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This is how they see you (image may be NSFW).

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 29th, 2009 at 04:17 PM  | 

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[UPDATE]: I’ve had a copy of the image sent to me that includes the URL.  The Google cache for the site is here; as you can see, not only did the image originate from the site, but the author him/herself was present at the Reston Town Hall, writing posts about it.  I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I think that we’ve established that the flier found below represents a deliberate attempt by the Left to incite racially-motivated hate against the Right.

I apologize in advance for the ugly and graphic nature of the image that will be available for viewing after the fold: I would prefer not to show it, but unfortunately somebody decided that it was suitable for distribution after the Reston, VA Town Hall – and I can’t actually talk about it without showing it.

…Yeah. See also The Blog Prof, Weasel Zippers, American Power, Gateway Pundit, and Marooned in Marin: the image comes from Restonian, which is claiming a virtuous motive in removing from the flyer the URL of the group that  disseminated this racist garbage – a claim which I personally don’t believe for a second, although you’re welcome to check their archives and make up your own minds.  Still, even Restonian concedes that the URL that was removed from the original flier is for an anti-Tea Party website (I screenshotted that admission, by the way); and the ‘artist’ is one Mike Flugennock, a Hard Lefty (and, apparently, a closet racist) from the area.  I see no reason to pretend that it was anything except an attack on the people opposing health care rationing.

I present all of this for educational purposes, not ideological.  You need to know what they think of you.  Particularly when they sort of don’t want you to know what they think of you.

Moe Lane

PS: I’d be fascinated to see the original URL associated with this flyer, myself.

PPS: The 9/12 DC Tea Party site is here.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

PPPS: Slightly edited for clarity.

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  • gahazzah

    I’m not sure what you mean by you’d be fascinated to see the original URL associated with this flier. Just hitting your Wikipedia link sent me to Flugennock’s website where he posted the image back on July 23;

    http://www.sinkers.org/posters/teabagger/index.html

  • gahazzah

    I understand your point now.

    Had to bounce through all the stories, there was a URL on the bottom of the flier when the image was disseminated that was obscured by Restorian thereby implying that a right-of-center group put it out, even though a leftist created it.

    Gotcha.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    I’ve clarified the language to make that clear.

  • SteveLA

    Moe,

    I hope this is not too much of a thread jack, but I found this video of goings on recently over in Fairfax County VA. It’s just not the MSM it seems, it’s the state in the form of some police officers suppressing free speech, or at least speech that challenges Dear Leader Obama.

  • Section9

    …and the News Media.

    Can’t they get a new act?

    Jeez, that racism thing is old.

  • jeffreywturner

    The wacko left is really wierd in a way. They do stuff like this that telly ou they have a superiority complex under which they think that those who disagree with them are all stupid, or racists or whatever.

    However they are also self-loathers and are ashamed of their country.

    So, they see their country (ie: themselves) as less evolved and inferior to others (ie: most of Western Europe), and they see us as less evolved and inferior to themselves.

    I for one wish they spent half as much time hating on terrorists who want to kill them as they spend hating on law-abiding Americans who just happen to disagree with them.

  • http://briansimpson.wordpress.com Brian Simpson

    Flugennock seems much more like an anarchist when you peruse his archives.

  • http://www.redstate.com/britcom/ Britcom

    Blacks were freed by GOP. Lincoln was Republican. Slave traders were Democrats. Jefferson Davis was Democrat.

    Blacks who belong to and/or vote for the Democrat party are still suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

    Stockholm syndrome: The psychological tendency of a hostage to bond with, identify with, or sympathize with his or her captor(s)

  • gahazzah
  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …Lefty sectarianism interests me only mildly. :)

  • Tbone

    Who knew?

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    it’s just that sometimes I’m surprised by the degree of it, and the effort to make it appear as though the right is perpetrating it.

    This is one of those times.

