Newest source of left’s pretend fear/outrage: Tea parties
posted at 5:03 pm on April 10, 2009 by Allahpundit
Link via Ace, who seems willing to believe the fear is genuine. Maybe that’s true for the dimmer bulbs among them but for most I’m sure this is standard calculated faux-horror designed to frame the event as suspect, illegitimate, and otherwise unsuitable for mainstream political consumption. Kind of like how Olbermann is forever referring to the “far right” or the “fringe right.” For people who claim to object so profoundly to the politics of fear, they sure are good at it.
Anyway, Legal Insurrection previews the tedious, inevitable nutroots reaction to next week’s rallies:
The Huffington Post is organizing “citizen journalists” to attend the protests, allegedly to “report.” Which means that they will try to find someone in a crowd who says something stupid, will post it on the internet, and build an argument around it trying to demonize the movement. And left-wing bloggers will react in unison like dogs responding to a whistle, about the “dangerous” and “violent” and “racist” tea parties. This tactic is as old as time; or at least as old as the internet.
Follow the link to Ace up top for the latest on the scourge of insidious “anti-Obama activities” that are destroying our country from within. Meanwhile, here’s a video — swiped from a different post of Ace’s — by Andrew Klavan, the guy responsible for the Limbaugh challenge. I don’t know what made me think of adding it to a post about fake liberal outrage.
Update: The boss was all over this days ago:
It’s already happened once before — at the Denver anti-porkulus rally last month, when the Media Matters/Daily Kos crowd shifted media attention away from the policy message by manufacturing fake outrage about some stunt-puller who showed up with a sign comparing Obama to Hitler that I didn’t see and asked for a picture. The local newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, took the bait…
As Beckel signaled, leftists are going to use fear-mongering to paint mainstream taxpayers who believe in the Second Amendment, the Constitution, limited government, low taxes, and fiscal responsibility as fringe wackos. They have already exploited the Binghamton and Pittsburgh shooting sprees for political gain. They have no shame. Be prepared. Confront them with their own rank hypocrisy and unhingedness. Don’t get distracted. And don’t let your local media get away with lazily recycling their smears.
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How long has Boortz been pushing the whole FairTax business? He can’t see the forest for the trees!
Many people have pushed several alternatives to the taxation system we have in place now, and the whole “tea party” phenomenon dovetails nicely with Boortz’s agenda.
He’s no liberal, but I think Boortz is simply a little skittish about being lumped in with a movement that is seen as “angry,” and ergo directionless.
Grow a pair, Neal! In the American people want the same things you do!
gryphon202 on April 10, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Steve:
Well yes, of course.
Terrye on April 10, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Maybe you guys could zero your scopes shooting some ACORN’s? /s
Terribly jealous…here in Ohio and you out in God’s Country. Been years, I mean a lot of years, since I’ve been out that way.
coldwarrior on April 10, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Maybe it is better if the movement is not real focused right now.
Terrye on April 10, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Principles first…then personalities second. Trying to force focus prematurely can sideline everything in short order.
coldwarrior on April 10, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Not much has changed through the years coldwarrior. You’d probably recognize just about everything with the exception of Bozeman and Missoula, which have modernized. Wide open country in every direction; fabulous hunting and fishing; great family oriented folks.
In fact, the people here have pretty darn good survival instincts. Which would explain the sudden removal of anything OBAMA…
Keemo on April 10, 2009 at 9:08 PM
coldwarrior:
I agree completely.
Terrye on April 10, 2009 at 9:08 PM
I keep searching the CBO’s site for numbers on the program and from what I can tell – as you noted – the costs so far are coming in under the projected costs.
Now, maybe they’ll explode in the next decade(s), but I have a hard time believing that the program by itself will have a $32 trillion shortage. Over what period?
We know that Medicare and SS – minus the prescription program – are tens of trillions short of full funding over the next half century. I’ve seen numbers from $40 to $80 trillion.
We’ve got huge debt problems and everyone – right left and center – have contributed to it.
Except you and me.
SteveMG on April 10, 2009 at 9:13 PM
coldwarrior:
My wife and son just came up from the river (Yellowstone) with some fresh rainbow’s for supper. My job is to clean those babies up and get em on the grill.
Gotta love the opportunities America has provided for us my friend. Following 37 years of dedicated hard work, my wife and I have settled in on a nice piece of land with the river 100′ from our front door. I dreamed of this day most of my life. I’ll be damned if my sons don’t have the same opportunities brave heroes like yourself have fought so hard to maintain for the generations that follow.
