Tea party fascists do what all fascists do best: demonize the "Other."

Actually, the Left also has racist tendencies since they believe in "collective rights" and not individual rights. They often judge by collective standards rather than by individual character. This is why some Leftists can turn against a group of people or race. They don't see the individual, they see the group. Hopefully, this will change as more people embrace "classical liberalism" instead of collectivism.

EVF...It sends a chill up my spine to think that the point of the story was so lost on you that something you picked up from surfing at NewsMax negates Pitt's observations and the underlying meaning of said observations. Also, the fact that you are white, and voting, is enough to make me resort to ex-patriotism. I'm sure your momma is proud of you.....BD

Erich,your post is imbecilic. While we all know that Bill and Hillary leave much to be desired as people and politicians, your post really has nothing to do with the article. It is just hearsay, and not very credible hearsay at that.

I've noticed lately that Republicans have upped their game on accusing others of what they are, themselves, doing. Since they tend to be big racists, they also tend to accuse others of racism at every turn.

Erich, are you one of these disingenuous weasels? (With apologies to weasels, of course!)

...containing my shock is NOT what is most pressing, but containing the RAGE that I feel. These LITTLE BRAINS are regressing to their most primitive cerebral reactions out of their own fear that they are being marginalized. Left back, as it were, as the world moves forward both intellectually & technologically. Their inability to cope with the new reality is not surprising, in fact, expected. Sadly, I fear, at sometime in the near future, progressives will HAVE to defend their own positions on a more base level. BRING IT ON !!!
These LITTLE BRAINS will NOT go quietly into the night, nor find enlightenment any time soon, Believe me. They know only one solution response... I await the contest with bated breath !!!
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In the interest of getting the Truth Out, it should be noted that, according to both Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson and Clinton insider Dolly Kyle Browning, Bill and Hilary Clinton both regularly used "the n-word" and referred to Jesse Jackson as, "that God-damned n***er."

And did they do it in Texas? Recently? And intimidate voters? The story is about today, not Billery's history. Try to stay on point and within a year or two of the topic at hand. Oh wait, you are teabagged, aren't you? Never mind.

the constitution was written primarily by LANDOWNERS, who sought to keep power distributed among LANDOWNERS, who have variously evolved into entities such as large business and corporations. Power was never meant to be distributed among the majority of the people, and it never really has been here in the states.

Thu, 10/21/2010 - 21:41 — Big Daddy (not verified)

The point of the story seemed to be to smear a large group of people based on the words of a few members of that group. I was just supplying balance (altho, unlike the author, I've never tried to smear all Democrats based on the words of the Clintons). Also, what makes you think that I'm white? (I'm a Melungeon and can trace my ancestry back to every continent on Earth [Antarctica excepted]).

Thu, 10/21/2010 - 21:45 — Uppity Woman (not verified)

Sorry, I'm not a Republican.

Blah blah Libertarian blart blart international bankers blah blah (insert cute name for GOP & Dems as a group) blart blart yadda yadda.

Start choosing better people to represent Libertarianism than a bunch of hate-the-poor love-them-guns ignorant yahoos and get a little education in political history and get back to me there, sonny.

Until then I AM choosing the lesser of two evils and voting Democrat, because it IS the lesser.

What these conservabots have a problem with is understanding the concept of being civilized. To me being civilized doesn't just mean not living in caves, it means that the community has set up principles that respects the needs of all it's people and the assurance that they will not be unjustly treated. We've set up governments, (our Constitution writers tried to cover many foreseeable problems, but not all,) to administer these principles which are and should be unmarred by some individual's personal biases. We all have biases, whether we admit it or not. We like being with people and groups that are like us and believe as we do, and there is nothing wrong with that, but when a group interferes with the safety of another group or indidvidual, THAT MAKES THEM UNCIVILIZED.

Dear Erich or The Baffler,

Whoever put up the ridiculous quote:

"When you see a car, driven by a black person, with an Obama bumper sticker, do you wonder why he doesn't replace it with an "I hate whitey" sticker? Just wondering."

It is amazing that you see a black person's support for his president, and by the way, our first black president which is really something, with a white racist's pick-up posting "F..k Obama," and a confederate flag.

Being a black man who is proud that his president represents someone that, little more than 150 years ago, could have been a slave, is an affirmation of good. It doesn't tear anyone down. It is an expression of support. What does "F..k Obama," and the symbol of a confederate flag support. Hatred, racism and a wish to return to a time when your color determined that you were superior by law to another and, in fact, were powerful enough to buy and sell him or her.

How can you be so blind?

"When you see a car, driven by a black person, with an Obama bumper sticker, do you wonder why he doesn't replace it with an 'I hate whitey' sticker? Just wondering."

There's no parity between a positive show of support (not an attack on anyone) and racially-motivated symbolism (an attack on a specific group and what an anti-Obama sticker + a confederate flag is). Also, Obama, you might recall, is "half white," so your comment makes no sense. (Not the first time.)

