CNN thoughtfully writes glowing press release for Coffee Party launch tomorrow
posted at 7:01 pm on March 12, 2010 by Allahpundit
Tomorrow’s the day they start taking back America, one Sanka at a time. Think I’m kidding about the press release? See for yourself and tell me how, in any material respect, it differs from something the CP organizers would have written themselves. Obligatory obfuscation of the group’s partisan leanings? Check.
They’re professionals, musicians and housewives. They’re frustrated liberal activists, disheartened conservatives and political newborns. They’re young and old, rich and poor, black, white and all shades of other…
This new group calls for civility, objects to obstructionism and demands that politicians be held accountable to the people who put them in office.
Flattering comparison to the tea party movement? Check.
The self-described libertarian and fiscal conservative was, and in some ways still is, a supporter of the Tea Party. He initially backed Sen. John McCain for president in 2008 and isn’t, himself, comfortable with the idea of a public option in the health-care system. But the direction Oxford has seen the Tea Party take recently has him concerned.
He can’t help but think it’s being hijacked by social conservatives and the far right, he said, and as a gay man who’s committed to gay rights, it may not be his cup of political tea.
Moronic touting of the number of fans their Facebook page has? Check.
Born on Facebook just six weeks ago, the group boasts more than 110,000 fans, as of Friday morning. The Coffee Party is billed by many as an answer to the Tea Party (more than 1,000 fewer fans), a year-old protest movement that’s steeped in fiscal conservatism and boiling-hot, anti-tax rhetoric.
To put that in perspective, there are 1.2 million fans for Baby Megatron. But as I say, follow the link and see for yourself how eager the media is to boost this Democratic kaffeeklatsch as a full-blown rival to tea partiers. Oh, and be sure to check out the videos embedded on the page too. The “artistic expression” one is spun gold.
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In the Tank? How about in the Carafe?
upinak on March 12, 2010 at 7:04 PM
CNN has been in the tank for the progressive movement since day one – this nonsense comes as no surprise.
Rebar on March 12, 2010 at 7:05 PM
CP will always find a lot of fans on the internet.
exception on March 12, 2010 at 7:05 PM
These people are over 9000. Totally.
spmat on March 12, 2010 at 7:05 PM
More like in the bowl.
thomasaur on March 12, 2010 at 7:05 PM
Beta male circle-jerk! Whatevs, their hundreds of members are dwarfed by a single tea rally in the smallest of venues. Pathetic.
abobo on March 12, 2010 at 7:06 PM
LMAO…yes. In the carafe.
I’m so using that.
radioboyatl on March 12, 2010 at 7:06 PM
CNN? You sure this isn’t from the French Press?
Christien on March 12, 2010 at 7:07 PM
My eyes were kinda glazing over watching that video.
Anyone have an idea what they want? I mean beyond what Obama wants?
sharrukin on March 12, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Paul Begala just emailed. He says that report was too hackish for him.
amerpundit on March 12, 2010 at 7:08 PM
I’m one of the Coffee Party Facebook fans, and I’m telling you I haven’t been this entertained in a long time.
changer1701 on March 12, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Just make sure your reporters don’t ‘imbibe’ too much coffee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pde9ACMKRTs
while on the clock
macncheez on March 12, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Them Java Jihadis are plum Chock Full o’ Nuts.
Christien on March 12, 2010 at 7:10 PM
Whatever it’s in you can bet with this bunch it’ll be decaf with soymilk…..and no salt anywhere in sight.
Oldnuke on March 12, 2010 at 7:10 PM
So, if the Colonial Patriot is the costume of the Tea Party,…
Is Juan Valdez, and a Jack Ass the appropriate costume for the Coffee Party?
portlandon on March 12, 2010 at 7:10 PM
Ouch. Very ouch.
TheUnrepentantGeek on March 12, 2010 at 7:10 PM
Well played! Well played!
JadeNYU on March 12, 2010 at 7:11 PM
Lotsa luck with that you morons.
This isn’t a beverage war where the conservatives drink tea and you all drink coffee or, more likely, warm milkshakes topped with chocolate sprinkles, whipped cream, and a touch of Madagascar cinnamon.
highhopes on March 12, 2010 at 7:11 PM
Ok, now that right there is funny, I don’t care who you are.
