Teen Who Challenged Bachmann To Debate Receiving Threats

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHERRY HILL, N.J. -- A New Jersey teenager says she's received threats since challenging U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann to a debate over the Constitution.

Ann Myers challenged the tea party favorite in a letter dated April 29. After it started getting media attention last weekend, commenters on tea party websites have threatened to publish her home address and some have threatened violence.

The 16-year-old from Cherry Hill says several commenters have called her a "whore."

Her father, Wayne, says he's concerned for his daughter's safety.

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[yellowcanine]

1. Teabaggers showing how classy they are once again.

[curiousdemo]

50. They know this young lady will clean Michelle clock on History....

Now the Bozo's lunatic fringe are using threat to keep the debate from happening. Bachmann is crazy loose cannon. I'll put my seven year grandson on the podium to debate her on history. He'll clean her clock as well. Enough said.

[txlibdem]

112. They're afraid of a 16 year old! Run away, batshit Bachmann, run away!!!

When your bullshit is so thinly veiled that a 16-year-old can see through it (and you feel threatened by her) then you should just slink off into the shadows and SHUT YOUR MOUTH from here on out.

Are you listening Batshit Bachmann???

[haydukelives]

79. classy with a K

[tavalon]

84. Keeping it classy with a KKK

[rpannier]

115. Class in a Glass

[flakey_foont]

2. wow! Big brave guys

making online threats to a 16 year old girl;
from their mommy's basement no doubt

[givemebackmycountry]

3. Stay classy Tea Party.

Assholes.

A 16 year old girl.

[deutsey]

4. Poor kid...her first real lesson in contemporary American politics.

[Ship of Fools]

5. surprise, surprise.

[chrisa]

6. I can see that the Cheeto hitmen are at it again.

They might almost get out of their basement, but then their moms would start screaming at them. Instead, they just post on Free Republic and Conservative Cave all day.

[KamaAina]

75. "the Cheeto hitmen"!

:rofl:

So a teabagger wakes up and finds his, uh, Cheney is orange. So he goes to the doctor. Doctor says, "Okay, take these pills and come back."

Guy comes back and says, "Doc, it's still orange!" Doctor asks him, "May I ask you a, uh, personal question? Have you been... doing... anything unusual lately?"

Guy says, "Naw. Just watchin' some Sarah Palin campaign videos and eatin' Chee-tos". :P

[Bluzmann57]

88. Laugh out loud

I was eating dinner while I read that and damn near choked because I was laughing so hard. Thanks for the laugh. I'm going to repeat this to others, maybe even some teahadists I am unfortunate enough to know.

[47of74]

7. Tea pigs showing why they should be held in utter contempt again

[ck4829]

8. These guys aren't exactly proving their intelligence here. Don't let them stop you, Miss Myers.

K&R.

[steve2470]

9. That's really horrible. I feel so bad for her. She probably never dreamed that would happen

I would hope if a teen challenged Obama to a debate, that our side would stay classy.

[Ship of Fools]

11. i don't think i'd have a problem! --

because obama would, like an enlightened adult, consider it a learning experience for both and have the debate arranged. i'd bet on it.

[steve2470]

12. I agree

I think Obama would actually do it in a way to educate Americans and help her.

These idiots disgust me.

[geardaddy]

44. Exactly.

The only reason Teashits are fuming is because the kid is smarter than BS Bachmann.

[tavalon]

85. Not to denigrate the teen at all (she's clearly smart)

but a turnip is smarter than Bachmann.

[meow2u3]

111. Great idea for a bumper sticker slogan

MY KID IS SMARTER THAN YOUR TEABAGGER

:rofl:

[geardaddy]

117. That is a great slogan.

Now get to work!

[Fumesucker]

48. I'm not so sure.. I remember Obama's dismissive reaction..

To the poll his campaign or transition team put forth that ended up with marijuana legalization as the top issue.

http://change.gov/page/content/20081211_openforquestions

Edited for speling.

[Muskypundit]

94. Obama would only debate her

After her challenge was caught by trump, blown up by the media, with fox news asking every hour "President obama, scared to debate child, or just hates America?"

[Kber]

41. I imagine that the Obama team might be tempted to accept the challenge

not to "beat" a teenager in a debate, but to showcase a talented youngster with an interest in politics.

[Mr. Jefferson]

108. He would do it if he thought it would benefit Obama.

[Ian David]

10. More TeaTerror

http://tinyurl.com/TeaTerror
http://tinyurl.com/TeaTerror2

[DreamSmoker]

71. a perfect description

Yep.. It is pure TEA Terror Tactics....

