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Conservative Commentary

by Ed Donath

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© Copyright April 23, 2010

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How many times can you use the word socialist in a sentence without being called out by "progressives" for accusing Democrats of being socialists?  Try this bit of quoting on for size...

 

ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis calls the Tea Party movement a "bowel movement.""Any group that says, 'I'm young, I'm Democratic, and I'm a socialist' is all right with me," Bertha Lewis, CEO of ACORN told the Young Democratic Socialists (the youth branch of the U.S. Democratic Socialists division of Socialists International).  Lewis went on to praise Young Democratic Socialists' members for having the guts to call themselves socialists because, as she warned them, "undefined forces...are coming...coming after you."

 

Well, those undefined vigilantes didn't remain undefined for long. 

 

In literally the next breath, socialist cheerleader Bertha Lewis told the kommie kids that "...the times people are living in now will dwarf the McCarthy era and  [Japanese-American] internment during World War II" and that "we are right now in a time that is going to dwarf the era of Jim Crow and segregation." 

 

Lewis pointed to the Tea Party movement -- or "bowel movement" as she prefers to call it -- as the encroaching nightriders. "This is not rhetoric or hyperbole -- this is real," she said.  "This rise of this Tea Party so-called movement -- bowel movement in my estimation -- and this blatant uncovering and ripping off the mask of racism."

 

Apparently, real, outspoken socialists now believe that the Tea Party movement has grown large enough to mess with rackets like ACORN.  Too bad all of those in-the-closet socialists, afraid to admit who they really are, don't have what it takes to make their voices heard along with Ms. Lewis' to help keep their movement alive. 

 

Even Barack Obama, who openly worked for ACORN, trained their community organizers, helped defend them in court and was happy to take millions of their socialist dollars during his decade of campaigning, goes limp whenever he is accused of being a socialist. "You'd think that [my agenda] is some Bolshevik plot?" would be a typical indignant response to such an accusation.

 

Betrayed and saddened by her fellow-socialists' failure to "build this institution," on Tuesday Bertha Lewis told The Associated Press that ACORN is now "on life support."  Once a massive, multi-million-dollar, multi-national community advocacy group, ACORN is in dire straits as a result of bad publicity (embezzlement, multiple voter fraud charges plus hidden-camera videos last year in which employees in several states were revealed condoning a variety of crimes including child prostitution and tax evasion) plus recent attempts by Congress to revoke taxpayer funding.

 

Of course, Democrats who don't have the intestinal fortitude to state their true socialist philosophy (from the aforementioned president to nearly 300 members of Congress and a few dozen czars) will agree with Bertha Lewis' assessment of their opposition's goals.  But as afraid of being identified as socialists as they continue to be, they will continue to marginalize tea partiers and their supporters and deny the growth of the movement...

 

...the so-called "bowel movement" that will ultimately be taking its dump on them.

 

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When I first read your title I thought, "He must be referring to himself."  Alas, she's an idiot. Why would any thinking person pay any attention to her?  BTW, since in your eyes anyone to the left of Hitler is a commie, I seriously doubt that you could recognize a real socialist if one bit you in the backside.

 

oldsquid

Austin, TX American-Statesman

[I can see you coming from a mile away, Squiggy. Keep your teeth in the glass please. -ED]


Is it okay for Bertha Lewis to call Tea Partys a "bowel movement"?

Is it allowed under the "hate the haters" rule?

 

EddyWobegon

St. Cloud, MN Times


Super post.

 

MikePell

Cincinnati, OH Enquirer 


(yawn) I was hoping for something good this week.

 

rainbowed

Great Falls, MT Tribune


Poor Bertha is incoherent to the point of mental collapse.

 

zagreb

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

[Like Blagojevich, she will let the cat out of the bag if she's ever in jeopardy of being convicted. -ED]


Good rant Ed. Keep 'em stirred up. Does their hearts (do they have one?) good.

 

gas hog

Austin, TX American-Statesman


Bertha Lewis... another radical lunatic from the far left! This stuff just gets crazier and crazier. Get out the ropes!

