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Tea party planner says she made 'hanging' remarks

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Tea party planner says she made 'hanging' remarks - Yahoo! News

An organizer of a weekend "tea party" gathering in eastern Washington said Thursday she was the speaker who drew applause from the crowd by calling for one of the state's Democratic U.S. senators to be hanged.

But Dianne Capps of Clarkston said her remark about Sen. Patty Murray was taken out of context, and what she meant was that Murray should be voted out of office in November.

"Nobody had a rope to hang Patty Murray," she said. Capps' comment Saturday at the Lewis & Clark Tea Party Patriots meeting at the county fairgrounds in Asotin, Wash., were captured by television station KLEW of Lewiston, Idaho. While speaking to the crowd from the podium, Capps said Murray should suffer the same fate as the character Jake in the western "Lonesome Dove."
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.....so she talks about a hanging in a movie....then she says she meant she wanted to vote somebody out of office.... If she is going to make excuses for her extremism, she should at least make the excuses sensical. This just doesn't make any sense. Why would you bring up such a ridiculous example? This is not even a gaffe. Just shows the extremist ideas of some of the prominent faces in the Tea Party.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E44VYR3tTE8"]YouTube- Lonesome Dove - Jake's Fate[/ame]
 
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There's no way she meant it literally though, right?
 
the makeout hobo said:
There's no way she meant it literally though, right?
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..... Considering some of the crazy people who have been taken under the wing of this "Tea Party" I really do not know. Maybe she said it in a moment of excitement but it is still quite the telling statement.
 
Hatuey said:
..... Considering some of the crazy people who have been taken under the wing of this "Tea Party" I really do not know. Maybe she said it in a moment of excitement but it is still quite the telling statement.
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Like these people?

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texmaster said:
Like these people?

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Anarchists? Sure. But can you tell us how this relates to a leader within the Tea Party saying they want to hang an elected representative? I guess you won't. You'll just keep posting more silly pictures in hopes that the comparison sticks. Can you show us a single Democratic leader supporting these anarchist posters? I want to see it. I want to see somebody like Nancy Pelosi saying they support killing soldiers. I bet you won't. Why don't you go feed your hamsters? You keep feeding them straws. They look hungry. :)
 
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The tide is turning in Washington State......;)
More & more people are turning away from the tax & spend Democrat incumbents.....
Probably a poor choice of words, but Ive talked to several people who generally don't vote & they will actively be voting against the Democrat candidate, any Democrat candidate......;)
This state is basically divided into red & blue geographically, but the former fence sitters will vote Republican this time...
Her blatent pandering to minorities with regard to illegal immigrants has turned a lot of now jobless people against her.....
Cantwell got lucky in '08 with her timing, Murraay is on the chopping block & it's about time.......
The whole upside of Obama winning is that we were able to get rid of a bunch of the crappy politicians that were stinking up the joint....
They left Washington in a $3B hole, now they shape national policy......:shock:
 
megaprogman said:
Same people, different political philosophy. Crazies are everywhere.
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Yea, so why call them out? They're not important enough, on either side, period. They just want us to do what we are doing now, be childish about it. And I say this as a guy who, for the most part, has refrained from making threads trying to generalize one side or the other. There are intelligent people in the Tea Party movement, doctors, lawyers, teachers, veterens, etc. and likewise, there are not smart people. Not all of them are crazy or racist, and neither are those who follow the anarchist philosophy.

This lady is stupid, ignore her as you would ignore the above anarchist protestors.
 
Hautey's right. She obviously was completely sincere and not in any way meaning it figuratively, the proof is obvious for anyone that looks at those Tea Parties. I mean, the legions of hung corpses that follow wherever they have their events is evident enough. Why just last month there were over 1,000 hanging deaths in this country attributed to Tea Parties....

...wait, hold on, I'm getting some breaking news...

...You say that there's been no hangings attributed to Tea Partiers? You say there's been zero evidence or history of even any attempts at hanging people by Tea Partiers?

