The Ed Morrissey Show: Jim Geraghty and Tea Party Updates!
posted at 1:00 pm on April 15, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Jim Geraghty joins me on Tax Day, along with a series of updates on Tea Party protests from some of our favorite people: Michelle Malkin, Mary Katharine Ham, Justin Higgins, and my NARN radio partner Mitch Berg. In between, we’ll talk about the DHS report, Stacy McCain’s interesting response to intra-conservative criticism, and what Tea Parties are really all about.
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Jazz Shaw on April 15, 2009 at 1:08 PM
what chat room?
Chaz706 on April 15, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Hi Ed,
Since I won’t be here to listen in to the show I wanted to drop a suggestion by you. I think it’s important to keep the tea party revolution going at the grassroots level and push back against the attempt to make is all about taxes rather than spending and expansion of government. So I and a bunch of my friends have decided to keep it going with a mailing campaign and it’s be great if you could spread the word.
It’s pretty simple. Purchase a package of precut postcards at the office supply. Use your printer to print this Tea Bag on the front (or one like it). Write your protest message on the back and put a 27 cent stamp on it. Then mail it to your preferred list of culprits!
My first bunch went out this morning so they have an April 15th date stamp. (I also mailed one to myself for a keepsake.. ;) )
Texas Gal on April 15, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Seems the link function didn’t work for me, so let me try it manually..
Tea Bag
Texas Gal on April 15, 2009 at 1:33 PM
I just got in from the Bel Air, Maryland Tea Party. It was 44 degrees and pouring rain, but there must have been about 300 angry taxpayers…and that was just one of our protests here in the People’s Republic of Maryland!
Laura in Maryland on April 15, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Over 5,000 showed up for the tea party in Madison.
BadgerHawk on April 15, 2009 at 2:08 PM
We didn’t have a large party, but a small group of us did some protestin’ in little ole Effingham, IL over our lunch hour.
We had a great time and lots of people were honking as they drove by. We only had one person fly us the bird.
Here’s a blog post from a guy that came and took our picture:
Tax Day Update
Hendo on April 15, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Is tax day a national holiday in the U.S.?
Dave Rywall on April 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Had over 3,000 here in Des Moines Iowa.
Charger73 on April 15, 2009 at 2:49 PM
Surely you aren’t talking about Wisconsin.
cntrlfrk on April 15, 2009 at 2:57 PM
I got back a little while ago from our local tea party. We had two today about a dozen miles apart. One was at the county government offices and the other was downtown in front of city hall.
There were around 300 there I would guess. This was a bigger crowd than I expected because the town is not that big and they were very enthusiastic. All ages were there as well as vets. People with flags and clever signs. American flags, various Don’t Tread on Me flags (including First U.S. Navy Jack) and a Marine Corps flag!
ACORN, et al., was not in attendance!
Signs I saw included one that said something like this:
I am a woman
I am a taxpayer
I am a wife
I am a mother
I am a daughter
I am not an extremist
There was lots and lots of honking as people drove by and lots of cheering. One guy drove by with his arm out of his sun roof waving a copy of Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny–the crowd went wild.
A camera man was there from an Orlando station. We’re in a different county and the station covers numerous counties. We’ll see if they put together a montage of tea parties across the area.
INC on April 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Quite a few already outside the Federal Building here in Anchorage.
upinak on April 15, 2009 at 3:15 PM
The Tax Day Tea Party site said tea parties will occur today in almost 800 cities across the country.
From the Google map and from comments I’ve read, it looks as if they will be in all 50 states.
INC on April 15, 2009 at 3:22 PM
Teabagging across the nation.
sethstorm on April 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Umm, bold print? 50 States… who da thunk it!
Our T.P. is at 12. It is 11:28 and there are over 200 outside now. It isn’t like Ed has anyone in Alaska for the T.P. which i am going to and the Gov may be speaking at.
Hmmm
upinak on April 15, 2009 at 3:30 PM
No, Dave. But since you are a lefty who posts here very frequently the better question is if you are on a permanent holiday.
These folks expressed their opinions in public, a constitutional right. For many these were their first “protests.”