  • http://briansimpson.wordpress.com Brian Simpson
  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    When you are trying to sell hard socialism to an increasingly informed public. Like Otter said on Animal House, “It s got to work better than the truth”

  • twomoon

    The lefty schtick is to create a caricature of us, and then debate against that caricature instead of actually acknowledging our ideas in the discussion. And they cap it off by claiming that WE are drowning out the real issues. Ours is a Brave New World indeed.

  • 10ksnooker

    And THEIR KKK lynch another black guy … That’s all I see. Ask Sen Sheets Byrd while there is still time, about the history of the Democrats terror wing, the KKK.

    Yes all the Jim Crow Laws, all the Black Codes all the lynching of both blacks and the Democrats white opponents, all done in the name of Democrat power.

    Heck Sen Byrd led the filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill.

    Doesn’t anybody read history anymore?

  • http://www.werushdaily.com Steve Baetz

    …they are losing the argument…

    As we’ve seen ad infinitum over the years, when Liberals can’t back up their propaganda-based diatribe with facts.. they resort to personal attacks…

    … and frankly… he who brings up racism… is the racist to begin with… and liberals have proven that over and over.

    This cartoon just shows we’ve won the argument. Now its time for the smackdown!

  • DamnCat

    Because all patriotic Americans are racist KKK members, don’t you know.

  • jsmiddleton4

    As noted in other posts, it was the Dem’s who were KKK folks not conservatives.

  • blooch

    writes things like this in an editorial in one of our little local newspapers.:

    “I believe it is important that no one yell at President Obama during his vacation. He has certainly had enough of that recently. He needs some peace—-some down time. He needs to recharge using some Vineyard sun and wind. The president must get away from talk radio, tea bag protestors and cap and trade.”

    Among other things, I’m disappointed, but not surprised, that he chose “tea bag” and not “town hall”. It only further legitimizes that caricature you describe.

  • http://charlemagne-the-hammer.blogspot.com/ DerKrieger

    Why won’t the lunatic Let support Federalism if they hate us so much? With Federalism they can impose whatever madness on themselves at the state level they want without opposition from us. I do know the answer to my rhetorical question.

    I don’t care what happens in CA, sorry CA Cons, but I’ll fight like Hell to prevent their lunacy from infecting my state.

  • http://charlemagne-the-hammer.blogspot.com/ DerKrieger

    …was a Republican

  • Tbone

    is that there are a whole bunch of independent voters who REALLY don’t like being called racists just because they have come to question Obama’s policies.

    You will note the polls as they increasingly reflect this effect.

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com LJ “Beaglescout” Miller

    They see us as the enemy. They want to destroy each and every conservative who knows, understands, and believes in the principles that the Constitution was based on. They want to create a socialist utopia in the US, but they apparently haven’t learned the lesson of socialism, which is that the only way socialism can work is if it is conjoined with an extremely strong attachment to Christianity. Of the Owen and Fourier inspired, atheist socialist communes that were established in the 19th century, every single one failed within a couple of years. Such was the fate of the communist phase at Jamestown VA and Plymouth MA as well. Some, but not all of the Christian socialist groups, such as the Shakers, Moravians, and Rappists, survived for a long time as communities. The human spirit is not compatible with socialism, unless there is a strong admixture of Christianity. I suppose it is possible to have another religion that supports a socialist society in a way that makes the people who live there happy with their lot, but I haven’t seen it. In any case, the socialists who are at war with us certainly do not want to establish any religion of self-abnegation. But since they are at war with us we must fight back. We can’t let them be the only ones who ever attack. Defense is a strategy for losers. Do we want to lose?

  • http://charlemagne-the-hammer.blogspot.com/ DerKrieger

    …has absolutely no impact on me whatsoever. And I suspect the same is true of many Conservatives. It’s a dull blade of a weapon.

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com LJ “Beaglescout” Miller

    He happily claims responsibility for the whole thing. Just in case he disappears his page down the memory hole, here it is.

