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vow66 (32 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:43 PMOriginal message CNN Reporter at the Chicago Tea-Party Run time: 01:28http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3fvNhdoc0 Posted on YouTube: April 15, 2009By YouTube Member: NewsPoliticsNewsViews on YouTube: 286 Posted on DU: April 15, 2009By DU Member: vow66Views on DU: 143 It looks like one of the freepers pushes the CNN reporter
Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:47 PMResponse to Original message 1. She handled that really well, and took a very fine shot at Fox, too. I like her!Those idiots don't have the slightest notion of what's going on. They're just pathetic ...............
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:49 PMResponse to Original message 4. Verbal abuse, perhaps roughed up, not reallyI've seen press roughed up...Now she also committed a cardinal sin...you never, ever get into a discussion with your audience. You let them speak...and then editThat said, pretty enlightening
MedioGringo (61 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:50 PMResponse to Original message 5. She seems to be losing her cool a bit But who can blame her. Keep exposing the idiots for what they are.
Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:53 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461756Tea-bagging - Its supposedly bipartisan and apparently whites only. Can anyone find even one person of color in any of the crowd photos from anywhere?
mediaman007 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:53 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461754Question to those who have access to video: Are the tea parties all white?
endarkenment (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:51 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461739Fabricated by fox but real enough. Why we should be concerned. A major media broadcast outlet is openly advocating for rebellion against the federal government, and like it or not, we on the left should at least admit that there is in fact a real and growing right wing protest movement. They have managed to stage significant protests today and they have media access, unlike our protests movements of the past. They just may be able to grow this movement into something we should be concerned about instead of just laughing off.Unlike earlier attempts to get put people on the streets, like for example the Terry Schiavo Affair, this one is actually working. Gun nuts, fundaloons, and rightwing libertarians are not a good combination. A protest movement with unlimited media access and backing may in fact become a nightmare of extraordinary proportions.Ridicule them all you want. I ain't laughing. Go watch Hotel Rwanda. Couldn't ever happen here, right?
Median Democrat (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:57 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461792G-20 Anti-Capitalist Protest Coverage v. Tea Bag Media Coverage - Will They Be Called Anarchists? The corporate slant of the coverage is pretty interesting when comparing these protests. Indeed, I would go out there and say that the G-20 protests were much more well attended and organized (by anarchists no less) than these tea bag protests. However, the tea bag protests have a lot more corporate muscle behind them.
QueenOfCalifornia (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:50 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461726Corporatists Ass Kisssing = A Tea Party For years these same "tax payers" didn't give a rats ass about where their money was being spent. Not one word about killing over a million Iraqis - Not a single word about the maiming and destruction of an entire country. Not a murmur about the Americans coming home without legs, eyes, arms, hands and minds or in a box. These outraged tax payers backed a liar, a scoundrel and a con artist with not so much as a question. Now, they are yelling about tax money??? The truth is: We are not paying more taxes - this is part of their deranged imagination. We are spending more to back the military now but they have bought into Limbaugh's, O'Reilly's, and Hannity's lies as these talking-head-freaks tell them that the military budget has been cut. Let them all squeal like the fat, larded pigs they are. Let them roll around in their own filth and cry about socialism. They are dumber than a bucket of shit and deserve to stand around in the cold holding a god damned tea bag looking the fools.I am not surprised that Fox Noise has given these clowns a voice when for years we protestors of the war went unheard by the media. I am livid (again) but I am tired. I am sick and tired of these morons and their teeny-tiny brains. They can kiss my ass and have a cup of sour, tasteless tea.The M$M is stepping all over themselves so as to give the impression that there are millions of protestors. **** the media. **** these greedy bastards. If they had protested their dollars going to back an illegal, senseless occupation I would have been there with them.They can bite me.
Racist protesters riot against government!
dem629 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:00 PMOriginal message "My parents made me skip school to hold this sign."
Mother Of Four (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:52 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461741Is anyone else thinking "For heavens(sic) sake...just get it over with!" Reading on the net, and on here about these idiotic paranoid "I want mine and yours too" pieces of crap that run around pretending to be patriotic, not even realizing that being a part of a country is caring about your countrymen/women. Walk tough, talk tough but never pony up and go do what our young men and women are being sent overseas to do. "Not MY kid" crowd that wails and moans over spending, but turns a blind eye to the killing of innocents so long as they are another religion/color/nationality. Guns, booze, money, putting women in their "place", no rights but our rights piles of steaming donkey dung. I want to go to the tallest building with the biggest bullhorn I've ever seen and tell that part of our country that is selfish, pigheaded and ignorant to "GET IT OVER WITH!" They want to whine and scream about rising up, well then rise the hell up. I for one would be glued to the TV to watch them get spanked. I can not WAIT for them to become extinct. Let the Elephant go the way of the Woolly Mammoth! Ok I feel better now. (This reaction is from reading all the "protest" signs pictures, and the horrible sentiments they represent. Not to mention exposing innocent children to it, have they NO SHAME?)
