Tea Party activists distribute signs paid for by the RNC at ‘Take The Town Halls to Washington’ event.
Tea Party activists distribute signs paid for by the RNC at ‘Take The Town Halls to Washington’ event.
Tea Party activists from across the country have come to Washington for a three-week long “Take The Town Halls to Washington” rally, an effort to lobby undecided House Democrats to vote against health care reform. At a press conference for the event on Friday, the Daily Caller spotted signs and buttons clearly paid for by the Republican National Committee. Activists distributed “red-white-and-blue buttons and signs emblazoned with the words ‘Listen to Me!’” — an official RNC slogan — with disclaimers at the bottom of the signs reading “Paid for by the Republican National Committee:”
Michael Patrick Leahy, an organizer of the Take the Town Halls to Washington project that is bringing Tea Party activists to the capital to lobby Democrats on President Obama’s health-care bill, admitted that the RNC “did provide the signage,” but said he didn’t know the details of the arrangement with Republicans and couldn’t explain how the signs got there. “They just showed up,” he said.
An RNC official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told The Daily Caller that the signs were given to the group at its request. [...]
Leahy downplayed the significance of the items, explaining, “We’re taking help from anybody that has an interest in this cause.”
The Tea Party movement claims to be an independent, grass roots coalition unrelated to either party, but this is not the first time activists have been caught using materials or logistical support provided by Republican operatives or Republican-aligned corporate front groups. For example, many large Tea Party protests have used signs and buses provided by groups like Americans for Prosperity.
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The Tea Party movement claims to be an independent, grass roots coalition unrelated to either party, but this is not the first time activists have been caught using materials or logistical support provided by Republican operatives or Republican-aligned corporate front groups. For example, many large Tea Party protests have used signs and buses provided by groups like Americans for Prosperity
March 15th, 2010 at 10:55 amWait! You mean the Teabaggers aren’t part of the GOP? I will be damned! :)
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Teabagger repiggies march under the banner of the hairy scrotum, all the while they attempt to stick their crap up our hookie hole.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:56 amTeabaggers are too stupid to realize they are the puppets of the RNC. The RNC loves the teabagging hicks because the RNC is too cowardly to be outward inflammatory racist idiots. However, the teabagging hicks take pride in it.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:57 amAnd yet you still commented. Are you really this stupid, or just pretending?
March 15th, 2010 at 10:57 am“Listen to Me!” (Paid for by the RNC). Plus their BS is spread by Fox.
Grass roots movement my ass.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:58 amwhy is it I smell Mikey’s bumbling hand in all this…..?
March 15th, 2010 at 10:58 am“Listen to Me!”
Quite a fitting slogan from the party of: Me, me, me, I got mine so f**k you!
March 15th, 2010 at 10:59 amTeabaggers: Fools to be led by fools.
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Let’s imagine a scenario where the GOP captures both houses this year and the Presidency in 2012.
They won’t govern as the small-government, “constitutionalist”, fiscal conservatives the teabaggers fashion themselves as. They’ll govern like they always do: by running up enormous debts and selling the country off piecemeal to the corporations. The number of teabaggers that are legitimate astroturf corporate plants isn’t that big; the number of pissed off, mentally stunted gun nuts now filled with violence and hate towards both parties will be pretty damn determined to raise hell.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:00 am*Drink!*
March 15th, 2010 at 11:00 amDick Armey’s bank account must be getting a bit low these days.
So it’s time to fire up the loonies again…
Some of those teabaggers have a heck of a lot of time on their hands.
Are they unemployed?
I’ve seen the photos, so I don’t believe that very many of them are independently wealthy.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:01 amACORN never falsified voting records, you inbred terrorist hick. ACORN actually reported suspect voter registration card, you teabagging hick scumbag.
Don’t let facts and reality interfere with your hatred of America.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:03 amI hate to admit it but these S.O.B.’s know how to organize and fight…
Gov. Kaine…DNC, where are you!!!!
March 15th, 2010 at 11:04 amThis is for Alfred:
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
Vladimir Lenin
March 15th, 2010 at 11:04 amBEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!!!!
snark
March 15th, 2010 at 11:05 am@Alfred:
“If you take what I say as gospel, you’re an idiot.”
March 15th, 2010 at 11:05 am- Glenda
Clarence Thomas’ wife just organized a Tea Party . .
Glad to hear this woman finally left her house . .
I just keep asking myself why these RWers are sooo against healthcare for all? Or is it just that passage of this bill will give Mr. Obama’s Presidency some historical credibility associated with the good of the American people . . .
RWers should know, G.W.B. will never be forgotten . . EVER!
March 15th, 2010 at 11:06 amAlfred says:
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“It matters not where the message comes from, just what it says.”
- Pliny, the Elder
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Didn’t Pliny die in the volcano (Vesuvious) explosion? Another example of HOT AIR.
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You have Obama, Pelosi, Reid and their minions systematically destroying the United States…
March 15th, 2010 at 11:09 am–
How so. Sound like “balony” to me…
The sheer stupidity of these sheep never ceases to startle and amaze normal people.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:09 amThere must be some cliff they could be told to march over, that ‘barry’ is just on the other side…
F**k the Army (brought to you by the US Army) says:
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!!!!
snark
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Crap and I forgot my sword and toga at home.
Then again I don’t think the boss would find that too funny.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:09 amYou are. You keep commenting on a story that you don’t care about.
Once again, are you this stupid, or just pretending?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:11 amI know I’m right. Those are the facts. Why are you pretending otherwise? Is OSarah Bin Palin your mother and you’re just another retarded off-spring?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:12 amThe stacks of articles about voter fraud committed in Ohio and Florida by reich-wing GOPigs?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:13 am“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.”
from 1984 by George Orwell
March 15th, 2010 at 11:13 amJesus! When wll these people realize they have been had? The Repugs usurped their ‘Movement’ in record speed. And the sheeple let them. They were used by Dick Aremey and the Repugs. How stupid could you be?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:14 amLISTEN TO ME!
– - Reverse side: OR I’LL TAKE MY SIHGN AND GO HOME!!
March 15th, 2010 at 11:14 amAnd yet you’re still commenting. You not only look stupid, you look like a total fool.
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The “white panther party” is the Klan and today’s Teabag Party.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:16 am@28
Facts, I’ve noticed, are becoming increasingly irrelevant, esp. where the teabaggers are concerned. My opinion>objective fact. Sorry, but I don’t play that way. That attitude is part of the reason America is so educationally retarded. When the airwaves are dominated by functionally retarded adults, why is it any wonder our children turn out the same way?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:16 amThat’s obvious.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:17 amWill there be remedial spelling classes for teabaggers?
Their signs are hilarious, even if their sentiments are not.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:17 amMark Koldys pays hookers for golden showers.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:17 amTeabaggers cannot spell:
March 15th, 2010 at 11:18 amhttp://img694.imageshack.us/img694/1662/teabaggerscannotspellz.jpg
Actually, there was a White Panther group. I’m sure you have no idea about them, so go read a little bit. No doubt you’ll want to join as quickly as you can. /snark
March 15th, 2010 at 11:18 amDr. Hussein, Mark Koldys secretly rims Ryan Sorba, his CPAC homophobe boy crush.
Mark and Ryan sittin’ in a tree…
March 15th, 2010 at 11:20 amR-I-M-M-I-N-G…
Jeff Bovine must be jealous.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:20 ambothWrong says:
I don’t think they are there yet. Perhaps they should just stick with
March 15th, 2010 at 11:22 amprinted signscrayons for now.Fixed that for you.
Dr. Hussein, I threw in that bit of tosh for the teabaggers, seeing that they are so poorly “versed” in poetry and the like.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:22 amSome moran: You have Obama, Pelosi, Reid and their minions systematically destroying the United States…
– - Yes, let’s look at how the Obama presidency has “ruined” America.
The substantive record is clear enough. Torture is ended, if Gitmo remains enormously difficult to close and rendition extremely hard to police. The unitary executive, claiming vast, dictatorial powers over American citizens, has been unwound. The legal inquiries that may well convict former Bush officials for war crimes are underway, and the trial of KSM will reveal the lawless sadism of the Cheney regime that did so much to sabotage our war on Jihadism. Military force against al Qaeda in Pakistan has been ratcheted up considerably, even at a civilian cost that remains morally troubling. The US has given notice that it intends to leave Afghanistan with a bang – a big surge, a shift in tactics, and a heavy batch of new troops. Iraq remains dodgy in the extreme, but at least March elections have been finally nailed down.
Domestically, the new president has rescued the banks in a bail-out that has come in at $200 billion under budget; the economy has shifted from a tailspin to stablilization and some prospect of job growth next year; the Dow is at 10,500 a level no one would have predicted this time last year. A stimulus package has helped undergird infrastructure and probably did more to advance non-carbon energy than anything that might have emerged from Copenhagen. Universal health insurance (with promised deficit reduction!) is imminent – a goal sought by Democrats (and Nixon) for decades, impossible under the centrist Clinton, but won finally by a black liberal president. More progress has been made in unraveling the war on drugs this past year than in living memory. The transformation of California into a state where pot is now more available than in Amsterdam is as remarkable as the fact that such new sanity has spread across the country and is at historic highs, so to speak, in the opinion polls. On civil rights, civil marriage came to the nation’s capital city, which has a 60 percent black population. If that doesn’t help reverse some of the gloom from Prop 8 and Maine, what would? And, yes, the unspeakable ban on HIV-positive foreigners was finally lifted, bringing the US back to the center of the global effort to fight AIDS as it should be.
Relations with Russia have improved immensely and may yield real gains in non-proliferation; Netanyahu has moved, however insincerely, toward a two-state solution; Iran’s coup regime remains far more vulnerable than a year ago, paralyzed in its diplomacy, terrified of its own people and constantly shaken by the ongoing revolution; Pakistan launched a major offensive against al Qaeda and the Taliban in its border area; global opinion of the US has been transformed; the Cairo speech and the Nobel acceptance speech helped explain exactly what Obama’s blend of ruthless realism for conflict-management truly means.