    The recent Teabaggers’ Shindig over at Senate Park has certainly left me inspired, to say the least. Never did I hear a gang of astroturfers yell more loudly about not being astroturfers even as they were funded by PACs run by characters like Tom DeLay and (snurf, giggle) Dick Armey, and never did I hear more yelling from a group about how they aren’t about Left or Right, even while they never missed an opportunity to slag on the Left — or even on ordinary Liberals, for that matter — as the lot it was my fortune to cover this past Fourth Of July.

    What got me even more was their total ignorance of the causes and effects of events that happened before January 20, 2009 — forgetting, for instance, that the current corporate bailout fiasco was pushed by George W. Bush. Listening to the howls from the stage and checking out the composition of the crowd, it was as if the single reaction from the Teabagger Massmind boiled down to “OMFG, the President is a N1GG3R!” — like the old-timer in Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles, hollering from the top of the church steeple, “Here comes the new sherriff, and he’s a big…” …and it sure as hell didn’t help any as their event was organized and staged by members of a well-known White Power band, Pokerface.

    So, considering all this, I thought to myself, “Self, it’s time you did a poster that announces the imminent arrival of the National Teabaggers’ Convention coming to town on the 12th of September, and maybe inspire some of the local anarchists and antifascists to organize a little welcoming committee.” So, I did.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Our friends in the Middle aren’t as used to the charming habits of the Hard Left. :)

  • banzaibob

    I would say turn this over to the FBI. But since Eric Holder isn’t interested in such matters don’t bother.

    Democrats Uber all

  • buzzyboop

    …the picture itself to tell that it was put out by lefty CoC-type kooks. No self-respecting tea party activist would refer to him/herself as a ‘teabagger.’ Dead giveaway.

    Cheers, Frank

  • mbecker908

    the folk in the “middle” who are used to be courted, bought drinks and never expected to put out will find this highly objectionable. Heh.

    Live really becomes a bitch when you find out your suitor has ulterior motives.

  • 6eorge Jetson

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …but sometimes you have to make things *clear*. :)

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    There are still a small number of activists on our side who haven’t been updated on the obscenity yet. You’d think that this wouldn’t happen, but it apparently does.

  • SteveLA

    A letter, a phone call or what not to the local county administrator would be a good thing from people who live in the county.

  • http://www.werushdaily.com Steve Baetz

    ;-)

  • disgustedamerican

    Well, I’m a 19 year veteran of the USAF. I’m a sniper, and bench rest shooter. lol, bring it on commies, we already have our targets >=]-. The gun clubs you hate and we belong too, may be something of a nightmare to you all. My Grandfather was a Sgt in WW2, he always said never warn your enemy…Ha, C’mon, We just didn’t start, we’ve been at this since the late 80′s. Tyranny, and crime has no place in American society. Oh, the guard units that you think..lol..hold allegiance to you, well, don’t hold your breath. Jump, frogs..please, lol. We’re prepared to meeet force with force, buit the left is so delusional and hell bound let them destroy themselves. If not, bring your communist asses on.

  • Flagstaff

    very sheltered lives. Thank goodness.

    That blogger also claims to be following several tea party blogs. To spy, I presume.

  • disgustedamerican

    We took a oath, to defend America. Foreign and domestic. We’re going to kick the sh*t out of you. You worms >=]-

  • http://brockwayfamily.spaces.live.com/ Erick Brockway

    Never did I hear a gang of astroturfers yell more loudly about not being astroturfers even as they were funded by PACs run by characters like Tom DeLay and (snurf, giggle) Dick Armey….

    Who pays formy time, gas etc? It isn’t Tom Delay et al, it’e ME.
    These leftists are projecting their own pathetic institutionalized protests on real people, and it’s not gonna fly.
    It’s real as it gets, left, you can’t handle the truth?
    When are these idiots gonna get it LJ?

  • Flagstaff

    If I knew how to embed the video, I’d do that.

    Let’s give it a try.

