Video: Lefty tea party doesn’t quite rock Wall Street to its core
posted at 8:07 pm on April 11, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Protest pathos from Frank Strategies, on the scene in D.C. to watch people-powered politics lay low the plutocrats. I’m honestly not sure if this is good news or bad news for conservative tea parties. Does it signal that turnout at the Tax Day protests will be lower than expected? After all, we want our $$$ back too. Or does it merely signal that the nationalization agenda being pushed by the left is unpopular? What about their call to break up mega-banks so that none of them are ever “too big to fail” again? On the one hand, that means more government intervention; on the other, antitrust law can promote competition and, after all, having no banks that are too big to fail means no more bailouts. Just how much schadenfreude is appropriate here? Given the Jane Hamsher cameo, I’m guessing: Lots.
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“I’m going to go listen to Bill right now.” Owned. That was awesome.
Spirit of 1776 on April 11, 2009 at 8:11 PM
What a hoot!
There have already been thousands present at conservative Tea Parties across the nation!
As for being sponsored by FOX news. That’s ludicrous. (Also if true, when do I get my check for going to Orlando?). Jane Hamsher is only revealing the fact that she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
INC on April 11, 2009 at 8:11 PM
No, I don’t think so. Not going to slow me down.
cjs1943 on April 11, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Why is it necessary to use a bullhorn when the number of people attending your rally can fit in your living room?
sherry on April 11, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Sure didn’t quite get that clip. What are they protesting? Gee, I haven’t gotten any money from Fox News. In fact it costs me more money to watch Fox as it is not on the “basic” list of my provider. It’s very difficult to follow the Lib thinking on this one. But then Libs are convoluted thinkers.
BetseyRoss on April 11, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Hey, every American should protest Obama’s budget, impossible to survive debt, and higher taxes.
That the Lefties selected the day before Easter to protest Obama shows their own poor sense of timing since Lefties have families as well as anyone else, supposedly together on the holiday.
That Lefties couldn’t get much Lefty support to fight Obama on any day is no surprise.
But heck, some tried, because they could.
maverick muse on April 11, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I LOVED IT!!! Especially the idiot leftist standing in front of 5 people talking about “phony populism”. I’m still laughing!
But this is typical of the left. They can’t think up anything by themselves and have to steal others’ ideas (and then f#ck them up because leftists don’t understand much of anything).
Note to idiot leftists: Tea parties are not about populism, but about Constitutionalism.
progressoverpeace on April 11, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Schadenfreude!
Wethal on April 11, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Both sides are ripping off us Ron Paulers…
The Dean on April 11, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Got to Love it.
Sorry but…the people showing up on 4/15 don’t have any other agenda but saving their Country from this madness and have no thought of personal gain.
Here is the difference. I expect the trolls in force tonight. It will be good reading.
seesalrun on April 11, 2009 at 8:17 PM
No, you have to have conviction and passion to show up at protests.
The Left is obviously kind of meh about the whole thing. Remember the ACORN bus ride the other week that had more journalists than protestors?
INC on April 11, 2009 at 8:17 PM
I was thinking of Paul when I wrote this post. Wouldn’t he be in favor of breaking up the banks too?
Allahpundit on April 11, 2009 at 8:17 PM
And for Ron Paul my friend, I thought him worthy. As I do all honest constitutionalists.
seesalrun on April 11, 2009 at 8:18 PM
She didn’t complain about Israel’s existence in this clip.
Spirit of 1776 on April 11, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Follow the “nationalization” link in my post. That lists their agenda.
Allahpundit on April 11, 2009 at 8:18 PM
TY for posting it AP. They so FAIL.
