Liberty Chick

April 17, 2009

If you were a Tea Party organizer, marketer, speaker or attendee, you know these events were truly the result of grass-roots organizing. You know all the hard work you put into the events, and all the connections that you made with ordinary citizens as you helped each other to promote the events and get the word out. So why does the far left insist on believing otherwise? Why has Congress decided to politicize it and turn it into a conspiracy? Why have even celebrities joined in and started viciously attacking us with hateful rhetoric and labels?  Just look at the coverage of the April 15th events, and you’ll start to see some common themes. Juxtapose it all with some of the research and the Posts you’ll find on this website, and you can form your own theories. It won’t be too difficult to do.

** After you’ve read this page, if you’re tired of the bias, do something! **

Congress & the White House

Falsities from Pelosi, Schakowski, Congressional Aides, Axelrod & Carville – people who are supposed to represent and listen to YOU.

Mainstream Media

Vicious hate rhetoric and wild accusations from “journalists” who care more about their own agendas than they do about the truth and your own feelings.

Local Media

Irresponsible misrepresentations of community activism and catering to mainstream counterparts.

Tea Party Crashers

Those with so much unwarranted contempt that they would rather pose as hatred under a disguise than be brave enough to speak aloud in public spirited debate. Start with this post from the Daily Kos – it’s evil.

Congress & the White House

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, said the following in an interview with Fox TV in San Francisco, which was then broadcast on every major television station and published in every major newspaper:

“This initiative is funded by the high end; we call it AstroTurf, it’s not really a grass-roots movement. It’s 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,” Pelosi said.

With the exception of FoxNews, not one of those outlets challenged her statements in any way. Nice to know that our Congress members are out there listening to their constituents and representing the wants and needs of the people. (that was sarcasm)

See it on video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P44q7Jt68DA

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky

And while we’re on our devoted Congress members, also published in many news outlets, including being posted right there on the House of Representatives official website, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) called the Tea Parties and their organizers “despicable and shameful.”

“The ‘tea parties’ being held today by groups of right-wing activists, and fueled by FOX News Channel, are an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans and creates 3.5 million jobs,” Schakowsky said in a statement. “It’s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt … 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.”

When I read that, I threw up in my own mouth.

Congressional Aides

The “Roll Call”, a Capitol Hill newspaper, published this little gem:

“One senior [Congressional] aide has been circulating a document to the media that debunks the effort as one driven by corporate lobbyists and attended by neo-Nazis…” further stating that “[the tea parties] are not really all about average citizens.” The document continues, saying “neo-Nazis, militias, secessionists and racists are attending them. The tea parties are also not peaceful, since reporters in Cincinnati had to seek ‘police protection’ during one of the events”, it states.

Now, aside from the fact that the report makes wildly false and offensive accusations, and that it’s repulsive that an actual Congress member would instruct their aide to distribute such garbage, I specifically researched the last statement regarding the claim these events were ‘not peaceful’.  Only after hours of digging did I finally find the single report of the aforementioned “police protection” that the Congressional memo refers to. Apparently,  WKRC reporter Angela Ingram and a photographer “became uncomfortable” when protesters around them “became loud”, so they went and stood near police before finally leaving the event early.  You see, the truth is that they must have been embarassed when those nearby protesters called them out on their bias as these WKRC employees specifically focused in on a known tea party crasher who, trying to pass himself off to media as a tea party supporter, flashed offensive signs and yelled anti-Obama rhetoric, obviously intended to make tea partiers appear as “racist rednecks”.

Every other report on this event commends the good behavior of the attendees, even those from Cincinnati police.  Most reports include observations such as this one from the Kentucky Post:

“The protesters were orderly, even when supporters of President Obama’s policies engaged them in spirited discussions.” *

But of course, in keeping with the bias, even reports as this one, which initially offered a glimmer of fairness in its coverage, had to leave their viewers with at least one gross misrepresentation to remain embroiled in their closed minds. Funny how THIS is the sentiment that then becomes the entire focus in a Congressional memo circulated all across Capitol Hill.

*Ref: http://www.kypost.com/content/wcposhared/story/Cincinnati-Tea-Party-Tax-Protest-Draws-4-000/vYvao8Kynk2VTD70KE-E9g.cspx

David Axelrod & James Carville

Senior White House adviser David Axelrod suggested to Harry Smith on “Face the Nation” that the “Tea Party” movement is an “unhealthy” reaction to the tough economic climate facing the country.

