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Title: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 01:52:19 PM: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x297141

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vow66 (32 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:43 PM
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CNN Reporter at the Chicago Tea-Party
Run time: 01:28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3fvNhdoc0

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It looks like one of the freepers pushes the CNN reporter

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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:47 PM
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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 ...............

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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:49 PM
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4. Verbal abuse, perhaps
roughed up, not really

I'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 edit

That said, pretty enlightening

So, a CNN reporter gets into an arguement with the protesters? So much for reporting...

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MedioGringo (61 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:50 PM
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5. She seems to be losing her cool a bit
But who can blame her. Keep exposing the idiots for what they are.

::)

it is beginning. Tonight's news will begin with right-wing extreamists attacking news reports are anti-government riots.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 01:53:37 PM: Racist protesters riot against government!

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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:53 PM
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Tea-bagging - Its supposedly bipartisan and apparently whites only.
Can anyone find even one person of color in any of the crowd photos from anywhere?
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
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mediaman007 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:53 PM
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Question to those who have access to video: Are the tea parties all white?

Leftist talking point number 2.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 01:56:23 PM: Quote
endarkenment (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:51 PM
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Fabricated 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?

Leftist talking point number 3.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 01:57:23 PM: Quote
Median Democrat (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:57 PM
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G-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.

Leftist tlaking point number 4.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 01:58:49 PM: Quote
QueenOfCalifornia (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:50 PM
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Corporatists 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.

Leftist talking point number 5
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 15, 2009, 01:59:25 PM: Quote from: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 01:53:37 PM
Racist protesters riot against government!

Everybody knows "deficit-spending" is really conservative code-speak for n*****.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:00:38 PM: Quote
dem629 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:00 PM
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"My parents made me skip school to hold this sign."

(http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090415/capt.a09830cf8b3d40b79ace8559da371b1c.tax_day_protests_wvbb105.jpg)

ridicule. belittle. shout down.

the leftist tactics.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:03:56 PM: Quote
Mother Of Four (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:52 PM
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Is 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?)

Obama has his way, those parents could be arrested for child abuse.

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daleanime (257 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:57 PM
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1. Some times the question...
is the answer. Problem is that the only thing they are willing to share is their pain.

irony....it burns!....
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:06:33 PM: First Tea Party bouncy?

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grahamhgreen (697 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:41 PM
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My 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.

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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:44 PM
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2. Interesting how they can bamboozle the village serfs...
To protest until they get a tax increase.

'cuse we be jus too stupid to figger it outs...
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:08:51 PM: Quote
Mari333 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:24 PM
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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 Mari333
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5461427

Fake Teabaggers Are Anti-Spend, Anti-Government: Real Populists Want to Stop Banks from Plundering America

The 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. Santelliâ€™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 â€” 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...

DHS is waiting to swoop down and take out these so called tea party sleeper cells...
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: Servonaut on April 15, 2009, 02:09:20 PM: Add number 6 Dutch, from another thread.

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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 08:03 AM
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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.

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sandyd921 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 08:36 AM
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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.

It was covered DUmmies

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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

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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
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:10:20 PM: Quote
Cary (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:10 PM
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Teabaggers. 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.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: USA4ME on April 15, 2009, 02:11:08 PM: The MSM and the kooks (often one and the same) are going to say what they're going to say. This type of recognition about what B. Hussein and his Marxist agenda is all about is beyond their ability to derail.

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Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:11 PM
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Imagine 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.

Talking point number 7.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:14:15 PM: Quote
WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:09 PM
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GOP = PArty Of Teabaggers, Birthers, and White Supremacists
It doesn't get any more "permanent minority" than this:

(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh75/hnmnf/1239819511.jpg)
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:15:39 PM: Quote
Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:05 PM
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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?

(http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2009/04/15/08/926-090415pett.standalone.prod_affiliate.79.jpg)
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:17:48 PM: Quote
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:14 PM
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Protesting 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.

pretty good for a DUmp monkie

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Javaman (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:17 PM
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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.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
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sixmile (616 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:19 PM
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Here's a picture of the one black guy attending the tea parties
courtesy of faux news:
(http://www.foxnews.com/politics/img/story/041509_teaparty1.jpg)

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...
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: The Village Idiot on April 15, 2009, 02:20:10 PM: Quote from: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:03:56 PM

Obama has his way, those parents could be arrested for child abuse.

These are the people who bussed kids out of school to Obama rallies.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: Wineslob on April 15, 2009, 02:20:55 PM: I went by the Tea Party here where I work. Lots of people with "Don't Tread on Me "signs, and many like the one on the little girl pictured. The lefty loons were on the sidewalk with "NO TAX FOR WAR" signs............................all 2-3 of them. :evillaugh:
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:20 PM
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MY Money! MY God! MY Guns! (((PICS!)))
(http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090415/capt.6b6da63d5fb54319af4ed92dfd55afd3.tax_day_protests_kyer121.jpg)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5462037

how many threads are the DUmp monkiez gonna start? Shall we take a poll?
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on April 15, 2009, 02:24:28 PM: I haven't had the time to peruse the DUmp today. Are there any threads that suggest that a fellow DUmmy show up and pass out military enlistment forms?
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:25:40 PM: Offical Democratic Patry of Utah's response!!!

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helderheid (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:23 PM
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Utah Democratic Partyâ€™s Response to â€œTea Partyâ€
For immediate release: April 15, 2009

Utah Democratic Partyâ€™s Response to â€œTea 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 debt

The premise of these corporately funded, Fox News and right-wing radio orchestrated â€œTea Partiesâ€ 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.

â€œTea Partyâ€ 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 workersâ€™ paychecks. The only member of Utahâ€™s congressional delegation to vote for Obamaâ€™s tax cut was Congressman Jim Matheson. Congressmen Bishop and Chaffetz, both speakers at todayâ€™s â€œTea Partyâ€, voted against this tax cut for struggling Utah middle class families.

According to Utah Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Holland, Bishop and Chaffetzâ€™s vote against a tax cut for working Utah families was a real slap in the face. â€œOver 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.â€ Chairman Holland concludes, â€œUtah 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.â€

Republicans in the Utah legislature dutifully voted against any proposal that involved increasing anything with the word â€œtaxâ€ 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. Itâ€™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 â€œTea Partyâ€ should be the focus of participantâ€™s rage.

http://www.utdemocrats.org/articles/view/138986/

Wow....most of the leftist talking points all in one little announcement!
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Post by: Wineslob on April 15, 2009, 02:26:53 PM: Quote
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:14 PM
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Protesting 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.

Your'e right............. **** YOU. There, I feel MUCH better exercising my freedom.

I hope any DUmmies reading this thread understand this point I get from your postings...........You are AFRAID of us.........you should be. :evillaugh:
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Post by: Happy Fun Ball on April 15, 2009, 02:27:45 PM: Quote from: Servonaut on April 15, 2009, 02:09:20 PM
It was covered DUmmies
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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
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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
Results 1 - 10 of about 72,400 from nytimes.com for tea party. (0.44 seconds)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=tea+party+site%3Anytimes.com

Results 1 - 10 of about 7,280 from cnn.com for tea party. (0.29 seconds)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=tea+party+site%3Acnn.com
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:28:01 PM: Quote
Mari333 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:25 PM
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White Nationalists Tied to Tea Parties
Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 03:27 PM by Mari333

All that is nothing compared to the recruiting being planned by neo-Nazis at Arizona tea parties. You know youâ€™ve really lost control when your quirky libertarian actions are mined by the scary bald guys with swastika tattoos. Stormfront, the hard-core white power website, is full of discussions about plans to attend tea parties all over the country. One Stormfront poster wrote, â€œLadies and gentlemen, I think every WN needs to not only attend the April 15th Tea Party nearest you (Iâ€™m going to the Alamo in San Antonio) but then stay involved and help provide leadership to this movement. I believe that this is the white revolution weâ€™ve been waiting for.â€ Uh, right. Letâ€™s hope Fox News manages to televise that.

When we stop to think about the real message behind these tea parties, that a black president will never represent white America, itâ€™s not surprising that the scary white nationalists have come out to play. Letâ€™s be frank, these tax increase protests (for the super rich and not even at the levels of previous Republican presidentsâ€™), are just code for â€œweâ€™re scared out of our minds of a president that might represent black, brown, and poor.â€
http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/04/14/white-nationa... /

and more

http://gawker.com/5211747/neo+nazis-tea-parties-are-the...

