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StumblePublished Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 | 6:56 a.m.
Updated Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 | 7:27 a.m.
As GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle attempts to parry charges from Harry Reid's campaign that she is "just too extreme," she is the headliner at an event Saturday promoted by a physician's group that is far out of the mainstream. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which is a major promoter of the Doctors Tea Party in San Diego on Saturday, has given voice to some bizarre theories, believes the advent of Medicare in 1965 was "evil" and "immoral" and once published a piece arguing HIV may not cause AIDS. There's more, too, with the group promoting one of Angle's previously expressed theories that abortion may cause breast cancer and it also once argued the FDA is unconstitutional.
Just too extreme? You be the judge:
The group has a piece arguing Barack Obama may have used "covert hypnosis" to sway crowds and below that is a link to a Q and A with a prominent birther: POTUSthehypnotist
And its journal once argued "there are real grounds for positively denying that HIV causes AIDS." That piece is here: GODdidit
Here's the AAPS ad for the event -- Angle is headliner
Here's the group's website, which includes a tab for a how-to guide for members to opt out of Medicare -- AAPS
Here's the group's principles in which it describes Medicare as "evil" and "immoral" when it was passed: Medicare
So Sharrontology now refuses to accept proven science? Does she agree with these quacks that HIV does not lead to AIDS?
This crazy lady is just too dangerous to be allowed anywhere near the US Senate!
Holy smoke!
Is Angle trying to torpedo her own campaign? How else to explain her appearing at this event -- as the headline speaker, no less?
New conspiracy theory: Crazy Angls is a Harry Reid plant! She works for the senator.
Now it's all starting to make sense...
You have to feel sorry for her new spox. Another day, another truckload of crazy to counter. As a new denizen of Sharron's world, he's probably as surprised as us Nevada voters with each new, um, revelation.
I want to be the first to announce the formation of the new "HYPNOTISTS PARTY"
The Hypnotists Party will be fully supported by Greta Van Susteren, the only FoxNews anchor left who does not have her very own "grass roots" movement (funded by FoxNews FoxNewsCorp, all rights reserved, see Roger Ailes for grass roots requirements.)
Meetup details coming soon. In the meantime start practicing throwing your voice not using any of the following (Barack Obama used) connecting words:
"and"
"as"
"because,"
"that is why"
I'm sure we'll be able to get Sharron Angle to appear before us, "__" she is the only one who can tell us "___________" "___" "_______" God told her to say that "__" often "__" possible "_______" he's really... Well, you get the gist.
"Angle must truly believe there is a silent majority of crazies in Nevada."
I'm more worried there *is* a large group of silent crazies in Nevada. Those who vote R no matter what, even if Lucifer himself had a -R attached to his name on the ballot.
Oh heck did I see I picture of Dr. Heck on the invite??
Last in everything good.
No one does more....
Thanks Harry!!!!
Oh yes, that's right. This is somehow Harry Reid's fault. Don't righties take any personal responsibility for anything? Why can't Sharron Angle pull herself up from her own bootstraps? Why does she expect Reid to do it for her?
Gordon says: "Thank you Republicans for nominating the most unelectable candidate, and securing Sen. Reid's victory in November."
Amen.
I couldn't have said it better.
But we're not through yet in purging the useless, the crazy and the self serving out yet.
Next one is Senator Ensign.
But I have a feeling it will be easy to get rid of that bum. He'll end up in a perp walk in handcuffs, charged and arrested and led out of a Government building soon. Especially seeing all the full court press by the FBI.
Will Sharron Angle even be heard at this event over all the quacking from the Quacks? Her campaign becomes more and more bizarre. However, I do enjoy watching the national media make mincemeat of her. Makes for great summer tv viewing. It would be high comedy if it weren't so scary.
WOW! These people are living proof that mental illness is a serious and long neglected problem in America!!!
Maybe they all have been drinking water from the Nevada test site!!!
Their ideas are the most dangerous to a free and civilized democratic republic and their personal beliefs give me goose bumps and raise the hair on the back of my neck!!! I can almost hear the theme music from the X Files whenever I hear her speak or read something she says!!!