Just as you have been doing throughout the year.
But somehow these first time protesters of the right have you insinuating that the day is a holiday as they are not attending to their normal duties today.
Come one. It’s OK for lefties to protest day in and day out (and to post on HotAir) but the FIRST time some conservatives do it you find it questionable?
It’s got your goat.
65droptop on April 15, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Why AP’s/Ed’s suggestion of a quarantined room for HA trolls should be acted on.
Debate rationally. And allow others’ their opinion, or don’t participate with those who respect the right of every one to have an opinion, or be relegated to the room for those FASCISTS who do not tolerate the rights of others to rationally debate.
65droptop on April 15, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Fox has live feed from Sacramento
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=1
Dr Evil on April 15, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Is tax day a national holiday in the U.S.?
Dave Rywall on April 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM
No, Dave. But since you are a lefty who posts here very frequently the better question is if you are on a permanent holiday.
These folks expressed their opinions in public, a constitutional right. For many these were their first “protests.”
Just as you have been doing throughout the year.
But somehow these first time protesters of the right have you insinuating that the day is a holiday as they are not attending to their normal duties today.
Come one. It’s OK for lefties to protest day in and day out (and to post on HotAir) but the FIRST time some conservatives do it you find it questionable?
It’s got your goat.
65droptop on April 15, 2009 at 3:38 PM
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I was truly curious if it was a holiday. Where did I say I found anything questionable? RIght – nowhere.
I didn’t say anything about hey why aren’t these people at work. You did.
I’m really enjoying thinking about old righties being told for the first time what teabagging really means.
I have no problem whatsoever with the protests. I just think a great number of the protesters are appallingly underinformed about Obama’s tax plan and its implications. But then again, the unwashed masses shouldn’t be expected to know much.
As if McCain would have been any different.
Dave Rywall on April 15, 2009 at 3:55 PM
First, they moved us in DC claiming there was no permit (as if anyone ever gets one here) when there was…and then they ran us out of Lafayette Park…I’ve seen the feds allow leftists to spraypaint on buildings and throw paint balloons on sidewalks and not lift a finger…yet when peaceful people gather to protest we are shut down…they will not take away our freedom of speech…
DCJeff on April 15, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Sounds like they just did! Pwned!
capitulus on April 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Dave.
I used the word “insinuating.” Read my post again.
And we do have the lefties worried about November 2010. And for your information, that is not a holiday here in the US either. It is an election day.
And having to allude to certain sexual practices to discredit an opponent’s political beliefs marks those who do as trolls.
Staying on point and reading what is written is a step in the right direction. In more ways than one.
65droptop on April 15, 2009 at 4:12 PM
It’s weird, but according to Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, these are “Ron Paul Tea Parties”
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/33370_The_Ron_Paul_Tea_Parties
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/33372_Tea_Party_Reports_Open_Thread
AntonK on April 15, 2009 at 4:14 PM
First time I’ve had the chance to watch the show, and I very much enjoyed it! Good work Ed!
Ugly on April 15, 2009 at 4:14 PM
We had a great Tea Party in Downtown Tulsa, but I am angry at the way our radio stations have divided us here. The originator of the Feb. Tulsa Tea Party scheduled the one here, but because he invited a radio station commentator to help, the other conservative radio station started a separate tea party about 10 miles away. The two tea parties overlapped, so it was hard to attend both. So what we had was half the size with two tea parties. What a sorry role model for conservative unity! I particularly believe it was KRMG that refused to cooperate with the originator of the tea party. Hey folks, if two radio stations can’t get together, how are the libertarians going to join social conservatives and going to join fiscal conservatives. It’s nuts! Hope that wasn’t the case elsewhere.
Christian Conservative on April 15, 2009 at 4:19 PM
The Obama’s are either
1.out of touch with America,or
2.Lying about it or
3. Too busy playing with thier dog to give a damn about America!
MooreMom on April 15, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Going by a script?
It’s called Teabagging, with only the non-sexual implications stated by Maddow.
sethstorm on April 15, 2009 at 7:16 PM
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