Are You, Or Have You Ever Been, A Member Of The Tea Party Coalition?

[TheSarge]

Somewhere, Joe McCarthy is smiling . . .

On today's Meet The Press, Rachel Maddow demanded to know whether Dick Armey was a member of a coalition with the Tea Party Patriots, a group she alleges to promote "violence."  Moderator David Gregory joined in the cross-examination of Armey, head of Freedom Works.

DAVID GREGORY: So you repudiate the Nazi imagery and all of that: you repudiate that?

DICK ARMEY: Absolutely.

GREGORY: That has no place in the debate?

ARMEY: As I said, I repudiated it when MoveOn.org did it to George Bush.  Did anybody here at this table repudiate it?

RACHEL MADDOW: You're a member of the --

ARMEY: We've just heard that it's all right when MoveOn.org did it.

MADDOW: That's not true. 

ARMEY: But it's not alright when anybody does it.

MADDOW: The Tea Party Patriots is an organization that your organization is a member of a coalition with.  It's called the Tea Party Patriots Health Care Freedom Coalition Partner. That's what Freedom Works is, that's what Americans For Prosperity is.  Tea Party Patriots, what they've got on their front page of their web site, the top item, is a video showing the violence at the town hall in Ybor City, in Tampa, Florida.  Essentially promoting that as if that was a good thing that happened, that showed what the Health Care Freedom Coalition wants to happen in that debate. Freedom Works is part of that coalition. You can say that you denounce it but the organization that you head is part of it.

ARMEY: One of the fascinating things about the Tea Party movement is that it is an enormously impressive grassroots uprising across the country, loosely affiliated people.  And there's probably 100, 200 websites by different people.

MADDOW: Are you a member of the Tea Party Patriots Health Care Freedom Coalition?

ARMEY: I'm a member of Freedom Works, and Freedom Works works with many people who fight for and argue on behalf of individual liberty.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2009/08/16/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-member-tea-party-coalition

[USA4ME]

ARMEY: As I said, I repudiated it when MoveOn.org did it to George Bush.  Did anybody here at this table repudiate it?

No, they didn't.  In fact, Maddow on her radio show encouraged it.

Then they come up with these silly notions that no one noticed them doing the exact same things for 8 years that they're now condemning.

BTW, just take a look on any given day the number of threads on Skin's island about how the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan need to be immediately removed.  If you happen to get lucky and see one a week, consider yourself fortunate.  That should tell you all you need to know.  It's no different on the liberal network news shows.

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[seabelle]

Here's a compilation of Bushitler signs from protests 2003-2008:

http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=612

(can someone put this in political ammunition?  I can't post there?)

It's a handy link to whack back at the weasly media hypocrites and their ignorant fans 

[JohnnyReb]

Oh...so that's why I haven't gotten a check yet....I haven't gotten a membership card yet.