“I think any time you have severe economic conditions there is always an element of disaffection that can mutate into something that’s unhealthy,” he said.

First of all, the question itself was entirely biased in the way that it was even posed. But why take my word, here’s the full exchange:

SMITH: What do you make of this spreading and very public disaffection with not only the government, but especially the Obama administration, the TEA parties this week? You even have the governor of Texas even using the word secession? Should Texas be allowed to secede?

AXELROD: Well, I don’t think that really warrants a serious response. I don’t think most Texans were all that enthused by the governor’s suggestion.

SMITH: But what about the first part of the question?

(CROSSTALK)

AXELROD: I think any time that you have severe economic conditions, there is always an element of disaffection that can mutate into something that’s unhealthy.

SMITH: Is this unhealthy?

AXELROD: Well, we’re — this is a country where we value our liberties and our ability to express ourselves. And so far these are expressions. Now, one thing I would say is — the thing that bewilders me is this president just cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people. So I think the tea bags should be directed elsewhere, because he certainly understands the burden that people face…

View the entire video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvgJXRQDlz8

Then of course, there was James Carville’s response to Axelrod’s comments.

Equally biased, and inaccurate, Carville chuckled as he declared the average age of the Tea Party attendees as being  “72.4″ years of age and indicated their audiences were filled with “every old plank in the country”.

Mainstream Media

Huffington Post

This is one outlet that provided no shortage of lefty-lopsided bias. By no coincidence, all the major cable news outlets also tended to use HuffPo as a primary source in their reporting, rather than sending out enough of their own network field resources to gather info and develop their own angle to the story. Easier, and cheaper, to just regurgitate someone else’s bias I suppose…

Here are just a few of HuffPo’s headlines from their “unbiased” Tea Party coverage, with links to the full stories and photos. And you *cannot* miss the photos, they are a must view:

10 Most Offensive Tea Party Signs (with PHOTOS)

“More than 2,000 HuffPost citizen journalists signed up to report on their local tea parties, sending photos, videos, and written dispatches, and we’ve already received hundreds of photos…some stand-out slideshows, beginning with the 10 most offensive tea party signs we’ve seen.”

That’s how HuffPo describes their “journalism”.  But in reality, this to me was one of the most irresponsible media behaviors exhibited of all the outlets. They not only presented a false and biased point of view in their coverage, but they literally encouraged “citizen journalists” to attend events and then blog about them after submitting to the newspaper. What erupted, as they intended it to unfold, was a barrage of blogging masqueraders who conspired in advance to use their “assignments” dishonestly and to intentionally cause harm and bad feelings in the interest of nothing more than saying “look at me, look what I can do”.  They attended tea parties with their own signs, designed to spark racist outrage and contempt for tea party attendees. And when they bragged about their “good deeds” on HuffPo’s website, did the newspaper admonish them? No. They held them up on a pedestal, and fueled the posters and bloggers with enough arrogance to post their venomous coverage all around the world, over and over and over again. Their comments were poisonous and hurtful, but most of all false. If that is not divisive and unAmerican, I don’t know what is. This paper should be sued for such negligence.

If you don’t believe me, read some “citizen journalists’” plots in their own words, in the Tea Party Crashers section. It will get your blood boiling.

And others from The Huffington Post:

Fox News Hosts Join Right-Wing “Tea Party” Movement (with VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/07/fox-news-hosts-join-right_n_183957.html

Anti-Tax Tea Party Protests Nationwide: What You Need To Know

Call for “citizen journalists”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/06/anti-tax-tea-party-protes_n_183814.html

Tea Party Contradictions

Byline: “This all brings to mind something that I have said about marketing: with good enough marketing you can convince people to kill themselves.  Think about cigarettes and the comet-suicide cult and you’ll understand what I mean.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/tea-party-contradictions_b_187998.html

Howard Kurtz Shocked By Fox News Tea Party Promotion

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/howard-kurtz-shocked-by-f_n_187942.html

Salon.com

“On 9/11, I think they hit the wrong building” [Referring to the Fox News building]

“From Washington to San Francisco, tax day “tea parties” bring the right-wing fringe out into the unflattering light of day.”

By Mike Madden

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/16/tea_party/

Janeane Garofalo Comments

The hate heard round the world. Could she be any uglier? I used to be a fan, but this was just sooo unbecoming and unintelligent, no matter how elitist she likes to believe it came off.

