The Republican Party is notorious for making ludicrous claims. The examples are too many to list, but examples include Obama wants to kill granny, Obama was born in Kenya, the founding fathers intended Christianity to be America’s state religion, tax breaks for the rich create jobs, etc. It matters not that all these are demonstrably false. Republicans just keep doubling down on the lies. As absurd as these examples are, they pale in comparison to this Republican whopper.
The right wing pundits and tea party operatives are trying to cover for all the heat they took for their outrageous behavior during the HCR debate and their ugly tea party town halls where spitting and violence took center stage so they have been trying to come up with a typical false equivalence narrative to offset it.
We liberals are all so mean to the tea party now for saying that they held the government hostage in their efforts to cut spending. Unfortunately for them, it’s also only the truth. Judson Phillips, the TV face of Tea Party Nation went to Wisconsin to defend Alberta Darling, a Republican facing a tough challenge from Sandy Pasch in the recall elections this week. Phillips took his chips and went all in on the nasty:
The founder of Tea Party Nation claimed liberal ideology is responsible for "a billion" deaths over the past century during a raucous rally here Saturday in support of one of the six Republican state senators facing a recall election Tuesday.
"I will tell you ladies and gentlemen, I detest and despise everything the left stands for. How anybody can endorse and embrace an ideology that has killed a billion people in the last century is beyond me," said Tea Party Nation CEO Judson Phillips.
Phillips, who a day prior likened protesters of Gov. Scott Walker to Nazi storm troopers, urged a few hundred tea party supporters to turn out for state Sen. Alberta Darling, who is in a ferocious battle with state Rep. Sandy Pasch to hold onto her suburban Milwaukee seat.
But he wasn’t the only speaker to use loaded language to gin up the crowd.
Vince Schmuki, a leader of the Ozaukee Patriot tea party group compared the recall effort to a terrorist attack.
"This is ground zero," said Schmuki. "You remember what the term ground zero means? We have been attacked."
He continued, "Tuesday is going to be the beginning of our takeover. And we’re going to follow it up the following week, and then we’re going to polish off the enemy in November 2012. Who’s with me?"
… [emphasis original]
Inserted from <Crooks and Liars>
Really! A billion deaths. He did not offer one death as an example, let alone a billion. Just so you don’t think the author and I are losing our marbles, here’s the video.
This just shows how desperate the Republican storm troopers have become in the fascist corporate dictatorship of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin.
12 Responses to “Republican Whopper: A Billion Deaths”
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No lie to big, no lie to extreme, when there are profits on the line. I really think this guy or the tea baggers really understand who conservative folk really are. Those Libertine Exploiters are really starting to believe their own lies and rhetoric into believing they are conservative, that they talk like conservative people or that they act like conservative people.
A true conservative has to take in hate, vitriol and deceit like that and take a real big step away from the people that preach it, either they are motivated by nothing but greed and are willing to say anything to enrich themselves or they are insane.
They are insane and once again they are playing the victim card. Waaaa. 🙄
Too true, Lisa.
Welcome Robert! 🙂
I have no problem whatsoever with authentic conservatives. I may disagree with them, but can do so with respect. It saddens me that in today’s Republican Party organization, authentic conservatives are virtually extinct, driven out by the ideologues.
Maybe he was using some weird binary system, because he described his supporters behind him in that video as numbering in the “hundreds of millions”
………I was looking at that and was thinking maybe all those “billions” were “taken up” in the last rapture, why the crowd was a little thin. Just all us “bad” people and Judson Phillips left behind, now. Bawhahahaha!!! 😈
For them to tell the truth about anything might be fatal.
Can we just say – ” Exaggerations”??
Phyllis, in this case, “exaggeration” is understatement in the extreme.
I’ll tell you that more than a billion people have been killed by religious wars than any war that man created. So your God wants to kill people – that’s not fine by me, and it shouldn’t be by anyone else. And that’s exactly what the tea baggers want – religious war against anyone who doesn’t follow their God or principles. They are a sick bunch of people – thank God there are only a few of them. 🙄
A god that creates the universe and kills individuals is an oxymoron.
That’s why I believe that God opposes aggression.