First heard this on Mark Levin, but here’s the video (courtesy of The Blaze), just so you know who it is we’re up against. Keep in mind as you listen to/watch these clips, this rhetoric isn’t coming from Farrakhan from his “pulpit,” or from Sharpton figureheading a store front wilding: these are US Congressmen, and their attacks and accusations are against US citizens engaged in peaceful assembly for the purpose of making their political voices heard — and those who represent that bloc in Congress. Keep in mind, too, that this is far from a spontaneous campaign of attack: from Maxine Waters to these Black Caucus clowns to the relentless “progressive” media campaign to paint the TEA Party as violent and extreme, this is an orchestrated attempt by the ruling class to bully, frighten, marginalize, and beat back those who dare try to stand it the way of a move to democratic socialism and big centralized government. And the left has been helped in this endeavor by the establishment GOP, who hates the TEA Party every bit as much as they do, and so has been content to add to the criticisms of the TEA Party (hi, Jeb, hi, Huntsman, hi Weekly Standard crew!) or else sit idly by as the movement is denigrated, libeled, and demonized.
Here’s the problem for the ruling class, though, as I see it: they have succeeded in demonizing a caricature of their own creation. That is, they have succeeded in moving the poll numbers down for a lie, a fabrication, a Boogie Man who doesn’t really exist.
And so they are heartened by what they see as the effectiveness of their attacks, manifest in polling data — and are emboldened to step up those attacks to go in for the kill.
The problem is — and I’ve said this before — the Boogie Man they’ve created doesn’t match what they are fighting, and the fluid nature of the TEA Party, who has risen before under different names and will rise again in 2012 under tens of millions of different names, is a set of ideas, not an actual party, and so it can’t be frozen, singled out, and demonized in the way Alinskyites normally seek to destroy their political opposition.
It is a mist. It is America’s first principles alive and rejuvenated. And the citizens embodying these first principles, the citizens the government seeks to bully, or frighten, or demonize today — precisely because they are America itself — will simply dissipate and reform in ever new iterations, immune to the slanders, immune to the obvious and cynical campaigns to destroy them.
When you attack the lie you’ve created, you attack a fiction. When you succeed in killing it, all you’ve done is kill a portion of yourself.
— Whereas the real “TEA Party” will reform itself from out of the atmosphere inside the voting booths, beyond the reach of the race and class warriors, where the counter-counter revolution will take place.
Do I expect civil unrest leading up to 2012? Yes. I suspect we’ll see race riots and the like, as the left attempts to hold onto power. In fact, years ago now I was ostracized by a former university mentor of mine for daring to suggest that a kind of soft civil war was coming to the US.
Turns out the left, in their death throes, is hoping for something a bit more fleshy, as the rhetoric coming from the Congressional Black Caucus suggests.
What they haven’t counted on, however, is just how ready many of us are — and just how unafraid we are. This is our country. And we won’t surrender our freedom without a fight — particularly to an opponent who can only win by convincing us of the need to capitulate.
outlaw.
Yep. Come and take it.
It will be funny to watch people on dole checks and EBT cards trying to cause a run on banks. You know, with all their years of responsible savings.
Just wait.
It’s going to get MUCH worse.
There’s a reason that gun and ammo sales are thru the roof.
Once the GOP has a nominee, he’s going to get tarred and feathered as a racist, greedy, anti-minority goon. Regardless who the nominee is.
And, IF Obama loses, look for even more violence from the minority communities and their “leaders”.
I’ve been saying since 2008 that there’s every bit as good a chance that, rather than fix race-relations in the country, an Obama presidency may well serve to exacerbate them. Particularly if his presidency is a one-term failure.
Well, that’s endearing. Good move CBC. Keep it up.
The MFM will continue ignore this, to the extent that they can. Andre Carson’s hate speech was not covered on the local news last night or this morning. 1 of the local affiliates had a cursory mention of this on it’s website, but it did not include footage of speech, and understated what was said.