This really sucks from a group thats made its entire livelihood from protesting.
canditaylor68 on April 11, 2009 at 8:18 PM
This is the thing to remember. We have not been betrayed by democrats. Obama has yet to do a single thing that any of us did not see coming. But who thought that Kay “bailout” Hutchinson would have turned on her own constiuency when it came to illegals aliens? For that matter who thought John Cornyn would do the same? These were supposed to be true conservatives. But they are beholden to the corporations that want the cheap labor in this country, and neither of them, or so many other republicans give a damn about you and I. I mention these two specifically becuase they are my senators, but each of you has representaives in your state that have betrayed us all jsut like these two treasonous cowards.
They didnt read that bill, becuase they didnt need to, all they needed to do was approve it, and give our tax dollars to those companies that paid for their campaigns. They just don’t care what you and I think. They don’t give a damn about our tea parties. Sure they will give them lip service, becuase the whole game is about keeping the power in the same two parties that it has always been in. As long as you beleive in the two party system you will always be a sheep and you will never know true freedom.
paulsur on April 11, 2009 at 8:19 PM
I think Paul would have gotten rid of the Fed. Unrealistic but constitutional Allah.
Nationalizing the banks. No.
seesalrun on April 11, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Where’s a chimp when you need one?
ambuldog on April 11, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Yeah, where did nationalizing banks come in?
Upstater85 on April 11, 2009 at 8:20 PM
OK, that was pathetic.
BTW, where’s my FOX News check, hmm? I want my
governmentFOX News cheese!JohnGalt23 on April 11, 2009 at 8:20 PM
By automatically assuming the tea parties are being funded by Fox, are they unintentionally admitting that many of their own “grass roots” protests are actually funded by big money sources?
dead-duck on April 11, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Liberals control the government and getting everything they want, so why are they protesting?
AaronGuzman on April 11, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Poor things, it looked like it was raining. Are those attending tea parties suppose to wear a particular color?
Cindy Munford on April 11, 2009 at 8:22 PM
I only think he would be in favor of that if those that ran into trouble were forced to declare bankruptcy. Then, if the bankruptcy court judge ordered it, then so be it.
Ron Paul is, all things being equal, very much against granting the executive branch powers to do… well, pretty much do anything not explicitly named in the Constitution.
JohnGalt23 on April 11, 2009 at 8:23 PM
I don’t see how this relates at all to the conservative tea parties. I didn’t know anything about these lefty tea parties for one, plus the messages are different. There is real anger over wasted tax dollars which will be captured at the conservative tea parties. People know what they are protesting: taxes, deficits, bailouts and stimulus. The lefties are protesting what exactly?
Daemonocracy on April 11, 2009 at 8:24 PM
From here. Breaking them up to swallow in the bailout debacle is nationalizing, as is the current agenda. Just an observation.
seesalrun on April 11, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Jane Hamsher should have shown up in blackface. It would have been a little more entertaining.
Mark1971 on April 11, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Ha! Just like the Cindy Sheehan & Code Pink rallies. More reporters than protesters?
kooly on April 11, 2009 at 8:28 PM
We all wonder the same thing. Their check hasn’t been cut yet?
seesalrun on April 11, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Speaking of Sheehan, shouldn’t they all go down to Venezuela and protest Chavez’s support of Sheehan…
Upstater85 on April 11, 2009 at 8:29 PM
More Leftist projection.
INC on April 11, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Hey folks, Libs 0 and our turn with the puck. Open nets! Let’s roll. See you on April 15.
Christian Conservative on April 11, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Breaking up the banks is a terrible, stupid idea. I am shocked that you can even play devil’s advocate for this nonsense, Allahpundit. If the banks are nationalized, then everyone will assume they are perfectly safe, and they’ll be allowed to balloon to humongous sizes again, and then when they fail, because they will ALWAYS fail eventually, it will be the government’s loss, and we’ll have no money to bail them out.
