VIDEO REPORT: ThinkProgress Reports From Virginia Tea Parties
VIDEO REPORT: ThinkProgress Reports From Virginia Tea Parties
On Wednesday, ThinkProgress traveled to Lynchburg and Charlottesville, Virginia to witness the tax day ‘tea parties.’ Victor Zapanta compiled a short video report on the protests. Watch it:
Former Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA), a speaker at the Lynchburg rally, launched into a tirade against “illegal immigrants.” Goode declared, “The next thing Obama and his followers in the House and the Senate want to do is tell the illegals ‘come on, we’re going to give you another amnesty.’”
George Caylor, another speaker featured in the film, and a radio show host on local ESPN and Lynchburg talk radio, said:
CAYLOR: The next American revolution begins here and begins tonight. [...] Yesterday a friend of mine gave me a report from Homeland Security telling the FBI that people who are unhappy with government spending, the tax code, the general dismantling of our country, with supporting illegal immigrants with tens of millions of tax dollars, that you may be dangerous people. [audience cheers]
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We might be!
CAYLOR: I pray to God you are.
As ThinkProgress has noted, corporate front groups like Americans for Prosperity took a leading role in organizing the tea party protests across the country, including the ones in Virginia. Americans for Prosperity is financed with oil industry money and is run by Tim Phillips, a former partner in Ralph Reed’s lobbying firm.
About 40 Republican lawmakers and Governors attended the protests on Wednesday.
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CAYLOR: The next American revolution begins here and begins tonight.
“The Next American Revolution.”
Didn’t Chevy also use that tagline? At this advanced point in our history, the overused term carries about as much emotional charge as the hackneyed “War on…”
April 18th, 2009 at 9:11 amRallying against “them damn foreigners are infecting our nation”, didn’t a short angry painter from Germany use that platform?
April 18th, 2009 at 9:13 am#2 “THAT are infecting our nation” – magic fingers.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:14 amAny chance these people will realize that they are in the minority and that makes their demands for armed revolution UN-American?
April 18th, 2009 at 9:18 amYesterday a friend of mine gave me a report from Homeland Security telling the FBI that people who are unhappy with government spending, the tax code, the general dismantling of our country, with supporting illegal immigrants with tens of millions of tax dollars, that you may be dangerous people.
No, those folks are just harmless cranks, shown by the fact they didn’t utter a peep when their party was in power, and doing exactly those things they whine about now. But they DO consort with bigots and homophobes who sometimes act out their violent fantasies, so it would only be prudent to know who they are, and who they hang with.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:20 amYou filthy, disgusting, vile, trampling liberals need to heed their calls. Start incrementally, eliminating the department of education and refunding that departments budget to the people.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:22 amIt’s reassuring to know these Republicans are being so vigilant when it comes to informing the people of potential threats to their civil rights.
What they mean to say is, when they allowed Bush to spy on innocent Americans, hold American citizens in jail for more than one year without charges and without Habeas corpus, allowed Bush to accrue police state dictatorial powers, corral protestors into cages and put many in jail for wearing the wrong shirt, allowed Bush to declare a perpetual war on a technique without a declaration of war by Congress, allowed a for-profit mercenary service to terrorize the streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane, when thousands were already suffering because Bush sat on his butt and did nothing other than hand out no-bid crony contracts, they had no idea a non-Republican would be elected president in 2008.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:25 amThis footage supports the idea that much of the tea party opposition is general disagreement with Obama policy and not just deficit spending and taxes.
There are tens of millions of people that didn’t vote for Obama, so it makes sense that sentiment exists. You can make the argument that the protestors lost and should just be quiet, but I’m not sure that happens as a practical matter. People feel passionate about politics, I don’t think a political defeat dissipates that passion.
But, the idea that the people are only gathering over concern about taxes, doesn’t look credible. And it seems that the rallies were being used as a tool for republicans to try to reform.
What is also telling is what wasn’t in the video. I was expecting to see some significant examples of racism or violent nature. (There were some). But, the gatherings looked like a legitimate exercise in free speech.
The tea party name isn’t really accurate. It could easily have been ’stop Obama now’ parties or ’stop Democrats now’ parties.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:26 amCAYLOR: The next American revolution begins here and begins tonight. […] Yesterday a friend of mine gave me a report from Homeland Security telling the FBI that people who are unhappy with government spending, the tax code, the general dismantling of our country, with supporting illegal immigrants with tens of millions of tax dollars, that you may be dangerous people. [audience cheers]
Mr. Caylor needs to learn how to read better. The report did not say “that people who are unhappy with government spending, the tax code, the general dismantling of our country, with supporting illegal immigrants with tens of millions of tax dollars…may be dangerous people.” The report said there “may be dangerous people” and that they were “people who are unhappy with government spending, the tax code, the general dismantling of our country, with supporting illegal immigrants with tens of millions of tax dollars”. The report did not equate the two groups. There is an important difference that I don’t think he understood.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:27 amWho’s going to pay for the big gay storm? Our grandchildren?
The President’s budget spends too much, taxes too much, and David Vitter charges too much.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:28 amThe only real problem with government is when Republicans are in charge of it. How many of these outraged teabaggers used tax-funded roads to get to the tax-funded parks to protest while being watched by tax-funded police?
April 18th, 2009 at 9:29 amadd some torchlit parades and you have modern day nurenburg rallies
April 18th, 2009 at 9:33 ambackup Says:
This footage supports the idea that much of the tea party opposition is general disagreement with Obama policy and not just deficit spending and taxes.
Um, this footage shows only the final product, not how it was generated – and if lobbyist astroturfing was mainly responsible for the coordination, true support is only an inch deep.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:34 amtranslate to neoconish Says:
You filthy, disgusting, vile, trampling liberals need to heed their calls. Start incrementally, eliminating the department of education and refunding that departments budget to the people.
Just because conservatives are incapable of learning it doesn’t mean that normal people can’t.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:35 ami particularly like the people at these teabagging events who prostituted their kids out by making them hold signs or by putting their kids on signs. very classy
April 18th, 2009 at 9:37 amtranslate to neoconish Says:
Education is a good thing, a well-educated people tend not to fall for the first lemming who screams “jump over the cliff with me”. The only reason anyone would want to cut education is to keep people docile and able to be manipulated.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:37 amAbove the Clouds Says:
The only real problem with government is when Republicans are in charge of it. How many of these outraged teabaggers used tax-funded roads to get to the tax-funded parks to protest while being watched by tax-funded police?
Butttt, that’s dif-earnt dang it! We’re god fearin murikans and we deserve all them tax revenues from the blue states that support our god-fearen red states. and shut up, and stuff.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:38 amGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
Sounds like corporate front groups want to get violent.
Or just using the one proven-effective method with these type of folk: jingoist fear-mongering. I saw signs still questioning Obama’s citizenship status.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:38 am“You may be dangerous people … I pray to God you are.”-George Caylor, talk show host.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:39 amI’ve got news for Mr. Caylor: these types of people have already shown they are dangerous. White supremicist Timothy McVeigh, angry at the Clinton administration’s handling of the Waco incident, killed 168 people at the federal building in Oklahoma City. Those people either were employed by the federal government — our government — or were children of those employees. More recently, three policement in Pittsburgh were killed by another right-wing wacko. If this kind of talk continues, these fine speakers like Mr. Caylor and the 40 GOP lawmakers could find themselves in deep trouble for treason and inciting to riot. They may be sore losers concerning the election, in which an intelligent black man was duly elected by the people. But Democrats did not speak of revolution in 2000 when the opposition was NOT elected by the people but handed the election by a Republican-dominated Supreme Court. Wonder what those Justices think about the hole the country is in now, due in great part to the lying, stupid and inhumane policies and actions of the great W?
