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Title: MSNBC Host, Guest Consider Whether Tea Partiers Are Addicts, 'Delusional'
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URL Source: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs ... addicts-delusional_581987.html
Published: Aug 4, 2011
Author: MICHAEL WARREN
Post Date: 2011-08-04 12:09:36 by Brian S
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Views: 48000
Comments: 63
MSNBC host Martin Bashir interviewed Stanton Peele, a psychologist and an "expert on addiction," this afternoon. Bashir urged Peele to psychologically evaluate supporters of the Tea Party. "It reminds us of addiction because addicts are seeking something that they can't have," Peele said. "They want a state of happiness or nirvana that can't be achieved except through an artificial substance and reminds us of the Norway situation, when people are thwarted at obtaining something they can't, have they often strike out and Norway is one kind of example to one kind of reaction to that kind of a frustration."
Bashir later asked: "So you're saying that they are delusional about the past and adamant about the future?"
"They are adamant about achieving something that's unachievable, which reminds us of a couple of things. It reminds us of delusion and psychosis," Peele responded.
Here's video of the exchange:
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I'm TP and don't support Bush's wars OR 0bama's THREE wars.
You must be unique. Apparently the TP'ers in congress don't think the same as you.
#25. To: Liberator (#19) (Edited)
Just so we're clear, this cartoon expresses exactly what I think of Obama as president.
#26. To: Skip Intro (#20)
You should be fine with that since the military are all government employees. We could always use the remaining military to fight the only war that effects us directly; the one on our southern border.
I doubt Libby would be in favor as that's the country of Libby's dreams. Not much of a middle class, just the wealthy and the poor working beggars.
#27. To: mininggold (#26)
I doubt Libby would be in favor as that's the country of Libby's dreams. Not much of a middle class, just the wealthy and the poor working beggars.
I thought that was jwpegler's dream. I thought Libby was more rational.
#28. To: Skip Intro (#27)
I thought that was jwpegler's dream. I thought Libby was more rational.
Libby has no use for the working stiffs of the US. She derides and makes fun of them when they try to better their lot in life.
#29. To: Get Outta Dodge!, Skip Intro, Liberator, Brian S (#16)
It's going to be interesting to see if the American voters will buy the bullshit that Brian SS and skippy are trying to sell.
Yep.
There is a concerted, collusive effort by the Statist/Leftist media and their zombies/drones to scapegoat the Tea Party for the gazillion dollar deficit perpetrated by this irresponsible fedgov Leviathan.
In THIS country, the asylum has been taken over by the patients.
Those two hacks seem to have a real hard-on for the tea party, it seems. For the life of me, I can't understand why. Does the tea-party threaten their gov't check?
The TP threatens their goob-statist controlled FREE STUFF TRAIN and wet dream of a Commie/fascist globalist Amerika.
I'll repeat an analogy I used earlier - We have a 12 alarm fire. The house is in imminent danger of burning to the ground. Enter Obama and his "team". Their solution? Pour more gasoline on the fire.
Yep. Excellent analogy.
After two years of that, you get the tea - party. Their solution? Piss on the fire...Even though the house is going to burn down in the end, at least the tea-party's solution seems to make more sense - futile though it be.
The Tea Party at LEAST recognizes and demands addressing the spending-money-we-don't-have problem. Metaphoric speaking, the "pissing on the fire" is apropos, although, we do need to drink a LOT more beer if we're going to be effective ;-)
Though Bobby Sherman is my hero and DREAMY, America is hijacked by Elites and Leftists.
#30. To: Skip Intro (#22)
It had some slight declines before the deal was signed. It started significantly sliding afterwards.
It's easier to find a baby pigeon than it is to find a trader who likes the Debt Ceiling agreement. The much derided deal effectively raises the amount the government is allowed to spend today in exchange for mythical cuts 10 years from now.
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/global-sell-off-underway-questions-facing-markets-151520013.html%20?sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
#31. To: Skip Intro (#20)
No, my solution is to realize that the debt ceiling was raised to pay for programs the congress already spent money on.
How convenient.
HEY! Lemme run up my VISA card past its limit...then demand VISA raise the limit cuz...I've ALREADY got the 100 inch plasma on the wall.
You say you want to save money? Fine. End the M.E wars, stop being the world's cop, and reduce the size of the military.
Fine. Have your Prez and Senate get on it ASAP....oh, wait....
You should be fine with that since the military are all government employees. We could always use the remaining military to fight the only war that effects us directly; the one on our southern border.
