{"id":300,"date":"2009-11-24T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2009-11-24T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:17:00","slug":"tea-party-pukes-reach-a-new-level-of-hatefulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/tea-party-pukes-reach-a-new-level-of-hatefulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Pukes Reach a New Level of Hatefulness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want you to take a minute and think about how you might feel if your pregnant child died because she had no health coverage?  Now imagine, if you will, taking your grief to a town hall meeting to plead for reform to keep this tragedy from happening to someone else.  How would you feel if a group of people heckled you, called you a liar, and laughed at you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"hate-crimes\"<\/a> At a town hall event on health care reform hosted by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) earlier this month, Midge Hough told the tragic story of how her daughter-in-law, Jenny, and her unborn grandchild died recently because they<\/font> didn\u2019t have health insurance<\/a>. Jenny came down with \u201c<\/font>severe double pneumonia<\/a>, Septic shock and Respitory failure,\u201d Hough said, \u201cand laid in an ICU unit for the next two months at a cost of $22,000 a day.\u201d Her baby died in the womb and Jenny died a few weeks later. But as Hough was telling her story, tea partiers at the meeting \u201c<\/font>ridiculed<\/a>\u201d her, the South Town Star reports. \u201cThey moaned and rolled their eyes and<\/font> interrupted<\/a>,\u201d laughing loudly and shouting her down at points…<\/font><\/p>\n

…Chicago Tea Party Patriots sent out a flyer to encourage attendance at the event, saying Lipinski had \u201c<\/font>sold us out!<\/a>\u201d by voting \u201cto pass socialized medicine.\u201d In defense of the heckling, an organizer for the group falsely claimed that the<\/font> Houghs fabricated their story<\/a> and called them operatives of President Barack Obama who \u201cgo from event to event and (cry) the same story.\u201d At another recent event, Hough told Gov. Pat Quinn (D-IL) that she has been \u201c<\/font>personally attacked<\/a>\u201d by tea party activists at her home address. (HT:<\/font> Crooks and Liars<\/a>)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

The incident begins a little after 1:30 into the video.<\/p>\n

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I bet Supply Side Jesus is proud of them.<\/p>\n

What do you have to day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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