Tea party Madison live stream

[Pharaoh]

http://www.ustream.tv/cbsnews

[PeaceNikki]

1. Also here

http://www.channel3000.com/localvideo/index.html?v=live

[Pharaoh]

2. I see they have their

token black guy in the background :rofl: :popcorn:

[The Wielding Truth]

23. He spoke and seems to be enthusiastic about a cause that would deny him rights.

[stevedeshazer]

3. Ooooh!

:popcorn:

[sasha031]

4. any idea how big the crowd is for normal people

[OneAngryDemocrat]

5. A link for the counter-protest streaming live?

???

[murielm99]

6. I can only watch for two or three minutes at a time

without getting sick.

How big is the crowd? Are they outnumbered by counter protesters and portapotties?

[Pharaoh]

7. counter protesters are

kind of mixed in the crowd, not many the other side of the capital. Most of us have moved on to the court battle and recall campaigns.

[Greybnk48]

10. Yes, me too. I feel a bit guilty for not going though.

[murielm99]

12. I understand.

That is the important step now. Protests only go so far, whether or not the traditional media covers them. I have stopped caring whether or not they cover them. We are the media.

I expect the traditional media to be all over this pukefest going on today.

I have quite a bit of family north of the border. (I am about ninety minutes from Madison). Even the most involved of them don't have much info on what is happening with Kloppenburg at the moment. I do hope there is more going on behind the scenes than has been indicated.

I think you are going to need some real watchdogs out there for the recall elections. Get poll watchers and as many outside observers as you can. Stay within the law, but watch out for dirty deeds. They will do anything to stay in power.

[Shiver]

9. Two or three minutes?

I lasted about five seconds before I shut it off.

I could be down there right now, if I didn't have to work in half an hour... my parents are there, though, and not for the Tea Party.

[RKP5637]

8. What a bunch of F'en losers! n/t

[stevedeshazer]

11. They're freezing their asses off!

The minute it started, the wind picked up and it started snowing.

Some screecher at the podium compared them to Valley Forge.

"It was cold there too, so buck up!"

Pathetic.

[Pharaoh]

14. Devine intervention!

pretty f--king nasty out there for mid April :beer:

[iwishiwas]

28. yes, I was going to do yard work today until I woke up to SNOW!!

[louis-t]

31. Well, it's cold today so there is no global warming.

:eyes: Of course, it was all over CNN and MSNBC this morning. They didn't estimate crowd size or show any video of crowds.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. wow I was just about to ask for a stream link...thanks P cake

:fistbump:

[Pharaoh]

26. you bet cyn

:toast:

[Canuckistanian]

15. Who is this dweeb?

What a luser

[stevedeshazer]

17. I think it was that 'citizen journalist'

James O'Keefe! Be still my beating heart.

[Shagbark Hickory]

16. Still snowing there!!??!!

[Bozita]

20. It's a sign from God. He's welcoming Sarah Palin with the snow, wind and cold!!!ii

The crowd is HUGH!!!!!

And the speakers are truly inspiring!!!!!

[The Wielding Truth]

27. Palin's impending presence must explain the perfect insanity and irresponsible ignorance of this gro...

[ShockediSay]

58. It's all a Propaganda Front for Big Corporate$ Billionaires that don't want to pay taxes

Tea Potty and ESPECIALLY Palin. Compare hernet worth when she was Governor to now that sh's working for jCorporate Money Billionaires that don't want to pay taxes but would rather cut us down to nothing.

Big Government? Hell it's Big Corporate money Billiionaires that are running and ruining our lives and our nation.

[The Wielding Truth]

70. Why can't they see that they are being used to counter the common good?

It amazes me to hear them decry things that we have learned are good for us as a nation and as apart of a civil world.

[The Wielding Truth]

18. From what kind of alternate universe is this being streamed?

Fools and their humanity will soon be parted when their minds are washed with selfish fear.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

19. flub ffff brrr "the cold freezed my lips I can't talk"

[L. Coyote]

21. Let's just call it what it is, "The Bush Tea Party"

because they are following in his tracks so perfectly.