OMG!!! The DHS was RIGHT!
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:30:21 PM: Quote
smoogatz (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:28 PM
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Really, the teabaggers are just exercising their first amendment right
to suck on a big, hairy, sweaty pair of testicles. No, wait, they're exercising their first amendment right to protest incoherently the fact that their guys are no longer in power. Yeah, that's it--although you can understand how I got confused.

ridicule...

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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:30 PM
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1. and could be racially motivated too.
they just hate the idea of President Obama and maybe his plans working out for everyone.

play the race card.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:34:42 PM: re-write the history.

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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:35 PM
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Tea Parties and Pirates (Pat Ryan / Blue Oregon)
... Rick Santelli, News hack extraordinaire over at CNBC, who seems a little fuzzy on US history, called for a ChicagoTea Party, targeting the $75 billion set aside to sort out the mortgage crisis ... Ms. Cox pointed out at the time, he hadn't suffered a similar attack of The Vapors when the Trillions were being ladled into the top end of the big Trickle Down Funnel ...

So immediate hilarity ensued . Libertarians were out rubbing shoulders with Book Burners and frightened creationists. Michelle Malkin got into a terrible row with conspiracy nut Alex Jones, anti-taxers held signs opposing Taxation With Representation, and the only points that most could agree on was that they were unsure about Obama's birth certificate, but positive that he was sending the storm troopers to disarm them and shuffle them off to FEMA camps. The fact that almost every one of 'em got a chunk of Obama's largest tax cut in US history, and that it was the last guys that got us into this mess, does not impress. So I guess my take away from all that was that I just wish Michelle would smile once in while ...

In about the same time frame, we've been dealing with the Temporary Autonomous Zone of Somalia. In this libertarian paradise, there are no taxes, no speed limits, no uniform building code, and there is no Gummint pushing you around and telling you what to do. Of course there are also no police, roads, hospitals, and so forth and a reasonable career move <is> to head out and make your fortune on the High Seas. The down side of this Paradise of Free Will and Self Determination is that your best career option may lead to having a hole drilled in your forehead from a distance by people who are fans of a slightly more regimented regime ...

http://www.blueoregon.com/2009/04/tea-parties-and-pirat...
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:30 PM
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"It's a genuine, grassroots uprising."
Tim Philips, president of "Americans for Prosperity," just said that on CNN, which just happens to be the exact phrase of every other Repub. on tv today. They're such liars. This "tea party across the nation" has been advertised by EVERYONE on Faux as well as conservative websites/groups.

fuax outrage at organizing, re-writing history, inventing facts...

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Cha (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:33 PM
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2. Genuine coming out of all the idiots
who don't know they're protesting bush's taxes and have hannity's and limpdick stuffed in their ears so they don't really know what's going on.

parrot the talking points...

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alsame (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:33 PM
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3. DId you see Sanchez point out the sign with the white hand
giving money to the black hand? Sure, these people aren't racist at all, that was just a coincidence.

play the race card...

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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:37 PM
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8. Literally TENS of americans!

ridicule
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:39:57 PM: ridicule, belittle, mock..

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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-14-09 05:26 PM
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"The peasant mentality lives on in America" Great anti tea bagger rant by Taibbi

It took a good long while for news of the Teabag movement to penetrate the periphery of my consciousness â€” I kept hearing things about it and dismissing them, sure that the whole business was some kind of joke. Like a Daily Show invention, say. It pains me to say this as an American, but we are the only people on earth dumb enough to use a nationwide campaign of â€œteabag partiesâ€ as a form of mass protest, in the middle of a real economic crisis.

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Itâ€™s been strange and kind of depressing to watch the conservative drift in this direction. In a way, actually, the Glenn Beck show has been drearily fascinating of late. Itâ€™s not often that we get to watch someone go insane on national television; trapped in an echo chamber of his own spiraling egomania, with apparently no one at his network willing to pull the plug and put him out of his misery, Beck has lately gone from being a mildly annoying media dingbat to a self-imagined messiah who looks like heâ€™s shouldering more and more of the burdens of Christ with each passing day. And because heâ€™s stepping into a vacuum of conservative leadership â€” thereâ€™s no one else out there who is offering real red meat to the winger crowd â€” heâ€™s begun to attract not professional help but apostles, in the form of Chuck Norris (who believes we have to prepare for armed revolution and may prepare a run for â€œpresident of Texasâ€) and pinhead Midwestern congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, a woman who is looking more and more like George Foreman to Sarah Palinâ€™s Joe Frazier in the Heavyweight Championship of Stupid. Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

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After all, the reason the winger crowd canâ€™t find a way to be coherently angry right now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It never has. The setup always goes the other way: when the excesses of business interests and their political proteges in Washington leave the regular guy broke and screwed, the response is always for the lower and middle classes to split down the middle and find reasons to get pissed off not at their greedy bosses but at each other. Thatâ€™s why even people like Beckâ€™s audience, who Iâ€™d wager are mostly lower-income people, canâ€™t imagine themselves protesting against the Wall Street barons who in actuality are the ones who ****ed them over. Beck pointedly compared the AIG protesters to Bolsheviks: â€œ basically said â€˜Eat the rich, they did this to you, get â€˜em, kill â€˜em!â€™â€ He then said the AIG and G20 protesters were identical: â€œItâ€™s a different style, but the sentiments are exactly the same: Find â€˜em, get â€˜em, kill â€˜em!â€™â€ Beck has an audience thatâ€™s been trained that the rich are not appropriate targets for anger, unless of course theyâ€™re Hollywood liberals, or George Soros, or in some other way linked to some acceptable class of villain, to liberals, immigrants, atheists, etc. â€” Ted Turner, say, married to Jane Fonda.

But actual rich people canâ€™t ever be the target. Itâ€™s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the masterâ€™s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know youâ€™re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, youâ€™re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And thatâ€™s what weâ€™ve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punishâ€¦ canâ€™t be mad at AIG, canâ€™t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, itâ€™s struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. Itâ€™s really weird stuff. And bound to get weirder, I imagine, as this crisis gets worse and more complicated.
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/04/14/americas-pea... /

Taibbi hits the nailon the head...again.
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:37 PM
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Teabagging report from Wilmington DE
Currently there are 17 of what appear to be teabaggers on the Riverfront. No, wait, ...my bad, those are sea gulls. Never mind. More later.

mocking...
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Median Democrat (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:42 PM
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Where Are The Massive Teabag Protests? Nothing In LA and OC. Over-Hyped?
I don't see any protests in LA or OC. I called up some buddies working downtown, and they really have not seen any protests. I personally have seen much larger protests over gay marriage, immigration, Earth Day, and employee labor disputes. Yet, I see a lot of coverage by the mainstream media that was not present for such events.

What gives? With all the hype, I was expecting something on par with the protests against Congress's efforts to increases criminal penalties for illegal immigration.

talking point 10...the event is a failure.
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:45:28 PM: On to HUFPO...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-wellington-ennis/on-teabags-and-douchebags_b_187005.html

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The Teabagging movement appears to be a dart board of broad complaints about American government today, insidiously co-opted by the Republican party, FOX News and corporate lobbyists.

It's like the venerable blog, Hot Chicks with Douchebags, devoted to otherwise attractive females attaching themselves to appalling macho cheese. The mantra of the site is, "What is she doing with him?"

Somewhere in the Tea Party outrage are some desperate people asking worthwhile questions you can relate to, such as "Where the **** is all this government bailout money going to?" and "How come I am so broke?" But before you can answer, you see they are standing next to other people who advocate burning books about evolution.

I believe this Astroturf agitprop will soon spin out, as its poorly disguised populist pitch has been revealed to be another partisan stunt with no actual criticism or legs. Just as the real Boston Tea Party involved colonists dressed as Indians to avoid retribution, this Tea Party appears to be right-wing hit men posing as concerned citizens.

But is it really composed of aimless, bitter conservatives chomping to criticize anything and everything that happens as long as Obama is in the White House? There is a real surge in public mistrust of the government, though I suspect much of it is based on self-propagating misinformation. Like commenters on conservative sites such as the aptly named Hot Air, one of whom said, "Obama wants to take away our rights." (Where were they for the last eight years when their rights were already taken away?)

Gone are the simplistic Good vs. Evil dogmas of the Cold War, the War on Terror, the War on Iraq, the last presidential campaign, the Wild West, you name it. Without the certainty of fighting something so easily dubbed evil, too many people fall adrift of their sense of self -- what makes them good? When there is no imminent evil threat, the same paranoia finds new outlets. And so they unearth some other arcane fear-fed meme, as relevant as the Red Scare, and peddle facile orthodox with a new spectrum of threats.

