Video: Dingell says town-hall protests remind him of the Klan
posted at 11:36 am on August 11, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Steny Hoyer have called the constituents speaking out against ObamaCare at town halls “un-American,” and that didn’t slow them down. Will calling them “racists” do it? MS-NBC’s Ed Schultz tosses a softball to Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), last seen being flummoxed by his own constituents last week. At the time, Dingell dismissed his critics as “infiltrators.” Today, they’re the equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan (via The Weekly Standard):
What message has the House Democratic leadership sent this week to voters in their district? If you show up to town halls to criticize us, you’re un-American Klan members. Somewhere in here, there’s a killer GOP television spot just itching to run in the summer of 2010.
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And who were the klansmen? Democrats. Ask Robert C Byrd.
You want to know what reminds me of the klan?
The SEIU union thugs.
wildcat84 on August 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Congressman Dingel-berry:
Your party, the Democratic (in name only) Party is the party of slavery and Jim Crow.
Your party was the party that rounded up Japanese-Americans and threw them into concentration camps (paging Senator Inouye).
LIBERALISM = HYPOCRISY
J.J. Sefton on August 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM
I can see it. All those SEIU members in their purple hoods.
Rip Ford on August 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Is it possible he was referring to the SEIU thugs who beat up a black American in St. Louis? That certainly reminds me of the Klan.
Ordinary American on August 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM
The good news is that 2010 will be the ultimate litmus test for the future of our nation…. either the American people throw out all the bums calling us un-American, nazis, and Klan members…. or America really is in a steep decline. We will know one way or the other in about 15 months.
BPD on August 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Dingell is getting his rear orifice handed to him by rush right now.
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM
They remind me of pictures from Zimbabwe run by Mugabe and his thugs.
larvcom on August 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Obama mast really the first post racial president if the Dems keep playing the race card and not winning with it.
TexasDave on August 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Palate cleanser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX05Rspx2dU
tessa on August 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Where’s a Death Panel when you need one?
Ted Torgerson on August 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM
The talking skull sees white sheets, Nanzi sees swastikas, what will they see next?
farright on August 11, 2009 at 12:08 PM
The “aptly-named” John Dingell…
phreshone on August 11, 2009 at 12:08 PM
damm, i’m now a standing member of the kkk (or so says dingle berry) and i don’t own a white sheet…
SHARPTOOTH on August 11, 2009 at 12:10 PM
berry
grapeknutz on August 11, 2009 at 12:11 PM
C’mon Dingell a guy in a wheelchair reminds him of the Klan. These people can’t even play the race card right anymore.
Dire Straits on August 11, 2009 at 12:11 PM
It is obviously time for Dingell to go…term limits would solve this problem.
d1carter on August 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Dingell Dangell Dingell
TwinkietheKid on August 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM
I can see it. All those SEIU members in their purple hoods.
Rip Ford on August 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM
good one
Jed_Eckert on August 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Barry’s Dingell Berry
farright on August 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Excellent link.
bluelightbrigade on August 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Michigan; our politicians make California’s look sane!
pgrossjr on August 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Specter’s townhall ended today when the audience was informed that Specter needed to have his juice and cookies and then to take a nap.
BuckeyeSam on August 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM
I don’t like being called Klan. Annoy Dingell some more to see if he’ll change it to jackbooted thugs.
Dusty on August 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM
More on Scott’s swastika here, with pic.
http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=133691
Tom
marinetbryant on August 11, 2009 at 12:14 PM
GET THAT RACE CARD OUT THERE!
Just think how that card will be played AGAIN in 2012.
GarandFan on August 11, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Maybe all those Klansmen were sent to Michigan by the only Klansman in the Senate, Robert Byrd.
Steve Z on August 11, 2009 at 12:15 PM
“Racist” will be dead as a charge after the Democrats are through with it.
They keep assuming 100% of Tea Party attendees are lifelong Republican voters. (Hint: They aren’t)
Gonna be hard to keep those seats calling your constituents unAmerican racist nazis…………
Techie on August 11, 2009 at 12:15 PM
+1
bluelightbrigade on August 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Yes, and videos of Dingel remind me of an idiot. So what’s the point.
johnsteele on August 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Yesterday I was called un-American by Nancy, today I am being compaired to the KKK.
