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Boom, you guys are the ones trying to justify/mollify Tea Party rhetoric based on the past rhetoric/actions of the Weathermen, not me.

And so as not to dodge your question, I wasn't born at that time. It doesn't mean I can't be informed on the topic.

One thing I do know ... the Tea Party trades in violent rhetoric. There's plenty of evidence out there that shows it.

 

Havana Guila?

 

I'm not a righty. I'm just pointing out that the analogy fails on many different levels.

 

Still beating that dead horse, eh?

Need a few new pages for the songbook there, sunshine.

 

At the most, the VERY most, and I'm being generous, the Weathermen had maybe 25,000 in their movement. SDS peaked at 100,000 before it radicalized, so the Weathermen being a splinter group means it had a much smaller percentage of that peak of 100,000.

The Tea Party claims about 18 percent of the current electorate.

Yes. They're very comparable.

 

So wait, are you arguing that they are or aren't comparable? I'm confused.

 

And McVeigh was, by every present definition, a tea party guy: devoted to the removal of "tyrannical government oppression" by any means necessary.

 

McVeigh would have been a member of the Tea Party, but not every member of the Tea Party would have resembled McVeigh philosophically.

 

Except some people who keep claiming Tea Party members are some kind of terrorist group. And you saying it's a head horse doesn't make the point less valid.

 

We've clearly got some idiots in here who think the Tea Party is loaded with angry, violent bigoted racists and stands collectively as a fringe group. No matter what you say to show them they're wrong, they'll never admit it.

And yet, astonishingly, this thread is the most lively board on SportsJournalists.com as a POLITICAL BOARD. It lives.

Some things are good.

 

With great reason. They were more interested in blowing up buildings and killing innocent people than actually running for office.

As has been said before, when the Tea Party is responsible for like behavior, give us a call. Till then ... read some history books so as not to embarrass yourself in the future.

 

It's late. I'm tired. I've been up way too long. So, maybe I'm missing something.

But it sure seems like we have a bitter disagreement going on -- two sides angrily and defiantly in unison, paradoxically, in their vehement (and shared) belief there is no legitimate parallel between the Weather Underground and the Tea Party movement.

"Orange isn't green, you moron!"

"You're so wrong, idiot. Orange is NOT green."

Or am I missing something here?