And now, as an incipient extension of all these misapplied ideas of individual manifest destiny, there is the Tea Party Movement.

Like lofty literature, tying yourself to something great does not equate you as great, or even accurate. Further, simply using the term "taxation" does not imply moral superiority just because it was a word used by the founding fathers.

What is mystifying is the lack of either real policy criticism or advancement of any ideas. Watch this clip from FOX News. What is the purpose of this organized effort? "We're hopefully going to have more tea parties...let other people know we can't believe what's going on...We're going to stand up...show the politicians...tell them how you feel...what can we do?"

It is amazing to see a movement take off without either a specific cause or a specific goal. The Tea Party movement makes a mockery of the struggle our founding fathers fought. What they did was seriously dangerous and rebellious, an act of war with fear of death.

Today, when outrage does not take hold of the country the way some conservatives and business interests would like, the rallying cry is broadened from "cap and trade agreements restrict coal plants unfairly" to "they will take away your freedoms, guns, and children!"

Why would people think this could even be possible? Might it be because of the constant threat of socialism after every commercial break?

The outcry against socialism is in response to some imagined threat of totalitarianism that has not been raised by anyone except these outraged individuals. Naturally, that fear spreads quickly by rhetorical repetition. Those repeating these threats are the ones that have to gain by public fear.

There is a much larger issue at stake. We need to reclaim the meaning of our founding fathers.

It is bad enough that people who haven't seen Sex and the City insist on waving their tea bags in people's faces. But this misappropriated sense of superiority in imitating the founding fathers leads to all kinds of wrong, like the inane videos put out by a guy in a wig on a green screen dressed like a tour guide from Colonial Village calling himself Thomas Paine.

That he is talking about something completely different than Thomas Paine writing about separating from England is apparently irrelevant. All he needs to do is start off rhetorical questions with "Is it common sense to...?" And from there, the escalation into outright xenophobia is swift. He ends with "Buy a gun, you'll need it."

You might prefer to write off such nuts, but Bob Basso's rants have received millions of views on YouTube. Maybe some of these people really do want to go back to what our country was founded on: slavery. (If Barack Obama could still count as three-fifths of a person, would we have to listen to him?)

While there is much prefabricated fanfare for these Tea Parties, I would caution that they are catching on with something in people right now. But here's the rub: we're stuck with them. Like the founding fathers said, all Americans have their right to free speech. And these are still Americans, who still have to be won over as much as possible. Like Hot Chicks with Douchebags, we embrace these embarrassments, even if while cringing. That's what this country was supposed to be about: tolerance.
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Post by: DixieBelle on April 15, 2009, 02:46:28 PM: Oh FFS! I'm STILL waiting for the primitives to tell me what rights we lost under George W. Bush.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: USA4ME on April 15, 2009, 02:46:42 PM: Quote from: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:41:15 PM
faux ax outrage at organizing, re-writing history, inventing facts...

parrot the talking points...

play the race card...

ridicule

belittle

mock

And the primitives are desperately failing at each of these.

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Post by: Servonaut on April 15, 2009, 02:47:44 PM: Quote
Utah Democrats have been a consistent voice against the ballooning of the national debt during the Bush years.

The national debt was oh so bad during the Bush years.

Your future DUmmies

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f85/Servonaut/obamadebt.jpg)

:whatever:
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:48:17 PM: The government steps in to red tape a protest...

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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:48 PM
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Teabaggers bring a million teabags to DC to dump in Lafayette Square, but are sent away.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

There will be no tea-dumping in the Potomac River -- that's illegal -- but organizers of today's national tea party tax protest found out this morning that so is their plan to dump a million tea bags in Lafayette Square to demonstrate displeasure at government spending and tax policies.

Protesters, using a rented truck to haul the million tea bags, began unloading their cargo at the park this morning but were told by officials that they didn't have proper permits and must move the tea . They complied with the order but are still considering what to do with the load.

The tea had been purchased online by people upset over recent government policy, said John Gauger, a spokesman for the grass-roots conservative group Reagan.org.

The protesters got more bad news when security officials also told them that they did not have proper permits for a rally in front of the Treasury building.

That noon-time protest had been expected to provide a national stage for speeches by such figures as Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform; former presidential candidate Alan Keyes; and Thomas A. Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste. But after the discussion with security officials, the protesters sent away the advance crew that was to set up risers and equipment for news crews.

..snip
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:49:27 PM: What are the odds this was a leftist infiltrator?

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sabra (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:47 PM
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Protesters throw apparent tea bags at White House (prompting SS to lockdown the compound)
Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) â€” The Secret Service says a suspicious package thrown over the fence and onto the White House's North Lawn was not dangerous.

Tax protesters threw what appeared to be a box of tea bags toward the White House on Wednesday, prompting officials to lockdown the compound. The Secret Service also used a robot to inspect the package thrown in an apparent act of defiance meant to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party.

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJlIl...
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:51 PM
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This tea party BS is going to backfire on the GOP massively.
The more this BS goes on the more people are going to associate the GOP with these lunatics.

classic!
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Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 15, 2009, 02:51:37 PM: Dutch,

I'm sure you've read Sun Tsu's maxim that if you know your enemy as well as yourself you have nothing to fear.

DUmmies should be afraid...very afraid.

These DUmmies walk in such willful ignorance they pose no threat and only serve to hasten our successes by showing the middle-grounders that they have no rebuttal. The DUmmies refuse to study their adversaries. Marc Cooper at the LAT is getting flayed by hundreds--now probably thousands--of people taking him to task for this very same mindset.
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JeffreyWilliamson (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:52 PM
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Ha ha! And courtesy of Wonkette, a Counter-Teabagging Photo!
http://wonkette.com/407814/teabaggers-really-dont-care-...

counter protesters:

(http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/wtf08.jpg)
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walldude (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:52 PM
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Permit? We needed a permit?

So lemme see if I have this straight, huge protest in D.C., a million tea bags, guest speakers, thousands of people.. oops, no permit. Fox's take on it: "Bad weather".
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:59:03 PM: Common Sense gets shouted down:

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960 (348 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:54 PM
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People calling teabagging protests "white power rallies" are racist.
You are assigning a racial motivation to a cause that is not about race.
You are being prejudiced and RACIST yourselves.
Are there racists at the protests who hate Obama and his policies because he is black? I'm sure there are.

That does not mean the protests are "white power rallies".
And saying they are is incredibly stupid, and only helps those who wish to use race as a wedge.

I think the protesters are off base and that it is an astroturf campaign.
But I will also defend their rights as Americans to protest. Including the douchebags protesting at my school today.

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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:55 PM
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1. Having a sign that says "Obama = White Slavery" injects race into, really.
Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 03:55 PM by SemiCharmedQuark
Using White Supremacist organizations to help set up your protests injects race into it too.

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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:56 PM
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7. You should do your homework before posting rants...
There is a neo-Nazi group at the "grass roots" of this deal.

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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:57 PM
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14. Yep, Stormfront is recruting heavily at these things
It's all about racism.

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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:56 PM
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8. This would be true, if there had not been so many examples of OVERT racism at these rallies.
So yeah, we shouldn't just call something racist because we disagree with people. That's true.

However, already today, there have been so many examples of blatantly racist rhetoric and paraphernalia that it should at least be commented on.

It's all about race, you see.
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Solomon (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:58 PM
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LOL Showing Their Ass.
Beer and popcorn, a rainy day, and a white power show. This is almost like the 21st Century version of the KKK marching down Pennsylvania Ave. in the 1920s, all dressed in white and carrying Confederate flags.

This time they wearing our flag.

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YOY (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:59 PM
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1. Not just wearing our flag.
Claiming it belongs to them and not us.
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:59 PM
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Teabagger's are the ones who lost the election...
the more I'm seeing is the Republicans are trying to re-play the election season all over again.

they really don't get it.

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Stagecoach (432 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:01 PM
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1. That's exactly what this is about
Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 04:01 PM by Stagecoach
But by acting like it's about taxes they feel it prevents anyone from saying they're being sore losers. They're trying to make it look like that even though they lost that their base is still strong.
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KansasVoter (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:02 PM
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What is the best argument to use when I nicely confront the Tea Baggers at 5:00pm today?
I was going to point out that they (GOP) had control of the House, Senate and White House 6 of the last 8 years and they caused this mess. And that they are 'Born Again Deficit Haters' after Reagan and Bush. Any other ideas?

yup, Bush's fault! Talking point Number 11.