Then ONLY solution is to let them fail.
jimmy the notable on April 11, 2009 at 8:32 PM
I like this point. Antitrust legislation is about the only government intervention I approve of. I’m big on competition in the market. The only problem, is that the government is the entity doing the dividing up. That always turns out well. /s
Harpoon on April 11, 2009 at 8:32 PM
The 15th will be spectacular. But I expect the media to ignore it. We have a healthy sprinkling of Paulite’s in our meetup group. That’s fine, they are on our side too.
conservnut on April 11, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Yes. That is a safe assumption.
hillbillyjim on April 11, 2009 at 8:34 PM
The existence of conservatives. Or are we Kulaks to the liberals?
NaCly dog on April 11, 2009 at 8:37 PM
ROTFLMAO…. Lefties dont need a reason to protest, they protest for the sake of protesting.
doriangrey on April 11, 2009 at 8:39 PM
If conservatives “are not the ones stealing right now”, does that mean that the liberals are? What a dumb a$$ thing to say, but that is a lib for you…..
clinker46 on April 11, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Antitrust legislation only makes sense if you believe that a monopoly will exist forever. They don’t. It is unneccessary government intervention intervention.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/libgates.html
According to this article, they only have a half-life of about 15 years, while the government laws last forever, and only target companies that consumers demonize, irrationally most often.
jimmy the notable on April 11, 2009 at 8:41 PM
The reason the regulations were relaxed to allow interstate bank mergers and allow them into more financial services was so we could have banks large enough to compete globally. Our banks were just not large enough to have the assets needed to make the big loans for major corporations. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t…
TBinSTL on April 11, 2009 at 8:41 PM
That was pathetic. You could have got more people to come to a Klan rally in Harlem than they had. Look for the moonbats to be active at the Tea Parties on April 15. They won’t take this sitting down.
Dire Straits on April 11, 2009 at 8:47 PM
That lil’ bunch looked kinda cute. Waaayyyy less people than in my family reunion, and definitely less people (parents and families) than in my son’s school field day.
Looking forward to slam ‘em hard on the 15th. Four of us here!
ProudPalinFan on April 11, 2009 at 8:48 PM
…Or payment for it, ala Acorn.
PrincipledPilgrim on April 11, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Forgot to add their attempt to “merge” with the larger protest to their left. What did their kids learn that day?
Today I went to Lowe’s and they had an Americana flag that had written, “LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”. Showed that to my kids, that’s the basic thing they must believe in because they are entitled to it.
ProudPalinFan on April 11, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Forgot that.
Still waiting for my check from FOX.
INC on April 11, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Without Bush and the Evil White Male Oligarchy, lefties really don’t have their hearts in it anymore.
Speedwagon82 on April 11, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Love it. Be aware as you extol your beliefs and as always, be assertive and courageous.
America is America and they are scared shitlees. ROMP THEM.
seesalrun on April 11, 2009 at 9:00 PM
/doIhavetosayit??
CurtZHP on April 11, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Go to their site. It looks like they had a better turnout in SF and Raleigh too (according to the report, no pics). Still no comparison to the Constitutional-based tea parties.
PrincipledPilgrim on April 11, 2009 at 9:04 PM
They want their $$$$ back?
The BANKS want to return the TARP $$$$ and President TelePrompter is trying to stop them – remember his meeting with bank CEO’s two weeks ago.
Are they protesting obama? I am confused…
TN Mom on April 11, 2009 at 9:30 PM
This was to funny!! What a joke of a Tea Party! I am a Conservative and I am not pissed off because Liberal’s can’t even throw a Tea Party right…..Liberal’s are the most boring people and they cry in their own misery. Love how that lady avoided the answer. Typical Liberal. They lie and run when they are caught.
sheebe on April 11, 2009 at 9:32 PM
At least they are getting their money’s worth out of that sign…………..
Seven Percent Solution on April 11, 2009 at 9:43 PM
This is delicious Allah, but all I heard was noise.
FontanaConservative on April 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Don’t be confused. All of America has been bedazzled, distracted or befuddled by what exactly the POS has in mind.
