Tea parties are going on across the nation..

[mystieus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf67btIVvNA&eurlfmt=18

Greenville SC Tea Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KViCpl1YYBA&fmt=18

The funny thing about this is the majority of these people will be getting a tax cut.

They rather pay more taxes under Bush then less under Obama...

[mwb970]

1. Since when is Greenville SC "the nation"?

Or are you thinking of the 400 that showed up in NYC? I think there is an upper limit to participation in such things. They've already just about reached it.

[AllentownJake]

3. Angry middle class WASP racist

I'm sure these people were questioning how much the war in Iraq was going to cost in 2003 or how much Medicare Part D was going to cost the American Tax Payer.

Nope their evangelical President was ordained by God so everything he did was ok.

[mystieus]

9. Fox link has more.

[depakid]

19. Fun facts about Greenville

Males have a median income of $35,111 versus $25,339 for females. The per capita income for the city was $23,242. About 12.2% of families and 16.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.7% of those under age 18 and 17.5% of those age 65 or over.

National average: The real median earnings of men who worked full time, year-round climbed between 2006 and 2007, from $43,460 to $45,113. For women, the corresponding increase was from $33,437 to $35,102.

[AllentownJake]

2. Where were these people in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008

Oh right they had one of "their own" a dominionist white evangelical Christian who wanted a new Crusade in office.

This is nothing more than a klan rally masked as a spending rally. These people are mad that the President is black.

[fasttense]

4. Republicons pretending they they are outraged over the average Joe getting a helping hand.

Just a bunch of racists and brooks brothers protesters.

[Hansel]

21. They're probably not pretending.

They have been fed a "magician's trick" stream of lies starting with Paul Harvey. It's the whole "slight of hand" strategy that has been in place since the Reagan years. Probably longer.

This is how you get the masses to swallow the crap they are fed whole cloth. The right (representing the wealthy who contribute to them) tell the working class that they will only get ahead if they work hard for the money. So they work hard. Then they tell them that the only reason they aren't getting ahead is because them losers over there (welfare queens, Blacks, Hispanics, Liberals, etc.) are spending all of the money you would get in tax breaks if they weren't leaching off of you. Now you have a whole population of people who will work for crap and who, instead of rightfully blaming the wealthy "right" for their pathetic lot in life, are blaming the lazy mooching scapegoats the wealthy have created for them.

The magician's slight of hand. They are always looking down--and hey, at least they aren't like "those people"--and never looking up. That is way the Rick Santelli rant timing was so important and clearly orchestrated and coordinated with wealthy backers. Even the right wing radio audience were getting smart enough to finally start looking up by blaming their demise on Wallstreet. They needed something to keep the sheeple looking down. Down on those losers who bought houses that they couldn't afford instead of up at the real cause--greedy and corrupt oinkers.

[Blue_Tires]

25. +1

[Maat]

27. You are so right.

Heck, we learned about this silly stuff (the propaganda techniques) in psychology school.

This is so sad.

[cherish44]

5. What? Don't these people have jobs????

WTF. While we HARD WORKING folks are out trying to make a living, they're out doing their little "protests". My tax money is paying for their damn megaphones, poster boards and magic markers I bet!! Dang anti-american vermin. Go back to ummmmm whatever place you came from!

[DoctorMyEyes]

6. Was just reading something interesting about these "tea parties"

Seems there's some indication that this is another astro-turfing propaganda move and as usual the morons/lemmings they call their base are falling right in line. Big money and experienced GOP operatives put this all in place last summer and used Santelli to launch their new project. Santelli should be called on to answer to this.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/02/rick-santellis-faux-rant/

[Numba6]

7. CNBC stagin them with Republican operatives, apparently

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/28/22947/5824/608/703150

&

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/28/202318/053/640/703118

[President Decider]

8. They always show rural parts of red states where it looks like people mate with farm animals

[spanone]

10. stupid is as stupid does

[lunatica]

11. We have an opportunity to rename them with a soundbite

Let's start calling them 'teabaggers'. Like, "Limpballs is a teabagger", or referring to them as the 'neo Limpball teabaggers' so we can distinguish them from the other neo crap labels as the special group that takes their cues from Rush. After all, he is their de facto leader no?

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Across the nation?

If South Carolina is the nation, are we talking about the Confederate nation or the United States of America?

[mystieus]

13. Yeah, they are having these in other states. Google news

[uberllama42]

14. Outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GliwiJVFvRE

I almost went down there, but I decided it wasn't worth the mental anguish to argue with freepers.

[PurityOfEssence]

15. OFF with their heads!!

Mad Hatters and raging would-be monarchs have an effete get-together with animals to shriek for the destruction of anything sensible.

They've truly found themselves.

[mystieus]

16. These people are scary stupid..

They will fight you to the end if you are a democrat or support Obama..

[lynne]

17. St. Louis, too -

- http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/1D9D9B78798122B28625756B00076A57?OpenDocument

[mystieus]

18. The comments on that page are spot on!

[bertman]

20. That guy with the "Get a Brain! Morans" sign is WAAYYY past his 15 minutes of fame.

[mystieus]

22. nah, he served his purpose here.

[bertman]

23. I know what you mean, mystieus, but every time I see that pic I feel like we're taking

advantage of the mentally handicapped. Over and over and over.


:rofl:

[sampsonblk]

24. Nothing but a Klan rally (nt)

[annabanana]

26. Big Fat Lie!. . RW Corporatists masquerading as grass roots activism..

They have been unmasked, exposed..