My husband has spent the last 18 years serving this country with pride, honor and dignity. My children and I have stood by his side through deployments, ORI’s, exercises and everything else. I have given up jobs, friends and any comfort zone I have had to; to support him and his career. I have done this willingly, with as much if not more pride, honor, and dignity and they have the f^cking audacity to call me un-American and compair me to the KKK.
I was pissed before….now the gloves are off.
Vote all of them out in 2010!!!!!!!!!!
PS: My husband will be sewing on Senior Master SGT this month. Congradulations baby, I am so proud of you!!!
milwife88 on August 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Yeah, and Obama reminds me of Nixon !!!
ExpressoBold on August 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Check out the question in the lower left corner of the screen. Of course, the msm is not biased.
Johan Klaus on August 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM
If these asshats are not tossed out in 2010, I will give up.
mr1216 on August 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM
I’m trying to remember how it is that insulting constituents is a winning strategy.
obladioblada on August 11, 2009 at 12:18 PM
I suppose the group of organized thugs beating up a black man while shouting racial epitaphs reminds him of the Freedom Riders.
29Victor on August 11, 2009 at 12:18 PM
The men who really run the military.
Johan Klaus on August 11, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Yep, keep calling us Klansmen, mob-like gangsters, and Nazis. Let’s see how that works for the dems in 2010.
Oink on August 11, 2009 at 12:21 PM
It reminds him of the Klan. Were he and Byrd members together?
Jeff from WI on August 11, 2009 at 12:21 PM
I wonder if they’ll run out of names to call us.
Jeff from WI on August 11, 2009 at 12:22 PM
The door, I hope.
Johan Klaus on August 11, 2009 at 12:23 PM
I’m willing to bet the dirty Democrats of planting evidence to frame their opponents. The Dean is dirtier than anyone, having sponsored this 3200 ill bill from hell.
Democrat Rep. Scott (who stupidly accosted his constituent, a physician, for “hijacking this Townhall”) had his office vandalized with a swastika to garner public sympathy.
It is reasonable to find that Gifford’s camp planted the “fallen gun” for public sympathy and outcry against those dissatisfied citizens unhappy with HR 3200.
Disgusting Democrat KKK Bogeymen, lobbyists and union thugs! As if Congress wasn’t unpopular enough prior to the POTUS election of 2008. Losers, taking America down with their own failures.
Keep your noses clean when you protest. The Fascists are taking down license plates in parking lots, running the information via Obatomized government intel sources as occurred against Joe Wurzelbacher. Now the socialists have raised the stakes to threaten your families and homes for violent assault in the middle of the night.
This is not what the American majority voted for in 2008.
GIVE US OUR TAX CUTS. Leave our jobs alone; quit penalizing work. Let us produce and conduct our own business without the Green Giant ogre and his mandates and ho-ho-ho czars strangling our prosperity, revising our Constitutional Government into a Marxist “One Voice” dictatorship.
No wonder Obama voters still have their divisive posters in their front yards, mimicking the blood of the lamb at Passover, entreating the destroyers to leave themselves, audacious democrats, alone.
maverick muse on August 11, 2009 at 12:23 PM
He may not be your representative, but you should still tell this man that just because an American doesn’t like the policies of this president and his Congress, doesn’t mean that gives him license to assume we are ALL racists.
http://www.house.gov/dingell
pjean on August 11, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Good idea. When these morons at the “town hall” meetings continue disallowing rational discussion and opposition to their socialist plans, the entire audience should start chanting;
TERM LIMITS
TERM LIMITS
TERM LIMITS
Until whatever “representative” there runs out crying.
Spiritk9 on August 11, 2009 at 12:24 PM
I resent being called a Klan member. Since 1972, the first time I could vote, I’ve NEVER voted for a Democrat.
Since the Klan was an invention of the Democratic Party, I highly resent being called that.
Jeff from WI on August 11, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Reid?… Pelosi?… Hoyer?… Dingell?
I’ve seen Cockroaches with more dignity.
franksalterego on August 11, 2009 at 12:24 PM
As if Dingleberry hasn’t inflicted enough misery on his Michigan constituents, now he is telling them that questioning the government will be treated as a hate crime. Isn’t that considered un-American?
alliebobbitt on August 11, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Dingell needs to hook up with the chick from Santa Cruz who said there was still slaves on East Coast.