  • Flagstaff

    Ten minutes long and very irritating. And the thugs don’t look all that different from any other mob goons.

  • Flagstaff

    given the wiling hands of the useful idiots who control the MSM.

    Only a few of us know the facts recited above.

  • disgustedamerican

    Last October DHS, visited family members and friends. It’s, so true..we really are right wing come on back you f*cks! America, is something I’ll never surrender to any primitive communist mfkr! Including the communist Son of a bitch in office! Jump, c’mon, come to me next time! Lets draw attention, c’mon..We’re watching, make damn sure you are. Oh yeah, we want to slaughter the left so bad we can’t satnd it, however, let them slaughter themselves…Don’t worry hell can’t fill up! >=]- And, with all due respect for this web site, hurry up and bury the criminal son of a bitch already, I want to watch the news, not a dirt bag that already went to hell when it took it’s last breath.

  • Flagstaff

    I’m reducing his bulb classification to 25 watts.

  • Flagstaff

    Congressman John Dingle was being resisted by when he passed all that civil rights legislation, eh?

  • ocleverone
  • ocleverone
  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    Be respectful, or be banned. No Profanity.

    You might get away with the occasional hell and damn, but gratuitous use of SOB won’t get you well received.

  • disgustedamerican

    I totally understand, however, I’m also a neighbor of Phil Valentine, and will damn sure, make sure he heres of it. Yes, Brentwood Tn, do it, c;mon

  • disgustedamerican

    I apologize for any vulgar language. However, if you people can’t understand why, I’ll talk about it on Phil’s station come Monday at 4 pm

  • disgustedamerican

    I’ll go ahead and let the 118th fighter squadron on Donelson pk, and the 205th how un American this Gocv is, and how ypou silenced me.

  • disgustedamerican

    Yes, please forgive me for being vulgar. It’s not right, but we use extreme words when America is in danger.

  • blooch

    you’re going to break your crayons–even the big fat ones you like–trying to inspire some of the local anarchists to organize anything.

  • disgustedamerican

    Kennedy is a dead communist son of a b*tch! Thank god!

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    bu the site does have posting rules. I’m sure the language some of use in private when this administration proves further how they want to take the country down the road to socilism or it’s supporters do things like the “artist” Moe wrote about here would peel paint of the walls.

    But the site does have posting rules, that’s all. We all have to dial it back some when we write diaries and comment here. I’ve had to change what I’ve typed more than once to make it less venomous but still make my point.

  • ocleverone
  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Thanks.

  • disgustedamerican

    I’m not changing a damn thing, regardless, I’m American.

  • disgustedamerican

    This country is facing a war, and if you think it won’t happen, then you’re nuts.

  • blooch

    I’m turning my head sideways to see if it’s a really PO’ed devil or something, but then I remembered you said elsewhere you were an Air Force sniper, so I figured it was an airplane, maybe a V-tail Bonanza…or maybe a prostrate human figure? Anyway, I appreciate your fired-upedness and succinctness.

  • Achance

    What does an Air Force sniper do?

    Nobody here needs to here you rave. We can express many of the same sentiments in real, live complete sentences and well-formed paragraphs. Now learn to communicate with sentient beings or go away.

  • Achance
  • disgustedamerican

    The fact of the matter is, this sh*t we have in office is a communist, and losing seats in 2010 isn’t going to matter to them. They’re going to force it through if possible. They see it like us, if not now, never. Trust me, communism came from hell, they don’t care. Not at all. Yep, we should all be scared and shaking. And, angry as hell, this isn’t over. But, oh yeah, we’ll win.

  • cwilson

    I was at the July 4th Tea Party (actually, it was the March For Liberty in Washington D.C., which met just north of the Capitol building (the Senate side) — I’m not sure that’s the “Senate Park” but I’ll assume so.

    Since according to That Person, I was “astroturf”, should I assume that my reimbursement check got lost in the mail?