April 15th folks, let your voices be heard!
Keemo on April 10, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Please, all the retards with monkey posters/puppets/tshirts, stay home or leave them behind.
Speedwagon82 on April 10, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Well said.
This well-armed Christianist will join a tea party, too.
BTW, this is an excellent post by AP. Since I’m free with criticism went AP sucks, he deserves my compliments when he has a moment.
Right_of_Attila on April 10, 2009 at 9:28 PM
expect the same coverage we saw about Palin rallies.
rob verdi on April 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM
I WILL NOT BE SILENCED!!
I WILL NOT SHUT UP!!
nolapol on April 10, 2009 at 9:31 PM
OT
Is AP or Ed going to live blog the 8:00 pm show titled “The Turin Shroud: New Evidence” when it airs on Saturday?
Right_of_Attila on April 10, 2009 at 9:34 PM
I wish we could have honor & integrity in DC,
Keemo on April 10, 2009 at 8:28 PM
TERM LIMITS
Citizen legislaters with real world experience rather than career, federal government tit sucking, maggots that have rigged the system to where we can’t even unelect a senile old clansman or murdering drunken driver with 1/2 a brain.
Palin/Plumber2012
Tea Parties!
dhunter on April 10, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Hasn’t the Court already ruled on term limits? I seem to remember they have but regardless it has always been within our power to term limit Congress. Obviously it would be easier if there was a law but the voters can do it anytime. Getting them to agree on the proper length of a term would probably be interesting.
Cindy Munford on April 10, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Has anyone checked where will their Faux Outrage Be reported? The Ratings for the Cable News channels except for Fox are down…Network News old people watch Network News…so Print which Newspapers still in Print are going to cover Nationwide Tea Partys has anyone taken a look at the map lately.
Meanwhile look at the critique of all the Tea Party people, from the so called Democratic Patriots, remember Dissent is Patriotic…well no not in this case, average regular Americans are just misguided…it is an intellectual exercise above our understanding:)
http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/
Dr Evil on April 10, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Remember Dissent is Patriotic If they are making these noises they are really worried and they should be.
Dr Evil on April 10, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Here we go, I warned my wife a few days ago that the Move on storm troopers were going to show up at the rallies hoisting racist signs and trying to act like they are part of the crowd. Their willing accomplices in the liberal media will be clued in and snap their pictures for the evening news proclaiming that the tea partyers are a bunch of racist rednecks in order to kill the movement.
Mark my words folks, this will happen.
But I will still be at the tea party in Conroe.
conservnut on April 10, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Cindy Munford on April 10, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Its not within our power to term limit the career pols, both parties have jerrymandered districts and set up the rules and fund raising, not to mention earmarking to make it extraordinary that a Senator or Congressman be removed. There are simply put too many voters who do not pay attention and keep voting the same maggots back in.
A cleansing is in order then Term Limits, if 8 years is enough for a President then its enough for a Congress Critter or Senate Scum.
I don’t see how a court can reconcile Term Limits for POTUS but not for the above mentioned weasels.
“From time to time the tree of liberty must be nourished with the blood of tyrannts”
dhunter on April 10, 2009 at 10:12 PM
It’s estimated that there are fifty seven pink unicorns in bathroom, and it’s terribly hard to refute my claim since I’m not going to tell you who did the estimation or why they came to the conclusion that they did.
thuja on April 10, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Hey, I am proudly far right wing. I don’t understand people who are moderate or in the middle. I see things in black or white. We have spent a $1000 on plane tickets, hotel rooms and other to go to the DC tea party. I feel that we have to stand up and have our voices heard. My husband and dad can think we are insane and say we are going to get arrested, but I don’t care. You have to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything, to quote Aaron Tippen.
TXMomof3 on April 10, 2009 at 10:17 PM
I think it’s great. Finally a little fly in the lefty ointment. And they will do everything they can to taint it, marginalize it and then demonize it. Welcome to America 2009.
Is it big money? Is it ideology that drives the left? I don’t know. What I do know is Government is positioned to grow even larger (is that possible) and us in FlyOver Country (and forgive me the SOUTH) could give a rats a%% what anyone in NY, CA or DC think is good for the Country.
