I wonder if you saw a story I read yesterday about a newspaper in Michigan that reported about a "Tea Party" protest against health care reform organized by Rep. Michele Bachmann.
The Port Huron Times-Herald ran an editorial which observed:
Rally participants carried a variety of disturbing signs. One placard had a health care message superimposed over dead bodies from Holocaust concentration camps. One referred to President Barack Obama as "Sambo." One depicted the president as the evil "Joker" from Batman movies. One referred to "Obama and his Marxist buddies."
At one point, the crowd chanted "Nazi, Nazi."
Apparently, our congresswoman is OK with all of this.
The piece describes Rep. Candice Miller's participation in the anti-health reform protest as "shameful." The paper concludes:
If Miller truly has signed up with the right-wing fringe -- the bigots, the hate-mongers and the Nazi-chanters -- all of us in the Blue Water Area might well need to take another look.
Perhaps Miller could start with an apology for her performance at last Thursday's GOP festival of hate.
One 60 year old reader who supported the protests was so angered by the editorial that she allegedly called the newspaper and "threatened to take a gun to the newspaper and 'do what they did at Fort Hood,' according to police," the Times-Herald reported.
I invite your comments and discussion.
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