Video: Are the tea parties “a sham and a fraud”?
posted at 7:33 pm on April 13, 2009 by Allahpundit
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They must be. Nothing the right does is legitimate in liberal eyes, so there must be a disqualifying factor hidden somewhere here. Savor, please, the rich, nougaty irony of a leftist complaining about “grassroots” movements actually being orchestrated from the top down.
As for his tacit point about all deficits being equal, er, not so. In fact, if anything good comes from The One’s term, I suspect it’ll be the way he’s keenly concentrated America’s imagination on spending issues. During Bush’s terms, the idea that social security was going bankrupt was practically a hypothetical. Not anymore.
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The nerve,when it comes to stacking,planting and manufacturing,the Liberal own it,lock,stock,and barrel!
And,I don’t remember at all,any Republicans calling
the Left a bunch of fakers in their views and ideals!
So,now,the Left have become the deciders,eh!
Nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on April 13, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Oops,thats Liberal’s!
canopfor on April 13, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Yeah, the hypocrisy of all this is appalling. Really gets me upset, but there’s nothing I can do about it. The Tea Parties are one of the best ways of getting our message across, and the Dems know it. As many other conservatives before me have said, “I thought dissent was patriotic?”
Achilles on April 13, 2009 at 8:48 PM
I am going to take a hand made sign stapled to my 80 cent home depot yard ruler that just says STOP SPENDING!!!! in really big letters. This is not about the taxes, they are a result of this out of control SPENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!
karenhasfreedom on April 13, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Of course liberals think the demonstrations are funded top-down operations, with a poor rabble taking money to be a rent-a-mob.
That is exactly how their major demonstrations are organized.
Right_of_Attila on April 13, 2009 at 8:52 PM
The left is frightened as evidenced by their minions spewing the type of garbage the guy in the video did.
They even have one working the Tea Party article/thread at USA Today. Tax revolt a recipe for tea parties
voiceofreason on April 13, 2009 at 8:58 PM
I don’t but if someone posts a place where I can email the pics I will…
CCRWM on April 13, 2009 at 8:59 PM
At their core, these Tea Parties are fake. If not, one would imagine they would have occured long before April 2009. How much did the national debt grow by during Bush’s tenure?
mycowardice on April 13, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Liberal translation: Conservatives need to go to work and pay taxes to support Leftist socialist programs. Leave the freedom of speech stuff to us.
Dr. ZhivBlago on April 13, 2009 at 9:02 PM
yesssssssss!
strangelet on April 13, 2009 at 9:06 PM
So dissent isn’t Patriotic anymore ….Giggling.
Dr Evil on April 13, 2009 at 9:11 PM
What a douche.
DethMetalCookieMonst on April 13, 2009 at 9:13 PM
A nobody from an unknown blog whose opinion is worth nothing
bill30097 on April 13, 2009 at 9:18 PM
BLING BLING BLING BLING
My new front-running slogan for my tea party sign.
With your permission, of course.
Colorado Anne on April 13, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Look who is whistling past the graveyard.
Only George Soros an Al Sharpton are allowed to protest in America:) Who funds Code Pink? They really like to have their photos taken with Hugo Chavez -Parrot Lover.
Obama’s emergency action? This economy isn’t as bad as the one Bill Clinton had in 1992. No crisis is going to be wasted by The Obama Administration. This guy is trying to blame Bush and Republicans and he is angry he whining it’s not real it’s fraud….I am waiting for him to stamp his feet. This is just a liberal throwing a temper tantrum. Stop it Stewart, we are trying to raid The U.S. Treasury for everyone’s own good…..yeah that’s the ticket “The Common Good” The Democrat talking points are stale, that’s why they aren’t working.
Dr Evil on April 13, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I first heard about the bankruptcy of Social Security from Ronald Reagan… in May of 1963!!
michaelo on April 13, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Arrogant, smug SOB.
I’m sick and tired of Clinton getting the credit for balancing the budget when a) Congress controls the power of the purse and b) the GOP was in the majority in Congress for 6 of Clinton’s 8 years.
And Reagan, try as he might, couldn’t balance the budget because the Democrats owned Congress when he was in office.
So to say the GOP is fiscally irresponsible and the Dems are fiscal saints is complete BS and historical revisionism.
When will someone smack a Dem the next time they try to credit Clinton for being dragged to fiscal sanity by Newt Gingrich? Stewart missed an opportunity.
DerKrieger on April 13, 2009 at 9:21 PM
I’M CALLING HOT AIR OUT!
Yeah YOU!
I want to see a role call of the HOTAIR bloggers – and I want to see who is going to a tea party and who isn’t.