Violent rage, violent words, and violent thoughts makes the right wing horny in America. The End.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:39 amHere are the same types of people at a McCain/Palin supporters back in October 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itEucdhf4Us
April 18th, 2009 at 9:40 ami hope these clowns know all this talk about “feeding the tree of tyranny with blood” and “revolution” probably earned them a place on the NSA’a phonelines to tap list.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:41 amtranslate to neoconish says:
Big gay storm? Elaborate please? Translate?
April 18th, 2009 at 9:43 amtranslate to neoconish
Unless you’re trolling, how about putting a /snark tag on your wit?
April 18th, 2009 at 9:44 amI have reason to suspect that backup is a flaming liberal, bomb-throwing communist. There’s a place for your kind, pal, http://www.redstate.org. Be conservative enough or be gone.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:45 ambratwurst, there’s nothing that the department of education can do that my purdy county board of supervisors can’t.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:46 amNeo’s on a tear; too much Sugar Frosted Flakes.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:48 amInstead of Cocoa Puffs, Barfly, I think they’re eating too much CooCoo Puffs. ;-)
April 18th, 2009 at 9:50 amI refuse to elaborate. Maybe it’s because I’m unable to, or that I want to call you a commie and leave it at that.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:51 amYou refuse to elaborate because you can’t. Simple.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:51 amYou had it right the first time.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:51 amDid you enjoy the 8 years of fascism we had? Did you wrap yourself in the flag, wear your flag pin, and worshiped Bushitler when he said, “God told me to attack Iraq”?
America despises you fascists. Call us or label us anything you want, but please don’t ever call us fascist Bushitler supporters! Ouch, that hurts.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:53 amLook at the shiny tea party..don’t look at the new political ‘OIL PARTY’. BIG OIL now has enough money to raise and arm a military the size of England and France and China put together. What a thought.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:54 amConservativeForProgress
April 18th, 2009 at 9:54 ama couple of questions for you:
a) where were you when 43 was on a spending orgy?
b) where were you when 43 was expanding the size and role of the federal government in ways that until this point have never been seen?
For 8 years we watched the goosesteppers worship George Bush & Dick Cheney’s fascist rule, but after less than 3 months, they can’t handle President Obama who is trying to seek some peace and REAL prosperity for our country.
What’s the matter fascist Pigs? You want to remain Oscar the Grouches by living in your trash can where the world you’ve created stinks, smells, and no one wants to visit? I think so.
GO BACK IN YOUR TRASHCANS!
April 18th, 2009 at 9:55 amSee, this is how I see the argument about the “Big Gay Storm”:
The storm is coming… there are those who will come in out of the rain to keep “safe”, and keep their children… and grandchildren “safe” as well.
There are those who will enjoy the rain and see the overall benefit of it, accepting it for what it is.
And there are those who will shake their fist at the clouds, complain about the rain, and the effect it will have on their children, and their children’s children, generally, they have no sense to come in out of the rain they hate so much.
But hey, I’m just a commie, I know this because I was labelled that by someone who can’t elaborate.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:56 amretroactive snark: posts 6,10,27 & 31. Notice of intent to snark throughout the thread at a rate of no more than 2 out of 10 posts so as to preserve the integrity of the thread.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:57 amWhere there ANY minorities present at ANY of the “hate rallies”?
Gee, I wonder why???
April 18th, 2009 at 9:57 amWhere were you fascists when derivatives under George Bush reached $600,000,000,000,000 (600 trillion for you ninnies who can’t count the zeros without your eyes crossing!)? Huh. Where were ya? Oh that’s right….just like you’ve done for an eternity, you were busy blaming the liberals for what the republicans stand for, huh? You were too busy pointing fingers at the rest of us as being immoral, with no values, and spending too much money, when really, IT’S THE MEMBERS OF YOUR POLITICAL PARTY (the American Taliban) WHO WAS ALL THOSE THINGS, HUH!!!!
April 18th, 2009 at 9:58 amDNFP Says:
“Where there ANY minorities present at ANY of the “hate rallies”?”
yes there were plenty of minorities at these parties, they were filled with republicant’s
April 18th, 2009 at 10:00 amI wrapped myself in the flag like a tightly-packed burrito. The flag without my warm presence is as lame as a cheese pizza.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:00 amThe directions on how to preserve any comment thread on the Internet:
BAN THE RIGHT WING TROLLS!
(NOW GO BACK IN YOUR TRASHCANS!)
See? It’s very easy. The conversation is always dumbed down when you Fox Ninnies show up.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:00 amWell, unwrap yourself goosestepper because it’s cut off oxygen to your brain!
April 18th, 2009 at 10:01 amConservativeForProgress Says:
I was at one of the tea parties. It was inspirtional to see so many people show up to protest over taxation and over involvement of the federal government in our personal lives.
Any signs protesting war spending?
How about illegal wiretapping?
Gutting habeus corpus protections?
Riiight.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:02 amWhat is Obama waiting for……he should dispatch the military out to these illegal events and crush them like they do in other country’s. Buck up cupcake!
April 18th, 2009 at 10:03 amConservative Progress, I’m glad I have a dog in this fight. If it’s one thing you don’t want to do to our children, it’s leave them with anything less than the delicacy of bombs and bullets and terrorist plots and shredded remains. We’re on the same page: the math has it that education is much more expensive than ignorance; if fact, the destruction’s aftermath on the back of taxpayers is funding liberal arts faculty salaries. Therefore, education and all that other pro-human shit will have to wait.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:04 amI want the federal government out of my life, too. That means David Vitter will have to stop sneaking into my bedroom for crickey’s sake.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:07 amConservativeForProgress:
April 18th, 2009 at 10:08 amDid you notice anyone that seemsed concerned about government interverence in marriage partner selection, reproductive health, or right to die issues?
Dogs spend more time sniffing each other’s behinds. Rock on.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:08 amConservativeForProgress Says:
“by Chicago-style politicians”
enough said. another 43 nuthugger pretending to be a concerned citizen.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:09 amThe message I heard wasn’t “hate,” but rather, was an intense opposition to over-taxation, over-regulation, and the massive power grab that is going on by Chicago-style politicians that have taken over Washington and are mortgaging our children and grandchildren’s future.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:10 am—
Was there any reflection on why these folks weren’t out protesting during the drunken spending of the last aministration or did it seem like they did not want to ask each other critical questions which might make them think about hypocrisy?
the massive power grab that is going on by Chicago-style politicians that have taken over Washington and are mortgaging our children and grandchildren’s future.
As opposed to the no-bid, cost-plus, off-budget spending of the profligate Bush years?
Cry me a river — of red ink.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:10 amI see the Tea Parties as an impotent cry of humiliation, despair, and pain. But that’s just me.
