rssVideo: Michele Bachmann Kicks off ‘Take the Town Halls to DC’: ‘Now is the Time to See the Whites of Their Eyes’
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 1:37 pm
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The “Take the Town Halls to DC” coalition has put up video of its kick-off last night, with the Memphis Tea Party’s Mark Skoda introducing a speech by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) by casting the effort as a low-key lobbying push.
“Our objective, here, is really to have a conversation with our representatives,” said Skoda. “It’s not about placards.”
Bachmann took it a little further. “We the people are going to roll them out,” said Bachmann, “and when we roll them out we’re going to roll this bill back.” Activists needed to get into their representatives’ faces: “Now is the time to see the whites of their eyes.”
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Comment posted March 10, 2010 @ 1:37 pm
Not as catchy as “Now is the time for them to see angry whiteys in their eyes” I suppose.
Comment posted March 10, 2010 @ 4:50 pm
Reagan's closure of public mental institutions has sure had a lot of historic echos that haunt us to this day.
Comment posted March 10, 2010 @ 7:37 pm
Not as catchy as “Now is the time for them to see angry whiteys in their eyes” I suppose.
Comment posted March 10, 2010 @ 10:50 pm
Reagan's closure of public mental institutions has sure had a lot of historic echos that haunt us to this day.
Comment posted March 11, 2010 @ 6:36 pm
It's pretty difficult to have a “conversation with our representatives” when you use a phrase borne from combat to describe what it is you want to do.
Incendiary talk like that used by Bachmann will certainly result in someone with a less than stellar mental condition attempting to kill someone. The nuts have come out from hiding, now that they have “reasons” (stemming from the hate talk, disinformation and lies put forth by right-wing media) to, and with inflammatory rhetoric, it becomes easier to justify violence.
I wonder what Bachmann will have to say when it happens.
On second thought, it'll probably be nonsense talk, less than an apology for her stupidity.
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Comment posted August 29, 2010 @ 4:47 pm
Now is the time for them to see angry whiteys in their eyes
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