Plus, this faux rebranding/distancing of/from GOP/Bush needs to be foiled somehow before 2012.

[Shagbark Hickory]

22. These nutbags suck at making works make sense. nt

[iwishiwas]

24. "they even flew in a socialist,-Micheal Moore-on their behalf" the

speaker is saying. Well, they are flying in Palin.

[Pharaoh]

29. Moore flew himself in on a whim

It was not planned, it was spontaneous

[The Wielding Truth]

42. He flew himself in because of his pride in the citizens who were fighting Walker's

tyrannical moves. He said that he wanted to read a letter that he had written in person to the people who were there in Wisconsin. You are right and these fools are lying and distorting again. I am so sick of their world of "not meant to be factual" speak.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

25. I see they gave their 1 and only brother a very highly visual spot to introduce everyone

[ElsewheresDaughter]

30. what a duchebag "Wendy will you marry me"...WTF?!?

[iwishiwas]

32. The speaker just proposed to a Wendy.

[Pharaoh]

33. Blizzard?

:rofl:

obviously he has no clue what a blizzard looks like.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

34. she is a LIAR about her fire fighter friend who "just called to say he quit his Union" WHAT"S HIS..

NAME????

[iwishiwas]

37. Bet she will not say his name!!

[Bozita]

35. Pets are threatened with brutality?

The thuggery!!!!!!

[iwishiwas]

36. The idiots-they stole the "what does democracy look like?" -that was and IS

the Progressive chant. Shame on them.

[The Wielding Truth]

63. Not only that but this is not "what democracy looks like"! This is what

the hidden precursors of KKK lynch mobs,witch hunts and Nazi rallies look like.Sweet and covertly simple foolish isolationists motivated by fear cultured and used by those who lust for greed and power.

I used to wonder how the atrocities of our world could have ever come to pass. Now I see how many, well
meaning, willing people can be lead without reason to relish in their commitment.

[iwishiwas]

38. Saying he met the next quest on the Fox set-an expert in voting FRAUD.

[iwishiwas]

40. John Fund is his name.

[starroute]

75. Fund has been pushing the voter fraud crap since the 1990's

Fund is one of the notorious Wall Street Journal editorial page conservatives. He's also been involved with the Collegiate Network, which was one of the groups backing James O'Keefe's early ventures.

Fund wrote a book called "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy" that was published in September 2004 -- and heavily promoted on cable networks -- just when the GOP was starting to beat that drum particularly hard. He was then among those pushing the charge that ACORN had been involved in voter fraud, starting in 2006.

According to a study available in pdf form at http://departments.oxy.edu/uepi/acornstudy/acornstudy.pdf:

The beginning of the narrative framing for this particular ACORN news story began in 2006, when Republican candidates and operatives began accusing ACORN of a variety of economic and political wrongdoings, including widespread “voter fraud,” and later, triggering the housing meltdown and economic crisis because of its support for mortgages for working class homebuyers and the Community Reinvestment Act. These criticisms of ACORN were then repeated by what has been called the conservative “echo chamber” – publications like the Weekly Standard, American Spectator, and National Review, radio talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, newspaper columnists like John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, and Fox News Channel pundits like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, as well as conservative websites and bloggers. . . .

By 2008, the conservatives and Republicans, as they attempted to bring the campaign against ACORN to a much wider audience, had laid a solid trail for the mainstream news media to follow. Perhaps the greatest evidence of the intentions of conservatives/Republicans was the transformation of John Fund’s book, Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy. Fund, an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal and ghostwriter of Rush Limbaugh’s 1993 book The Way Things Ought to Be, made absolutely no mention of ACORN in his first edition of the book in 2004. But, by the release of the revised edition of Stealing Elections in July 2008, the target had changed. Fund included two new chapters demonizing ACORN, including one whose title reflected Malkin’s approach a year earlier and foreshadowed the Republican’s new campaign strategy: “Barack Obama and ACORN: Perfect Together.” . . .

