28 Comments

• Monsoonman | Apr 28, 2010, 07:59 PM EDT

  So Sean me boy! What you are saying is a far cry from painting the entire tea party movement as a racist and violent movement. OK, I'll give it to you that out of the 50 million or so tea partiers there may be a few and I mean very few, fringe types, say .000000001%. BTW: Out here in the west carrying a firearm is not considered a violent or aggressive act...Guns are not a bad thing. Guns saved my life and continue to be used in my defense, because what's faster? 911? Or a .45?

• seanomelbourne | Apr 26, 2010, 01:42 AM EDT

  Monsoonman where have I made the below accusations? but now that you mention it you are not so naive to believe that there are not some racist among your flock or people taking their firearms to rallies are not symbolising some form of violence. I would even agree that similar traits exist on the far left.

• Monsoonman | Apr 23, 2010, 04:40 PM EDT

  Sean: Instead of sniping from behind a rock, I suggest you be busy posting proof to back up your assertions that Tea party members are racists & violent and have been shootingt bullets through democrats windows...I have been patiently waiting for one of your tribe to put the proof up there, patiently I might add.

• seanomelbourne | Apr 23, 2010, 12:20 AM EDT

  Monsoonman would have been in good company as he waded through the cess pool,Limbaugh,Palin,Malkin,Hannity,Beck and so on.

• Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 08:30 PM EDT

  I waded through the cess pool and gave you 3 links guiness girl, one by the impeached former president clinton likening tim mcveigh with the tea parties....Words do mean something, even the definition of is.

• Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 08:26 PM EDT

  http://article.wn.com/view/2010/04/17/Clinton_links_McVeigh_to_Tea_Parties/

• galway2001 | Apr 19, 2010, 08:25 PM EDT

  he should not, not be fired,

• Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 08:24 PM EDT

  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/12/105254/524

• Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 08:21 PM EDT

  http://www.docudharma.com/diary/20298/mcveigh-wannabes-promote-tea-parties-glenn-beck-on-their-website-tell-me-about-that-snark-again

• GuinnessGrrl | Apr 19, 2010, 04:13 PM EDT

  "Posted by Monsoonman on Apr 18, 2010, 01:11 PM EDT You guys aren't looking at the whole story here. Last year the tea party was referred to negatively as "Tim McVeigh wannabes" and "gangsters" by some paranoid left wing/communist kooks." Really? Name & give date & source when one of those "paranoid left wing/communist kooks" said that.

• Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 03:17 PM EDT

  McBro: The founding Fathers thought it important to keep an armed citizenry. I agree with them.

• McNamara31 | Apr 19, 2010, 02:16 PM EDT

  Monsoonman Be sure to catch the "Bring your Guns to Washington Rally held today” Listen to the quotes from the participants..."It's us vs them", "Us vs the Communists", "War against Socialism" My guess, 89% listen to Beck

• McNamara31 | Apr 19, 2010, 12:44 PM EDT

  Monsoonnman My comments address the bigoted fringe of the Tea Party. Agreed, they are taxpayers, so are the skin heads and the Arian Nation. And, the motto, “I want to take my country back” To where? I think it's a place in history that most of us don't want to go.

• Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 12:06 PM EDT

  I liken the tea Party protests to the canaries in the political mineshaft....Washingtons politicians better listen.

• Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 11:48 AM EDT

  It's all well and good to be out on the streets demanding free stuff from your government. But when the ones who actually foot the bill for the governments largesse(the geese who lay the golden eggs) get out on the streets. Houston, there is a problem.

• Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 11:44 AM EDT

  McBro: You forgot one important figure: 95% are taxpayers.....nuff said.

• McNamara31 | Apr 19, 2010, 09:47 AM EDT

  Monsoonman/Sean The numbers are far worse. Based on the CBS/NYT poll of Tea Party attendees, 59% are men, 89% are white, 63% watch Fox for their news, and 75% have a favorable opinion of Beck and Palin. I think that paints a little clearer picture. /2010/04/14/18-percent-of-americans-say-they-are-supporters-of-the-tea-party/

• seanomelbourne | Apr 18, 2010, 10:04 PM EDT

  50% of the general population is not white male over 40 so why the anomaly(I fit bin to the category of white male over 40 but liberal)

• Monsoonman | Apr 18, 2010, 08:44 PM EDT

  Sean, you say:"over 50% of them are 40 white males"? What is the other 50% made up of? Is it a crime to be a white male? It has been scientifically proven tea party members have higher educations, higher incomes and vote in every election. Unscientifically it has been proven tea party members enjoy life more, brush their teeth 3 times a day and are better looking than the average socialist.

• seanomelbourne | Apr 18, 2010, 07:22 PM EDT

  Hannity's comment was 2 weeks ago and the crowd cheered his rabble rousing. What is the psyche of people who would cheer when they are compared to McVeigh,it beggars belief.the latest poll claim 18% of people are tea party sympathisers and over 50% of them are 40 white males.

• Monsoonman | Apr 18, 2010, 01:11 PM EDT

  You guys aren't looking at the whole story here. Last year the tea party was referred to negatively as "Tim McVeigh wannabes" and "gangsters" by some paranoid left wing/communist kooks. The usual MO of the left is to parrot something, usually false and misleading, but repeat it enough and it becomes truth in their fevered minds. To quote Vice President Dan Quayle: "A mind is a terrible thing to lose"

• McNamara31 | Apr 18, 2010, 11:30 AM EDT

  I'm with Sean on this one,(no surprise to Monsoonman) Fox News and the Tea party stokers, Palin, Backman etc. continually use "Code talk" like Backman's recent comment about our "Gangster Government" to feed the hate and bigotry of their fringe, yet voting, wing nuts. When violence and threats arise soon after, they'll reply with a wink and a nod, "You know we didn't mean that." Just in time for the next Fox News cycle.

• seanomelbourne | Apr 18, 2010, 09:55 AM EDT

  Dry humour about a mass murderer what an excuse.Hannity thrives on misrepresentation and you want to give him a pass,what's good for the goose! come on monsoonman

• Monsoonman | Apr 18, 2010, 12:03 AM EDT

  sean: You need to give it a break. What Hannity and the tea partiers were saying was dry humor because the left, in their cujo-like logic, accused them of being mcveigh wannabes...geesh

• seanomelbourne | Apr 17, 2010, 10:19 PM EDT

  It's a pleasure to see the prince of lies and misinformation (Hannity) reined in. The right are silent on his remarks 2 weeks ago that the tea party misfits are Timothy McVeigh wannabes and to think they cheered in reply how sad.

• Monsoonman | Apr 17, 2010, 05:03 PM EDT

  Mc: Don't you think there should be at least one counter broadcast to the liberal press? What harm does it do, dude? Let some counter truth in to the mix. How do you think we found out john edwards was cheating on his cancer stricken wife? That there was an alternative candidate to the shoo in democrat nominee for "teddys seat". That the healtch care "reform" bill was 2700 pages of graft and corruption? How? By having an alternative to the main stream medias abc, cbs, nbc, pbs, nyt, et al.

• McNamara31 | Apr 17, 2010, 03:19 PM EDT

  Fox News brought to you by its "two largest" investors Rupert Murdoch, and Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed. Hmmmmm? How about that anti clean energy no global warming position Fox squawks 24/7?

• Monsoonman | Apr 17, 2010, 02:02 PM EDT

  Makes sense, it is a fair and blanced decision. Now how about ABC, CBS and NBC follow the same code and report the other side of the news rather than being the propaganda arm of the whitehouse.