He’ll go by the Alinsky writings and try to demonize and marginalize our root strengths, hence the tea party, part which will empower a nationwide bunch of us, then shut us down with the Brown Shirts that will I’m sorry come eventually if we don’t get him out quick.
Look at the facts and the record and keep your children close to the breast.
seesalrun on April 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM
sheebe on April 11, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Boring??? I guess you have not seen the “flamboyant” ones. I’m sorry everybody.
FontanaConservative on April 11, 2009 at 9:49 PM
I say boring, you say snoring…………..
SNORING
BORING
Colorado Anne on April 11, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Funny thing about the anti-trust laws which were enacted to counter balance Standard Oil: under the Standard Oil Monopoly, prices for oil were extremely affordable. Rockefeller kept them low. The government just got nervous a private corporation was getting too powerful that it could rival them some day.
Having said that, I do support anti-trust laws for the simple reason that it keeps Capitalism pure. Competition is what Capitalism is all about and what benefits us all in the long run. A world full of monopolies (or one massive monopoly controlling everything) with no competition, is not capitalism in my mind.
But Newspapers are exempt from the anti-trust laws. Go figure.
Daemonocracy on April 11, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Ummmm… where did Ron Paul find “earmarks” in the Constitution?
GT on April 11, 2009 at 10:15 PM
She looks like a Hamster!
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After what the Government did to Microsoft, IBM and others, I realize that Anti-Trust laws are just another tool for Government to interfere and tax. The AT&T breakup under Anti-Trust was a fiasco, along with lining the pockets of Politicians who took Campaign contributions to go after AT&T as well as Contributions to leave it alone. Look, Government must be kept small, enforce a minimum of laws, Watch the Borders, and keep the Courts system running. Other than that it is a fearful Master.
GunRunner on April 11, 2009 at 10:19 PM
ROFL… “What evidence do you have for that?” “I’ll talk to you in second, OK?”
ddrintn on April 11, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Anyway, a “protest” where there are more signs than people has to be lame.
ddrintn on April 11, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Does it signal that turnout at the Tax Day protests will be lower than expected?
……
Stand by.
People will be shocked by the high turnout.
It will exceed expectations.
artist on April 11, 2009 at 10:25 PM
It signals that the left is unpopular.
ddrintn on April 11, 2009 at 10:28 PM
RON PAUL!!!!
conservatives and Libertarians need to team up to stop this liberal bullcrap.
Nelsen on April 11, 2009 at 10:47 PM
They never seem to know, do they?
It’s a shame really…they could have made good use of their effort by showing some solidarity with us normal americans, but the face-saving impulse not to be associated with conservative thought in any way shape or form was just too ingrained…hence the blathering about fox news, etc.
It’s cowardly, to say the least…
surrounded on April 11, 2009 at 10:48 PM
:)
Schadenfreude on April 11, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Allah
The Nationalization Agenda link:
A New Way Forward? Wasn’t that an Obama campaign slogan? They can’t even come up with anything new or original? They really are stuck in campaign mode. Well it was an overly long campaign cycle…some of them must have got the memo- they won the elections over, that’s why the turn out was so low.
Dr Evil on April 11, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Come on people.
Let’s make a great turnout on the 15th.
Kini on April 12, 2009 at 12:11 AM
what an epic fail. the video was viewed by more than who was actually there, and nice funky music too! Thanks to Frank
thebrokenrattle on April 12, 2009 at 12:15 AM
A bag over her head would have been more bearable.
Absolutely, just not behind Ron Paul.
In the teaming metropolis of Boulder they drew a whopping 25 protesters who ironically placed themselves in front of Wells Fargo. In Chicago they managed a massive 30 people.
See Instapundit for the details.
jdkchem on April 12, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Those two Texas Senators are prime examples of what I say, there is very little difference between the two parties. Both parties adopt policies of the CFR, Trilateral Commission, etc. They are globalists that are willing to sell your nation out to us Mexicans. They will institute global governance whether you like it or not, unless you wake up and organize.
