Tea Party billboard in Mason City raises concern

[CatWoman]

A new billboard in downtown Mason City features a photo of President Obama, flanked by pictures of German dictator Adolph Hitler and Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.

The billboard features phrases like “Live Free or Die” and “Radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive.”

It’s the same spot where a billboard last fall featured the phrase “Obama-Nation, Live Free or Die” with the Communist symbol of a hammer and sickle. The billboards were paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party.


John White, state coordinator of the Iowa Tea Party movement, says the new billboard crosses a dangerous line. He says it’s going somewhere the Tea Party doesn’t need to go.

White says this type of mudslinging is something they’d like to see stopped in their policies and campaign process. The sign features the words “Democratic Socialism” over Obama’s picture, over Hitler’s photo is “National Socialism” and over Lenin’s head is “Marxist Socialism.” The words “Change” are also included on each photo. White says hand-held signs like the billboard have been discouraged from Tea Party functions.


http://www.radioiowa.com/2010/07/13/tea-party-billboard-in-mason-city-raises-concern/

[Itchinjim]

1. These people are just plain f**king nuts.

eom

[Bloofer_Lady]

2. The Tea Party is filled with hate.

It's as simple as that. Also, I don't think most of them even know what Socialism is.

[hfojvt]

12. it's not really that simple and nobody knows what socialism is

because socialism has dozens of meanings. Also, it is not a bad thing to hate something that is evil, like, for example, Dracula. Hating Dracula is a good thing, because he is evil and his evil spreads if not vigorously fought.

Welcome to DU :hi:

[disillusioned73]

16. BP's not evil.. I mean Dracula is not

evil - just misunderstood!!

[hfojvt]

23. well the Dracula story has been turned around

now we have been raised on many years of "good" vampires, like Angel (from Buffy the Vampire slayer) and Morbius (the living vampire from Marvel comics), Alisa (from Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire), the vampire from Moonlight, and some of the teenage vampires from the current movies and books, and even, to a degree, from Anne Rice's "Interview with a vampire" series. No longer are they pure evil, like in Bram Stoker's day. Instead, they are more like ordinary people, only really powerful.

[disillusioned73]

40. Agreed... I remember seeing the Sat afternoon monsterfest movies and

being completely freaked out that some half dead would suck my blood..

sidenote; Bram Stokers w/ Gary Oldman my fav!! Well, anything w/Gary Oldman actually

[Bloofer_Lady]

27. But I like Dracula

Dracula is neato, he can live forever and he has a good sense of fashion.

[CatWoman]

38. LOLOL!!!!

Welcome to DU!! :hi:

[disillusioned73]

41. I think Dracula was/is a lil metro

[bluestateguy]

3. This is incendiary

It has the ability to push a fragile nutjob person over the edge to do something dangerous.

In short, I consider this an abuse of free speech.

[City Lights]

4. Clueless idiots. nt

[peekaloo]

5. whereas socialism has a different meaning in each example

when applying a noun for the NITP.... ASSHOLE is universal!

[JBoy]

6. LOL. "Coordinator" of the Tea Party = Cat Herder.

[hfojvt]

7. and to think I used to work in that city

I might note that when I lived there, both Cerro Gordo and Floyd counties went for Gore in 2000 (they also went for Nussle, so go figure). Mason City is the county seat of Cerro Gordo county.

[KeyWester]

8. I love that pic of Obama.

hope the people see past the rest of the sign.

[Crystal Clarity]

9. What gets me is that on the radical left

Obama is not liberal enough, but on the radical right, he's a 'socialist'. Oh the irony... :dilemma:

[hfojvt]

20. some of the same held true during the Bush administration

to the radical right, Bush was not conservative enough, but on the radical left, he was a 'fascist'.

http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=3524

One huge difference, of course, is that Bush policies, like the tax cuts and the Iraq war, have done and are still doing, tremendous harm to our nation and our world.

Of course, those on the right are predicting dire consequences for the stimulus bill and also for the health care bill and for cap and trade.

[mmonk]

30. That's because the people on the left are correct from their perspective.

It has some merit where the theme Obama is socialist or communist is Alice in Wonderland.

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. IS there ANYTHING about the TeaBaggers that is sane or rational?

So, if I read the OP correctly, the STATE COORDINATOR of the Iowa TeaBaggers offers that the billboard paid for by the North Iowa TeaBaggers is crossing a dangerous line. One would think that the state coordinator might have some say in the purchasing of billboard space.

