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If you're not condemning that type of action, you're quietly complicit.
Lots of excuses for that behavior; your post is just one of many that quietly supports the behavior.
Like you I don't like that kind of behavior. However the fact remains that the media misrepresented the facts in favor of sensationalism. As someone pointed out a handful of bigots does not equal the entire group of thousands.
Accurate reporting would have said: Several of the protestors used the N word while venting their disagreement to the bill. Instead they used a wide brush. It was no accident. That was the intent.
Like you I don't like that kind of behavior. However the fact remains that the media misrepresented the facts in favor of sensationalism. As someone pointed out a handful of bigots does not equal the entire group of thousands.
Accurate reporting would have said: Several of the protestors used the N word while venting their disagreement to the bill. Instead they used a wide brush. It was no accident. That was the intent.
If these actions are not representative of the tea party, why are supporters not outraged and distancing themselves from the problematic few? Instead of just squirming, finger pointing, and denial. It really is a poor reflection on the tea party that no one has come out and said the facts are unclear in this incident, but we strongly condemn such bigotry.
Don't you know people can look up what others write (well maybe not liberals, they never want to do their own work)?
Here is a quote from your congressman "Many of them believe we need significant health care reform and I strongly agree."
Strongly agree is not lukewarm The issue was not important enough to paint it as something it was not. Save the con games for something more important.
You're hilarious. I can't believe you were so riled up by what I said that you actually went and looked up who my congressman is!
Here are two articles about his positions as of last summer, both from Colorado sources. Remember, the tent meeting I was posting about happened on Labor Day.
On Friday, Polis voted against a House bill that ultimately passed, saying he fears it “could cost jobs in a recession,” reports The New York Times, and citing a surtax on high-income earners and a payroll tax of as much as 8 percent to help finance coverage for the uninsured.
Polis believes the proposed tax policy that would pay for health-care reform would be onerous for small businesses that file taxes as individuals. He thinks Democratic Congressional leaders should slow down the debate to explore new options. Did that young liberal say something about onerous taxes and businesses and slowing down the health-care debate?
Like I said, you had to be there.
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If these actions are not representative of the tea party, why are supporters not outraged and distancing themselves from the problematic few? Instead of just squirming, finger pointing, and denial. It really is a poor reflection on the tea party that no one has come out and said the facts are unclear in this incident, but we strongly condemn such bigotry.
Pay attention. It's a poor reflection on your intelligence that you are posting without knowing the facts. The alleged actions have been condemned multiple times already.
Republican National Chairman Michael Steele and one of the organizers of Saturday's Tea Party rally strongly condemned the racial slurs that some black lawmakers alleged were yelled at them by some health care protesters as they headed for a procedural vote at Capitol Hill.
"I absolutely think it's isolated," Amy Kremer, the grassroots coordinator of the Tea Party Express, told Fox News on Sunday. "It's disgraceful and the people in this movement won't tolerate it because that's not what we're about."
If these actions are not representative of the tea party, why are supporters not outraged and distancing themselves from the problematic few? Instead of just squirming, finger pointing, and denial. It really is a poor reflection on the tea party that no one has come out and said the facts are unclear in this incident, but we strongly condemn such bigotry.
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Pay attention. It's a poor reflection on your intelligence that you are posting without knowing the facts. The alleged actions have been condemned multiple times already.
Before you get snarky, it's best to have your facts correct, else you may look like a fool.
Firstly, I was the one that first posted the article you linked. Secondly, I asked why supporters of the tea party movement were not outraged, not to be confused with leadership. Thirdly, please show me where the alleged actions have been condemned by supporters "multiple times".
As we saw this summer at the townhall meetings, Democrats have no issues with using fake doctors and fake kids, so why not fake Tea Party protesters? We have no way of screening people and have no idea who they really are.
Were those fake kids really robots or just small people?
Were those fake kids really robots or just small people?
They went after Blacks and gays I guess JudenRaus will be next.
Not like they're REAL AMERICANS
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The issue was not important enough to paint it as something it was not. Save the con games for something more important. 