True_King on April 12, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Reading comprehension ain’t your strong suit, is it?
Earmarking is a function carried out by the “legislative” branch. I only talked about the “executive” branch.
Do your homework.
JohnGalt23 on April 12, 2009 at 3:33 AM
So, they realized they weren’t going to be able to have their own protests…so, now, instead of ignoring our protests on the 15th, they are going to cover them (preemptively) by deriding them. (As in the above stories.) Neat.
They are realizing this is going to be an unavoidable truth for them.
Mommypundit on April 12, 2009 at 5:10 AM
Natural Born FAILer.
Jim Treacher on April 12, 2009 at 7:35 AM
The left has long considered middle America as their own, they have no clue. They have always expected our silence, to a large extent, their expectations were valid.
Now we’re pissed, fly-over country is wide awake, the professional protesters are in a hurry to push us back down to where they want us. We must not let that happen. We should use the Tea-Parties as a launching pad, we need to out community organize the community organizers. We need to put our petty disagreements aside. This is for the better of all of us. We have more in common than not, use it to put America first, not party.
The left has been at this for more than forty years, we need direct action NOW, we have allot of ground to cover. They always target the rich, but in the end that always includes anyone above the poverty level. They always say we’ll get a tax break, sometimes we do, but they will always find fees and taxes on other things, so in effect we are paying more to government.
If you ever bothered to pay attention to what you pay taxes on day to day, add it up over the course of a year, you will find that over 50% of what you earn is taxes and fees, and for what? A broken system that rewards the lazy, and punishes hard work.
Go to a Tea-Party, this is not about party politics, it is about our values, our rights, and the survival of our Nation. We cannot continue down this path, that, I hope we can all agree on.
M-14 2go on April 12, 2009 at 7:52 AM
Bankruptcy is there for a reason: to let failing businesses re-organize or just fail. Propping up a bad business plan is not the job of the US. Doesn’t matter if you are RIAA, Sony, or Disney. In the last case we have so twisted copyright law in support of Disney that works that should have fallen into the Public Domain cannot do so to protect Disney.
For all that Bell got broken up, there was Bell Labs that made much of the comms we have today possible. In trying to get the last static out of long distance satellite comms they also discovered the background radiation left over from the Big Bang: Bell Labs did basic science work that no one else did.
On the other side of the scale there is US vs IBM. It dragged on for over a decade and the US was out-lawyered, out-fought, and put under a warehouse full of documents that have never been properly addressed by anyone. A literal warehouse (picture Raiders of the Lost Ark… that was cleaned out to make way for US vs IBM). The US dropped the case a few years after a little business unit of IBM in Boca Raton was given the ok on a data input system with a bit of local processing power on open architecture. It was called ‘Project Chess’. And it did a lot more than just put a data entry terminal on the market, that PC did. So, yes, monopolies can end due to new advances in technology.
Fairchild PO’d its engineers and they left in the late 60’s to form this little company called Intel. You might of heard of them.
We have been warned about Federal presence in the banking system beyond currency, and the ills and questionable Constitutionality of it. That was stopped, once, and the Nation prospered with very little Federal presence in the banking sector until President Wilson made the Federal Reserve. The folks who made the wrong policy during the lead up to the Great Depression and in the lead-up to this minor problem magnified by placing ones eyeball on an anthill to make it into a mountain. Likewise T. Roosevelt was a Progressive and really enjoyed the ability to break-up and threaten companies from the Federal side. I do believe we have gotten a load of garbage on the role of the Federal government since the start of the 20th century… and the more I look at it the less I like the results we see today.
ajacksonian on April 12, 2009 at 7:58 AM
Hmmmm…..sensitive about Paul’s hypocrisy aint’cha.
GT on April 12, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Sigh
BrideOfRove on April 12, 2009 at 9:58 AM
When I say “We”, you say “tarted”…
We!
Tarted!
We!
Tarted!
