Rush Limbaugh: Tea Party Called “Terrorists” & Other Nasty Double-Standard Treatment by Media, Also Says, “If House Doesn’t Pass That Bill Tonight, Tomorrow Ought to Be a Lot of Fun” (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 1, 2011
Katrina Pierson, black conservative and Dallas Tea Party member, speaking out last year against government overspending
What ever happened to the Democrats’ demand for civility from Republicans? Remember that?
They sure as heck don’t.
On today’s EIB radio show, Rush Limbaugh pointed out that the outlandish, uncivil attacks by Democrat members of Congress, as well as by the New York Times and other liberal media sources against conservative tea partiers have gone into overdrive. The lack of Democrat-demanded — but Democrat-deficit — civil rhetoric is utterly heinous.
The attacks, mockery, and slurs from this group of statist miscreants against grassroots, Constitution-inspired Americans have been over the top, have never been matched by how the media writes about or many Democrat leaders talk about radical Muslim terrorists. Limbaugh correctly points out their hypocrisy, how they won’t ever refer to Islamic murderers from 9/11 as “extremists,” but will call law-abiding Americans “extremists” — or worse. No violence, property damage, or vicious threats (except for voting members of Congress out of office) from conservatives, from tea party attendees. But THEY are the terrorists, and Islamic radical murderers across the world are merely “misunderstood victims” — or whatever the liberal flavor of the week is — to excuse the non-stop carnage and destruction brought forth by these animals who have no regard for human life.
Tea party members’ crimes for such derision by its own federal government? They want a balanced budget, fiscal responsibility, pruning of expensive, unsustainable entitlement programs and government ranks, lower taxes, and the reckless overspending by the federal government to stop. For this, Vice Pres. Joe Biden, Harry Reid, and many other liberal members of Congress have stood in front of news cameras and called millions of Americans all sorts of names because they have the audacity to want the government smaller, the Constitution to be adhered to, and the rampant “kids in a candy store” government deficit spending to stop once and for all. Even Republicans are calling conservatives names, like last week RINO Sen. John McCain calling them “tea party hobbits” from the Senate floor.
By the way — Limbaugh is not supporting the current debt/budget bill being kicked around in Congress.
Rush Limbaugh – If The House Doesn’t Pass That Bill Tonight, Tomorrow Ought to Be a Lot of Fun | August 1, 2011
I received this Grassfire Nation Alert email on the debt ceiling deal just a bit ago:
Obama and Boehner struck a debt ceiling deal yesterday. House and Senate votes are imminent TODAY.
Rush Limbaugh said today that he’d “love to support it, but.”, noting that this deal is NOT a victory for the Tea Party.
The fact is, it’s a dirty deal. Here are a few reasons why:
–The “dollar-for-dollar” spending cuts are not real. Obama gets $900 billion in debt ceiling increase NOW in exchange for $1 trillion in spending cuts OVER TEN YEARS. As we know, future “cuts” in government spending are not cuts at all.
– The real causes of runaway government spending are not addressed. Entitlements are left untouched. Baseline budgeting (which guarantees ever-rising government spending) is intact.
– The risk of a downgrade in our credit rating has not been addressed because runaway spending has not been addressed!
– The Obama Stimulus levels of spending are now permanently entrenched in future government spending models.
– The debt only rises in a never-ending upward trajectory. The $900 billion raise in the debt ceiling will not even last one year. An additional $1.2 trillion in additional debt will be “triggered” to carry the nation through the election.
– There are allegedly NO tax increases, but that is smoke and mirrors because the CBO is projecting that the Bush tax cuts will not be extended. If the Bush cuts are NOT extended, that amounts to a huge tax increase. If the Bush tax cuts ARE extended, the CBO projections fall apart and other tax increases will be mandated by the trigger mechanism in this bill.
– Finally… the LEFT is coming away from this debate with one of their key goals accomplished: demonizing the Tea Party. According to Politico on Friday, the Tea Party has moved from “hostage takers” to “full-blown terrorists” who are “craven to inflict massive harm on innocent victims to achieve their political goals.”
