On Thursday, November 5th Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will be leading a tea party protest on the capitol steps in Washington, D.C. After she's done, attendees will be led through the halls of congress so they can deliver personally a message they tried to deliver at town hall meetings in August but have apparently not been sufficiently received.
The idea took flight last week, when Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told Fox’s Sean Hannity that she hoped all of his viewers would join her for a press conference outside the Capitol on Thursday and then walk with her “through Cannon, Longworth, Rayburn,” where they would go “up and down through the halls, find members of Congress, look at the whites of their eyes and say, ‘Don’t take away my health care.’”
If these politicians felt uncomfortable in their home districts in front of the people who have entrusted them to be their representatives, they may want to make sure there is an adequate supply of Depends on-hand in their D.C. offices.
You can watch the entire Rush interview on Fox news Sunday at the bottom of this post but before doing so, I thought this exchange between Geraldo and Ann Coulter does a good job of providing insight into what's at the heart of the controversy that is almost certain to be front and center for a few days.
Geraldo takes issue with two specific statements from the extremely compelling Rush Limbaugh interview with Chris Wallace. First, he unbelievably implies that Limbaugh's statement that Barack Obama is a "man-child" was racist. Secondly, he feigns indignation over Limbaugh's take that Obama's trip to Dover Airforce base to salute a fallen soldier was nothing more than a photo op.
However, Coulter totally blindsides him with something I'm sure he wasn't expecting. His response was so very indicative of the left's mentality. Coulter actually responds by saying that the White House told New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny - you know, the guy who asked Obama at a press conference what he found most "enchanting" about being president - that it was an attempt by the administration to "buy time".
The OCTOBER 29TH ARTICLE by Zeleny didn't have the phrase Coulter pointed to but it did have a few interesting excerpts that seem to point in that direction:
The trip was a symbolic one for Mr. Obama, given the gravity of his coming announcement of a new strategy for Afghanistan.
A symbolic trip? How about a trip without symbolism (or photographers)?
The overnight trip was not announced in advance. The president, wearing a dark suit and a long overcoat, left the White House just before midnight. A small contingent of reporters and photographers was quietly called to follow him to Dover, where he met for two hours with members of 14 families. He returned to the White House at 4:45 a.m.
It would seem that Zeleny's article points to exactly what Limbaugh forcefully said; specifically, that Obama's trip to Dover was a "photo-op".
One more thing about Geraldo before you watch the video. Note that after Coulter points to the Zeleny article, Geraldo says, "that's gross". In light of the direction Coulter took the debate, the focus was on Zeleny's article. Was Geraldo calling the article gross or the White House's take on the trip? Decide for yourself.
Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer then lets David Axelrod respond to Rush's assertion that the Obama trip to Dover was a photo-op. Axelrod's refutation of it was beyond pathetic. However, look out for a couple of other things.
1.) Axelrod goes down the road of the Republican party being extremists yet fails to mention that it's the White House that has surrounded itself with radical communists and people who revere the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century, Mao Tse Tung. Not only that but Axelrod himself was mentored by SDS member Don Rose (SDS gave birth to Bill Ayers' Weather Underground) and is a longtime friend of another SDS member Marilyn Katz who, like Ayers, REGRETS NOTHING.
2.) Axelrod contradicts himself in this interview starting at about the 3:15 mark when Schieffer asks him about the White House "war" on Fox. Axelrod says, "We're not at war with anyone. We're at war only with people who represent mis-truths as truths." Uh, so now they're singling out individuals at Fox? The bigger problem here is that Axelrod actually said the White House is at war with people who disagree with them. Troubling indeed.
MUST SEE: LIMBAUGH'S INTERVIEW ON FNS SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
On Wednesday, the FBI raided a mosque in Detroit and had to kill the imam who apparently wasn't willing to go quietly. What's more is that the complaint filed by the FBI prior to the raid seems to show a tight relationship between CAIR and some nefarious forces. Even Minnesota congressman KETH ELLISON, who has clear ties with CAIR couldn't remain silent.
For more information about the connections between the imam in Detroit and a convicted cop killer who has the support of CAIR, CLICK HERE.
Now there are Muslims in Detroit who seem to be trying to bully, intimidate, and establish "no-go" zones for sane human beings. Check out the video below as it shows a cameraman assaulted by a man in baggy pants. Note what the cameraman says about having covered stories for many years and basically said the Black Panthers got nothin' on these derelicts.