Put the cards on the table boys (and girls) :)
HondaV65 on April 13, 2009 at 9:23 PM
I can’t make it but I am going to a health care town hall with my Senator, Blanche Lincoln, that day.
DerKrieger on April 13, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Ridicule it and it will go away!
First reaction when you haven’t got any answers.
Lewinsky and Tripp were so ugly they couldn’t possibly be telling the truth. Ha, ha…ooops, that DNA proves WHAT?!?
Just one of the notable examples of the failure of this strategy.
Did my tea party Saturday, and yah, this is real stuff…all races, all ages, informed commentary…Rachel Madcow can laugh all she wants but she has an aggressor aircraft moving slowly into her six o’clock. It suits me well she is laughing about it.
As when Reagan was elected and the savants, reflecting their self-approval and insularity, just never saw it coming. Rachel might have a similar BOHICA moment sometime in the next year or so.
Harry Schell on April 13, 2009 at 9:24 PM
I am going. I work 4/10’s and I am going to take Wednesday off instead of Friday. I am hoping that I can come up with a sign the will make MM’s site or Instapundit.
Cindy Munford on April 13, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Lord willing, my wife and I will be going to either the Conroe tea party or the Houston tea party. It depends how we want to deal with our kids on that day. Conroe is closer, but Houston will be bigger. But we will go to one of the two.
Weight of Glory on April 13, 2009 at 9:26 PM
400 billion, which if you have any concept of numbers is a far cry from 2 trillion.
Sweetie you buy into crap pushed by mtv. You have no standing to comment on sham and fraud.
jdkchem on April 13, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Took off of work to attend Madtown Wi party
Gracelynn on April 13, 2009 at 9:28 PM
MirCat FTW!
DethMetalCookieMonst on April 13, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Our tea party organizers are suggesting something similar. But the sign says, THEY ARE NOT WITH US.
Like the idea.
Colorado Anne on April 13, 2009 at 9:29 PM
If you support Obama’s agenda then you and your party won’t mind funding it. Alone. Forcing me to participate in programs I do not want to participate in is indentured servitude. I thought you Libs believed in “choice”. If so why not school choice? Why not freedom to choose my own retirement and the freedom to choose to opt out of Social Security? Why not the freedom to choose my own health care plan free of government and employer interference? No, Libs do NOT believe in choice any more than they believe in freedom. You are slaves to the state and you are weak.
DerKrieger on April 13, 2009 at 9:33 PM
IMO, Bush pulled his veto pen out 6 years too late. I am running onto more and more people of the same opinion, particularly with the way the Rep Assembly here in CA participated in raising taxes. The Rep-utation as being anti-tax has been thoroughly trashed, so those of us not in love with Marx realize we are on our own, and it is time to make a fuss.
So, no, I don’t think this is fake stuff across the board.
AS in any political venue like this, the spotlight seekers will appear, but they might have a little harder time converting things into vehicles for personal advancement.
Harry Schell on April 13, 2009 at 9:33 PM
See you in Boston, until then enjoy!
dmann on April 13, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Liberals really have no respect for any protest that isn’t socialist in nature.
Speedwagon82 on April 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Anybody notice that all of a sudden (starting today), if you do a Google search of tax day tea parties, most of what shows up is a bunch of left-wing propoganda. Check it out if you’ve done searches before using those exact words, I swear it’s true!
Colorado Anne on April 13, 2009 at 9:40 PM
I’M CALLING HOT AIR OUT!
Yeah. I’m headed out to the one in Hollister, California with my camera. There is actually one right here in Santa Cruz, but, I don’t feel comfortable doing anything even remotely conservative here in the People’s Republic. I don’t trust the moonbats not to get violent or do something stupid.
trigon on April 13, 2009 at 9:42 PM
I’ll be at the Chicago Tea Party in the Daley Center at 12:00 noon. I’m not making a sign, I’ll be too busy taking pictures and notes. Hopefully Ed or Allah will give us a thread to post the pictures in.
Knucklehead on April 13, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Was someone talking about redistributive change before now? Did someone think that the Founders had placed too many constraints in the Constitution and wanted radical change? Did someone else want to kill our economy, in the middle of a monetary crisis, by destroying our industry? Was there someone before who was giddy about announcing that he would “bankrupt the coal industry”?
These tea parties are real and they are a reaction to the marxist policies coming down from Washington, including The Precedent and the lunatics in Congress.