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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:04 PM
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4. Discuss fiscal irresponsibility in Iraq- and refuse to change the subject.
n/t
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spanone (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:04 PM
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i guess we can assume that all the 'teabaggers' make over $250,000 a year
because anyone below that level of income receives NO TAX INCREASES.....or maybe they can't read.

talking point number 12.
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theboss (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:07 PM
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Ok...my brain hurts...I need someone to explain to me why corporate fat cuts are protesting bailouts
of corporate fat cats.

Honestly, I'm not that interested in these protests, but I feel like I am missing something when being told that these are being funded by big business.

They seem to be like they are being funded by Conservative Think Tanks who use their mouth pieces on talk radio as organizers.

Corporate fat cats seem pleased as punch with TARP and such.

talking point number 13. The rich are for the bail outs.

plus: not a grassroots happening- funded by the rich
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Post by: Rebel on April 15, 2009, 03:07:57 PM: Quote from: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 02:52:55 PM

counter protesters:

(http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/wtf08.jpg)

I've been arguing with f'n dumbass moonbats all day long at the Augusta Chronicle how taxing ONLY the people making 250K or more will not even TOUCH what Obama has spent, or is planning on spending, and the idiots STILL don't get it. As for any tax cut for those that don't even PAY taxes, I.e. get all of it back at the end of the year or get more via the EITC, it won't f'n MATTER if you can't get a damn job because that ****in' moron Obama has taxed the damn businesses out of prosperity. :censored:
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 03:08:44 PM: First DU poll on the tea Parties.

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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:08 PM
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Poll question: For the next right wing gimmicky outing, should protestors be:
Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 04:09 PM by Guy Whitey Corngood
Poll result (3 votes)
Wearing pearl necklaces (1 votes, 33%) Vote
Carrying rusty trombones (2 votes, 67%) Vote

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8345333
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Post by: USA4ME on April 15, 2009, 03:09:23 PM: Quote from: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 03:02:17 PM

they really don't get it.

The concept of freedom and liberty isn't really on their radar.

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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 03:10:58 PM: Extended story on tea at white house:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8345339
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HopeOverFear (281 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:10 PM
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WH on lockdown after tea bags thrown over gate; protesters yell "death to president"
about two hours ago on twitter: http://twitter.com/chrisgolden/statuses/1527207661

of course.....we all knew this was coming.
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Post by: Rebel on April 15, 2009, 03:15:51 PM: Quote from: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 03:10:58 PM
Extended story on tea at white house:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8345339

of course.....we all knew this was coming.

Yeah, I'm not buyin' it. Source is probably a moonbat, hence my skepticism.
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KingOfLostSouls (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:14 PM
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Teabaggers: Where Were You The Past 8 Years?
oh thats right, you were cheering on the bush failure.

sit the **** down and shut the **** up.
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 03:21:44 PM: more pics on DU.

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zulchzulu (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:20 PM
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The Freeper Knuckledragging Theocratic Oddballs are out at the Teabag rally in Madison
As others have indicated, this is the best "enemy" Obama can have. And it was all about bashing Obama. Yeah, he's a commie. Yeah, he's a socialist. Yeah, teabags (which were boycotted way back when as well as was a protest against no representation). Last I checked, we had an election and the people at this rally voted for THE LOSER.

So, as I walked through the rally of a crowd of 1,500 people bussed in from the conservative belt of Wisconsin (Waukesha to Green Bay), I noticed a lot of the usual signage you might have seen at a McCain/Palin Hate Fest. One of my faves was where apparently some guy named Carl Marx was there with Hitler and Obama.

(http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm36/zulch/DSCF1953.jpg)

Yeah, Obama bowed before the Saudi King. At least he didn't hold his hand or kiss him like Bush did. This is an issue with taxation? Oh, OK...
(which misses the cultural aspects of the Arabic world....but this is a protest on taxes...)

A fair amount of t-shirts and signs mentioned socialism (via taxation) as an evil. Surely, these people used roads paid for by taxes and had police protection paid for by taxes and even were at a venue, the State Capital, which is paid for by taxes. I'd say that at least three-quarters of the attendants at the rally receive SOCIAL Security checks. A number of vets there (including some guy in his 20s wearing a Vietnam Vet hat ) also get benefits from taxes. Maybe that's not "important". One sign where "no freeloaders" was an issue was seen by me as perhaps an anti-rally sign, but I digress.

(http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm36/zulch/DSCF1955.jpg)

(good sized crowd. Thought this was a failure?)

Of course, you could see "Obama Nation" signs and buttons. Yeah, it's supposed to be "negative", get it? What was interesting about the crowd is that I wondered how many people were unemployed at this rally. These people had voted for politicians who sold them down the river.

snip

I was going to interview people, but felt that they would just look at me and try to steal my camera. Plus 15 minutes there was making me nauseous. The guy looking at me in this photo gave an air of being a McVeigh-type who gave me a dead-eyed look as I took the photo. Yeah, there was a few Ron Paul types there too.

Am I worried? I witnessed what can be called the Permanent 20% of idiots who will always vote Republican and who are racist homophobes. I can spot them a mile away.

I hope the roads built by our socialist policies allow them to get their ugly asses back from where they drag their knuckles. Good riddance.
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Post by: DixieBelle on April 15, 2009, 03:22:47 PM: I see that they hit all of the talking points :whatever:
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Post by: TheSarge on April 15, 2009, 03:27:06 PM: The utter stupidity of their rants knows no depth or bounds.
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 03:27:39 PM: many pics at link

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Jackeens (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:43 PM
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PHOTOS Tea-bagging on a rainy Wednesday afternoon
Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 03:56 PM by Jackeens

(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/09F7bJZfwKgCl/610x.jpg)

:rotf:

(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07UngMKa4Hgy2/610x.jpg)

Ooo... I like that one..

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blueclown (726 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:45 PM
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3. What a bunch of mouthbreathing clowns.
Do they really believe what they are saying?

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dancingme (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:55 PM
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7. Stupid Angry WHITE People

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pink-o (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:57 PM
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9. Mommy! All those white people are scaring me!
Geez, who has the Jello and potato salad? Looks like the trailer park 4th of July barbeque!

(Full disclosure, I am Ashkenazi Jewish by ethnicity--no one has whiter skin than my people! But "white" is my color, not my culture.)
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Post by: miskie on April 15, 2009, 03:28:02 PM: Quote from: DixieBelle on April 15, 2009, 03:22:47 PM
I see that they hit all of the talking points :whatever:

They'll invent about 20 more before this is over - The last time I've seen moonbats this fired up was the introduction of Sarah Palin to the lower 48.
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KingFlorez (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:28 PM
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The Freeper protesters were out in my town too
I'm in Thousand Oaks, CA and the protesters were here today too. Holding up a bunch of tacky looking signs made out of old cardboard boxes and saying the same old whiny crap, "Take back our country", etc. I have no problem with protest and I think it's good when anyone exercises their rights, but I was a bit annoyed that they completely blocked the sidewalk, leaving almost no room to walk. I had to cut around through a parking lot. If they are going to protest, they should at least be polite and be respectful of others using the sidewalk, but I realize that is far to much to expect from Freepers.

But But...I thought this was a failure?
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Post by: USA4ME on April 15, 2009, 03:30:46 PM: (http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/09F7bJZfwKgCl/610x.jpg)

:rotf:

That's pretty cleaver.

.
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Post by: DixieBelle on April 15, 2009, 03:30:53 PM: ^yep! What's that old adage about knowing you're over the target when the enemy screams???
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:18 PM
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Seventy Teabaggers Showed Up At Daytona Beach Rally
How many showed up in your town?

good question.
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:31 PM
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OK - the Teabag Protests are not in themselves White Power rallies
But the folks protesting are white, have white power stickers on their cars, are carrying racist signs and love spouting the obviously racist "Obama isn't American" meme.

So if the Klan is sitting around a table eating peaches, its not a Klan rally, but it sure looks like one...
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Post by: The Village Idiot on April 15, 2009, 03:33:13 PM: Quote from: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 03:05:33 PM

i guess we can assume that all the 'teabaggers' make over $250,000 a year

do you really believe that Dump DUmmie?? do you really??

http;//tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com
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Post by: Rebel on April 15, 2009, 03:35:05 PM: Quote from: Servonaut on April 15, 2009, 02:47:44 PM
The national debt was oh so bad during the Bush years.

