I love this video. It really puts things in perspective with regards to MSNBC and their idea of diversity. Yes, I know, they have non-white analysts and guests, but their anchor lineup looks a little pasty. I’m just sayin’.
Mr. Olbermann has been very critical of the Tea Party Protests wondering where the people of color are at these events. Well, Keith, the gauntlet has been laid down. I can’t wait to see your attendance and coverage at the Dallas event.
If you are not Keith Olbermann and are in the Dallas area, consider attending this event. It will be held on Saturday, February 27 from 12 Noon – 2pm at the Dallas City Hall. They have some great speakers coming including Steven Crowder, Alfonzo Rachel among other great guests.
I honestly didn’t realize I was in a cult. I guess in addition to the fact that I’m supposedly a racist and a homophobe (yes, I’ve been called both for some reason), I’m also in the Tea Party Cult (or Teabagger if you choose to use the sexual term coined by the wacknut left.)
Bill Maher had dubbed those who oppose taxes and growing the government who decide to attend a Tea Party protest are not really in a movement, but are a part of a cult. I found that really interesting since I went to one of the first Tea Party events held in St. Louis last February (and brought my kids) along with one held on April 15, 2009. Actually, I never thought that I was in a movement but rather concerned about the out of control spending from not only the left, but also the right.
I didn’t realize my taxes have gone down. I must have missed this one, but I do live in the Socialist Republic of Illinois so maybe this doesn’t apply to me. I suppose we’ll feel the real pinch when the Bush tax cuts expire next year. Ouch!
The teabaggers, they’re not a movement. They’re a cult, and I’m going to prove it. You know someone has fallen into a cult if you see these signs: One. Cults have their own vocabulary. Now, I don’t speak sh**kicker, but I know that in their world, freedom means guns, diplomacy means weakness, elitist means reader, and socialist means black.
Two. Cults tend to populate from within.encouraging members to have huge broods of children and to give them strange names, like Moonbeam, and Trig.
And three, cult members always attribute all of their problems to one simple explanation: [picture of Obama with Hitler moustache].
Well there you have it. Me: Illiterate Racist Hick, Unabashed Homophobe & Cult Member.
Attention Teabagger Cultists: I have received word from above that the great Tea Bag is coming back to take all the good Tea Baggers back to Hickland to live eternity shooting guns, chewing tobacco and smashing things with Monster Trucks. Sounds like a blast! Hooo Weee. See you there.
Over the last 10 months I have been involved with attending and tracking various Tea Party Protest events. I have attended two events here in St. Louis and really had a good time at each one. I took my kids to the first one in February in the shadow of the Gateway Arch. I wanted them to be present at an event I saw as very pivotal to our Republic. It was truly the beginning of a much larger movement that quickly spread throughout the country without the help of Republicans or any other high level party official. The buzz term of the moment is that it was truly organic in nature.
When this movement started to gain steam and be noticed by the main stream media, those on the left decided to associate this movement with a sexual term called “Teabagging.” For those of you who are not familiar with the true origins of this term, I’m not going to describe the act here on this blog or provide a link – google it if you choose.
Mr. Olbermann was one of the first to coin this term and it actually caught on (I assume it is because of the outrage from the Tea Party Protesters (the preferred term) rather than the paltry viewers he receives each night.) Now it seems that the this term has been chosen by the Oxford University Press selecting it as second most popular “word of the year.” Although Keith was instrumental in creating the buzz on this one, he is now deflecting the blame, if you will, to those in the protest movement. If he actually cared to do a little study on the origins of the group name it had to do with the parallels to the Boston Tea Party and the taxes that were imposed on the citizens by a governmental power. Evidently he had to wait until the Oxford University Press defined it for him. This is what happens when we have a fundamental disregard or blatant ignorance of history.
Keith, you are a blithering idiot of colossal proportions. You are the one that had these perverted thoughts of “teabagging” and I for one would like to hear you actually own up to it instead of alluding that you simply had some hand it exposing the term. The fact that it has caught on with the public and some are using the term to describe themselves has more to do with the evolution of the word by your doing.
My only bone to pick with this movement is why it took so long to get started.
Evidently I am a racist according to that great prognosticator, Janeane Garofalo. On the hardly watched Keith Olbermann Show on MSNBC, here is what she opined about all of us that attended a Tax Day Tea Party event.
I agree with my friends at The Great Illuminator – keep spewing this crazy talk. This is actually good for the cause and will incite more people to get involved. I can’t wait until the 2010 election. What a slaughter this will be. Should be good fun.
As a parting shot, Lou Dobbs had something to say about the waste of good breathable air (Ms. Garafalo).
Right on Lou! It is good that Ms. Garafalo is sent to the far reaches of the media like MSNBC and Air America. No one actually watches or listens to these programs, they just quote them in blogs.
I ran across this video and just had to post it. David Shuster from MSNBC decided to refer to the Tax Day Protests as “Teabaggers”. Hmmm…I was at the last event in St. Louis and didn’t see any Teabagging going on. (those of you who don’t know what this slang term means, click here)
And yet another video with Stuart Varney giving the business to a left-wing liberal writer
The idea that this is a “vast right wing conspiracy” is more than ridiculous. The main website for all of these Tea Party protests is www.taxdayteaparty.com. This site was registered in February 2009, not before the election as the left-wing liberal writer asserts. This is a true grass roots movement started by normal individuals and attended by normal individuals (OK, I’m not that normal).
Thousands of events are being held all over the country – many of them today (Tax Day). I would encourage all of you who are able to attend one of these events. I’ll be at the one in St. Louis in Kiener Plaza and this one was probably the largest in the US last time.
This is not an Obama thing, it’s a freedom thing. Find an event in your area and show the country that you are tired of the high taxes and wasteful spending going on in our country.
The date is approaching for the next Tea Party Protest on April 15 – Tax Day!. These protest events are being held all over the country so check out the website at www.taxdayteaparty.com.
We can make a great impact by continuing to attend these events. It would be great to have 5,000 or more people at each event all over the country. Let’s show the idiots in Washington who are spending the future of the country.
You can also join the Facebook Group and register yourself for the event in your area.
I often go and do things that I know many people will just not do. I’ll go out of my way to see the biggest ball of twine, ride that great roller coaster or eat some weird and interesting concoction at some dive diner I saw on a TV program.
Today was no different. I had the day off of work and could have just stayed home with the kids and played around the house (something I prefer even more than ranting). I decided to do something different.
Today was the Tea Party Protest around the country where normal everyday people joined together and actually protested the massive government intrusion we have been seeing for quite some time. So, I dragged my kids out into the cold (not blizzard cold, just cold) and went down to the Gateway Arch grounds for the protest. Around 500-600 people did the same as I – so maybe there is still hope for our republic. Everything was peaceful and being around that many like minded people was really a neat thing.
To some this seems very strange, but I believe that there is not enough education of children about the history of the US and how we got to this point in our short history. The patriots in colonial times had their own tea party protesting the exorbitant tax on tea by dumping a whole shipload of tea into the Boston Harbor (today this would be like a $10 tax on a cup of Starbucks). We are at the point right now. The “Stimulus Package” along with all of the other boondoggle giveaway programs are changing the landscape of our country forever. This has been tried before back in the 30’s – first with Hoover and then with FDR. Hoover started us down the path and FDR prolonged our long national nightmare for many years (i.e. The Great Depression for those of you who don’t habla) by involving Government in the jobs business. We’re heading down the same road right now.
Businesses need to fail (yes, even banks) for things to really come back to normal. That’s the only way we will get out of this problem. More government programs = more government spending = more taxes on the producers. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to provide for all the lazy people. Failure leads to success.
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