These are the tea party “terrorists” that despicable Democrat leaders and the media are vilifying:
'Party of Hell No' - 9/12 March on Washington DC against increased government spending in 2009... the grassroots efforts of the tea party movement
North Carolina Tea Party, April 2009 | Photo credit: Ivy Dawned, flickr.com
Sacramento, California Tax Day Tea Party event in 2010
Tea party protest in Houston, Texas - June 12, 2009
Tea party uprising: 9/12 March on Washington - 2009... thousands upon thousands of Americans from across the nation attended
Tea Party Express at Denver, Colorado ObamaCare protest, November 4, 2009
Rockford, Illinois tea party event, April 2010 | Photo credit: Larry
Tea party rally in Cincinnati, Ohio - March 2009
Phoenix, AZ Tax Day Tea Party event, April 15, 2010
Boston Tea Party rally, April 14, 2010 | Photo credit: Nathan R. Jessup
'Freedom of Speech' sign, Tea Party event in Atlanta, Georgia, 2009
Aerial view of some of the thousands of tea party attendees in Searchlight, Nevada in 2010... CNN's left-wing media bias reported this turnout as 'dozens' - was over 30,000 | Photo credit: Border Patrol
From last Friday’s radio show, Rush let loose against the onslaught of disgraceful attacks on the tea party movement by members of Congress — here’s a portion of a transcript of just a small sample of the horrific language that Democrat leaders are using against millions of Americans who are involved in the conservative tea party movement and against Republicans. Click here to read it in its entirety.
Democrats Call Conservatives Hostage Takers, Villains, Terrorists
Broadcast July 29, 2011
EIB Network, Rush Limbaugh ShowBEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: So this Politico piece. Maybe it’s an opinion piece. I said it was a news story, because it’s bylined. But it may well be a column. The headline is “The Tea Party’s Terrorist Tactics.” Before I get to this, let me show you what a coordinated thing this is. We have a media montage of Democrats (no media in here) talking about the Tea Party. Listen.
STENY HOYER: (rotunda noise) The Republicans are holding hostage the credit of the United States of America.
DEBBIE “BLABBERMOUTH” SCHULTZ: …our Republican colleagues to hold our economy hostage.
DINGY HARRY: The Republican Party is holding our economy hostage.
CHUCK-U SCHUMER: (rotunda noise) It didn’t say, “Hold America hostage.”
LOUISE SLAUGHTER: …hold the debt ceiling hostage.
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE: One party is holding the country hostage.
JOHN OLVER: The debt limit has never before been held hostage.
BARBARA LEE: Republicans are holding our economy hostage.
EARL BLUMENAUER: …willing to take hostage the debt ceiling.
JASON ALTMIRE: Stop holding America’s credit rating hostage.
ROSA DeLAURO: The Republican majority continues to hold the American economy hostage.
CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: Let’s not hold the entire American economy hostage.
JOHN LARSON: …ideological hostage situation…
LLOYD DOGGETT: The only belt they’re really tightening is right around the neck of those hostages.
JAMES CLYBURN: Holding the American economy hostage.
JESSE JACKSON, JR.: This president is being treated differently!
SPEAKER PRO-TEM: (gavel banging)
JACKSON: No other president has been stuck up, shook down, or held hostage!
RUSH: That’s the Reverend Jackson, Jr. there bringing up the end. I don’t know what he means, “No other president has been stuck up, shook down, or held hostage!” Now we come to this Politico terrorist piece: “The Tea Party’s Terrorist Tactics — It has become commonplace to call the Tea Party faction in the House ‘hostage takers.’ But they have now become full-blown terrorists. They have joined the villains of American history who have been sufficiently craven to inflict massive harm on innocent victims to achieve their political goals.” This is William Yeomans writing. Mr. Yeomans, what in the name of Sam Hill do you think Barack Obama is?
You want to talk about the real villain in this country? It’s Barack Obama! Craven, “sufficiently craven to inflict massive harm on innocent victims to achieve their political goals”? What do you call a 1.3% growth rate this quarter, a 0.4% growth rate in the first quarter, and 9.2% unemployment? What do you call that? You call that the architecture of a craven villain, Mr. Yeomans — and the people you’re calling terrorists are trying to stop it and save the country. That’s what this is about.
