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VA Tea Party to Burn Pelosi in Effigy
Surely, there will be no political fallout from this decision: A fired-up group of anti-health-care legislation activists are planning to burn effigies of Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Tom Perriello at a rally next Saturday evening. The organization, which has been lobbying the congressman for some time, feels burned by Perriello, said Danville TEA Party Chairman Nigel Coleman: "To know that Mr. Perriello is on the other side, it's a kick in the stomach that a lot of people couldn't take." Coleman pointed out that his group was "not going to actually set Perriello on fire or Ms. Pelosi on fire," but Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen felt the event was too inflammatory, and called it "shocking and despicable." Coleman believes some 100 people will attend the effigy-burning.
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Georgia, Louisiana...
If people would be more careful about what they nourish their brain with...
the devastating effects of malnourishment would not have such bizarre consequences.
Plantagenet
Liberals like to burn American flags so the Republicans tried to get a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning.
The Tea-Party people want to burn Pelosi in effigy. If the dems don't like it they can try to pass a constitutional amendment against Pelosi effigy burning.
Granite
Whoopee! A crowd of a hundred is going to show up for this Wow, that is really sending a message! LOL! Sounds more like they are throwing themselves a pity party.
Plantagenet
You don't get it. At an event like that it doesn't matter how big the crowd is....what matters is the imagery that gets on TV.
Dashes
"You don't get it. At an event like that it doesn't matter how big the crowd is....what matters is the imagery that gets on TV."
Indeed, the size of crowd doesn't matter. Faux will just make a "mistake" and show something from a few months/years ago with a larger crowd anyway.
Honchos
As long as they don't burn the flag. Burning an effigy representing an actual living human being is one thing but an abstract symbol- that's going too far.
when-the-whip-comes-down
They start at the little things to draw unity then they focus their forces.
Allguns
WOW, who would of thought a left winger like Pelosi would be burned in effigy, looks like the Tea Party has learned a few tricks from the left, no lets see how they react. I wonder if Pelosi will get all choked up and cry like she did last time about the protest against her health care bill. I guess it just goes to show you the left can dish it out but they cant take it.....
diamondgirl
I was just going to say the same thing, the left used to burn the flag against anything they didnt agree with, they used to march on Washington, have sit ins, protest, do drugs and drink and even streak down the streets, break windows, turn cars over, rob stores.
You name it the left did it to protest anything they didnt like.
So you people dont have any rights to complain, you were just as crazy as these people sound...
reasonable
Diamondgirl, are you a professor?
crymeariver
I don't think diamondgirl even graduated from junior high school. She appears to be stuck at age 13.
cbeenthere
Those were the good old days dg, you missed the revolution and you have been bitter and have turned lazy and uneducated because we did all the work.
Granite
Still pissy about the '60s? Miss the good old days of segregation? As a woman do you feel guilty being paid as much s a man?
crymeariver
Provide one link to Democrats burning people in effigy.
Honchos
I was watching FOX News and Hannity just showed these pictures of a bunch of San Francisco liberals burning Bush in effigy.
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040627/040627_bush_p rotests_hmed.hmedium.jpg
http://www.thewe.cc/thewei/_/images11/us_terror_state_may_2007/burn_effi gy_of_george_bush.jpe
Honchos
My stupid joke would work better with functional links. Here goes again, but smaller:
http://tiny.cc/nN2hN
http://tiny.cc/dKmSu
EtienneEtoile
bunch of whiners
FatFreddy
Are they going to fuck the effigies of Nancy Pelosi before they burn them, or just have a big circle jerk on them? Perhaps they should stick to their Sarah Palin blow up dolls.
http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-sarah-palin-sex-doll-now-on-sale/?pks= ggl Palin Sex Doll&gclid=CIrvqYPFi54CFdA65QodFhf6pg
newz4i
Wouldn't it be more appropriate for Tea Partiers to burn the Republican Party in effigy?
They're marching away from their own ... right?
FairPix
I'm sure they will start burning crosses next. Oh wait, the Republican party has already done that. Well, I'm sure they will go back to their good ole' ways.
And for the record, burning a flag and burning a doll to represent an actual person are two completely different things.
Burning the flag, though I hate to see it done, is a freedome that is protected by the Constitution. It's a form of dissent. But what this group is doing, is just soooo wrong.
sophia5
DEMOCRAT Robert Byrd . . . " former " member of the KKK.
Ozone69
This was done to Sarah palin in California during the POTUS campaign. I don't condone it but, yawn.
cbeenthere
That is baloney, two homeowners put a Palin look alike hanging outside their house at Haloween, and when people complained they complied and took it down. End of story.
Ozone69
Like I said, this was done already to Sarah Palin. yawn, yawn.
lachica6
Were the Dems just as shocked when Bush was receiving death threats, and people were comparing him to Hitler. No I dont think so. Lets talk about something more important, "like what are the colors for fall that everyone is wearing". Pink, Eggplant, or Magenta. Now this is news.
crymeariver
Because it's radical muslim groups that usually born people in effigy?
magoo363
Obama receives 5 times more death threats than Bush ever did during his Presidency and has been compared to every type of governmental leader type under the sun, although he hasn't let any rights under the Constitution be whittled away as we had under Bush.
Demsdisorder
would it be OK if we burn the real thing?
reasonable
demsdisorder,
Stop trying to make me fall in love with you...that charm offensive you are putting on will not work on me.
Demsdisorder
Ok Ill try...=)'
winston1
Nancy would melt didn't you know she is the "Wicked Witch Of The West"
NotFooledTX
"VA Tea Party to Burn Pelosi in Effigy"
Hmmm...using tactics of terrorists...nice.
PRoche
Just another in a long list of similarities between the tea baggers and a reactionary Islamic mob.
Reactionary Islamic mob, reactionary Christian mob, no difference.
Dashes
Concervotards almost seem to enjoy making themselves look like hateful, backward-minded, fools.
Desertpenguin
While you're at it, right-wing, throw another log on your funeral pyre.
Immolate your morals, ethics, ideas, hopes, and dreams in a big ball of fire.
The Death of Right-Wing Extremism is a fascinating spectacle.
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