My solution to the problem: Right Will Eat Itself
April 18th, 2009 at 10:12 amWhat are you basing this “significance” on? Other than something to goof on, I have seen no sign that these gatherings are in anyway catching the public “wave”. Still I am more interested in answers to the questions I posed in 52 and 56.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:17 amThanks…
Yes, clearly, these morons are revolting.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:18 amWhat are you basing this “significance” on? Other than something to goof on, I have seen no sign that these gatherings are in anyway catching the public “wave”. Still I am more interested in answers to the questions I posed in 52 and 56.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:18 amThanks…
SlappyBastinado Says:
What is Obama waiting for……he should dispatch the military out to these illegal events and crush them like they do in other country’s. Buck up cupcake!
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ConservativeForProgress Says:
DNFP: Both of the speakers I saw at the tea party I attended were minorities, as was a large portion of the crowd. The message I heard wasn’t “hate,” but rather, was an intense opposition to over-taxation, over-regulation, and the massive power grab that is going on by Chicago-style politicians that have taken over Washington and are mortgaging our children and grandchildren’s future.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:04 am
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April 18th, 2009 at 10:19 amConservativeForProgress Says:
Oxymoron often?
You missed the memo: Conservatives aren’t progressive.
FACT: progressives are fag-loving, gun-hating abortionist Atheists, remember?
I do not think you want REAL “progress”, unless you have a closet full of rainbow shirts, Anton LaVey writings and a grow light nurturing a happy little skunk-bud.
I’m sure the “progressive” train of thought you were trying to flag down ran right over you.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:19 amI didnt know those people stalking my town with 5×10 foot banners of fetuses were liberals.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:19 amI’m wondering if the tea party participants would like to give back the tax breaks they just got in their last couple of payche….oh. right.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:22 amConservativeForProgress Says:
For many decades, through both conservative and liberal administrations, protests have only been a tool of the left.
During the 70’s, there were conservative counter-protests to war protestors, some that turned violent.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:24 amDru Phlea Says:
protests have only been a tool of the left.
I didnt know those people stalking my town with 5×10 foot banners of fetuses were liberals.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:19 am
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who were those people?
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April 18th, 2009 at 10:25 ambarracading oneself in a home with way too many guns and whining about taxes while threatening the lives of law enforcement officers has only been a tool of the right…
April 18th, 2009 at 10:27 amfrom the msnbc news service about three hours ago:
“President Barack Obama said on Saturday he would soon announce the elimination of dozens of government programs as part of a broad effort to restore fiscal accountability to the federal budget.
Speaking in his weekly radio address, Obama said he would use his first full Cabinet meeting on Monday to ask department and agency heads for specific proposals for trimming their budgets.
He named two new officials as part of a team of management, technology and budget experts that will drive the process of trimming the fat and waste from government spending.”
protest that, revolting morons!
April 18th, 2009 at 10:27 amHi hp:
April 18th, 2009 at 10:31 amI get the feeling ConservativeForProgress won’t be answering my questions at 52 and 56 but I am patient. Maybe we can pass the time with you sharing that “proof” of yours.
Thanks…
I’m glad you’re protesting your tax cuts, ConProg. Now send that money back to the treasury. Any comment on my post at #70?
April 18th, 2009 at 10:31 am“President Barack Obama said on Saturday he would soon announce the elimination of dozens of government programs as part of a broad effort to restore fiscal accountability to the federal budget.
[fingers crossed] Faith-based initiatives… Faith-based initiatives…
April 18th, 2009 at 10:31 amhp Says:
tirade against “illegal immigrants.”
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Liberals are clueless. With proof.
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hp Says:
too many guns
Not possible.
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ConservativeForProgress Says:
My bad for using an absolute term like “only.” What I should have said is that for many years, through both liberal and conservative administrations, protests have primarily been a tool of the left. Most conservatives are new at this. The next round will be bigger, and better.
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April 18th, 2009 at 10:31 amtoo many guns
Not possible.
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April 18th, 2009 at 10:32 amplease explain…
hp @#71 ~ WTF?
Goode declared, “The next thing Obama and his followers in the House and the Senate want to do is tell the illegals ‘come on, we’re going to give you another amnesty.’”
That’s not a tirade against illegal immigrants?
Sure isn’t a c’mon down and rest your feets a spell, now is it?>
April 18th, 2009 at 10:32 amThe best tea party video on the interweb…
here.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:32 amalpuz ~ game, match and set!!!
April 18th, 2009 at 10:35 amMost conservatives are new at this. The next round will be bigger, and better.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:35 am—
In what ways do you feel they need to be improved in order to be better? Is it that critical thinking part where they ask the tough questions like why did we not speak up during the last administrations poor use of tax funds and big government interference in the private lives of the citizenrey?
Oh, I see, NOW, just NOW, they are against the No Child Left Behind Act……
Two-and-a-half years ago, I signed the No Child Left Behind Act, a bipartisan law that is challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations in public education. My budget for next year increases school funding to $37 billion, a 49 percent increase since 2001. -GWB 2004
April 18th, 2009 at 10:35 amhp must have a vintage collection of red ryder bb guns, cap guns and other toy popguns that he wants to sell on ebay.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:36 amWhat continues to astonish me about “conservatives” is their credulity: no matter how ridiculous the lie being fed them about Obama, about liberals, about the “gay agenda”, they lap it up. The woman in the video ranting about mandatory volunteer youth programs, just like Hitler Youth . . . wtf is she on about? She’s got a fully-developed hallucination going there that she learned from someone. And the b.s. about the DHS report calling teabaggers “right wing extremists” has instantly joined the mythos.
This is a scary video. The people in the crowds are willing to believe anything they’re told by Republican politicians and wingnut radio hosts — who in turn are more than happy to fill those empty heads with lies.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:36 amCould you imagine the gnashing of teeth and the feigned outrage had some democrats advocated, even incited, dangerous people
April 18th, 2009 at 10:36 amMost conservatives are new at this. The next round will be bigger, and better.
With the same results as the seventies: police give righties a pass on inciting, and carrying out violent acts, directed at members of the left. As far as being new to this, many are middle-aged, and cut their teeth on protest movements of the seventies. Hardly political protest virgins.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:37 amWhile those organizing these tea parties were attempting to borrow credibility from the famous Boston Tea Party, protesting taxation without representation, these parties remind me more of the Mad Hatter’s tea party from Alice in Wonderland.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:38 amI’d be interested in the average income of the attendees. I expect most there enjoyed a tax cut under Obama.
I’ve heard it said that they are protesting the tax burden on their children and grand children because of the extraordinary spending to try to pull the economy out of a nose dive…but like many have said here… where were they while Reagan and the two Bushs drove the national debt through the roof?
I would bet most would qualify for a personality disorder if examined. Their hold on reality is tenuous at best.
The woman in the video ranting about mandatory volunteer youth programs, just like Hitler Youth . . . wtf is she on about?
That was Michele Bachmann who started that fear mongering when she called Ameri-corps mandatory re-education camps…when they are nothing of the sort.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:39 amhp Says:
There’s a good Lou Dobbs tape here.
http://www.olbermannwatch.com/
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April 18th, 2009 at 10:40 amhp do you just post shit or do you actually engage? Just wondering. Oh and where ConservativeForProgress? Don’t tell me that is old Archie that is too scared to…
April 18th, 2009 at 10:40 amOT, Rick Perry is already backpedaling as a poll shows only 18% of Texans are for secession.