I’m on record as saying an Obama presidency would set race relations back decades. 2007 or 2008, can’t remember when, exactly.
Good thing so many people have stopped reading me. I’m depressing.
Notice that the fucking civility police have gone into hiding again.
Carson has the audacity to yammer about working together when he is back in his district. He has to fly to Miami on someone else’s dime to throw bombs like this.
That too is to the good JD. The media will thus embroil themselves in the calumny, doing further damage to their credibility.
Everybody who has a facebook page, put up the video link, or link to my post.
Get the word out. In my experience, people will click on short vids, whether they are Dems or Repubs.
I’m going to do it now. Also will put it on my Twitter, if I can figure out how. I don’t ever use the thing.
Will do Jeff.
Perhaps TEA Party gatherings should start singing “We Shall Overcome”. That would frost these jokers’ cookies,
Rush used this as his lead item today.
Ha! Excellent idea Darth, singing is always fun.
Remember when people were saying racist America would see Obama assassinated if elected president?
I get the feeling these goons are disappointed in racist Americas failure to follow through, and are doing their best to incite as much race hatred as possible. Hope springs eternal.
That first guy in the video, when saying the TEA party wanted to see blacks hanging in trees? I got the feeling he did too.
In fact, salt the repertoire with Lift Every Voice and Sing, Roll Jordan, Roll, The Gospel Train’s a Comin’ and a couple more oldies but goodies and we’d have the makings of a liberation movement.
I’m proud to have the enemies we have. And what allies you have, Mr. President.
You left out “stupid”.
Actually, that will happen before the nomination, and it will be done primarily by other “conservatives”. AllahPundit will gleefully run with anonymously sourced tweets accusing candidates of buggering rabbits; Ace will go on and on and on about how he’s a pragmatist and can’t support a candidate who once attended an NRA dinner; NRO will run a chin-scratcher about “identity politics” and “anti-intellectualism” about anyone who doesn’t do a pitch-perfect W. F. Buckley…
I cannot figure out where they get these insane ideas. I wonder if they actually believe this shit, or if it’s just a means to an end for them.
“I cannot figure out where they get these insane ideas. “
Rev Wright.
Where did Rev Wright get them?
Black liberation theology.
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You’re screwing with me, Lee.
Na uh. Google it!
It’s the social justice, dog…
Okay, where did the black liberation theology get these idiotic ideas? I would think my question obviously addressed first causes, not links in the chain of stupidity.
You know what? Forget it.
Jeff, Word Press has some auto-tweet feature you’re signed up for. I get tweets about your posts.
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“I would think my question obviously addressed first causes, not links in the chain of stupidity.”
Sorry, sometimes “obviously” escapes me.
First causes? Why that must be a snake in the garden of course…
I so wish there were GOP candidates with the guts to simply run Youtube clips of these creeps or other broadcasts from the Congressional Black Communists, and then state, “THIS is why you must vote for me…”
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Black Liberation Theology did derive from some Marxist Catholic “theologian”‘s work socializing Catholicism in Latin America I think, or the work of a group of them. But it isn’t entirely clear that the CBC is working off a BLT playbook, so much as a simple racist playbook.
I’m pretty sure it’s all about the social justice sdferr.
One doesn’t have to turn to Black Liberation Theology to derive one’s social justice. So, not really.
Whatever, I’m sure the fact that our first black president, mentor: rev Wright warrior of BLT, is conpletely incidental to what we are hearing from our black leaders today.
You go…
It’s true of Obama that he clung to Rev. Wright so long as Rev. Wright was useful to him. I think he’ll cling to his ideological views, as opposed to his pretended theological views, far longer than mere use-value would impose upon his paltry reasoning powers. There, and there alone, I’d assert, is Obama’s true faith and belief if he has any such at all (which he may not! It’s hard to tell with con-men like that.).