Sometimes you make a bit of sense.
Though Bobby Sherman is my hero and DREAMY, America is hijacked by Elites and Leftists.
#32. To: no gnu taxes (#30)
It's easier to find a baby pigeon than it is to find a trader who likes the Debt Ceiling agreement. The much derided deal effectively raises the amount the government is allowed to spend today in exchange for mythical cuts 10 years from now.
And this is sending a signal to all guilty parties involved that the process better not happen again.
#33. To: Liberator (#31)
HEY! Lemme run up my VISA card past its limit...then demand VISA raise the limit cuz...I've ALREADY got the 100 inch plasma on the wall.
Do you coin your own money too?
#34. To: mininggold (#23)
They [TP types] see the wars as defending the mythical Israel of the Bible, AND as a present or future employer of their children.
I'm sorry. You're just an nth-degree stupid, ignorant person, now. Clinically speaking.
Though Bobby Sherman is my hero and DREAMY, America is hijacked by Elites and Leftists.
#35. To: Skip Intro (#20)
the debt ceiling was raised to pay for programs the congressalready spent money on.should never have spent money on.
Funny, how your beloved Dims were all against raising the debt ceiling when they controlled Congress. And when Bush was suggesting that failure to reform Social Security might result in failure to meet obligtations, the MSM and your beloved Dims were saying it was traitorous to say such things as the US will always meet it its obligations, regardless. Yet, you have no problem with this mythical allegation being made over the debt ceiling.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
#36. To: Liberator (#31)
Sometimes you make a bit of sense.
Even a fool says something valid... from time to time.
Usually it's by accident.
It used to be the leftists that had bumper-stickers that said things like "Question Authority.' Today they follow slogans from 1984:
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
They blindly LOVE Big Brother. They believe competition, pride & profiting from ones labor, are evil things to be banished.
Stephen King observed, "The beauty of religion mania is that it has the power to explain everything... [so] logic can be happily tossed out the window.
This describes socialists. They will ignore logic and "common sense." They will ignore REALITY. Because THEY are religious zealots...
THEIR God... is the STATE.
#37. To: mininggold (#32)
You have obvious reading comprehension problems. Unless you mean that this phony deal that did nothing to lower debt better not happen again -- that the tea party better accomplish something next time by sticking to their guns.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
#38. To: Liberator (#34)
I'm sorry. You're just an nth-degree stupid, ignorant person, now. Clinically speaking.
Actually I'm right on and you know it, First Amendment hater. They love the ME wars, want to invade Iran and Syria, and they voted for candidates who feel likewise.
#39. To: Liberator (#29) (Edited)
The Tea Party at LEAST recognizes and demands addressing the spending-money-we-don't-have problem. Metaphoric speaking, the "pissing on the fire" is apropos, although, we do need to drink a LOT more beer if we're going to be effective ;-)
Obama, for reasons I will never understand, agreed to cut the very programs that the Tea Party wants to cut. Their leadership, reading the writing on the campaign wall, was too "askeered" to say "Yes"...
America...My Kind Of Place...
"I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..."
--GW Bush
"THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!"
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
#40. To: Skip Intro (#24)
You must be unique. Apparently the TP'ers in congress don't think the same as you.
I'm NOT unique to most TPs I know; You've got to understand that 0bama and the Dems support these wars the same as certain dopey Pubbies do. IF that wasn't the case, we'd already have been OUT of at least either A-Stan OR Iraq.
It's about MONEY and the military-industrial complex, Skip. The Israel fetish is a red herring that scapegoats conservatives.
Though Bobby Sherman is my hero and DREAMY, America is hijacked by Elites and Leftists.
#41. To: Skip Intro (#25)
If that's how you feel about 0bama, I feel sorry for you. They've hijacked your brain.
Though Bobby Sherman is my hero and DREAMY, America is hijacked by Elites and Leftists.
#42. To: mininggold (#28)
Libby has no use for the working stiffs of the US.
You now use the word "stiffs" repeatedly....
I'm sure there's no underlying psychological reason.
*eyeball roll*
Though Bobby Sherman is my hero and DREAMY, America is hijacked by Elites and Leftists.
#43. To: no gnu taxes (#37)
You have obvious reading comprehension problems. Unless you mean that this phony deal that did nothing to lower debt better not happen again -- that the tea party better accomplish something next time by sticking to their guns.
Actually they preferred the businesslike process used during the many, many times that the ceilings were raised in the past, which affected the SMs very little.