Like I didnt see that coming..
April 18th, 2009 at 10:41 amRU, it sucks to be you! All the private free companies will cut us a big giant check for our protesting service to be sent U.S. mail at an undisclosed date. I understand their secrecy in the name of national security. All of these social agencies should be liquidated and the proceeds trickled down to taxpayers. We owe them NOTHING.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:41 amhp, got a good Lou Rawls tape instead?
April 18th, 2009 at 10:42 amhp Says:
You misunderstood, he said it’s not possible that there is a GOOD Lou Dobbs tape.
Back to reality, Harry Potter.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:42 amXisithrus, gotta wonder in GW is in that 18 pct.?
April 18th, 2009 at 10:42 amAnd hp, did I mention, Lou Dobbs is an idiot?> If you’re trotting him out as some sort of liberal icon, put it back in your pants.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:43 amGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
I think after this it might be time to stop threading about the teabag parties. They aren’t and weren’t in the local news and it’s time to let them go. Stop watching them on YouTube also.
Actually, they were in my local news. I was surprised they got anyone to show up for a rally in Portland, less so about a rally in Salem (Oregon). The footage I saw of the Salem rally seriously deflated the numbers claimed but they still managed to get about 1,000 people there.
You can’t just ignore the phenomenon and pretend it doesn’t exist. Republicans are going to continue to flog the discontent among people who are badly confused and, to some extent, justifiably frightened by the economy. Typically, Republicans can support from the people who least benefit by the relationship, by feeding on this fear.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:43 amConservativeForProgress
April 18th, 2009 at 10:44 amIs there a reason you are avoiding me? Do I need to rephrase the questions? I think we both know the answer to that now don’t we?
ConservativeForProgress Says:
Yes, and people continually talk about their babies’ bowel movements, American Idol and Hannah Montana too. Truly significant.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:45 amThese folks, the 23%ers, it seems, want to have their subjective imagination stroked and inflated no matter how bizarro it is. And your right, the talking heads are only too happy to reinforce such myth by stirring the conspiracy pot.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:45 amThe police should cut we conservatives some slack because we are their police state buddies. Conservatives = pro-police = don’t question me about it.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:46 amdbadass, the reasons are, not necessarily in this order:
He’s got nothin.
He’s a chickenshit.
He’s got no answer.
He’s a gutless, revolting moron.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:46 am…or maybe how entertaining they were? Could that be it, CFP?
Face it, goofball… you’ve become a punch line.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:46 am99
April 18th, 2009 at 10:46 amI think you serve your cause poorly by employing the past tense. Be more proactive. Imply that they are “alive” and dynamic. See that is the right’s problem they come across as stale, tired, and in the past…
hp Says:
Good tape, eh, joe? :)
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sgt. john e. hatley,
friend of yours, hp?
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April 18th, 2009 at 10:46 amhp queries:
Can I buy some pot from you?
April 18th, 2009 at 10:47 amhp Says:
RUCeriousMaggot! Says:
And hp, did I mention, Lou Dobbs is an idiot?
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Anyone that doesn’t sing your song is an idiot. We know.
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and then you murder them.
we know.
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April 18th, 2009 at 10:48 amConservativeForProgress Says:
The fact that the Center for American Progress and its followers on ThinkProgress keep talking about the tea parties demonstrates just how significant they were. Please, don’t stop.
TP ran a lot of posts about Paris Hilton going to jail a few years ago. Does that demonstrate that the subject was significant?
April 18th, 2009 at 10:48 amso, hp, are you sending your tax cut money back to the treasury?
April 18th, 2009 at 10:48 amI urinated in a cup of tea designated for Barney Frank, but Laura Ingraham helped herself … oops.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:48 amhp states:
Since when does a varied group of people all sing the same song? Or expect anyone to? While we may not like your song, we don’t have to any more than you have to like ours.
Tabled.
Onward.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:49 amThe fact that the Center for American Progress and its followers on ThinkProgress keep talking about the tea parties
I wasnt talking about the tea-parties but the things these people believe.
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Is GWB part of the 18% If he was standing in front of a crowd of these folks, I would say yes. But since Bush is part of NWO crowd I would say no. Secession isnt in the NAFTA/CAFTA plan
April 18th, 2009 at 10:50 amHello? Why is it that they can never handle a few simple questions? Come on hp and ConservativeForProgress, please don’t make me have to declare you “Archies” in a public forum…
April 18th, 2009 at 10:51 amI’m watching “They Might be Giants” on cable right now, and the parallels between the George C Scott character, and the conservative teabaggers is astounding. Finding “clues” everywhere, in search of a non-existent “Moriarity,” like conservatives, first ranting about the coming fairness doctrine re-imposition, and then about his being a secret muslim.
And his psychiatrist, Dr. Watson (like the MSM media), follows along, wondering at his weird quirk, and finding value in his every nonsensical utterance.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:53 amhp, you’re all out of ink.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:54 amoops, not last week, a week about 3 weeks ago…but you might get the message?
April 18th, 2009 at 10:54 amAnd not a word of protest about the mess your boy W made in Iraq with over 700 billion of our tax dollars?
Here’s a glimpse of the ongoing mess:
k13099 Body of 30-yr-old man found shot dead near Alwa Mahmoud, west of Makhmour 25 Mar 2009
k13098 Local official of ‘U.S.-allied Sunni group’ shot dead north of Baghdad 25 Mar 2009
k13096 3-4 schoolgirls by roadside bomb, Rasheediyah, north Mosul 25 Mar 2009
k13094 Body of Yazidi man found shot dead in Bashiqa 25 Mar 2009
k13097 One by roadside bomb in al-Bakr, east Mosul 24 Mar 2009
k13095 Recently released prisoner shot dead in Haditha 24 Mar 2009
k13092 Mentally handicapped man shot dead in home, Sommer, central Kirkuk 24 Mar 2009
k13091 Off-duty policeman shot dead in al-Najafi Street, central Mosul 24 Mar 2009
k13090 34-year-old woman shot dead in home in al-Darkazliya, east Mosul 24 Mar 2009
k13089 Eight by roadside bomb, Haswa, east of Falluja 23 Mar 2009
k13088 Man and son in car by roadside bomb, Wadi Hajar, south Mosul 23 Mar 2009
k13087 8-10 by bomb in car mechanic’s shop, Abu Ghraib 23 Mar 2009
k13086 Policeman by suicide bomber in Hassankwi, Tal Afar 23 Mar 2009
k13085 26-27 by suicide bomber at Kurdish funeral in Jalawla 23 Mar 2009
k13084 Truck driver shot dead betweek Kirkuk and Bayji 22 Mar 2009
k13082 Body of Facilities Protection Corps guard found shot and tortured in al-Iskandariya 22 Mar 2009
k13080 One by roadside bomb, Bab al-Beid, central Mosul 22 Mar 2009
k13081 0-2 by roadside bomb or bomb in house, Sadiya 21 Mar 2009-
22 Mar 2009
k13079 Body of former Iraqi army colonel found tortured, Agaidat, Mosul 21 Mar 2009
k13078 One in clashes between security forces and gunmen, Sina’a, Mosul 21 Mar 2009
k13077 Awakening Council leader by bomb in car, Sunaydiq, al-Musayab 21 Mar 2009
k13083 Body of kidnapped soldier found shot dead, Zawiya, Qayara 20 Mar 2009-
22 Mar 2009
k13076 Policeman by roadside bomb in Amara 20 Mar 2009
k13075 Policeman by suicide bomber, Albu Eifan, near Falluja 20 Mar 2009
k13074 Car driver shot dead in Jarf al-Sakhr 20 Mar 2009
k13073 Body found shot dead in al-Abassiya, central Kut 19 Mar 2009
k13072 Woman shot dead in west Mosul 19 Mar 2009
k13071 Two shot dead in central Mosul 19 Mar 2009
k13070 Body of man in his 40s found shot dead in Malaeen, north Mosul 19 Mar 2009
That’s from last week.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:54 amhttp://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/incidents/page1
Conservatives = pro-police = don’t question me about it.
