Fox News' 'Tea Party' hysteria really did whip up the far-right nutcases
By David Neiwert Monday Apr 27, 2009 10:00amIn spite of all that voluminous airspace on Fox News that was devoted to promoting and then reporting on the 'Tea Parties' on April 15, I'll be willing to wager that they won't ever include this in their reports:
Oklahoma Man Arrested for Twittering Tea Party Death ThreatsIn a series of tweets beginning April 11, CitizenQuasar vowed to start a “war” against the government on the steps of the Oklahoma City Capitol building, the site of that city’s version of the national “Tea Party” protests promoted by the conservative-leaning Fox News.
“START THE KILLING NOW! I am willing to be the FIRST DEATH!,” read a tweet at 8:01 PM that day. “After I am killed on the Capitol Steps, like a REAL man, the rest of you will REMEMBER ME!!!,” he added five minutes later. Then: “Send the cops around. I will cut their heads off the heads and throw the[m] on the State Capitol steps.”
Hayden’s MySpace page is a breathtaking gallery of right wing memes about the “New World Order,” gun control as Nazi fascism, and Barack Obama’s covert use of television hypnosis, among many others.
Here's a sampler of his tweets:
Here's his blog, too.
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Twittering death threats?
Ooh...you better look out for your canary. It's got that funny glint in it's eyes.
Some people might think Glenn Beck is a real person. Do you think there may be so called loonies out there that would act on Glenn Beck's recent call to radical action?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxbNSVPkJQ
So is this guy in jail or at least in a mental ward now? How stupid would you have to be to go public with talk such as this? So did anything at all come of his desires?
Republican stupid ;)
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to take points off - that's a redundancy...
the end of the line and they are willing to do anything to be acknowledged.
Fire a warning shot across the bow type a thing to any wing nutty's.
Pitiful
Nice to see my home state representing and bringing on the crazy as only Okies can. I knew there was a reason I left more than 20 years ago and now I remember why, they put the lunatics in charge of the asylum.
At his blog, is that a picture of him doing what I think he's doing? If so that tells you all you need to know about the idiot. He's proving he's a true jerkoff.
I had a really bad feeling about the "Tea Parties" being more than a onetime event.
Was the Fox News Propaganda Machine testing the waters to see how many people could be motivated to stand right on the line that separates political opposition from outright rebellion?
Will they use this tactic again if, say, someone in the Bush administration is actually tried for war crimes?
The Nazi Party had their Brown Shirts.
Now the republicans have their tea shirts
That's bad even according to my standards
And I don't have any.
Maybe he just needs more religion in his life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ-zQpC4uaM
That's odd.
Even though they don't say they had the comments off, mine was gone as soon as I released it.
I wrote, "One doesn't want to know what Davey saw between him mom and an oiled up Larry the Cucumber."
Ha Ha Ha Ha
Oh come on. I wanna be Patricia the Punner. Just giving it a shot. :)
Please stop saying things like that.
We have religious nuts blowing people up in the mid-east, and the rest of the world.
We've had religious nuts exterminating people in gas chambers.
We've had religious nuts promoting slavery.
We've had religious nuts torturing and burning people, and calling them witches or heretics.
We've had religious nuts stifling knowledge and education, trying to teach that magic is real, and science is false...
... and much much more.
Personally, I'm sick of hearing about religion, but religious people seem to want to shove their beliefs down everyone's throat.
Please stop saying things like, 'maybe he needs more religion in his life'.
Blind faith is a big reason why we have so many nuts in this country. Encouraging more of it doesn't help matters.
Chances are that person needed more reason and learning in his life.
That's what I think.
People who use reason, don't usually act like madmen.
LOL
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Is it just me or is she a PILF?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KgjSsHzgtfw/SM7aOVq...
Protestant ILF?
I think others like the idea to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtDSwyCPEsQ
constantly being forced down our throats the sooner it stops is fine with me.
It would be nice to resume a normal rhythm of life for a change.
No kidding! I've had to back away from a lot of this stuff to try and recapture some normal rhythm in my own life. It's still there I just have to nurture it more than I have been for the past eight years.
I would like to resume my normal life that apparently ended with the the installation of G W BOOSH and his nefarious moron gang of corrupt corny's in Jan of 2001 ANYTIME IS FINE WITH ME.
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday
-- Green Day
Green Day, an anti-corporate punk band with major corporate sponsors.
Green Day is owned by Reprise, a division of Time Warner, interlaced with Exxon Mobil, who have profited more off the illegal wars than anyone in history ever has. Funny how no one listens to Billie Joe when he whines about 'the man'.
