That’s exactly right.
You conflate Obama’s win (and people being generally tired — wrongly–of President Bush) with a desire for health care socialization. They are NOT the same. People don’t want it, won’t put up with it and will stop it with any means at their disposal.