We need to seriously re-evaluate our mentally ill person commitment laws!!!
It just shows the kind of nutties supporting an even more nutty being.
Bravo Repukeblicans!!!!
Sad.
America is being denied the benefit of a responsible opposition party.
Wow. I feel saner each and every time Sharron Angle opens her mouth, reaches out for a wacky endorsement, and deludes herself into thinking that she has the answers to America's problems.
Now, just look into my eyes and listen to my words....
Welcome to the Twilight Zone! Do Do Do... Do Do Do... Do Do Do.......
so no one has figured this out yet ??? Come on southern nevadans we're smarter than this ....this woman the ONLY opposition for Reid is totally out there ....leaving nevada with zero choices & stuck with reid ...its so plain as the noses on our faces ....
http://www.bgladd.com/SharronMangle Flatline.jpg
I bet most of those doctors have seen Bigfoot, too.
"where DID I park that spaceship"???
Cashew, Almond, Hazel, ANGLE.
Some times you feel like a NUT, sometimes you don't....
@ BobbyG
I think you meant:
http://www.bgladd.com/SharronMangleFlatl...
Yeah, typing too fast. It was a typo. You figured it out.
Medicare is "evil" and "immoral"? LOL. Tell it to the 40 million people age 65+ who are beneficiaries.
I poked around on their website, trying to determine how big a "group" they might be. Turns out their "national headquarters" is in Tuscon, and they have chapters in California and Pennsylvania. Couldn't get a head count for the organization, but I'd love to see how many of them are expected to attend Sharron's address.
Wack-a-doodle-doooo!
And yet, after all the name calling and demonizing from the "far left," Sharron Angle is still running neck to neck with the venerable Harry Reid...
@LarryVegas -
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
- H.L. Mencken
Reid will wait til October for the suprise.
**FACEPALM**
Reid picked Angle to run against.
The chicken lady is not campaigning for Angle.
Why doesn't Ralston interview Lowden?
Nevadans are waiting until November for news of Harry's retirement...
Zuma...
You got me reminiscing about the good Admiral!
Take a little joyride, would you?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4123/saturday-...
Well, then I'm guessing that none of them will be signing up for Medicare?
Can one get hypnotized by simply reading transcripts of political speeches?
How can we protect ourselves?
Man, this is serious!
i got to hand it to reid, how did he pick angle to run against him? if this wasnt a back room deal, i'll eat my hat! reid wins in november and chicken lady lowden gets that prevert johnny ensigns' seat when johnny goes marching home.
Every squirrl in america wants Sharron to win because she is the biggest NUT they ever saw lol. The group of doctors who support her need their medical licenses pulled. It's a good thing they do not tax stupid many of the Sharron supporters would be broke. Religous wing nuts are dangerous and they are loose in Vegas.
@gypc_dave
Roger Hedgecock, the disgraced former mayor of San Diego and ultra-conservative whackjob radio host is one of the main sponsors of the event, so he'll surely have the nuttiest of the nuts on hand to witness it. He's right in line with El Rushbo, insHannity, and The Glenn. There's also a counter-protest of sorts being put on by another physicians group that supports a national health plan, or Medicare for all. I'll be there to witness the carnage first hand. I'm very curious myself to see how many show up.
By the way: Thank you Nevadans for giving us the gift that just keeps on giving, and making the Republicon party look completely out of their minds!
Obama a covert hypnotist? Are these people freaking nuts. No wonder they follow Angle, I think she's certifiably crazy.
Her motto,"If it helps ordinary taxpayers, it's no good and I'm against it."
Vote for Angle to be admitted to the insane asylum.
Hey Andy, take lots of pics, tape interviews, and watch out for those "connecting words" speakers ... and give us the link when you get back!
AndySD, you're welcome!
But we sane Nevadans have to give credit to the bats$#& crazy Teabaggers who picked Psycho Sharron and made her a household name all across this great nation.
After she's been thoroughly humiliated in this election we'll be able to look up the words "severe derangement" in the dictionary and see a picture of Crazy Angle wearing that sick, sick smile.