But, you guys wanted to elect America-haters (as The Precedent displayed so nicely as he tore through Europe and shat all over the US at every opportunity) who think that they are going to kill America and charge the bill to the rest of us. There will be a reaction.
progressoverpeace on April 13, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Sure, but they are not in any way shape or form bipartisan.
70% of the country pretty thinks Obama is wunnerful.
It is just the rebublican deadeners and juggalos that to teabaggin’ (hehe).
strangelet on April 13, 2009 at 9:49 PM
They are anti-socialist/anti-marxist. It has nothing to do with political party – except that a good percentage of dems are socialists/marxists who hate everything America stands for and want to destroy this country.
70%? Really. Good for them. I wonder how they’re going to feel when the bottom drops out of the dollar.
progressoverpeace on April 13, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Approprate sign slogans would be good too.
Colorado Anne on April 13, 2009 at 10:00 PM
I spent the afternoon making signs for our Taxed Enough Already party. Across the table working equally diligently was a registered Independent.
The out-of-control spending, the projected deficit, and the expected tax increases in overt and covert ways have John Q. Public hotter than hell. The social programs that reward the takers at the expense of the productive have raised hackles.
What is it with those rude Lefties such as the hack in the video? Their talking points are predictable, and they talk right over the television hosts as if their schtick has any merit at all.
Besides having to work with a more conservative Congress, Clinton “balanced the budget” by gutting Defense. Obama is doing the same. It is the only area where he is cutting the budget.
onlineanalyst on April 13, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Why should they worry? Obama will just take even more from you and me to give to them.
I’m fairly well convinced that we’re well and truly f@#$ed at this point, with little hope of return. There are so many people that simply and literally have no intelligence or sense about this stuff. They simply won’t and/or cannot fathom the magnitude of the shagging we’re at the beginning of.
Midas on April 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM
I don’t know what he’s worried about. It’s not like the lamestream press will report it.
darwin-t on April 13, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Neal Bortz had a FairTax rally in Jacksonville on Saturday, at the same location the tea party will be held. They said four thousand folks. The picture in the newspaper was pretty impressive. Hope the tea party exceeds that turn out.
Cindy Munford on April 13, 2009 at 10:16 PM
I would tend to agree. What I find truly amazing, though, is how quickly people (of all stripes) have forgotten how we all felt back in September when it looked as if the dollar was going to disintegrate at any moment – and how that came out of nowhere. I find it quite scary to see how people have totally repressed that memory the minute they thought the immediate crisis was over. They are all in for a big surprise.
progressoverpeace on April 13, 2009 at 10:18 PM
‘I’m not going to my town’s Tea Party Protest to win favor with the MSM’ (paraphrasing Gov Palin)
I will attend a Tea Party Protest to send a message to Washington: Stop the Spending!!!!
TN Mom on April 13, 2009 at 10:19 PM
They’ll try. But they won’t be able to.
Alana on April 13, 2009 at 10:26 PM
My wife and I will be at the Tulsa Tea Party. Actually there are two here: one at the Tulsa County Courthouse Plaza at 11-1, and one at LaFortune Park at noon. Not sure why they separated the two (which I think was a bad decision), but John Gibson is coming to the first and our congressman John Sullivan is coming to another. (If Gibson covers it and doesn’t speak, I think that would be fine, and I hope Sullivan doesn’t speak either since he voted for Bush’s bailout, although not for any other spending package. Our first Tea Party in Feb. started as a move of the people and not news people or govt. leaders. I hope we can keep it a move of the people.
Christian Conservative on April 13, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I’m sorry … who is this guy?
Jaibones on April 13, 2009 at 10:32 PM
My plan exactly. (Minus the stick – they aren’t allowed in our area. Going to use flattened paper towel rolls.)
Same phrase, more or less:
STOP
the
SPENDING!
Alana on April 13, 2009 at 10:35 PM
I’ll be at a TEA party…
(front)
The Current Government Is What the Founding Fathers Tried To Prevent!
(back)
We Spent Our Budget on (R) and (D) – Now It’s Time for a (T) Party
popularpeoplesfront on April 13, 2009 at 10:53 PM
I’m surprised that he didn’t argue that the Obama’s deficits are the awesomest thing evah… After all, four legs are good and two legs are better and all animals are equal, some are just more equal than others.
Illinidiva on April 13, 2009 at 10:59 PM
I will be there in Omaha, Ne at 5:00 PM
bevslape on April 13, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Is English this clown’s first language? If so, you couldn’t prove it.
Nuts4koi on April 13, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Pretty soon there won’t be enough of “you and me” to pay for “them”. Its called the law of diminishing returns.
