New proof that all town-hall protesters are racist: Guy tears up woman’s Rosa Parks poster
posted at 1:25 pm on August 13, 2009 by Allahpundit
A “Larger Truth” brought to you by the same nutroots liars who now insist that eight years of Bush = Hitler rhetoric was fringe stuff that shouldn’t be used to tar the entire left. I suppose if you can believe that quoting the Boston Globe amounts to “stalking,” you can believe that fears of socialized medicine are really all about resegregating buses. Funny thing about this: The whole thing happens so fast, and the perpetrator’s angle of view is so acute, that it looks like he never even saw what was on the poster. As McCaskill herself — to her great credit — notes in the second clip below, this was almost certainly a case of overreaction to the “no signs allowed” policy at the town hall rather than some targeted attack on a civil-rights icon. But this is where our national “debate” is right now, so behold racism in action. QED.
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Well, that’s enough for me. I’m becoming a democrat and mindless Obamabot.
Brain switching off in 3 … 2 … 1 …
darwin on August 13, 2009 at 1:27 PM
AC looked very disappointed when McCasskill said it was not racism…as he had hoped.
d1carter on August 13, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Rosa Parks being an obvious Healthcare pioneer…wait Rosa Parks?
elduende on August 13, 2009 at 1:29 PM
That’s the only chance they think they have to get this rammed down every ones throat. Paint every-ones who disagrees as racist.
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Turns out it is a Democrat Plant in 5…4…3…2
GunRunner on August 13, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Well, any criticism of Obama and the Democrat Five-Year Plan is by definition racist, so I can’t see how this ISN’T racist.
You are all racists and Nazis, you bitter gun-clinging homophobic racists.
Good Lt on August 13, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Plant, my folks were there.
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 1:31 PM
How is a charge of “racism” even an issue? If you are not racist and get falsely labeled as a racist by left wing neo-Marxists then it just pisses you off and you fight harder. If you are a racist then you know it and don’t care anyway. Just seems pointless to me.
enoughalready on August 13, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Next up, the Dems will bring posters of Jesus, so they can paint the GOP as evil Christian-hating Zionist conspirators.
hawksruleva on August 13, 2009 at 1:32 PM
The race card worked to help get Obama into office.
Why can’t it be used to push through Obamacare?
VibrioCocci on August 13, 2009 at 1:32 PM
I don’t get the Rosa Parks connection.
Without being snarky, can someone tell me, from that woman’s perspective, what Rosa Parks have to do with this?
And once someone can tell me that, snark away.
YYZ on August 13, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Democrats have not yet explained what exactly is “racist” about wanting to keep your private health insurance and to have the government stay as far away from your private health matters as possible.
That’s like calling people who don’t like Islam “racist.” It has nothing to do with “race” and everything to do with ideas and ideology.
Maybe one of the resident libtrolls can help out here and explain.
Good Lt on August 13, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Claire McCaskill can use her Mrs. Cleaver “Mommy” voice all she wants but as one of the most vocal proponents of Messiah during the campaign there is no way she is going to vote against him. I see a lot of pre-damage control as it were.
Marcus on August 13, 2009 at 1:33 PM
You left out “Bible thumping.”
Gregor on August 13, 2009 at 1:33 PM
False Flag operation- classic.
pseudonominus on August 13, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Exactly, which is why he was “allowed” to do it in the first place.
enoughalready on August 13, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Who cares who was on the sign? If the rule was no signs but the donks are still allowed to have signs, then they deserve to be ripped up.
Blake on August 13, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Dunno. Guess it relates to the idea that she wouldn’t sit down and shut up like Obama suggested we do?
lorien1973 on August 13, 2009 at 1:34 PM
In trying harder and harder to think like a lefty, I shall ignore this larger truth as it does not fit my reality.
myrenovations on August 13, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Hey! I’m also unAmerican, a terrorist and well dressed flak for insurance companies.
Don’t you forget it either.
darwin on August 13, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Claire McClasskill is in way over her head. Her town hall was a joke, she talks out of both sides of her fat a$$. I’m tired of seeing her on every television, trying to ingratiate herself to the media and voters. We don’t trust you!
As far as the poster tearing, who the f*ck cares? I watched a president being burned in effigy, bloody hands by Code Stink all over a sitting Secretary of State, and various hippy, smelly people that need a flea dip, marching in the streets against our military and hating our country. So, F*CK OFF with your righteousness…no one gives a F*CK!
BTW, comedy hour with Robert Gibbs is on….
HornetSting on August 13, 2009 at 1:34 PM
At least in the frozen frame.
