Scum sucking pigs. I am so over these wankers, but trying to snag Woodstock for their cause?
An event described as the “Woodstock” of tea parties is planned for Sept. 11 at the Monona County Fairgrounds in Onawa in western Iowa.
Craig Halverson of Griswold, who is helping to organize the event, said supporters hope to attract at least 1,000 people from Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and other states. He said they are inviting prominent conservative speakers and plan to have bands perform patriotic music.
The event will have a “Take back our country” theme, Halverson said. Although the activities will occur on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, he said organizers don’t plan to spend the day reflecting on those events.
Under "normal" circumstances, aren't these the people who would gripe about disrespecting 9/11 if liberals did this?
Looks like one of JD Hayworth's Teabaggers ticked off Sarah's Teabaggers! It's so sad when Mommy and Daddy Teabagger argue. What to do, what to do...
MESA, AZ -- John McCain and Sarah Palin continued their reunion tour with a stop in Mesa Saturday, but the rally turned violent outside.
Palin implored Arizona to "send the maverick back to the United States Senate."
But just as Palin took the podium, hecklers began to disrupt the former Alaska governor.
Witnesses said one of the hecklers was pulled up by the hair by a McCain/Palin supporter.
As the man -- who said his name is Alex -- was taken out of the auditorium, he is seen in video being tackled by three men, one identified as a police officer in plain clothes, a man in a McCain T-shirt, and another man.
Witnesses say another protestor was also punched by someone in the crowd.
Good lord, do they even teach civics in the schools any more? Via Wonkette-
Oh boy guess what? The Teabaggers figured out a magical way to REPEAL the not-yet-signed Health Care Reform Bill. But does it require getting up off your fat f******* lard ass and turning away from the ‘puter for a moment? Not at all! And is it potentially effective, or even loosely based on American Democracy or the much-loved but never-read U.S. Constitution? Nope, not at all! Let’s do this thing.
Repeal The Bill! Step One: Sign the petition. Step Two: Help get 1 million signatures by sharing with everyone on your facebook pages. Step Three: Use the ‘I Signed The Petition’ image on your facebook and twitter profiles.
Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) claimed Saturday that healthcare protesters at the Capitol directed racial epithets at Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) as he walked outside.
Carson, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus along with Lewis, told The Hill that protesters called Lewis the N-word.
Tea Party protesters held a rally outside the Capitol on Saturday, which included speeches by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and actor Jon Voight, and then proceeded into the halls to lobby members at the 11th hour.
A look at FOXBusiness.com just now shows that despite a biased poll in which the top two out of four questions are positive about the tea parties, 40% of respondents - presumably a pro-FOX and as pro-tea party a crowd as you could find - are not in favor.
We've been monitoring how the networks are covering the tea parties today (via TV Eyes). As of 6pmET, here's how many times the tea parties have been mentioned by each network:
During his report on The Situation Room, CNN media critic Howard Kurtz characterized the coverage this way: "Fox News sees today's tea party tax day protests as a big story, CNN as a modest story and MSNBC as a great story...to make fun of."
I'm totally making Bob the Awesome's premise my own by using visuals. Call me crazy, but outrage over sending people to kill and be killed in a fraudulent war trumps that for cutting taxes for 95% of America while trying to fix an economic disaster:
[N]one of those protests received anywhere near the establishment media attention as these comparatively dinky tea bag groups. One thing is for sure: the anti-war protests certainly didn't have an entire cable news network dedicated to promoting and covering the events.
Typically fair and balanced, to use a terribly worn-out phrase.
This comes from the Canadian Vancouver Sun web site. Once again, the Rushpublic Tea Pitiers have embarrassed themselves in front of the whole wide world:
A reportedly corporate-financed grassroots" anti-tax movement, paid for, planned and promoted by right wing think tanks, corporate lobbyists and Fox News Channel, has failed to bring about the "popular uprising" against the Obama administration its creators had hoped for.
The day of "tea parties" pushed by Republican operatives and partisan advocacy groups such as FreedomWorks, that sought to protest the Obama government's tax and stimulus policies by encouraging people to 'wave tea bags' brought about only a few hundred "tea-baggers" in most parts of the U.S., despite relentless promotion by Fox News TV hosts. [...]
[T]he turn-out was far from what was hoped for, with most rallies looking decidedly ont he small side, especially compared to the 2006 immigrants rights rallies or the 2004 pro-choice march on Washington, both of which attracted millions.
Did they just say that rallies by communist, fascist, socialist liberal progressives were way more successful than the highly-Fox-promoted Rushpublic Tea Tantrums? Did they? Huh? Did they? Oh, say it again, say it again!
4,000 people are reported to have shown up in Cincinnati, Ohio, while Chicago drew an estimated 5,000 protesters and Des Moines, Iowa drew 3,000. Farmingville, New York, drew 50 hardy souls.
Thank you.
According to reports, organizers of the D.C. event were told by National Park Service officials that the "million tea bags" they had hauled in on the back of a pickup would have to be taken away, rather than be dumped as planned. They reportedly complied with the request after realizing they didn't have the correct protest permit. [Laffy Note: I posted about that here, with glee]
But if there's one thing we can say about the Rushpublics, it's that they are a group that consists of highly disciplined individuals who rarely slip up. Oh, please, I couldn't even type that with a straight face:
A 68-year-old woman at the Sunbury Pennsylvania protest had to be rescued by police from the Susquehanna River when she inadvertently fell in while trying to dump tea bags in it.
Okay, okay, but at least there were no famous broadcaster gaffes, you know, like an open mic mishap or something. Now, that would have been really humiliating, especially in light of the low turnout and such:
In yet another tea-bag day controversy, Fox anchor Neil Cavuto was captured on an open mic discussing the crowd numbers with an on-location producer, estimating the turnout at 5,000 people, but minutes later Cavuto told viewers that "They were expecting 5,000 here, it's got to be easily double, if not triple that."
Tea party organizers and participants have repeatedly insisted that their nationwide protests today are completely non-partisan and not meant to be anti-Obama. However, there didn’t seem to be any anti-Republican or anti-Bush signs at the protests. Instead, not only were there signs/clothing protest Obama’s policies, but some had violent or racist rhetoric.
Ironically, the AP reports that Greg Budell — a talk radio host in Montgomery, AL — said that the tea parties could “have the same impact that Montgomerian Rosa Parks had when she refused to move to the back of a city bus during segregation.”
I've already posted Oliver's photo. Now Dave Weigel from the Washington Independent reveals another sign reading, “homey don’t play dat“:
Democracy in action... if you're a white Rushpublic.
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