“…let’s be very honest about what this is about. It’s 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. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. And there is no way around that. And you know, you can tell these type of right wingers anything and they’ll believe it, except the truth…”

And it continues, but I cannot possibly keep paraphrasing it without spontaneously combusting. So,  it’s best to read the transcript in its entirety, here at Newsbusters.  Also be sure to view the video.

CNN

Where do I start? For the first time in my life, I find myself complimenting Lou Dobbs.  I know. Do you believe it? He’s the only one through all of this with any decorum and the balls to stand up to the immature and offensive antics at his own station.

First, there’s the worst of CNN:

Reporter Susan Roesgren, and her drama-queen, hissy-fit of a faux report.

“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.”  Puleeeeeeezzzzzzz!!!!

• View the now famous video, which is still online thanks to Founding Bloggers, even though CNN ordered YouTube to remove it for “copyright infringement”. Founding Bloggers taped it in action, so good luck with that lawsuit CNN.
• View Michelle Malkin’s recap of the copyright saga between CNN, YouTube and Founding Bloggers
• View the Founding Bloggers Open Letter to CNN

Then, there was Anderson Cooper, who was more than happy to join in on the Teabagging sexual obscenities:

“It’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging.”

Rather than write it all up, again, Newsbusters does a lovely job of recapping the rhetoric and providing accompanying video and audio. Visit this page for their coverage.

And then, CNN allows Rick Sanchez to manipulate the events into a racist uprising for days on end. Here’s just one partial transcript of day one, in an interview with Americans for Prosperity Tim Phillips. Rick points out a sign from the crowd of thousands, and manufactures up some good old fashioned fake racism:

SANCHEZ: But then there’s also this. We were doing a report earlier today. One of our correspondents was on the air reporting. And I noticed something behind her. And I said, oh my goodness, look at that. And I bet you it’s not something Tim’s going to be pleased by. Look at that, what it says. Go ahead and turn around. Look at the screen right there. Do we see that guy that says, “I’m not your ATM”? It’s a white hand giving money to a black hand. You know, what do you make of that? Does that bother you a little bit?

TIM PHILLIPS: I think that any time you have literally tens of thousands of people from all walks of life coming out to rallies and events, there’s going to be one sign that’s objectionable or one statement that you would rather not be said.

SANCHEZ: It’s not representative?

Now again, what Sanchez doesn’t even bother to investigate is the fact that this is a sign that has shown up at multiple tea party events, and it was not that of a tea party protester. It was that of a “citizen journalist”, who bragged in advance online about making this very sign in an attempt to “get it in front of news cameras and make the tea parties appear really racist”.  The tea party protesters were not in any way racist, and many even voted for this very president but simply disagree with the huge spending policies. But thanks to irresponsible media outlets like this, looks like the saboteurs accomplished exactly what they set out to do. Thanks, CNN. That’s why people are boycotting your sponsors. Wake up.

NBC / MSNBC

There’s so much from this station; it’s hard to regurgitate so much hate speak all on one page. So I will try to provide links to each example to make it easier.

Lee Cowan of NBC (partial segment):  “organizers insist today’s ‘tea parties’ were organic uprisings of like-minded taxpayers from both parties,” but “some observers suggest not all of it was as home-grown as it may seem.”
Funny thing is, if this was such truthful reporting, then why did NBC have the full video segment pulled from all the video hosting sites? Please, more copyright infringement cover?

David Shuster:  “The protests amount to “Teabagging day for the right wing and they are going nuts for it.” He described the parties as simultaneously “full-throated” and “toothless,” and continued: “They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending.” Shuster also noted how the protesters “whipped out” the demonstrations this past weekend.

Rachel Maddow:  With guest Air America’s Ana Marie Cox:  “Well, there is a lot of love in teabagging,” Cox said. “It is curious, though, as you point out, they do not use the verb ‘teabag.’ It might be because they’re less enthusiastic about teabagging than some of the more corporate conservatives who seem to have taken to it quite easily.”

Keith Olbermann: “From Dixon, Illinois, to Duncan, Arizona; from El Cajon, California, to Sag Harbor, New York—literally dozens of FOX News viewers—sorry—dozens of outraged citizens protest having to pay their fair share of the taxes the rest of us pay.  Let the teabagging begin!”

There’s of course the famous Garofalo hate rant.

