With all the hoopla in Wisconsin, I have heard many conserv pundits like Joe Scarborough of MSNBC scold the Left and the media for not calling out the protesters in Madison for all the hate speech that is flying around….they want the media to weigh in like they did during the summer of discontent (2010) of the Tea Party and similar groups……tghey say that the media is NOT being fair by their silence…..
OK, let me be one of the first….as soon as I see Walker caricature as a clown or Hitler or Stalin, I will be there to condemn it…..as soon as I see Wisconsin protesters totting guns and calling for some sort of violence, I will yell the loudest…..as soon as I hear or see a protester wearing a mask of Walker and calling him a fascist you will hear me….(I am NOT saying that some of this is NOT going on….just I have not seen it)
So far all the scenes that I have watched have signs calling for a return to democracy or support for unions or a call for people to get involved….that sort of stuff……NO guns…No Hitler signs…..No joker signs…..No….well you get it……and so far the people interviewed have been polite for the most part…they have given facts (as they see them) and call for a return to sanity….
I have NOT witnessed anything near the crap spread by the Tea Party and its supporters back last summer…basically, all the hoopla in the conserv press is part of the right wing agenda….they are losing the battle in Wisconsin and want to find someone to blame….the media is a convenient bad guy
Conservs cannot justify their attacks on labor and they are pissed and will refuse to accept that they are mostly wrong……or that it was a fool’s choice to fight this battle….
So….where is the hate speech? Granted I am not there and may have missed something but neither are the pundits on the news…….
There is NO hate speech coming out of Wisconsin except from those that do NOT like seeing Americans stand for something……..Get over it! I pray that it is contagious and for more issues than just labor……Working and average Americans need to take their country back….from special interests and from those that do NOT want a vocal majority…..
The conservative blogs are noting instances where things go to fisticuffs. All in all, it seems to be about the same except there isn’t the threat of armed uprising.
Terrant I keep hearing this about the violence but have not been able to find any true documentation……so far the insulting signs are at a minimum and the protesters seem to be controlling their emotions better than they did last summer….
To the right wing pundits who ask where is the outrage from the left like it was in the tea party gatherings, i ask, where is their support?! I guess Dissent around party lines is patriotic, anything else is treason.
According to FOX who are calling the protesters commies, radical Leftists and other assorted insults….so yeah….it is only our guys that are right all others are traitors….