But, that doesn't make any sense! Hautey implied this shouldn't be a surprise, that this is just what Tea Parties organizers do, and there's no reason not to assume the person was serious. I mean, if Hautey is telling us this it must be true!

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It was a ridiculously stupid, idiot thing to say by a SINGULAR Tea Party organizer that apparently needs to take some lessons on public speaking and how to articulate their thoughts or get someone with some sense to proof read their speeches. Regardless of the fact that its ABUNDANTLY likely it wasn't meant in a literalistic sense, using rhetoric like that is just dumb.

Equally dumb is people being worthlessly hyper partisan attempting to use one tea party members stupid attempt at allegory to depict a significant portion of the movement as if they're noose wielding maniacs.
 
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megaprogman said:
Same people, different political philosophy. Crazies are everywhere.
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Hautey's thanks, and especially his comments, considering the irony of it. yes, same people, different political philosophy. However if some idiot anti-war person organized a protest over in Berkley saying "**** the Troops and Hang Bush" that doesn't constitute the need to take that one loan idiot that's obviously extreme and try to imply that's the norm for "prominent anti-war advocates"
 
Zyphlin said:
Equally dumb is people being worthlessly hyper partisan attempting to use one tea party members stupid attempt at allegory to depict a significant portion of the movement as if they're noose wielding maniacs.
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But if we stopped trying to pin the actions or words of one person on their entire party or ideology, half the posts on this board would vanish.
 
Hatuey said:
Anarchists? Sure. But can you tell us how this relates to a leader within the Tea Party saying they want to hang an elected representative? I guess you won't. You'll just keep posting more silly pictures in hopes that the comparison sticks. Can you show us a single Democratic leader supporting these anarchist posters? I want to see it. I want to see somebody like Nancy Pelosi saying they support killing soldiers. I bet you won't. Why don't you go feed your hamsters? You keep feeding them straws. They look hungry. :)
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Sure, just as soon as you show me a quote of John Boehner saying that he wants to hang Democrats.

You're also doing the same thing that people accused the Bush administration of doing re: AQ terrorists we killed. Just like every AQ guy we caught was a "#3 within the organization," every single person who does something bad and is associated with the Tea Party is a "Tea Party Leader."

I know it makes your criticism sound better, but it's really kind of absurd. This woman is one of a group of organizers who put together a rally with a couple hundred people in some backwater in Washington. Calling her a "Tea Party Leader" is like calling some guy who helps promote a Bum****, Indiana progressive film festival a "Leader of the Progressive movement" and then attributing the idiocy of his comments to the entire Progressive movement and Democratic party at large.

edit: Yeah, what zyph said.
 
Zyphlin said:
Regardless of the fact that its ABUNDANTLY likely it wasn't meant in a literalistic sense, using rhetoric like that is just dumb.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say it is ABUNDANTLY likely. This person sounds like a complete angry nutjob. That does not mean I am saying the majority of tea party members or organizers are nutjobs, I just believe this person to be one.
 
TheNextEra said:
I wouldn't go so far as to say it is ABUNDANTLY likely. This person sounds like a complete angry nutjob. That does not mean I am saying the majority of tea party members or organizers are nutjobs, I just believe this person to be one.
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Is there any indication this person has a criminal record?

A history of any kind of violence?

Has she personally any legitimate threats to a poltiical official?

Has she had any previous complaints filed against her for threats?

Do those associated with her have any history with hangings or other extreme violence, particularly against a politician?

If someone screws up at work and then you find out about it because it screws your ability to do a project and you go "My god I could ****ing kill him" should we assume its not absurd to believe that you're almost 100% likely not LITERALLY meaning you want to kill the person just because you said it based on the lack of additional evidence?

There is absolutely zero evidence that has been presented to believe, in any way, that she was actually serious and literal in her comment other than people going "Well I mean...she's part of the tea parties!"

She made a statement that, if serious, could've been considered illegal, about a public figure in a public venue, of which she's later clarified to state it was an allogory, and with no further evidence AT ALL that she meant it literally.

Yes, its abundantly likely that it wasn't meant literally.
 
I must have missed my concession speech....:roll:
 
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