The Beltway cannot handle all this. And that’s why they continue to jump on every micro-talking-point and forget vast forests for a few failing saplings.
But when you consider the magnitude of shifting from one conservative era to one in which government simply has to be deployed to tackle deep structural problems, the achievement is as significant as his election year.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:23 amI think the ‘Baggers’ are upset the ‘Coffee Party’ is a legitimate movement. They have no Corporate sponsers, and their movement if full of all kinds of people. Young, minorities, and senior citizens. The ‘Baggers’ are mostly old, white and bitter racists. Some ‘Movement’.
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Corporate fascism buys votes, no longer needs lobbyists!
March 15th, 2010 at 11:25 am-film @11:00
@48
Actually, that was thoroughly debunked. So……yeah.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:26 amBefore I forget:
Who is Trigg’s real mommie?
Who is Trigg’s real daddie?
Does CPAC homophobe Ryan Sorba secretly dig guys?
Does Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council secretly enjoy oral sex?
Are Karl Rove and Jeff Gannon no longer an item?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:26 amSo the Teabaggers are being subsumed by the republican party and yet somehow still believe that they are an “independent third party”?
If ignorance is bliss, the Tea Party is living in paradise.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:26 amWow. That’s really what you got out of that article, BW? That the problem was that the reabaggers were using “printed signs”?
Sheesh. No wonder right-wingers never solve any problems. Their analytical capabilities are for shit.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:26 amYea, right, listen to me, I’m protesting higher taxes even though I got a tax cut and I don’t want gov’t controling my Medicare. I don’t want gov’t making the decisions I pay my private insurer to make because I would rather contribute to corporate profits than allow for some regulation of the health industry.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:26 amThe teabaggers are repiggies, and the repiggies are teabaggers.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:28 amACORN again? Move on. The judge found there was no case. In fact, ACORN is now demanding they get their funding back. And they will.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:29 amOur overwrought friend “Dr.” Alfred Hunt appears to be engaging in some tongue-in-cheek hyperbole.
Well crafted, dochunt. very droll.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:29 amOur trolls do love their squirrels don’t they? Especially that ACORN one.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:30 amLet Tim Pawlenty parade his scrotum around D.C. like the whore he is.
Limpballs would do so, only his scrotum fell victim to suburban sprawl quite some time ago.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:30 amSimply put, the the Tea Party has been watered down with GOPee.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:31 am‘Listen to Me!’ That’s their motto? Sounds like what an unruly child would say. You know, when nobody is paying attention to him. ‘I’m Relevant!’, ‘I Matter!’. They really are a group of juvinile idiots.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:31 amthese people were listened to for 8 years and look what it got everyone. Time to listen to someone else.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:32 amP.D. says:
ACORN again? Move on. The judge found there was no case. In fact, ACORN is now demanding they get their funding back. And they will.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:35 am
This is what a conservative teabagging America would look like:
Britons sentenced to a month in prison for kissing in Dubai restaurant
March 15th, 2010 at 11:36 amI enjoy that this is almost half of the spammers’ post on ACORN, yet we know none of this happened.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:36 amP.D. – you’re at least one step ahead of me this morning!
P.D. says:
‘Listen to Me!’ That’s their motto? Sounds like what an unruly child would say. You know, when nobody is paying attention to him. ‘I’m Relevant!’, ‘I Matter!’. They really are a group of juvinile idiots.
That was my first impression when I read that sign. Sounds like a child stomping its feet while having a tantrum.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:37 amAlfred is no doubt a leftist doing a perfect imitation of an unhinged teabagging hick.
Nice job.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:37 amYou know a troll is out gas when it reverts to a sock puppet identity and throws out off-topic posts in a desperate effort to divert the thread.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:37 amf ignorance is bliss, the Tea Party is living in paradise.
They should just call themselves cheeseburgers or the Buffet party
March 15th, 2010 at 11:38 am‘The Robin Hood Tax’ is making headway in Europe, but that damned left wing media here in the USA won’t mention it.
Simply put, it’s a .05% tax on all banking transactions that result in a profit for said bank.
The logic is banks are already allowed to access 0% money & immediately turn a profit on it. A paltry tax like this could literally generate billions.
Goldman Sachs, UK, is already fighting any word getting out on this.
Think about it. It would solve a lot of fiscal issues, make banks accountable for profits to taxpayers and most importantly…
It’s the right thing to do.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:38 amYou’re having quite the hissy fit over this thread. Thanks for the laugh.
Here’s a quarter, monkey, now dance.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:39 amAlfred says:
I’m sure they’ll be delighted to get your Monopoly™ money…
March 15th, 2010 at 11:39 amProof?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:39 amAlfred says:
Who will say “yes!” to freedom?
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So your definition of freedom is bailing out criminals all because those who were convicted happen to be conservative?
Say yes to justice, say no to supporting criminals like Alfred here!
March 15th, 2010 at 11:39 amAlfred says bothWrong says:
Cult Help & Deprogramming Information at Freedom Of Mind
Steven Alan Hassan, cult counselor and mind control expert is a Nationally Certified Counselor and licensed Mental Health Counselor and has developed a breakthrough approach to help loved ones rescue cult mind control victims. He is a former member of the Moon cult. Ex-cult members and others seek him out for specialized counseling to help them recover from symptoms other mental health professionals are not trained to address.
http://www.freedomofmind.com/
heres some help if you need it. or want it.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:40 amAlfred says:
What the?