Again, there are just so many from Keith Olbermann… rather than reinvent the wheel, read and view a compilation of his crap journalism and vicious spewage from our friends at Newsbusters.

Ed Shultz: “Folks, what happened today in cities across America was anything but grassroots.”  And “the country does not feel the same way the teabaggers do.”  And his rant continues. Watch the full video segment.

Read more transcripts at Ed Schultz to Dem: ‘Do You Think That Fox News Wants the Government to be Overthrown?’

Local News Coverage

You’d think that local news reports would be less biased, maybe less influenced by their larger parent companies. Not so. There was plenty of bias to go around in many communities across the country:

Macon Telegraph
“I won’t be attending this Tea Party!”
“The Tea Party is an idea from the right wing of the GOP.”

NJ Star Ledger

http://blog.nj.com/njv_shenemans_sketchpad/2009/04/tea.gif

Check out their ‘fair and balanced’ cartoon:

Tea parties are flash crowds Obama should fear
San Francisco Examiner

http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/Tea-parties-are-flash-crowds-Obama-should-fear-41547632.html

Tea Party movement aims to inspire revolution
Apocalypse Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/x-4501-Apocalypse-Examiner~y2009m4d9-Tea-Party-movement-aims-to-inspire-revolution

Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-cooper15-2009apr15,0,3158535.story

Fox News Hosts Join Right-Wing “Tea Party” Movement (with VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/07/fox-news-hosts-join-right_n_183957.html

Bigotry and Insanity On Parade at Denver’s “Tea Party”
“Astroturf” organizing effort by out-of-state lobbyists results in more shameful displays of ignorance and racism by local Republicans, headlined by Senate Minority Leader Penry

http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/al/CZxt

The mad Republicans’ tea party?
BILL NEMITZ, Portland Press Herald in Maine

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=250673&ac=PHnws

“Tempest in a right-wing teapot”
Political cartoon published in the April 15 Reporter Opinion section
Reporter URL: http://www.thereporter.com/opinion

Tea Party Crashers

Here’s a perfect example of some elitist who thought posing as a Huffington Post “citizen journalist” (suggested as their ‘cover’ on a separate post) and attending a Tea Party  for the purpose of  tricking people into making statements that can be manipulated into negative press. It’s astonishing how these people think.

From “The Daily Kos” website:

“Planning Fun With Teabaggers!”

Posted by tedshubris on 4/14/2009  (NOTE: a RI resident has since outed this poster as Ted Marr, a no-talent, wannabe film director/producer)

“Tomorrow, my husband and I will be venturing into the wilds disguised as a news crew to do some in person interviewers with teabaggers here in [State Redacted] {NOTE: before the poster redacted their fake station call letters, it had read WSFR and then WKOS} (if we can find any).  We’ve got some questions lined up to ask, but I’d love to get suggestions!

The great thing about owning professional video equipment is that armed with it, you can pass yourself off as being a professional news crew pretty easily.

So tomorrow, [Fake Station Name Redacted] is going to send a cameraman and on air news personality out into the field to cover this “teabagging” phenomenon.

We’re going to ask open ended questions that seem to have a slight conservative bent to (hopefully) get them to open up and just start ranting.  Then, we take any examples of racism, hatred, ignorance, and stupidity that we catch on camera and make a little movie out of it.  Probably a YouTube special.

Here’s the list we have so far

* What are you celebrating (The Boston Tea Party), and can you explain its historical relevance?  [We're hoping to get some hilarious flubs from this one]* Is this your first time teabagging?  [OK, so, a juvenile one, but worth it] (apparently, we’re the only ones who have connected tea parties to teabagging.  Or, for that matter, the sociological study “Tearoom trade”.  Removed for the sake of keeping covert)

* Do you approve of Michael Steele’s plan to expand the GOP through a “hip-hop urban-suburban marketing strategy”?  [hoping to get some juicy racist stuff from this question]

* (as an intentional misunderstanding/follow up, presuming that someone complains about wasteful government spending) “So you disapprove of your tax dollars going to the Iraq War?”  [should elicit some confusion]

* Do you approve of the direction in which this country is headed? [With thanks to Bob Love]Anyways, it’s a start… but I’d love to have some suggestions for questions that sound fine, but should prompt an outpouring of crazy.

Thanks in advance, and I’ll be sure to post a link to the finished video when it’s available!”

