Subject: [big campaign] Another Anti-Health Care Rally, Another Holocaust Sign
From: Chris Harris <[email-masked]>
To: Chris Harris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:40:11 -0500
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

Hi folks,
At today's conservative health care rally, a protester held a sign
criticizing "HOLOCAUST CARE."  Of all the Republican speakers at the event,
not one condemned the offensive material.

Picture available here: http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200912150007

- Chris
Another Anti-Health Care Rally, Another Holocaust
Sign<http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200912150007>

Will any GOP leaders speak out against their base this time around?

 Since its emergence early this year, the Tea Party movement has been
defined in part by the pervasiveness of offensive
imagery<http://mediamattersaction.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2009%2F11%2F05%2Fthe-12-most-offensive-sig_n_347398.html>at
its various events.  Last month, for example, one protester at Rep.
Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) anti-health care reform "House Call" held up a
sign that read: "National Socialist Health Care: Dachau, Germany -
1945<http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200911050007>."

Responding to pressure from various corners, Bachmann eventually distanced
herself from some of the signs, calling them "unfortunate" and
"inappropriate."<http://mediamattersaction.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.startribune.com%2Fblogs%2F69888587.html>However,
she refused
to apologize<http://mediamattersaction.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2F2009%2F11%2F11%2Fbachmann-anti-semitic%2F>for
her extreme supporters.

Today, Bachmann
spoke<http://mediamattersaction.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ftpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fbachmann-invokes-charge-of-the-light-brigade-note-they-lost.php>at
the "Code Red" rally organized by Americans for Prosperity.  The rally
was prelude to the "die-in," in which right-wing activists were instructed
to storm Senate offices and "pretend to die from untreated illnesses and
collapse on the
floor<http://mediamattersaction.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ftaxdayteaparty.com%2F2009%2F12%2Ftea-party-patriots-to-storm-senate-offices%2F>."

And, predictably, the signs were back.  Here's a shot of one sign referring
to reform as "Holocaust Care":

Obviously, Bachmann's tepid disapproval of such images had its intended
effect.  That is, it achieved nothing at all.

But more significant is the fact that the Republican Party has now embraced
the Tea Partiers<http://mediamattersaction.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ftpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fmichael-steele-to-tea-partiers-come-on-home.php>--
Holocaust rhetoric and all -- as their own.  Will any GOP leaders
speak
out against their base this time around?

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