Day: September 5, 2009

Tea-Bagger Spam: Agree or Delete – Do You Believe in God?

Jon Ponder
An occasional series in which we post the contents of propaganda email being circulated by our friends in the conservative minority.
Interestingly, the nationwide murder rate has been falling since 2005, around the time that this email went into circulation.

Our right-wing circulating email for today is a bit of agitprop themed around the victimization of Christians by the predominant secular culture.

The writer bemoans the success, limited as it has been, of strict constitutionalists and non-religious people in removing God from the national symbology. At one point, the writer even posits that the murder rate would go down if only Americans returned to saying “so help me, God” before giving sworn testimony.

A vintage piece from 2005, here is “Agree or Delete”:

I don’t care how many times this comes to my e-mail…..I will continue to pass it on…..I am tired of the minority getting their way………………………

May all your days be happy……

AGREE OR DELETE

If You Choose To Delete You Are Part Of The Problem

Me? I’m Passing It On.

It seems to get worse daily.

This is by a daughter of a murdered couple in Raytown, MO, who had a Bible and Bookstore on 63rd street.

Wait! Wasn’t Raytown the setting for the Vicky Lawrence sitcom, “Mama’s Family?” Clever. Know your audience.

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GOP Pusher of Obama School Indoctrination Lie Also Pushes Republican Views at School Kids

Jon Ponder

It’s one thing to lie but quite another when the man who falsely accuses the president of the United States of seeking to indoctrinate school kids into liberal politics is known back home as a indoctrinator of school kids into the GOP.

Conservative talk-show host Joe Scarborough labeled Greer’s comments “insane talk.”

That’s exactly the situation we have with Jim Greer, the chairman of the Florida GOP, according to Scott Maxwell, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel:

There once was a political operative who loved to tell crowds he had a simple way of explaining to children the difference between Republicans and Democrats.

“Republicans get up and go to work,” he would tell his son. “Democrats get up and go down to the mailbox to get their checks.”

This man not only talked to his son about Republican values, he went into public-school classrooms and talked about them as well.

That man is Jim Greer — the same Jim Greer who, as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, just threw a nationwide hissy fit, claiming that the classroom is no place for politics and Barack Obama’s “indoctrination.”

Maxwell called Greer to discuss this apparent hypocrisy, but as is typical of the Republican hypocrites of our era, Greer sees a big difference in his screwing around with the minds of children and what — without even having read the president’s speech, of course — he called Pres. Obama’s attempts to spread “liberal lies”:

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