Get Skooled on the Issues
If the Tea Party has its way, you’ll be getting a call soon, because you simply have not been told the truth about the real Obama. Oh, yeah. Don’t you kid yourself. The lamestream media has been at it again, covering up, and whitewashing critical information to allow their Kenyan messiah to dismantle our liberties, use the Constitution to line the bottom of their bird cages, and turn the whole country over to their secret overlords at the United Nations.
The Tea Party has been hard at work sending out blast emails. I know this because I get them. I get them to peek into the minds of those on the other side of my political fence. Don’t get me wrong, President Obama has disappointed me on more than one occasion. I can tend to hold political grudges as much as the next guy, and I’m still none to pleased with giving immunity to the telecom companies – and that was four years ago. And I’m still fuming over the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and NAFTA. And that was a whole other Democratic presidency.
But that said, there are those for whom their issue with the current President is not rooted in a concept I like to call “reality.”
Some of those people are also subscribed to this very same Tea Party mailing list, that sends out a breathless daily email about the latest scandal, secret videotape, or horrifying revelation about “America’s Fraud President.”
I tend to delete them after reading, but here are some of the latest subject lines that survived the week in my inbox:
You can see how it might be difficult to keep up with all the latest “news” and “information.” But you can also see how voters, who have already decided that their Tea Party newsletter is a trusted source, may be behaving in ways that make no sense to most of us.
Here’s a clip from this morning’s fare:
That’s right America, your greenbacks can end the ‘corrosive silence’ of the media about the racist, illegitimate, socialist, Muslim “president” whose marriage was arranged by a Christian pastor. Quick, spend those dollars now before the government takes them anyway. Just $2,300 will spread the word to 10,000 households. Take their word for it.
Earning your keep by robocalling misinformation to the low information voter is part of the hard work ethic of the American Dream. It’s the free market. It’s… economic Darwinism.
I almost hope they call me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/charlene-idelle-hunziker_n_1957961.html No need to arrest me,I’m a Rethuglican and a good mother. This is hilarious and typical.
Bob Cesca today gives more insight into Romney’s unaccountable popularity:
“This column is a very serious warning to anyone who’s considering a vote for Mitt Romney next month: You’ll be voting for an empty suit. An unknown quantity. A grin and a haircut. At this point in the election, you simply don’t know where he stands on the issues, or who he is as a leader, or what he believes as a set of core values.
Why? Because it changes by the minute.”
http://thedailybanter.com/2012/10/who-is-mitt-romney-whoever-he-needs-to-be/
An empty suit with a grin and a haircut. Just stuff it with your favorite prejudices, ignorance, unexamined beliefs, bigotry, and resentments, and you have the GOP candidate of your insane dreams. Literally.
ginandtacos has had a couple of essays on this recently –
“Such people are, in an intellectual if not literal sense, brain dead. They’re not processing any new information except to sift it through the filter of their beliefs and reject anything that doesn’t fit.”
http://www.ginandtacos.com/2012/10/09/consistent-confusion/
And from today’s piece:
“Fact-checkers went at Romney like a pack of starving dogs would greet a man wearing a suit made of ham. Romney’s people calculated, of course, that A) most Americans don’t give a shit about fact checkers, thanks to a heavy dose of confirmation bias, and B) far more people will read or hear what he said in the debate than any corrections, responses, or fact-checks that come in its wake. There is a clear first mover advantage in a campaign and they took advantage of it.”
Brain-dead Republicans, living examples of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Brain-dead Republicans, living examples of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
they are indeed. thanks Mo for the articles.
This makes me sad.
Wish I could laugh.
Wish I could poke fun.
Most of the subject lines are fruitloop Ad Hominems and the ones which seem to want to address policy issues are wackadoo made up straw man stuff.
sheesh.
Barf.
One day last week I got three phone calls asking if I would do a short survey. I said “yes” and then answered the next question: “Was I using a land line or a cell phone?” When I answered that I was using a land line, the pollster said that the survey was over. Apparently someone is trying to reach – only – those using cell phones. I guess my plan to vote a straight Democratic ticket isn’t very important this election season.
Actually, just FYI, George H. W. Bush negotiated and signed the NAFTA Treaty on 12.17.92. Clinton negotiated three amendments to try to protect American workers. So, yet again, it was a Republican who created the NAFTA mess and a Democrat who tried to protect American workers.
So, if people send in enough cash, they’re gonna…um…send out another email, I guess?
Oy, vey.
Just last week a colleague of mine, newly retired, announced that he was going to work (Volunteer) for the Republican Party because “somebody has to tell Americans the Truth!” The Truth, according to this Tea Party Patriot and veteran? The Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the White House!!!!!
Really? I asked. Do you Really believe that?
He really does.
He assured me that he could send me all kinds of documentation “but you’d just delete it.”
Actually, I might read it, but Believe it?
After seeing those subject lines, I see where he gets his talking points.