Oldnuke on March 12, 2010 at 7:12 PM
Its not gonna work ya ‘scrots. You all tally about 14% of the population. Of that 14%, how many are going to be motivated to join your whiny beta group? OOoooo..you are woman*, hear you roar!
(*not meant to offend real women.)
Itchee Dryback on March 12, 2010 at 7:12 PM
William Randolph Hearst would blush at this kind of crap.
Cicero43 on March 12, 2010 at 7:12 PM
Good. Then they can agree with everything and go away.
nolapol on March 12, 2010 at 7:13 PM
A bunch of hard-left activists astro-turfing. Left Coast Rebel has the details here.
ajackson on March 12, 2010 at 7:13 PM
“Coffee Party”
Lame, stupid
However, if they wanna rumble with tea party folks … I think they’ll lose.
darwin on March 12, 2010 at 7:14 PM
The Chock Full of Nuts Party
crazywater on March 12, 2010 at 7:15 PM
This is like some bizarre post-modern take on astroturfing: grass-roots lefties pretending to be an independent grass-roots movement that isn’t lefy, but opposes the Tea Partiers. They’ve even got a seminar caller – the ‘disillusioned’ gay libertarian.
My head is spinning.
EnglishMike on March 12, 2010 at 7:15 PM
read this….marxist chick was the “non partisan” that cnn profiled…right there on google
http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2010/03/cnn-highlights-leftist-radical-stacey.html
Anti-Harkonnen Freedom Fighter on March 12, 2010 at 7:16 PM
Good one
darwin on March 12, 2010 at 7:16 PM
My Goldfish would protest!
upinak on March 12, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Yubums
Christien on March 12, 2010 at 7:17 PM
What a grind
macncheez on March 12, 2010 at 7:17 PM
What happens when their type of leadership bans coffee along with salt, sugar , and the like?
CWforFreedom on March 12, 2010 at 7:18 PM
They have no idea how utterly pathetic they are, or they do and that’s why they are who they are.
javamartini on March 12, 2010 at 7:19 PM
I would have been shocked had they not done this…this is what it has come to.
AUINSC on March 12, 2010 at 7:19 PM
Coffee Enemas of the State
Christien on March 12, 2010 at 7:20 PM
I knew I had seen these folks before.
Oh and language warning.
Guardian on March 12, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Only if the ass is Mr. Bill.
upinak on March 12, 2010 at 7:21 PM
Coffee-cats. I am sure there will be millions of people at each of the 600,000 meetups.
ihasurnominashun on March 12, 2010 at 7:22 PM
I don’t think these oh-so-clever collectivists get how silly they look.
Mojave Mark on March 12, 2010 at 7:22 PM
Wrong bowl, the one I referred to is connected to a tank.
thomasaur on March 12, 2010 at 7:22 PM
I never said if it was alive or dead.. now did I? *wink*
upinak on March 12, 2010 at 7:24 PM
“Coffee Party” + “Air America” = Same Outcome
Seven Percent Solution on March 12, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Bunch of whiny unemployed socialists.
Quit obstructing Dear Leader’s agenda, we want our free stuff! Blah, blah, blah.
therightwinger on March 12, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Astroturf 401
CWforFreedom on March 12, 2010 at 7:24 PM
That wouldn’t be a porcelain bowl better known as a thrown would it?
chemman on March 12, 2010 at 7:25 PM
I went to the link, I read their stories. They are confused. They are not fully engaged.
Electrongod on March 12, 2010 at 7:25 PM
They’ll still have
lotion ;-)
macncheez on March 12, 2010 at 7:25 PM
YouTube parody of the Coffee Party: http://www.youtube.com/user/Optoons#p/u/4/DBOJrlKyfIE
Mervis Winter on March 12, 2010 at 7:25 PM
Always remember that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Cindy Munford on March 12, 2010 at 7:25 PM
Their acronym is no coincidence:
CPUSA.
Lockstein13 on March 12, 2010 at 7:25 PM
beanbaggers
29Victor on March 12, 2010 at 7:26 PM
Absurdly vague. How do they expect the minority Party to oppose anything on ideological grounds?
Or, I suppose it will be called something different when roles become reversed.
anuts on March 12, 2010 at 7:28 PM
OK, so I thought of a couple of things and want to share them with ya’ll.
I’ve gone to sleep the past few nights humming “God Bless America.” Whatever happens with HC will be made right. I don’t know what that means, and I don’t want this socialist crap anywhere near me. I can scream and kick and cry and buy sporting goods and practice using my sporting goods, but at some point something greater than me, and us, will make it right.
