One year ago tomorrow, Rick Santelli went crazy on CNBC. It turned into an instant classic and inspired an entire movement. Way to go, Rick.
One year ago tomorrow, Rick Santelli went crazy on CNBC. It turned into an instant classic and inspired an entire movement.
Way to go, Rick.
Tom Tancredo’s back. The former Republican rep from Colorado raised the hackles of the left when he spoke at the National Tea Party Convention this week.
Tom Tancredo’s back. The former Republican rep from Colorado raised the hackles of the left when he spoke at the National Tea Party Convention this week.
Tancredo: “Mostly because I think we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in the country, people who could not even spell the word, “vote,” or say it in English, put a committed, socialist ideologue in the White House. The name is Barack Hussein Obama.”
Of course, the left is howling that Tancredo’s comment is raaaaaacist because it evokes images of literacy tests in the old South. And, of course, any criticism of Barack Hussein Obama is raaaaaacist.
But to us it brings up images people swooning at campaign rallies and saying that Obama was going to pay their bills.
If not illiterate, completely irredeemably ignorant.
There’s nothing unusual about finding left wing crappola in Newsweek, so the article “Is The Tea Party Over?” hardly took us by surprise. Until we realized who wrote it.
There’s nothing unusual about finding left wing crappola in Newsweek, so the article “Is The Tea Party Over?” hardly took us by surprise.
It describes tea party members as “Veterans, deeply suspicious of the young liberal president and embittered, ironically, by Congress’s failure to keep its promise to give them government-run health care for life….gun-rights activists, who believed that their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was being put at risk by Barack Obama” and “The faces of talk-show fans, pushed into action by the apocalyptic warnings of personalities like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Those two right-wing talkers had spent the past year telling listeners that the Democratic president was a racist who somehow managed to find the time also to be a Nazi and a communist.”
Talk about your crazy left-wing journalists. This guy sounded as if he was channeling Janet Napolitano and her fear of ‘military veterans’ who are “deeply suspicious” of “the young liberal president.”
Imagine our shock to find out that the article was written by Joe Scarborough. You know the “conservative” guy on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show? Not sure how to break this to you Joe, but most conservatives really seem to like our veterans, thank you very much.
Joe says the tea-party movement, which “should be celebrating its Massachusetts miracle, the collapse of health-care reform, and the destruction of the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority” is instead “at the very moment … at risk of tearing itself apart.”
Scarborough used the rest of the article to criticize Glenn Beck, which is apparently a part of any MSNBC anchor’s contract and also part of a contest among all anchors on the network each month to decide who gets the best parking spot.
We’re not blaming Scarborough for the loss of his mind to liberal bias. In addition to working at MSNBC, he also spent six years in Congress.
We suspect that the combination of the two is more than even the strongest mind can endure.
Source: Newsweek
– Written by Patrick Michael
Evil, racist, homophobic “tea bagger” sums up Massachusetts in 15 words
Source: Bluegrass Pundit
Poor Chris Matthews. Poor, poor Chris Matthews. The MSNBC host is bitterly clinging to the results of a new poll that show President Obama’s approval numbers roaring back to life.
Poor Chris Matthews. Poor, poor Chris Matthews.
The MSNBC host is bitterly clinging to the results of a new poll that show President Obama’s approval numbers roaring back to life.
Of course, Matthews attributes The One’s sinking fortunes to “all the crazy stuff of the summer.” You know, crazy stuff like “the tea parties, the birthers, the nutbags out there.”
Unfortunately, guests Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report and John Harris of the Politico weren’t so eager to agree with Matthews assessment of the situation. It was their unenviable task to tell Matthews that the pole he cited was an outlier and inconsistent with all the other polls.
For the first time in recent memory, Matthews was almost stunned into silence. Which would have almost made his show watchable.
Source: NewsBuster.org
That’s not a sign. That’s a damn rallying cry. Would someone please print the T-shirts and bumper stickers.
That’s not a sign. That’s a damn rallying cry. Would someone please print the T-shirts and bumper stickers.
Summing up the liberal media’s Tea Party reporting in twelve simple words. Nothing we can add. We just hope this guy is a faithful reader of IHateTheMedia.com.
Nothing we can add. We just hope this guy is a faithful reader of IHateTheMedia.com.
Source: FloppingAces.net
So how many showed up, you ask? It depends on whom you believe. To get an objective perspective, it helps to go overseas. According to the UK’s Daily Mail — complete with eye-opening photos — the crowd numbered “as many as one million people.”
An awful lot of people showed up at the National Mall Tea Party on September 12 to protest government spending in general and ObamaCare in particular.
So how many showed up, you ask? It depends on whom you believe.
MSNBC reported, “thousands have turned out, some have said tens of thousands.” The Washington Post estimated “tens of thousands.” ABC figured between 60–70,000 protestors. The New York Times initially described it as a “sea” of people before stating, “The demonstrators numbered well into the tens of thousands, though the police declined to estimate the size of the crowd.” According to Examiner.com, there were “as many as two million protestors.” CBS, CNN and FOX all reported on the Tea Party but declined to provide estimates.
To get an objective perspective, it helps to go overseas. According to the UK’s Daily Mail — complete with eye-opening photos — the crowd numbered “as many as one million people.”
On the same day as the D.C. Tea Party, the president appeared in Minnesota to continue pushing his idea of health care “reform”. How many came to see Dr. O? According to the NY Times, 15,000 “cheering Obama supporters” showed up. On the day before the protest, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs claimed he had no idea the D.C. rally was even planned.
On Sunday, White House senior adviser David Axelrod said of the protests, “I don’t think it’s indicative of the nation’s mood. You know, I don’t think we ought to be distracted by that. My message to them is, they’re wrong.”