In the old Confederacy, though, he would have been considered simply "black"--very conveniently for the slave owners. Thankfully, we've evolved a bit since then.

Stick around, son. You may learn something . . . eventually.

I have never seen this many of those people reading truthout articles! Maybe just maybe there are people to want to harass people on here who like to vote for common sense and for the common good. Oh and the "common good was referenced in the constitution, well maybe not the constitution that they read. Does this mean that they were socialists? Or did they just want to protect all Americans, not just the one's with the guns.

Thu, 10/21/2010 - 22:37 —
Thu, 10/21/2010 - 23:09 — Erich Von Freemason (not verified)Thu, 10/21/2010 - 22:37 — The Baffler (not verified)
When you see a car, driven by a black person, with an Obama bumper sticker, do you wonder why he doesn't replace it with an "I hate whitey" sticker? Just wondering.

Yeah because a campaign bumper sticker is EXACTLY THE SAME as a an expression of hatred adjacent to a symbol of white supremacy.

"the Justice Department has begun gathering information on the King Street Patriots amid allegations that the group has been intimidating voters, messing with poll workers, and disrupting lines of voters once early voting got underway."

Yeah, that's what's needed - collecting information. Maybe the next step will be to have a meeting in order to plan another meeting. Yeah, that sort of thing really stopped the right from destroying ACORN permanently, after they'd tarred it with the same voter fraud allegations. You'd think that, since every major election since the year 2000 has featured right-wingers engaging in racist voter intimidation of all stripes, the Justice Department at this point would do more than just collect information.

These right-wing whackadoodles obviously want to incite a civil war. When they're up against the US Army with their hunting rifles, all I have to say to them is beware what you wish for, Tea Gagger!

Disgraceful. Yeah I'll try to contain my shock every time monumentally stupid jerks like these attempt to interfere with the the civil rights of people they don't like for the lamest of reasons. Then they have the audacity to use the word "Patriots" in identifying themselves. If ignoramuses like qualify as patriotic then never has that word looked so bad.

Of course those of us who have brains and use them know full well that the hate-mongering these losers perpetuate is anything but patriotic and is nothing short of embarrassing to America and what Americans are supposed to stand for. Blocking people from exercising their right to vote is illegal and should be prosecuted. These bastards should be in prison. Maybe there they'd actually learn a useful thing or two.

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I voted already. One of my representatives, running for reelection, scared, sends me a campaign flyer every day. Every day, I just pop it into the recycling bin, reminded of how many money is spent on this garbage.

While we STILL don't have MEDICARE FOR THE COUNTRY. We STILL don't have an EXPANDED AND IMPROVED SOCIAL SECURITY. We're STILL in Afghanistan, trillions of dollars in debt. We STILL don't know how our children can afford to go to college. We STILL have insecurity about decent, affordable housing. We STILL don't have enough jobs.

I would like to think elections are the answer, but we all know they are not. Whether you feel like punishing the SOBs, expressing your better sentiments by voting for a sane, third party candidate (if they're running), writing in Mickey Mouse or yourself (if you're looking for a job with benefits, health care, and retirement).

I agree, though, that the Republicans are awful. They are associated with terrible racism, which translates, as well, as a very stupid attitude towards economics. People need to get very clear eyed about what they're really saying, "between the lines," and often, not so between the lines, but right in your face.

To the poster quoting the state trooper -- I don't believe the Clintons said anything like that. Why would you believe a state trooper? Ever pulled over by one, for driving while black? Or driving while female? What makes some random state trooper so believable? On the other hand, I've followed the Clinton's political history for some years now, and I don't find that plausible, based on the evidence. I do find it plausible that their enemies would make up such a story, in their usual desparation.

Even if you are disappointed in much that Obama has done(I sure am), think of what you will get with the Republicans. Then show up to vote Democratic. Even if the present administration is so far to the right of traditional center as to make Republican President Eisenhower look like a socialist, you can't throw away your vote. Vote, and then get out and lobby, educate and organize. It ain't much, but short of armed insurrection, which would be catastrophic mess, it's about all we've got.
Hopeful sign:more and more legislators are waking up to the fact that we need public financing for campaigns in a form that is robust and appealing. It can be done. Get to work.

Yours ,from the Raging Grannies

When right-wing whackadoodles post on this site and complain about Mr. Pitt's writing, all I have to say back to them is this: you can dish it out with your Palins, Bill-O the Clowns, Insannitys, and limpballsl, but you can't take it! Truth hurts, don't it whackadoodles!

Class warfare is what the rich have been waging against the rest of us for ages. Citizens United is just the latest chapter in a long saga.

I have no affiliations to any group. But this article could be written about any group. You could find some emails, some angry, some racist, some bigot and so on in almost any group. Why does this tea party group get people going? Or I could say, why does the republican group, democrat group, green, libertarian or any other group get people going like with this article?

No one in politics represents me. Those days are over. Did you know that there didn't used to be a permanent congress? Representatives were "required" to go to Washington once a year - to say what the people of their state told them to say concerning national affairs. That's all, not who gets to buy what from whom, or what medicine you could take or whether you could make alcohol to run your tractor. We're so far off track we're not recognizable as the nation we were.