My opinion is, the Tea Party’s mission is telling our Government to get back to the basics and get back to representing the people that voted for them. It’s not about Obama. It’s not about Hitler. It’s not about Beck or the MSM. It’s about us lowly little taxpayers that are NOT happy about what our Government is doing and letting them know it, in peaceful assembly without the theatrical bullsh*t. It’s called honest dissent. From the heart. For our Children’s Sake.
This is America right? Organizing and assembling in still legal right?
Face it. Where the Country is being led makes a bunch of people like me want to scream. Let us be heard. And let the left do what they do, as they are expert at it. Don’t let it scare you into not showing up. It’s called Courage. We are decent, law abiding people who care.
I think it’s fabulous and will be attending in Trussville, AL. My sign will read “STOP THE MADNESS”.
They are spending us into oblivion. That is a non-partisan statement.
seesalrun on April 10, 2009 at 10:23 PM
seesalrun I am with you.
TXMomof3 on April 10, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Dude, that’s the base. You guys are nothing without your loser racists. It’s like telling a dog not to sniff another dog’s butt. Ain’t gonna happen.
capitulus on April 10, 2009 at 10:28 PM
And Texas Mom of 3, I am AL Mom of 3 and I hate what is happening to my Country and will do everything in my power to protect my Family and My Country. Period. The Tea Party’s are the first of many opportunities for us, the Silent Majority to show our muscle, for it is US that is the Economic Engine that makes this Country run. I fear it’s the very thing they want to destroy and I will not go silently into the night.
No way.
seesalrun on April 10, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Whether the left is scared or not doesn’t change the fact that they will probably send in their Brown Shirts and ACORN renta mobs to try and derail these Tea Parties. Along with firing up their Mainstream Media and blog sphere Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda to try and marginalise and skew the public perception of these events.
Dreadnought223 on April 10, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Well, leave it to a libtard to be an expert on butt sniffing.
conservnut on April 10, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Sorry, but you guys lost -badly. Trussville is screwed.
capitulus on April 10, 2009 at 10:37 PM
And in a lighter note, the trolls are much uglier and are quite emotional on this subject. The personal attack verbiage is repeated on many other sites with little or no change. Maybe they are working overtime on reduced budgets? A little cut and paste, huh fellows?
A happy sign for true Americans. Getting a little nervous I reckon.
I will sleep better tonight.
seesalrun on April 10, 2009 at 10:40 PM
That’s because they are all a bunch of little Brown shirted sock puppets spewing forth the ideological dogma of their political overlords and sugar daddies.
Dreadnought223 on April 10, 2009 at 10:47 PM
simpler…. its because they are worried…
2/3rds of Americans… poll after poll… say they want SMALLER Government.
These trolls do NOT want Americans who are Fiscal Cons to organize…. or they would not be so vocal… or personal..
Romeo13 on April 10, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Good, then you’ll have no problem taking responsibility and paying the bill for the excessive debt you create because you won. You are as stupid as advertised.
jdkchem on April 10, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Huh? How the heck do you come up with this?
The “dimmer bulbs”? They are all dim on the left. Don’t you listen to them? They are legitimately scared, because the left is always scared of the truth leaking out.
There’s no doubt that they are trying to discredit this movement, but that has nothing to do with the real fear that the traitorous left has with people speaking their minds and filling in the truth for the public.
I guess you think that Fairness Doctrine isn’t motivated by the left’s fear of the truth, either?
Allah, sometimes I really wonder about your thinking … and it’s getting to be much more often.
progressoverpeace on April 10, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Dreadnought223 on April 10, 2009 at 10:47 PM
And soon enough the sugar they expect will be the vinegar they can’t swallow with their $12 a loaf bread.
I find no comfort in that truth, but there it is.
Plant your gardens Patriots. It’s Spring.
seesalrun on April 10, 2009 at 11:07 PM
And this my friend is where faith comes in. They will & probably succeed, but for you just BEING THERE and CONTRIBUTING TO THE WORTHY CAUSE makes it more likely they will fail long term.
As they count the chickens, and acorns, and who the hell knows who else, We have to lay the eggs, sow the seeds, and teach our Children. I have to believe the good always beats evil. And if we sit home and let Government run us over – we have no excuse. None.
seesalrun on April 10, 2009 at 11:13 PM
What craptaculus et al are too ignorant to grasp is that in addition to the mid-term elections there is this wonderful tool built into the Constitution give us lowly fly-over peasants the right to recall our representatives if we feel they suck. Imagine a recall of every senator and representative who voted for porkulus and president pantywaist’s budget.