Paraphrasing, “The more you tighten your grip, the more taxpayers will slip through your fingers”. If you can’t go to a teaparty, pin a teabag to your shirt. Its a great conversation starter at the office!
gordo on April 13, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Obama has outspent 8 YEARS OF BUSH 4 times over in 4 months. Moron.
leetpriest on April 13, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Well said.
I’ll be at the Nashville Tea Party 12:00-2:00.
pannw on April 13, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Manhattan Tea Party. Be there! (bring a flag)
I’ll be taking pictures and maybe some video. I’m not the sign carrying type though!
Wine_N_Dine on April 14, 2009 at 12:00 AM
There are 3 teaparties in my state. I will be attending 2 of them.
The only sham and fraud I see is Steve Leser and his lib buddies.
canditaylor68 on April 14, 2009 at 12:19 AM
I’m visiting family and thought I would be the only one protesting, in this small town. Called the mayors office and they wanted to know what I was protesting. Called the police and they had the same response. (Called to see if they would know if there was a protest scheduled). Finally called the radio station and there is one, and I will be there and my grandchildren are thinking they want to support me. They think it’s a hoot to have a grandparent who will do this. To heck with the stooge on the tube, i just think they are worried about having huge numbers show up.
Bambi on April 14, 2009 at 12:22 AM
PS: tea bags are not going to get through security. So how about the top label of the tea bag. Or make your own up.
Bambi on April 14, 2009 at 12:28 AM
He77…. I had a birkenstock wearing, hairy legged hippie chick wearing an Earth Day 2009 t-shirt ask me this afternoon if I would be at the local Tea-party.
She is organizing her hippie and artsy friends to attend and they aren’t going there trying to disrupt the mean ol’ right wingers like some of our resident leftist idiots are… They are going because they too see the idiocy that is on both sides of the aisle in Congress, and the cancer that is metastasizing in the Executive Branch.
LegendHasIt on April 14, 2009 at 12:37 AM
First Post-Partisan President gets first Post-Partisan protest movement.
CHANGE!! HOPE!!!
I know I’ve been PO’d by spending my entire adult life, and that gets both D and R, together, as foul wings of the same spending vulture.
ajacksonian on April 14, 2009 at 5:55 AM
I will attend the one in downtown So. Bend on Wednesday. Don’t think I’ll bring a sign. Just want to be there in solidarity and, as a recent “downsize” in this fabulous economy, what else have I got to do between job searches.
SKYFOX on April 14, 2009 at 7:47 AM
When I saw Steve Lesser on Fox yesterday, I had to resist the urge to want to put my foot right through into the screen and right into that punk’s smug expression!
pilamaye on April 14, 2009 at 7:54 AM
At their core, these Tea Parties are fake. If not, one would imagine they would have occured long before April 2009. How much did the national debt grow by during Bush’s tenure?
mycowardice on April 13, 2009 at 9:02 PM
These Tea Parties are not fake. As stated in previous posts of mine, I left the Republican Party because of the reckless spending. After Rick Santelli’s call for a tea party on CNBC, my husband asked if anyone was doing a party here in Nashville. They said, “No, why don’t you do it.” In 4 days he and a group of angry citizens put a tea party together in downtown and even though the weather was cold and drizzling, we had a turnout of over 600 people. He has been working tirelessly on the one for tomorrow, again with the help of other angry citizens. We are expecting a turnout of between 7500 and 10,000. There are tea parties going on in over 50 of the 95 counties in TN. These are not orchestrated by my husband or anyone else. He has had citizens from some of the most remote areas of TN emailing him and asking what can they do to have a tea party in their county. Yesterday my husband and some others launched a free social networking site for those who want to connect with others to figure out where we go from here. (www.teapartynation.com). No one called my husband and asked him to do this. No one called all the people who are volunteering and asking how to do this in their area. These tea parties are happening because Americans are fed up with Washington, an morbidly obese government and politicans who care nothing about their constituents and the Constitution they were sworn to uphold. So unless you want to claim that Rick Santelli is some Republican guru who hypnotized the masses into starting these protests, talk to the people who have organized them and find out their story.
tnmama on April 14, 2009 at 8:24 AM
The I have a dream speech by MLK must have been a fake. If not, one would imagine it would have occured long before 1968. How much oppression of black was there during FDR’s tenure?
angryed on April 14, 2009 at 8:34 AM
1963 that is.
angryed on April 14, 2009 at 8:35 AM
The total for the 8 years, was less than it is growing this year. I might add that the three biggest years were 1 year right after 9/11, and the two years after the Democrats took over congress.