Well, the extremist gun owner in PA didnt think so when he shot and killed three police officers and dont think the police have forgotten that.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:55 ambarfly:
April 18th, 2009 at 10:55 amWhat! No mention of Triangle Man…
Dear GOP and all the idiots comprised within,
What you should be protesting is your own party for nominating two of the most ignorant, feckless party hacks to run for the POTUS.
You see, we’re are not your problem, YOU ARE YOUR PROBLEM.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:56 amJesus H. Christ!! Ronny Raygun emptied the state hospitals – and now I know where all those crazy people are.
Scary. And the irresponsible GOOPers in our government who are inciting them to riot ought to be prosecuted. This is dangerous sh!t.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:58 am“Goode declared, “The next thing Obama and his followers in the House and the Senate want to do is tell the illegals ‘come on, we’re going to give you another amnesty.’”
Uh, that would have been Reagan.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:58 amConservativeForProgress Says:
I was at one of the tea parties. It was inspirtional to see so many people show up to protest over taxation and over involvement of the federal government in our personal lives. We need to look to the future to what these reckless Socialist/Liberal policies will have on our children and grandchildren. The next round of tea parties should be even bigger and better.
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….and look at what the failed and reckless policies of the Conservative/Far right-wingers have done to this country over the last 8 years?
At least someone was brave enough to step in and try to clean up all of the conservatives “oppressive” economic policies.
And the people did look at their future and didn’t see what they liked.
Why weren’t you protesting that carpetbagger Paulson when he drafted the TARP Bill? He drafted a the bill on how to steal your tax dollars to pay for his and Wall St. bad financial dealings?
Why weren’t you protesting Bush’s enormous spending and borrowing which increased the US deficit to over 1 trillion plus dollars, think about how much Bush borrowed from the Chinese?
I didn’t you see you protest Bush’s stimulus package?
The Republicans and the likes of Rush will continue to recruit “zoombie’s” like you who will always have you vote against your own economic interest first, while they “blindly’ brainwash you into believing they have your best interest at heart?
Did you know that the Republican’s alternative current budget bill has more “spending” and “borrowing” than Obama’s? And yet those same Republican’s are out their preaching false information trying to recruit more “zoombie’s like yourself.
The bottom line with these protest is that an Africa-American is US president, period.
It’s sad that the Republicans have to resort to using damn near torture tactics and fear-mongering, hate, lies and decit to pander for votes because the conservatives lost due to their failed policies.
I pity you.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:59 amthe next Republican Revolution
Nutthugger, see me at #128.
Let’s just say, we’re not holding our breath…
April 18th, 2009 at 10:59 amU.S.C. § Activities within the department of defense shall not be subjected to scrutiny. Obey the code, RU.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:01 am>DNFP: Both of the speakers I saw at the
>tea party I attended were minorities,
Uhhh huh. Both eh? And what sort of minorities would those have been? Don’t suppose you could link us to any pictures of these folks, could ya? Cuz I’ve seen dozens of pictures of the teabaggers and everyone I saw was lilly white. I’ve seen more diversity in Klan rallies.. I think its not incredibly surprising given that the majority of people at these things are basically protesting the fact a black guys their leader now..
April 18th, 2009 at 11:02 ambonat, there must be a website somewhere where we can donate diapers and rash cream for these whiny babies, isn’t there?
April 18th, 2009 at 11:02 amthe next Republican Revolution
Attention nutt-hugger emeritus,
See me at above, at #128.
Let’s just say, we won’t be holding our breath till then, mainly out of need for laughter.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:02 amConservativeForProgress Says:
db: With all due respect, your pattern of attack is old and tired. If someone disagrees with you, you try to engage them in off-topic, poorly framed cross-examination. Then someone else starts to “flag” your target for being off topic. I’m not interested in you or your games. They bore me. What I am interested in is the topic of this thread, and the CAP’s heavy attendtion on the tea parties — further proof of the tea paries’ significance and the fear the left has of the next Republican Revolution.
There is nothing revolutionary about fear and ignorance, which is what feeds these events. The only fear the Left has of you and yours is the occasional nutjob who believes this tripe and shoots “liberals” as a result.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:03 amConservativeForProgress Says:
db: With all due respect, your pattern of attack is old and tired. If someone disagrees with you, you try to engage them in off-topic, poorly framed cross-examination. Then someone else starts to “flag” your target for being off topic. I’m not interested in you or your games. They bore me. What I am interested in is the topic of this thread, and the CAP’s heavy attendtion on the tea parties — further proof of the tea paries’ significance and the fear the left has of the next Republican Revolution.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:58 am
***
when you get nervous and excited
you make mistakes.
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April 18th, 2009 at 11:03 amtranslate, why wouldn’t Trojan football be subject to scrutiny??
April 18th, 2009 at 11:03 am129:
How is asking you about your experiences at a tea party off topic? Also where did I ever take any stance as to whether I agreed or disagreed with you? Please show us.
You are bumming and it shows… See the thing is you have to think at a higher level and in advance. It is sort of like chess. I am happy to hear your ideas. I just wish you could support them with well conceived supporting followup. You wish just top post opinion without being expected to show the basis of the opinions. Socratic questioning really helps people to think at a higher level….
Noticed I didn’t point out how you have been pwned again…
April 18th, 2009 at 11:04 amtimewarp, new post appears ahead of old one which just NOW appeared…
Wish I could have been along for the ride.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:04 amI did not protest George Bush’s stimulus package because I liked it. You don’t have to raise taxes on our grandchildren, you just have to make sure the zipper is up.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:04 am>further proof of the tea paries’ significance
>and the fear the left has of the
>next Republican Revolution.
Yeah, nominate some more fetus hugging white trash meth addict borderline retarded bimbos for your presidential candidates next time, everyone was reallly impressed last time you did that..
April 18th, 2009 at 11:05 amjoe, you forgot “tea paries’
April 18th, 2009 at 11:06 am“Goode declared, “The next thing Obama and his followers in the House and the Senate want to do is tell the illegals ‘come on, we’re going to give you another amnesty.’”
And lets not forget that it was GWB that also had an amnesty plan for the 8 million illegals.
And why is this guy not talking about taxes????
Is this in election year? These people should save their energy until, you know, like, 2011 or 2012.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:06 am“poorly framed”?
April 18th, 2009 at 11:08 am—
That seems odd since it always ends with the same result… Tacit acknowledgment of their being outleagued…
Would hp, or any of y’all out there care to defend the SSI contribution cap, that is actually a tax break for those making over $100,000 a year?
