Bigots & Racists Tea Off In Music City: Constitutional Hootenany In Nashville

by Prentice on February 8, 2010

Sure, they’re easy targets for the late night comics, and those goofy tea baggers never seem to run out of crazy things to say. Their events always have the color, flavor and whizbang atmosphere of a redneck circus, the signs they carry are side-splitters and who doesn’t get a kick out of all the misspelled words?

Crazy things to say? Tea baggers never run out of them. Entertaining things like how the sky is falling and we’re all coming under the rule of evil czars and mysterious agents of a socialist despot with a Muslim middle name! My God… there’s a non-white, non-Christian, Harvard educated, non-just-the-same-as-we-are liberal in the White House!!!!! [click to read more…]

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