"As an inactivist, the amateurishness of the (teabagging) protests is something to take pride in"

[jefferson_dem]

So says Jonah Goldberg. Not sure if he kept a straight face when he did.

Lord. Is this what it's come to? Teabagapalooza was so good because it was so bad? Honestly, I'm starting to feel embarassed for these clowns.

The interesting question for me is whether the mainstream press understands any of this. Last week, I did a lot of TV about the tea parties and talked to a lot of professional reporters and liberals and read up on this stuff more than I normally would. It seems to me that there's a lot of confusion out there. Some folks clearly think the tea parties are a GOP ploy, and therefore mockable as astroturfy faux populism. Others think it was real right-wing populism and therefore very scary and racist (see Janeanine Garofalo for some very highly distilled idiocy on this point). But what you don't hear much from critics of the tea parties is any acknowledgement that most of the major rallies and protests from left-wing groups over the last few decades have been mostly orchestrated affairs by Democratic-affiliated groups and very professional protesters. In other words, whether they believed the tea parties were real or fake, there seemed to be an undercurrent of scorn stemming merely from the fact that conservatives haven't polished their act nearly so well as the Left has.

As an inactivist, I think the amateurishness of the protests is something to take pride in. Protesting isn't supposed to be a way of life.

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[Hello_Kitty]

1. Professional protesters?

:wtf:

[Solomon]

2. This what you call making lemonade out of dried out

lemon rinds

Purse out of a sow's ear.

Lipstick on a pig.

[jefferson_dem]

5. Aside from their dark souls, they are also an absolutely pitiful lot of losers.

It's like they are relegated to making crude self comparisons to the "so ugly he's cute" hairless cat.

[dalaigh lllama]

3. I believe the scorn was twofold

A) that they chose "teabagging" as their battle cry
B) that Faux was a major sponsor

The scorn of the idiocy of their blathering about being overtaxed was simply icing.

[Turbineguy]

4. Don't leave out

the stupid comments some made. That something you can take pride in too.

[NYC_SKP]

6. The "amateurishness" of these events made them seem more "grassrootsish", and...

...serve to hide the highly organized efforts behind them.

:patriot: