Outrageous Hyperbole

As many of us have seen the so-called tea baggers resort to some fairly low and disgusting tactics to spread their poisonous views. However, a sign seen at today's rally in Washington D.C., organized by Michele Bachmann (lunatic-MN), has crossed a line.


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These photos were taken by Think Progress's Lee Fang at the rally today.

I barely had words to express my disgust when I first saw these photos. How dare they use such a horrific world event to express their thoughts about health care reform.

We are not moving to socialistic health care and what happened in Dachau had nothing to do with socialism. It was murder, plain and simple, of people Hitler blamed for his own inadequacies.

This kind of hyperbole has no place in any health care debate. But this is what we get to see as a result of some of the ugly language employed by people such as Bachmann. Virginia Foxx and Eric Cantor also attended this event and when Cantor was asked on MSNBC for a comment about some of the ugly signs he never said a negative word. How any Jew can condone this is beyond me. How any HUMAN can think this is OK stuns me.

What I also noticed about this crowd today was how white it was along with being ill educated. They have to be ill educated to so cavalierly use photo in this manner. Now tell me once again how these people are not bigots. These people feed on hate and ugliness. How sad they are a partial representative of America.

This is also not the kind of garbage Americans should engage in ever. If they want to argue policy fine. But I'm sick and tired of the language being employed. The references to Hitler, socialism, fascism, communism, etc. None of those monikers apply. In fact, I would bet most of the people attending this hate fest have no clue as to the definitions of any of those words. But not so for the elected representatives that organized and attended this event. No, Bachmann, Cantor and Foxx don't get off that easily. They know exactly how to use this kind of language to fire up these clueless people.

It is time for this kind of rhetoric to stop. I called Bachmann's office and the woman that answered basically lied to me telling me Bachmann only engages in facts! I told her about the sign and she didn't care stating Bachmann's not responsible. BUll! I will be sending this photo to quite a few Synagogues with a request for a response. I will also call my state representatives. Alan Grayson was skewered for using the word holocaust in one of his speeches a few weeks ago and he apologized publicly. It's time for Michele Bachmann to be held accountable and apologize. Not just to all those that lost family in Dahcau but to all Americans with a sense of decency.