Reinventing theTea Partiers: No more Obama as Hitler, Joker signs

By GottaLaff

Wearing wigs and three-cornered hats, Bill O'Connor and Ruger Rusnak share a quiet word at the national Tea Party convention in Nashville on Friday.
(Stephen Crowley, The New York Times )

Yeah, they wouldn't want to look, you know, crazy:

But at the inaugural National Tea Party Convention here this weekend, gone were the placards that protesters carried last year with Mr. Obama’s face wearing a Hitler mustache or superimposed on the Joker. Gone, really, were any placards, unless you count the poster of Sarah Palin in her signature red jacket that hung from one of the wrought-iron balconies of the Opryland Hotel and Convention Center.

Organizers said that anyone “looking too crazy” would have been tossed out. They had a goal that turned out to be shared by pretty much everyone here: to turn the Tea Party into a serious political force, rather than the angry fringe group they say it had been branded as.

"They say it had been branded as." Had been branded? When a group of so-called revolutionaries dress up like loons, carry hostile, hateful signs, lie, fear-monger, and scream their way through town hall meetings, they kinda invited that whole "branding" thing.

Poor them. They've been unfairly branded.

Angry fringe is exactly what they are. It's a little late to shake off that label, although it's just swell of them to try to tone it down. Good for them! Wow. Putting that toothpaste back in the tube. Magic!

In fact, you can see how successful they were at that if you watched Palin's "serious political" speech last night. Not angry fringe-y at all. No, she's her usual knowledgeable, rational self, full of constructive ideas, compassionate, wise, and not at all snide or nasty. In fact, CliffNotes McTelePalmer was as well-prepared as she's always been.

Nope, the Tea Tantrumers don't look "too crazy" any more. They've completely reinvented themselves.

Website: "Your daily dose of hoping Obama fails" + AUDIO: Dobbs on running in 2012

By GottaLaff

I won't link you. The screen grabs (and video) are more than enough to turn your stomach, and the last thing I want to do is give them any direct traffic:

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Just another hate site spewing their bile, and as always, with an abundance of class. Whatever you might be thinking right now, I'm right there with you. 'Nuff said.

Oh, and of course, they posted this:

H/t: Billieraven

Fox Nation comment: "It is time to shoot them all."

By GottaLaff

A Twitter pal of mine who goes by StopBeck (you can see why we're friends) sent me this screen grab from the Fox Nation website. I wanted to share the love:

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Remember when the wingnuts accused sites like Daily Kos of allowing hostile comments on their sites? Who was that again? Bill O'Reilly? Why yes, yes it was.

I guess "It is time to shoot them all" is meant as an overture of civility.

With ClusterFoxers like this, who needs Beck?

And yes, my source is notifying the Secret Service.

Freed American Pirate Hostage, Slams "Disgusting" Rush Limbaugh

Sucks to be called out with you own words, doesn't it Rush? I'm trying to imagine how Rush would have reacted under circumstances like Mr Murphy's, and all I can think of was that famous scene in Al Franken's book**...

Shane Murphy, second-in-command aboard the ship seized by Somali pirates this month, is happy to be home. But he's not happy to be sharing turf with land-lubber Rush Limbaugh, who politicized the pirate affair by referring to the pirates as "black teenagers."

"It feels great to be home," said Murphy in an interview with WCBV in Boston. "It feels like everyone around here has my back, with the exception of Rush Limbaugh, who is trying to make this into a race issue...that's disgusting."

(snip)

"He was worried about the order he had given to wipe out three teenagers on the high seas," Limbaugh said. "Black Muslim teenagers."

"You gotta get with us or against us here, Rush," Murphy said. "The president did the right thing...It's a war.... It's about good versus evil. And what you said is evil. It's hate speech. I won't tolerate it."

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