{"id":189492,"date":"2010-03-20T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/20\/in-case-you-were-wondering-about-the-tea-baggers\/"},"modified":"2010-03-20T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T00:53:00","slug":"in-case-you-were-wondering-about-the-tea-baggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/20\/in-case-you-were-wondering-about-the-tea-baggers\/","title":{"rendered":"In Case You Were Wondering About the Tea Baggers\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that they were <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/tea-partiers-call-lewis-nr-frank-ft-at-capitol-hill-protest.php\">screaming &#8220;f****t&#8221; at Representative Barney Frank<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/88041-cbc-member-says-health-bill-protesters-called-rep-lewis-the-n-word\">screamed, &#8220;n***er&#8221; at Representative, and civil rights icon, John Lewis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and fellow Congressional Black Caucus member Andre Carson (D-IN) related a particularly jarring encounter with a large crowd of protesters screaming &#8220;kill the bill&#8221;&#8230; and punctuating their chants with the word &#8220;nigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And that wasn&#8217;t an isolated incident. Early this afternoon, standing outside a Democratic whip meeting in the Longworth House office building, I watched Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) make his way out the door, en route to the neighboring Rayburn building. As he rounded the corner toward the exit, wading through a huge crowd of tea partiers and other health care protesters, an elderly white man screamed &#8220;Barney, you faggot&#8221;&#8211;a line that caused dozens of his confederates to erupt in laughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They are doing this because they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">can<\/span>, and they have wanted to for years, but feel that the level of social disapprobation involved in such an act in different contexts will be too great.<\/p>\n<p>Post racial society my ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that they were screaming &#8220;f****t&#8221; at Representative Barney Frank, and screamed, &#8220;n***er&#8221; at Representative, and civil rights icon, John Lewis: Civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and fellow Congressional Black Caucus member Andre Carson (D-IN) related a particularly jarring encounter with a large crowd of protesters screaming &#8220;kill the bill&#8221;&#8230; and punctuating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,998,969,1046,1020,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-congress","category-evil","category-healthcare","category-legislation","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}