Dire Straits on August 11, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Seriously, the amping up of the insults is getting kind of funny, actually. What’s next? “You know, those protesters remind me of Ted Bundy. So well-dressed, but really psychopathic.” Or, “You know who those protesters remind me of? Pedophiles. You can see it in the eyes.” Or maybe, “You know who those protesters remind me of? This kid in my neighborhood who used to torture kittens. Yeah, they’re like a grown-up version of that kitten-torturer kid.”
venividivici on August 11, 2009 at 12:25 PM
This dinosaur has had what amounts to a lifetime appointment, so of course he thinks he can say anything.
Check out this adorable pic.
Jim Treacher on August 11, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Congratulations, Sr.MasterSGT, wife and family!
maverick muse on August 11, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Congrats
Jeff from WI on August 11, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Doesn’t he star in those 6 Flags Commercials?
Jeff from WI on August 11, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Christ, I remember predicting a year ago that if Obama won the presidency, the entire Democrat line of argument for the next four years would be to scream “Racist!” at the first sign of opposition. Could they be any more drearily, tragically predictable?
Blacklake on August 11, 2009 at 12:29 PM
- Nazi (Check)
- KKK (Check)
What next?
- Commie?
- Taliban?
HawaiiLwyr on August 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Of course, that was way back when Obama was still popular.
Jim Treacher on August 11, 2009 at 12:32 PM
If there’s anything the last 12 months have taught us, it’s not to rely on any one political party. I’m fine with them staying the hell out of the way.
Jim Treacher on August 11, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Hmmmm – Let’s see – So we’re nazis, un-American, minions of the RNC, members of the KKK, mobs disrupting democracy, etc.
My, but aren’t we a bunch of well dressed goose stepping dandies marching off to the nearest KKK rally. Unlike the principled and displined SEIU members that troll parking lots looking for unprotected concervatives to knock off.
Sure glad the “Great Uniter” in in the White House keeping track of all these hooligans. I’m waiting breathlessly for The One to give yet another primetime speech and calm the roubled waters.
conan547 on August 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM
The “uber-message” here should be clear: These people (Dems and Repubs) don’t want to serve the public, they intend to rule.
microfiction on August 11, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Race is kind of like the old “Rorschach Inkblot Test.” Liberals see race in everything because it takes up so much room in their heads. THEY are the real “racists.”
Star20 on August 11, 2009 at 12:38 PM
So let’s review ……
To the Dems, Americans with an opposing point of view are un-American, Nazi Klansman.
To the Dems, American soldiers are baby-killing torturers who return home and start riots.
Them’s fightin’ words my friends.
fogw on August 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Look for more of these phony swastika things.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see some violence staged by the left in an attempt to frame their opponents .
It’s the Alinsky/Leftist way after all- and in keeping with their credo of ‘the ends justify the means’.
justltl on August 11, 2009 at 12:41 PM
If the President really had any interest in “racial healing” he would be loudly telling all his disciples (both in Gov’t and the MSM) to knock it off with all the race baiting crap as it’s *all* coming from the donkey side these days.
Paradox Drive on August 11, 2009 at 12:45 PM
The Democrat Party SEIU run Townhall meetings remind me of the Klan, too.
Dean Dingell, “physician, heal thyself,” damnable hypocrite.
maverick muse on August 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Considering the Democrats‘ history toward blacks, this is a hilarious statement to make.
If there was ever an old codger who needed to be quietly shuffled off to a remote geezer farm, Dingell is it.
Dark-Star on August 11, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Blacklake on August 11, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Each and every horrible assumption we had about Obama and his Democrats has come true.
Meanwhile, everything the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post told us about these clowns, turns out to be wrong.
We know their corrupt and incompetent heroes and role models, even better than they do.
Leftist morons, is there any other kind?
NoDonkey on August 11, 2009 at 12:53 PM
The Dems haven’t run for anything in decades, instead they have just kept their constituantas scared of Republican bogeymen.
They need an enemy to run against. They can’t find one powerful enough in Washington, so they are looking elsewhere. It appears that they’ve found one.
29Victor on August 11, 2009 at 12:55 PM
I would like to know which side of the sheet Dingle was on…?