daleanime (257 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:57 PMResponse to Original message 1. Some times the question... is the answer. Problem is that the only thing they are willing to share is their pain.
grahamhgreen (697 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:41 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461620My conservative buddy in Georgia says the tea-bagging is really a front for the fair tax initiative. The fair tax shifts the tax burdon to the poor and middle class, of course.It was started here in GA by Radio dude Neil Boortz and one of our reps.I have a counter proposal, BTW, called the "NO TAX" - in which we eliminate all personal income tax on people earning under 500k per year and only tax the wealthy and corporations.What Obama claims he's going to do is increase taxes on the wealthy and Corp's in order to pay back the massive deficit he's running up.So the (un)fair tax is a perfect rebuttal to his plan.It must be stopped.
JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:44 PMResponse to Original message 2. Interesting how they can bamboozle the village serfs... To protest until they get a tax increase.
Mari333 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:24 PMOriginal message Fake Teabaggers Are Anti-Spend, Anti-Government: Real Populists Want to Stop Banks from Plundering A Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 02:25 PM by Mari333http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461427Fake Teabaggers Are Anti-Spend, Anti-Government: Real Populists Want to Stop Banks from Plundering AmericaThe Tea Party movement was born on Feb. 19 with a now-famous rant by second-string CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli, who called for a "Chicago Tea Party" in protest of President Barack Obama's plans to help distressed American homeowners. Santelli’s call blazed through the blogosphere, greased along by a number of FreedomWorks-funded blogs, propelling him to the status of a 21st century Samuel Adams — a leader and symbol of disenfranchised Americans suffering under big-government oppression and mismanagement of the economy.That same day, a nationwide "Tea Party" protest movement mysteriously materialized on the Internet. A whole ring of Web sites came online within hours of Santelli's rant, like sleeper-cell blogs waiting for the trigger to act, all claiming to have been inspired by Santelli's allegedly impromptu outburst.At first glance, the sites appeared to be unconnected and unplanned. But many were suspiciously well designed and strangely on point with their "nonpartisan" and "grassroots" statements. It was as if all of them were reading from the same script. The Web sites heavily linked to each other, spreading their mission with help of Facebook and Twitter feeds. FreedomWorks, as if picking up on rumblings coming from the depths of the conservative netroots, linked to them, too.http://www.alternet.org/workplace/136688/fake_teabagger...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8344412FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 08:03 AMOriginal message I am Pissed! 6 Years ago, the media didn't talk about the Million people marching against Iraq! We barely saw any coverage. And we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people out in the streets.But today, the same media can't stop talking about these Astroturf Teabagging Parties.What is the difference? One was liberals paving the pavement to try and save lives,and today it is conservatives out there yelling about nothing.I hate the conservative "say they are liberal" corporate media! They have been talking about this fakeass movement on all of the channels for the last 3 days.
sandyd921 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 08:36 AMResponse to Original message 11. We're considered "fringe"; they're considered "mainstream" by the "liberal" conservative media. Doesn't matter in this bizzaro world that we're the ones arguing for rational, common-sense (not to speak of ethical and humane) policies. We stand in the way of the corporatocracy and military-industrial complex; they are there for (and are supported by) the corporate elite. I think this pretty well sums it up.
Results 1 - 10 of about 598,000 from nytimes.com for anti-war protesters. (0.35 seconds) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=anti-war+protesters++site%3Anytimes.com&btnG=Search
Results 1 - 10 of about 100,000 from cnn.com for anti-war protesters. (0.28 seconds) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=anti-war+protesters+site%3Acnn.com&btnG=Search
Cary (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:10 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461931Teabaggers. Yich. I took a nice walk to the IRS post of duty, in the Federal Building in downtown Chicago, to file some returns and some extensions, and was forced to walk the gauntlet and endure the insipid blather and inane signs. Sigh. . . These people make me sick. I don't understand how they can endure themselves. Perhaps they can get by in red, rural areas. But they're here. Some of their crap was incendiary, something about killing the wrong pirates or some such nonsense. They're depressing. They have no good argument. They have nothing constructive to add to the debate. They are in deep denial of their freefall. One of them thought he was clever with a sign that read: "Help me Barack Obama they're make me do work or something."These are our fellow Americans. I want them to be functional and normal, or else they should at least be decent enough to just shut the **** up for awhile. They've inflicted enough damage on our wonderful country. At least let us fix some of that before they trash it even more. Yich. Yich. Yich.
NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:11 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461945Imagine if all the "protesters" today actually refused to pay those taxes? If they really wanted to do something, that's what they would have done. Burn their tax forms. But they won't, because they're too cowardly to actually do something substantive. They talk "revolution" but they call of one of their protests because of some local ordinance. People with conviction would do it anyway. Look at what happened with the Boston Tea Party. That was certainly illegal, and after they did it, Parliament responded by closing the port of Boston, made all positions in the Massachusetts government appointed by the king, and let the governor unilaterally move trials to London instead of at home.They did it anyway.
WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:09 PMOriginal message GOP = PArty Of Teabaggers, Birthers, and White Supremacists It doesn't get any more "permanent minority" than this:
Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:05 PMOriginal message Shall we call them "Somalia Conservatives?" I think this cartoon is absolutely fantastic. And it gets across the point that what these teabaggers stand for is hypocrisy.So what do you think? How does "Somalia Conservatives" sound?
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:14 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461978Protesting against your country Disgusting. Freedom of speech should not be abused. If you don't like this country or the way it is being run then you should pack up and leave.
Javaman (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:17 PMResponse to Original message 2. I'm assuming that you are trying to be snarky. I don't give a flying **** what these idiots protest, say or do, frankly, I cheer them on. Why? Not just because they exercise their freedom, but because they also highlight their stupidity.
sixmile (616 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:19 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5462028Here's a picture of the one black guy attending the tea parties courtesy of faux news:Tony Cook tries to drum up costumers with coupons outside Liberty Tax Service in Philadelphia (AP)Working. Paying taxes. ****ing socialist. The irony is delicious.http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/anti-tax-tea...
Obama has his way, those parents could be arrested for child abuse.
blogslut (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:20 PMOriginal message MY Money! MY God! MY Guns! (((PICS!))) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5462037
helderheid (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:23 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5462076Utah Democratic Party’s Response to “Tea Party†For immediate release: April 15, 2009Utah Democratic Party’s Response to “Tea Partyâ€As a party with a record of fiscal responsibility, Democrats understand the anxiety people are feeling over ballooning deficits. In January 2001 when Bill Clinton left office, it was projected that by now our national debt would be paid off. Instead, Republicans decided to cut taxes for those with top annual incomes and now we are facing record debtThe premise of these corporately funded, Fox News and right-wing radio orchestrated “Tea Parties†is that conservatives now can be trusted to spend our money wisely. They propose we put off needed investments in infrastructure, education, energy and healthcare during the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. The decreased spending will magically revive a declining economy instead of driving up unemployment rates and thereby driving down consumer spending, and digging a deeper hole in revenue. “Tea Party†participants complain a great deal about taxes. As of April 1st nearly one million Utahns began receiving a tax cut that will total more than $500 million. This tax cut took effect immediately in the form of less income tax withheld from workers’ paychecks. The only member of Utah’s congressional delegation to vote for Obama’s tax cut was Congressman Jim Matheson. Congressmen Bishop and Chaffetz, both speakers at today’s “Tea Partyâ€, voted against this tax cut for struggling Utah middle class families. According to Utah Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Holland, Bishop and Chaffetz’s vote against a tax cut for working Utah families was a real slap in the face. “Over the past eight years the average working family has seen their income decline by about $2,000 and their healthcare costs mushroom. Meanwhile the wealthiest one percent of Americans saw their income literally explode and their taxes cut.†Chairman Holland concludes, “Utah deserves representation that will stand up for working families when they need it most. By voting against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Bishop and Chaffetz both failed us.†Republicans in the Utah legislature dutifully voted against any proposal that involved increasing anything with the word “tax†in it including: gas taxes, cigarette taxes, centrally assessed property taxes that hit big business, income taxes, or severance taxes. Instead, they decided to increase the cost of nearly everything else: vehicle registration fees, business fees, court fees, college tuition, public employee health insurance co-pays and premiums, public school student fees, and even marriage license fees. Utah Democrats have been a consistent voice against the ballooning of the national debt during the Bush years. It’s these past Bush and Republican policies - and not the Recovery and Reinvestment Act - that is to blame for the current economic and fiscal crisis. Some of the Bush policy supporters speaking at the downtown SaltLake “Tea Party†should be the focus of participant’s rage. http://www.utdemocrats.org/articles/view/138986/
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:14 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunde...l&address=389x5461978Protesting against your country Disgusting. Freedom of speech should not be abused. If you don't like this country or the way it is being run then you should pack up and leave.