Electrondude
Sartell, MN


For poor bertha the old "it takes one to know one" probably fits. acorn hasn't been flushed yet.

 

deserttrek

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun


I don't understand why the left gets so incensed when the word "socialist" is used to describe their goal. You would think it was a dirty word. Socialism is a well established economic system is many parts of the world. I guess it's come to the point that to call something by its rightful name is taboo. If you like socialism, like 56% of democrats do, stand up and support it and be proud. We can then debate the merits.

 

mightyright

Great Falls, MT Tribune

[That's our challenge for today.  Here's our next contestant...


Ok, I'll admit it. I too believe that the word missing from The Tea Party Movement is Bowel.

 

dan_d

Des Moines, IA Register

...so are you in the closet or proud to be a socialist like Ms. Lewis? -ED]


...The president and his garbage-mouthed VP and the rest of his radical liberal followers have little in common with the values set forth by the founding fathers of this country and probably, with most Americans. People are simply tired of big government that keeps growing and the loss of freedoms as outlined in the Constitution. The president and his regime flaunts values which are more like the old Soviet Union and that is the antithesis of freedom. Obama is the enemy of freedom and working toward a better America means working toward an Obama-free America...

 

What many radical liberals don't want to admit or even see is that the Tea Party movement is populist and represents mainstream America. Many of them have never been involved in anything political before. But they get represented as radical outliers, as Nazis, as violent-prone, as racist, and as astro turf who are deserving of nothing but contempt.

Remember when Hilary Clinton had her melt-down and said how sick and tired she was of people saying that if you debate and you disagree with the administration, that somehow you're not patriotic? Remember when she said that people should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to disagree with any administration. Well, that is what the Tea Party is doing.

They are everyday Americans who are fatigued by bailouts, the lack of focus on jobs, the enormous and growing debt, being steamrolled with legislation, being dissed because they question and protest, being called names, and concerned about the lack of attention to critical events that serves to make us less safe as a nation. They work hard, pay taxes and so far anyway, enjoy the freedoms America has given them. They want their children to have the same chances and inherit the same country they did.

If an administration is corrupt and America is becoming more corrupt, bankrupt and poorer, why shouldn't people voice dissent? I would think it is patriotic of them to speak out.

 

carirose

St. Cloud, MN Times


Socialism, socialism, socialism, this seems to be the "bad"word of our time. You know the truth of the matter is, sometimes i wonder if socialism wouldn't be better than our capitalism, where the top 1% owns 95% of the wealth.

 

nocturne

Montgomery, AL Advertiser

[So are you still in the closet or proud to be a socialist like Ms. Lewis, nockworst?  My challenge to lefties is: Do you have what it takes to make your voices heard along with Ms. Lewis' to help keep your socialist movement alive? -ED]


Interesting isn't it; when a statement by a Marxist like Lewis calling 'Tea Party' individuals a "bowel movement', only gets a big ho humm from the Lame Stream Media...Now, if Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin or any other conservative had stepped up to the podium and stated that 'homosexuals are a BM, along with the NAACP and NOW', I don't need to describe the righteous visceral wail that would erupt. Every torch and pitchfork in the nation would be bought or stolen, the offender/s would be publicly pilloried and flogged on the White House lawn.

The duplicity of the "Lame Stream Media" is so blatant as to induce the urge to purge.

 

KarnakTM

Great Falls, MT Tribune


Would you, would you please.... PLEASE! learn to speak English? Most good Conservatives demand that it be acknowledged as our primary national language!!

"Socialist" has a very clean, clear, distinct, well-known definition. You mis-use it and make a mockery of discourse. You show us that, like any toddler or adolescent, repeating words that you think are shocking, and using them as name-calling, is funny, is a good thing. You think you "win" an argument when you call someone "poopy" (a 4-year-old's word) or "socialist" (an ignorant, juvenile right-winger's word).

Well, it doesn't mean whatever it is you seem to THINK it means. Thus you are either unable to use or learn English, or, you are deliberate in mis-using it.

Which is it, eddo?