Now… THAT is funny…
Can I have a side of Indepedence w/ that?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:41 am?
Sorry, I stopped listening to fascists and racists who routinely deny freedom of speech to others because of their sex, race, religion or political orientation a looooong time ago…
March 15th, 2010 at 11:41 amAh, my suspicions are proven correct. You are a liberal imitating a teabagging hick. Teabagging hicks are poor white trailer trash that don’t even net $5K per year.
Keep up the good work.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:41 ammargarine, there are un-retouched photographs and un-edited video tapes that prove you are wrong. This will ALL come out at Hannah’s trial.
Pffft. What will, or has actually, come out that these are not, or ever were, wannabe investigative journalists, but producers of highly edited propaganda for a partisan political ideology.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:41 amLet’s just ignore the desperate troll’s efforts to divert the focus of the thread toward chasing a squirrel.
At least BothWrong’s silliness is on-topic.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:42 amDr. Hussein Matt (Sponsored by Magnum Condoms) says:
I’m not sure you can pretend to be THAT stupid…
I say it’s real.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:43 amalfred is just another of the many right wing cowards that are easily manipulated because:
1) they really have no critical thinking skills and believe anything that the right wing corporate mainstream media tells them
and
2) they are infantile cowards that do not understand the world around them and are frightened by everything
March 15th, 2010 at 11:43 amAlfred says: Who will say “yes!” to freedom?
Yanno, Alfred, I think you have slid down the batpole and crashed at the bottom one too many times. The very people you think are for your freedom are the same ones that passed and signed into law the rights [freedom] robbing PATRIOT act thru the instilling of fear
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Alfred says:
That’s nice, alfie… real nice…
Now… shall we get back on topic… those ‘grass roots’ signs… paid for by the RNC?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:45 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
You should go play in the freeway. You won’t be missed.
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Xisithrus says:
Sans the crash helmet, I might add…
March 15th, 2010 at 11:46 amAnd then we can get Cheney to shoot you in the face!
March 15th, 2010 at 11:47 amWho will say “yes!” to freedom?
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March 15th, 2010 at 11:47 amBest wishes on your gay marriage
Dr. Hussein Matt (Sponsored by Magnum Condoms) says:
bothWrong says:
You know what we should do?
You should go play in the freeway. You won’t be missed.
Yes but sadly it doesn’t have insurance and the driver that would hit doesn’t as well, so we have to pick up the slack as always.
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Batman is out of town, so Alfred gets to play on the computer.
Blazing batshit, Alfred, call the Commissioner!
March 15th, 2010 at 11:48 amAlfred = Mark Koldys = teabagging hick who pays hooker for golden showers.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:48 amOr you hicks can form the “Bathroom stall toe tapping party” to replace the teabaggers in the next 12 months.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:50 amSans the crash helmet, I might add…
Heh
March 15th, 2010 at 11:50 ambothWrong is clearly upset she wasn’t invited to the tickle party.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:51 amLOL! ‘The Tickle Party’? WTF does that mean. I just stepped in again. Do I really want know?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:51 amIs that correct?
three-week long
THREE WEEKS?
Three straight weeks of teabaggin?
Geee… them Roman and Mayan orgies had nothing on our teabaggers… THREE WEEKS?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:52 amHuh? You realize this statement makes zero sense. Why would I “put my money where my mouth is”? Do you know what that means and its context?
For proof, please post your receipt of the $5000 donation. We’ll wait…
March 15th, 2010 at 11:53 amNotice how bothWrong focuses on the “printed sign” aspect of the story and completely skips over the “paid for by the Republican Party” detail.
Almost as if it was irrelevant.
Now, is that because the bW wants to divert attention from the really damaging part, or is it because it really IS irrelevant, as everyone already knows that the teabaggers are just a GOP front group?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:53 amTickle party = what Bush and Cheney were doing when they came up with the idea for the “free-speech zones.”
Sorry BW…nobody’s limiting your freedom of speech here. We’re just making fun of a party that claims to be independent of the RNC and yet carries signs that read “PAID FOR BY THE RNC” on them. And besides…gotta love a party who’s more extreme members love free speech so much and yet would kill the people who use theirs to disagree with them through a civil war…interesting.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:53 amThe Tea Party is becoming what they profess to detest. I don’t know anybody that didn’t see this coming.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:54 am@48:
Is this the same James O’Keefe who was arrested this January and charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony? Whose Acorn video was shown to be highly doctored? Who was seen at a 2006 convention working a booth handing out white supremacist literature?
Your criteria for an award (reserved, BTW, for brave public safety officials like police and firefighters) are shockingly low.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:54 amtypo: *and yet they would kill*
March 15th, 2010 at 11:55 amAlfred are you skid marking Robins leotards again? How many times do we have to tell you to get your own?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:56 amI’m not “smearing” anyone if it’s the truth.
