Over one year later, one of our biggest articles, A Letter From a True Patriot of the Tea Bag Movement, is still pulling in traffic from sites like StumbleUpon and still generating both positive and downright insane comments…but hey, it got people talking about this issue, right? It took people long enough to catch on to the fact that the same rhetoric Timothy McVeigh used to justify his bombing in Oklahoma City is the same bullshit that the tea parties are spewing at their rallies, but now it seems that everybody, on both sides of the aisle, are talking about it.
I’m not saying that we were definitely the first ones to make the obvious connection, but c’mon, we do deserve a bit of credit for tackling this head-on before the mainstream picked it up, and more creatively than they did at that.
- CBS News did a nice big piece on it.
- Sean Hannity made a Biden-sized flub by comparing teabaggers to Timmy.
- Bill Clinton warned that “demonizing” the government could lead to McVeigh-like violence.
- Clinton’s warning sparked all kinds of debate in the papers and the blogosphere.
- Rachel Maddow hosted a two-hour documentary on MSNBC about McVeigh and his connection to modern anti-government extremism.
There are many more pages I could link, but a bunch of them are right-wing nutjob blogs that I wouldn’t link if a teabagger had the shotgun he brings to “peaceful” rallies pressed up against the back of my head. Take note that every one of the above links are from April of this year; now take note that our article was posted in April of last year. I’m not asking for a pat on the back here, but I am asking, “What the fuck took you people so long?!”
…though a link giving us some fucking credit wouldn’t hurt every once in a while, MSM. Just sayin’.
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Ahead of the game, as usual!
Keep posting stuff like this.
The right has a double standard. They hate foreign terrorists, but they love their own domestic terrorists. Think how many of them idolize the terrorist who murdered Dr. Tiller.
Fuck the Tea Party. They have no idea what they’re whining about.
It was Clinton himself and Janet Reno (thru Clinton) who were responsible for the tragic events at Waco ,the killing of innocent people,that ultimitely lead to the Oklahoma City bombing. Blaming all people who believe in the right to bear arms is the usual ploy of the left. And the term is Tea Party member not Tea Baggers…Asshole!