Now, as to your link: nothing in the commentary said Lewis was a member of the Socialist political party, nor that she advocates socialist economics. Ditto Acorn. The part about Lewis was simply that she lauded a group of members of a Socialist Party sub-group who are.... get ready.... willing and proud to use the word in describing themselves. Well, duh! You join a group presumably because you agree with it, so you should be bold enough to use the name in describing yourself. But, again, NOTHING in the commentary exists which shows Lewis nor Acorn espouse Socialist policies. Nothing.

AND YET, the commentary writer, and then you (three times!) go on to mis-use the word. What is your deal??

 

BackToTheFarm

Des Moines, IA Register

[Ms. Lewis speaks to socialists (all of the iterations of the word in my rant are attributed to her), praises their socialist involvement, urges them and other socialists to come to the aid of their cause. Her organization has long backed socialist candidates -- including your Dear Leader -- and has praised and worked for socialists in other countries.  As a farmer you've probably heard the old expression: "If it quacks like a duck..."  Nonetheless, if you agree with her and disagree with me I will take you for a socialist tfn. Do you deny it or will you just avoid the question like the others? -ED]


 "...the times people are living in now will dwarf the McCarthy era and [Japanese-American] internment during World War II" and that "we are right now in a time that is going to dwarf the era of Jim Crow and segregation."

Her putdown of the Obama administration sounds worse than any accusations from the bowel movement. Something tells me she isn't as happy now as when Obama first took office...not quite the hope and change she expected.

 

Antonious

Austin, TX American-Statesman

[Plus, as I said, "...as afraid of being identified as socialists as they continue to be, they will continue to marginalize tea partiers and their supporters and deny the growth of the movement..." -ED]


...I'm concerned about the direction this country is headed and I will voice my concerns to my elected officials and in the voting booth...Bertha Lewis has every Constitutional right to free speech, as do the tea party people.  The difference here is, Bertha Lewis and ACORN were funded by US tax dollars.  I think that I and the majority of America would find her words offensive and anti-American and would not approve of using taxpayer dollars to advance her political-socialist agenda.  I defend her right to make political statements but on her own nickel, not at taxpayers' expense.

 

richiephx

Phoenix, AZ Arizona Republic


What I'm hearing is that democrats/liberals are happy to be leeches and parasites on society.  Never reaching higher to attain more, happy with mediocrity.  Being in the dirt, staying there and liking it.  Some people never learn.

 

Liberty4USA

Montgomery, AL Advertiser


Lombago. I thought you turned that fallout shelter into a brew pub. Who would waste a bomb on your neck of the woods anyway, unless they do not like bear or is it bears. Ah! Good old Joe, the brain trust from Wisconsin----oh! the memories! Everybody was a Commie and people finally got tired of empty headed Joe of Wisconsin and put him out to pasture or was it under the pasture? - he was giving the commies a bad name by outdoing them. After all, who could not appreciate the favorite US commie - Arvo Gus Halberg (Gus Hall). You remember Gus, Lombago. Ran for President 4 times and actually would get a few votes: 1,075 in 68, 58,992 in 76 and 36,386 in 84. Folks these days do not realize that the Commie Party actually got a lot of votes during the 30's. Good ole Gus died in 2000. His current whereabouts are unknown and therefore cannot run again and "will not serve", if elected.

 

mostlymalarkey

Wausau, WI Daily Herald

[Are you now or have you ever been a racist?" is essentially the same McCarthyistic baiting question as "Are you now or have you ever been a communist?"  Regarding Gus Hall and his ilk: Those were the days my friend when real socialists referred to themselves as WORKERS instead of recipients of entitlements. Even Pete Seeger would wear farm clothing and roll up his sleeves to pluck his banjo while singing Kumbaya at universities.  As for my neck of the woods, it's a lot closer to Ground Zero than yours.  BTW, malark, do you still beat your wife? -ED]


Too much of the psyllium husks and obviously a very severe case of optalrectalitis on the part of Ms. Lewis. Sort of like calling the kettle black...

 

theglimmerman

Great Falls, MT Tribune


 

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