April 18th, 2009 at 11:08 amThe military is our baby, RU. Any precedent is written and in our favor as we go along, in the name of national security. I’m smarter than you RU. I am a neocon because I know alot more then liberals. I value my intelligence very much. That’s why I need power and power to no end. I can take you liberals on. Bring it on, because my mission is accomplished.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:08 amIn my experience, anyone who has to tell me that they are smarter than me, usually isn’t.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:10 amRUCeriousMaggot! Says:
joe, you forgot “tea paries’
***
let’s not pile on.
she feels bad enough
as it is.
:|
April 18th, 2009 at 11:10 am> With all due respect, your pattern of
> attack is old and tired.
With all due respect, you just took a paragraph to say absolutely nothing. Yeah, we’re here terrified of your teabagging. Really we are. Your powers of perception are impressive. You people are so clueless and out of it that even though your party platform is intrinsicly homophobic, you can’t manage to have a protest which isnt named after an sex act often associated with homosexuals. You people arent hip, your marketing to the younger generation is an utter failure. Your voting base is comprised mostly of the withered and old, and honestly, the grim reaper is chiseling that base away more each year…4 years from now how many mccain voters will have died? time and demographics is not on your side, keep whistling past the graveyard all you want but its true.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:11 amperhaps our translator would care to respond to my post at #148?
April 18th, 2009 at 11:12 amYeah, nominate some more
fetus hugging
!!!@@@!!!
white trash
ouch!
meth addict
eeeh!
borderline retarded
ooh!
bimbos
zap!
April 18th, 2009 at 11:13 am….
have we lost
congestiveforpurgative?
???
April 18th, 2009 at 11:14 amPeople making over $100,000 a year usually have $400,000+ mortgages. If you raised the SS cap on that income I don’t they they’d be able to pay their mortage anymore.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:15 amtranslator, I just gotta ask:
April 18th, 2009 at 11:16 amWhat branch of the service were/are you in?
translator, c’mon, it’s no higher tax rate, just continuing to pay the same rate. That’s not a tax rate increase. So you’re ok with people making less than 100,000 subsidizing them?
April 18th, 2009 at 11:16 amAgain, this should be used as a counter volley anytime the “white only rally-ists” claim their moral authority:
What you should be protesting is your own party for nominating two of the most ignorant, feckless party hacks to run for the POTUS.
“Boycott Sal’s? Why you wanna boycott Sal’s? Boy, you oughta be protesting the motherfcuker who gave you that haircut, stupid string-cheese head motherfcuker” – Sweet Dick Willy, Do the Right Thing
April 18th, 2009 at 11:16 amConservativeForProgress Says:
db: With all due respect, your pattern of attack is old and tired. If someone disagrees with you, you try to engage them in off-topic, poorly framed cross-examination. Then someone else starts to “flag” your target for being off topic. I’m not interested in you or your games. They bore me. What I am interested in is the topic of this thread, and the CAP’s heavy attendtion on the tea parties — further proof of the tea paries’ significance and the fear the left has of the next Republican Revolution.
Well, C4P, the first error you made was in framing db’s responses to you as an “attack”. Do you view every disagreement in military terms? Is that how you frame every debate over issues?
And db doesn’t automatically jump to “off-topic, poorly framed cross-examination.” he only does that when an especially obnoxious troll shows up, one who refuses to back any allegation he makes with facts or links that show where he got his crazy ideas. So what he tried to do is find common ground. Most people eat food, and db enjoys cooking and sharing recipes, so he tries to find out if the troll likes the same things db does. When other posters “flag the target” for being off-topic, that is usually because the person in question is being off-topic. db can only flag a comment once, so if there are multiple flags on a troll’s post, it’s because many people decided it needed to be flagged. This usually happens when a troll refuses to back up his claims with proof (or facts).
Now, if you would educate yourself, C4P, about what this site is about (hint: look up in the upper right at the banner labeled “What We’re About”), you would understand that the lies and misinformation being spread by the people promoting these tea parties is something TP is against. TP does its best to expose the Radical Right-Wing Agenda in this country. Not because we’re “frightened”, but because the more we learn about the people attending these tea parties, the more we learn how little they know about the facts. They seem to repeat common right-wing talk radio lies (or right-wing cable TV lies). The guy in Pensacola was right: Virtually every single person attending those tea parties was going to get a tax cut under Obama’s budget proposal. So why are they claiming that they are “taxed too much”?
You really should try to answer his questions. They are valid and to the point. Did any of these people who attended these tea parties to protest excessive government spending do any protesting when the Bush Administration was spending billions of dollars on an illegal war?
April 18th, 2009 at 11:17 amI didn’t serve in the military. That helps me keep an independent judgment of my baby. Chickenhawk analysts are recession-proof. It’s the fastest way to make six figures in your twenties.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:18 amDid any of these people who attended these tea parties to protest excessive government spending do any protesting when the Bush Administration was spending billions of dollars on an illegal war?
Of course not, cuz we are killing “teh brown skin people”.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:19 amtranslate to neoconish Says:
People making over $100,000 a year usually have $400,000+ mortgages. If you raised the SS cap on that income I don’t they they’d be able to pay their mortage anymore.
If that were true (that they wouldn’t be able to pay their mortgages any more), then they are probably already living beyond their means.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:19 amWayne, your antennae are showing!@! Heh.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:19 amtranslator, did you recently have a gig as Minneapolis Mike?
April 18th, 2009 at 11:19 amTranslate says:
The comedy writes itself.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:23 amI am ok with the middle-class subsidizing the upper-middle-class or richies, because I dutifully support wealth redistribution up and regressive tax policies.
If you broaden the base of SS income, that will reduce the smog and dirt and noise I have to hear nearby through reduced high-end subdivision construction. We can’t have people forced to downgrade to 2,500 SF homes just because SS tax broadening forces them to get a smaller mortgage. We need people upsizing shit up.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:23 amWith all respects worthy of such a fine gentleman…
Wayne, I have a expressed policy against flagging. I prefer to engage those that wish to express their ideas no mattter how absurd they might be…
On a different not, this weekend leaves me with quite an odd array of ingredients. I look forward to suggestions…
April 18th, 2009 at 11:24 am#167, translator, did you take lessons in gibberish from Gabby Johnson?
April 18th, 2009 at 11:27 amLiving beyond your means? How is it possible for an upper income person to live beyond their means? If you libs look at the constitution, socializing the losses and privatizing the profits is what the founder envisioned.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:27 amI see a thread of deep, subconscious racism in these tea party crowds. While these people remained silent during the deficit spending, expanding government and tax raising of Reagan (yes, Reagan actually raised taxes), Bush 1 (read my lips) and Bush 2 (massive deficits), they are only now willing to vent their anger. I think that most of these (white) people aren’t capable of emotionally coping with a black man as their president. The anger they think they feel at (past) government policies is really a deep cognitive dissonance they are not even consciously aware of. Most of them, I’m sure, would claim to be fair minded and would probably even admit to knowing a black person or two and thinking they “OK”. But they can’t escape the fact that now they suddenly feel oddly empowered and loosened to protest against Obama. I’d bet that you’d find very few of them who didn’t subliminally resist using the words “president” and “Obama” together in the same sentence, even in a derisive way.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:28 amI wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin’ bushwackin’, hornswagglin’ cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:28 amdb,
Understood. And I stand corrected. You, yourself, don’t do the flagging. People like me do it.