But it's all good cos Nevada is back on the map!
Kind of like Reid and Obama telling the AFL-CIO that they are against special interest groups and will fight special interest back campaign financing.
Just a hint: The AFL-CIO is one of the largest special interest groups ever and backs dangerous politicians like Reid and Obama with huge war chests of special interest money and mud slinging media.
God wants me to be hungry jobless and without healthcare ? I guess I'm going to hell
The GOP have some really whacked out nut cases for supporters. You have to be really stupid to believe some of this nonsense.
Yet, Sharron Angle is still running neck to neck with Harry Reid...
Not according to the latest polls.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_c...
"Sharron Angle must truly believe there is a silent majority of crazies in Nevada."
You betcha...
:-)
Hey, Irishspy, I got'cher observation right here in another of my one-minute Photoshops...
http://www.bgladd.com/SharronMangleSquir...
Angle is a wingnut, with emphasis on the latter part.
It's also evident that groups supporting her share the same distorted wacked-out view of reality.
You don't have to like Harry Reid to realize that the alternative to him is unthinkable.
Hey, Andy, be sure to come back and give us a "first-person" report on the show! We get so little actual journalism these days - just talking heads reading press releases and breaking for commercials.
This may well be a "return" year for the GOP...but it won't last. For numerous reasons...
Not the least being the country waking up and realizing it has once again given power to the Unholy Trinity of trickle-down economics, Fundamentalists running government agencies, and...
yes...the NeoCons.
Sharrontology, the hope for a medical/religious/dark ages future for Nevada....If Lunacy was a Religion, Sharron would be its Pope....
Interesting how most everyone kneejerks a comment without even reading the links...
To explore that HIV contributes to but does not CAUSE AIDS is valid...there may be other factors that are inhibiting a vaccine.
The argument that anything that lowers patient care/outcomes is immoral/evil makes total sense...the question remains is the evidence showing how government providing health care to non-military citizens actually declines patient care/outcome compelling...I am convinced.
Therefore to opt out of medicare should be a doctors and patients decision.
As for "Hypnosis"...politicians have professional speechwriters who study and use various tools to influence their audience...this is not news...the fact that someone has gone to the trouble to fact find, analyze and expose this to the general public is the news.
Does Obama manipulate?
He would not be president if he did not...
Did Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy...Adams, Washington.
That is part of the job description.
Reid has had his chance and failed...Angel is symbolic of just being fed up...If only the Libertarians were viable the choice in November would be easy.
It is obvious who the author of this article supports...I guess that is why it is in the Opinion section...Odd the headlines do not clarify that significant editorial point making this almost seem like "Psudo-news".
Sad but true...
First the Chicken Lady and now Angle! WHy are there so many whackos in the Republican Party? LOL
To the folks who can't open their mouths without blaming Harry Reid for Nevada's woes - we have TWO Senators in this state. That's right TWO. Remember?
Apparently John Ensign isn't expected to do anything. Angle blames Reid for everything and even she seems to forget that one of her party bretheren has been collecting a salary via the taxpayers to do, well, absolutely nothing apparently except have an affair, try to cover it up and then ask his parents to bribe the parties involved to keep quiet.
So everytime someone spouts "Harry Reid" for no reason simply reply "John Ensign". Because I sure haven't seen him in the public eye doing a damn thing for Nevada except being yet another source of embarrassment.
She got my Vote, Thanks Jon
The CRAZY never stops with Angle.
Harry Reid is a GENIUS
Sharon Angle needs to make sure she takes her meds before she speaks! One reason she leaves after her speeches in a hurry is because she knows that the guys in white coats are coming to get her.
I have studied hypnosis and the article is very good and there may be some validity just a Hitler was said to use such language. THIS DOES NOT MEAN I BELIEVE OBAMA HYPNOTIZED PEOPLE, but for some who were willing to listen and wanted to hear; I am sure it worked very well. But in the end, Obama won't be well liked simply because he came into office as we were in a deflationary period and people will just become more upset at anyone in office as things get worse AND THEY WILL. But at some point , a number of years from now, things will be better; As the saying goes; this too shall pass
Damn !....what are these people smoking ? Whatever it is...it's NOT legal.