Lastly, the Tea Baggers are not only racists, they are idiot racists. Their messages are contradictory, their spelling is atrocious and their main motivation is as clear as day - they are just plain old racist douchebags. Their pathetic attempt to wrap their racism in the flag and patriotism is a laughable failure to any rational, sane person.

[JHB]

11. “Radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive”

The irony.... the irony...

[disillusioned73]

14. LOL, somehow Dick Armeys "Tea Party" slogon ended up on the billboard..

accidentally

[n2doc]

19. I wish someone would go up and plaster a poster of Palin or Cheney over Obama's pic

With Republican fascism printed above. Then it would be true!

[BurtWorm]

13. There are no words to describe the awesome depth of dumbth behind that billboard.

:eyes:

[JHB]

37. Of course there are words. Four of them, even.

Glenn
Beck
Fox
News

:hurts:

[DFW]

15. The scary part is NOT that some teabbagers find the poster offensive

The scary part is that plenty of them don't.

[laughingliberal]

17. Ugly. nt

[KurtNYC]

18. Isn't that Jim 'Mad Money' Cramer on the right? n/t

[femrap]

21. If W had been put on a

billboard compared to Hit(ler), those responsible would have been renditioned to Goddess knows where!!!!

Un fu*cking believable!

[hfojvt]

36. the comparison was made though, if not on a billboard

http://semiskimmed.net/bushhitler.html

[Initech]

22. These idiots need to learn about ad Hitlerum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

[Fgiriun]

24. Insanity...

The level of insanity behind these rightist extremists is perplexing. I bet that if the 'tea party' was a leftist movement that resorted to inciting blind hatred they would have been quickly dismantled by the republicans under the banner of patriotism and national security. These people don’t stand for freedom or liberty but rather injustice and inequality. They are delighted to feed off the scattered crumbs left over by their corporate overlords who are the true model Americans to these ignorant rats.

[LeftinOH]

25. This is the insanity we're up against- which is why I will continue to support the President...

As far as I'm concerned OUR choices are as follows:

A Democratic leadership which disappoints us more often than we'd like,

-OR-

Dangerous idiots who believe that anyone who isn't a Republican is a Socialist/Commie/Nazi/Muslim/Whatever, especially Obama.

As the Rolling Stones put it: "You can't always get what you want." But, we can make some fundamental choices.

[Douglas Carpenter]

32. well yes, it is crazies who think a lot like that who are the only other political force capable of

actually taking power - if the forces backing President Obama were to falter.

If the Green Party was the leading opposition, I would seriously consider jumping ship. But that is not the real world.

[arbusto_baboso]

26. Who is more fearful and naive than teabaggers?

Projecting again, I see.

It's like conservatives are incapable of ANY introspection and are constantly engaged in the transference of their own flaws onto some perceived "enemy". They are fucking psychotics and need heavy medication and therapy.

[Ganja Ninja]

31. Exactly. n/t

[booley]

28. Radical Leaders prey on the Fearful and Naive?!

Teabaggers think that Obama is going to take their guns away any day now to create a communist/Fascist dictatorship.

They seem to over all have a not favorable opinion of others who look or think differently then they do.

They bought the Death Panel meme regardless of how many times it got proven wrong.

They get their news from Fox despite that Fox has shown it lies to promote it's agenda.

And how many of Glen's viewers have bought into Goldline which is a huge scam?

Even the violence here is projection as more then once I have heard cons complain about how "violent" Liberals are, how Liberals promote violence against anyone who disagrees with them.

This is hardly the only case of projection that cons in general have displayed. It's a long standing trend.

When they look in the mirror in the morning, do they even realize that's their reflection staring back at them?

[Ganja Ninja]

29. Yeah we wouldn't want to change.

Things are going so well right now.

[lapislzi]

33. No words. None at all. n/t

[Sheepshank]

34. apparently the billboard has now been removed

but not before the country has seen the nutjobs that represent and portray the Tea party. Yahoo has shown the pics and Yahoo now talks about the party request to remove the sign. It only proves the group is in disarray as some support and some don't support the extremism that is a clear lable attached to the group.

[rbixby]

35. It seems to me like

The Tea Party is the one preying on the fearful and naive. They're describing themselves!

[lpbk2713]

39. Inspired by BecKKK of course.

I remember two years ago when their mantra was "America, love it or leave it".

Now's your chance to put your money where your mouth is assholes.