    I’m not sure exactly what a psychologist would make of That Person’s comments (I’ll go out on a limb and say “Projection”) but I was there for 3.5 hours of the 4 hour event, and in my hearing not a single speaker or attendee ever once referred to anyone’s skin color or used any more pejorative term than “Liberal” (ok, I did hear a few people shout “Socialist” and/or “Communist”).

    Yeah, I’m going with “Projection”.

  • ocleverone
  • http://theminorityreportblog.com David Hinz

    not buying it for one single minute

    Truly…believe me when I say this…. this place is not right for you.

  • cwilson

    oreilly@foxnews.com

    In your Aug 20 column, you said:

    “The president must get away from talk radio, tea bag protesters, and cap and trade.”

    Did you really mean to use a sexually explicit epithet to refer to the everyday folks who have been showing up at congressional town halls and tea parties, who object to forced medical rationing, to government takeovers and bailouts of multiple industries, and to our spendthrift emirs in Washington?

    Did you REALLY intend to join the ranks of Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, and insult those regular “folks” you’re supposedly looking out for?

    Just a hint, Bill:
    “Tea Party”: Boston, 1773.
    “Tea Bag(ging)”: insulting sexual metaphor.
    Look it up.

  • mbecker908
  • cwilson

    a 22-day-old account.

  • Achance

    SWMBO has made some smoked salmon fettucine and I found a nice pinot blanc to go with it. Life’s good, but my spelling sometimes suffers.

  • mbecker908
  • disgustedamerican

    Are you kiddin?

  • Achance

    with his presence back in June. Kings are pretty oily so they’re hard to smoke. We use a dry brine marinade and pack them in brown sugar for twelve hours or so, rinse it all off and put them in the smoker for 16-18 hours at around 140 or so degrees, not hot, but warm enough to dry them. Makes fall football games and NASCAR races much more enjoyable but I don’t want to think about what they cost per pound.

  • disgustedamerican

    I take that as a insult, and it’s been a while, but I’m going to make noise about this. I always liked this web site, but If I’m liberal, then you really are confused.

  • Achance
  • SteveLA

    What sort of wood chips, electric smoker or did you whole hog with charcoal?

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com David Hinz

    “I always liked this web site” if he had ever read this web site he would know the posting rules and the etiquette. He would also be able to figure out the REPLY TO THIS function.

    he ain’t what he claims, and is not worth another word, except to say:

    Hinz Rule!

  • $peciallist

    wtf?

  • $peciallist

    Brutal…I’m sure the lefties are Proud

  • Achance

    I use a propane smoker, can’t remember the brand but I bought it at Costco; heavy steel and cast iron burner assembly.

    Mostly we use alder wood and some little taste of hickory. With other fish, we may add some more flavorful woods like cherry or apple. King Salmon is so strong that you don’t want to try to do much with it. Silver Salmon is a much more delicate taste and you can do fanciful things with it.

  • OccamsRazor

    .

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim
  • OccamsRazor

    Is the site is getting bigger and biGGER AND BIGGER.

    Obviously, the site administrators are looking for ways to handle the expansion.

    The beauty of that fact is our microphone grows larger, our voices heard, and most importantlly (imho)…’WE”re winning.

    The tide is turning and the pendulum is swinging.

    Hookes Law, Yaw.

    or

  • Achance

    It is your patriotic duty to fire one up. Hell, I even get to go out in the “old growth” forests and cut down alders to dry and put in my smoker. How much more rebellious than that can you get. Next thing you know, I’ll refuse to drink the Kool-Aid.

  • $peciallist

    Obama is destructive, isn’t he…

  • JustLeaveMeAlone

    for my weekend in DC for the 9/12 protest. Plane ticket cost $350; hotel room @ $120/nite (i have a “regular’s discount” at a Capitol Hill hotel), cab fares $100 plus, food, parking my car at IAH while I’m gone ($60), various tips to skycaps and bellhops ($40)…. let’s see, then there’s the value of my time.