The insanity keeps getting worse, every day! If you vote for Sharron Angle, aren't you crazier than she is?
"Covert hypnosis"?
Dare I say it, Teatards have finally found the Achilles' heel of the Obama administration: AMENTIA.
With the perspicacity and IQ to understand some of the most complex economic issues of annualized GDP growth, the education and intelligence to teach constitutional law to aspiring attorneys, and the patience and tolerance to compromise with Congressional Republicans where he could, the Rightwing has found the one area Obama had no sword with which to pierce them with: mental teatardation.
He can disprove their outrageous claims with facts, he can point to GM and Chrysler now trending to outpace foreign manufacterers despite Teatards bemoaning a year ago that his auto industry "Marxism" would fail, he can compromise with Republicans with Congress on the healthcare reform, but the one thing that he cannot go on the offensive with is stupid wingnuts.
Intelligence, leadership, and tolerance are no match for unadulterated stupidity. He can show rabid birthers his birth certificate and published birth announcement (SOURCE: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/201...), he can make Republicans regret the time they claimed his auto industry stimulus would be the end of capitalism (SOURCE: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive...), but viciously accuse him of using diabolical, evil superpowers of "covert hypnosis" and the president might finally be too dumbfounded.
It's like trying to have a logical conversation in a political Narnia or at the Mad Hatter's table:
TEATARD: Obama taxes us to death, wants to tax us even more, and we won't stand for it!!
SANE PERSON: But everyone making under $200,000 a year (or $250,000 per household), which is 90-95% of Americans, won't pay any more, and Americans are paying less taxes than they did 30, 40, or 50 years ago.
TEATARD: Exactly what I was saying, Afghanistan is Obama's war!!!
SANE PERSON: But didn't Bush and Cheney initiate the offensive in Afghanistan? But back to taxes...
TEATARD: What are you, an open-border liberal? Illegal is illegal! RAWRRRRRRRRR!
SANE PERSON: No, I support securing the border--
TEATARD: DON'T TREAD ON MY SPIRIT TURTLE!!!
SANE PERSON: Whoa, whoa, calm down now.
TEATARD: I am calm. I'm calm. I'm cool. I'm casual. I'm breezy and peaceful as a cucumber. All I'm asking is to see for him to show us his birth certificate. That's all we've been asking for, just one simple little thing.
SANE PERSON: But he did show it to you.
TEATARD: I knew it, that's why he should be impeached!
SANE PERSON: What?
TEATARD: I told you so, it's all a hypnotic illusion. Checkmate, my friend, checkmate.
Luckily for Republicans, stupidity is an unlimited natural resource in the party. Throngs of knuckle-dragging, fact-phobic idiots have finally found their shield in a back-and-forth dance of incoherent trickery and logical hide-and-seek.
"Luckily for Republicans, stupidity is an unlimited natural resource in the party. Throngs of knuckle-dragging, fact-phobic idiots have finally found their shield in a back-and-forth dance of incoherent trickery and logical hide-and-seek."
You just wait for Mama Grizzly. HaHahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahhaha!
Siromega, you are correct. The "R" voters, added with the "independents", who are mostly republicans who are too ashamed to say so in polite company, and the complacent may well band together to elect Ms. Angle. It's going to be interesting.
MYOHOMAN, I quote you, "Reid has had his chance and failed..." May I ask, what does that incomplete thought mean?
Angle says we're all supposed to depend on God to provide for us, not the government. Yet she and her husband are living on State and Federal taxpayer-funded pensions and benefits. And she wants to be a U.S. senator so she'll get more and better benefits and a huge pension, that she will be entitled to, I suppose, when she's triumphant in her war against entitlements for the poor and disabled, and entitlements earned by workers who paid social security and medicare taxes all their working lives, those workers who are not entitled to government pensions and benefits like she and her husband. I suppose she'd eliminate Veterans' entitlements, too. So, that's all divine for her and her believers, because she's ordained by God to force us to depend on his mercy, but her entitlements are sacred, and the others are evil. I bet they got an apartment reserved for her in that Dominionist house on K-Street where Ensign has been living, and God told her she's entitled to that, too.
@Bluejeans -
Yep.
The woman personifies the words "hypocrite" and "incoherent." Her non sequiturs, contradictions, and simplistic, self-serving red herring evasions are mind-numbingly encyclopedic.
Dolt.
@Zumabound
"As a consequence, trying to talk to them rationally is like trying to talk to the Mad Hatter or an eight year-old with ADHD. You can't show them enough facts or argue logically enough to ever get them to understand the error of their ways or views, because they're simply aren't coming from a rational place."
Oh, I know. I've ceased taking the initiative at any sort of coherent conversation with them. I tried, I really did. In another Sun article here ("Think About What's at Stake in November"), I clearly and patiently rebutted every single teamonic claim of theirs, and 50 comments later, not a single one would respond. They just clap their hands over their ears and sing "Lalala, not listeniiiing!"
They're so committed to their contradictory, incoherent theories that they HATE hearing about it because it just sounds stupid when said out loud or when misspelled on a fellow teatard's protest sign, but makes perfect sense in the padded cell of their cranial space where they don't have to "explain," or "justify," or "talk about" their outrageous claims. If you question why their illogical garble doesn't add up, you're probably a socialist traitor or open-border treasonist who wants to sabotage America.
How do even begin talking rationally with someone who claims Obama was born in Kenya, rejects Obama's notarized birth certificate, claims the governments of Kenya and Hawaii conspired to defraud America, and then asks you to PROVE THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED? Even if the birth certificate can be carbon-dated to prove it originated 49 years ago, it would only prove to them it was forged in 1961, and is probably evidence of Obama's diabolical superpowers, even as a newborn! Now just try to prove that didn't happen or else they're sticking to it.
How do you even begin refuting someone that claims the stockmarket crashing a record 1,874 points over 4 days in October 2008 is Obama's fault, and asks you to prove that the event which happened before he was even elected is in fact, not Obama's fault?
How do you even begin reasoning with someone who claims Obama used covert hypnosis to orchestrate the war in Afghanistan 8 years ago and somehow managed to pin it on Bush/Cheney?
How do you even begin debating someone who claims the bank bailout is proof that Obama is an economy-ruining socialist, when the bailout was actually authorized October 3, 2008 and signed by President Bush?
How do you talk to someone that looks at Lehman's 2008 bankruptcy of $613 BILLION, which is the single largest in US history, doesn't recognize it as a failure of predatory, unregulated capitalism but rather, concludes it must somehow be Obama's fault even though a "socialist agenda" would've prevented it? It's like claiming violent crimes are all the fault of police and proves we need to get rid of the police.
You can't. All we can do is point and laugh in November when there's lots of tears before bedtime because "I had a tea party and nobody came."
@gbigs
"Angle is a christian. Reid is a MORMON.
Mormons think Jesus Christ came to America to charge up the indians.
Mormons think the Angel Maroni is special.
Why does Reid run from his faith?"
LOL
LMAO
ROTFL
Is that really the best you can come up with, some logical leap of faith that requires the vast stretch of all your mental horsepower?
You might as well ask, why Reid loves Joseph Stalin because they both have gray hair.
You make the case that the Jim Crow tests should be applied to EVERYONE before they can vote, to make sure you have the minimal mental capacity to understand what policies you're even voting for or where you are and what's happening. It's too bad GED courses don't include test critical reasoning skills.
@skerlahdee
"You just wait for Mama Grizzly. HaHahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahhaha!"
To do what? For her to write on her facebook wall because no reputable news publication can talk to her without trying to hold back from laughing in her face?
Yeah, okay. Tell me when Mama Grizzly updates her facebook page. I'll be shivering in my boots.
Or maybe it should MAngle that's worried since Palin tanked the last two candidates she endorsed, losing votes and leads when Palin made public endorsements of them. See Fiorina, Ayotte, and Cece Heil.
