Participant at this week’s Tea Party event in PA demonstrates proper “Tea Bagging“. Click the link and see why associating events with tea bags and teabagging isn’t the best of ideas if you want to be taken seriously.
What could be more patriotic than holding a tea party to protest taxes? Maybe a true patriot would remember that the great majority of us are receiving a tax cut under the new Obama administration. What could be more patriotic than protesting illegals living in the US? A true patriot would remember that the Bush administration oversaw the irresponsible, porous borders over the last 8 years. What could be more patriotic than angry protests against helping out distressed homeowners who are in risk of foreclosure, yet not protesting a peep about big corporation bailouts and CEO largesse? Real patriots would already know that “AngryRenter.com” is make-believe outrage stirred up by rich guys who want to buy up your neighborhoods on the cheap with all their bailout monies. Tea Parties? What Hooey! Uninformed pretend patriots are in the way of making any sense of our current problems!
Real Patriots are learning how to use websites like OpenCongress.org to keep informed about real congressional bills that are in the works and are transparent for the first time in our technological history. I don’t get the current Tea Parties. The whole thing is a bunch of made-up hooey, trotted out by conservative foundations and played out by utter fools. Yes, I said it. It’s a phony cause, you Foolish Protesters.
The “Tea Party” protest movement is: a carefully planned AstroTurf (or “fake grassroots”) lobby campaign hatched and orchestrated by the conservative advocacy organization FreedomWorks, founded in 2004 by Republican conservative, Dick Armey. The Exiled has an excellent article, How Freedomworks Gave The Teabaggers a Dirty Sanchez, on just who is playing who for fools. If you can’t spot the sucker in the group, the sucker is probably YOU. If you are a Tea Party Protester, do yourself an enormous favor and read it -and possibly save yourself from future humiliation as this whole thing falls apart under further investigation. Hey, how many cheesy Freedomworks T-Shirts were sold to angry teabagging suckers at twenty bucks a pop? Freedomworks has been cashing in BIG TIME during a horrible economy by tapping into “genius” Tea Baggers. How much pseudo-patriot crapola did all you lemming protesters buy? HaHaHa, Suckers!
Genius sign left by a genius protester.
Here is a simple acid test on protesters being informed about the issues: Can ANY of the protesters say what “Socialism” really is? I have not seen evidence of even one. And I’ve been looking!
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Snips from The Exiled report follows. I suggest the entire two-page article for a facinating read on how this is going to play out:
The Tea Party movement was born on Feb. 19 with a now-famous rant by second-string CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli, who called for a “Chicago Tea Party” in protest of President Barack Obama’s plans to help distressed American homeowners. Santelli’s call blazed through the blogosphere, greased along by a number of FreedomWorks-funded blogs, propelling him to the status of a 21st century Samuel Adams — a leader and symbol of disenfranchised Americans suffering under big-government oppression and mismanagement of the economy.
That same day, a nationwide “Tea Party” protest movement mysteriously materialized on the Internet. A whole ring of Web sites came online within hours of Santelli’s rant, like sleeper-cell blogs waiting for the trigger to act, all claiming to have been inspired by Santelli’s allegedly impromptu outburst.
At first glance, the sites appeared to be unconnected and unplanned. But many were suspiciously well designed and strangely on point with their “nonpartisan” and “grassroots” statements. It was as if all of them were reading from the same script. The Web sites heavily linked to each other, spreading their mission with help of Facebook and Twitter feeds. FreedomWorks, as if picking up on rumblings coming from the depths of the conservative netroots, linked to them, too.
But as our investigation showed, the key players in the Tea Party Web ring were no amateurs, but rather experienced Republican operatives with deep connections to FreedomWorks and other fake grassroots campaigns pushing pro-big-business interests.
FreedomWorks got caught AstroTurfing their sponsors’ agendas almost as soon as the group was formed. In 2005, when President George W. Bush was trying to get the public to go along with his plans for handing Social Security over to Wall Street bankers, the New York Times revealed that a “regular single mom” paraded by Bush’s White House in its PR campaign was in fact FreedomWorks’ Iowa state director.
Last year, the the Wall Street Journal exposed FreedomWorks’ role in sponsoring AngryRenter.com, a site designed to imitate an amateur blog with a plutocrat’s agenda: to shoot down a $300 billion bill meant to help distressed American homeowners. Freedomworks and its clients understood that if the superwealthy Republicans who opposed the bill were fronting the campaign, it wouldn’t fly with regular Americans buckling under the housing crisis, so they set up Angryrenter.com to give the impression that millions of ordinary Americans were the ones opposing it. The bill passed, but AngryRenter.com served as a warm-up exercise for the Tea Party movement.