Your future DUmmies

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f85/Servonaut/obamadebt.jpg)

:whatever:

Do you have a link for this? I'd like to use it in the future.
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:31 PM
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Look who showed up to the teabagger party!
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0bwT2XK8WQcZz/610x.jpg)
Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, who made news during the presidential campaign when he asked Barack Obama about taxes, speaks during a tax day "tea party" protest Wednesday, April 15, 2009, at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Protesters gathered at state Capitols and in neighborhoods and town squares across the country Wednesday to kick off a series of tax-day protests designed to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party.

hateful posts at link.
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 03:38:22 PM: The LA Times "news' story about the Tea Parties.

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'Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity' -LA Times
Here's a good editorial explaining today's events,

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-co...

The Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monica to South Carolina. But no need to burn up your bandwidth reading complicated instructions. Here's a simpler recipe:

Go to a hobby store. Buy a scale model of a U.N. One-World-Government Black Helicopter and a tube of glue. Toss the model kit. Sniff the entire tube of glue. You're all set for the party.

I can recall only a few outbreaks of such collective insanity as these tea parties in recent years. There was that time in the mid-1990s when a $19.95 video proving Bill Clinton was some sort of serial killer went viral. And then, a few years back, there was that chilling, televised midnight seance from the floor of the U.S. Congress aimed at reviving the long-brain-dead Terri Schiavo.

And now this. Whip out your Lipton and don your tinfoil hat and join the protest against ... against ... against what exactly?

The original Boston Tea Party was caffeinated by a very simple injustice: American Colonists refused to be taxed by a government that lacked any popular representation. That was remedied a few years later in a heroic struggle that stretched from Concord to Yorktown.

So, if you'll excuse the mixed metaphor, what's the beef behind today's protests? The Obama administration is cutting taxes for all except the very richest of Americans. Reduced withholding is already showing up in millions of paychecks.

Then again, this rash of tea parties is being organized not only by the pseudo-journalists at Fox News (with Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto and Sean Hannity actively stoking the flames) but also by FreedomWorks, a conservative lobbying outfit headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. I suppose it was Armey's constitutional if morally dubious privilege to have built an entire political career out of defending the wealthy.

But are common folks actually going to dump Earl Grey into Santa Monica Bay because they are outraged, simply infuriated, by the marginal tax rate rising 3% for millionaires?

Or maybe they'll do it for some other reason. The FreedomWorks site says the Tea Party movement began in reaction to President Obama's corporate bailouts and ensuing yawning budget deficits. These same conservatives, however, were mum when George W. Bush erased our budget surplus and put us deep in the red by drunken spending on a pointless war in Iraq and by, yes, granting massive tax rollbacks for the loaded country clubbers who fund the GOP (and Armey's FreedomWorks). Another bothersome detail: The bailouts were also initiated by Bush.

Read more at link above.
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Post by: The Village Idiot on April 15, 2009, 03:39:08 PM: Quote from: Rebel on April 15, 2009, 03:35:05 PM

check out the chart. all that deficit spending is gonna come out of the value of the dollar at some point. Do you think that will only hurt the "rich"?? when your dollar can't buy a freaking can of generic soda what is a DUmmie to do?? of course, rail against big business.
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 03:39:43 PM: Second Tea Bouncy.

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Brazenly Liberal (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:38 PM
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Big Tea Party goings on here!
Had to go to town for something else and ran into the big county Teabag demo. A hardware store near the eastern edge of town put up a sign saying "Have you had a cup of tea today?" There was one sad looking mook standing under it. A couple walked by and she asked "What do you think that means?" "Beats me," answered her mate.

The end.
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brettdale (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:40 PM
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Will Faux keep doing these stunts for four years
It seems they want to build up a hatred for Obama.

This is a new low for them and a different direction also, I hate to see what they are going to be like in six minths time.

notice how the meme is slipped into every conversation?
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brettdale (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:37 PM
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Neil Cauvto seems to think this is the biggest thing ever
He is actually like he is in a state of shock, he acting like this is the biggest event ever in history, how can he do this with a straight face?
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global1 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:45 PM
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Who Employs Joe The Plumber And Who Provides Him With The Speaking Material In His Public .....
appearances? Surely he doesn't turn up all over the country on his own dime - somebody is footing the bill and is paying him. It would be interesting to do some investigative reporting and find out.

they never seem to wonder about these sort of things when it's Al Sharpeton...
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SacredCow (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:27 PM
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Let the photoshop fun of Teabaggers begin....
I have no photoshop skillz (or even the actual program at work) so this is the best I can do:

(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r193/pidaho1971/tbag.jpg)

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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:30 PM
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2. Surprisingly diverse group.
I mean despite the fact that they're all over 50 and white. Some with blond hair, some brunettes, some grey.

because it's all about race...
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Post by: Mike220 on April 15, 2009, 03:49:28 PM: Quote
Not to mention exposing innocent children to it, have they NO SHAME?)

Like this one at the protests at the Coast Guard Academy graduation a few years ago, huh? Hypocrites...

(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/06wM4eD7RK2S6/340x.jpg)
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:40 PM
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There are teabaggers outside my window!
At the town square near my office, I can see a "crowd" (being generous here) of idiots protesting their own tax cuts. Seriously, it is like 30 people tops. If only I had time to go over and laugh at them.

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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:23 PM
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1. Now there's like 60 in the rain.
idiots

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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:28 PM
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3. Oh Jesus Christ, they're playing music.
Put a sock in it, assholes!

I hear idiots!

They're everywhere.

Some of them don't know they're idiots.

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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:42 PM
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5. It was someone singing Star Spangled Banner...
...followed by a bunch of country-western shit-kicker crap.

I just hear some idiot yelling "freedom! fredom!" over the PA. Now it's back to shit-kicking.

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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:50 PM
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14. The irony of ironies.
Lee Greenwood. They are proud of the country that just overwhelmingly rejected their whole world view.

another leftist ****wad who doesn't get it.

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unapatriciated (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:50 PM
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Tea Party Infiltrated by Sam Undercover
Run time: 01:57
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL-dgqR7LMU

Posted on YouTube: April 15, 2009
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Posted on DU: April 15, 2009
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just wanted to lighten things up a bit....

for all those tea drinkers today.
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:55 PM
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"Where were the protestors during the Bush years?"
Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 04:55 PM by jenmito
"It wasn't just Repubs. and Conservatives amongst these protestors. There were Independents, too saying BOTH parties are wrong..."-Hampton Pearson of CNBC just now on MSNBC. Yeah, right. Did anyone see ANY signs/banners slamming Repubs.? And he didn't answer the question by Tamron Hall which was where were they during BUSH'S years!
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dem629 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:55 PM
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Teabagger sign just shown: "Don't spread my wealth, spread my work ethic!"
Why are you out there in the middle of a weekday afternoon? Oh, night job? Get a second day job if your work ethic is really worth bragging about.
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:57 PM
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Why is the media pumping the tea bag thing up? And why are we?
And why aren't we telling the media to go suck eggs?

Damned if I know. How many posts about Tea Parties on DU so far?
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theboss (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:53 PM
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Tea Parties have little to do with Obama or Democrats; much to do with Future of Republican Party
After careful consideration, I've decided that what we are viewing today is the first large-scale battle of the Republican Civil War. The Republicans are hopelessly lost right now - leaderless and message-less.

What these protests are about is, I think, an attempt to find some new coalition around some new anger at something that is frankly still undefined. I think this is why you are seeing the faces of people who are not really associated with the Republican Brand at the moment as the front and center spokespeople. Newt Gingrich - who still has presidential blueballs - immediately comes to mind.

In some ways, there is a parallel to the anti-war protests of 2002, which ultimately led to no change in US policy but did somehow coalesce around Howard Dean of all people, which led to nothing electorally in 2004, but did lead to a change in the direction of the Democratic Party away from the "Third Way" Clinton policies to what would appear to be a more traditionally left approach under Obama.

So, I don't think the modern Republican leadership (such as it is) has any stake in any of this and probably are a little terrified of it. And, it's almost certainly going to lead to the rallying behind a populist Right Winger with an incoherent message in 2012 - which sounds a hell of a lot like Sarah Palin, but that's a long time from now. It certainly doesn't sound anything like Bobby Jindal or Mitt Romney though.

But ultimately, I think Obama doesn't care much about these protests because they really are not about him or the Democrats. They are about the Republicans and what their future message will be.
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Jackeens (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:00 PM
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PHOTO Oh Lordy, Oh Lordy, Oh Lordy.
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/05BA33L0c62sn/610x.jpg)

CHICAGO - APRIL 15: Robert Goerlich participates in a Tea Party protest at the Federal Building Plaza April 15, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:02 PM
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So are the Sheeple dumping Snapple too?
Sheeple is just the only word that aptly describes this cohort of unthinking, easily manipulated right-wing toolbags who just blindly march off to do whatever Faux and company tell them is the crusade du jour.

