Re: Civility Project ends
Not Sure
> Ubiquitous wrote:
> > In article <4d2fc1e...@news.x-privat.org>,
> > barb...@nonofyourbusinessx.tv wrote:
>
> >> The Civility Pledge
>
> >> * will be civil in my public discourse and behavior.
> >> * will be respectful of others whether or not I agree with them.
> >> * will stand against incivility when I see it.
>
> When will you get it through your pea brain that the civility pledge was
> created by a Republican for members of Congress, not the media and not
> the general public?
>
> > . Extreme rhetoric. The Wisconsin Republican Party has produced what
> > Mediaite.org calls an "incredibly effective" video juxtaposing liberal
> > complaints about allegedly extremist Tea Party rhetoric with unionist
> > signs likening Gov. Walker to Hitler and other dictators.
>
> Those signs are plants by far-right agitators.
You'd think for someone who lies so much, you'd be better at it.
Sorry, fatass :)
>
> > Left-wing
> > journalists are making similar invidious comparisons: "Workers
> > Toppled a Dictator in Egypt, but Might Be Silenced in Wisconsin" read
> > the headline of a Washington Post column by Harold Meyerson last
> > week. The other day on CNN we saw scenes of a Madison crowd chanting,
> > "Kill the bill"--which was said
>
> Said by whom?
>
> > to be violent and invidious a year
> > ago, when "the bill" was ObamaCare.
>
> Bullshit.
>
> > . Violence. Blogress Ann Althouse, a state employee based in Madison,
> > posted a video of municipal salt trucks blowing their horns in
> > support of the unionists. A YouTube commenter responded (quoting
> > verbatim), "whoever video taped this has no life and should be shot
> > in the head." Unlike Frances Fox Piven, Althouse has never advocated
> > violence, but don't expect the Times to give this the kind of
> > coverage it gave Piven's claims that she had received threatening
> > emails.
>
> Threatening emails are far more serious than what some boob wrote in the
> YouTube comments. You want to talk about threatening comments? Take a
> look at the comments section of any right-wing blog or even Yahoo news
> stories. There's a mountain of violent rhetoric posted every day by
> right-wingers. But let's ignore all that and point to one comment on
> YouTube so we can make yet another false equivalency argument.
>
>
>
> > . Partisan AstroTurf. That's the Beltway term referring to a fake
> > grassroots movement. Politico reported last week that "the Democratic
> > National Committee's Organizing for America arm--the remnant of the
> > 2008 Obama campaign--is playing an active role in organizing
> > protests." A blogger at the OFA website, BarackObama.com, writes: "To
> > our allies in the labor movement, to our brothers and sisters in
> > public work, we stand with you, and we stand strong."
>
> Ooooh. Yeah, saying "we stand with you" -- that's an "active" role.
>
> > We've also
> > received emails from MoveOn.org, which says it's holding a
> > pro-unionist rally outside our offices later this afternoon. Sorry,
> > MOO, we're working at home today.
>
> MoveOn holding a rally in support of Wisconsin teachers is not an
> example of "Partisan AstroTurf."
>
> Unlike the Teabaggers, the union protests in Wisconsin aren't being
> bankrolled by right-wing lobbyists, think tanks and partisan hacks.
>
> > . Refusal to accept election results. Although Republicans have a
> > majority in the Wisconsin Senate, Democrats have fled the state,
> > taking advantage of the body's rules to deny the majority a quorum.
> > The Indianapolis Star reports that Democrats from the Indiana House
> > are employing the same tactic. Even Barack Obama, when he was an
> > Illinois senator, usually voted "present."
>
> Do they also have fillibuster rules in Wisconsin that allow a minority
> to kill a bill that the majority wants? That was how the Republicans in
> the US Congress refused to accept election results.
>
>
>
> > . Stupidity. Remember "Teabonics," a photo album of misspelled Tea
> > Party signs? The unionists can't spell any better--and some of them
> > are teachers! Althouse got one photo of what we think is a woman
> > holding a sign that reads "
> > 'Open for business' = Closed for
> > Negotiatins [sic]."
>
> Oooooh. One photo of a misspelled sign. Yeah that proves that all
> teachers are just as stupid as teabaggers -- not.
>
> > The one exception: So far we haven't seen any evidence of racism by
>
> > the Wisconsin unionists. But we're watching for it.
>
> And if you don't see it you'll manfacture it, just like you did with the
> bogus signs, and the bogus YouTube "threat"
>
> --
> Barb