For me, different is good, changing things is good, learning what the constitution was meant to "Keep from happening" is good. I couldn't care less who or what group stirs the waters. Let people be who they are. It's nobodies business who is a racist or a bigot or a devil worshiper.

That's the whole point of individual rights and freedom - Liberty For All - not liberty for your group.

Lee:

Thankfully the author identified himself as a revisionist early on and I didn't have to listen to the rest of his diatribe against being a patriot. Judge not brother. We are all people of our time; right , wrong or indifferent.

WTF?
Where does he identify himself as a "revisionist"?

If you're going to go to all the trouble to post something here, WOULDN'T IT BE FUN TO ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU READ?

Do you know the meaning of "revisionist"?

I doubt you know the meaning of the word "meaning".

Re:Actually, the Left also has...The Left doesn't embody racist tendencies when it regards people from a collective standpoint. The Left is more likely to consider the individual's viewpoint and standing than the Right because they are usually campaigning to further more humane interests and thus will take more sensitive issues into account. Ironically, the Right, while they may say that they care more about the individual, embodies collectivism more than any group because their every man for himself policy forces everyone else to participate in the rat race that is cause for all the suffering in the world today. Why do they assume that everyone wants to participate in their cutthroat little dream society where elements that make us human such as compassion, giving and empathy are trampled in the dirt and then rescucitated halfway and masqueraded under institutions such as religion? The Left represents the "group" because it is the only way those that are victims of the system that conservatives have implemented can have a voice! Your faulty logic smacks of a caucasian that somehow feels victimized by the fact that other groups of people are finally beginning to be represented as human beings and not subhuman.

Oh...and for you "Europe's standard of living is so much better than ours" zombies...here's some schooling from one of your own:

faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/economics/gordon/LGA_Columbia_P355&368_050228_fixed.ppt

Wait... I don't get it. The Baffler writes a post showing blatant
prejudice (assuming that a person from the south who doesn't like
Democrats is a redneck KKK member or something) and blatant bigotry
(intolerance of this person due to the person's perceived culture). I
thought I was supposed to make a sarcastic comment making fun of him.

Silly me, I forgot that the Progressives have always been intolerant
racists. They gave us Jim Crow laws and eugenics. In the 1930s they wrote
editorials supporting Stalin and Hitler, and notable Progressives like
Henry Ford gave material support to both.

20,000 kids starved to death today on earth...we american's rape the planet.

Well, there you have it, progressive sports fans. So eloquently repeated out of the marxist playbook.

truth-out = anti-american marxists

So Pitt takes a few examples of alleged bigotry and uses them to tar a large group of people. This is really no better than taking some examples of blacks who are "unemployed, lazy, can't speak English and [have] no frigging clue who [their Daddies are]" and using those examples to tar the entire black race.

It is in poor taste to make unfair slurs against blacks, and it is in equally poor taste to make unfair slurs against Republicans and/or tea partiers.

Don't trust The Republicans. They want to end Minimum Wage so America goes backwards 2 the slave days, deport Mexicans (and anyone else they don't like) that were born IN America that have parents born likewise and grand parents that immigrated 2 the US with visas and became Americans. I for one DON'T want 2 B deported 2 a country that I've never been 2! I don't live in AZ but, with Paul LePage as governor, he would want a law like that passed in ME and with with republican controlled state government, it could happen.Don't trust The Republicans. They want to end Minimum Wage so America goes backwards 2 the slave days, deport Mexicans (and anyone else they don't like) that were born IN America that have parents born likewise and grand parents that immigrated 2 the US with visas and became Americans. I for one DON'T want 2 B deported 2 a country that I've never been 2! I don't live in AZ but, with Paul LePage as governor, he would want a law like that passed in ME and with with republican controlled state government, it could happen.

It also isn't fair that my last employer had a luxury SUV and only gave me 10 hrs a week and, get this Never gave me a fucking lunch break when I had close to 30hrs when I first started.
If the republicans get controll of congress and the White House then, FUCK THE USA! George Bush Jr. slowly tuned the US into a third world country. The Tea Party wants 2 B tax exempt and get a free ride while the working poor get a tax hike and a reduction of wages.

Anonymous 14:57, here is the Snopes link:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wheeler.asp

The linked Snopes article does NOT confirm the content of Obama's ancestry...it just confirms that a Newsmax pundit (Jack Wheeler) made the assertions. Amusingly, Wheeler seems to believe that the title "African American" is limited to the descendants of "enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave ships." Does anyone remember John Kerry's wife saying that SHE was African American? It is true...she was born in Mozambique.

Dear Prof. Pitt: I know I'm two weeks behind with these, but that's not a good reason to forego one of your excellent articles. I don't even have time to make this comment relevant, but since the article is one page and the comments twelve, I think I need to way in as one of your many, many, many, many fans. Will Pitt is da Man.

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