Wish I would have thought to ask him about his idol,yes, you guessed it, $arah Palin.
Lord love a duck.
yeah it’s that ” we all bundle ” mesmerized and brainwashed look on anyone claiming to be RobPublican..
and there is a method to their madness…first is the fear mongering ” terrorist ” that Palin threatened the USA with ” gottem in our crosshairs ” mentality…then a few incidents to encourage the fear factor…sit…wait, wait….then we have the ” we are deadlocked in congress ” when they are holding the wrenches in gears… so gas goes up…prices climb…the Robpublicans do a sand-shuffle with the hips and transfers monies around, hoping no one saw the ” switch and bait ” tactics…so finances appear to be worse…then comes the religion factor…played well by Parnell I am Palins bitch…and others to really have a meeting about where to put their money…oh it’s really not the 2012 or end times…but let’s pray they stay our sheeple people and fall for it…who wants to invest in misery? which division…Mitt RobMoney is just as bad and has made money off the misery they instigated…nice analogy about RobMoney and Paylin…lol…both thieves…
The “Big Dog” really put on a performance in Vegas last night and hit home run after home run for Obama. The guy was really funny and enjoying himself immensely. Better to view it than read it, if possible.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-clinton-nevada-20121010,0,2761822.story
There is an interesting article in Huffington Post today in the Politics section about Bain Capital’s involvement in cornering the Russian cigarette market in the 90’s when Romney was CEO. My iPad, which usually wants to copy something every time I touch the screen, won’t let me copy the URL this time so no linky.. Sorry
So, let’s see, Bain has invested in a non-viable fetus disposal service, then invests in selling death sticks, do they have a crematorium, casket and graveyard service too?
I tried to tie Bain into SCI-the largest owner of funeral homes and cemeteries in the US and Canada. No go there,but SCI and dumbass dubya go way back to at least dubya’s time as guv in Texas and there was alot of questionable dealings and dubya’s political friends kept him out of hot water,as per usual. SCI cut expenses by dumping bodies,overselling cemetery plots etc. They take advantage of dead people for profit. Charming. Want to see them explain this to Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates.
Truth about the real Romney should be the question. Trouble we have now is that all the media seems to look for are the few good one-liners, ignored are whether substantive points are true. If they would do their due diligence, debates, like this last one, where Obama could have just stood there, smiled, or even dozed, he’d have won, hands down. What’s new though?—Romney has been doing this for years, has the lax media allowed campaigns to degenerate into big lie shows? Here we had 70 million viewers and quite a few of them, (because they work long hours and/or care for children most of their time), are not very knowledgeable of the nuances accompanying many of these issues. Outright lying should, in the court of public opinion, disqualify any contestant. In this case Romney’s own people pretty much have confessed what a whopper of a lie he told about pre-existing condition coverage. Wouldn’t it be nice if Romney’s other false claims were scrutinized, exposing him as the pathological liar that he is?
Oh, I got a call last week- not a robocall, but a real live Tea Partier, with an “opinion survey”. He learned to never, ever call a retired high school English teacher without having solid facts to back up their supposed statements.
I really enjoyed myself, yes I did 🙂
oh the poor fool! good for you!
Yesterday, I got a packet from the Committee to Re-elect Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Bear in mind that I am a lifelong Democrat and live in a county some 200 miles southeast of Maricopa County. I was ready to use the self-addressed envelope to send him my honest thoughts, but it wasn’t worth the stamp I’d have to affix. All I can think of is that, because of these mass appeals, the Tea Baggers must be feeling bery, very desparate.
Sometimes if there is a postage-paid envelope included, I stuff everything included in the mailing into the envelope with a note that they are never to contact me again and return it all. It costs the sender a few cents and it takes someone the time to open up the envelope. If I have to put a stamp on the return envelope, it and the contents of the original mailing go straight into the trash.
My garbage bags are full! And I am sick and tired of answering the telephone.
I just reported a complaint of number 571 441 0183. ( Maybe NRA?)
I am happy that the Mother of the Navy Seal has asked the Rommney campaign to stop using her son’s name for political reasons. Good for her! God Bless Her!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/10/mitt-romney-will-no-longer-mention-ex-navy-seal-killed-in-libya-in-speeches/
I like the “many households” for $25 category.
I guess “108.695 households” was just too sciency for tea partiers.
You know, it involves . . . math . . . and stuff.
108.401,500 is the correct number…at least that was in 1989…what is the value now a days?
I’m not a democrat, certainly not a tea bagger, I’m somewhere in between. But the very last statement in the tea bag email should frighten any U.S. citizen who actually believes in the constitution and a free society. “….Lame Stream Media….we don’t answer to them. They should be answering to us!”
Do they really want journalism answering to a political party? How can they make a statement like that and still stand behind the U.S. Constitution?
The answer is that they DON’T stand behind our Constitution, only those few parts of it that reflect their worldview.