What crapulus et al fail to grasp is there is this form called a w-4 and all I have to do is note on the form that I owed no taxes and do not expect to owe taxes and no federal taxes are deducted from my paycheck. What are president pantywaist and congress going to do when the revenue stops coming in?
Crapy, when you and joe lyin’ biden enlist then you can tell me about patriotism. Until then SHUT UP
jdkchem on April 10, 2009 at 11:14 PM
If you put down your pitchfork and noose and thought about that you’d realize that the IRS has computers that match income with withholding and what you owe. In fact, since you file a w-4, you work for someone who does your payroll withholding. They’re taking out money whether you like it or not, cowboy. And anything they don’t get on the front end, they’ll get on the back.
But please continue with your little fantasy. You’re dopey but entertaining.
capitulus on April 10, 2009 at 11:22 PM
To put it in terms even you might be able to understand: If Bush spent like a drunken “sailer,” then Obama is the entire Navy taking over every distillery on the planet.
Jim Treacher on April 10, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Hey now…. even us drunken sailors don’t spend our KIDS money…
Romeo13 on April 10, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Give me your money. I’m going to put it towards lobster research and pig stink or something….
You’re a joke, even for a moron statist troll.
leetpriest on April 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM
To those who believe in the false left-right paradigm…
SHUT THEE THE HELL UP!
BobAnthony on April 10, 2009 at 11:50 PM
Heh. There is serious dread in the lefty world over this.
Vashta.Nerada on April 10, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Are you kidding? The left is the collectivist/tribal side and the right is the individualistic side. That is the basic scale. This is a major distinction and spells the basic difference between the US (in pre-Precedent days, at least) and the rest of the world.
progressoverpeace on April 10, 2009 at 11:58 PM
It’s hard to shake individualism… look at how the kidnapped captain still fights. You know the French probably put up no resistance…
Upstater85 on April 11, 2009 at 12:01 AM
progressoverpeace on April 10, 2009 at 11:58 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever seen it explained more simply. Can I quote you with your permission?
That was brilliant. Something I would expect from VDH or…
Bravo.
seesalrun on April 11, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Perhaps too you or I should send THAT to the RNC and I am not kidding.
seesalrun on April 11, 2009 at 12:05 AM
That’s true, but individualists have had the US as the one and only nation that supports them and stands for them. If the US goes (and I’m hoping that the US will wake from this mass hysteria soon) individualists will have nowhere left and no one supporting them, unless some other nation figures out what had made the US so successful and decides to copy it. But the structure of most cultures seems to preclude this.
Thanks for the kind words. Quote it at your pleasure, please. It’s only important that the idea spread.
progressoverpeace on April 11, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Keemo, Terre, you make me blush! I was 21 at the time, full of piss and Vinegar. I was in Crack rifle and threw that damn thing so much I grew determined to master it. Never grew to like the AR. I have an M1A that I built up over the years and it shoots about 3/4 to 1/2 MOA. I use a Springfield Armory scope and a Mcmillian stock. The secret of the M1A is a Krieger barrel and getting a good bed on the rifle. I would clean, shoot for sight, wipe the bore then shoot one fouling shot. The egg shot was a stunt, but fun. Having trained to shoot humans (Communists even!), I never got into hunting, just paper. Teach Combat handgun and raise my (4) boys, with only two left at home. Make money in Commercial Real Estate.
.
Be honored to cover your 6 if thing get rough. I live in Washington State.
GunRunner on April 11, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Just so yo know, you are one of the dimmer bulbs on the right.
crr6 on April 11, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Why don’t you just call him a poopie head? If we had said this to you, what would your response be? “Sticks and stones…”
Upstater85 on April 11, 2009 at 12:32 AM
What makes you think crr6 is capable of such flights of intellect?
Jim Treacher on April 11, 2009 at 12:39 AM
Says the perpetual one-sentence poster. Succeed at constructing a paragraph and then get back to me.
crr6 on April 11, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Can’t understand you. The little balls of shit that roll out of your mouth make it impossible to understand a word you say.
csdeven on April 11, 2009 at 12:49 AM
Wow, 2 sentences. Oh, I only wrote 1, I mean 2. Uh Oh, now 3…
Upstater85 on April 11, 2009 at 12:51 AM
And we proceed by induction.
