{"id":5560,"date":"2011-08-08T00:11:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5560"},"modified":"2011-08-08T00:11:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:11:19","slug":"republican-whopper-a-billion-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/08\/republican-whopper-a-billion-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Whopper: A Billion Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s 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.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"republican-lies\"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. <\/font><\/p>\n

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<\/em><\/span>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

"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. <\/font><\/p>\n

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. <\/font><\/p>\n

But he wasn’t the only speaker to use loaded language to gin up the crowd. <\/font><\/p>\n

Vince Schmuki, a leader of the Ozaukee Patriot tea party group compared the recall effort to a terrorist attack. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

"This is ground zero," said Schmuki. "You remember what the term ground zero means? We have been attacked." <\/font><\/p>\n

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?"<\/font><\/p>\n

\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Really!  A billion deaths.  He did not offer one death as an example, let alone a billion.  Just so you don\u2019t think the author and I are losing our marbles, here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n

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This just shows how desperate the Republican storm troopers have become in the fascist corporate dictatorship of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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