More evidence that conservatism is a combination of mental illness and stupidity.
It could be worse, like another term for Reid. GO SHARRON !
Can you believe how Senator Reid Voted on Illegal Immigration: doe's this sound like a Man who cares about his country?
Voted NO on declaring English as the official language of the US government. (Jun 2007)
Voted NO on protecting middle-income taxpayers from a national energy tax. (Apr 2009)
Voted YES on eliminating the "Y" nonimmigrant guestworker program. (May 2007)
Voted NO on building a fence along the Mexican border. (Sep 2006)
Voted YES on continuing federal funds for declared "sanctuary cities". (Mar 2008)
Voted YES on Bush Administration Energy Policy. (Jul 2003)
Voted NO on tax incentives for energy production and conservation. (Jun 2008)
Voted NO on requiring full Senate debate and vote on cap-and-trade. (Apr 2009)
Voted YES on $2 billion more for Cash for Clunkers program. (Aug 2009)
Voted YES on enlarging NATO to include Eastern Europe. (May 2002)
Voted YES on Congressional pay raise. (Jul 2009)
Voted NO on requiring photo ID to vote in federal elections. (Jul 2007)
Voted YES on allowing some lobbyist gifts to Congress. (Mar 2006)
Voted NO on establishing the Senate Office of Public Integrity. (Mar 2006)
Voted NO on banning more types of Congressional gifts. (Jul 1995)
Reject photo ID requirements for voting. (Sep 2005)
Voted NO on more penalties for gun & drug violations. (May 1999)
Voted YES on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks. (Jul 1998)
Voted NO on allowing tribal Indians to opt out of federal healthcare. (Feb 2008)
Voted YES on blocking medical savings acounts. (Apr 1996)
COMMON SENSE dictates that none should disrespect the flag of the United States of America!! Much less our Commander in Chief!!
Church and State must be separate in order to give the Caesar what is rightfuly his!!
Ms. Sharon Angle chooses to ignore common sense and disrespect our Commander in Chief by calling him -an hipnotist of some source!! And also crossed the line between Church and State by calling on the Bible- And even proclaiming changes on the Constitution of the Land to justify her personal extremist -in my opinion-racist agenda!!!
ZumaBound: I don't need to be all over the place with this or that, I am very concerned with national security, just take one of the issues that Senator Reid voted on regarding Illegal immigration, and how it effects the average U.S Citizen= his vote of NO on declaring English as the National Language for the Government of the United States, many U.S Citizens are being discriminated against because we don't speak Bilingual, We all know by now that Bi Lingual means Spanish, leaving out all of the other languages in this country, Look in the news papers under Jobs, you almost have to be bilingual and know how to speak Spanish in order to get a job.Press 1 for English, or 2 for Spanish, Documents in both Spanish and English, a waste of tax dollars. You seem to be very smart; you can look up the provisions pertaining to his vote on immigration for yourself, I don't need a provision to understand that when he voted NO, on building a border fence between Mexico, and the U.S.A, that it meant securing the border. In this day and age, it is crazy not to have our borders protected more. What will it take another 9/11?
I use to be a Democrat that was until Bill Clinton Signed that partial birth abortion bill; I didn't need to know anything about provisions to understand what that meant. In the last 40 years there have been 40 million innocent babies killed to abortion, sadly Blacks don't know that Eugenics was introduce to control the black population in this country. I also voted for President Bush, I didn't like anything about him except he was against Gay relationships, and abortion, to me the rest of what he did was secondary, I did not agree with him on taking America to war, but as I compared him to the other candidate, I voted for him based on my Belief in God. God gave us the ability to see some things before they happen. There is so much corruption in what Senator Reid have done, and is still doing, and will continue to do if he remain in office. Sharron Angle has been called a lot of things, but I can't see the corruption in her, she is also Pro-Life, and against gay relationships, that out ways the secondary issues as far as I'm concerned. Thank you about pointing out Nitro- I had already said on one post days ago what I thought about him, and after reading something from Narf, I think that they are one in the same. Racist skinned head