{"id":251,"date":"2009-11-13T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2009-11-13T02:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T10:46:00","slug":"faux-noise-loves-tea-party-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/13\/faux-noise-loves-tea-party-poop\/","title":{"rendered":"Faux Noise Loves Tea Party Poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I not surprised to see hate speech directed at a gay man on Faux Noise?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/FauxNoiseLovesTeaPartyPoop_2504\/teapartyexpress.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"teapartyexpress\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"121\" alt=\"teapartyexpress\" src=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/FauxNoiseLovesTeaPartyPoop_2504\/teapartyexpress_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Fox News is once more actively promoting the tea party movement, with Gretchen Carlson of Fox &amp; Friends noting enthusiastically on Thursday that &quot;the second national Tea Party Express Tour has covered nearly seven thousand miles!&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Host Steve Doocy then spoke with Tea Party Express co-chair Mark Williams, asking him about &quot;the thousands, and in some cases hundreds, of people who showed up.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">&quot;Who was it?&quot; Doocy wanted to know. &quot;Was it Republicans? Was it independents? Was it Democrats?&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">&quot;All of the above,&quot; Williams replied. &quot;I would ask the Democrats in the crowds if <strong>the &#8216;dancing queen&#8217; Barney Frank<\/strong> really represented them and they would go, &#8216;No!&#8217;&quot;\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/2009\/11\/fox-promotes-tea-party-birther\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>How much do you want to bet that the vast majority of those yelling were not Democrats?&#160; I was amused to learn that the Tea Party sheeple and the birthers are suffering from internal strife.&#160; Here\u2019s Rachel.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/33900126#33900126\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"339\"><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 5px; font-size: 11px; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; width: 425px; color: #999; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"font-weight: normal! important; color: #5799db! important; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; text-decoration: none! important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a style=\"font-weight: normal! important; color: #5799db! important; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; text-decoration: none! important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">World News<\/a>, and <a style=\"font-weight: normal! important; color: #5799db! important; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; text-decoration: none! important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>I would love to see these wing nuts staging counter demonstrations at each others\u2019 rallies.&#160; LOL!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I not surprised to see hate speech directed at a gay man on Faux Noise? 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