[defendandprotect]

90. +1 -- Thanks for the reminder of the female stomped by Rand Paul supporter!!!

[Patiod]

13. No! I'm shocked, I tell you! Shocked!

Not those nice Tea Party folks. Not the fans of the guy who wanted Obama to "suck on" his machine gun, and wanted Hillary Clinton to "ride" one of his guns.

[Zoeisright]

14. Not surprising. "Repukes. The Party of Death Threats."

THAT should be their official motto. Who's keeping track? They targeted Rep. Giffords, and she was shot. When are we going to make the party of death and violence illegal?

[Beavker]

15. Probably some Koch Astroturf a-holes

Why aren't these people being looked into for Bullying, or even 'terroristic' threats?

Throw the fux in jail.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. This statement must bring them all a great deal of comfort.

From the linked article:

But Cherry Hill Police Lt. William Kushina says anonymous online threats like these are usually empty.

[dickthegrouch]

106. Doesn't matter

If any one of us had made the same threat to a TeaThug, they'd have us arrested.
Hell we didn't even need to make threats when the NOM marriage farce was parading its ignorance across the country, they had us arrested just for showing up to debate them.

[Dawson Leery]

17. The teabaggers strike again!

When the teabaggers say they want to "take their country back", part of this is making dissent against their own views impossible.

[Lionessa]

18. I'm wondering why they don't give us "real" information here.

Seriously, as much as I like to bash neo-cons of all stripes, the article should at least be able to tell us something about the posters of those threats on the teaparty websites, were they new posters or long term, were they removed by the site admins or left to set till required to be taken down, or are they still there?

It makes no sense why anyone would threaten over a request for a debate. Whereas, for example, the atheist young man who actually forced a change on religious neo-cons being threatened is entirely believeable.

[drm604]

26. It doesn't have to make sense.

Not when you consider the type of people these threats are probably coming from.

[Lionessa]

31. Sorry, it sounds like BS to me. I'm surrounded by these nutjobs

here in Idaho, and no one is upset about it at all. They think the girl's an idiot and will lose, (which is clearly idiotic), but no one is ruffled even a little.

[Wait Wut]

62. I'm surrounded by them in AZ, as well.

Though the ones that I "know" wouldn't threaten this young lady, I've seen and heard enough from comments in local papers to not take threats lightly. About 6 months ago, some ass that claimed to live in my town was looking for a new revolution. Said he was going to start shooting Liberals at random just to "thin the herd".

While it "may" be an empty threat, he also claimed to be part of a local militia and claimed they were preparing for a government takeover. And, yes, I did report the comment.

[Enthusiast]

52. You see the Tea Party as reasonable?

Not by any measure.

[Lionessa]

76. No, but being surrounded by them, I don't see any of them in their usual

anger mode about this, they seem more sardonic or sarcastic or even snottily humored, but not heated or angry in anyway, like they usually get when threats are made. Yes, I agree those I know wouldn't actually do anything, but they talk a certain way anyway, this time that level of aggressive talk is simply not evident.

I'm not saying it should be ignored, though it seems like the local police there are, I'm just saying I'm a bit suspect about it.

[ZombieHorde]

92. The threat makers are probably the fringe of the fringe.

Even if only 0.05%* of the Teabaggers are pissed, that is still enough for stupid threats.


*I fabricated this number from nothing. It is only to make the point a small few can make a lot of noise.

[Lionessa]

95. Possibly, and there are other possibilities too, that's my point, we have no "real"

data or info to make an informed judgement or even a partially informed judgement. All we have is a VERY short article with no back up whatsoever. Could be made up, could be that the teaparty sites did the right thing (if it was true) and immediately deleted, it could be it was trolls trying to cause trouble (right/left, repub/dem, lib/con all have their troll elements that like to pretend to be something they're not) and so on.

It's just not believable to me. The teen would've had to somehow offend and she didn't so none of this seems believable even for the fringe of the teaparty. It does seem believable that some others want us to believe it's teabaggers, and gets that the extreme dislike we have for them will override the possibility of erroneous (caused by being incomplete) reporting.

[freshwest]

96. How many of your teabagging buddies read DU or post at DU? Just curious.

[Lionessa]

98. I wouldn't call any of them my buddies, and I don't have a clue.

I simply overhear a lot of crap pretty much everywhere one might go throughout a days errands and such. My daughter is finally sick of Idaho, I've been ready to leave for about five years, but just couldn't leave her here alone, just couldn't do it. She has a year left for her masters, during that time I'm looking to where we will move. Actually just got back from a drive trip through New Mexico, skipped through Arizona, and checked California. Weather discounts much of the rest of the liberal/progressive world as humidity and lots of snow/cold are not welcome. New Mexico won't work because of the blowing dust for 3 months of the year, which will ruin the equipment I use to make a living, and California has too many requirements, adding up to too much up front money I don't have.