MarkTheGreat on April 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Wow, what a pompous ass! So in one 6-minute interview, this jackass says that Bush spent like a drunken sailor, that protesting this out-of-control spending is a sham and fraudulent, and that we should “listen to President Obama” despite his spending dwarfing Bush’s.
Yeah, no contradictions there. The dude is a partisan hack.
BTW, I’ll be heading to the Sugarland rally here in TX tomorrow at 6PM. There’s one in downtown Houston starting at 4PM, but that’s when I get off work.
Doughboy on April 14, 2009 at 9:04 AM
An article on HuffPo says Freedom Works is behing the tea parties. My belief is they started grassroots and are starting to be co-opted by others as the buzz increases. Happens to both right and left, the nuts can screw up the message.
riverrat10k on April 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM
An article on HuffPo says Freedom Works is behing the tea parties. My belief is they started grassroots and are starting to be co-opted by others as the buzz increases. Happens to both right and left, the nuts can screw up the message.
riverrat10k on April 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM
So true. After the February 27th rallies, my husband and organizers from other states were quite surprised to find a national group trying to take over the movement, declare themselves as being behind the tea party movement and start to delegate who would be the “coordinators” for each state. These were people who didn’t even attend any of the rallies, had nothing to do with organizing the original parties, yet wanted to take the credit. Needless to say, it did not go over very well, at least in TN.
tnmama on April 14, 2009 at 9:56 AM
This self righteous leftist bigot and his ilk will not accept the fact that it was Demoncrate policies of Pope Roosevelt over the last 50 years that have created our current political and economic situation.
The lefts jealously and fear of the truth is what leads them to infiltrate the “Tea Party” movement. Let’s use this movement to change their thought process because they are using communistic measures to dismantle their opposition, U.S.
For the last 50 years conservatives have been trying to get the country back on track to enjoy the freedoms that our founders instilled – not the incremental brainwashing of Pope Roosevelt, that you need to be dependent on the government and will be prosecuted if you do not fall into line. This is what happens when conservatives send a leader to D.C. they are indoctrinated to enjoy the perks of power and often fall prey to the tactic. We need to send stronger leaders to represent U.S.
MSGTAS on April 14, 2009 at 10:41 AM
I think the resistance and lack of media coverage will backfire. For us to be able to point to this will be proof of media bias and left wing tactics. The media knows this and they will pull a “nothing to see here that is why we didn’t cover it” set of stories but actually less coverage might be better. I think Cnn, MSNBC, and others are worried because it is too big to be a non-story and too big for them to cover up. They are at a rock and a hard place and I look forward to tomorrow’s spin.
Conan on April 14, 2009 at 12:11 PM
“Where were they the last 20 years?”
Um, working you lib jerk. I’m so incredibly sick of liberals implying that conservatives and Republicans have been in some kind of lockstep with everything our “leaders” have done. We fought them on immigration amnesty, we let our voices be heard on the deficits. Heck, Congress has been in Democrat hands because many of us protested with our vote in 2006.
This is just the first thing too big to just stay hard at work until 2010. Conservatives are coming out in force tomorrow, taking time off our real jobs you liberal jerks, because by 2010 we’ll be at least $3 Trillion dollars more in debt with a dollar trashed by an out of control Fed and Democrat party, our health care in the hands of bureaucrats and our environmental policy in the hands of the UN if we don’t let them hear our voices.
These smug, dismissive jerks like in this video tick me off.
PastorJon on April 14, 2009 at 12:12 PM
I’m headed to the Atlanta Tea Party tomorrow, while my sister will be at the Memphis Tea Party, and my mother is at the North Houston Tea Party. Can’t wait!
Animator Girl on April 14, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Absolutely right, Jon. Two falsehoods that the left loves to perpetuate are:
1) Conservatives loved Bush no matter what (he did do a lot of things right, but controlling spending was NOT one of them)
2) we’re all Republicans.
I urge everyone to attend their local tea party tomorrow, as I will (Wilmington, Delaware).
Bring a clever sign, and a video camera. We need to document these events, since your local press probably won’t. Also, it will be useful and entertaining to record any “shenanigans” by the left.
UltimateBob on April 14, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Look at all the Libs on the talking head shows. If there is any doubt about Democratic Talking Points memos going out to the media, that doubt will vanish.
“The tea parties are a sham and fraud but we support the disenfranchised populace attending” What a bunch of BS.
jack herman on April 14, 2009 at 3:43 PM
The message from the Left is clear:
(See also: “I won”.)
The Monster on April 14, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Our Tea Party starts at 5:00, and I have to teach until 6:00, but I will be there as soon as I let my class out.
College Prof on April 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM
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