Provably Untrue Things Tea Partiers Believe

[Qtec]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The numbers of things that the American Right -- embodied in its wildly popular new “grassroots” Tea Party movement – believes but that are provably untrue is actually a pretty long list. But we’ve put together <span style='font-size: 14pt'>the Top 10, listed by importance in their increasingly Planet Bizarro-like worldview:</span>

1. <u>The birth-certificate conspiracy</u>.

2. <u>Death panels. </u>Reality: PolitiFact named Sarah Palin’s Facebook invention its <span style='font-size: 14pt'>“Lie of the Year,”</span> and the belief was <span style='font-size: 17pt'>thoroughly exposed as a falsehood</span> by every news network (even Fox). Yet Palin still insists that the panels exist . <span style="color: #CC0000">Calling eg8r.</span>

3. <u>Obama is a Muslim/Socialist/Fascist.</u> Glenn Beck’s fantasy of the week -- one week Obama was a Socialist, the next he was a Communist, then a Fascist. Then it was on to Marxism and Maoism --

4. <u>Obama is going to take away our guns.</u> Well, the NRA managed to scare a whole lot of people into buying up every gun and piece of ammunition in sight the first year or so after Obama’s election.

5. <u>Obama is raising our taxes. </u>Reality: Obama lowered taxes for 95 percent of working Americans in his first year in office. But, you know, he’s a liberal Democrat – and for true-blue right-wing folks, that ALWAYS means a tax hike.

6. <u>Fascism is a left-wing phenomenon.</u> We can thank Jonah Goldberg -- with a big assist from Beck -- for the popularity of this one, even though Goldberg’s thesis has been demolished and angrily dismissed by academic historians. .

7. <u>Global warming is a hoax.</u> So Sean Hannity assures us, citing the Climategate brouhaha -- which was itself shown largely to be a hoax of its own. Meanwhile, the world’s ocean levels keep rising, and glaciers and the polar ice cap keep receding -- regardless of the endless words thrown up denying that they are.

8. Some 16,000 new IRS agents will enforce the new health care reform act<u> by throwing you in jail.</u>

9. <u>Two million people were at the 9/12 March on Washington.</u>


10. <span style='font-size: 20pt'>The Tea Parties are a <u>non-partisan, broad grassroots movement.</u> Sure, if by non-partisan you mean rabidly paleo-conservative, to the point of even dismissing Republicans, and by grassroots you mean fake populism organized and whipped up by the most popular cable-news network on television, with a heaping helping of corporate financing.</span> </div></div>


........and Glenn Beck is their hero. LOL

Q.......... link (http://crooksandliars.com/node/37226)

[LWW]

The fact that the majority of those are demonstrably true is an embarrassment to you ... other than you aren't capable of embarrassment when it comes to your Pavlovian defense of dearest leader and the party.

LWW

[Gayle in MD]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Qtec</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The numbers of things that the American Right -- embodied in its wildly popular new “grassroots” Tea Party movement – believes but that are provably untrue is actually a pretty long list. But we’ve put together <span style='font-size: 14pt'>the Top 10, listed by importance in their increasingly Planet Bizarro-like worldview:</span>

1. <u>The birth-certificate conspiracy</u>.

2. <u>Death panels. </u>Reality: PolitiFact named Sarah Palin’s Facebook invention its <span style='font-size: 14pt'>“Lie of the Year,”</span> and the belief was <span style='font-size: 17pt'>thoroughly exposed as a falsehood</span> by every news network (even Fox). Yet Palin still insists that the panels exist . <span style="color: #CC0000">Calling eg8r.</span>

3. <u>Obama is a Muslim/Socialist/Fascist.</u> Glenn Beck’s fantasy of the week -- one week Obama was a Socialist, the next he was a Communist, then a Fascist. Then it was on to Marxism and Maoism --

4. <u>Obama is going to take away our guns.</u> Well, the NRA managed to scare a whole lot of people into buying up every gun and piece of ammunition in sight the first year or so after Obama’s election.

5. <u>Obama is raising our taxes. </u>Reality: Obama lowered taxes for 95 percent of working Americans in his first year in office. But, you know, he’s a liberal Democrat – and for true-blue right-wing folks, that ALWAYS means a tax hike.

6. <u>Fascism is a left-wing phenomenon.</u> We can thank Jonah Goldberg -- with a big assist from Beck -- for the popularity of this one, even though Goldberg’s thesis has been demolished and angrily dismissed by academic historians. .

7. <u>Global warming is a hoax.</u> So Sean Hannity assures us, citing the Climategate brouhaha -- which was itself shown largely to be a hoax of its own. Meanwhile, the world’s ocean levels keep rising, and glaciers and the polar ice cap keep receding -- regardless of the endless words thrown up denying that they are.

8. Some 16,000 new IRS agents will enforce the new health care reform act<u> by throwing you in jail.</u>

9. <u>Two million people were at the 9/12 March on Washington.</u>


10. <span style='font-size: 20pt'>The Tea Parties are a <u>non-partisan, broad grassroots movement.</u> Sure, if by non-partisan you mean rabidly paleo-conservative, to the point of even dismissing Republicans, and by grassroots you mean fake populism organized and whipped up by the most popular cable-news network on television, with a heaping helping of corporate financing.</span> </div></div>


........and Glenn Beck is their hero. LOL

Q.......... link (http://crooksandliars.com/node/37226) </div></div>

As was revealed in the book, What's The Matter With Kansas we have a segment of Americans who are so dumb, that they vote against their own best interests.

Blind followers, on the Fux Noise Kool Aid train.

They think they can create their own reality, by simply continuing to lie.

The list proves the vast vacancy between their ears. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif

G.

[LWW]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gayle in MD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">we have a segment of Americans who are so dumb, that they vote against their own best interests.

G. </div></div>

And the rest of us defend your right to be misguided tools.

LWW

[wolfdancer]

Q, good find, interesting post.

[hondo]

Excellent post, Q.
I'm prettysure the usual suspects on here believe those
points also.

[LWW]

I'm waiting to see Q prove them false.

LWW

[Qtec]

Another post from Bizzarro World.

I said,

"here are ten Provably Untrue Things Tea Partiers Believe"

You said,

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The fact that the majority of those are demonstrably true is an embarrassment to you </div></div>


Wolf says,

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Q, good find, interesting post. </div></div>

Then YOU say,

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm waiting to see Q prove them false.

LWW </div></div>

You are off your rocker mate. Shouldn't<span style='font-size: 14pt'> YOU</span> be the one proving them to be true!??

Q.....LOL

[LWW]

You made the claim Qlueless, not I.

The burden of proof lies with the claimant.

LWW

[Qtec]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">2. Death panels. Reality: <span style='font-size: 26pt'>PolitiFact named Sarah Palin’s Facebook invention its “Lie of the Year,” </span>and the belief was <span style='font-size: 26pt'>thoroughly exposed as a falsehood by every news network (even Fox).</span> Yet Palin still insists that the panels exist . </div></div>

Show me where the Death Panel clause is in the Health Care Reform Bill.


......or shut up.
Q

[LWW]

How sad it must be to constantly fail as you do.

LWW