..and when asked why, I respond, "Oh, maybe it had something to do with the last eight years of a criminal conspiracy to ruin this country!" Don't get me started!
breaking
[Dobbs]Damn illegals will be infecting us with their tremors and temblers and earthquakes... where will it end?[/Dobbs]
But I was still ten steps ahead of the MSM on this quake.
I always am.
Interesting that this would happen so soon after lunchtime.
I wonder what was served?
lou dobbs has a wife that is mexican.
MY OTHER WIFE IS SWEDISH
"...protests promoted by the conservative-leaning Fox News."
Conservative-leaning my ass! If you were to lay the whole spectrum out Fox would be at the nutty far end of the right wing. When you pass Fascist, you'll know your getting closer.
Good thing the republican pundits aren't acting out their threats yet.
Oh, but wait. that's not their jobs. They just come on TV and rally other extremists to take action on their behalf.
but is there anyone with a brain on that side?
Ron Paul.
on his MySpace page?
How many people actually know everything about everyone on their friends lists?
I had around 1000 people on my friends list before I got booted, no way could I keep up with all those individuals.
I finally said to hell with it...after my account was either hacked or deleted.
I heard this morning that one in five people say they are republican. Hell, can't blame republicans that deny their party or have switched to independent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbt30UnzRWw&fe...
the theory of evolution won't call themselves Republican?
I don't know, Ricky. Maybe they are just all frommed up in the head.
First of all, it was Valeria who said "Do you want to live forever", not Conan.
Secondly, I do have to agree that it's not worth living in Oklahoma.
Actually that was what Cuchulain said when Cathbad the Druid asked him if he wanted a long but undistinguished life, or a short and heroic one.
Both Achilles and Gilgamesh made similar choices using similar words.
In Conan The Barbarian the line was a bit less philosophically profound.
And in B5 it was Ivonova who said "Who wants to live forever", and Marcus Cole that responded "I do!". I liked Marcus.
That was a good line. I always liked their chemistry.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow ... Boom, sooner or later ... Boom!
That is another of my favorite lines. Such a cheery, sunny outlook she had. She said it was her Russian disposition. :)
This is my personal favorite Ivanova quote. Strangely appropriate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYlDbv7MqE8
Rick Santelli sounded the clarion call and Fox fired up the march. They knew there were Americans who were pissed that we have a black President but couldn't actually go around raising hell about it. So they shaped their "protests" around anything else they could think of. Knowing that nothing fires up a group more than telling them they are being taken advantage of by the government, they settled on a tea party and as they say, the rest is hysterical history.
Ya, that's about it.
Nothing to do about spending, the wars, our rights or taxes. It was all a big conspiracy by FOX because a black guy is president. Keep drinking the kool aid.
... and soon to have his own show on Fox News.
This guy actually thinks that it was a good idea
in Oklahoma City
to tweet threats against the government and try to be some sort of suicide martyr on the state capitol steps?
Dude's 52 years old. It's not like he's too young to remember.
In all seriousness, I have family in OKC. This shit is not funny. Oklahoma may have a reputation for batshit conservatism, but there are a lot of wonderful people (of both parties) who live in Oklahoma and it just makes my blood boil that they're held hostage by these right wing assholes.
Let me get this straight....
He complains about a government report that talks about potential terror threats from some conservative extremists... after bragging that he will cut off the heads of policemen and throw them on the state capital's steps. Then goes on to say 'locked and loaded', which I'm sure in his case is not just an expression.
Does this guy get pissed at mirrors too because they make him look bad?
Yeah, yellow and runny.
..every day because the Sun comes up!
Telling the republicans that they are wrong about everything, is like telling a schizophrenic that he is crazy. republicanism has become schizophrenic. It's a total breakdown.
They may get better with help, but who's going to want a political party with lingering mental illness?
they're toast.
It's important to point out that the republicans and the MSM are mutually satisfied the way things are. neither has any reason to change as long as they have each other. That makes the MSM co-dependant. They're working together, and i'm starting to think the MSM is schizophrenic too.
Too bad the MSM doesn't read C&L.
"Too bad the MSM doesn't read C&L."
How many results does the term Republican query? I dont know... but i find it fascinating how full of hate towards conservatives there is on this site. Its downright visceral.
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I was going to say 'If he's a REAL man why isn't he in Iraq or Afghanistan?' but clearly he wouldn't pass the psych exam.
face it people. a lot of people need medications and 12 packs of budweiser aren't what i'm talking about.