Upstater85 on April 11, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Cranky!
Jim Treacher on April 11, 2009 at 12:54 AM
He hasn’t made enough posts for HuffPo to let him write an OpEd. There, 2 sentences.
Upstater85 on April 11, 2009 at 12:57 AM
The typical liberal posters do the following.
1. Insult the poster, because they have no counter argument
2. Change the subject, because they have no counter argument
3. Post and run, because they have no counter argument
Beginning to see the pattern?
Go ahead trolls, tell me why it’s so great that Obama has us trillions in debt, can’t beat 4 pirates in a lifeboat, watches the North Koreans shoot missiles like he’s at a fireworks display, bows to a Muslim king, hires tax dodgers to run the IRS, etc etc etc. I can’t wait to hear your coherent liberal counter argument.
gordo on April 11, 2009 at 12:59 AM
LOL epic fail. Go ahead, try again sweetie.
Saul Alinsky quotes don’t count.
crr6 on April 11, 2009 at 1:02 AM
For one, the welfare checks get sent to their houses because they can’t possibly leave their computer while trolling for Teh One… O is a thoughtful overlord…
Upstater85 on April 11, 2009 at 1:03 AM
Actually it’s Wall Street and China that make this economy run.
True_King on April 11, 2009 at 1:10 AM
Who?
Jim Treacher on April 11, 2009 at 1:11 AM
And that’s a REAL insult, coming from one of the dimmer bulbs on the left.
AUINSC on April 11, 2009 at 1:14 AM
She was horrible. First, she said we shouldn’t be protesting something after-the-fact – because, you know, what good does that do? Then, she complained that we were protesting something that hasn’t even happened yet.
All with that smug, lefty smile. She was an idiot.
capitalist piglet on April 11, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Guess she hasn’t heard about the next swindleus bill, or the national healthcare scheme, or the cap and trade boondoggle, or the military emasculation plan, or the obama private army, or, or, or……..
gordo on April 11, 2009 at 1:49 AM
I’ll be at my local tea party with my U.S. flag flying proud!
Yakko77 on April 11, 2009 at 2:07 AM
“The overall projected cost of the drug benefit is $117 billion lower over the next ten years than was estimated last summer due to the slowing of drug cost trends, lower estimates of plan spending and higher rebates from drug manufacturers. Compared to original Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) projections, the net Medicare cost of the new drug benefit is $243.7 billion (or 38.5 percent) lower over the ten- year period (2004-2013) used to score the MMA.”
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/press/release.asp?Counter=2868&intNumPerPage=10&checkDate=&checkKey=2&srchType=2&numDays=0&srchOpt=0&srchData=part+d&keywordType=All&chkNewsType=1%2C+2%2C+3%2C+4%2C+5&intPage=&showAll=1&pYear=&year=0&desc=&cboOrder=date
“The new Medicare prescription drug benefit will cost more than $720 billion over its first 10 years, with costs reaching $100 billion annually by 2015, according to new estimates released Tuesday by…”
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/19864.php
“The recently enacted Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) contains many provisions that affect the Medicare program specifically and the U.S. health sector more generally. CBO estimated that, on net, the Medicare drug benefit would increase mandatory outlays by $407 billion for fiscal years 2004 to 2013 and would raise federal revenues by $7 billion over that period. IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY, DELIVERY OR PRACTICE: The overall effect of the assumptions on drug spending as well as the major sources of uncertainty surrounding CBOs cost estimate will also be discussed.”
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=103623321.html
“During five months of legislative debate, the Bush administration concealed its own projections that the legislation would actually cost between $500 billion and $600 billion.”
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3700
Anyway, there were plenty more to choose from, but I was trying to stick to those that had higher numbers. None even approached a trillion dollars though. Can’t imagine where 32 trillion came from. That is some embellishment on the most collosal scale I’ve ever seen.
However, this is still part of the overall problem. Enough is enough. It was unacceptable then, and you better believe the dwarfing of those numbers (across the board) are unacceptable now. Times have been rough financially for most. Our collective belts have been tightened. We all have our breaking points.
Our government? It is increasing exponentially during this rough patch. I’m sure even you would recognize that you can never spend your way out of debt. This is insane and our government is out of control.
