Conyers: “Teabaggers” have compromised their rational faculties with anger
posted at 9:01 pm on April 19, 2010 by Allahpundit
Ace thinks he’s using “teabagger” deliberately, to be provocative. I don’t. What I think you’re seeing here is a byproduct of the left using that word to deride tea partiers so casually and frequently — even among congressmen — that Conyers may honestly not know it’s a derogatory term. He may simply be hearing it so often from his colleagues that he thinks it’s legit. At least, that’s my preferred explanation; the idea that an 80-year-old would stoop to an insult this crass and childish is too depressing to contemplate.
The rest of it is straight out of the left’s dimestore psychoanalysis handbook: Tea partiers are too dumb/angry/racist to know what’s in their own best interest, so we’re better off ignoring them — and, I guess, the gigantic majority that’s angry at government right now — and passing whatever insane liberal boondoggles we like. Because ultimately, those boondoggles are for their own good, right? This is unvarnished nanny statism, as condescending as you’ll ever hear it formulated. It’s not that the government can make better decisions for you than you can, it’s that you’re too much of a rage-drenched wretch to make good decisions in the first place. There’s your Democratic Party campaign slogan for November.
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Conyers can suck my balls.
Denverslim on April 19, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Considering the language his wife has used, I’m not so sure!
clancy_wiggum on April 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM
Well, his wife called a fellow city council member “Shrek”, so name calling is not above this family.
MayBee on April 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM
Anyone for CoCo puffs?
CWforFreedom on April 19, 2010 at 9:05 PM
He`s 80? I`d say it`s time he goes home soon and doesn`t come back.
Now do I have to report myself to Mr. Clinton?
ThePrez on April 19, 2010 at 9:05 PM
Time for a lifetime achievement award and a retirement party with pension for this congress.
Skandia Recluse on April 19, 2010 at 9:06 PM
If someone wants to pick out dullards that don’t know what they’re doing – look to the Best Little Whorehouse on the Potomac. Those clowns (of BOTH Parties) have no clue why the hated narod are so fed up with their garbage.
Fire all 565 of them and get some adults in there to clean up their mess(es).
SeniorD on April 19, 2010 at 9:06 PM
Exactly. I don’t understand why the right doesnt just embrace the “teabagger” name. It is the dominant position after all. No reason to be uptight about it.
Go RBNY on April 19, 2010 at 9:06 PM
Have a good luck at his wife before they put her in prison for three years. I have a strong hunch that Conyers has been sucking some balls himself.
Jaibones on April 19, 2010 at 9:07 PM
And the drum beat continues…Who actually sends out the emails to all this libs?
d1carter on April 19, 2010 at 9:08 PM
I have a strong hunch that Conyers has been sucking some balls himself.
I hear that’s a rumor going around Detroit. Monica’s actually just a beard, and he barely spends any time with her.
MayBee on April 19, 2010 at 9:09 PM
F**k you, Johnny.
MadisonConservative on April 19, 2010 at 9:09 PM
This was the entire crux of the “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” mentality. They talk about the Reagan Years and Conservatism being all Me, Me ME! all the time, and how horrible that was. But they seem honestly perplexed when good, honest, patriotic Americans put their vote in for what they believe is best for the country, not just what Me! Me! Me! can get in goodies for it.
So, let me get this summarized: When we work, grow, and want to keep more of our own money and profits, we are greedy and thoughtless. But when we think about our values, and vote for something that does not necessarily personally benefit ourselves, we are just too stupid to know what is best for us?
JamesLee on April 19, 2010 at 9:10 PM
November creeps slowly up like a tigress stalking a gazelle….
Alden Pyle on April 19, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Save your anger for your out-of-control wife, Conyers.
onlineanalyst on April 19, 2010 at 9:11 PM
Oh my. That is pitiful. I have to blow a cannon hole into my image of you now Allah. You have convinced yourself that his inner circle prefers that he speaks in an uniformed manner rather than inform him.
ericdijon on April 19, 2010 at 9:11 PM
Related: White House Announces Massive Government Spending Bill “Created or Saved” Millions of Well-Educated Middle Class Protesters http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/04/white-house-announces-massive.html
Mervis Winter on April 19, 2010 at 9:11 PM
I’m afraid you’re giving Conyers far too much benefit of the doubt. I agree with Ace…he’s a conniving,lying,cheating congress critter. In other words, a Democrat.
