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Atman

(31,464 posts)
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 06:47 PM Oct 2012

What is important to Tea Baggers?

After a weekend of hell on the Eastern Seaboard, with potentially dozens of people killed, entire neighborhoods burning, billions in property damage, NYC underwater, a Presidential candidate staging bogus canned food drives, what is STILL on the Tea Bagger front pages after three or four days now? Benghazi, with the tell-tale quote which should be a red-flag to any intelligent, thinking American...

"Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said Saturday [font color=red]he has sources saying[/font] President Barack Obama was in the room at the White House watching the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya unfold."

Note, NO SOURCES ARE GIVEN. This guy isn't a staffer or a general or anyone with any WH connection or established cred in matters of this level of international importance...he's a retired Lt. Col of no known (or at least, provided) background. Yet he is the sole source for stirring up the Tea Baggers devoted to one single well-known GOP network, about a story their "grass-roots" billionaire funders hoped would be the campaign-saving October Surprise for Mittens. And they're all willing to literally hang the President of The United States for it. For a Fox News story with NO VETTING, NO LEGITIMATE SOURCES.

This is what is on their front page while millions of Americans are sleeping in the cold, or stranded in attics, or shoveling out the remnants of their homes...due to fake climate change.

These aren't real people. Something is seriously wrong with them.

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Atman

(31,464 posts)
6. Well, SOME SAY Tea Baggers are all totally racist assholes.
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 06:51 PM
Oct 2012

Really, some say it. I have sources who told me that.

Gregorian

(23,867 posts)
7. Emotional cripples, incapable of empathy. Looking to vent their pent up rage.
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 06:54 PM
Oct 2012

Hitler had it, and used those with it to be his henchmen.

It's nothing new. But we can educate and eventually eliminate it.

 

Firebirds01

(576 posts)
9. Anthony Shaffer
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 06:59 PM
Oct 2012

This is an attempt to use a know name in the intelligence community to create uncertainty with Obama. No way this story is true and I seriously doubt Shaffer would make such a claim. Shaffer is the hero who identified the 9/11 terrorists before the attack and let Bush and the intelligence apparatus know about it. He was very critical of the Bush admin for ignoring his findings AND not pursuing the perpetrators. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Danger

I've met Tony Shaffer, I know Tony Shaffer, I went to college with Tony Shaffer......He didnt make these claims.

Window

(7,265 posts)
11. Most important and still at the top of their agenda is getting that Black man out of the White House
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:08 PM
Oct 2012

We have to stop these sick racists...NOW!!!

KarenS

(3,993 posts)
12. Q: What is important to Tea Baggers? A: Themselves.
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:10 PM
Oct 2012

Their wants & needs, their thoughts, their "religion", their egos, propping up their miniscule self-esteem ~ it's all about them.

Seriously, I have Tea Baggers in my family.

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
14. I think you're correct.
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:25 PM
Oct 2012

I met one who is from extended family. She's a self-absorbed moron. Just the type to believe this manufactured nonsense. She reads right wing emails and thinks it's news.

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