BuckeyeSam on August 13, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Of course. How stupid and racist of me.
Good Lt on August 13, 2009 at 1:34 PM
But the guy grabbing the sign looked like he was wearing a purple shirt. You mean he wasn’t a union thug? This wasn’t blue on blue violence? Was he just a town hall attendee or was he with “Organize to ruin America”?
ihasurnominashun on August 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Seriously, why would someone have a Rosa Parks poster at a health care town hall?
Was anyone carrying a poster of Hannah Montana? That would be equally (in)appropriate.
Daggett on August 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Wow, McCaskill really stepped up on that very transparent effort by Cooper to foment racial unrest. He basically had to backtrack and blame the race meme on “liberal” websites promoting the story. Ouch! That’s gonna leave a tiny mark on the race-hustlers out there.
Rational Thought on August 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Anderson sure finds it hard to believe that this wasn’t totally racist, which is what his buddies on the liberal blogs have been pushing…glad to see there is still some skepticism in the MSM.
AUINSC on August 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM
I love this, from Wonkette:
“serial killer-ish”!
I tells ya, the Left is far more entertaining now that they’re in power and on the defensive than they ever were during the Bush years.
JetBoy on August 13, 2009 at 1:36 PM
But it looked like the guy who grabbed the sign was wearing a purple shirt?!?!? Was he just a town hall attendee and not a “Organize to ruin America” thugocracy?
It looked like blue on blue violence to me.
ihasurnominashun on August 13, 2009 at 1:36 PM
If he placed the photo in a jar of urine, could he get an NEA grant?
NoDonkey on August 13, 2009 at 1:36 PM
and xenophobic, or is that under ‘racism’?
HornetSting on August 13, 2009 at 1:37 PM
Rosa Parks and health care? Oh so the real reason she refused to go to the back of the bus wasn’t standing up to racial injustice and hate, but that riding in the back of the bus was bumpier and harder on her joints, thus making it more likely that her insurance premiums would rise in out years. Got it.
LevStrauss on August 13, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Yes, has to be a lefty plant.
Kjeil on August 13, 2009 at 1:39 PM
When my kids argued when they were little, I’d take the bone of contention away from both of them.
If the American voter does that, WE WIN. NO Deathcare, NOT NOW, NOT EVER. That decision doesn’t belong in the hands of the government.
Someone needs to give that bill some ‘end of life counseling’.
Carolina Kat on August 13, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Can anyone see the swastika that guy is wearing on his sleeve? I can … I’m a reporter and trained to notice these things.
Oh wait! He has a small Bible sticking out of his back pocket too!
Oh no! He’s got a gun too !!!!!
Naturally I forwarded all my astute observations to MSNBC under the name “anonymous source”.
darwin on August 13, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Looks to me as though the guy was tired of listening to those two poster crinklers. He was here to find out what his government was doing.
ROCnPhilly on August 13, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Why would that man destroy her personal property? Why does he hate freedom??
Constant Parrhesia on August 13, 2009 at 1:41 PM
It would have been a lot funnier if it was a poster of Dr. Roxana Mayer.
Daggett on August 13, 2009 at 1:41 PM
I bet real money two liberals who set this up ahead of time.
Why would anybody bring a picture of Rosa Parks to a Health Care Forum?
Elizabetty on August 13, 2009 at 1:41 PM
If you get mad at a false accusation of racism, that proves you’re a racist.
Jim Treacher on August 13, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Allahpundit – how do you pack so much snark into one paragraph? I salute you.
Hiya Ciska on August 13, 2009 at 1:42 PM
The Democratzi party is beating the racism horse to death…
Keef Overbite on August 13, 2009 at 1:42 PM
The guy should not have done that to anyone’s poster, but people reading his thoughts and discovering he did it because he hated Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement… well they’re amazing and I want to learn how to do that.
MattMacD on August 13, 2009 at 1:42 PM
You left out the bible believing.
chemman on August 13, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Because opposing ObamaCare is racist.
Jim Treacher on August 13, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Thanks I couldn’t have said it better.
chemman on August 13, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Bible Thumping…added.
HornetSting on August 13, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Guess you didn’t know that MLK was also a health care pioneer, from the Dream speech:
“And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands while walking to their government mandated doctors, singing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”"
And you thought they were just exploiting civil rights figures, that would be insensitive and racist.
LevStrauss on August 13, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Isn’t it the law?
If not, can I stop carrying my life size one around town?
No wonder I’m getting those weird stares.
NoDonkey on August 13, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Because opposing Obama is racist.