GoldenEagle4444 on April 19, 2010 at 9:12 PM
You don’t know that for sure – I trust.
ericdijon on April 19, 2010 at 9:14 PM
Profanity? He must have stumbled on to a Leftie protest.
onlineanalyst on April 19, 2010 at 9:14 PM
He’s mad cause his crook of a wife is going to leave him for a life of carpet munching after her stay in prison.
Narutoboy on April 19, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Cant tell if serious…
I agree with AP, I think Conyers is just addle brained and out of it. He hears the group referred to as teabaggers so much it’s just used as a common phrase.
Dash on April 19, 2010 at 9:17 PM
John and his wife, also known as FP497848, can both go to hell.
JeffinOrlando on April 19, 2010 at 9:17 PM
Boy, is this ever a “those who smelt it, dealt it” moment.
Anger has sharpened the thinking constitutionalists’ rational faculties — not dulled them. Yet we’re to take bald, anti-citizen insults from a known philosophical genius like Conyers.
By the way, rein in your wife, Representative Doofus. Just youtube “Conyers” and “city councile” to see what I mean.
Edouard on April 19, 2010 at 9:18 PM
See, we agree on some things and occasionally you beat me to the punch.
thomasaur on April 19, 2010 at 9:19 PM
Conyers and his wife, both, are crooks, and you, Allahpundit, are the fool if you believe a career politician with decades of experience in manipulating the emotional and the stupid is clueless about inflammatory, derogatory terms.
I think that soon I’m going to his office to pay him a visit and let him know just how much this uninformed black Christian Conservative Republican knows.
Virus-X on April 19, 2010 at 9:19 PM
Conyers is a RACE PIMP……I’d give good money for even one GOPer to call him out on it.
And isn’t he the tower of Democrat politics that his WIFE actually went to trial…..got convicted….and has been sent to Prison?
PappyD61 on April 19, 2010 at 9:20 PM
THREE WORDS….. TIME TO RETIRE YOU DOLT.
txag92 on April 19, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Is his thug wife serving time yet?
JammieWearingFool on April 19, 2010 at 9:20 PM
I’m so sick of all this “voting against their interests” bullcrap. If some politician comes along and says “everybody who has a even street address gets his odd numbered neighbors stuff,” and I happen to have an even numbered address, I should vote for that guy? Where is the line drawn?
Joe Caps on April 19, 2010 at 9:20 PM
STFU, douchebag.
D2Boston on April 19, 2010 at 9:22 PM
I think that Denverslim was trying to communicate to Mr. Conyers that when it fit his schedule that D-slim was ready for the transaction to take place.
thomasaur on April 19, 2010 at 9:22 PM
I am. IF his handlers are letting him spout off half-cocked (so to speak) epithets then I pity them when he finds out how stupid they have him acting.
ericdijon on April 19, 2010 at 9:22 PM
So, how does one file an obscenity complaint w/ the FCC? Could someone set up a website, with a form or something so that every time it happens we can flood the FCC w/ complaints? I have to wonder what the effect would be of every MSM organization getting fined…
fyzycyst on April 19, 2010 at 9:24 PM
What the hell does John Conyers know about rational thought? He hasn’t had a rational thought enter his head in over 40 years.
ButterflyDragon on April 19, 2010 at 9:25 PM
John, go visit your larcenous cockroach of a wife behind bars. Maybe John is an expert at teabagging.
Philly on April 19, 2010 at 9:25 PM
Wait, is he talking about the group that is, on average, more educated and more upper middle class than the average American?
Is that the group that’s supposed to be too stupid to know what’s good for them?