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The Tea Party movement seemed like it was dead in the water. But what seemed to be another failed FreedomWorks project came back one month later with a vengeance.
Red,
Thanks for the explanation. Ewww!
Red, I would like to thank you for pointing out how Patriotic I am! Thank You! I accept this on behalf of, not just myself, but all right wing extremists, who are a danger to the state! You ask “Hey, how many cheesy Freedomworks T-Shirts were sold to angry teabagging suckers at twenty bucks a pop?” By Your definition I am a true Patriot! I hosted (MC) the rally in Mission Viejo last week, we SOLD NO T-shirts (as far as I know). You say “Maybe a true patriot would remember that the great majority of us are receiving a tax cut under the new Obama administration”. A true Patriot knows that if you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can count on the support of Paul! (P.S. He did lie, taxes already went up on smokes). You stated “A true patriot would remember that the Bush administration oversaw the irresponsible, porous borders over the last 8 years.” Yes we know, we are the ones who stopped the Bush Administration and Johnny Mac from Pushing through amnesty! You see a true patriot stands up for what is right even if it is “His” team that is wrong ( I use Bush and McCain as My team Very, Very, Very, loosely) ….As far as the Bailouts go, Most true Conservatives and Libertarians have been opposed to them. Period, and YOUR People Controlled Congress…????Patriots We question why you can buy a house if you are too stupid to read? Why should the person, and yes I mean Person, who loaned you the money have to lose it? Allowing People to make mistakes, and learn from them, is the definition of Patriotic!!! You say “Real Patriots are learning how to use websites like OpenCongress.org to keep informed about real congressional bills that are in the works and are transparent for the first time in our technological history” Yes this was great when we put together a Thousand Page “Stimulus” Bill they pissed away almost a Trillion dollars…and it was posted for almost 15 minutes before the vote…Yes I am a Patriot, for opposing this! We now have a Federal Government that wants to dictate how to run the Auto and Banking industries, and are working on getting into the Insurance business.
Yes I am a Patriot, and I accept your award, but you need more of them for Larry, Terry, Dee Mac, and even Art (Sometimes)Because we understand that being a Patriot, is not about being a Democrat or Republican, it is about right , wrong and freedom!
Please before you respond let me guess at what they are going to say.
Anonster-Mark, you are a Nazi, and I am an ignorant American Hating Socialist, you are merely a shill for the Republicans, and hate Black people
Art- Mark You and the Republicans need to stop Hating All Mexicans
Anon- Mark You are an Idiot you just don’t want to pay your “Fair Share”
Red- The tea Parties were nothing more than a bunch of Redneck suckers
SAHS- He need to raise your taxes so I can keep my overpaid government job
Ron And Anna-The sun shines out of President Obamas butt and you are a racist for not seeing that!
Art,
I thought everyone “knew” about teabagging! 😉
Mark,
This is my response: Thanks for the spirited retort!
I didn’t realize that you were an organizer of the event in your area. Nice work and I didn’t mean to rain on your parade, personally. I just would hate for any of OJ’s buddies to wake up one morning without a warning and find that they were used as chumps. That’s all 😉
Red. While the ringleader does not wish to take credit for planning and organizing the Mission Viejo rally I can report that Mark was the MC and did a commendable job as hundreds of people came together for a common cause.
When we meet I will gladly show you a photo of Mark at the podium. If I upload my photos I might include it
For the Record I was NOT The ringleader I am Just a PAWN by “hosting” I was the Emcee, I did not do the leg work to get it all going, set up and advertised.
Bigmarkod.
Mark. As a former chess player I would opine that you are a BIG pawn. The activists/watchdogs in Mission Viejo operate under the concept that there is no “i” in “teamwork.”
This rally was not part of the nationwide effort yet was a huge success through the efforts of our local “grass roots” citizens.
the great liberal mind of red vixon at work . if you protest something you dont like . your unamerican . i need she should blog for daily kos or huffington post and do a spot on msnbc all of HER KIND .
Bigdumbod, I don’t think you’re a nazi, I just think you’re a not too bright, immature man. One who doesn’t read, yet thinks he’s informed and who would call names and impugn others patriotism rather than debate the merits of your opinions. To think that you are taken seriously by the “teabaggers’ at ‘balls-in-mouthapalooza 09’, just highlights how seriously lacking the participants were in brain-cells.
