Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 11/07/2009 - YouTube
Rep. Steve Israel (D - New York) condemns the use of Holocaust images by Tea Party protesters and calls on Republican leaders to apologize.
Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 11/07/2009
One of the most disturbing images from yesterday’s Tea Party rally against health care reform on Capitol Hill was a protester’s gruesome sign showing a pile of dead Holocaust victims. The banner — captured by ThinkProgress here — read: “National Socialist Health Care: Dachau, Germany – 1945.” Another sign said that “Obama takes his orders [...]
Sort by The Plum Line (Free subscription) - 11/06/2009
* Joe Biden has been working the phones in a last-ditch effort to round up support among moderate House Dems for the embattled health care bill. A senior White House official emails: “He’s calling moderate Democrats and talking up the cost-containment and premium-reduction aspects of the bill — issues that matter a lot to [...]
Sort by DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
All through history, anti-Semitism has been a mainstay of right-wing extremism-- and not just in overseas manifestations from the Babylonian Captivity, the blood libels, the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition to pogroms throughout Europe and the Nazis' systematic Holocaust-- but also right here in America, where the KKK, Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent , Father Coughlin (the Rush Limbaugh of the...
Sort by the albany project (Free subscription) - 11/07/2009
Thank you, Congressman, for calling out that blabbering psycho who is the shame of Minnesota.
Sort by Dump Michele Bachmann (Free subscription) - 11/07/2009
Hat Tip: Political Muse .
Sort by Liberal in the Land of Conservative (Free subscription) - 11/07/2009
Representative Steve Israel is calling on Representative Bachmann to apologize for the use of Holocaust imagery during the rally she organized against health care reform on Thursday, November 5th.
Sort by MNPublius.com (Free subscription) - 11/07/2009
Rep. Steve Israel, among many others, is furious over the disgusting use of holocaust imagery during Michele Bachmann’s health-care protests earlier this week — you can watch a short video he recorded after the break. It’s hard to find fault with his anger. Quite frankly, I don’t feel the need to actually show the posters on this [...]
Sort by MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) - 11/07/2009
This is one of the signs displayed at Bachmann's rally against health care. Congressman John Kline told a radio audience that about one hundred members of the Republican Conference in Congress appeared in person in outside the Capitol to support the demonstrators. So: do lawmakers like Bachmann and her Republican colleagues have a responsibility to condemn the hate signs they see at these events? Or...
Sort by The Frustrated Teacher (Free subscription) - 11/07/2009
By now you've all seen Michele Bachman's " press conference " yesterday that was really a racist rally. There were the typical stupid signs and chants and the screams of "Patriots!!" as if they were all on the set of 300 , replacing "Spartans!" with "Patriots!" Then there were the incredibly distasteful signs with pictures of dead Jews. I say, F*ck You to these people. Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) decided...