BadgerHawk on April 19, 2010 at 9:25 PM
Sorry, I can’t watch that video. I’ve had my fill of stupid for the day.
ted c on April 19, 2010 at 9:25 PM
Outside of the NYC area, no one has ever heard of John Conyers. He’s just a self-styled ‘event’ looking for a place to happen.
Liam on April 19, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Is it possible to type an “OMG verbal nasal snort laugh” on a thread? If so, I apologize. I had to do it. There it is.
And this man needs to be fired.
Key West Reader on April 19, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Open wide, Conyers. Really wide.
SouthernGent on April 19, 2010 at 9:27 PM
This level of denial could only come from a beta male.
Branch Rickey on April 19, 2010 at 9:27 PM
Well, his wife called a fellow city council member “Shrek”, so name calling is not above this family.
MayBee on April 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM
Maybee:Yup!!:)
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Monica Conyers debates school children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TvgtGlcdTE&feature=player_embedded#
canopfor on April 19, 2010 at 9:27 PM
that’s pretty funny. There’s another derogatory slur that comes to mind that a neighbor of mine once used to describe black people. He didn’t know any different and just thought it was a common phrase.
The Tea Party is the Civil Rights Movement of the day.
we can gather a million in DC—we can rattle that city to its foundations.
watch. us.
ted c on April 19, 2010 at 9:28 PM
Wow, on audio he sounds like he’s drugged. Or something.
Key West Reader on April 19, 2010 at 9:29 PM
OT:
Man arrested for threatening to kill Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, a Florida Republican, after she voted against health care reform.
I blame Keith Olbermann. /
Joe Caps on April 19, 2010 at 9:29 PM
Hey, what ever happened to self destructive Macaca moments hyped by the media as being insensitive?
AnotherOpinion on April 19, 2010 at 9:30 PM
Of course you don’t. You’re on a never-ending quest to go overboard to appear to be reasonable and unbiased.
Daggett on April 19, 2010 at 9:30 PM
That being the case then he would be heard calling them mmbleamblaggerz.
ericdijon on April 19, 2010 at 9:30 PM
Hoo boy.
I honestly think this man is drugged or insane. Isn’t he the one that said they don’t read the bills? Is this man the lawyer that he purports to be?
Key West Reader on April 19, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Can’t wait til the dumb tea-baggers vote this fall.
Finding the voting booth …… so simple a tea-bagger can do it.
fogw on April 19, 2010 at 9:32 PM
We’ll just see how compromised my rational faculties are in November.
canditaylor68 on April 19, 2010 at 9:32 PM
I would guess that his wife is the smart one in the family. Have we finished paying for her taxpayer funded appeal yet? That’s right, she claimed poverty and got a court appointed lawyer for her appeal.
GnuBreed on April 19, 2010 at 9:34 PM
One form is at
https://www.parentstv.org/PTC/fcc/fcccomplaint.asp
AnotherOpinion on April 19, 2010 at 9:34 PM
Well, I took the opportunity to contact my Congressional representative and call all House Democrats a derogatory term based upon an oral sex act.
And, like I always do in this situation, I let her know that I was ready to apologize as soon as the House showed some integrity and censured the offending Democrat.
malclave on April 19, 2010 at 9:34 PM
Ah yes, John Conyers, who’s wife is in jail for bribery and corruption on the Detroit City Council. She’s in for about 2 years after a plea bargain. Rep Conyers isn’t any less corrupt, he just hasn’t been indicted yet!
flytier on April 19, 2010 at 9:34 PM
FIFY
Liam on April 19, 2010 at 9:34 PM
If we’re the teabaggers, you’re the one getting teabagged. Welcome to our election year, douchebag.
amerpundit on April 19, 2010 at 9:35 PM
Here’s a story.
Alan Grayson. We know him, he’s in Congress and he’s from Orlando.
Alan Grayson moved to FL in 2005, ran for office and won.
Alan Grayson has been a property trader for many years. His mother remains in New Jersey.
Many people wonder if Alan Grayson is a caveman. We remain puzzled on this issue.