Kuffar on August 11, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Yet another poster boy for TERM LIMITS!!!
cannonball on August 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM
If Dingle has a blackberry, would it be called a Dingle Berry?
(childish, I know… but it makes me giggle, which is better than my head exploding over the insanity that is The Left)
cannonball on August 11, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Dingell and others of his ilk, think now that Obama is President that Playing the Race card is like the ultimate Political Shield YES they are this ignorant.
Dr Evil on August 11, 2009 at 12:59 PM
The men who really run the military.
Johan Klaus on August 11, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Congratulations, Sr.MasterSGT, wife and family!
maverick muse on August 11, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Congrats
Jeff from WI on August 11, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Thank you…tears of pride run down my cheeks.
milwife88 on August 11, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Klan members were worried about $Trillions in federal deficit?
TN Mom on August 11, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Is it just me or does the picture used to link to this from the home page look like Dingell is embalmed?
powerpro on August 11, 2009 at 1:12 PM
No wonder Michigan is such a huge economic $#!+hole. They keep electing alphatards like Dinglle-berry to do their bidding. Shut up you old fart… nobody cares what you think.
ronnyraygun on August 11, 2009 at 1:17 PM
Maybe Dingell was actually seeing those “little yellow men” he used to attack before one of them, Vincent Chin, was murdered by his beloved thugs.
TexasJew on August 11, 2009 at 1:20 PM
I don’t think I heard Dingell singing on this one
Laura in Maryland on August 11, 2009 at 1:21 PM
I think they’ve overplayed that card.
When they call us “racist” at every turn, the word starts to lose it’s effectiveness.
jana on August 11, 2009 at 1:25 PM
No, he did not compare health care “mobs” to the KKK.
jgapinoy on August 11, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Well…I can’t take it anymore. I will stop criticizing Obama because these racist accusations against me are tearing apart my soul….it hurts…./sar.off
Goodeye_Closed on August 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Yes, Mr. Dingell, and you remind me of Yoda. Bye bye now.
NathanG on August 11, 2009 at 1:31 PM
a pink slip.
Fighton03 on August 11, 2009 at 1:32 PM
nah….that stupid six flags guy.
Fighton03 on August 11, 2009 at 1:32 PM
I think it’s all over but the crying….but that’s just me
Goodeye_Closed on August 11, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Well at least we can all feel better knowing that this old steaming pile will be dead soon roasting in hell.
Jeff from WI on August 11, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Clearly we need a new political party.
I propose the “Nazi Un-American Teabagging Klan party”.
Let your voices be heard my fellow NUTs (yeah I know. I couldn’t find a place for the “K”)!
All of you who want to soak your nuts while committing genocide through hanging and hating America unite!
OxyCon on August 11, 2009 at 1:56 PM
I really think people are stupid enough to keep electing more liberal Democrats in 2010. Look at Ohio. So far the polls have Lee Fisher beating Rob Portman, even though the economy on a decline there.
NathanG on August 11, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Heh. Yeah, he does remind me of that guy. I saw that commercial constantly. I wonder if it just plays in Texas.
NathanG on August 11, 2009 at 2:01 PM
You were only off by a little bit!
Know your KNUTS! Join the Klan Nazi Un-American Teabagging Swastika party to guarantee your place in history!
KNUTS! to Congress!
ExpressoBold on August 11, 2009 at 2:35 PM
I was thinking that. How does he know? Does he go?
Hope on August 11, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Talk about a leading question!Why didn’t Schultz just ask him’”Don’t these people remind you of the Klan?”
DDT on August 11, 2009 at 2:56 PM
Robert Byrd is a former (?) Klan member, maybe Dingell could talk to a little Living History in the Senate and find out exactly HOW protesters against socialist healthcare compare to them. Byrd was there, leading the pack. He will know. Then tell us, hopefully.
bradley11 on August 11, 2009 at 3:07 PM
Well a guy who has been a member of the Democratic Party and the Congress for 50 years ought to know about the KKK. After all, it used to be a big part of the base.
I wonder what Byrd would have to say about that? I would like to hear him compare these people to the KKK.
Terrye on August 11, 2009 at 3:23 PM
These people really know “how to win friends and influence people” don’t they?
CynicalOptimist on August 11, 2009 at 3:32 PM
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