Now, back to your so-called $5000 donation….please provide proof. Provide a link to the receipt.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:57 am“They just showed up,” he said, “After one of our operatives dressed like a TEA partier passed them out along with coffee, donuts and voucher to board a bus and travel into canada where they can buy cheap prescription drugs”
March 15th, 2010 at 11:58 amare you proud of smearing this great Idahoan? -Alfred
Its S_A_T_I_R_E_!_!
March 15th, 2010 at 11:59 amLet’s see if anyone covering this ‘rally’ asks protesters what they do for a living.
Did they use valuable vacation time to do it? Or are they living off the entity that they’re protesting?
March 15th, 2010 at 12:00 pmAnd for Gods sakes Alfred clean that Preperation H from the Batpole after you use it!
March 15th, 2010 at 12:01 pmCongratulations, guys, you just handed the troll a victory. You allowed him to successfully divert the thread, even though his intention could hardly have been more transparent.
way to go.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:02 pmXis@121, LOL! But EEwwwww.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:03 pmAnd yes, I know I’ve been guilty of the same offense. But I’m working on it. I’m in a program now.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:03 pmSo much for the tea party being composed of real, independent, angry voters – who are fed up with both parties and the government!!
Wouldn’t doubt if Dick Armey is somehow involved in all of this with the GOP, just like his anti-healthcare group.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:04 pmP.D. says:
The ‘Baggers’ are mostly old, white and bitter racists. Some ‘Movement’.
This is really the truth of the matter. Republicans and corporate interests are using racism to stir up people who are angry because a black man is in the WH. Let’s hope the teabaggers bring a lot of offensive signs so that the MSM can capture that for the evening news.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:06 pmAlfred – sorry to burst your bubble, but
Who will say “yes!” to freedom?
is what to you
- women having no say in what they do with their bodies?
- gays and lesbians treated like dirt
- rewtiring history to fit your agenda
- having all the guns you want – and no responsibility
- and that’s only a small sampling
March 15th, 2010 at 12:07 pmTea Party, Teabaggers, Teabloggers, faux libertarians all sponsored by the entities they profess to hate.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:09 pmIrony, you’ve met your match…
pags@126, I was reading an interesting piece on Kos about how people hate change. ‘Baggers’ are mostly Baby boomers with college degrees who are mostly while and rural. That explains the whole ‘Bagger’ movement. These are Reaganites who can’t accept a Black man in the White house. They are angry. Sure they will blame the deficit, out of control spending. But that doesn’t wash. They were fine when Georgie Boy was spending. They can’t come to grips that McCain lost to a black man.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:11 pmralph @124
I have been in the F&F mode as well as offering recover info for them.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:12 pmBut thats able all I do now, or if i do respond its usually just the post number not there name.
Ahhh…The TeaScumBag Party.
So proud. So much to be proud of…
1. teabagger:
1) one who carries large bags of packaged tea for shipment.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:13 pm2) a man that squats on top of a womens face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as “teabagging”.
3) one who has a job or talent that is low in social status.
4) a person who is unaware that they have said or done something foolish, childlike, noobish, lame, or inconvenient.
.D. says:
Xis@121, LOL! But EEwwwww.
Heh. And yanno what else is weird..I alway thought Prep H was white in color but Alfreds isnt.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:16 pm…couldn’t explain how the signs got there. “They just showed up,” he said.
And for my next trick!
*POOF*
The Magical Mystical Signs have appeared!
*Ta-Da!*
March 15th, 2010 at 12:16 pmAlfred, you simpleton servant, atomic bombs dont have any genitalia or sexual preferences.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:17 pmAlfred says:
Cult Help & Deprogramming Information at Freedom Of Mind
Steven Alan Hassan, cult counselor and mind control expert is a Nationally Certified Counselor and licensed Mental Health Counselor and has developed a breakthrough approach to help loved ones rescue cult mind control victims. He is a former member of the Moon cult. Ex-cult members and others seek him out for specialized counseling to help them recover from symptoms other mental health professionals are not trained to address.
http://www.freedomofmind.com/
really you should look this up.
God only help those who help them selfs.
gNOp we put the NO in NOvember
March 15th, 2010 at 12:17 pmTalking about Tea Baggers, it has been mentioned that SCOTUS judge Clarence Thomas’s wife is starting up her own Tea party branch. Can anyone say “conflict of interest”. Thomas just voted to allow unfettered corporate money into our elections. His wife’s group will be accepting anonymous and unlimited corporate donations. Incidentally Ginni Thomas was once a political analyist for Dick Armey (of the famed “grassroots” Baggers). It all smells like shit to me and I hope that Clarence begins to feel the heat over his wife’s corporate and political ties. The RNC has it’s fingers deep up the Tea Baggers @sses. Without Right Wing money the Tea Baggers would have disappeared long ago. Now with the help of the SCOTUS, Dick Armey and Ginni Thomas’s cause is seeing a future funded by corporate America for it’s “grass roots” campaign.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:20 pmJust Flag and Forget the off-topic troll, no matter how stupid or ignorant its comments.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:20 pmteabaggers didn’t want to hear this shit. More division of the right wing. Gotta love it.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
More division in the republican party:
You can’t make this shit up.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:23 pmThanks for that public service, Pilotshark.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:23 pmAlfred says:
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muzz, last night I saw “The Pacific”. It ’s a mini-series about the U.S. war against the Jap empire. Spoiler Alert! We win. And guess what? We did it without homos. We did it without feminist lesbians. We won with just a bunch of white guys with guts. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
I’m actually going to attempt to have a conversation with you. Do you really believe that no one who fought in WW2 was gay or lesbian, or none of the women who worked in the factories, or were nurses weren’t feminists before their time? What about the brigades of black soldiers who were honered much later for their heroics during the war?
