Jane Hamsher shows for a counter-Tea Party rally in DC that draws a couple dozen people. She claims that Fox News is financing the movement, though she later moves the goal posts. Just how far those goal posts are going to be moved is the question of the moment. Do go view the video of her frozen smile as she begs off answering the interviewer’s question.
Really, the whole disinformation campaign dovetails nicely with the expose Warner Todd Huston posts, wherein the Obama admin raises the threat level from right-wing groups to orange on the basis of innuendo and lefty rumor. We are all domestic terrorists now, but they don’t seem particularly interested in root causes.
Mike Hendrix reveals yet another dimension to the mendouchity.
Not unrelated, too, is ElBaradei’s counter-factual history of US relations with Iran, featuring mentions of “Darth Cheney.”
From Donald Douglas comes news that Krugman’s jumped aboard the TeaRootherism meme:
Paul Krugman’s always an interesting character on the political left. As I’ve noted a few times here, throughout the market downturn, he’s been the biggest economic fearmonger in American politics (for example, see Krugman, “What Obama Must Do: A Letter to the New President”). The scale of Krugman’s proposed big-government interventionism is truly breathtaking. It’s thus no wonder why he’s a rock star to the hardline secular collectivists of the extreme left-wing of the Democratic Party.
Krugman’s latest column at the New York Times goes after the conservative tea party movement. The piece is worth a good read as an indication of how truly clueless leftists are about what’s really brewing among everyday Americans today. Beyond the boilerplate attacks on conservatives as “crazy people,” Krugman’s conspiratorial view of the Tea Party movement is worth highlighting: ” … it turns out that the tea parties don’t represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment. They’re AstroTurf (fake grass roots) events, manufactured by the usual suspects … ”
Man, that is some kind of denialism! Krugman’s “AstroTurfing” is on par with Jane Hamsher’s circus performance last weekend, where she made a fool of herself claiming that Fox News was orchestrating the nationwide Tea Party revolt – and that’s on top of the 12 people who showed up for Hamsher’s Washington “New Way Forward” demonstration. Krugman and Hamsher are no different from the idiot left-wing activists declaring that “The typical American is not a good citizen.”
Lots of links, so go read the whole thing.
Jeff is training special forces to deal with this as we speak!
When I say social, you say ism.
Social!
Ism!
Social!
Ism.
Yeah that beats ham, mash potatoes, drinks, and flipping channels watching Easter Parade, the Discovery Channel, and the Masters.
You are all domestic terrorists.
And Hamster is still a shrill harpy.
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The RS McCain link has a quote from Michael Merritt at PoliGazette which illustrates just how immense is the task of over coming the Left’s media juggernaut.
The Nixon “enemies list” was a list of those that President Nixon did not want invited to any White House events. Scary.
There was never any wiretap at the DNC headquarters. None. The entire place was swept by both the FBI and the phone company after the break-in. Nothing was found. Days later a DNC employee called the phone company complaining of phone trouble. It was then a very large, inoperative (due to a defective transistor), Radio Shack quality, device was found inside a phone which had been checked and taken apart twice only days before. That it was planted by someone at the DNC to be found was the logical conclusion.
Thirty six years later and those old false stories still are used as if they are true. The power of the “big lie” is always with us.
The left lies, that’s their nature. They project. And because they’ve managed to co-opt the majority of the MSM, they get away with it. For now.
And ElBaradEi is either one of the most useless UN employees ever (an outstanding achievement in its own right) or one of the most secret members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Practically everything he does is to ensure that relatively insane Islamic regimes get nuclear weapons.
@ the stoptheaclu link:
That’s not right.
“Obama’s intel service” (or DHS, or Secret Service, or […]) is exactly the same one it was before it was “Obama’s.”
Those “avowed, proven enemies” are its competition.
Its enemy is you.
Krugman and Hamster are a perfect pair.
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Krugman is useful for one thing – the Krugman Test.
“If it drives Krugman into frothing hysterics, it’s probably good public policy.”
Yes, which is why Bush had to contend with endless leaks and insubordination from those very same services.
The Left is going to learn that reality is an awfully hard wall to run into.
How do they feel about keeping an eye on us, and maybe an ear too?
If they fear, that means they take us seriously.
Thank god Janet Reno isn’t in charge of at justice, otherwise we’d have something to worry about.
Jane has Hillary’s smile.