“Coffee baggers ” (ew!) began as a group whose goal was to protest the Tea Party. Isn’t that kind of like looking at yourself in a mirror, with a mirror also at your back, and seeing your reflection go to infinity? Either that or they’re messing with quantum physics. Ding dongs.
I think this is funny: I’m in Texas. You know how the textbooks in Texas will likely be the textbooks in many other states? Well our Education Agency is officially more conservative than it has been in years. This idiot government may screw us baby boomers, but our kids and grandkids will be raised on conservative textbooks. They will learn about the American Revolution and our Founding Fathers. LOL!
There are many, many Constitutional attorneys who, if HC passes, will challenge the Constitutionality of mandatory fees and fines; and thirty-something states are reviewing the 10th and how that affects them.
We do have hope. Don’t give up.
Yellowdog12 on March 12, 2010 at 7:28 PM
New Coffe Party member: “Hi! I’m a young communist and I just want civility and those awful Republicans to stop obstructing everything so we all just be really happy!”
These Marxist bastards are so blind they have no idea how transparent they are.
darwin on March 12, 2010 at 7:28 PM
That is just sad.
Red Cloud on March 12, 2010 at 7:32 PM
Organize for America Brands it’s self the Coffee Party who do they think they are fooling? Let them no one watches CNN.
Dr Evil on March 12, 2010 at 7:33 PM
Well, this’ll be fun. A CNN-Fox Smackdown!
Can CNN vault the Coffee Party over its Tea-oriented rivals?
Or will Fox’s slam-dunk of the Big Time slots trump the aging CNN brand, and keep the Tea Partiers on top?
Besides its other handicaps, CNN starts with a major drawback. “Tea Party” makes Americans think of sneaking onboard ships in dead of night to throw stuff into the harbor and LYAO. “Coffee Party” makes Americans think “$3.95 for a latte at Starbucks? Geez, at Dunkin Donuts I can at least get a chocolate-frosted cream to go with it.”
J.E. Dyer on March 12, 2010 at 7:33 PM
No thanks , I’ll stick with my keurig k- cups…
SHARPTOOTH on March 12, 2010 at 7:33 PM
This sort of reminds me of the “smug” episode of South Park. Yeesh.
flyawaybird on March 12, 2010 at 7:34 PM
Cappuccino-slinging Slackers, Unite!
Christien on March 12, 2010 at 7:36 PM
Dude…!
Seven Percent Solution on March 12, 2010 at 7:36 PM
Tea Party Movement NOT A Lefty Coffee Clutch
March 16th Tea Party.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFZUxDudxSA
Dr Evil on March 12, 2010 at 7:36 PM
Now, more than ever, liberals really, really frighten me. They’re sick in the head.
LibTired on March 12, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Its amazing.
Itchee Dryback on March 12, 2010 at 7:38 PM
But Old Joe Stalin and Dr. Goebbels would definitely approve.
Del Dolemonte on March 12, 2010 at 7:38 PM
Great catch.
Itchee Dryback on March 12, 2010 at 7:39 PM
hmmmm… Chock Full O Nuts or Chock Full O’ Acorns
uber-con on March 12, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Latte loafers.
yoda on March 12, 2010 at 7:41 PM
It is all in the name
The Tea Party has a historical antecendent in the uprising against Imperial Britain and her taxes. And what a ride in freedom and glory it began!!! Even as it fades before our eyes.
The Coffee Party could not look to history for a name since every previous statist, socialist program has eventually led to a suffocating, freedom destroying, failed experiment that in its best outcome, resulted in a damaed economy. The outlines of the worst results of concentrated state power are a huge, dim hulk in the distance which I pray never replace the light of our forebears.
IlikedAUH2O on March 12, 2010 at 7:43 PM
Sounds like something you’d hear Parker Posey sing in a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
The Ugly American on March 12, 2010 at 7:44 PM
Their mission statement is, and for the same purposes, equally as vague as Maobama’s “Hope & Change.” Relative terms covering a socialist agenda.
pfamis on March 12, 2010 at 7:44 PM
I just read at the Daily Caller that the Republican party is printing up signs and buttons for tea parties. Don’t ask me why but I wish they wouldn’t.
Cindy Munford on March 12, 2010 at 7:45 PM
Pfffft! “Coffee Parties”… I’ll bet they’re as exciting and intriguing as NPR.