Reading all of the contributing comments on his DailyKos diary was equally disgusting. What repulsive, unhappy people, all of them.  If you’d like to tell this guy what you think of him and his wife for committing the crime of falsely posing as news crew, under the guise of HuffPo citizen journalists, simply search using these starting points:

“Ted Marr”,  “Scorpion Films”,  “Pawtucket, Rhode Island”. So much for your anonymity, Mr. Marr.

From the Code Pink Action Calendar

Below is a posting taken from their website, exactly as it had appeared; view it at: http://www.codepinkalert.org/calendar.php?%20id=2948

Santa Monica Tea Party

Wednesday, April 15th 2009  4:00–5:00 PM, Santa Monica, CA

The Santa Monica Tea Party of 2009 and Tea Parties all across America are being organized by friends of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, all about getting less funding for government. Let’s show up with a better message: STOP funding wars and Wall Street, and start funding the needs of the people– health care, education, and a green economy. Join us as we crash their party.

Location:

Santa Monica Pier

100 Colorado Ave.

Santa Monica, CA

90401

Contact:

Audrey

la@codepinkalert.org

“Tea Party Crasher“

This was a partial transcript from a Pensacola, FL crasher, who goes by “Jeff” and “Sinfonian” and calls himself a “recovering attorney” -  posted this himself, titled as such. Posted at:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/16/720820/-Yeah,-Im-the-guy-who-spoke-at-the-Pensacola-Tea-Party

“I had planned to cover the local teabaggery for a while, but really only to livetweet it for posterity.  However, after arriving and taking a few pictures and such, they announced via megaphone, “Anyone who’d like to say a few words is welcome to do so.”  Well, they did say anyone …

I worked my way up to the front … well, it wasn’t so much front as it was middle.  It ended up being like a “theater in the round,” with the main action taking place in front of a bust of Andrew Jackson, once the governor of territorial Florida with its capital in Pensacola.  I took lots of pictures and videos there (some of which I hope to post shortly at Blast Off!), and I was thinking about what I might say if and when I got up there.  Still, I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it.  People were, well, rather rambunctious in their Obama hatred, and the shouting and craziness was, to be honest, a little unnerving.

But when a couple of my friends showed up, one offered to film my “speech,” so I figured I’d go for it.  I gave a lot of thought to what I wanted to say, making sure to draw the crowd in so they’d listen carefully before bringing the rhetorical hammer down.  I guess it worked.    After I spoke, the MC of the event calmed everyone down and said, “All opinions are welcome here.  And besides … he’s half right.”  That helped defuse the situation a bit, as did the next speaker, who started by complimenting me on my hat (it’s a Baltimore Orioles hat — I was born in Baltimore and I’m a lifelong O’s fan).

Anyway, a few, including my girlfriend, have chided me a bit for putting myself in harm’s way.  “Someone could have had a gun,” they say.  Well, that’s true … but I’ve never really been the type to stand around and watch, especially when half-truths and lies are being disseminated with no one to challenge them.

Sometimes we have to take a little bit of risk, I think, in order to accomplish things.  So many people throughout history have taken such risks … maybe I’m foolish to do so, but I can only do so much from behind a laptop keyboard.  I’d like my kids (9yo boy, 3yo girl) to know that their dad stood up for something important, at least once.

Guns? Murder? Oh pulleeezz. Go hang out with Susan Roesgen from CNN. Apparently, this guy doesn’t care if he shows his kids that he’s a masquerader, a liar and has no morals, either. Nice.  Guess now we know why he’s unemployed.

Remember, he goes by “Jeff” and “Sinfonian”, lives in Florida, is recently unemployed and calls himself “a recovering attorney.”

You can also see this guy on Olbermann (but through the more truthful eyes of Newsbusters), as he of course promoted him as a hero of sorts, citing his Ashton Kutcher “Punked” status:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/04/16/garofalo-tea-partiers-are-all-racists-who-hate-black-president

Also initiated on DailyKos was one of their playbooks for the Tea Party Crashers.  Of course, why engage in real, intelligent discussion and debate when you can disguise yourself and infiltrate like a loser instead? For people who hate the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and anything clandestine, they sure like emulate their tactics quite a bit.