This is what these tea parties are all about.
anuts on April 11, 2009 at 2:08 AM
The problem is what’s showing up at these Tea Parties, like the Birthers, again believing the bullshit about the birth certificate. I’m sure they are the same crew who believed Sarah Palin was filled with the Holy Spirit.
It’s a very Far Right Truther Extravaganza which is most unfortunate.
AprilOrit on April 11, 2009 at 2:08 AM
One should not let fringe opportunists define a moment.
anuts on April 11, 2009 at 2:12 AM
So stay home.
Jim Treacher on April 11, 2009 at 2:15 AM
Yada yada, yeah yeah, we’re too extreme for you… Same old record.
Upstater85 on April 11, 2009 at 2:23 AM
LOL. But, you’re right. I’d like a pro, next time. crr6 is like the Joe Biden of lefty commenters.
progressoverpeace on April 11, 2009 at 3:11 AM
I really like this video- but if you showed this to a liberal, and and told them how much you really liked this video- they would of course just say: SHUT-UP!
8-track-vinyl on April 11, 2009 at 3:21 AM
Wow, those tolerant Democrats are REALLY scared of dissent. They’re practically wetting themselves over it.
Too bad they’ve turned the MSM into a bigoted good-old-boys club to protect them, because without that shield to cover their constant dishonesty they’d be nothing but screaming cranks on street corners. Drip drip.
Merovign on April 11, 2009 at 3:57 AM
I see Obama now has his (not yet offical) GESTAPO.
Penguin on April 11, 2009 at 4:05 AM
This guy is awesome.
Black Adam on April 11, 2009 at 4:46 AM
I am going to the tea party in Denver, to stand up and speak out.
darktood on April 11, 2009 at 6:13 AM
If it is a leftist cause they often report the protest when 5-10 people are protesting.
These protests have a lot more people and are all over the country.
Jamson64 on April 11, 2009 at 7:51 AM
Fifty-seven you say? Why, that’s one for each state!
BKennedy on April 11, 2009 at 7:52 AM
BKennedy on April 11, 2009 at 7:52 AM
Funny how nutter Liberal Commies are all stuck on the number 57.
Keemo on April 11, 2009 at 8:37 AM
I look forward to the surly, unwashed mobs putting down their tillers, leaving the fields and joining together in a show of redneck rage. The youtube videos will be priceless. I miss those Palin rally cretins.
In the words of your heroic male cheerleader – Bring Em On!
capitulus on April 11, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Message to all trolls… April 15th we will engage in civil protest across this great nation. Yes, we protest big brother socialists such as Obama & Pelosi. Yes, we will stand up for the Democracy called America.
This day we protest the socialist policies of this President and his band of radicals in Congress. On another day we will demand his removal from office, as this President will certainly fail to uphold the constitution. This President is a Narcissist, and will not be capable of living within the boundaries of our laws. This President see’s himself as something far greater than simply the potus. We have see these men before, as historians have written many books & film makers have created many films about these men. This man is his own religion, a legend in his own mind, a gift to the world.
The day will come when this man will meet with reality. The American Constitution & Bill of Rights are greater than any one man; any one group of people. The deck has been stacked, this we realize. As can be seen with the fall of the print media, Americans stumble & fall, but we get it right in the end.
Amnesty and the illegal invasion of America just might be the straw that breaks the donkeys back…
Keemo on April 11, 2009 at 8:56 AM
O.K., we will…
Keemo on April 11, 2009 at 8:57 AM
From The Telegraph, via Free Republic:
President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow.
You name it, he blew it. What was his big deal economic programme that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit? Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and co-ordinated. Did he achieve it? Not so as you’d notice.
Barack is not the first New World ingenue to discover that European leaders will load him with praise, struggle sycophantically to be photographed with him and outdo him in Utopian rhetoric. But when it comes to the critical moment of opening their wallets – suddenly it is flag-day in Aberdeen. Okay, put the G20 down to inexperience, beginner’s nerves, what you will.
On to Nato and the next big objective: to persuade the same European evasion experts that America, Britain and Canada should no longer bear the brunt of the Afghan struggle virtually unassisted. The Old World sucked through its teeth, said that was asking a lot – but, seeing it was Barack, to whom they could refuse nothing, they would graciously accede to his wishes.
So The One retired triumphant, having secured a massive contribution of 5,000 extra troops – all of them non-combatant, of course – which must really have put the wind up the Taliban, at the prospect of 5,000 more infidel cooks and bottle-washers swarming into the less hazardous regions of Afghanistan.