This whole protest is an empty gesture whose only point is to show the controlling mouthpieces exactly what they can expect from their audience.

It's a trial run to get the sheeple in line again, rounding them up for the next run off the cliff (we can hope).
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:03 PM
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Let's say an average of 100 teabaggers in each of about 500 venues
I'm being generous, ok.

That's 50,000 teabaggers total

Sheeeiiiit! That's not even a decent college football crowd.

Who do they think that they're fooling?
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Post by: Wineslob on April 15, 2009, 04:03:43 PM: Dummies....turnabout is fairplay.............is it not? :evillaugh:
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:03 PM
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Tea party participants, tea baggers, check in here!
How was your tea party? How many people came? Why were you there? I am sincerely curious. Thanks!
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Post by: Mike220 on April 15, 2009, 04:04:45 PM: Quote
So are the Sheeple dumping Snapple too?
Sheeple is just the only word that aptly describes this cohort of unthinking, easily manipulated left-wing toolbags who just blindly march off to do whatever KOS and company tell them is the crusade du jour.

This whole protest is an empty gesture whose only point is to show the controlling mouthpieces exactly what they can expect from their audience.

It's a trial run to get the sheeple in line again, rounding them up for the next run off the cliff (we can hope).

Fixed. Not that that one was too difficult.
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brettdale (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:03 PM
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Cant stomach to watch any more Faux teabag coverage
Its not the fact that they arent showing overhead shots that would show that there is only a few hundred people, its not the fact that Cauvto is knocking one out over how successful he thinks it is, its not even the fact that people are holding up signs that say "Obama = communist", its not even the fact that there was no coverage like that for the anti war protests in 2003, where there crowds were at least 100 times bigger.

Ats not even the fact that that these event are clearly orgainsed by Faux and the repugs.

Its the fact that this is the first step by faux to try and getting the public to remove Obama from office, its not done for news, its done to be mean, and it crosses a line even for them.
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:03 PM
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My first and final post about teabagging

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p122/RatATatTatt/TitanTeabagging.gif)

More than this and I don't much care.

I posted this one because, if you don't know, ol' Stinky here lives in the basement potty with the cat pan...
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Post by: Wineslob on April 15, 2009, 04:07:46 PM: Quote
MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:03 PM
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Let's say an average of 100 teabaggers in each of about 500 venues
I'm being generous, ok.

That's 50,000 teabaggers total

Sheeeiiiit! That's not even a decent college football crowd.

Who do they think that they're fooling?

Wrong...DUmbass. I work in a small town...maybe 100K people, and there were/are approx 200-300 in the town square......at noon.........probably more now.

Suck it.
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Post by: Servonaut on April 15, 2009, 04:09:10 PM: Quote from: Rebel on April 15, 2009, 03:35:05 PM
Do you have a link for this? I'd like to use it in the future.

It's from a Washington Post article, not exactly a bastion of RW thought.

The article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/20/AR2009032001820.html

the graphic

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/03/21/GR2009032100104.html
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frebrd (693 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:09 PM
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So... will all this "teabagging" crap be over after today, or........
is it a whole new damn movement? I wish we could hide threads by keyword somehow.

...he asks as he starts ANOTHER threat about the tea parties.
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 04:11:12 PM: Just a bunch of You-Tube links...

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TYT: NC Of Fox News BUSTED In Lie Regarding Tea Party Coverage
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x297231

Run time: 04:23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssDG0F_zyGU

Posted on YouTube: April 14, 2009
By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks
Views on YouTube: 16088

Posted on DU: April 15, 2009
By DU Member: ihavenobias
Views on DU: 17

Click Here For A Break-Down Of CRAZY Footage From A 'TeaBag' Party(!)

Also, Check Out These 5 Clips You May Have Missed:

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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 04:13:17 PM: THERE's the meme about having the riechwing join the military! Took a bit of time, but the leftists never fail....

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Sure could have used these teabaggers during Shock and Awe
I remember the despair I felt watching corporate media`s coverage of our invasion of Iraq. Wolf Blitzer seemed so pleased with his endless barrage of chest-thumpers and all those explosion graphics. Big booms everywhere, over the anchor desk and over Baghdad. It didn`t take long to hear war talk in unison...channel to channel...like a new national anthem.

Since Bush`s go-shopping talk didn`t match the blood I saw on independent news stations, I started protesting and kept it up for years. One day I saw a Vietnam Vet standing alone on a busy street with a simple sign that read....NO WAR. I thought about him again today and wished he had had some of today`s teabaggers for support back then. Odd how a wallet will get some people out on the streets faster than a war-burned child or a four-tour soldier.

There has been a lot of teabagger chatter about "fascism" today. And where were the teabaggers when Bush was grabbing people off the streets and sending them away to be tortured? Where were they when Bush began his warrantless wiretaps? His pre-emptive war? His misinformation campaigns? His outing of a covert CIA operative? His politicizing of the Justice Depertment? And these teabaggers are JUST NOW screaming about fascism? What incomprehensible stupidity.

http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx

****ing retards.
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 04:14:45 PM: retread of an earlier posted story.

Notice the title-

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Tea Party goers berserk in DC, try to lob things at the White House
A robot was inspecting a suspicious package on the North Lawn of the White House after tax protesters threw what appears to be a box of tea bags over the White House fence.

That prompted officials to clear Pennsylvania Avenue Wednesday.

The U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday locked down the White House compound after someone hurled a package in an apparent act of defiance meant to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party and related tax protests around the country. Officers cleared the street and Lafayette Park across from the White House mid-afternoon. They also ordered journalists back inside the press room.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJlIl...
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:14 PM
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Teabagger Definition:
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers.

These are people of the land.

The common clay of the new West.

You know... morons!"

Blazing Saddles was a stroke of genius
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Post by: BlueStateSaint on April 15, 2009, 04:15:56 PM: Quote from: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 04:07:11 PM

I posted this one because, if you don't know, ol' Stinky here lives in the basement potty with the cat pan...

And Hubs has probably "teabagged" a male cat or two.
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:15 PM
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Are these the exact same losers pushing the "Obama birth certificate" and "Obama Muslim" memes?
I bet if you were to run a Six Degrees check on them, every single one of these tea-baggers can be connected to each other via email messages.

almost a new meme
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HooptieWagon (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:15 PM
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Community radio reporter interviews teabaggers - OMG they're effin delusional!
A reporter from WMNF 88.5FM Community Radio (Tampa) interviewed teabaggers today. it was freakin' hilarious! One particulary paranoid guy said he didn't want the US to be taken over by the new world order and have to follow their laws. Reporter asked him for examples of that happening: guy said it hadn't yet, but Obma was planning it. LOL! Later, reporter interviewed right wingnut ex-Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair, who said he was against Obama's "biggest tax increase in history" breaking his campaign promise. Reporter asked for details of this tax increase, and Blair said it was changing by the day, currently anyone making over 75K would see a big increase. Back at the studio, reading his report, the reporter pointed out that politicheck had said that Obama HAD kept his promise of no tax increase for under 250K, unless one counts the cigarette tax increase.
These teabaggers are truely delusional and paranoid, they deserve all the ridicule they are getting.

Note: Interviews will likely be available on the station archives at wmnf.org in a bit.

talking point number...ih, what are we up to now.... Tea Party goes too stupid to understand anything...
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olkaz (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:16 PM
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Has there been a "Morans" sign yet today being held by a teabagger?
I've been looking and have come up empty.

Can anybody help? I'd be much obliged.
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So, any really good wide shots or aerial views of the teabaggers?
For some reason, I'm not seeing such photos at foxnews.com.

http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,7034,00.html#1...
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SoCalNative (573 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:22 PM
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FReeper Texas teabaggers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229934/posts

the irony of a post, linking a forum, linking a forum is not lost on me.
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:21 PM
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Tea parties are shutting Dems out of the media
It's another excuse for Big Media to present 100% repukes. I just turned on my TV. It was still on MSRNC from last nights' Countdown. There was Republican TV host Barnicle Bill interviewing a Republican Congressman from Indiana and a Republican Chickenhawk from somewhere, and they were all in agreement what a major movement this is.

