State police are also investigating a voicemail left for Rep. Kate Brophy McGee, a Phoenix Republican who supports the Medicaid expansion. She appeared visibly shaken Thursday as she described the message on the House floor and asked lawmakers to tell their constituents to be civil.
“The voice was a male who left a long rambling message with derogatory remarks aimed at Governor Brewer for Representative McGee,” Bart Graves, a spokesman with the Department of Public Safety, said in an email Friday. “She felt there was a threatening undertone.”
Lawmakers said they have received dozens of messages from supporters and opponents of the proposed expansion containing varying layers of vitriol.
“Sadly, the tone has been quite intense. People are emotional,” said Republican Rep. Ethan Orr, of Tucson, who supports the Medicaid plan and received the email but said it did not make him feel threatened. “I wish people would have a more civil and respectful tone, but I understand why this is so important to them
…because when you’re a right-wing extremist, with more pride than sense, dignity or compassion, you threaten the gubmint wit guns when the dang gubmint doesn’t do what you want it to
You and your Georgetown education….you lubril eleetist.
[Obama] is going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the UN. Okay, what’s going to happen when that happens? I’m thinking worst case scenario here. Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe. We’re not just talking a few riots here and demonstrations. We’re talking Lexington-Concord take up arms and get rid of the guy.
Now what’s going to happen if we do that, if the public decides to do that? He’s going to send in U.N. troops — with the little blue beanies. I don’t want ‘em in Lubbock County. Okay. So I’m going to stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say ‘you’re not coming in here’. “And the sheriff, I’ve already asked him, I said ‘you gonna back me’ he said, ‘yeah, I’ll back you.’
Ask the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct if this permissible. Ask if he took an oath to support the U.S. Constitution when he was sworn in to office. If you are calling from a land line, they have a toll free number (877) 228-5750.
This is why I dismiss right wing extremists: they lack some combination of character or intelligence to be able to discuss Barack Obama’s real faults first. Each time you engage them, it’s like you have to scold some tweenaged boy to settle down and focus instead of taunting a classmate.
The data demonstrate the mutual referencing among a relatively small cluster of nodes that include hosts, guests, and other affiliated individuals and groups. The findings reveal that these individuals and groups were connected by certain ideological sentiments targeting vulnerable groups. For example, discussions around immigration and Islam were framed in oppositional and absolutist terms: immigrants as “illegal” and law breaking, and Islam as the context of terrorism.
If talk radio and social media sustain a social network, they do so within a narrow range of ideological positions reflected by the hosts and guests. What’s more, the predominance of guests that represent media organizations not only minimizes alternate voices but also facilitates the mass broadcast and echoing of the shared ideologies that are discussed on the air. What emerges is a discourse that remains insular rather than open and that finds alignment, repetition, and amplification through social media.
So Tea Party people don’t have barbecues together…got it.
They were warned…
He didn’t think his values through very well, did he?
Now about religious extremism
The corporate cheerleaders on CNBC, for example, reached back to the nasty days of McCarthyism to smear the youthful protesters as “aligned with Lenin.” Little Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader who loyally serves the banksters as their Washington lapdog, yapped in alarm about “the growing mobs occupying Wall Street.” Then came Mitt Romney, himself a former Wall Streeter, to warn darkly against the protesting rabble: “I think it’s dangerous – this class warfare.”
Even more clueless is Herman Cain. Previously the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza chain who’s now running for president, he can’t stop foaming at the mouth about the Wall Street occupation. “Anti-American,” he labeled the protesters, later blasting them as losers who’re “jealous” of successful people: “Don’t blame Wall Street,” he lectured. “If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself.
Knee jerks defend Wall Street