Come on man, get real – this country has always strived for “inclusion” – not “exclusion” – even though it sometimes doesn’t look that way.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:25 pmAlfred/Fake doctorhunt, once again comes here and runs his racist,sexism and gay bashing to get a raise out of people here.
I wish TP would really put a stop to trolls who come here to just race bait and gay bash, without any substance whats so ever. Pricks like Alfred/Fake doctor should be banded for life from this site.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:25 pmralph the wonder llama, official spokesllama for the Llama Milk Council® says:
Thanks for that public service, Pilotshark.
YW,, I see it as a attempt to help with out letting them get any foot hold onto the thread.
but i do a mitt i likes to take pop-shots ever once in a while, kinda to clean the sole. Smiles LOL
March 15th, 2010 at 12:25 pmralph the wonder llama, official spokesllama for the Llama Milk Council® says:
Worth repeating, ralphie…
And just for the heck of it all… let’s say it again…
And one more time… for emphasis…
March 15th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
So the signs “just showed up”………and I’m the King of America,LOL!
March 15th, 2010 at 12:27 pmAlfred says Freedom!
Your free to serve your country unless your gay
Your free to have sex unless you dont do it missionary style
Your free to practice your religion unless its not his
You have God given free will unless its not his version of what God is
Your body is you property but your soul is not and to be judged by him
March 15th, 2010 at 12:28 pmchristopher wiwi says:
So the signs “just showed up”
tea bagger yes they just showed up right here in the trunk of a RNC persons car. We were amaze that they had the same slogans we wanted to use, who knew that the RNC and us could be thinking the same. I mean wow just look it must be a message send from our gods.
snark
March 15th, 2010 at 12:31 pmThree weeks is an awful long time are all theses Tea Baggers out of work and spending the unemployment checks,seniors on S.S. and spending their checks to?My My that’s a lot of gubmint money being spent to protest they very people (the Democrats) tat gave them their benefits,would this be a caveat or a conundrum?Just wondering.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:33 pmmuzz, as much as I admire your willingness to engage the troll in conversation, you have to recognize that the troll isn’t interested in sharing ideas.
First it threw out the Acorn crap, now it switches up to bait you with an obviously stupid and easily rebuttable comment about WWII. It just wants attention.
The only thing you’re accomplishing with your willingness to engage is to entertain the troll and distract it from its otherwise miserable existence.
just know that when you decide to engage.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:33 pmAnyone know where bothjWrong went? I was hoping to find out if he focused on the “printed sign” thing because he didn’t want to acknowledge that the teabaggers are a GOP front group, or because everybody already knows the teabaggers are a GOP front group.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:37 pmLove the “it” references. “It puts the lotion on it’s body!!!”
March 15th, 2010 at 12:38 pmRalph,I’m shocked i tell you just shocked to that the Tee Baggers are a front group for the Armey of Dicks and his ilk !!!!!!!!
March 15th, 2010 at 12:40 pmP.D. says:
‘Baggers’ are mostly Baby boomers with college degrees who are mostly while and rural. That explains the whole ‘Bagger’ movement.
I don’t know about that but I suspect it is incorrect because they have the most support in the South. I think that the people who are organizing are mostly “boomers” and they are intentionally appealing to the redneck elements. The crowds were very large in the South and almost non-existent in the Northeast and the urban areas in the Midwest. It makes no difference though because they are polarizing which turns off the independent voters and some of the regular Republicans. That can be used by Dems in their reelection campaigns.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:40 pm@132, Alfred belched: “We won with just a bunch of white guys with guts.”
“Black troops performed countless acts of heroism during their service on Iwo Jima. For example, Gray recounted that a fellow DUWK driver by the name of Horace Taylor was transporting several troops from ship to shore. His co-driver, Lewis Anderson, realized that a rope was caught in the truck’s propeller. Without hesitating, he jumped out of the truck and cut the rope, preventing it from sinking the DUWK. He saved the ship, its cargo, and possibly the lives of many white Marines; both Taylor and Anderson received the Silver Star for their valor. “Horace Taylor (and Lewis Anderson) would have got the Medal of Honor, but he was this color,” Gray remarked while pointing to his bronze colored hand.” — Uncommon Valor: An African American’s Service on Iwo Jima
If Alfred had an ounce of intelligence, Alfred would know that black soldiers, despite legal segregation during most if not all of WWII, fought bravely in both Europe and the Pacific.