Big Media - Revolution's going to be very unkind to you.
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 04:25:20 PM: pic goodness at link

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Crowds protesting Obama in DC
4/15/09
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Where were all these *******ed teabaggers when Bush was spending billions on Iraq?
I guess they're perfectly okay with spending billions to kill people in foreign countries. But a Democrat coming along to spend money to help stimulate our economy, to try and put Americans back to work - that's unacceptable?
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:26 PM
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Taking one for the team, I venture into the belly of the beast...
Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 05:27 PM by Blue_In_AK
And believe me, I'm going to become one of those OCD scrubbers at this point. I feel so ... DIRTY

I'm not bothering to crop or fix up these pictures like I do for our protests -- these people don't deserve the extra attention.

They had a fairly decent turnout, but nothing like our "hold Palin aco****able" rallies of last fall.

lot of pics at link.
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"The Unbearable Whiteness of Teabagging"
Well. Somebody had to say it, after looking at all those "crowd" photos...
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:31 PM
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When people complain that they, meaning the evil government, is spending our money...
It shows that they don't really believe in the Free Market system they all profess to love right up there with freedom, apple pie and mom. Here is why. Free Marketeers stress over and over that the market will dictate the right level of prices and that over time, the optimum price for everything will settle into a place where the the true value will be discovered.

So, if you know going in that taxes will be taken from your paycheck, the level of true value you should be looking for, if you truly are a free marketeer, would be after tax income.

Take for instance the dreaded payroll tax, otherwise known throughout tea bag land as the great ponzy scheme, that sane people call Social Security. The question that should be asked is will your employer, if the payroll tax is revoked, keep your paycheck at the stated level or lower your pay to reflect the missing payroll tax? The free market would dictate that the payroll tax would cause your take home pay to drop as the true value of your work would be what you have grown to expect. So if the free market was left to run it's course, you would no longer be funding Social Security, your paycheck would reflect the absent payroll tax by lowering your pay to it's true value and you would be left alone to fend for your retirement. At the very best, your wage would stagnate at your current pay rate because the free market would dictate you are being over paid. And you would still be left on your own to fund your retirement.

Just the way I would look at how the markets would behave. But then again I'm a sane person who knows how these things should work. I actually took several economic classes, a few finance courses and have a minor in financial accounting and come at this with just a tad bit more perspective than say the regular guy who gets all of his economic learning from the likes of Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh.
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Is this a joke? - CO: Tea Baggers, Salad Tossers Gather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruJ8139NhM
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:32 PM
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Just remember, we're the majority.
These freaks are a small and vocal minority. They've had their day, we'll have the other 364!
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Joe the Plumber at Michigan Tea Party: Saying â€˜In God We Trustâ€™ Will Get You Shot In Some Places
Source: The Michigan Independent

LANSING â€” Thousands of people descended on the state Capitol earlier today as part of a national movement of â€œtea partiesâ€ to protest high taxes and what they argue is an encroachment of socialism into American government and society.

Addressing the rally was Samuel Joesph Wurzelbacher, commonly known as â€œJoe the Plumber,â€ who became a household name during the 2008 presidential race when Republican presidential candidate John McCain referred to the Ohio resident as â€œJoe the Plumber,â€ and used him as a walking metaphor for the American middle class.

â€œIâ€™m here for one reason and one reason only: Itâ€™s I love America,â€ Wurzelbacher told the crowd. â€œMainstream media wants to paint us as a bunch of extremists, right? Weâ€™re in search of liberty and our freedoms. Whatâ€™s so extreme about that?â€

â€œIâ€™m just regurgitating,â€ Wurzelbacher said. â€œI believe in common sense.â€

Wurzelbacher went on to lambast what he said was a rising tide of â€œsocialismâ€ across the country and laid the blame on the U.S. government.

â€œLet me give you another extremist view, â€˜In God We Trust,â€™â€ he said to wild applause. â€œSay that too loud in some parts of America and you will be shot. Itâ€™s terrible.â€

Read more: http://michiganmessenger.com/17056/thousands-rally-at-s...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Some of the slogans being used today:

â€œHitler gave speeches too,â€ â€œI am only 4 and I am in debt,â€ and â€œRevolution or death,â€

The Washington Independent has more:

http://washingtonindependent.com/38877/scenes-from-the-...

Obama as Steve Urkel can be found here:

http://twitpic.com/3copw
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These are some sorry-ass protests.
300 people here in Philadelphia. Is that the best these chumps can do?

Mega-fscking-FAIL.
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SKKY (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-14-09 10:24 PM
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Anderson Cooper, "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging."
Advertisements [?]In response to David Gergens assertion that Republicans are still finding their voice. Just on AC360. Pretty funny.

Fair and balanced?
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Autonomy (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 05:45 PM
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Election 2008 2.1: Return of the Republicans
"Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction."
~ Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm in "Jurassic Park"

In November, 2008 the American people overwhelmingly rejected the politics and policies of George W. Bush and the Republican party that had so heavy-handedly ruled the nation for most of the previous eight years, and which had held Congress for most of the previous 16 years. The Republicans were out of touch, out of step, without ideas and solutions, or even a good grasp of what the problems were. For their handling of the economy -- or lack of handling, in particular -- the Repubs were all but ridden out of town on a rail.

They were a party without a message. Without a leader. Without a vision. But they all could agree on one thing: they HATED Democrats!!@!

The Republicans who are at the center, and the fringes, of these Teabagging parties had had their chance. The American voters selected them for extinction, banishing them to the political wilderness for at least the next two years.

But Republicans are well-known for not letting a little setback, like a landslide electoral loss, get in the way of getting their way. The so-called Teabag Rebellion of 2009 is nothing but the minority who lost the election only a few months before demanding that it not count. Their ideas and their candidates were soundly rejected, and so they speak of terms of violent insurrection against the majority. These Teabaggers are rejecting the very core of democracy: that elections count, and that the majority rules. They believe that they rule, elections be damned, regardless of what the majority says.

So, like spoiled children who have gotten their way too much and too often, they throw tantrums on the rare occasion things don't turn out their way. They're "leaving the country" and "stockpiling weapons" and "preparing for a revolution" and shooting police officers...

The teabaggers want nothing less than a do-over. They want the election of 2008 not to count. Things didn't go their way, they have little voice in government due to the failures of their policies for the last decade-plus, and so they stage infantile antics to get attention that, legally and ethically, they don't deserve.

In the 1700's, a bunch of people threw some tea into the harbor to protest taxation without representation. Today's teabaggers are not nearly like those revolutionaries in that they had their shot at representation, and the American people selected them for extinction.
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Rush too famous for tea party. I kid you not.....
This is just an excerpt from the teaparty going on now in West Palm Beach.

www.pbpost.com

Conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh devoted much of today's show to the tea parties, calling them "real democracy bubbling up." Though he broadcasts from Palm Beach County, he told listeners he did not plan to put in a personal appearance at any particular tea party. "I am too famous to go to one of these things," Limbaugh said, saying the spotlight belonged to citizens who came out to make their views known.
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 04:49:08 PM: Madam Pitt weighs in:

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Teabaggers, freepers, free staters, fundies...they are on the march and
should not be underestimated. We joke about these wingnuts and call them crazy and they are but they are making inroads. I think the town I work in may be the center of a hive and, believe me, they are mean, destructive and driven. They are out to kill any kind of civil order and they are doing it by getting elected to local office and then trashing town budgets, going after police and fire, any social services and everyone who stands in their way. People up here are afraid of them. One of them..."a pillar of the community" told me when discussing cuts to the meager police budget, that he got his public safety from the barrel of an M16. He told the fire chief, when discussing cuts to the salaries of our "call Firefighters, that houses were going to burn and that was just "God's will."

Take a look around your town and watch out for these folks. They take advantage of peoples' fear and anger over the economy and they are gaining on us.
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Post by: The Village Idiot on April 15, 2009, 04:49:20 PM: are they really this clueless?

DUh
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OMG Check out this email the head of the College Republicans at Kansas State sent out
Republicans,

I email today not to inform you of events, but rather to inform you
of tragedy. Today in the K-State Collegian a guest opinion column was published
attacking our organization and our guest speaker Star Parker. Melisa Posey stated
that she never felt "the intention was to 'dissuadeprejudice and discrimination.'"

She quite literally stated that she believes our organization is trying to perpetuate the hatred of minorities. COLLEGE REPUBLICANS WAKE UP!! We need to
fight... WE MUST FIGHT if we are to continue to exist in this Country as free
people. We are allowing tyrants to run this country and are allowing ourselves to
be trampled on. I say no more! We must fight and we must win. Just yesterday the
President's Administration released a Homeland Security Report warning
law enforcement to carefully monitor "right wing extremists", especially in the
midst of Tea Party Protests. Well ladies and gents those extremists are you and
me! I promise you that I am on the Domestic Terror watchlist because of my
affiliation with conservative causes, my ownership of guns, my open dislike of
the administration, and the fact that I am a member of the NRA.

