The Rude Pundit:Photos That Make the Rude Pundit Want to Down a Keg of Millstream and Freebase Wheat

[meegbear]

Now the saddest part of this billboard in Mason City, Iowa, paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party, is not the idiotic comparison of President Barack Obama to Hitler and Lenin. Oh, no. It's not the absolutely disingenuous response from the group, which was, "The pictures overwhelmed the message. The message is socialism." That's like saying the real issue in the Roman Polanski case is our extradition treaties.

No, the saddest part is not the moron's understanding of the vast, vast differences between the Nazi's "socialism" and the Soviet Union's. Or that a legally elected President and Congress spending money in the way they said they'd spend money when they campaigned during that election does not equal socialism. When one goes to Beck U, one can't get all those nuances in a 90-minute online lecture. If you're letting a man with no hands fuck you in the ass, you can't expect to get a reacharound.

And, no, the saddest parts are not the unwittingly ironic statements on the billboard. To "Live free or die," one might say, "Umm, didn't you just get to put up a big ass sign that says the President is Hitler? That seems pretty goddamn free, motherfucker." To "Radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive," one might say, "Truer words, man, truer words."

The saddest, most pathetic, most "Tell me about the rabbits, George" part of the thing is this: "Democrat Socialism." Why? Because the use of the word "Democrat" as an adjective. It's a trick that Republican cockmongers toss around, as a way of denigrating the Democratic Party by emphasizing "rat" at the end. It's sort of like looking at Newt Gingrich's big ass and saying, "Now that's a Republi-can." Except not as funny. The GOP's language game goes back, at least, to Joe McCarthy. And it's been used by Republicans since in order to tarnish the name of the opposition.

What's sad is that, by using it, the North Iowa Tea Party is taking on the vocabulary of the elite and powerful on the right. It's as if they're insisting to Mommy and Daddy that they can wear big boy pants now. It's like they're just pleased as punch that they get to be Sarah Palin's and Jim DeMint's lackeys or Frank Luntz's whores. God, how pleased the ultraconservative Republicans must be; how they must laugh. They've got the yokels suckered now, so much so that the yahoos think they can act like they have any power at all or plans more than destroying Obama for the sake of destroying Obama.

Bonus points: The North Iowa Tea Party website features this line about a reading group it's put together: "The aim is to study the Constitution of the United States and focus people's attention on the abominations being perpetrated on us by the 'entitlement people' and the politicians that benefit from their votes." Ya gotta admire the phrase "entitlement people." It's the newest way to say, "Niggers."

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[MrModerate]

1. I've always thought the "Democrat-Democratic" insult . . ."

Had more to do with 'licans pretending that dems aren't actually "democratic" -- and even the trogs praise democracy -- and so by calling the party the "Democrat Party" they rob it of its essence and turn it into a brand. A brand the 'licans spend all their time running down.

It's also a trap. "Democrat Party" is a prime example of a playground epithet, and the damning thing about such insults is that if you respond to them at all you end up on the playground right in front of your taunter. Serious people have to let such crap go by or risk looking as juvenile as their opponents. Since the 'licans have little dignity and almost no intellectual rigor, they're perfectly happy to play this game, knowing that dems won't. And the no-opposable-thumb crowd that makes up their base just laps it up.

As evidenced by this dumb-as-dirt billboard that does little but increase the numbers of people who think its sponsors are morons -- but makes those morons even more sure of their moral rectitude (even if that rectitude is identical to RNC talking points).

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. This billboard, if Bush was in Obama's slot, would not have been allowed during the last admin

No way would that have been allowed at all. And yet they say Obama's more like Hitler than George? hahaha!

[Tsiyu]

3. The sign proves its own point n/t

[myrna minx]

4. K&R n/t

[LeftinOH]

5. Someone needs replace the words "radical leaders" with "this billboard"...

(and add and 's' to the word 'prey'). If I didn't live three states away, I'd totally try to do it myself.

[Bitwit1234]

6. I think we miss our change by not saying

CONservatives. After all that's a true statement. That's all republicans do CON CON CON the public.

[90-percent]

7. Democrat

I recall Keith Olbermann commenting on a Bush speech a few years ago; "...and the word is democratic. Show a little respect!"

-90% Jimmy

[hootinholler]

8. Don't they know that gramma is an entitlement people?

:shrug:

-Hoot