Here’s just a snippet of the whole post, titled “MOTHERSHIP: Hot, steaming teabaggin’ action!”, by droogie6655321:

(To view droogie6655321, paste this URL into a new window: http://droogie6655321.dailykos.com )

“To that end, fellow Kossack and good friend Maimonides has developed some good rules of thumb for those planning on participating in our liveblog today by covering a Teabagger event. Even if you’re not going to one, these are still good general guidelines for covering any potentially hostile protest:

Maimonides’ Rules for Covering Protests

I do this fairly often. When you suffer from agoraphobia, angry crowds are the ultimate thrill-ride. But I’ve learned from my mistakes.

1. Do not engage. If you’re asked who you’re with say you’re a tourist, an independent photographer, or there as part of the protest if you answer at all.

1. Do not be a lightning rod. They are also filming. Do not give them video to work with.

1. Do not get hurt. I’ve been punched while playing this game, when I was stupid enough to break rule 1. I do not want anyone hurt, arrested or hurt and arrested.

1. Get the snaps. Just get the picture  Show up after they’ve organized (10-15 minutes late) and look around. Find your targets, take them, don’t get in the way.

1. Respect the subjects. I know, hard one, but they are people too, people who just want to get together with like-mindless morans of largely the same ethnic background. Nonetheless, respect their right to protest. They’re Americans too, albeit selfish ones.

Read the post in its entirety here.

And another:

Fun with teabaggers,
posted by matador at

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/720412/-Fun-with-teabaggers

Here’s just a little snippet of their posting; visit the link above for the whole thing:

“I would like first to remark on what a motley crowd it was. it was almost universely a white pasty faced crew that looked like they spent too much time at the old country buffet.

Before I went, I printed up a few flers. The top said, in bold print, “Thomas Paine quotes”. And then, the body of the fler contained the following. . .

‘I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.’

and

‘[Government must] create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property. And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum, during life, to every person now living, of the age of fifty years, and to all others as they shall arrive at that age.’

Hehehe. . . . so I went around, especially to those with the “socialist” signs and asked if they wanted some Thomas Paine quotes, and handed them out. Some were suspiscious, but most were thrilled. “Thomas Paine” exclaimed one teabagger, “. .a good man!” Hehehehe. Some others, I simply told them that Thomas Paine was a socialist and so where, for that matter, Madison and Jefferson. Some didnt’t believe me, but what the hell did I care? I never expected to change the mind of jackasses anyways.”

Nice. Need I say more?

Here’s a list of more “Tea Party Crasher Diaries” from DailyKos and their fake signs, immature antics and elitist ramblings:

• Washington, DC

  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/720357/-DCs-Cold-Wet-Teabag

• New Haven, CT

  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/15/720528/-UPDATED:-Tea-Baggin-By-the-Seashore-wPicsVideo

• Chicago, IL

  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/720187/-Windy-City-Teablogging-(w-photos)

• Chicago, IL
  http://daveinchi.dailykos.com/  and http://downtowndavesworldatlarge.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-is-my-report-to-huffington-post.html
  “I’ve also uploaded that “limited to 600 words” piece to the Huffington Post as one of their citizen journalists.”
• San Francisco, CA

  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/720477/-San-Francisco-Tea-Party-(photo-heavy!)

• Grand Junction, CO

  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/720451/-Tea-Party-in-Western-Colorado

• http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/709093/-I-pay-taxes-because-(weve-been-found-out!)
• Annapolis, MD

  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/720412/-Fun-with-teabaggers

• Norman, OK

  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/720393/-Oklahoma-teabaggers-to-meet-in-Amtrak-station

The Daily Kos conservative bashing of course opened up with this diary entry from its founder:

Dear Conservatives,

If having hilarious tea bagging parties keeps you guys from shooting people up, then I heartily endorse them.

Hugs and kisses,

kos

Now, to dispell the fallacy that started the left-wingnuts and Kossers speculating the Astroturf conspiracy in the first place, Newsbusters published this great piece regarding the retraction from Playboy magazine, the magazine that started it all by claiming the movement was funded with Rick Santelli right-wing backings:

Anatomy of a Left-Wing Smear: The Great Tea Party Conspiracy Busted

By Warner Todd Huston

As the author states in the article, the great thing is that they dispelled the myths and Playboy retracted their falsities. But the left-wingers continue on with their lies. As Mr. Huston puts it, “And, THAT, my friends, is how the left works. Scream the lie, whisper the retraction.”

And I think that’s probably the best way to end this section of the site. Thanks for organizations like Newsbusters. Hats off to people like them.

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