Keemo on April 11, 2009 at 9:10 AM
While the American press corps tell us how Obama took Europe by storm; how Europe fell in love with Michelle; how Obama’s first world tour was a huge success…. The rest of the world is laughing their asses off. The guys a rookie who’s in way over his head; at our peril…
Keemo on April 11, 2009 at 9:12 AM
http://www.threeifbygovernment.com/site/Articles/Entries/2009/3/28_Twelve_Articles_of_Defense.html
This is excellent. It takes a while to download, but it serves as a template of American conservative Constitutional values.
The ideals of Thomas Jefferson and all of the founding patriots will be our rallying point on April 15. It is time for us patriots to stand and be counted.
onlineanalyst on April 11, 2009 at 9:17 AM
progressives’ attitude to non-progressive dissent has always been to kill it with lies.
a progressive blog, which i will neither name nor link*, responded to the gathering of eagles effort to protect the vietnam memorial from further defacement during the semi-annual, march 2007 “antiwar” protest by comparing pro-mission, pro-troop veterans to the proto-nazi freikorps, and their message to the rhetoric of “doltcshtoss” (stabbed in the back) associated with interwar discontent amongst germans.
the blog further sought to dispute the fact that the gathering of eagles attracted upwards of thirty thousand participants, according to an unofficial estimate cited to the organizers by the dc park district based on these two flimsy counter-claims:
1) the park district doesn’t issue official crowd estimates. which, indeed they don’t – by order of democrat congressmembers aiming to protect the self-esteem of the organizers of the million man march. which is why the figure was cited as an “unofficial” estimate.
2) the attempt to “prove” that thirty thousand could not have attended consisted of going to one of the organizers’ blogs and counting the entries into the cgi-powered guestbook feature there. seriously. they came up with 1500 as a counter-claim. without having been there.
no dispute was offered against the “antiwar” protesters’ claim of having attracted over 100,000, though their presence was clearly outmatched by the goe by a third.
of course these lies and calumny were hardly nessesary, as the mainstream press coverage dedicated its coverage to portraying the veterans of goe as demented with misplaced anger and ignorance.
* the blog in question is easily influential enough within the left to be considered representative, but are so gluttonous for negative attention that it’s best to deny them the satisfaction.
eh on April 11, 2009 at 9:18 AM
That’s a lot of posting, cowboy. Better learn to pace yourself and save your strength for the big Tea Party. Maybe it’s too much fiber in the morning?
capitulus on April 11, 2009 at 9:20 AM
a substantial part of the message brought to these events should be designed to preempt the anti-speech smears of the left.
don’t skimp on it. if you’re making signs and banners, don’t be afraid to use a whole bedsheet to say something like “PROGRESSIVES HATE DISSENT” or something like that.
make materials which get to the meat of the primary issue too, of course. but don’t be afraid to provide extras.
you’ll find that a lot of people show up with no sign to hold, and i think this issue, more than others the right has taken to the streets for, will gather a lot of passers-by.
<- used to do protest warrior events in a major city
eh on April 11, 2009 at 9:37 AM
capitulus on April 11, 2009 at 9:20 AM
Um, did you say something?
Keemo on April 11, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Teabagging … it’s not just for crazy college kids on spring break anymore or the occasional porn movie, it’s also for the old “idea dead” right wing wacko conservatives who have not yet come to the realization that the world has changed and this country is no longer the 1950s version of America.
Monkei on April 11, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Well, I can’t speak for this enraged Keemo fellow, but I’m pretty sure that Kristi is very enthusiastic about teabagging. Unless you’re a librul – then she’ll shoot you and have her sister Tammi come over and hack up the body.
capitulus on April 11, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Monkei on April 11, 2009 at 9:53 AM
You’ve gone completely off the range old friend, but it is good to see you around once again.
Outside of politics, what’s up with you and yours? hope all is well, and your family is healthy, happy, and growing.. :)
Keemo on April 11, 2009 at 9:57 AM
monkei,
Are you still working at with the Veterans Association?
Keemo on April 11, 2009 at 9:58 AM
onlineanalyst on April 11, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Thanks for that!! Well done.
Keemo on April 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Deb,
Put the bottle down, get away from the computer and go get some fresh air.
You’re becoming obsessed and your friends out here are worried.
hawkdriver on April 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM
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