But I do love the way you try to engage them in a friendly, non-confrontational manner. It helps to prove that they are not interested in discussing the merits of their position, only in hurling insults at anything remotely liberal-sounding.
Well, I’d love to stay and see how this all plays out, but I have some yard work to do (and a wife who’s pissed off that it isn’t done yet.) You know, like most of the guys who attended those anti-government rallies, I have more to fear from my wife than I do from my government. Have a good day, db, and maybe I’ll see you later at TheZoo.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:29 amWho the uck is Gabby Johnson? And what the uck is your schedule RU? You need to meet me in the parking lot. Or some version of me, like a cut-and-run version.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:30 amSo now the “founder” is singular? Your approach to history seems a little shaky…
April 18th, 2009 at 11:30 amWhoa! I thought you were smarter than me? Google Gabby Johnson…
April 18th, 2009 at 11:31 amHave fun in the yard, Wayne, and pull a weed for me.!
April 18th, 2009 at 11:31 amtranslate to neoconish Says:
Living beyond your means? How is it possible for an upper income person to live beyond their means?
Wow, that is so ignorant. How about it being possible because they overextend themselves by buying more than they can really afford? (The rest of your statement that I didn’t copy was even more ignorant, so I’m ignoring it.)
Have a nice day.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:32 amBTW, why do you think people making only $100,000 will see their taxes raised?
April 18th, 2009 at 11:34 amI’ll to close with this: this is a movement. Of significance, this more (ok, a little more) than a bowel movement. This is a peaceful revolution. With conservatives, war support is always underground. When the polls say 19 percent, it means the huge margin of error forgot what time the polls close. In 2012 we are going to run the runs against you. We will throw Mitt Romney backatcha. And this time he will not pull out prematurely.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:35 amThe Bush Oil Cartel has ruined America. There’s no disputing this fact.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:38 amtranslator, you are a spoof, aren’t you!!
April 18th, 2009 at 11:38 amIf you make $260,000, you will be taxed on the extra $10,000. Shiver me timbers! Scares ya, huh neocons? *rolling eyes at your stupidity once again*
April 18th, 2009 at 11:39 amWayne, this distraction of a “middle class” your type keeps peddling is the real culprit. They overextended themselves because ACORN sent them platinum class pre-approved fannie mae mortgage offers. You’re so ignorant. I’m smarter than you. I am in charge. I’m the king. I’m the ruler. I. am. a. neocon. (fire breaths).
Good day.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:39 amWho the uck is Gabby Johnson?
Call me racist, call me perverted…
But you don’t haves to call me Johnson!
Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck…
And good run, Neo. Didn’t break character, except for that one time.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:39 am> is really a deep cognitive dissonance
> they are not even consciously aware of
Yeep…I’m really really really curious.. can anyone produce one single picture of any non-white person at one of these teabagging things?
April 18th, 2009 at 11:41 amGeorge Bush’s answer to Bear Stearns and others collapsing? SOCIALIZE THE LOSSES BY MAKING THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER PAY FOR IT!
Remember all those Savings & Loan scandals of the 80’s & 90’s the Bush Family & Friends Thieving Mafia were involved in? THE ANSWER WAS TO SOCIALIZE THE LOSSES!
Don’t let Bush fool ya, he was a Commie. This is why he loved China and the credit cards this country gave him to continue spending.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:41 amRUCeriousMaggot! Says:
translator, you are a spoof, aren’t you!!
One day you will have wings, little brother, and you’ll be better able to sample the b*llsh*it without actually touching it.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:43 amtranslate to neoconish Says:
I did not protest George Bush’s stimulus package because I liked it. You don’t have to raise taxes on our grandchildren, you just have to make sure the zipper is up.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:48 am————————————————–
….the “reality” is that your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be paying for the “heavy-borrowing” from the Bush Administration’s ‘phantom’ economy. And I didn’t “tea-drag” because I like Obama’s stimulus package.
translate to neoconish Says:
Wayne, this distraction of a “middle class” your type keeps peddling is the real culprit. They overextended themselves because ACORN sent them platinum class pre-approved fannie mae mortgage offers. You’re so ignorant.
Maybe there are some things of which I understand little, but I wouldn’t say I’m ignorant. And I thought ACORN was all about helping low-income people.
I’m smarter than you.
I doubt that’s true.
I am in charge.
I know that’s not true.
I’m the king.
Not in this country you;re not, as our constitution expressly prohibits granting titles of nobility.
I’m the ruler.
Maybe a six-inch ruler.
I. am. a. neocon. (fire breaths).
Need a breath mint? How about a brain transplant?
Good day.
It will be when you stop coming here.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:48 amHi hp:
April 18th, 2009 at 11:50 amCan you do me a solid and scroll back up so you can adress the stuff we talked about earlier?
Thanks…
This protest is not about taxes and spending.
Obama did not raise taxes…Bush did not raise taxes, but both used borrowing methods to get money from other countries to keep spending machine and to fee the beast.
G. Bush was a big spender, he wrecked the economy and for 8 years Republican Congress never questioned a dime Bush asked for to spend. There was no tea bagging,and Fox network was silent and promoting Bush as the greatest of them all.
Obama has been less than 90 days in office and all this noise about taxes and spending..
April 18th, 2009 at 11:52 amThis is all about Obama’s presidency and Obama himself who looks not so white, looks different to these people, has a different name…and that’s what this thing is all about.
hp:
April 18th, 2009 at 11:55 amAre you just gonna post shit again or are you going to engage?
Render unto Caesar’s that which is Caesar’s. These people don’t pay more than 15%, most under 10.
It is easier for the camel to go through the needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter Heaven.
Sell all your possessions and follow the Lord!
April 18th, 2009 at 11:56 amOld Goat Says:
Rallying against “them damn foreigners are infecting our nation”, didn’t a short angry painter from Germany use that platform?
I was listening to Thom Hartman on the radio yesterday and he was reading something that sounded like it was written about liberals by some right wing whack job. At the end, he said that the writings were by Hitler and he just substituted “liberals” for “Jews”. It was very terrifying.
he next American revolution begins here and begins tonight.
Isn’t encouraging the overthrow of your government called “sedition”?
April 18th, 2009 at 11:57 amI still don’t understand how these right wing whackos could let George Bush spend, spend and spend without ever raising a peep.
Nothing they have to say over taxes or anything else has a shred of credibility, not after being silent for 8 years of Bush.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:57 amPeople making over $100,000 a year usually have $400,000+ mortgages. If you raised the SS cap on that income I don’t they they’d be able to pay their mortage anymore.
wow.
people making over 100k must be lousy money managers…
April 18th, 2009 at 11:57 am199:
April 18th, 2009 at 11:59 amThey don’t seem to understand either because if you outright ask them they get all weirded out and run away and frazzled and confused. Sort of sad…
But the media told me that Howard Dean was the crazy and unhinged politician for cheering at a political rally?