But that is another matter, quite apart from the prejudiced motives of the various members of the CBC speaking in these videos.
“But that is another matter, quite apart from the prejudiced motives of the various members of the CBC speaking in these videos.”
You’re seriously mistaken if you think Obama attended Wrights church for 20 years, gave tens of thousands of dollars, married in and took his children to, publicly announced Wright as his mentor, only for cynical political gain.
Obama distanced himself only when Wright gave him permission(Wrights statement that politicians have to say what they have to say).
Obama has never found a different church, and he’s never stopped talking about social justice. If you ignore all that thinking it’s all gamesmanship and a con, you will badly misjudge the man. He is a true believer.
Shrug your shoulders at the rhetoric coming from the Congressional Black Caucus, dismiss it as simple racist tendencies apart from any alliance or common cause with the presidents agenda if you like, but I think you only fool yourself.
“You can’t stop the signal.”
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He got deaded, if I’m not mistaken, and there was no one left to explain it but the robot doll.
He may have died, true, but the signal didn’t as I remember the story.
I just differ with you Lee. I don’t think I’m fooling myself, though you’re welcome to do. I just think you misjudge what the CBC fools are on about, which I don’t think has anything remotely to do with Black Liberation Theology, or at least not in the main for the various speakers in those videos. That there may happen to be some theoretical overlap between socialist doctrines in general and Black Liberation Theology doesn’t commit ordinary socialist thinkers to Black Liberation Theology as such. No more than the whiteness of every whitey makes a particular whitey a racist simply because another whitey is a racist.
“That there may happen to be some theoretical overlap between socialist doctrines in general and Black Liberation Theology doesn’t commit ordinary socialist thinkers to Black Liberation Theology as such.”
Agreed. These aren’t ordinary socialist thinkers though. I think all these particular socialists do indeed think the whiteness of every whitey makes a particular whitey a racist simply because another whitey is a racist.
but the signal didn’t as I remember the story.
Yeah, but this is where it gets fictional: the revelation of How We Got Reavers actually had an impact.
I think it under appreciated how differently the average black voter sees America than does the average white voter.
The first cause is, our ancestors came here largely of their own volition, adventurous and heroic. Theirs, not so much. That is instilled deep in the African American identity, regardless how silly it might seem to non African Americans. They feel it, and so Du Bois and Malcolm X are a greater influences on black thought than Marin Luther King.
I have read at 2 different places, but have not yet seen confirmation of same, that the event at which Carson made those remarks was hosted by MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall, and CBS and NBC also had reporters there.
What to do about it?
Don’t know. Electing a black president didn’t seem to help…
Let’s see if the MFM covers this like they did you lie …
It’s on the ABC news website. Granted, it’s on a blog of the website, but it’s there.
A WaPo blog is also covering it.
CBSNews has it and even has it linked on their front page (for now).
RACIST!
A blog of CNN’s indicates the Representative is doubling down on stupid.
The New York Times is only covering Allen West’s threat to quit the CBC, not the remarks of Rep. Carson (although they’re in the Allen West story).
Ha! From scotch’s CBS link:
And cranky thought I was messing with him…
AFS – did you read the comments at your CNN link? Good Allah. Those people vote. How sad.
This is interesting. Some time back I came across an article about Rev. Wright’s Trinity United Church titled “Obamas strange church”, so I dug it up to post here. Check it out.
With a little google-fu, I found this except from the article on another blog.
Oh, I should have kept reading.
JD,
I try not to make fun of the mentally handicapped, so, no, I did not.
AFS – Pure comedy gold.
MSNBC’s Hall Moderated CBC Event Where Rep. Carson Blasted Tea Party
That is as far as I got, JD. Gotta go get a rag now to clean up this mess…
And people claim CNN appeals to “the middle.”
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned it, but the freeze frame shown in that video clip… kinda makes him look a little like the Wendy’s Logo.