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Watering the Tree of Liberty, Hyperbole and Groundless Sexual Rumors
Armed with $700,000, 70,000 members and a state-of-the-art TV studio for starters, Tea Party operative and profiteer Eric Odom has launched Liberty.com, a new conservative financial and political power that aims to rival what it calls "the loony libs" of MoveOn.org.
Claiming to be "organizing for a free America," they offer infuriating, terrifying rants about "illegals," "flat out treason," "Whorehouse Harry" – Reid, naturally – who "launched his Senate campaign on the backs of Nevada prostitutes" (unfortunate puns, alas, unintended) and charges of GOP challengers rumored to be having extramarital gay affairs. No evidence, but "we thought we'd throw it out there," notes a spokesman himself accused of rape and sexual misconduct.
These are slimy guys. Also, take note, well-funded. Brought to you by Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruling that opened the floodgates to corporate election funding.
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Show AllGood God! A Right Wing MoveOn. We are decending to new depths of falsehood and fabrication. Maybe thery will cancel each others lies out and evaporate! We can only hope.
By the way Abby, unfortunate choice of picture. Many seem to agree with it.
Many of Abby's articles I find are very left sided (to say the least). And now she is scared reporters on the right side will do what she does. Scared of competition?
MoveOn is for Morons, I have been to it and it is a propaganda machine that now constatnly asks me for money while trying to scare me that republicans are invading my home and killing everybody (analogy)
If one takes the relatively short time to somewhat scrutinize the sites these scumbags produce, it is fairly obvious to see who is producing them...as they have yet to learn a basic of the forger's art, details.
Unfortunately, not enough of the American populace cares sufficiently to examine closely.
Watering the Tree of Liberty
Or...
Watering down the Tree of Liberty
The problem is the "type" of water these folks are using on the Tree of Liberty.
Let me point to similarities of leftist and rightist organizations - to their internal structures.
Remember:Any existing policy or agenda must have a specific structure enabling the program to function. It so happens that the world is conservative because only conservative structures exist on it.
edweg
so how you explain reality than
.. or you need conservative structure for the quality of your liberal(???) product
edweg
check ou there website and you can figure out what reality is
I cannot belief that these people are still blamming
the ( working )poor for ALL there problems( look at the youtube )
they blame the gov for want to take care of the poor with our tax $.
mean while they can't see that they themselves are being robbed by the corporations and that they are fully supporting this already failling system of more corporate control by more privetizing versus gov.
and god forbid they hate the word socialisme
WHAT ? taking care of sommebody else HEHHHH ??
they realy have no clue, they are just what the rich corporations are in need for today : conquer and didvide !they are walking right into this trap
they are living advertisement for the very rich in this country
keep US distracted
What a scamm this all is
I would like to know:
WERE WERE these teabaggers WHEN BUSH -CHENEY LIED THE WHOLE WORLD INTO THESE STUPIED WARS? HOW MUCH MONNEY YOU THINK THEY STOLE FROM US THE TAXPAYERS?
I'm starting to think that these people were just fine with lying repub dictator Bush
they seem like they have just comming out of under a rock
excellent RichM, you make sense but sense and intelligence don't really get in the way of lunacy. Notice that optura/edweg's rebuttal to you below is wildly foolish.
Defining conservative as resistant to change, I suppose as organizations get bigger they do get more resistant to change. On the other hand, small organizations, often with very loose structures, can be very adaptable. Hmmmm...
Decorating the Tree of Liberty with the "Strange Fruit" of the non-white.
This is exactly what the 'right' is talking about!
Did we bring enough saliva tests for all of these people?
Does anyone find it funny that their website carries a quote from Thomas Paine at the bottom?
We have to start a grass roots campaign to impeach most of the supremes and take back our country.
That was an amusing website. The BIG story is that Reid's former campaign manager took BIG money from Mustang Ranch and they have a polygraph to prove this is true! Geez, polygraphs aren't admissable anywhere, so who cares.
"This will be the republicans' smoking gun!" Geez again....a pimp gave money to Reid? This is Nevada, so who's surprised?
Well this could be fun. Let's follow the money from Mustang Ranch, and ;let's forget about "smoking guns," there are apparently a lot of "smoking penises" that need to be accounted for!