we re back, and i m here with robert george, michelle goalbrick and josh bauer. we re talking about this big kind of tea party rally that happened on the mall this weekend, yesterday, actually. it was called the million vet march, billed as an apolitical celebration of america s veterans and indignation that the memorial was shut down, but then it became the big tea party rally, flags and quite honestly, an iconic photo of a guy in front of the white house with a big confederate flag. my question to you is, is it fair to show this and be like, this represents something about what these folks, where these folks are coming from? well, i think it wouldn t be fair if a similar message hadn t been spouted by one speaker after another at this rally. i mean, obviously, it s in the nature of images to be reductive and sum things up in a single person, but we heard over and over and over again from these speakers, both the
who initiated this protest? it was tea party republicans. come on, ben. cut the crap. it s a misplaced emotion. the person in the white house quite frankly did not shut the government down. the republican party. tea party members shut the government down. there s something deeply enraging to these folks that there s a black family in the white house right now. that s why they did that? it s a threat. it s a pretty small group. they said this would be the million vet march and there were only a couple hundred folks out there but they have leaders like sarah palin and ted cruz indulging their worse impulses and paranoid fantasies. joi want to say that the cnn anchor was making reference to that video we saw of them bringing those gates to the gates of the white house. the woman who was on msnbc was referring to the man standing
is anybody worried about this wire? no! will we surrender our freedom? no! god bless ted cruz and mike lee! our veterans should be above politics. you look around, though, and you see these barricades. this is a matter of shutdown priorities. understand the political spectacle at this weekend s million vet march, you have to go back two weeks when republicans shut down the government, furloughing hundreds of thousands of government workers, including many of the park rangers who patrol our war memorials, you may remember one republican personally berated a park ranger for the shutdown he helped cause. park service should be ashamed of themselves. i m not ashamed. you should be. and the circus was on. republicans and their allies tried to sell closing of the world war ii memorial as an evil obama plot. they want to make sure that world war ii veterans get shut out. to put up barricades to keep them away from their greatest accomplishments is an absolute sin.
today. is it anybody worried about this wire? no! will we surrender our freedom? no! god bless ted cruz and mike lee! our veterans should be above politics. you look around, though, and you see these barricades. this is a matter of shutdown priorities. understand the political spectacle at this weekend s million vet march, you have to go back two weeks when republicans shut down the government, furloughing hundreds of thousands of government workers, including many of the park rangers who patrol our war memorials, you may remember one republican personally berated a park ranger for the shutdown he helped cause. park service should be ashamed of themselves. i m not ashamed. you should be. and the circus was on. republicans and their allies tried to sell closing of the world war ii memorial as an evil obama plot. they want to make sure that world war ii veterans get shut out. to put up barricades to keep them away from their greatest accomplishments is an absolu
we re back, and i m here with robert george, michelle goalbrick and josh bauer. we re talking about this big kind of tea party rally that happened on the mall this weekend, yesterday, actually. it was called the million vet march, billed as an apolitical celebration of america s veterans and indignation that the memorial was shut down, but then it became the big tea party rally, flags and quite honestly, an iconic photo of a guy in front of the white house with a big confederate flag. my question to you is, is it fair to show this and be like, this represents something about what these folks, where these folks are coming from? well, i think it wouldn t be fair if a similar message hadn t been spouted by one speaker after another at this rally. i mean, obviously, it s in the nature of images to be reductive and sum things up in a single person, but we heard over and over and over again from these speakers, both the delegitimization of the