ErinF on March 12, 2010 at 7:46 PM
Well … no $#it! Guess what, Ox? They’re never going to.
apollyonbob on March 12, 2010 at 7:47 PM
What is the Latte’ Party upset about? They have liberal kooks running things right now. Maybe they just miss bashing Bush.
forest on March 12, 2010 at 7:48 PM
All you need to know right there on their FB page. Nuff said.
saltydogg14 on March 12, 2010 at 7:48 PM
If you’re looking for something to join with numbers to beat these idiotic astroturfed coffee parties, this online tax revolt (a virtual march on Washington) is a fun idea. I hesitate being part of anything which includes Mike “poor boy” Huckabee, but there are plenty of teams to join.
Buy Danish on March 12, 2010 at 7:49 PM
I love the bit about the gay Libertarian (they always tell that lie when they call the radio shows too, I think that they believe it gives them uber conservative cred).
He’s so conservative that, even though he doesn’t like government mandated healthcare, he is so much more scared of a few protesters that he joins a group that supports a president whom he voted against that wants to take over 1/6th of the American economy and turn America into a European Socialist State. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
29Victor on March 12, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Kona Gold, Jerry!
Christien on March 12, 2010 at 7:51 PM
Rally begins promptly at tennish and goes to ????
highhopes on March 12, 2010 at 7:57 PM
I think it’s very telling that liberal groups that want popular support always hide their true agenda and attempt to pass themselves off as “centrist” or “non-partisan,” while conservative groups (like the Tea Party) don’t stoop to any such misrepresentation.
I think it shows two things:
1) That conservatives are more honest.
and
2) That liberals realize that if they revealed their true agenda to Americans, Americans wouldn’t buy it.
29Victor on March 12, 2010 at 7:57 PM
This reminds me of polymorph Rimmer from Redwarf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WgUktfdDy4
Vera on March 12, 2010 at 8:00 PM
More like green painted concrete.
Phil-351 on March 12, 2010 at 8:03 PM
I feel all cafe-y and ironic.
PattyJ on March 12, 2010 at 8:03 PM
Ironically, I always tend to fall asleep when I watch Coffee Party vids.
RobCon on March 12, 2010 at 8:03 PM
Why do I sense that there is always a bong not far away from the coffee maker.
RobCon on March 12, 2010 at 8:05 PM
Why can’t the WTO riots be this chilled out?
RobCon on March 12, 2010 at 8:06 PM
You know, if this new movement gets more people thinking seriously about politics instead of falling for all the straw men and vote bribery of our day, more power to ‘em.
David Shane on March 12, 2010 at 8:08 PM
NPR tote bags, Birkinstocks and jittery Obama drones.
What fun.
RobCon on March 12, 2010 at 8:08 PM
Ghey.
HowardRoarke on March 12, 2010 at 8:10 PM
“How much for a venti espresso macchiato with non-fat socialism?”
“That’ll be a trillion dollars plus tax. For here or to go?”
sandberg on March 12, 2010 at 8:10 PM
And I thought my tinnitus was annoying….
That song made my dog twitch.
tru2tx on March 12, 2010 at 8:11 PM
This is decidedly a no-thinking movement. The name even proves they don’t get it. There is relevance to the name Tea Party going back to the days of the founding fathers. These morons might as well be hanging out at Central Perk with the kids from Friends.
highhopes on March 12, 2010 at 8:14 PM
Call it what it is….the coffee movement….
The reuse/recycle your used toilet paper party.
HornetSting on March 12, 2010 at 8:16 PM
Because the WTO riots are financed events staffed by professional thugs. These Coffee Party people are morons who will gather, do nothing of importance, and make great claims about their role in democracy. Much like Congress.
highhopes on March 12, 2010 at 8:18 PM
Don’t know which one u are talking about.
terryannonline on March 12, 2010 at 8:19 PM
GREAT post on the CP site.
fred5678 on March 12, 2010 at 8:24 PM
CNN.
Inaccurate.
Incompetent.
Irrelevant.
n0doz on March 12, 2010 at 8:31 PM
The Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay has over 12,000 fans on FaceBook and he is just a monkey.
Bicyea on March 12, 2010 at 8:32 PM
Sometimes when I drink too much coffee I have a movement.
Bicyea on March 12, 2010 at 8:34 PM
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