Next month, as she can afford to pay the gas and such for another trip (she's still gainfully employed, I'm not and haven't been for a while though I admit I sort of lost interest in succeeding here in Idaho about 18 months ago after an incident with a neocon client who won't pay) I will scope out Portland, Oregon where we lived a couple decades ago and up through Seattle. If not there, I'll be at a loss as to where to try next.

Please do not attempt to paint me as a troll or a buddy of neo-cons whatever their stripes. If you've had to live amongst them for as long as I have and watch them slide into deeper and deeper regressive social, religious, and political craziness, you'd better understand the offensiveness you've presented by suggesting such.

[freshwest]

101. I lived among them the majority of my life and don't discount their dangerous qualities one bit.

I've seen it up close and violent, so much it was traumatizing me and my family. We left at a financial loss, it was like living in hell. I've never regretted moving.

I would not live among them if I had another way. Sorry if my question rubbed you the wrong way and I am glad to hear you are on the road to leaving those deadbeats. They won't change.

[Lionessa]

102. At no point have I discounted their dangerous qualities, I simply question

the shallow and short reporting done here. And compared to other instances where threats have been reported, I've not noticed the same attitudinal issues that I saw on those other occurrences where I could clearly see that if the "normal" nutjobs were as up in arms as I saw, then the fringe nutjobs would surely be threatening. The "normal" I see over this, does not incline me to believe entirely that is the case IN THIS CASE. I simply would like to see more data.

That being said, my dislike of neo-cons of all stripes is so strong and deeply rooted, that I don't need to add questionable items to stoke it. And if I catch myself doing that, as I would have to do in this case, I'd see a reflection of a nutjob of the likes that I am trying to get away from.

[freshwest]

103. Good for you and bye now.

[Posteritatis]

60. For the mindset of some of these people, it makes perfect sense. (nt)

[The Doctor.]

19. Hmmm... let's see...

A 16 year-old challenging a US Senator to an intellectual debate,

Anonymous Teabaggers threatening said girl.


One of the above is a coward, and it's not the 16 year old.

[coalition_unwilling]

25. N.B. Bachmann is a U.S. Representative, not a Senator. - n/t

[The Doctor.]

29. Yeah... just had a moment. And no coffee yet.

Thanks for the correction.

:hangover: :hangover:

[Sheepshank]

20. Bachmann would do would to well to nip this in the bud

This tupe of negativity will surely rub off on her, and evern moreso if she doesn't nothing about it.

[gejohnston]

81. that would be a bad thing? I'm thinking that

It could wake up her district. They defend her because she is "attacked by urban elites". With any luck they could find a decent Dem or at the very least, a full wit Rep (which is now an endangered species) to replace her.

[Hubert Flottz]

21. To cowardly to go fight the wars they stir up but...

always ready to attack some little girl, old lady, or homeless vet.

[colorado_ufo]

22. This is nothing more or less than terrorism.

[abelenkpe]

23. So they are investigating and charging those making threats yeah?

I mean really, it is not legal to threaten people is it?

[Angry Dragon]

24. Call her office 202-225-2331 and tell her to use fox news

to stand up for this girl

If she does not nip this in the bud then she is not a Christian nor has the morals to be president........
And she has no right to be in Congress............ resign now michele if you can not stand up for a young lady

[defendandprotect]

91. Great idea --

Thanks!

[Odin2005]

27. THREATS? Teabaggers are such COWARDS.

[iamthebandfanman]

28. i expect this bahavoir, just not towards a 16 year old..

thats the sad part about this I think.

right wingers being violent and hateful? thats nothing new.

attacking CHILDREN is low tho, even for a teabagger.

[dropkickpa]

63. But she's a girl, they aren't worth as much donchaknow!

And they are perfectly okay with violence against women and girls.

[steve2470]

30. on Faux News now, of course:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/20/new-jersey-teen-claims-threats-tea-party-challenge/

[kimmylavin]

49. And look at the headlines...

Same AP Story.
Local station: "Teen who challenged Bachmann to debate receiving threats"
Fox: "New Jersey Teen Claims Threats Over Tea Party Challenge"

Very telling...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

32. Wow, TeaBaggers and GOPers sure are thin skinned

and assholes, to boot.

As bad as their past behavior has been, I simply could not have imagined that this would happen.

[madrchsod]

33. her people decided to respond by saying they won`t respond....

did`t they just respond?


the keyboard commandos beating up on a 16 yr old girl. i guess they really are afraid this 16yr old could school their hero about the Constitution.