Alan Grayson claims to be a resident of the State of Florida, but the Alan Grayson Trust Fund gave $29Million dollars to a group of investors that stiffed him.
The Alan M Grayson Trust fund is a “citizen of the Cook Islands”.
Now, there’s a dirty effin dem.
Key West Reader on April 19, 2010 at 9:35 PM
See! Those teabaggers HAVE incited violence. Bill Clinton was right! Call in the guard! Lock this country down!
/
VibrioCocci on April 19, 2010 at 9:36 PM
Does he still gobble turkies which other people buy for him ?
macncheez on April 19, 2010 at 9:37 PM
Ya know,when your mad,and angry you will lose all reasoning and it will spill over into rage,and if not checked,rage wil
-l spill over into lunicy,and…..and…..well…then bad
things will happen!!
Tea Partiers are…..are……unglued and……dangerous
I……I…..mean.if tou break a tea bag……well..then
it will spill all over….and…..and….well….you’ll
be angry about it….you know….and….and….(snark).
canopfor on April 19, 2010 at 9:37 PM
This man is the case for term limits
blatantblue on April 19, 2010 at 9:39 PM
Couldn’t ever happen that someone might put a script in the hands of a black man to fool you, right champ?
Ageism a weak spot too?
Awww. Cute.
Stephen M on April 19, 2010 at 9:40 PM
You must have had the same math teacher as Joe Biden. ;-)
UltimateBob on April 19, 2010 at 9:43 PM
This man is reason to bring a case for a mental, physical and educational examination. Just like the other 80%.
We need to fact check and head check each and every member that is sitting in the Congress.
Key West Reader on April 19, 2010 at 9:44 PM
Um, touche!
You were able to articulate what I have been unable to: Retro dems reading talking points! He is clueless (If you capitalize the “t” in clueless, you have the 8th dwarf) Yes, they have just said, “Um, John, read this. Then go mainline an Ensure.”
Chewy the Lab on April 19, 2010 at 9:45 PM
The bigger the state the smaller the people.
Because they believe that the people are incapable of governing themselves. The state, i.e., them, must do it for the people.
That folks is the coming battle in America for the next generation. Viz., self-government or other-government.
SteveMG on April 19, 2010 at 9:45 PM
BTW,trip down memory lane,the Liberal narrative,like
the comment about McCain as an example during the election,
is ANGER!!!!!
And,I don’t see the same anger that Conyers is depicting
at Tea Partys,
on the otherhand,Obama seemed to me,to incite anger to
ObamaVoterBot goons,bused down to intimidate the CEO’s
at their homes over bonuses!!
Jus sayin!!!!!!!!!!!1
canopfor on April 19, 2010 at 9:46 PM
That was capitalize the “C” in Clueless.” (Meaning make it a proper noun…sorry!)
Chewy the Lab on April 19, 2010 at 9:47 PM
THREE WORDS….. TIME TO RETIRE YOU DOLT.
txag92 on April 19, 2010 at 9:20 PM
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You must have had the same math teacher as Joe Biden. ;-)
UltimateBob on April 19, 2010 at 9:43 PM
UltimateBob: JOBS comes to mind,haha!:)
canopfor on April 19, 2010 at 9:48 PM
Projection much?
petunia on April 19, 2010 at 9:49 PM
Conyers is “BALLS DEEP” in his party.
Cybergeezer on April 19, 2010 at 9:50 PM
Yeah Conyers…a lot like your lovely wife!!!
Gob on April 19, 2010 at 9:51 PM
I really hope that this era, which is fairly painful, will usher in the end of men/women who overstay their welcome in DC.
80 years old is simply too old.
AnninCA on April 19, 2010 at 9:53 PM
They may be on the road to convincing themselves that if a majority of Americans are this crazy, then the elite politicians’ duty is to cancel elections.
GaltBlvnAtty on April 19, 2010 at 9:53 PM
This man has done so much for Detroit and Michigan.
carbon_footprint on April 19, 2010 at 9:54 PM
I agree with that statement Allah. But his
betterjailed half wouldn’t. I could see her tutoring him behind the glass, “No Shrek, it’s Tea Bagger“.NYconservative on April 19, 2010 at 9:55 PM
“A Dem Deep Baller”?
