Tag Archives: Tea Party movement
Wingnuts go bonkers over Wolf Blitzer’s innocuous remark regarding Patriots Day bombings in Boston
Shortly after yesterday’s bombings in Boston, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer made this remark:
One intriguing notion, one intriguing thought here, and I’m curious, Mike, and I’ll ask Matt to weigh in as well. It is a state holiday, in addition to the Boston Marathon. It is a state holiday in Massachusetts today called Patriots Day, and who knows if that has anything at all to deal — to do with these, these twin explosions.
The same thought had occurred to me and, no doubt, to countless other people. I heard and read frequent mentions yesterday and this morning about how …
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Paranoid, insurrectionist Tea Party video employs slick production values
These folks think Fox News is too liberal
As a patriotic, God-fearing American who don’t cotton to no commies, I can only say that it’s about time something like THIS happened:
Is Fox News going soft?
That is what a number of Tea Party activists are saying and they are organizing a boycott to protest the conservative station’s coverage, especially what they view as the network’s relative silence in investigating the attacks on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
“Particularly after the election, Fox keeps turning to the left,” said Stan Hjerlied, 75, of Fort Collins, Colo., and a participant in the boycott. He pointed to an
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Democrats release Web videos attacking Tea Party lawmakers on sequester issue
This video from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is aimed at Rep. Bill Young of Florida. Twenty-four other Republican lawmakers are targeted in similar videos.
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Dispatch from front lines of GOP civil war: Tea Party group portrays Karl Rove as a Nazi
Vicious infighting among Republicans these days has increasingly become grist for our liberal mill here at Applesauce — as evidenced, for example by THIS ENTRY from yesterday.
And now there’s THIS:
A top tea party group is taking its clash with Karl Rove to a new level, sending out a fundraising email Tuesday featuring a photoshopped image [above} of the GOP operative in an SS uniform.
“Wipe the Smirk Off Karl Rove’s Face,” reads the subject line of the email, from Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots.
Tuesday afternoon, more than five …
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