Sharron Angle rallies Tea Party supporters, breaks into song

[TomCADem]

Source: Las Vegas Sun

Sharron Angle channelled British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to motivate Tea Party supporters during a speech Friday to Las Vegas.

“Never, never, never, never give up,” Angle said, quoting Churchill. “It’s the beginning of a quest. We’re going to elect a different president, elect more conservatives to Congress and we’re going to send our message again and again and again.”

Angle, who is running for Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District seat, was the featured speaker at a tax day Tea Party rally outside the Grant Sawyer Federal Building. A similar rally was held in Carson City.

Supporters wore American flag T-shirts and waved anti-Obama and anti-tax signs, but they seemed more lethargic than during past tea party rallies. The crowd swelled to about 250 at the peak of the three-hour event but dropped to just more than 100 by the time Angle spoke.


Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/apr/15/sharron-angle-rallies-tea-party-supporters-breaks-/

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Fox News has been pumping the recent Tea Party rallies, but the truth of the matter is that they are rather small even in largely right wing areas.

[alp227]

1. wow Angle cut the crowd by over half huh?

and now she's running for the House? that seat is already Republican occupied (Dean Heller).

[EC]

45. I thought she was going to try for

Ensign's seat? At least if she won - she would be marginalized in the House...I'd be really afraid if she were running for the Senate.


But then again running for the House is easier and she just could win.

[tomm2thumbs]

2. I think the rec button is broken - tried to rec but it didn't work

strange, perhaps it was a software glitch

[Judi Lynn]

3. My eyes! My ears! I've been poisoned, too. I just had to see that video.

Have no one to blame but myself.

Can you imagine how low you'd have to fall, to be the clown walking around behind this wreck as she sings along with a recording by a hillbilly, waving an oversized flag? How humiliating.

At least they weren't wearing costumes representing revolutionary war characters.d

What a wonderful gathering. A few shoppers may have glanced at them.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. the hundreds, no thousands, no,

HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS, no, MILLION PEOPLE who showed up to support Angle were all hugely patriotic and pro American Fox News viewers.

When will the rest of the MSM realize that the Tea Party went tepid and stale?

[xxqqqzme]

28. As a tea drinker

the metaphor is - when tea steeps too long it becomes bitter, overpowering the delicate nuances of young leaves.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

31. i loves my green tea in the AM,

and afternoon tea, well, after noon.

[peace frog]

27. Don't give her any ideas

Next time Angle will arrive with a small cortege of marching Revolutionary war heroes playing the fife and drums. :crazy:

[dotymed]

29. Therein lies the problem.

The mentality of most Americans does not exceed the 8th grade level. That was a study from decades ago. I have no idea how much it has changed. It must've dropped. Look at the insanity passing for political discourse... and the candidates.

[No Elephants]

5. Looks as though media now want to cool off the Teabaggers..

"Supporters wore American flag T-shirts and waved anti-Obama and anti-tax signs, but they seemed more lethargicthan during past tea party rallies. The crowd swelled to about 250 at the peak of the three-hour event but dropped to just more than 100 by the time Angle spoke."



We've been hearing and reading more and more that makes it seem as though the Tea Party is "so over," or soon will be.

I guess media is siding with the Roves of the Republicon Party in the belief that no good an come from splitting their Party.


I hate that media manipulates America so easily.

[Nossida]

6. Wake me up

When she starts Tap Dancing, and singing at the same time.

[Keith Bee]

7. Obtuse Angle

She will never "get it."

[crim son]

13. +1 n/t

[DCKit]

8. The flow of Gino's pizza rolls ended, so they all headed off for the blue-hair special. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

38. Did you look at the photos? That group looks to be middle aged

and younger, families, and also a few older voters. But the actual people present do not fit your framing of them as elder voters. They are Republicans, and they come in all shapes and ages.
Anyone can check out the photos at the link for 'blue hair' and the 'crowd' is so small it is possible to get a good look at who is there and who they are. They are, of course, Republicans.

[DCKit]

43. Why are you so defensive of the diversity of the Teahadii?

Yeah, I've got two sisters (45 & 49) who THINK they believe the Teabagger BS, but this medicare flap is going to cure their fat asses once it sinks in how much it's going to cost THEM to take care of our parents and what we'd face without it.

Even if I don't get my own back because of this, the TP just lost a host of adherents.

[Corruption Winz]

9. Swelled to 250?

I have more people in this world who hate me then showed up to hear this loon speak.

TeaBaggers are taking over. Lol.

[Paradoxical]

10. lol. 250 people? Haven't we reached 1 million?

Fuck that asshole.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

11. 2 days ago: 5,000+ rallied in Michigan to protest Gov. Synder's huge budget cuts

http://yfrog.com/h7accsdj

Which will get more coverage?

[fasttense]

12. All this hullabaloo over a measly 250 people.

Aside from having lost almost all journalistic integrity, the corporate media has now lost all sense of proportion.

It's like the bad propaganda the the old USSR use put out.

[AlbertCat]

35. It's like the bad propaganda the the old USSR use put out.

I've been saying since the 1990s that:

Here we thought the GOP and conservatives HATED the USSR... only now to find out it was not hate.