Heck, they’ve called the rest of America much worse.
Key West Reader on April 19, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Do you get the feeling he really doesn’t like Americans?
ronsfi on April 19, 2010 at 10:02 PM
Does everyone feel the love coming from the CBC?
chris999 on April 19, 2010 at 10:03 PM
Lemon or sugar with that, Johnny?
Lincoln Cadillac on April 19, 2010 at 10:04 PM
FIFY.
platypus on April 19, 2010 at 10:05 PM
I happen to like the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
platypus on April 19, 2010 at 10:06 PM
I think there is a very simple message being delivered by the Socialist Progressive Party led by Barack Hussen Obama (he’s a spokesman not the leader).
“We will either transform you willingly or forcefully”.
The question to Barack Obama (spokesman not leader) is this:
WTF makes you think in your little world that you can take our Nation and rip us apart socially, economically, culturally, religously and get away with yo gat danged sh*t in less than a year, you m f*n punk”? Do you have any clue who or what you are dealing with? Bring it, skinny bony fembot. You do not frighten us. You embolden us. So keep on poking us in our foreheads and in our chests you inexperienced POS agitator. We’ll see your arse in November and you will be Neutered.
That’s the message from America to the Obama (spokesman not a leader) Administration.
Key West Reader on April 19, 2010 at 10:08 PM
What he said.
fogw on April 19, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Hey? You doin’ “Grizzly smokeless tobacco”? You’re cranked!
Cybergeezer on April 19, 2010 at 10:13 PM
Clearly your anger is compromising your “rational abilities”.
chris999 on April 19, 2010 at 10:14 PM
You know, I haven’t heard Barney Frank use the term “tea bagger” anywhere.
rollthedice on April 19, 2010 at 10:14 PM
I love being disparaged by radicals, racists, and nitwits.
BuckeyeSam on April 19, 2010 at 10:14 PM
awwww yeah…gettin’ revved up. I’ve got some Peg Leg beer in the fridge and I’m going to go crack one and hoist it just for you.
ted c on April 19, 2010 at 10:15 PM
he may resemble that remark.
ted c on April 19, 2010 at 10:15 PM
+1000
UltimateBob on April 19, 2010 at 10:15 PM
You sir, and I use that term loosely, are a disgrace to your race! I am so sick and tired of these wing nut liberals using such sick language. My 11 year old just asked me what a Tea Bagger was? Thanks Anderson Cooper and CNN for having to explain this sexual term to my 11 year old.
Maybe this jerk needs to listen to Slick Willy, words do matter.
Atlanta Media Guy on April 19, 2010 at 10:16 PM
Has Conyers ever been teebagged?
Log on April 19, 2010 at 10:18 PM
Conyers is an unmitigated idiot and a typical left wing dolt.
rplat on April 19, 2010 at 10:19 PM
He reserves the use of that word as a term of endearment.
Aviator on April 19, 2010 at 10:19 PM
And thus the philosophical heart of progressivism is laid bare.
irishspy on April 19, 2010 at 10:19 PM
I’m sorry but then I’m not so sorry. I’m just a woman trying to protect my country. I see what you see. Someone’s got to stand up and call this what it is.
I long for the days when America had a President that spoke for all. Who had the class and dignity to admit the fact that he serves all of us.
Too bad that America was fooled. We won’t get fooled again, and this garbage that we’ve been delivered will be done away with in November. I’m a Momma Bear when it comes to my Country, my Family, my Neighbors, my friends. I’m thankful for HA for giving me a forum to vent. Because I protect my own, they don’t know how I feel, and I don’t show it.
Key West Reader on April 19, 2010 at 10:20 PM
Conyers is really a pretty despicable man. Many hotair readers may be too young to know his history. During the cold war he worked hand in glove with Soviet front groups, was very close to Maurice Bishop of Grenada, Castro, etc.
chris999 on April 19, 2010 at 10:21 PM
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