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 1:46 PM
You need to drink some more of the kool-aide. That way you will surely believe that the left is truly omniscient.
chemman on August 13, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Isn’t it just as racist for the woman to use the image of Rosa Parks in voicing her support, as it was, for some to think this guy is racist for ripping it up?
The woman used Rosa Parks, and the man was over zealous in applying the rules. A rule, I’m sure the woman knew about, before entering the venue.
capejasmine on August 13, 2009 at 1:47 PM
Probably staged by ACORN
JLM-Hokie on August 13, 2009 at 1:48 PM
With each bogus and idiotic charge of “racism,” I become increasingly desensitized to the issue of racism. If there ever actually was one, because I’m really not even that sure anymore.
Congratulations, geniuses.
World B. Free on August 13, 2009 at 1:48 PM
Must be time for another racist beer summit.
fourdeucer on August 13, 2009 at 1:48 PM
I guess it is just me, but I see it in terms of them rules don’t apply to us now that there is a ‘black’ president.
tsagen on August 13, 2009 at 1:48 PM
I love the members of the WHEELCHAIR MAFIA showing up at these meetings.
White hair, false teeth, sagging skin, and not ready for Obamacide.
Keep it up Grandma……..don’t let them pull the plug.
This racist crap is just crap….isolated and it won’t work.
PappyD61 on August 13, 2009 at 1:49 PM
The guy’s t-shirt says “Volunteer.”
Jim Treacher on August 13, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Who was the lady with the camera who went over to her first?
It looked like the woman with the camera was getting her to unroll the poster for a shot.
Was she a journalist, a lowly blogger, a member of the staff, a part time neuro-surgeon, who is she? Find that woman and we will find all the answers!
reaganaut on August 13, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Even if every town hall member were a member of the KKK it would not change the facts that the bill in question is awful.
angryed on August 13, 2009 at 1:49 PM
You say that as if it were a bad thing.
My collie says:
What?! Adding Bible thumping, xenophobia, astroturfing mobsterism, and fear-mongering isn’t enough for you, collie?
My collie says:
CyberCipher on August 13, 2009 at 1:50 PM
I’d take someone’s sign away too if I wasn’t allowed to bring mine in and some union manatee kept waving hers around, sure.
I have no problem with that. If he wasn’t a plant, I don’t see how he even knew what the poster was in the first place, or where, exactly, on the film that the poster was even ripped up.
Keep grabbing at straws, liberals. We know who you are now.
Mommypundit on August 13, 2009 at 1:50 PM
This is not the Claire McCaskill I know.
Political Junkie on August 13, 2009 at 1:50 PM
God, these people are so stupid they can’t even fake a racist attack decently. And we want them running our health care???
rockmom on August 13, 2009 at 1:50 PM
Now beers are racist what is this world coming to?
chemman on August 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM
They’re attempting to turn “healthcare reform” into a “civil rights” movement. It’s the only chance they think they have, and by the way, an insult to anyone who ever fought for real civil rights.
LibTired on August 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Nope. No racism here….just keep it moving.
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/lynching.htm
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM
manatee
thats downright mean! :p
blatantblue on August 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Why would someone bring a Rosa Parks sign to a healthcare meeting anyway??? Why inject racism into the debate in the first place, especially when you’re asked not to bring any sign at all??
This smacks of a frame job.
MobsterinVA on August 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Watching that again, I don’t think the guy knew what was on the poster before he rushed over to grab it. I think he was an event volunteer or some such, and had it in his mind that some ordinary citizens would be bringing sides in opposition, so he lept into action.
I’m sure he never imagined it would be a sign of support.
reaganaut on August 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Well, like Rosa Parks, I refuse to bow to the democrats (hello, Bull Connor!) and sit at the back of the bus while they drive us off the cliff.
SouthernGent on August 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Grievance salve doesn’t seem to be working.
midlander on August 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM
And the DNC runs rehab adds with a bunch of average lookin white people standing and repeating, “Im a racist”.
Ends with “Don’t be a racist, be a democrat.”
Now seen on MSNBC Primetime
ThatMan on August 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Took a long time for a troll to show up on a racism thread – what took you so long – tofu too hard to chew?
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Rosa Parks would have been so proud of the beatdown those SEIU guys gave to Kenneth Gladney. It brings a tear to my eye.
LibTired on August 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM
A person called in to either Boortz or Rush yesterday and explained this event. It was a reaction to the no signs allows rule.
The caller stated that everyone was instructed to remove their signs in order to go in, but this person was allowed to just roll theirs up. After being told numerous times to stop displaying it, somebody got mad and tore it up.