Big “if”…
March 15th, 2010 at 12:42 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Pags2,I agree.The problem with the Dems is in the convoluted messaaging.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:45 pmAw…Alfred’s gone VDT and he even voted down wildwilly1111’s last comment. Guess Alfred’s white flag is really a white hood.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:47 pmwildwilly, please don’t feed the troll.
Yes, I responded bothWrong, but bothWrong’s trolling was on-topic. The troll you’re indulging is just throwing out easily-rebuttable shit to get progressives to bite.
Don’t give it the satisfaction.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:47 pmBlack units in the Pacific theater.
24th Infantry Regiment, deployed to the New Hebrides in 1942, with the 93rd division following.
The 93rd division fought in the Bougainville Campaign.
73% of all truck and trans companies in Europe were black.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:51 pm@162: How about I rebut the excrement and then explicitly get back on topic? That may be the best I can do…
March 15th, 2010 at 12:53 pmAlfred/fake drhunt,
Besides black Army units in the Pacific, the 8th Ammunition Company of black Marines landed with the second wave on Iwo Jima, and fought in that campaign until the end.
So much for your racist BS.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:05 pmhey teabaggers, how’s that impeachment coming?
Any progress? Don’t hear much about it in the real world. Wonder why?
March 15th, 2010 at 1:11 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
bothWrong, if the teabaggers had tried to impeach bush they might be taken seriously now. Since they didn’t, f uck them.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:44 pmHI bothWRong. Glad to see you’re back.
Can you tell me whether you focused on the “printed signs” part of the story to the exclusion of the “paid for by the Republican Party” element because you didn’t want to acknowledge that the teabaggers are a GOP front group, or because everybody already knows that the teabaggers are a GOP front group?
Thanks.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:44 pmralph, I don’t give a crap WHO printed the signs. I just think it is interesting that everything in here is one sided. The RNC happens to AGREE with the protesters and shares common ground. Why not further their OWN cause by assisting in the printing of signs? Doesn’t every other nanny government progressive liberal group cooperate in their smear campaigns?
Suddenly when the RNC sees that they agree with Tea Party premise…. that more poory run goverment programs into the health care industry is a bad idea… they can’t print signs?
What a bunch of junk you guys put out. You even believe it is relevant as some kind of “evidence” of something.
Whatever. I am not swallowing the bs you are puttin out here. The odor is too stank for one thing.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:55 pmyou’re right Ralph – it was a feeble attempt at a valid conversation – and on a Monday morning no less. So, with that in mind – Alfred – just STFU – you’re an idiot
March 15th, 2010 at 1:57 pmFine. What I thought interesting was that you read the article above (or at least the headline) and decided that the criticism was focused on the fact that the signs were “printed” rather than who paid for the printing.
the fact that you don’t care who paid for the signs of a purportedly “non-partisan” group has nothing to do with your appallingly bad assessment of the thrust and contents of the article.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:05 pmralph, I think you are confusing “paid for some signs” with
“Without question the RNC buying printed signs for the protest means that the tea party movement is 100% manufactured from day one and is without question a totally partisan group that only votes RNC.”
B. S. The sign purchase and cooperation on a topic where the GOP and the Tea Party agree doesn’t make Nancy Pelosi’s claim that “the Tea Party is an astro-turf organization” true.
Much like everything else on this site, that is self-serving posturing and totally bunk.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:22 pmThe sign purchase and cooperation on a topic where the GOP and the Tea Party agree doesn’t make Nancy Pelosi’s claim that “the Tea Party is an astro-turf organization” true.
Right.
The funding from Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks (along with IRONY ALERT!!! the fake ‘handwritten’ signs protesting the idea that they’re ‘astroturf’) makes them an astroturf orginization.
Get it?
March 15th, 2010 at 2:35 pmhttp://washingtonindependent.com/55186/americans-for-prosperity-makes-anti-astroturf-signs
March 15th, 2010 at 2:35 pmI think you are confusing “Without question the RNC buying printed signs for the protest means that the tea party movement is 100% manufactured from day one and is without question a totally partisan group that only votes RNC” with what I wrote.
Ands you’re still avoiding the truth that your reading comprehension was appallingly bad on this thread, since you seem to think that the article’s primary criticism was that the signs were printed, rather than who paid for them.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:39 pmralph the wonder llama, official spokesllama for the Llama Milk Council® says:
Ands you’re still avoiding the truth that your reading comprehension was appallingly bad on this thread, since you seem to think that the article’s primary criticism was that the signs were printed, rather than who paid for them.
Ralph, you should know better than to argue nuance with some of our posters.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:42 pmYou’re right, pags2. I’m always tempted to expose their straw men, but when I point out the straw on the floor they claim that it’s not straw, it’s “liberty”.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:45 pmBased on past Wash DC events, I want to know the numbers that actually attended vs. the number estimated by the Tea Baggers. And did they use public transportation.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:46 pmSo many weaknesses showing.
Tea Baggers (TB) are dependent on what they receive from the repubs and by lobbying groups that generally go repub. This demolishes the pretext to being an independent, non-partisan movement.
