GOP Senate Candidate Jane Norton Sits Quietly As Obama Called A "Muslim"
Just further proof that the teabaggers have taken over the GOP:
Former Colorado lieutenant governor Jane Norton, one of the five candidates competing in the Republican primary for the state's 2010 Senate race, is distinguishing herself with her full-hearted embrace of the tea party crowd.
Appearing at a recent coffee-shop event with Colorado voters, Norton sat silently while a female attendee declared twice that President Barack Obama is a Muslim and while a male attendee insisted that the president -- who he deemed "an idiot" -- wanted to let babies die on the side of the road "with the garbage."
"Well as you can tell there is a lot of passion around what is happening in our own country," Norton responded to the crowd, rather than correcting either individual. "And how we can channel that into positive constructive ways that will get our vote out it is going to be absolutely critical."
Also at the event, Norton praised the "tea-party movement and the 9/12 groups" for pushing a right-wing populist, anti-Washington agenda. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee highlighted that exchange [above] in a video it sent to reporters on Monday.
Norton's anti-Washington rhetoric belies her already cozy relationship with DC lobbyists. However, she's trying to ameliorate those potentially profitable (but abhorrent to the teabaggin' crowd) contacts by publicly advocating some whackaloon stances designed to appeal to the quasi-libertarian streak, like abolishing the Department of Education. I guess she's counting on keeping the voting populace stupid for a continual base of supporters.
Former Colorado lieutenant governor Jane Norton sits quietly.
Meanwhile, most everyone in the USA sits quietly while the warmongering bailout nation commits more international travesties.
The US is the greatest sponsor of state terrorism in the world.
If some nation fired a cruise missile at us, just imagine the outrage.
Glenn Greenwald on the US attack on Yemen here
Chomsky on The Unipolar moment and the Culture of Imperialism, Democracy Now here
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MSNBC Live Streamed the sentencing of Balloon boys parents today. Incredibly important.
What is rarely discussed, except by Chomsky and a few notable others, is the change in pretexts for the obscenely bloated defense establishment, the Perpetual War Machine that faced logical obsolescence after the fall of the previous pretext, the Soviet Union in 1989.
First was tried the South America Narco types, Manuel Noriega, President of Panama was to start, though his crimes had come while he was on the payroll of the CIA.
There have been 50 US interventions since World War II where democratically elected leaders have been overthrown. Noriega was the first without the Soviet Union to worry about.
But the Narco Pretext was not sweeping enough. Then various equally unconvincing pretexts were tried out.
Finally the Muslims and the CIA sponsored outfit, al Qaeda came to the fore. And of course two illegal wars later we have a trillion dollar a year defense behemoth.
Also started under Bill Clinton was the great privatization of the military which led many to believe the phony tag of peace dividend as much of the militaries capabilities were outsource.
So the propaganda gets the populace to hate the muslims and here we are talking about this poor indoctrinated dodo calling the war monger in chief a muslim.
If he knew the facts about our involvement in Afghanistan would he say such a thing. Maybe he was paid.
Jeremy Scahill here
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this stuff it would be a different story. Most people are to frightened to admit what we really are. They can't handle it. The Truth.
So they seek escape (mostly entertainment) rather then confrontation.
I mean how hard is to at least stream democracynow.org for an hour ...
this incuriousness is so disturbing, the effect of the stupid-box (well they are flat and 50 inches wide now ... is like a super slow motion train wreck ... you can see where things are headed ...and even having to deny that someone is a Muslim ... its just a f%@%$ing religion ! ...is wrong on every level.
Nobody can't say it better than this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA
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You know, that NWO, One World Government crap...illuminati stuff. Everything you hear on the MSM (more correctly news entertainment) isn't the 'real' news. It's all designed to basically distract us from what our Government is really doing. There is a theory that says all the fighting between the Dims and RepubliKKKans is all a smoke screen. If they start getting really nasty with each other, like with the Health Care Bill, that's when there is something really big going on. Something they would rather The People not know about. We definitely are living in 'interesting' times.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
... just imagine the outrage."
But you dont have to "imagine." Just remember back to (/12, et seq).
Those airliners were the functional equivalent of cruise missile, and the USofA went to all-out war against a nation that had had NOTHING--not one FUCKING THING--to do with it..
would fuck up a free meal.
there are numerous reasons to give the guy crap but when this kind of ignorant, retarded opposition is raised it only makes me want to defend the guy. well, it did anyway.
as he clearly speaks with authority. every time he catches himself in a reflective surface, well lookee there, an idiot. and its amazing with people like this who mix religion and politics until theyre indistinguishable. it might help when trying to have a constructive conversation on a political topic to leave the religion out of it (and calm down for Christs sake, enough emotion already). as if the GOP really 'cares' about them. ha and another ha. these voters are only a means to an end: regaining power in Congress for the GOP. thats it. they can rant all they want but no one's 'really' listening. these candidates merely pretend to.
