Those videos are like watching a gruesome car wreck. I just couldn't look away.
The taunting "homo" comment to the videographer... Hm, thought the far left was against gay bashing and homophobia? Unless it's "okay" when directed toward a conservative (much like misogynist and sexist epithets toward Sarah Palin are more acceptable among the left).
And not surprisingly, race is
everything to the hard left, as shown in the third video. You must act and think a specific certain way if you are black, otherwise you risk being labelled an Uncle Tom. Marxism is about class warfare and categories, and you must know your place.
The Tea Party has its occasional Archie Bunker bigots here and there. And a few of the signs - those same handful of photos we've seen a dozen times for the past year - hint at overt racism toward the President. But nothing,
nothing, is as in-your-face crude, ugly and potentially violent as a leftist protest (it even sounded like one of the guys was challenging the videographer to a fight... "how you gonna handle it? you got balls?"). There were more f-bomb insults in those 3-minute clips than an entire 80s-era Andrew Dice Clay show. I'd feel much, much more nervous wearing a Bush t-shirt amongst this type of group than wearing an Obama t-shirt at a Tea Party rally.
Waiting for civility police to admonish this Portland display any day now...