They now appear to be moving into the phase where every goofball with an idea will stand up and commit the TB to their event. the TBs have to go, otherwise the movement will look weak and individuals will look like fakers / quitters.
Every candidate will have to pass the TB purity test. But politics and even conscience will not let anyone show 100% adherrence to the TB dogma. Not to mention, that since there is no central source, the elected official will have to meet the made up dogma of every individual TBer.
Rather than settling on common principles, this will lead to a system of where every TBer will have to prove themselves “holier than thou”. The number of rules will increase astronomically.
As elected officials will surely disappoint under the above conditions, the TBs must run their own candidates. Splitting the conservative vote.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:52 pmTheir unemployment and Social Security checks aren’t enough for them to afford travel expenses to go to the protests against socialist government. So, they are funded by multi-national corporations, organized by corporate lobbyists, supplied by the Republicans National Committee, and operated by racists and grifters.
That is some grassroots movement.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:02 pmThe Republican Party is a criminal organization owned by the Jews.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:28 pmRE: Dr. Hussein Matt @ 35:
The original White Panther Party was a group of ’60’s and ’70’s activists who supported the Black Panther Party.
March 15th, 2010 at 4:16 pm#
republicanSScareme says:
The Republican Party is a criminal organization owned by the Jews.
I agree with the conclusion that the Republican Party has become thew home of Organized Crime. But I think your qualification “owned by the Jews” is totally off base.
March 15th, 2010 at 5:55 pmI have audio of their organizing phone call proving Leahy a liar. They were thrilled that the RNC was playing with them, giggling a little about the “intel” and “research” RNC officials were willing to hand over. Leahy’s singing you a pretty tune that’s chock-full of lies.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:32 pmAlfred the importance of this story is the teabaggers make the claim that they are independent from the two major parties, that they are a grassroots organization. It is abundantly clear they are an astroturf organization sponsored by the Koch brothers, Dick Armey, and the Republican party. Put another way they are both liars and or ignorant sheeple who are easily manipulated and brained washed.
Personally I believe that racism is the underlying common denominator driving these people. These people suffer from a definite break with reality, and many exhibit all the hallmarks of delusional paranoia. The tea bag rallies are probably the only place that many of them have experienced any positive affirmation. Nobody at these rallies question their logic and they seem to be unable to critically analyze their own contentions. They are the epitome of term “willfully stupid” and appear to be proud of their ignorance.
Alfred do you the difference between Sarah Palins mouth and her vagina? Only one in five things that come out her vagina are retarded.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:47 pmBefore they were teapartiers, they were reliable Republican voters. So what’s changed? Nothing…they’re still taking orders from people who don’t represent their best interests. They never learn.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:13 ammossydog says:
Alfred do you the difference between Sarah Palins mouth and her vagina? Only one in five things that come out her vagina are retarded.
mossydog,
March 16th, 2010 at 12:20 amYou are a very sick and despicable person if you think this is funny.
Bothwrong, I love your screenname, but doubt that it’s nothing more than a subterfuge like the “I’m a Democrat, but…” or “I’m not a Republican but…”
March 16th, 2010 at 4:15 amdhunt
The big deal is easy to see unless, like you, it happens you are an ignorant brainwashed moron and a child molesting, hateful, pile of pigshit.
March 16th, 2010 at 4:31 amSuch perfect bedfellows… they deserve each other…
March 16th, 2010 at 10:44 amIt is laughable to watch you flaming left whiners bash on the Tea Party movement. Such will be your beloved leader obama’s downfall.
The degenerate offspring of the Red Coat sympathizers who bashed the Boston Tea Party. Do you really think that your time on the stage will last long? I smell real change coming in 2010 thanks to the disgraceful Jimmy-Carter-impersonator.
March 16th, 2010 at 7:39 pmOh we’d listened all right.
Now STFU
People shouldn’t die because of repugs’ ignorance.
March 16th, 2010 at 7:43 pmTimmeh
It is hilarious to read such a stupid, pathetic and cowardly punk as YOU talk about us whining. You are a disgusting ignorant piece of shit. You are a pathetic punkass troll so just STFU everyone KNOWS you are far too stupid to be taken seriously
March 16th, 2010 at 7:54 pmJeez, these moronic trolls have been vomiting all over this discussion now and I haven’t seen anyone explain to them the point of the conversation. They are either too stupid to get it or they are typically pretending not to get it.
It’s not a question of anyone’s right to print signs. It’s about the fact that the “Tea Party” movement is supposed to be a “grass-roots” deal. A “grass-roots” movement demonstration and corporate party-produced signs are mutually exclusive. That’s the issue. It’s “astroturf.” The people demonstrating are fools and tools.
March 18th, 2010 at 12:17 pmxactly. You can’t hold a çiçek populace accountable for a government that wasn’t elected by a manalı sözler pluraity of the people. Netanyahu’s government is as illegitimate as Bush’s was in 2000 onward.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:16 pmLike most conflicts the Israeli-Palistinian land rights is driven by extremists on both sides while the majority want to be left the hell alone by çiçek siparişi them. *shrug* Israels electoral system gurentees a coalition, I have no doubt that the next oen will be more open çiçekçi to negotiation.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:36 pm