I am a little late today. Must be Friday. I don’t have any pics from the local tea parties. Feel free to send some my way if you would like; I will try to post them. From all accounts the movement was a very successful one seeing that each one was independent and was not organized by any one political group. It also gave another opportunity for raging liberals to show their true colors. Here are some of my favorites.
Liberal activist and actress Janeane Garofalo said the following:
“Let’s be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It’s not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don’t know their history at all. It’s about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that.”
On rednecks brainpower “Their synapses are misfiring. … It is a neurological problem we are dealing with,”
On the GOP “crystallized into the white power movement”
On Fox News, “captured the Klan demographic.”
We all know how sad and pathetic most of the Hollywood community is these days so that is not a huge surprise. But when our elected leaders fail to see the importance of what happened this tax day then we do have a serious problem. Here are some of those comments:
“Not a single American household or business will be taxed at a higher rate this year. Made to look like a grassroots uprising, this is an Obama bashing party promoted by corporate interests, as well as Republican lobbyists and politicians….It’s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois.
And as you read this keep in mind that Rep. Schakowsky’s husband was found guilty of tax violations and bank fraud in 2005. To the tune of 2 felony counts.
Then we have everyone’s favorite politician, Nancy Pelosi
“What they want is a continuation of the failed economic policies of President George Bush which got us in the situation we are in now. What we want is a new direction. This [tea party] initiative is funded by the high end, we call call it astroturf, its not really a grassroots movement. Its astroturf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class.”
It’s like it is ingrained into her head to blame Bush for everything. The fact that they cannot accept that this movement was a grassroots movement by the people is just astonishing. And the fact that they cannot see that their spending policies are out of control is beyond words.
Multiple outlets have tried to label this as some right wing extremists’ movement. These outlets obviously are either out of touch with reality or in complete denial. Most news organizations were cracking jokes about it all day, and not appropriate ones at that. Here is an article that illustrates this point. Key word “teabagging”
CNN’s Susan Roesgen went the furthest. Reporting from Chicago’s tea party, she rudely cut off the man she was interviewing and starting arguing with him. She then said the following: “you get the general tenor of this,” tea party”. Anti-government, anti-CNN since this is highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox and since I can’t really hear much more and I think this is not really family viewing. Toss it back to you Kyra,”
Here was the guys comment “Because I hear a president say that he believed in what Lincoln stood for. Lincoln’s primary thing was he believed people had the right to liberty and they had the right…” cut off by Roesgen…”"right to the fruits of their own labor and government should not take it,”
Not sure what was not family viewing. I think she was just upset that she picked a guy with some intelligence and suddenly realized it as he started talking. Guess us rednecks do have a brain after all.
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Roesgen was the best! On Fox and Friends this morning they showed what happened when the CNN cameras stopped rolling. Other cameras picked up what she said afterwards. I think it is still on the Fox and Friends page. Check it out. Priceless!
Classic
I think the aspect deemed “not family viewing” by Roesgen is known as “independent thought.” In the drone/hive mentality of these innumerable cogs in the wheel of Big Government, people like the informed gentleman from Chicago are a grave threat, as is common sense in general.
I also noticed people like Axelrod saying that this is just an unhealthy response to bad times stating that they just lowered taxes for 95% of the people. I guess they think we are completely oblivious to the wasteful spending and enormous deficit spending going on. That is what the tea parties were about. That and the fact that taxes will eventually have to be raised to keep up with it.
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