    Hmmm… so all in all, this little jaunt to DC is costing me at least $1K out of pocket, not counting lost revenue. Plus I have to get up at an unGodly hour Sunday morning to fly back to Houston in time for the noon kickoff of the season’s first home NFL football game. (Tickets and parking @ $230; so I’m getting myself home as that money’s spent!)

    So who do I contact about my astroturf check?

    Of course, crazy right-wing nutjob that I am, I happen to think the 9/12 protest is worth $1,000 and two days of my time; it’s that important.

    Shrug.

  • JustLeaveMeAlone

    As a kid growing up in the South, I can vividly remember the 1960s and white men (Democrats all) standing at the door of a what we called “the voting house” — a one-room structure at a country crossroads in a place called Brink, VA — attempting to intimidate any black person who dared to show up to vote.

    I was a small child, didn’t understand the black/white thing or politics, but I ~knew~ this was wrong. It was tense; it was hateful; it was frightening.

    It was the worst incidence of racism I’ve ever witnessed, and there wasn’t a Republican in sight.

  • blooch

    We’ve got a phenomenon going on here that I call Townhall Enthusiasm Overflow. I can think of four n00bs recently–yes, including jingotwit– who exemplify that phenomenon…man, that’s a hard word to type. I’m not going to use it again.

    Now, I’m a sniper, mostly a lone wolf and not much to say, but I can smell a troll or moby a mile away. Y’all are hardened veterans of battles I’ve skirted, as I prefer to sit in my perch and look for targets alone. So naturally, you look askance at these raw recruits who come in full of pizz & vinegar, all fired up to charge the pillbox. Some of the stuff they say just screams MOBY, but some of them may be the same folks we applaud for being cantankerous and in-your-face at townhalls.

    I know RedState does not suffer fools gladly, friend or foe, and I won’t personally vouch for any n00b, especially on a Saturday night, but I think this guy is legit…whether you want him around here is another question entirely.

    My 2 cents, and I’m going back to my spot now.

  • WarEagle01

    Racism is just so ingrained in these people’s psyches that they can’t help themselves. After all, it was Flugennock’s people who founded the Ku Klux Klan and instituted the Black Codes. And all of the villains of the Civil Rights era were Democrats like Flugennock. He can count among his fellow travelers people like Bull Connor, George Wallace, Orville Faubus, and Lester Maddox. Oh Fluggenock, you poor silly Klucker.

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    or Rush. Or whoever else the lefties are saying is funding these town hall protests.

    Heck, ask Nancy. She seems to know all about astroturf…

  • $peciallist

    but to your larger point….RS is not the place for P and V, but there is great blogs for getting fired up without restrictions…here’s one..

    http://pdbwatch.blogspot.com/

    Aunt Flo is my favorite…

  • blooch

    Some of ‘em just can’t be housebroken, and nobody here is going to buy the newspapers that it would take to try.

    pdbwatch is now on my Favorites list to visit after the kids have gone to school.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    But your failure of our IQ test says a lot as it is.

  • illinois

    Moe’s right—-the newly awakened, formerly dormant, passive, disengaged middle are the one’s not used to the racism and dirty tricks of the hard left. This is a huge shock to them. However, what’s really marvelous is the bravery and patriotism of all you regular ordinary people going out and making your voices heard and using the technology we have so that we can record and upload the egregious and reprehensible behaviors of Obama’s thugs, i.e. the orders from the oval office to “hit back twice as hard.” It’s marvelous to get the truth out. This makes a huge difference. I recall back in 2000—doing protests—-the thuggish lefties got away with more intimidation because it wasn’t as easy to record , upload and publicize their dirty tricks! So, the stay on the couch middle were more easily tricked into believing that baloney about “vast right wing conspiracy!” For my own Dem-middle relatives—it’s been a real wake=up call for them to watch the state run media—and then to get the truth from email links to video clips like the Reston un-american stuff.