MikeInBA on August 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Signs were not allowed in the town hall. The idiot union folk blew it. aero credibility.
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 1:54 PM
McCaskill may be a lot of things, but “stupid” is not one of them. She knows if she follows the socialist line too hard, she will never get reelected in MO.
We’ve got a lot of old-school Truman- and Skelton-style Democrats in this state, not a lot of hard-core libs outside the central StLouis and Kansas City areas. In 2004, she lost the Governor’s race in a down-to-the-wire squeaker (I still recall that look on her face when she conceeded to Matt Blunt), and barely got the Senate seat from Jim Talent, mainly on the backs of inner-city votes in Stl & KC, as well as the tide of the 06 Dem wins.
So she knows better than to push this too hard, and that’s why she’s acting “reasonable” about the whole thing.
JamesLee on August 13, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Honestly, bringing a sign of Rosa Parks to a health care town hall to suggest the two are in any way related is offensive.
Not that whoever did is ashamed.
jhffmn on August 13, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Do they actually think that one of these stunts is going to be the defining moment where the opposers of this bill simply roll over and give up? Obama needs to explain the rules of community organizing. I’m unclear as to when we cry “uncle”.
sherry on August 13, 2009 at 1:55 PM
People need to start bringing in signs with Joan Rivers and Nancy Pelosi on them to remind us all of the dangers of rampant uncontrolled plastic surgery addiction if this Healthcare takeover goes through.
elduende on August 13, 2009 at 1:55 PM
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Well that’s a relief. Far too often people show up at healthcare town halls with their Senator only to find targeted attacks on posters of random civil rights icons. In fact, it isn’t even safe to take your MLK poster into some of these events.
highhopes on August 13, 2009 at 1:56 PM
Need to bring sign of Robert Byrd – icon of the democratic party.
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 1:56 PM
The woman with the poster was an astroplant.
farright on August 13, 2009 at 1:56 PM
Tee-hee. Well done.
sherry on August 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Ah, the joys of open registration! What do have we here now, some Long Island college kid who thinks he knows everything? What is the point of that link, and what does it have to do with this blog post or the healthcare debate?
Of course, I know there is no answer, but you’re idiotic responses might offer some amusement.
reaganaut on August 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM
I don’t think that had anything to do with McCaskill… I think the inflatable dildo on his seat broke.
D2Boston on August 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM
That’s possible. Or maybe they’re implying that certain folks are going to get sent to the back of the health care bus. Without a whole lot more context to the sign, and an idea of who the sign ripper was, it’s absolutely foolish to declare this racism. Of course, that’s par for the course with these usual suspects…
Pablo on August 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Claire McCaskill can feel the “windeys of changey” and is blowing with them.
ROCnPhilly on August 13, 2009 at 1:58 PM
To protest being in the back of the line if ObamaCare is implemented.
WashJeff on August 13, 2009 at 1:58 PM
We need to get protesters to start carrying Rosa Parks signs stating.
“I will not go to the back of the bus!”
Now, lets see them call that racist.
jhffmn on August 13, 2009 at 1:59 PM
How is a charge of “racism” even an issue? If you are not racist and get falsely labeled as a racist by left wing neo-Marxists then it just pisses you off and you fight harder. If you are a racist then you know it and don’t care anyway. Just seems pointless to me.
enoughalready on August 13
Not if it’s used to justify thuggish strong-arm tactics against the dissenters. People don’t mind when racists get beaten. That isn’t assault, it’s “social justice”.
SKYFOX on August 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Bwahahahahah…I thought AC was a teabagging expert?
d1carter on August 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Kind of like the little boy who cried wolf…they are throwing racism accusations around so much that they will cease to have real meaning when needed. They hurt their own cause because people develop a deaf ear to constant screams of racism. But take what I say with a grain of salt, some new troll this morning accused me of being a bible-thumping, womens-rights suppressing something or another. I tuned it out.
TXMomof3 on August 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM
reaganaut on August 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Reaganut please. Btw, Reagan was a racist too.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM
If this crap passes, everyone but a few elites, gets to go to the back of the bus!!!
capejasmine on August 13, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Have to give credit where credit is due: McCaskill is handling herself extremely well.
If the rest of her Dem cronies followed her track, we’d be in a lot worse position coming into 2010.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Little known fact from the Civil Rights Era: Rosa Parks got cooties from using the White’s Only water fountain, and she didn’t have health insurance.
ImAShaaaaark on August 13, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Reichstag fire in 4,3,2,…
Caper29 on August 13, 2009 at 2:04 PM
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