This is nothing short of a sham, even for MSNBC. Via Newsbusters: The good folks at MSNBC have been disparaging tax protesting Tea Parties by referring to them as the sexually charged double entendre “teabagging.” As decency prevents a clinical……

…yet a few months ago, when actual muff divers and actual teabaggers were protesting the government (Prop 8), they’re treated as angelic.

Video: Anderson Cooper wants in on the teabagging action

I bet he does. I bet he does.

amerpundit on April 15, 2009 at 12:54 PM

Indeed. Maddow on the other hand? Probably wouldn’t.

You are now minorstream America.
Get used to it.

strangelet on April 15, 2009 at 3:26 PM

You know I would argue with you on that. But unfortunately since 60some million Americans are completely fu*kin stupid I don’t really know what’s going to happen. Could be that pollsters are targeting Dems or a specific sheeple group, I don’t know. But if the house and senate are lost for the Dems in 2010, then they will be relegated to the minority status for quite some time. Or if alot of Dems finally realize that this is not the same party of Truman and JFK like I did years ago, then your idiot Prez and all the other radicals will then become the minorstream.

Some pictures at Instapundit. A few sent to me below the fold. Howard Kurtz is briefly sane before turning back into a lunatic hack. He notes the media blackout on tea parties… Most of the mainstream media fell down on……

Moreover, Obama garners considerably more confidence on the economy than either Democratic or Republican leaders in Congress. Fully 70% say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in Barack Obama to do the right thing when it comes to fixing the economy. A majority (55%) also say they have at least a fair amount of confidence in congressional Democratic leaders. By comparison, just 38% voice the same degree of confidence in Republicans leaders in Congress.

You are now minorstream America.
Get used to it.

It is hard to talk when you are teabagging.

He talks as one with personal experience.

moxie_neanderthal on April 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM

Moxie,

It’s coming soon as a post. Allah has it on his twitter page.

P.S. Get to work. Don’t you have “research” to do? ;-)

Underscoring the disconnect between the mainstream media and mainstream America.

Beck has lately gone from being a mildly annoying media dingbat to a self-imagined messiah who looks like he’s shouldering more and more of the burdens of Christ with each passing day. And because he’s stepping into a vacuum of conservative leadership — there’s no one else out there who is offering real red meat to the winger crowd — he’s begun to attract not professional help but apostles, in the form of Chuck Norris (who believes we have to prepare for armed revolution and may prepare a run for “president of Texas”) and pinhead Midwestern congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, a woman who is looking more and more like George Foreman to Sarah Palin’s Joe Frazier in the Heavyweight Championship of Stupid. Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

After all, the reason the winger crowd can’t find a way to be coherently angry right now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It never has. The setup always goes the other way: when the excesses of business interests and their political proteges in Washington leave the regular guy broke and screwed, the response is always for the lower and middle classes to split down the middle and find reasons to get pissed off not at their greedy bosses but at each other. That’s why even people like Beck’s audience, who I’d wager are mostly lower-income people, can’t imagine themselves protesting against the Wall Street barons who in actuality are the ones who fucked them over. Beck pointedly compared the AIG protesters to Bolsheviks: “[The Communists] basically said ‘Eat the rich, they did this to you, get ‘em, kill ‘em!’” He then said the AIG and G20 protesters were identical: “It’s a different style, but the sentiments are exactly the same: Find ‘em, get ‘em, kill ‘em!’” Beck has an audience that’s been trained that the rich are not appropriate targets for anger, unless of course they’re Hollywood liberals, or George Soros, or in some other way linked to some acceptable class of villain, to liberals, immigrants, atheists, etc. — Ted Turner, say, married to Jane Fonda.

But actual rich people can’t ever be the target. It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you’re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And that’s what we’ve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish… can’t be mad at AIG, can’t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it’s struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. It’s really weird stuff. And bound to get weirder, I imagine, as this crisis gets worse and more complicated.

I liked the one where Tom Cruise was in the closet. LOL

ladyingray on April 15, 2009 at 2:57 PM

One of the best one’s ever.