Something like . . "Obama has the swine flu and he the one who carried it into the country. Most of the states with cases of the flu has been states where Obama been in the past few days."
budweiser, swill for the masses.
I self medicate with PBR, or Becks, when I can afford it.
budweiser is the walmart of beer.
I prefer Guiness,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrSSSfYE2dQ
commercial?
It's all about St. Peter's Cream Stout!
American "beer" is a joke. We used to only cross over to drink it, once the Canadian bars had closed. (Yes, I grew up across the Niagara River, and your bars served later than ours, back then.)
Those cross-border exchanges are probably coming to an end. It's a shame. There was always a healthy back and forth between our countries: shopping, dining, tourism, etc.
That damn report was so categorically singling out Republicans and Veterans(snark). And They told the people at the tax protests that the director of homeland security should be sacked for saying such unpatriotic things. Now what do they say to us??
Republicans- denying everything for partisan reasons.
Party above country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWyvDJvd340
..clearly he has issues and I hope they pulled him off the streets before he used any of the guns he probably has squirreled away.
something like close to a trillion rounds of ammunition at home obviously they want to deal with the wackos first.
What do you think of that DHS report NOW?
Sorta accurate don'tcha think?
don't think about much of nuthin.
Did you see this video he put up on his my space page? He seems pretty f*cking pissed off about the Bush administration policies and lies. The guy puts all kinds of pictures in the background but the Alan Shore speech is pretty good.
Speech by Alan Shore from Boston Legal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdHtW_81kwg
...awfully convenient that he waited until there was a Democrat (and a "gasp" black man!) in office before his systems went critical.
If he liked the speech by Alan Shore he twisted it.
Or did he actually change the speech? If so, too bad because that speech was on of the best I've ever heard concerning the state of things in America under BushCo.
I think he would be cherry picking favorite parts to justify his point of view, without adsorbing the full meaning of the speech, and by reinterpreting it to fit his world view.
This is a technique the republicans thrive on, but they don't actually own hypocrisy and deception. It's an equal oportunity weakness.
It looks like he's been thinking these things all during the Bush years and it was the Obama gun thing that threw him over the edge. I still didn't see where he calls himself a Republican. Maybe a libertarian? Because that website is filled with Bush hating.
The Speech by Alan Shore rocks because the speech itself rings so true. C&L featured it once a while back.
gotta pull the race card huh? Makes sense that he waited until a black dude was running for prez to get all distrustful of Big Brother.
Re-read.
Beside that look way up^ Dave Neiwert is where all that yummy blame blackness is at.
Don't take it up with me. Spend some time on this site and click everything David Neiwert.
In Neiwert's mind, the only thing gone wrong is Rush Limbaugh, O' Reilly, Beck, and a bunch of super old whithering white fucks. Limbaugh's average listener is what? 67? Nevermind the obvious.
He is an astute man, aware of only things that fall into his partisan landscape. Have a good one! It won't be fun.
Before 911 happened the biggest terrorist attack on America ever was conservative terrorist Tim McVeigh's. The right wing noise machine is ginning up another McVeigh. Of course, should another conservative terrorist strike America the right wing noise machine disavow any responsibility for it whatsoever.
His blog is a compendium of paranoia. He'a a 9-11 Truther, and all around anti-Governmental authority under dubya.
maybe he'll hold himself hostage on the Capitol steps...and when no one negotiates with him...he'll shoot his hostage.
"Listen to him men! He's just crazy enough to do it!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upvZdVK913I
From one of this twit's tweets:
Oklahoma is too liberal for him?
Oklahoma?
implies no ideology and offers a glimmer of hope for the man's rationality.
This is exactly why the Right Wing-NutOs are being watched carefully for any domestic terrorism threats.
this is the same way Dr. Claw would always get caught. He would twitter his diabolical plans to his henchmen, but Penny and Brain would intercept them. And who gets all the credit? Inspector Gadget.
Typical of that glory hog :-)
I checked out his Myspace page and he doesnt seem like a Chuck Norris type. One of his "friends" was Dennis Kucinich. He had a lot of 9/11 conspiracy stuff on his page. He might have some problems, but his allegiance to the Republican Party is not one of them. You can do better Crooks and Liars. This is journalism on the Sean Hannity level.
I think there is a whole generation of people who you can safely call "post partisan" because they don't believe in our government anymore.
Do we blame them? Or blame the lobbying, think-tanking shitbags who sucker everyone with bling?
This guy is sick but I'm sure there are a lot where he is coming from and it ain't about left or right.
30% of the people are polling independent right now. Wonder why.
I will donate to this wacko so he can use it for a hood.
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