At the Wall Street Journal, six months after the presidential election, editorial writer John Fund continued to level the same charges at ACORN, and added a note of conspiracy: “Washington Democrats are still sweeping Acorn abuses under a rug.”

[stevedeshazer]

39. John Freaking Fund??

Wow.

:rofl:

[iwishiwas]

41. Walker and his Repug poodles in the assembly will get rid of same day

voter registration and require a photo ID in WI. Soon.

Damm!!

[stevedeshazer]

43. Andrew Breitbart

The clown car just rolled up and 27 clowns just got out.

[butterfly77]

59. Any video ...

of any of what is going on?Not Palin in the surrounding areas..

[iwishiwas]

44. Speaker just said GO TO HELL several times (to progressives).

[Sky Masterson]

45. Palin coming up in a sec

:puke:

[stevedeshazer]

46. Here comes Moosellini!

[iwishiwas]

47. Palin on stage now.

[CatholicEdHead]

51. Yep, watching it now

:puke: comparing Union Solidarity to Tea Party Solidarity. :crazy:

[Pharaoh]

48. Screeeech!

I don't know how much I can take of her!

[tridim]

49. Squaaaaaaawk!

[iwishiwas]

50. She is bragging on Walker but I read that Walker will not appear today. ha ha.

[iwishiwas]

52. Just turned on Fox TV--they are not showing Palin or the rally.

[CatholicEdHead]

54. Yep, I just checked that too

You would think that Fox would be all over this.

[iwishiwas]

72. Odd to say the least.

[stevedeshazer]

53. She's having to screech over the counter-demonstrators

There's a few hundred teabaggers, but at least as many of us on the periphery.

[Beaverhausen]

55. oh my god that voice!

[tridim]

61. She sounds exactly like "The most annoying sound in the world" from Dumb and Dumber.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVlTeIATBs

[Beaverhausen]

56. "we're here, we're clear, get used to it?" Is she a Scientologist?

[Pharaoh]

57. Wonder if the AFP

paid Palin to be there?

Anyone know?

[CatholicEdHead]

60. Probably, she will not speak without all expenses paid

and a healthy speaking fee. Her speech seems to be throw everything at the wall and see what sticks, it is extremely random wandering.

[Brother Buzz]

66. Inquiring minds want to know if she get her promised bendy straw?

:rofl:

[NYC Liberal]

62. "You got us into a war for fuzzy and inconsistent reasons" --Actual quote...OMFG.

Are right wingers genetically incapable of recognizing irony?

[Pharaoh]

64. Very difficult to hear Palin as crowd chants "Scott Walker has got to go"

http://plixi.com/p/93043257

[iwishiwas]

65. They just zoomed out. Lots of people that I can see but really not

able to get a view of the whole.

[ejbrush]

67. Just got back from the Capitol here,

have to be in Chicago at 5:00 for the nephew's b-day party... So we left before "that woman" stood up to mangle the English Language.

Fear not, my estimate from ground level was that the TeaBaggers were outnumbered probably 5:1. My guess would be 400 or so showed up. From what I can see, the livestream camera is probably halfway between the podium and the street behind. I assure everyone on DU that there are about 2000+ of us behind and surrounding the enclave of dumbosity. Lots of pro-union, pro-worker, pro-sanity peoply intermingled with the tea-partiers as well.

Don't believe the TV. They had a pathetic turnout.

Ed

[Beaverhausen]

68. excellent!

[iwishiwas]

73. Thanks for the memo.

[CatholicEdHead]

71. Good to know that

Even if the media tries to show a huge turnout they are vastly outnumbered by normal working people. Thank you to everyone who showed up to counter-demonstrate peacefully, union and non-union members alike.

[The Wielding Truth]

74. 400 is pitiful. That is comforting. Maybe this country can regain reason.

[CatholicEdHead]

69. They also cut out as some radical right country song started

He got as far as taking out the Ten Commandments and some flag disrespect nonsense. It is apparently on the radio somewhere. They probably cut for copyright reasons. What they did show was extremely radical to the right.