[nonperson]

34. Tebaggers =

Nazi brown shirts.

[geardaddy]

46. Teashirts.

[Hubert Flottz]

67. Brown shorts...

Too stupid to wipe their own ass...

[nonperson]

107. Really

How stupid do you have to be to refer to yourselves as "teabaggers" then get pissed off when people are call you "teabaggers" after you find out what it means?

This is part and parcel of the wholesale cultural shift the far right wing and their benefactors have been orchestrating in earnest since that bastard Ronald Wilson Reagan started the process of destroying the American working class.

[AsahinaKimi]

35. They must feel threatened that a mere child could out wit

Michele Bachmann, (enough so then to threaten her)..Is this what the Best of the Tea Party brings to the table? Blech.. throughly disgusting people.

[Buenaventura]

36. i think my dog could outwit michele - i know my cat could

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

56. "...a mere child"

:thumbsup:

All the information you need to know.

[nxylas]

37. And I bet they'll deny it

"It's all just liberal lies designed to discredit conservatives. We conservatives are overflowing with Jesus's love, and anyone who says different should be STOMPEDANDSMASHEDANDKILLEDANDHATEHATEHATE!!11eleven"

[Hulk]

38. How utterly sad!

Teabagger Amerikkka. This is shameful...and the reich wingers are really thugs and haters. This really pisses me off!

[BridgeTheGap]

39. Fascist bastards showing their true colors. Picking on a 16 year old for christ's sake! n.t

[Scottybeamer70]

40. Not much has changed in 50 years......

except we didn't have these "tubes" then.
I wrote a 2 sentence letter to the editor in a major newspaper.
I was 19 and in college. I received so many death threats and
nasty letters, my landlady became concerned they might burn
the house. Wish I had kept all those letters! Most were
from churches and religious organizations.
How terrible that these nutjobs would turn on a 16 year old.
No, not a lot of change in 50 years!

[lsewpershad]

42. What is wrong with these stoooopid people?

[Festivito]

43. That does not strike me as any undereducated teabagger, rather someone higher.

... trying to squelch furtherance of this debate idea.

[ladywnch]

45. clearly they are very afraid of another Palin/Couric moment! LOL

[dana_b]

80. I think that you're right. They are afraid of this girl

and probably know that Bachmann is dumber than a doorstop.

[LibertyLover]

47. I wish I were surprised to hear this

but, sadly, I'm not. Nor am I surprised that Rep. Bachmann does not intend to debate Ms. Myers. It would really hurt her ego to loose to a 16 year old I guess. Stay classy Teabaggers!

[Harriety]

51. Bachmann's cult followers should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

[MadMaddie]

53. Those that are threatening are like Brown Shirts

Think about it, it's getting worse. Anytime anyone challanges the ignorant Bachman, Palin, Gingrich and a slew of others they believe that the masses do not have the right to question them. They get defensive and dangerous. They make threats, they are in fact trying to destroy the democratic process. This is why the Republicans are so dangerous. Wisconsin, TX and others states prove this over and over again, there is no dialogue when they shove through laws now.

[BIGFOOTSDADDY333]

54. cowardly bag-of-ass tea babies

what a disgusting bunch, threatening a 16 y.o.!. how do they live with themselves.

[liberal N proud]

55. These wackos don't want a democracy, they want to rule by thuggery

[JohnnyRingo]

57. Stay classy Tea Baggers.

And they complain that they require a certain level of respect in our description of them.
Assholes.

[marmar]

58. self-delete, intended as OP

[Strelnikov_]

59. The Founding Fathers would be proud n/t

[Frisbee]

61. And THIS, Ladies and Gentlemen...

Tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about the teabaggers. They are truly scum.

[proud patriot]

64. disgusting

[bulloney]

65. These basement-dwelling knuckle-draggers must really be afraid Bachmann would be exposed as the dork

she actually is.

A 16-year-old creates that much insecurity among these idiots? Real brave people.

[fascisthunter]

66. pukes reveal themselves for what they are... they are COWARDS

looks like they are THREATENED by the idea of a HS girl kicking the shit out of their candidate... well, that's why the girl is doing it. Her request to a debate is enough of a dis, they can't handle.

[louslobbs]

68. More upstanding, Republican, teabagging Christians I presume?

The Christian/Republican/teabagging lynch mobs are back I see. Too bad they can't see what pathetic, crazy, bullies they look like to the rest of us. Mental health attention is sorely needed in the Republican/teabagging/Christian/FOX/GOP community, stat!
Lou

[ZombieHorde]

69. I can tell this thread is not about religion because no DUer is blaming the teenager. nt

[Blacksheep214]

70. We pay to prevent this

It's called the Patriot Act and the Dept. of Homeland Security.

I'm sure this young lady is questioning peoples patriotism while not feeling secure in her homeland.

First ammendment be damned. Trace these crfiminal terrorists down and prosecute the shit out of them.

OR disband the DHS and let the Patriot Act expire. What good are domestic wire taps if not to protect us?

[Downtown Hound]

72. Teabaggers are NAZIS

So this is what we've come to. Challenge a politician to debate, and you get death threats.

God I hate Republicans.

[SemperEadem]

73. wow... now they're threatening children... stay classy, teaboogers!

patriot act them.

[dmallind]

74. According to Christian DU logic

it's her fault for provoking the right wingers: she should have known better than to offend them by suggesting theirs are not the only opinions worth voicing. What exactly is the deifference between this case and the HS boy in LA who took an actual constitutional stand against prevailing opinion? Not one single post here is against the minor - on the thread about him roughly 25% were. I guess when political and religious sensibilities conflict, the religious side wins.

[RainDog]

105. yeah. that was definitely an enlightening thread

don't bother some people to respect others' rights because that means they have to respect others' rights.

[Weird Liberal Head]

77. Words cannot describe my hatred and...

disgust of the Tea Baggers.
Remember when they could still sort of credibly claim they weren't violent, racist, etc. at all?
That time is officially over.

[ejbr]

78. So, these Neanderthals believe Bachman would lose the debate

therefore, they have to threaten? Wow...I didn't think that even THEY knew this woman was an idiot.

[gejohnston]

82. please don't libel Neanderthals

after all, they did have larger brains.

[Rex]

83. Teabaggers would love to kill her and her family, they are right

above Klansmen and right below John Birchers imo. An almost Cult of hateful, racists that love violence and hate peace.

[athenasatanjesus]

86. Threats are the most comprehensive and nuanced arguments on the right.

Can you blame them?

[jtuck004]

87. Bachman not have the class to speak out against this? eom

[defendandprotect]

89. Nothing like dealing with the right wing -- aggression and violence is what they best understand--!!

[and-justice-for-all]

93. Well is this pathetic and childish to say the least...

at most, this is criminal and Amy Myers's parents should press charges for being victems of a terrorist organization.

[Yon_Yonson]

97. Bachmann could defuse this whole situation by agreeing to debate

... she won’t because she knows Ms Meyers will rip her a new arsehole. So she allows her brownshirts to spread hate and discontent.

[Vidar]

99. Thuggery, corruption and the lowest common denominator: hallmarks of the New Republicans.

[blueclown]

100. I wish I could say I was surprised.

But quite frankly, you can't expect much from these people. They have a mental disorder known as conservatism. These people need help.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

104. K/R nt

[spicegal]

109. What is with these right wing idiots that they consider a 16

year old a threat for wanting to debate? Seriously? What a bunch of neanderthals.

[Lorien]

110. Why is it that when women are attacked and insulted

the words "slut" and "whore" always seem to get flung about? Is it misogyny, our puritanical roots or just a lack of originality? Very promiscuous men in the public eye don't get called such things.

[RoccoR5955]

113. That's the teabaggers' Modus Operandi.

Empty threats, and idle promises.
Well, sometimes not so empty threats, as in the case of Congresswoman Giffords.

The media has got to stop covering the teabaggers. They are just a flash in the pan, and will become extinct by the time 2012 rolls around.

[The Nexus]

114. If I was the teen, I say "BRING IT!!!" nt

[OmahaBlueDog]

116. Al Franken should offer to "play the part of Bachmann" in the debate

"Myers says the Minnesota congresswoman misstates or distorts facts about the Constitution. Bachmann's office told The Courier-Post of Cherry Hill that it won't respond to the debate challenge."

http://www.kare11.com/news/article/923863/14/Teen-who-challenged-Bachmann-to-debate-receiving-threats

No problem. Al is Senator from Minnesota, and represents Ms. Bachmann's state in the Senate. He could certainly "represent" her views accurately and fairly in a debate with a teenager, since she can't/won't herself.

..and lurkers, it's cowardly to call a teenaged girl a whore under any circumstance. Is that how your mothers raised you? Is that what your ministers told you was right?

[timesup]

118. Tea Party is just code for IDIOT.

They didn't even know what "tea-bagging" slang was when they started it.
If you admit being a tea partier, that tells me to ignore anything you have to say.
Michele Bachmann is a joke, and these folks are the yell the loudest and make threats if not getting their way, crowd, I don't think civility is in their vocabulary.
Challenge the whole lot of them on the Constitution, not just Bachmann.