Seems "our side" has it's "Teabaggers" too.

[Archae]

You have to see these whacks to believe it.
They are just as bad as the Teabaggers.

http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20100320

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Every group or movement has its lunatic fringe...

[Archae]

4. Afraid so.

Truthers, Chemtrail buffs, and the totally vicious anti-Semitism I see in this little gathering.

We can be better though than the Teabaggers.

We can tell these idiots to take a hike.
Let them stew in their own juices for all we care.

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[Archae]

9. It isn't just "Resist Zionism."

"Be kind to animals, spay and nueter(sic) all filthy Jews."

"Hey Jews and Israel just like the dinosaurs you will soon be extinct welcome to Jewrassic Park"

[sufrommich]

20. Good Lord, "resist Zionism" is what you got from those signs?

Really?
I wouldn't go near a crowd like that.

[cali]

21. kind of shocking to see that here, isn't it?

[sufrommich]

23. It's horrible and embarrassing. nt

[okie]

29. Why is this a concern?

It was a protest that attracted a few nuts. It happens. But look how that website combines images of racists signs with signs saying to resist Zionism. It's a not so subtle attempt to link the two views.

[cali]

12. you mean like signs that advocated killing all Jews and pictures of hook nosed

men and signs advocating the spaying and neutering of Jews?

Sorry, that is not a crowd I'd be comfortable being any part of. Says a whole lot that you think it sounds good.

How sad.

[cali]

25. you should be ashamed of yourself.

any decent human being would distance themselves from the hate and bigotry expressed on sign after sign in that crowd.

[anigbrowl]

26. lie down with dogs, you rise up with fleas

If they want to make some valid point, nobody forces them to associate with racist trash.

[rudy23]

3. This seems like the Obama admin's strategy---rile up the left, compare them to lunatics on the right

and run a moderate Republican presidency that satisfies corporate donors, the military industrial complex, AND conservative Democrats.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. Those on the left holding up signs blaming 9/11 on the Jews are every bit as crazy as those on the

right and they don't need any help form Obama to show that.

[kestrel91316]

5. Those are the LaRouchies. Not on "our" side, lol. They belong to OUTER SPACE.

[Archae]

14. I saw ONE LaRouchie

What about the rest?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

16. What is that rally?

[Lyric]

6. SOME of them are. The Truther nuts and the anti-Semitics for sure.

But some of those signs seemed perfectly reasonable to me.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. The Truthers, the Anti-Semites, Chemtrailers and the La Rouche's

were what I would classify as moonbats.

[baldguy]

7. Obama's war policy shouldn't be criticized?

There's no valid comparison between the two groups.

[cali]

17. So it's not fucking disgusting bigotry to advocate exterminating the "filthy jews"

sorry, it's a sadly valid comparison judging from many of those sick signs.

[MrModerate]

11. I wouldn't equate these people with teabaggers . . .

except that both groups are batshit insane. Forced sterilization of political opponents is not exactly a progressive-left talking point.

[leeroysphitz]

13. Those bigoted fucks are NOT on "our" side. n/t

[rockymountaindem]

15. Eh. The LaRouchies and the people with the anarchist flags are definitely not on "our side"

They're "free radicals", if you will. As for the other people with the virulent anti-Semitic signs etc. I don't think they'd be too comfortable in mainstream Democratic circles, nor do our leaders pander to the likes of the people in that photo series the way plenty of elected Republicans and other figureheads (Palin) can't get close enough to the Tea Party. I'd say there's plenty of daylight between us and the creeps in those pictures.

[lxlxlxl]

18. shame...but they dont have a cable news channel promoting them do they?

shame there are people like that, and i still dont think 9-11 truthers are really progressives, but anyways, these people dont have big corporate funding or national news networks promoting them. there are differences.

[av8rdave]

19. And these people aren't driving the ideology and hyperbole of our party

Big difference.

[spanone]

22. ringo is a busy boy

[Starry Messenger]

24. That's a right-wing website

He doesn't agree with you on the teabaggers btw:

In the end, I never did find a single sign or banner with a racist message, nor did I hear a racist word spoken… but then, for many of Barack Obama’s most ardent supporters, the very act of criticizing the President is seen as racist. So it really doesn’t matter what the tea partiers say, they will be dismissed as "teabagging rednecks" by the talking heads on the networks, MSNBC and CNN. And when someone finally does bring a sign with a racist, or racially insensitive, message to one of these events you can rest assured that that will be the image that will make the evening news. In fact, the very lack of coverage that this Tea Party received in the local news can be seen as proof that nothing racist or offensive occurred.

Personally, I found the Tea Partiers at this rally to be a genuinely friendly bunch, who were refreshingly unsophisticated in the art of protest, yet sincerely concerned about expansion of government and the erosion of individual liberty under the current administration.

http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20091025

So gee, do ya maybe think he might have taken up a bunch of pictures from a truther rally and painted them as the so-called left so the gullible might be convinced of your first "point"? There looks like mostly Alex Jones libertarian types in the "moonbat" category mixed in with some photos of genuine leftists. Nice try.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

27. But DU has a pretty big "truther" contingent. Is that a ploy for the gullible too?

[anigbrowl]

28. Well, wherever they place themselves on the political spectrum, I reject their racism and idiocy.

Anyone expressing support for this lot is perpetuating stupidity and intolerance.

[okie]

30. What lot?

There were a lot of views represented there.

[greatauntoftriplets]

31. We're locking this up.

The website linked is a right-wing hate site and doesn't belong on Democratic Underground.

greatauntoftriplets
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