We're actually supposed to take seriously the deception that some people have that life begins at conception, when they believe garbage is alive?
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When you can smell it. Like a repugnocon.
They stink.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GluCM_ggMvw
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If only this country still had a Press worthy of the First Amendment, instead of a worthless corporate PR platform that, by its haplessness and cupidity and shallowness, effectively benefits the ruthless right-wing authoritarian mindset of the extremist psychopaths in the Beck / teabagger movement.
It is as if the media has said "We're going to be perfectly fair. If the right cries "wolf", we'll come running. If the left cries "wolf", we'll come running. Is it our fault that it's only ever the right who cries "wolf"?"
and the legions of those that are ready to defend obama dwindle...
Sounds like someone else we know.
But since they are not Republicans that's okay. This is the party of Change We Can believe in.
I say let the M$M give these freaks as much airtime as possible. Run the video 24/7.
No reasonable person will long suffer the insanity.
The GOP-baggers cleave themselves from the rest of the country. We have plenty of people with reasoned and thoughtful resistance to government.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
We've seen how well that's worked this past decade. We're a few small steps away from becoming a total surveillance society, with government acting as Corporate Police as I see it. Behave, get with the program, don't question authority, or Government, and pay your bills (and health insurance premium) looks like the sum total of the "Newest Deal" to me.
doesn't disqualify him from being president. This is just scare tactics.
Yellow Christmas Cake to show their appreciation?
Isn't that what the brain dead and people who never think would do. Present a Yellow Cake to a politician in a show of appreciation?
Don't you mean it *wouldn't* disqualify him? Because he's a Christian, FYI.
Hell, she probably believes it too. These people are thinking with their tea bags.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
...that the Teabaggers are the new GOP Base, and their candidates know better than to say anything that might offend them.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
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Q U E S T I O N:
When did being a Muslim become the pejorative meaning of something EVIL?
Naive is polite for IGNORANT FOOL!
R E M E M B E R:
At one time, "They're a JEW," was the pejorative.
The more times change, the less humans learn.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
When did being a Muslim become the pejorative meaning of something EVIL?
During the 8 year reign of King George, the priviledged, incurious, entitled, snot-nosed overgrown failed Frat-Boy and his Overlord Cheney the Evil One.
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is her body language.
Note her grip on the side of the chair.
She knows she is inches from a chasm she could never get out of and the wrong answer will tip her off into some neverland that will not serve her interests well, if at all.
I'm beginning to side with the teabaggers. Hey...where IS that birth certificate?
I'm sorry, after Obama caved on health care, after his justice department goes to court IN SUPPORT of bush detention policies, after he goes consistently corporatist with geithner and summers, and Rahmbo of course...after all that, I couldn't care less what the teabaggers want to say about him.
Well, my friend, since you're talking about deeds versus words...I remind you that if you contribute to the Republicans retaking the House, then you'll be seeing deeds. Except not the ones that any liberal or progressive would want to see.
And please don't tell me that there's no difference between the two parties. Or else, just review the legislation that has come out of the House - as imperfect as some has been - and ask yourself if any of it would even have come up for a vote under Boehner.
Has it ever occurred to you and the other off topic commentors here that this is exactly how the Republicans want you to think?
I keep hearing the GOP talking point (from angry Democrats) that Republicans are going to win big in 2010 and 2012. And I keep telling these people that they are saying exactly what the Republicans want to hear. But in my follow up question to Democrats and Republicans of "what exactly do the Republicans have to offer besides tea baggers, nutty religious law makers, obstructionist congressional office holders and weak presidential candidates?" . . . I never get an answer!!
Newt Gingrich recently said that if the Republicans take back the House, one of the new committee chairs will be Michele Bachman!
Need a reason to vote Dem in 2010? There it is.
by the end of this current term you won't be able to tell much difference between the two party's.
Name one piece of major domestic legislation that has come through the House this year that would have
been the product of a House under Republican control.
Sure, we're still a corporatist dominated society, politically and culturally. But that doesn't mean that there aren't profound difference between the parties.
Is it true that if you are born to an American mother, no matter where the birth takes place, you have American citizenship?
Absolutely . .
i.e. what if the American woman is on vacation in another country? In a few instances her child may have an additional citizenship of the birth country but would retain primary DUAL citizenship with the United States.
That's why this birther issue is garbage. No one questions the fact that Mr. Obama's mother was an American citizen, hence Mr. Obama is an American citizen . .
the MSM almost NEVER brings up this fact that would put the garbage to rest.
The beast feeding itself is certainly not stopping anytime soon.
For a second there I thought you said breast feeding
I must be hungry.
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I was watching a documentary on bonobos on PBS last night.
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It's called Ius Sanguine.
http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_citi.html
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"He's a Muslim."
Why confess to being a racist when you can simply say you're Republican?
She doesn't want to be teabagged.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
We'll see a lot more of this GOP squirming as the next election cycle gets undersay.
Obama's plain woven cotton fabric?