#44. To: no gnu taxes (#30)
It started significantly sliding afterwards.
#45. To: no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, war, mininggold (#35)
Funny, how your beloved Dims were all against raising the debt ceiling when they controlled Congress. And when Bush was suggesting that failure to reform Social Security might result in failure to meet obligtations, the MSM and your beloved Dims were saying it was traitorous to say such things as the US will always meet it its obligations, regardless. Yet, you have no problem with this mythical allegation being made over the debt ceiling.
BULLSEYE.
Though Bobby Sherman is my hero and DREAMY, America is hijacked by Elites and Leftists.
#46. To: Capitalist Eric (#36)
Even a fool says something valid... from time to time.Usually it's by accident.
I understood that was the case.
These people...Leftist posters...just WOW.
Though Bobby Sherman is my hero and DREAMY, America is hijacked by Elites and Leftists.
#47. To: no gnu taxes (#35)
Funny, how your beloved Dims were all against raising the debt ceiling when they controlled Congress.
I'd like a link. Since when have the Dems ever been against spending more money?
#48. To: no gnu taxes, mininggold (#37)
You have obvious reading comprehension problems.
SEVERE comprehension problems. Although, with her ideological pro-Commie, pro-statist position, does it even matter??
Though Bobby Sherman is my hero and DREAMY, America is hijacked by Elites and Leftists.
#49. To: Liberator (#40)
It's about MONEY and the military-industrial complex, Skip.
Well guess what Libby. The TP loves the military-industrial complex.
#50. To: war (#39)
Obama, for reasons I will never understand, agreed to cut the very programs that the Tea Party wants to cut. Their leadership, reading the writing on the campaign wall, was too "askeered" to say "Yes"...
For reasons *I* will never understand, the Tea Party is given credit/blame for ANY-thing with respect to this raising the debt ceiling.
0bama and Boehner and Reid ALL suck the Big One.
Though Bobby Sherman is my hero and DREAMY, America is hijacked by Elites and Leftists.
#51. To: Skip Intro (#49)
Well guess what Libby. The TP loves the military-industrial complex.
Because MSNBC told you that?
Though Bobby Sherman is my hero and DREAMY, America is hijacked by Elites and Leftists.
#52. To: Skip Intro (#49)
Well guess what Libby. The TP loves the military-industrial complex.
And the proof is they voted in candidates that will not deny the military one dime.
#53. To: Liberator (#51)
Because MSNBC told you that?
Where's their legislation proving otherwise? Tick, tock.
#54. To: mininggold (#52)
And the proof is they voted in candidates that will not deny the military one dime.
Libby isn't big on proof when it conflicts with his opinion. TP'ers may say they're for reducing military spending, but their actions say otherwise.
#55. To: Skip Intro (#47)
Democrats Have No Moral Authority On Debt Ceiling
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
#56. To: Skip Intro (#44)
You may want to remember that by the weekend before the dent ceiling was actually, its passage was generally viewed as imminent.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
#57. To: Skip Intro (#54)
Libby isn't big on proof when it conflicts with his opinion. TP'ers may say they're for reducing military spending, but their actions say otherwise.
We've got a local Tea Bagger Express event planned this month. I bet their signs will be in favor of more war expansion
#58. To: mininggold (#57)
I bet their signs will be in favor of more war expansion
And the "Keep your hands off of my Social Security and Medicare" ones too.
#59. To: Brian S (#0)
Bashir urged Peele to psychologically evaluate supporters of the Tea Party.
LMAO! Liberal/socialist slug psychobabblers trying to evaluate anything containing a modicum of logic, commonsense or reality may make a good comedy skit but rational folk recognize this crap for what it is. It is the insane who embrace a historic failure of a political dogma trying to infest the rest of humanity with their mental malady.
#60. To: war (#39)
How's your day job going with this market volatility?
#61. To: Fred Mertz (#60) (Edited)
I love volatility...it brings my specs in like a vengence...any trade that they do I am guaranteed two commissions...
America...My Kind Of Place...
"I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..."
--GW Bush
"THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!"
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
#62. To: Skip Intro (#44)
You are one hell of an idiot to be blaming "Wall Street's demanding an answer to the debt ceiling issue" as the reason as to why it crashed today days after the deal was finalized and signed.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
#63. To: mininggold (#43)
Dumbass, the deal was finalized and passed days ago. The DEBT is the issue, not the debate.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
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