This is about saving the country, it’s about preserving liberty — and I don’t care how corny that sounds. It is exactly what’s going on. “A strong America has always stood firm in the face of terrorism. That tradition is in jeopardy, as Congress and President Barack careen toward an uncertain outcome in the Tea Party-manufactured debt crisis.”
Tea Party-manufactured debt crisis? The Tea Party has been in office for all of six months! I don’t want to hear any more crap from Democrats about “civility.” I don’t want to be preached to one more time by these holier-than-thou, better-than-everybody-else, smarter-than-everybody-else craven villains about “civility.” I have to tell you, folks (and I know that I am not alone): I am mad as all get out. The Democrats and their cohorts and the Drive-Bys have collectively ratcheted up this divisive, uncivil, reactionary language to trash the Tea Party — and, by extension, conservatives. We’re not terrorists! We’re not killing people. We are Americans who disagree with you! We’re Americans who disagree with statism. We are Americans who disagree with socialism, communism and liberalism.
We’re not holding anybody hostage. We are the hostages! We are equal time. We are paying the ransom all the time. We are the hostages. Our country has been kidnapped, and you’re asking a ransom from us in the form of higher taxes and less liberty and less freedom each and every day — and you dare to write pieces calling us terrorists! We don’t fly jet planes into buildings. We’re not killing people. We’re not putting people out of work. We’re not taking their money. We’re not destroying their savings. We’re not taking over the oil companies. We’re not taking over the car companies. We are not the ones in the process of destroying the U.S. healthcare system.
We’re not the ones setting up death panels, if you want to talk about terrorism and killing people. Mr. Yeomans says, “As we stumble closer to Aug. 2, it has become clear that many in the Tea Party are willing to inflict massive harm on the American people to obtain their political objective of a severely shrunken federal government.” A “severely shrunken federal government” is a pipe dream! We are trying right now to stop the inexorable growth of this monster that is strangling and squandering every asset in this country, including its people. Mr. Yeomans writes, “Their persistence in rejecting compromise, even as the economic effects of the phony crisis they have created mount, has taken their radicalism beyond tough negotiating, beyond even hostage-taking. …
“As the markets dropped, families would watch their retirement and education savings and their dreams disappear. Rather than reject the unthinkable, the Tea Party harnessed this potential harm as its weapon of mass destruction.”
Oh, we’re the ones? We’re the ones destroying our own retirement and the education savings. We’re the ones doing that? We’re the ones? I think that’s Barack Obama. You want to talk about craven villains? Look no further than the Oval Office. I guess Mr. Yeomans didn’t get that memo after the Gabby Giffords service about the “new civility.” So now anybody who disagrees with Democrats are terrorists, racists terrorists.
What is this American economy that’s being held hostage? Isn’t it us? It’s our money. It’s not Mr. Obama’s money, Mr. Yeomans! The liberals do not own the wealth of this country. It’s not theirs to distribute and redistribute. “Rather than reject the unthinkable, the Tea Party harnessed this potential harm as its weapon of mass destruction.” Weapon of mass destruction. So, folks, they are cracking up. The left is cracking up, and it’s the Tea Party doing it to them. We are now all Sarah Palin. As far as they’re concerned, we are all Sarah Palin. They are scared to death of Sarah Palin. They are scared to death here of the Tea Party people, because the Tea Party in the House can’t be bought and is not concerned about re-election. They’re not playing the usual game.
Somebody tell me now why are we supposed to compromise with this? We’re supposed to compromise with people of the same mind as William Yeomans at Politico? That’s what we’re supposed to do? This is the name of the game? We compromise with this so that we don’t get blamed? We’re going to get blamed no matter what happens! Even if wonderful, great things happen we’re going to get blamed as it’s rewritten and described as terrible. We want to hold onto some of our money. For that we’re called terrorists. We oppose tax increases because we know that tax increases are not going to fix what’s wrong with the country.
Taking more of our money is not the solution here. It ain’t going to happen. Here’s Obama lecturing us in Arizona after Giffords: “At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do,” he said, “it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not in the way that wounds.”
Mr. Yeomans and the people at Politico, apparently, didn’t get that, didn’t hear that, or don’t want to act on it. No.
The truth is, Obama didn’t mean it in the first place. Craven villains? Their language. That’s who we’re up against.
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