Your article rests on a lot of assumptions. Most of You who criticize these Events, of course, weren’t there. So, how do You Know ANYTHING about what went on? The Vast majority of People at these Events were there of their own volition. No one put a gun to My head. No doubt , there was some promotion by partisan groups (GOP ?). Most of us see BOTH PARTIES as CORRUPT AS HELL. I didn’t see a lot of Bush fans at these Events. There were Domocrats, Republicans, Libertarians (like Me), and various Independents. Why is it that when MoveOn, Acorn, et-al protest, the Media always portrays it as Heroic, Patriotic, etc, and when anyone shows opposition, they try, blatantly, to discredit the movement. The answer is simple. FEAR! The Tea Parties represent a real roadblock to Your Collectivist agenda. You should be smart enough to know that all this talk of Taxing only the Rich is BS! It’s allways the Guy in the Middle who pays…and pays…and pays…and pays…and pays…………..
The libertAryans show their true color-WHITE ANGLO SAXON PROD INBREDS.
Larry, I only feel comfortabe speaking for myself.
Annonster ” I just think you’re a not too bright, immature man.” I agree with the immature part, I still think I am 12!
“One who doesn’t read, yet thinks he’s informed and who would call names and impugn others patriotism rather than debate the merits of your opinions” Just because I am no longer forced to read. Marx, Havel, Shaw and the like does not mean I don’t have a fair collection of John Adams, John Locke, The Fedralist Papers, Fredrick Bastiat, and Walter Williams, and it does not mean I don’t read, I just prefer not to pollute my home with that Crap. While you Bow to the alter of Government, I have seen 1st Hand what the truth is, and how qucikly it is abused, and exactly how badly socialism and liberalism destroys those who work to produce, and rewards those who do not.
P.S. Anonster, I was just agreeing that I was by reds definition a patriot, so I think you have a beef with her. 🙂
Thanks for adding to the discussion, everyone.
At least no one can say they weren’t warned about being scammed by the likes of Armey and Koch.
FreedomRanger,
After all the failed-to-report incidences by the media when the HUGE pre-war, anti-war protests went down, people seem to now be determined to self-report all the goings on during protests. You don’t need to physically be there – coverage has been great. From both sides. Democratic Underground has footage that looks like the Free Republic site citizens have. Uncut, youtube videos showing the essence of what the protests are about.
The only difference between DU and the Freepers is the way that the events are viewed by the commenters. The protests have been diverse among the different fringe/right wing issues and the crowds have overwhelmingly been white. Lots of oldsters, too.
The only thing that is not clear: How many people just came to gawk about, and really didn’t support the protests at all.
Red, GREAT POST. As an “american hating socialist” who attended the Santa Ana “teabagging” (definitely Not as a participant),I can tell you from first hand experience, that facts don’t mean much to these folks. I find it hard to respect their movement, when so much of what they “believe”, isn’t true.
In case you missed it, John Oliver from the Daily Show had a fun piece about the “teabaggers” last Thursday.
Good for you Bigmarkod.
But you are really wasting your time with these liberal morons all rich and over educated and never have worked a real day in their lives.
They will never get it. Until it effects their elitist lives.
I just love to banter with the idiots.
My Northen Irish Catholic blood does love to win the arguments with the upper crust liberial fools of the world.
michell, thank you for “proving” my point.
Mark,
Of course we are all patriots, unless we are selling secrets to foreign countries…. 😉
Protesting is a protected activity and should be supported by all. I just wanted to point out that protesting patriots should stay away from making themselves into “teabaggers” for the likes of John/Ken, Beck and other entertainers, as well as teabagging power groups like FreedomWorks. I don’t want any of our buddies here at OJ to mistake a real grass-roots movement with an “astroturf” one. Carry on!
anonster,
Thanks for the compliment and I am glad you liked it. I am glad you got to attend the teabaggers’ event and see for yourself what it was all about. I was busy working and just paying my taxes that day – doing my own part as a loyal patriot for our great country!
The tea parties were not very successful, and there is no well organized opposition to the growth of government (unfortunately). The “astroturf” crap and other attempts to belittle people with general insults about their ethnicity, motives, etc. is kind of tacky and rude.
The dumb ass tea party bunch drive their foriegn cars to the rally’s wearing their vietnam and china made clothes. They buy more foriegn crap and complaign that they want more american jobs. Maybe if they protested in front of macy’s, dillards, penneys or the local honda dealer they would have more credability. This bunch of idiots worry about the national dept but think useless wars started by their political heros are fine. Take away the ones who live on social security, medicare
The Dumb Ass Tea Party bunch drive their foriegn cars to their rally’s wearing their vietnam and china made clothes. They buy more foriegn crap and complaign that they want more american jobs. Maybe if they protested in front of macy’s, dillards, penneys or the local honda dealer they would have more credability. This bunch of idiots worry about the national dept but think useless wars started by their political heros are fine. Take away the ones who live on social security, medicare and welfare and you would be left with only the Chief Dumb Ass Sarah Palin.