Tea Partiers put their racism on full display. You can almost smell the cross burning.
Here is the video courtesy of Think Progress:
When was asked about the slurs hurled at Reps. Lewis and Frank, Nunes said, “Yeah, well I think that when you use totalitarian tactics, people, you know, begin to act crazy. I think, you know, there’s people that have every right to say what they want. If they want to smear someone, they can do it. It’s not appropriate. And I think I would stop short of characterizing the 20,000 people protesting, that all of them were doing that –Of course. I think the left loves to play a couple of incidents here or there.”
Just so everyone understands, Nunes was not only defending the conduct of the tea partiers, but also justifying their actions because of the health care reform bill. There is no piece of legislation that can ever possibly justify racism and homophobia. If this was the first time that members of the tea party have behaved this way, it could be excused as a few bad apples, but this behavior is a common occurrence at tea party protests.
Instead of praising their behavior, Nunes should have differentiated between their deplorable actions and their opposition to health care reform. The Constitution gives everyone the right to protest, but no one has the right to personally attack others because they don’t approve of their position on a piece of potential legislation. The Republican Party is letting itself be taken over by the darkest elements of right wing thought and people like David Nunes are too cowardly to say anything about it.
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his party leadership better get to him quickly; they have all denounced these actions as “reprehensible”… live… on camera!
and there should be some sort of consequence, but we know there won’t be; just like the capitol police wouldn’t extract the perpetrators yesterday for not just their words but their actions as well;
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Republicans make me seriously sad. They are truly awful people.
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Haters gon’a hate
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The little Nazi prick you are referring to is Devin Nunes, not David Nunes.
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Cointel Pro works both ways guys! Look at the “White Slavery” sign, does that look like the rest?
Here’s a clip with no ‘n’ word:
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Clip in my link.
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Clip:
youtube {dot} com/watch?v=-SCs6pSE8_I
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leadership better get to him quickly; they have all denounced these actions as “reprehensible”… live… on camera!
and there should be some sort of consequence, but we know there won’t be; just like the capitol police wouldn’t extract the perpetrators yesterday for
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