JOIN OUR FIGHT. Come to our meetings and come to our events. Aristotleonce
said that "TOLERANCE AND APATHY ARE THE LAST VIRTUES OF A DYING SOCIETY". We cannot continue to lay here and bleed.

Be there at the Tea Party tonight at 5:00 PM at the Riley County Courthouse
to protest our tyrannical government. Be there this Saturday in Topeka at our
College Republican State Convention at 3:00 PM. Be there at our elections meeting
next Tuesday at 7:00 PM in Little Theater and be there April 25 at our College
Republican Trap Shoot. Bring your friends and make them realize how dire the
situation is becoming.

Humbly yours,
Douglas Shane
PresidentKSU College Republicans.

http://kansasjackass.blogspot.com/2009/04/ksu-college-r...
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Post by: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 04:52:22 PM: It's starting to slow down, but it will heat back up after feeding time is over...

but enough for now. over a hundred threads posted at the DUmp about the Tea Parties...

yeah....big failure.
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Post by: USA4ME on April 15, 2009, 04:54:58 PM: Quote from: dutch508 on April 15, 2009, 04:52:22 PM
It's starting to slow down, but it will heat back up after feeding time is over...

but enough for now. over a hundred threads posted at the DUmp about the Tea Parties...

yeah....big failure.

Thanks for bringing it over here for us, dutch. :usflag:

.
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Post by: TheSarge on April 15, 2009, 04:55:28 PM: I've seen photos over at the DUmp of 15 people showing up to protest and the broke an arm patting themselves on the back over their "successful event". Hundreds and in some cases thousands show up in cities large and small across the nation and its dubbed a failure? Look closely at how they are reacting folks. You're not seeing a confident majority on the left. Its a scared shrill minority that has had the shit scared out of them today.
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Post by: USA4ME on April 15, 2009, 05:01:22 PM: Quote from: TxRadioguy on April 15, 2009, 04:55:28 PM
I've seen photos over at the DUmp of 15 people showing up to protest and the broke an arm patting themselves on the back over their "successful event". Hundreds and in some cases thousands show up in cities large and small across the nation and its dubbed a failure? Look closely at how they are reacting folks. You're not seeing a confident majority on the left. Its a scared shrill minority that has had the shit scared out of them today.

You got it, TRG.

They continually forget; the 46% who didn't vote for B. Hussein are the producers and achievers that own 80%+ of the wealth of the country. Today, they heard from the 80%+. Will they admit it? No. But the one's to whom the message was directed sure knows it to be the truth.

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Post by: miskie on April 15, 2009, 05:41:53 PM: Meh. They are just pissed off because non-moonbats can protest the socks off of the likes of DUAC. - Lesson : when one isn't wasted, one can get things done.
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500,000 not enough for fox--how many teabaggers?

Cavuto kept belittling the million man march for only having 500,000 folks.

How many teabaggers were there? Series, I NEED TO KNOW.

:rotf:
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Post by: Hawkgirl on April 15, 2009, 07:36:13 PM: The whole teabagger comments came after CNN's own Anderson Cooper joked about the teabagging last night....now if anyone knows anything about Teabagging....
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500,000 not enough for fox--how many teabaggers?

Cavuto kept belittling the million man march for only having 500,000 folks.

How many teabaggers were there? Series, I NEED TO KNOW.

I find it funny that he chose the name of one of the most famous traitors of ancient times as his handle.
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Post by: Rebel on April 15, 2009, 08:57:34 PM: Quote from: Servonaut on April 15, 2009, 04:09:10 PM
It's from a Washington Post article, not exactly a bastion of RW thought.

The article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/20/AR2009032001820.html

the graphic

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/03/21/GR2009032100104.html

Many thanks. :bow:
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Post by: Rebel on April 15, 2009, 09:11:36 PM: About 2000 showed up in my small city. Maybe ROCKURWORLD was there.
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Post by: Rebel on April 15, 2009, 09:12:34 PM: BTW, EXCELLENT commentary:

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Couldn't make the party?
Media conspicuously turning blind eye to tea party movement
Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

They made a superstar of lone Iraq War protester Cindy Sheehan. They cover every G-8 protest -- involving paid protesters, by the way -- like it's the second coming of the American Revolution.

Yet, when ordinary Americans are mad enough to take to the streets -- as they will tonight at the Augusta Tea Party and other tea parties across the nation -- the mainstream media are wholly unimpressed.

On Monday, as momentum began in earnest for today's tea parties to protest runaway federal spending, CNN.com's feature story was that women over 55 are flocking to Facebook.

The other big news of the day: The Obamas name their dog.

The mainstream media seem not to want this protest to happen -- while they gleefully report on any protest pushing left-wing notions.

In the alternative, they desperately want the tea party movement to be a passing fancy.

"I'd bet my Borsalino hat that five years from now the tea party of 2009 is going to be considered little more than a fad that flopped," writes blogger John Tantillo. "In fact, it shouldn't even be compared to the monumental event that kicked our great country off with a rebellious bang."

We'll see. But why declare the movement a failure before it's even been given a chance -- unless it doesn't fit with your agenda?

Not everyone is that close-minded. As the left-wing media snore and sniff their noses at the tea partiers, an online citizen-journalist site called Pajamas TV says it has more than 200 volunteer citizen-journalists covering the tea parties.

Media critic Howard Kurtz oddly chastised Fox News Channel for covering the tea party movement too much -- but added, "On the other hand, CNN and MSNBC may have dropped the ball by all-but-ignoring the protests."

Some think this is a partisan thing. It isn't, and it can't be. George W. Bush and his Republican co-dependents in Congress outspent everyone else in U.S. history, and the Democrats under Obama are doubling down on it.

They're all to blame.

Whether this grass roots anger is a fad or not is wholly up to the people involved. If they just want to vent, then the air will escape quickly.

If, on the other hand, people truly are concerned about and willing to work to fix our country's economic future, then it will indeed be a movement.

And much of the news media will have been caught by surprise.

(The Augusta Tea Party will be from 5 to 10 p.m. today at the Jessye Norman Amphitheater on the Augusta Riverwalk downtown. )

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/04/15/edi_520449.shtml
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: The Village Idiot on April 15, 2009, 09:39:23 PM: Quote from: Rebel on April 15, 2009, 09:12:34 PM
BTW, EXCELLENT commentary:

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/04/15/edi_520449.shtml

big bump for a great article
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: Kimberly on April 15, 2009, 11:41:32 PM: Du seemed deflated today by the success of the tea parties. Kind of like when Sarah Palin burst on the scene and surprised and alarmed them by her popularity. Their knee jerk reaction was to post their regular sexist, classist drivel until the astroturfers showed up, refined the message and told them what to think. So I'm guessing tomorrow there's going to be a concentrated effort by Rahm and company to discredit the tea parties and unify the message. We'll see which memes, so nicely highlighted by dutch, are going to be selected by the White House to smear us right-wing extremists tomorrow.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: happy1ga on April 16, 2009, 04:37:01 AM: Excellent job, Dutch bringing all of that over here. It is obviously freaking them out! I said in another thread, I went to the party in ATL, and there were more than 20,000 ppl there. It was like being at a rock concert, and I was waaaaay down the block. It was spread over 5 blocks, easily. As for "people of color," I saw a good many Hispanic, black, Asian, Indian, etc. I think it depends on the area. I didn't see any problems, but of course could only see a small portion. I am ready to do it again, and if we don't keep it up, it will be all for naught.Viva La Redneck Revolucion!
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: Happy Fun Ball on April 16, 2009, 05:49:15 AM: And as for the "where were we during Bush" nonsense, we weren't protesting because a: we were too busy working (you DUmmies should try it sometime), and b: we used the ballot box. We were voting the big spenders out of Congress. That's why the Republicans lost in 2006 and again 2008. Unfortunately, a lot of them apparently haven't learned their lesson yet.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: mamacags on April 16, 2009, 07:11:25 AM: If there ever were an expert on tea bagging it would be Anderson Cooper.
Title: Re: leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:
Post by: Karin on April 16, 2009, 08:50:50 AM: Dutch, over a hundred threads???!!! I thought this was an insignificant non-event; certain newspapers did not cover it, perhaps opting instead for a local story about the elected dogcatcher with a heart of gold, or something.