It was just ENVY.

[crim son]

14. "Page not found"? OH NO!

Wonder why.

[PADemD]

15. Link here

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/apr/15/sharron-angle-rallies-tea-party-supporters-breaks-/

[crim son]

17. Thank you, I think. :P

[Syrinx]

16. good work commenters

:patriot:

[PADemD]

18. A very narrow angle video on Youtube

Doesn't show how few people are there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILwp7z778uo&feature=player_embedded#at=13

[mascarax]

19. ...and the message is: destroy Americans (again and again and again)

These people.

[mascarax]

20. ...and the message is: destroy Americans (again and again and again)

These people.

[rucky]

21. Here's a working link - w/ video

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/apr/15/sharron-angle-rallies-tea-party-supporters-breaks-/

if you can stomach it

[Vinca]

22. Churchill must be rolling in his grave.

[Quantess]

23. Never gonna give you up. Never gonna give, never gonna give. Give you up

Sounds like she RickRolled them.

[PatSeg]

24. Don't these people ever go away?

Its like a bad horror film, they just keep coming back over and over and over again.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Galaxy Quest?

Never give up, never surrender? :rofl:

Teabaggers are a bunch of losers. Time for them to go away for good. :eyes:

[progressoid]

48. by Grabthar's hammer... by the Sons of Warvan... you shall be... avenged.

[Botany]

26. Why are these people being given so much coverage?

The crowd swelled to about 250 at the peak of the three-hour event but dropped to just
more than 100 by the time Angle spoke.

And from the looks of it >75% of the "crowd" are getting S.S. & Medicare ...... idiots being
used by the Koch Brothers, the insurance companies, and the republicans in cooperation
w/ a horse crap media.

[Faygo Kid]

30. +1. I don't get it either. My prediction: Her next gig is "Dancing With the Stars."

Puke.

[NBachers]

37. Maybe she'll show up on Celebrity Boxing

The absolute last stop- maybe it'll be Angle and Linda Tripp

[freshwest]

47. I still wouldn't watch... Where's that retching icon... Ah, there it is...

:puke:

[freshwest]

46. They put that freak Delay on there, why not her? GOP media at its most inane/insane.

[freshwest]

32. They were created by the GOP owned MSM, just keeping that brand recognition going.

[Botany]

34. Bingo!

One of their chief founders is Sal Russo and he has been working for the republicans
since 1966 and Ronald Reagan. The "Tea Party" was being formed in late summer of
2008 when it was plan to see that McCain was going to get beat and that W had made
the republican brand toxic.

[AlbertCat]

36. just keeping that brand recognition going.

It's already got way more absurd than any luxury car ad...

[AlbertCat]

33. 250 to 100

Cheesus! I've dressed more extras on the movie set at 4:00 AM! (I used to work in film)

Yeah... they speak for America alright... :eyes:


And AZ... listen up! Just because you guys live in dry desert, it doesn't mean we all want to. Taxes pay for many things I'd like to keep. Citizens MUST pay taxes (especially since corporations don't)

[surrealAmerican]

44. Such small numbers, and yet the article calls it a "crowd".

That's only a crowd if they're in an elevator.

[JEB]

39. Too lame

even for the baggers.

[truth2power]

40. Quest??

Traditionally, the quest involves a perilous journey filled with hardships and all-but insurmountable obstacles. One who undertakes such a task needs extraordinary courage and determination. Occasionally, the hero fails to achieve his or her goal.

Just sayin'. }(

[bucolic_frolic]

41. VOUCHERS = DEATH PANELS

But don't tell Sharron Angle ... she might sing some more!

[Paladin]

42. How's That "2nd Amendment Solutions" Thing Working For You, Angle? (n/t)

[NeoConsSuck]

49. Tea Party Message:

Fuck the poor, give me a much bigger piece of the pie, let the rich keep their pie, no cuts to the military. If they had a half brain, they'd realize the numbers don't add up.

[PassingFair]

50. Union guy, Tea Party guy & a CEO...

Union guy, Tea Party guy & a CEO have 12 cookies. CEO takes 11, then says to the Teabagger, "Watch out for union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie."

[peace frog]

51. Whole brain or half

they don't care if there are numbers or whether they do or don't add up, as long as their piece of the pie is safe.
"I got mine, you go get yours if you can. Tough shit if you can't, suckers, you're on your own."

[Heywood J]

52. "Supporters wore American flag T-shirts"

"Durr... flag code? What's that?"

Nothing like feverishly rubbing Old Glory into their pungent, sweaty armpits and around their nipples while working themselves into a froth.

[CoffeeCat]

53. Never gonna give, never gonna give...give you UP!

Sharonn Angle rick rolled the tea partiers!

[CatholicEdHead]

54. Why Vegas?

The state capital of Nevada is in Carson City where it logically should have been held. :crazy: Teabagger fail.

[left on green only]

55. "Sharon Angle channeled Winston Churchill"???????

Are you sure the person who she channeled wasn't her fellow right wing, brown shirt, Nazi leader, Adolph Hitler? After all, wasn't he the one who began the whole 'rich get richer, while the poor and the disenfranchised get genocide' movement?