When can we vote for a candidate like:
http://analogartsensemble.net/blog/BlackMass.jpg
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That looks like him towards the front.
Not unless he's made of nylon.
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I believe Sen. Whitehouse (12/21/09) said it best: [excerpt]
"Why all this discord and discourtesy; all this unprecedented, destructive action? All to break the momentum of this new young President. They are desperate to break this President. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama: the "birthers," the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militias and Aryan support groups. It is unbearable to them that Barack Obama is our President."
Teabaggers are American Terrorists. Evil bigots who use lies, hate, fear and violence to further their extremist agenda.
Hell, who needs Freedom, Justice and a Democracy anyway?
So, what you are telling me is that she had a golden opportunity to demonstrate some leadership and she failed. And she should be elected to the Senate because..........?
and people think . . "wow she's just like me, she's listening to us. And agreeing with us to. This means she's going to go back to Washington and say. I was just listening to Americans. And they have to say this. And since I am the representative of these folks, and have been hired to represent and do this work for them . . blah blah blah
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Evet - what is so sad is that you are right. That is the justification she and her idiotic staff will use. This sure as shit isn't the government that I was reading about in my PoliSci 101 class in college way back when. Wonder what the fuck happened?
"There is a lot of passion about what is NOT happening, and what they imagine to be happening, but not so much for what is happening."
Sheeze , these people are such idiots ! It's really hard to believe even now .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
coined the phrase "ignorance is bliss" was WRONG!
At an Obama rally at the Apollo, Chris Rock admonished those in the audience who were thinking of voting for "that white lady".
Obama didn't say sh-t.
But the problem isn't that she's white, Joe Biden is white, it's not that she's female, the secretary of state is female, it's that she's crazier than a demonically possessed loon.
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and I thought even John McSame straightened this out at the end of his campaign, only after it was late in the campaign and he pretty much know it was going down in flames, and the nuts were not helping his cause anymore. He stopped a woman that call Obama a Muslim, and told her he was an American. So much for the McSame influence on the bat crazy rightwing tea baggers.
“wanted to let babies die on the side of the road ‘with the garbage.’" Where did that come from? I guess abortion.
Are you sure this is the right clip? The audio isn't terrific, but I'm not hearing anyone say anything about Muslims or anything about babies on the side of the road
In the text of the quote, it's specified that the video refers to Norton "prais(ing) the 'tea-party movement and the 9/12 groups' for pushing a right-wing populist, anti-Washington agenda."
But I also missed that and watched the video twice, trying to hear the word "Muslim."
Very poor formatting by Nicole. She should've either made it two separate posts, or had the video posted after the text.
As it is now, though, it's so misleading/confusing it's verging on "lying" territory if she doesn't fix it.
And if you read the actual post, it's clear that the video shows Norton embracing the tea bagger movement.
"Former Colorado lieutenant governor Jane Norton, one of the five candidates competing in the Republican primary for the state's 2010 Senate race...."
SO WHAT?? Anyone who will take the 2 seconds to read the quoted material will see that these people are REPUBLICANS attending a REPUBLICAN campaign event. And ANYONE with a functioning brain knows full well that a Republican will not bend over to kiss Obama's rosy red heinie.
I am truly beginning to think that the so-called "birthers" keep returning to this subject simply because they know that they can keep the Democratic nitwits focused on Obama's Islamic beliefs instead of the issues. And the Democrats enable the Birthersx by reacting to each instance when the two words "Obama" and Islam" are uttered in the same sentence.
I live in Colorado, so I am following the Senate race AND the Governor's race quite closely. And as a senior citizen, I have some issues that need to be dealt with -- the Medicare prescription doughnut hole, for one issue. Why are the Democrats not dealing with this one issue? Why are they letting themselves be euchred on every issue and on every position? And another question: Do I REALLY want such brain-dead morons making huge decisions concerning me and my country? I think not!!
Jane Norton did not damage any possibility of me crossing the aisle to vote for her in the General Election. Indeed, she increased the likelihood of that happening if my candidate of choice does not get on the Colorado ballot next year.
In their coverage of the Jane Norton affair, Jed Lewison at Daily Kos made an extremely interesting comment:
"If Democrats also manage to deliver a strong progressive agenda, November's results might end up surprising a lot of political observers."
But several things have to happen for this to come true. First, Democrats MUST come up with a platform that addresses specific issues that are important to people. Second, Democrats have to get up off the floor with their bellies open to the sky and then stand on their own two feet like mature men. Third, they must focus their efforts on getting re-elected, both in the primaries AND in the General Election. Fourth -- and most importantly -- they must come up with convincing arguments as to why we should vote for them instead of challengers in the primaries, or instead of Republicans in the General Election. But to present a convincing case for their election will not be easy, and they cannot afford to let themselves be sidetracked by anything the Republicans throw at them. And to be honest, I am not sure that they have the intellect and discipline -- to say nothing of the will -- to accomplish this.
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