Wyznowski on April 12, 2009 at 11:37 AM
The Illusion of “Fox sponsorship” is brought on by the absence of ANY other coverage by the Alphabet Networks….they must be Dreading covering the 4/15 Traffic Jams brought on by attendance around the Nation in a few days.
Want the Ad Revenue that FOX is generating for themselves based upon Ratings ? MSM is conflicted….Ideologue vs. reality
JayTee on April 12, 2009 at 12:28 PM
A dozen?!? We had three times that show just to make signs for the real deal last week, in small city Lubbock Texas. Amatuers.
bikermailman on April 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Liberal tea party?? I thought all liberals loved to pay taxs.
I wonder how much press coverage there will be on the real tea parties April 15th. Don’t see how they can completely ignore them there are so many planned. Here in Texas, the last time I counted there were tax protests planned in 49 cities/villages.
docdave on April 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM
No. Just sensitive about Constitutional illiteracy among those who claim to be conservatives.
Once again, until you can discern the difference b/t the legislative and executive branch… do your homework.
JohnGalt23 on April 12, 2009 at 3:02 PM
I’m going to a Tea Party in Valencia, a suburb of LA, on The 15th and I’ve given the info to a lot of people who are mad as heck about all this too. Fox didn’t get me to do it. Fox started to cover the Tea Parties when it was obvious that the other MSM would not cover them.
CCRWM on April 12, 2009 at 3:48 PM
GOOD QUESTION, ANSWER IS THEY HAVE THEIR HEADS BURIED WHERE THE SUN DOESN’T SHINE…
AMERICAN VETERAN on April 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM
NOT THAT WE NEED ONE, BUT IF WE DID, I’D CHECK ‘1600′- IN D.C. FIRST…
AMERICAN VETERAN on April 12, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Should post at least an e-mail address for people like her, so we can continue to bombard her with the same question. “Back up your allegations that Fox News is backing the Tea Parties, with FACTS”!!!!! Sure like to hit and run, don’t they?
hillbilly on April 12, 2009 at 4:16 PM
They no doubt don’t get the irony of deriding “fake populism” considering how many lefty protests consist of professional protesters who they bus in.
Hollowpoint on April 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Once AGAIN, I submit that our country is not moving more to the left. We just need to get the people out of our party that used conservative rhetoric to gain power and have not ethics. These people have used us for their own ends and have discredited conservative values. America is not moving left. It is not moving to the center either. We are more polarized than ever. The liberals are just benefiting by the betrayal of the Republican leaders to follow the conservative path. No more and no less.
Hawthorne on April 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM
And again you miss the point. It bothers me when I see those who claim to be conservatives holding a hypocrite as the example we should follow.
I think its fine the demand the Executive Branch to follow the Constitution. I’m all for it. I just think that the person demanding such things ought to practice what he preaches. Its hard to take a person (and his acolytes) seriously when he talks out of both sides of his mouth telling us that government spends too much all the while putting in 65 requests for earmarks totaling $400,000,000. When Paul was running for the GOP presidential candidacy, he promised “principled leadership”. Which principle was he upholding when he says one thing and does another?
You need to find another hero.
Agreed.
I think the GOP’s downfall actually began when it ignored Ronald Reagan and started to run as a “big tent” party.
Reagan once said, “A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.”
Sure the GOP won a few elections. All they had to do was sacrifice a few core principles. But in the end, look what it got them.
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GT on April 12, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Not the ones stealing right now. So, she tacitly admits that the ones stealing right now are the Demosleaze in control of 2 of the three braches of the government.
Not only are they bone mean but their bone ignorant too.
harry flashman on April 13, 2009 at 3:21 AM
The anti-trust laws do not “promote competition”, they limit it.
There has never been a monopoly that wasn’t the direct result of govt intervention and support.
The anti-trust laws were never more than a means by which govt can take down one competitor at the request of another, better connected competitor.
MarkTheGreat on April 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM
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