From the Brooks Brothers catalog: We don't recall seeing any town hall protesters dressed quite like this.
“My sense of the teabaggers is more complicated: they are primarily working-class, largely rural and elderly white people.”
- Joe Klein, Time Magazine
Source: Time.com
“…the Brooks Brothers Brigade in Florida in 2000, appear to have rented a similar bus and are appearing together at town hall meetings throughout the country.”
- Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary
Source: TalkingPointsMemo.com
So which is it, gentlemen? Are the Nazi mobs working class and elderly or are they preppies wearing $2000 Brooks Brothers suits?
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It’s probably both. There’s the informed republicans who have money and are just protested because of purely partisan reasons. Then there are the uninformed republicans who don’t really know why they’re protesting they just know glenn beck told them something or another.
So, it’s not possible there are informed republicans who are not rich, who feel strongly about taxing our country to death, and ruining the best healthcare in the world?
Obviously you are one of the uninformed Republicans who feel strongly about what Glenn Beck told them to feel strongly about because;
1) Obama has reduced taxes, not raised them. He has insisted on offsetting costs with savings on all of his initiatives and the only suggestion of increased taxes has been the possible rollback of the disproportionately large (as in a substantially greater % tax cut than the rest of us got) tax breaks given to the wealthiest 1% of Americans by the Bush administration. However, even that is still on the table because he’s concerned that any tax increase even if it is just a roll back of a Bush tax cut at this time may impact the economy negatively.
2) The US does not have the best health care system in the world. Based on statistics gathered by the World Health Organization we rank 37th (http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html). The same web site shows that we rank 14th in preventable deaths and 24th for average life expectancy. We do rank very high in one area, we are 2nd for the cost of health care as a percentage of GDP. The only country that pays more is the Marshall Islands, which for those of you that don’t know your history, is where the US did above ground nuclear testing and now as reparations we are paying for their health care costs too. So I guess we the American tax payer gets to take first and second place for that rank.
Just because you want to believe Obama is raising taxes and you want to believe that we have the best of everything doesn’t make it so. If you’re going to listen to Faux News, at least take the time to read some news from real journalists that actually research their stories instead of just shouting opinions and accusations. I’m not saying you have to read left leaning news, there are plenty of good right leaning journalists out there that actually put some thought into their stories.
Possible? Well yes. But such a person that you outline would also have to be delusional.
Well, we are now on the Front page of Digg with this little article. Interesting.
Congratulations free speechers at the Digg Bury Brigade. You’ve successfully buried the story on Digg. Just thought I’d mention it so that readers can once again see who the party of free speech is.
The reason your story was buried is because this is not a story at all. You quote two different people and that’s pretty much it. There’s about as much, “content” in this story as me stating the following:
“Some people consider tomatoes a fruit”
“Apples are a fruit”
Shoddy journalism here at best, I’ll stick with Digg to filter out informative, “stories” like this.
Nice response Jay. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Its almost worth digging this just so more people can see the schooling the admin got.
Schooling? Whatever you say. Look, as Admin, I’m not going to argue on this thread. One cannot argue with liberals like Alex who believe that everyone at protest rallies are rich republicans or just doing what Beck says. And there is no use telling Jay that taxes will be raised, and these have already been outlined or projected; and to ask Jay how many Americans are flocking to those 36 other countries for healthcare. And Jablonski, if you look at the post title, it’s called Dueling Headlines; it’s not supposed to be an article–it was intended to highlight two dueling headlines. By the way, Another “real” article of ours (The grassy knoll was on the right side of the street. The extreme right side.) that was popular on Digg was just buried so your rationale does not hold water. Admit, you wish to control “dangerous” speech. By dangerous, I mean dangerous to the left as it exposes their lies. You want to decide what is said and what is not. Like your hero, Barack.
Have fun schooling me some more, but I’m not going to engage delusional idiots.
Crap, gotta go, I see our Dear Leader is on TV again…
Honestly, I really do not care about either party. The only, “delusional” one here is you my friend. Rather then accept criticism, you simply write me off as some bleeding heart liberal to somehow protect your own ego.
Infact, I do not care for either party and see no viable third party in the U.S.A to support either because all I hear from either is constant whining (which is what websites likes yours, moveon.org, media matters, etc promote) . So instead, I vote based on issues that will affect myself and those around me.
Dueling Headlines part 2:
“You are an idiot”
“Biased morons believe you are not an idiot”