-GSD
April 18th, 2009 at 12:00 pm“and” ought to be “all”
April 18th, 2009 at 12:00 pmOh the irony…. hp, you really don’t pay attention do you.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:00 pmThat’s quite a fixation you’ve got going on there.
backup Says:
What is also telling is what wasn’t in the video. I was expecting to see some significant examples of racism or violent nature. (There were some). But, the gatherings looked like a legitimate exercise in free speech.
I’m sorry bcup, but calling for a revolution against your government is called sedition, it is not free speech.
When the liberals were demonstrating against the invasion of Iraq, did you hear them calling for a “revolution in our country”? Did you hear them calling for people to be “armed and dangerous”?
April 18th, 2009 at 12:01 pmhp?
April 18th, 2009 at 12:04 pm____
I see someone blind in both eyes.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:05 pmdbadass, ease up on hp, he’s taking time to think of another witty comeback… or he’s filling up his chum bucket.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:06 pm>I see someone talking out of his brown eye.
So…are you going to be the one to show show us some..one..any?? pictures of some non-whites at these teabagging parties?
April 18th, 2009 at 12:08 pma NEW star is born…
that translator is a pretty good parody…
maybe even better than daryll the parodyll… so far not NEAR as annoying – if you think of it as the joke it is…
April 18th, 2009 at 12:11 pmi mean, the name itself… what else…?
April 18th, 2009 at 12:13 pmthanks barfly, he really had me going for a while there. Pwnd agin!
April 18th, 2009 at 12:13 pmcould hp actually be Carly Fiorina?
April 18th, 2009 at 12:14 pmHOW LIBERALS PLANT & GROW AN ECONOMY: we plant a seed (create jobs), feed and take care of the soil (help the poor & middle class), and then it flowers (creates an economy where even the wealthy are happy!).
HOW CONSERVATIVES PLANT & GROW AN ECONOMY: they show up to the store, buy some cut flowers, and in a week the flower is dead, the soil is dry, and no one can find the seeds.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:15 pmHehehe… daaaamn, ah well, keeps one on their toes. ;)
April 18th, 2009 at 12:17 pmIt gives a chance to speak the truth, huh Old Goat? ;-)
April 18th, 2009 at 12:19 pmThat it does, Kay, that it does!
April 18th, 2009 at 12:22 pmRUCeriousMaggot! Says:
Have fun in the yard, Wayne, and pull a weed for me.!
April 18th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Notice that Wayne’s still here? Where’s that rolling pin of mine? ;)
April 18th, 2009 at 12:23 pmJane, just be sure Wayne’s not standing in front of the china hutch when said pin goes sailing!
April 18th, 2009 at 12:34 pmthe tea baggers are stupid.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:36 pmAmnesty, citizenship and guns for all illegals.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:49 pmPretty soon the right wingers will be wanting special rights like they claim the gays do in this country. LOL I can’t wait for that one to happen!
April 18th, 2009 at 12:50 pmSo that’s what a Ku Klux Klan rally looks like.
Scary, very scary.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:59 pmThis is pathetic.
I guess they can’t come right out and say that they’re scared shitless about having a black president because they’re too busy teabagging.
ALL of these problems occurred, or were exacerbated under George W. Bush — where were you teabagger then!?
Answer that.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:59 pmI love how scared these morons are of volunteer work by their kids. They consider them “re-education camps” because they are terrified their children might learn something outside their previous teeny tiny bigoted world.
Education is wasted on these people.
April 18th, 2009 at 1:11 pmZooey Says:
I love how scared these morons are of volunteer work by their kids. They consider them “re-education camps” because they are terrified their children might learn something outside their previous teeny tiny bigoted world.
And it’s classic projection because they know damn well what they would be doing with a youth program if they could: Jesus Camp meets Boot Camp. Turn out vicious little fascists with combat and demolition skills.
April 18th, 2009 at 1:23 pmAbsolutely, gummitch.
Dangerous hypocrisy rules their tiny worlds.
April 18th, 2009 at 1:29 pmWhy isn’t Caylor mad with the corporations that are hiring the illegal immigrants?
April 18th, 2009 at 1:44 pmWhen thousands and thousands of Americans in many cities demonstrated against Bush’s wars and his huge budget spending then on wars ,they were ridiculed and called Communists, socialists ,unpatriotic Americans ..etc.etc who are not supporting our president then Bush, but by who…?!!
the same people who are now organizing ‘tea parties’ about spending,again calling Obama a socialist, Communist for spending too much money to fix Bush’s mess that he left.
Today’s ‘Tea party’ marchers were nowhere to be seen when Bush was spending ,and overspending then in hundreds of billions of dollars of their money for his war adventures that are still with us until now ; wars that anti-war marchers did warn us then that these wars may wreck our economy,and put us more in debt.
April 18th, 2009 at 1:47 pmI would say these people are dangerous, but most of them are fat, old, dumb and weak. Im suprised they even left their basement dwellings to go to an organized meet. Stay out of our way, you regressive anti-american filth.
April 18th, 2009 at 2:34 pmtranslate to neoconish Says:
People making over $100,000 a year usually have $400,000+ mortgages. If you raised the SS cap on that income I don’t they they’d be able to pay their mortage anymore.
April 18th, 2009 at 2:39 pm———————————————–
Sound like your unable to pay your mortgage?
This reaks of assassination attempt on the President. I don’t put anything past these rethuglicans.
April 18th, 2009 at 3:07 pmConservativeForProgress
April 18th, 2009 at 3:40 pmDid either of these Cuban Americans ask why they didn’t speak up during the Bush years of invasive government and reckless spending?
@21 Pennsylvanianne:
Ya! I wonder who the hell those Justices were, and how they feel about their decision to fudge in favor of the man that ruined everything. Are they still making bad decisions on tax payer’s dollars?
April 18th, 2009 at 5:43 pmWho would’ve thought such intolerant comments would be made in a place called LYNCHburg?
April 19th, 2009 at 3:04 amYikes! What a bunch of bitter losers!
April 19th, 2009 at 6:57 pmAt the risk of straying into tinfoil-hat territory here, has anyone noticed the striking similarity that this “revolutionary” rhetoric in which prominent right-wing politicians are currently engaging bears to the psyops propaganda that we pumped into Iran and Guatemala in the fifties and Chile in the seventies right before orchestrating the coups that removed Mousadeq, Arbenz, and Allende?
I’m not sure that I want to believe it, but it’s entirely possible that elements within our (self-avowedly) conservative military and intelligence communities are currently planning a coup d’etat at the behest, and with the cooperation of prominent corporate interests and the politicians who serve them.
After all, they’ve done it before abroad, and the stakes are much higher at home.
April 19th, 2009 at 11:00 pmCAYLOR: The next American revolution begins here and begins tonight.
…that you may be dangerous people.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We might be!
CAYLOR: I pray to God you are.
Me too. I’m looking forward to getting all Tianamen Square on their asses.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:24 amLee, You should be working for CNN or MSNBC because the truth does not seem to appear anywhere in your little video. You of course start of with the big lie that the tea party was promoted and organized by Americans for Prosperity. That is news to me considering I am the person who started organizing the Charlottesville tea party. The small group that joined me to help out where all local people most of whom, like myself had never been involved in any type of political activism before this event. But with someone like you the truth is just a minor inconvenience. So I won’t bother going into any further detail concerning the organizing of the event. Keep up the misinformation you are headed for a great career in one of the major left wing blogs.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:59 pm