Monday, April 13, 2009
Politics / Woods Tennessee Republicans Play Victim to Hilt
Posted by Jeff Woods on Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Although the liberal mainstream media often tries to marginalize Christians and portray Christian faith as archaic, the truth is quite the opposite: Christian faith and beliefs are mainstream in America.Next blog item: Hobbs smacks down the liberal media for criticizing tax protesters. The headline: Tea = Hate?
The average Tea Party crowd will be filled with mainstream taxpayers who believe in the Second Amendment, the Constitution, limited government, low taxes, and fiscal responsibility. If that includes you, be warned: the Left has begun a campaign - in the mainstream media and on liberal blogs - to demonize you as a racist wacko.Let's see, Republicans run the legislature and currently are ramming through their right-wing agenda with little resistance. The governor may be a Democrat, but he agrees with the GOP on virtually every issue except abortion. And what once passed for the Democratic Party in this state is disintegrating into irrelevancy. Yes, Republicans are beleaguered in Tennessee. So when radio windbags like Rush Limbaugh denounce America's culture of victimhood, who exactly are they criticizing?
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I like the overuse of "mainstream." Does a thesaurus have a liberal bias? New words could lead to a different way of thinking, and we all know what thinking leads to. Gay commie abortions.
Hey Einstein, if there is little resistance, then they aren't ramming through the legislation.
Just because Rush says something, doesn't mean he speaks for everyone that tends to vote Republican. That's an entirely absurd assumption and only stated for the convenience of the writer. I think you should just say "I disagree with Republican doctrine." Leave it at that. Otherwise you just look like a fool spouting off angry rhetoric trying to demonize those whose opinions differ from yours. What a bunch of hypocrites we are.
Bill Hobbs makes it sound like the Tea Party will be a meeting of the Blue Dog coalition. In reality, this is a group of whining wackos who want to complain about a lack of representation even though we have 4 GOP house members and 2 GOP senators in Congress.
Hobbs blows.
Nobody plays the victim like conservatives. The irony is they accuse liberals of the same thing. They always think they are under attack from the government or the media or Hollywood or whatever other bogey-man group there is. Whether it's their religion, their right to bear arms, taxes, you name it, someone is out to get them.
It's also funny that Bill Hobbs chose Easter to "call out" the media. I have long wondered why we didn't hear about a "war on Easter" much like Bill O'Reilly's "war on Christmas." I guess we really do now have a "war on Easter."
"Let's see, Republicans run the legislature and currently are ramming through their right-wing agenda with little resistance."
Even if that were actually true, the tea parties are primarily about protesting what Obama is doing with the FEDERAL government, so you really have no point.
"Nobody plays the victim like conservatives. The irony is they accuse liberals of the same thing. They always think they are under attack from the government or the media or Hollywood or whatever other bogey-man group there is. Whether it's their religion, their right to bear arms, taxes, you name it, someone is out to get them."
It's not irony, it's a tactic.
MM is correct. It's an entirely calculated tactic. "Playing the ref" as Bill O'Reilly once put it, I think.
Burning a cross is politically incorrect, even for these white sheet republicans. So, they instead have a "tea party". It is all about Obama.
Sure, it probably is a tactic for Rush, O'Reilly and Beck, but to their foot soldiers and the ditto heads, it's pure irony. I know enough of them and they really believe that the ACLU and the "secular government" are out to take their rights away. I remember one guy saying with a straight face that we may not have the freedom to worship in the near future. And I've heard from several that due to "reverse discrimination" that blacks, latinos and women are preferred over white males. And they don't need proof. They just know it. These same people will decry our "society of victim-hood" which usually is about affirmative action or welfare, but don't see the same thing in their whining about some perceived loss of rights. That is pure irony.
"Nobody plays the victim like conservatives. The irony is they accuse liberals of the same thing. They always think they are under attack from the government or the media or Hollywood or whatever other bogey-man group there is. Whether it's their religion, their right to bear arms, taxes, you name it, someone is out to get them."
Bullshit.
Stating that the media has a liberal bias ins't playing victim - it is stating a fact.
And it IS an absolute fact.
Liberals are the one's constantly attempting to classify whole groups of people as "victims" as a pretext for using government to make other people finance some sort of handout for them.
There is a significant difference between protesting about government increasing it's power and control over the individual via increased taxation and regulations and protesting in favor of creating more "special" classes of people who are claimed to be "entitled" to all sorts of material goods and/or services at other people's expense.
ZZZZZ.... what? I've been sleeping for the last eight years... There's a black man in the white house? Slightly raise the marginal tax rate on the top few percent of earners, while increasing spending to help everyone else? No Republican president would ever increase deficits! WHERE'S MY PITCHFORK!
Bill Hobbs? Ha. Nobody except maybe Campfield takes him seriously. Robin probably laughs at him behind his back.
Gilbert, whatever. I see it and hear it constantly. Listen to Phil Valentine and Rush and the people who call into their shows. Go to blogs like Free Republic. These are people who play the victim constantly. You may not, Gilbert, but a lot of your compatriots do act like victims.
Well chris, as I said before, there is a significant difference between people complaining about government increasingly sticking it's nose into your business and it's hand into your wallet and people whining for government to give them some sort of handout or an even bigger handout than what they're already getting.
I never said that they are playing the victim because they were complaining about the government sticking their noses into their business. Liberals complain about that as much or even more so than conservatives. Another irony is that they want the government to do just that as long as it's not them, i.e. what people do in the bedrooms, abortion, etc. They play the victim because they think, without any justification, that the government is persecuting them because of their religion. Bill O'Reilly drives up his ratings every Christmas season with his "War on Christmas" theme. And conservatives eat that stuff up with a spoon. Go to Free Republic sometime if you haven't already and you can see a bunch of people playing the victim.
Don't care if he's black/white/yellow. Obami and his cronnies have to be stopped. Like it or not, this is a christian nation. Liberals stole this election. Now you're seeing the majority you ignored waking up. Pay attention, cause you're about to see what happens when the have nots challenge the haves.