Out of touch much?
Source: Daily Mail UK
Leah, a C-SPAN caller from New Hampshire, came on the air saying that she “just wants to clarify a few things about these manufactured angered crowds.”
Not much commentary necessary here. We’ll just let Leah, a C-SPAN caller from New Hampshire, tell you what’s what.
She came on the air saying that she “just wants to clarify a few things about these manufactured angered crowds.” Politico reporter Manu Raju and C-SPAN’s Rob Harrell undoubtedly thought they were going to hear from a disgruntled Democrat.
Instead, Leah took them to school.
H/T: HotAir.com
Democratic Strategist Lanny Davis wants “the media name names, publish photographs, and do interviews of those responsible…” for conservatives gathering together to protest and ask questions of their congresspersons.
It’s a sad fact the right just doesn’t know how to fight like the left does. We’re simply too nice, and too civil. But now, the fear that we could lose this once great nation to socialism has brought conservatives to attention. The right is now successfully utilizing some of the same tactics the left has employed for years – demonstration and protest.
Barack Obama and his followers are none too happy about this development and, frankly, they are utterly confused as to how to fight back. First, they called the peaceful Tea Party protesters racist and domestic terrorists. Now with fired up conservatives standing up to the men and women of congress in their home districts, they find they must resort to calling the concerned citizens simply asking question of their elected officials, fascist “mobs.”
Democratic Strategist Lanny Davis took his turn at bat yesterday at Politico, accusing conservatives of thuggery, using fascist tactics to cause disruption.
Worse of all, he wants to “have the media name names, publish photographs, and do interviews of those responsible…” This comes on the heels of Linda Douglass, Communications Director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, who just this week asked all citizens to report any “fishy” talk, emails or websites to the White House so they can investigate any “disinformation” about healthcare.
Here are Orwellian words of Lanny Davis from yesterday, August 5:
The “shout downs” organized by the Republican right meet one of the classic definition of “fascist” tactics–defined as using shouting and disruption to deprive the civil and respectful debate of ideas. There is literally no defense to these tactics. I don’t criticize those who feel genuine anger or fear and show up to meetings to express those emotions. But I do call out the tactic of screaming and disrupting a meeting and the fact that this is a systematic tactic by thugs who want to prevent civil discourse, not promote it.
Let’s have the media name names, publish photographs, and do interviews of those responsible for approving, even organizing these techniques. And let’s find an investigative journalist – are there many left – to prove these so-called grassroots shouters are, or are not, being paid.
It took a year or more to prove that the so-called grassroots protesters shouting and pounding on the windows of the vote counters in Dade County – successfully stopping the vote – were really paid Republican congressional staffers, many then on the public payroll, and from the Republican National Committee and the Bush 2000 presidential campaign staff.
Will that story of paid people to disrupt and block discussion organized by the Republican Party or tacitly encouraged while Republican rightwing organizations organize them at least be investigated?
We know we’ve been saying this a lot lately, but is it 1984 yet?
Bonus: If you’d really like a good laugh, go over to MichelleMalkin.com and read
A message from Lanny Davis to The Mob to see how he’s trying to explain that he we all just misinterpreted him.
Source: Politico
But will she apologize for her awful grammar? “Everybody is a racist,” Janeane, “Everybody is.”
Hell, even we ignorant, redneck, racist Tea Baggers know that.
Souce: BigHollywood.com via Drudge
Highly-respected reporter Susan Roesgen…hell, we can’t even say that with a straight face, so let’s start again. Partisan hack reporter Susan Roesgen is back on the air at CNN.
You may remember Roesgen as the so-called reporter who frantically attacked Tea Party participants in Chicago on April 15. Her pathetic performance drew such unanimous condemnation that Roesgen suddenly departed on a “previously-planned vacation.” A three week vacation, at that.
Roesgen is now back on the air reporting for CNN. Her assignment? The Drew Peterson arrest. And after the way she murdered her Tea Party assignment, what could be more appropriate?
Unconfirmed rumors say that Roesgen immediately caught Peterson’s eye and the dashing former detective is already planning a June wedding.
There’s not a word of truth in that previous sentence. But in our defense, you have to admit that those two deserve each other.
Source: MediaBistro.com
Source: Gateway Pundit
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill., duh) took time out of her busy tax-and-spend schedule to denounce the Tea Party protests as “despicable” and shameful.”
In a statement, Schakowsky parroted Democratic/CNN talking points that the Tea Parties were “an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans.”
“It’s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt,” she said. “Not a single American household or business will be taxed at a higher rate this year. Made to look like a grassroots uprising, this is an Obama bashing party promoted by corporate interests, as well as Republican lobbyists and politicians.”
What her statement failed to mention was that her husband, lobbyist Robert Creamer, pled guilty to bank fraud and tax cheating in 2005. She also signed off on their tax returns.
If this is the most ethical and transparent congress in history, we can’t imagine what the most corrupt would be like.
Source: TheHill.com
| To: | Janeane Garofalo |
| From: | An outraged conservative |
| Re: | Republican racists |
| Date: | April 17, 2009 |
Earlier today we published the story Angry activist, actress Janeane Garofalo announces that you’re a racist where she told Keith Olbermann that tax protesters are nothing but a bunch of racist white power wackos.
Well, Janeane, here’s one of those racist Republicans at a Tea Party in Santa Ana, California, right in the heart of whitebread Orange County.
Oh, wait. That woman appears to be black. A black woman had the nerve to tweak Barack Obama’s America-bashing overseas statements on one side of her sign, then tweak Michelle Obama’s ’08 campaign comment on the other (“For the first time in my adult life I’m proud of my country”).
Being in Orange County, she probably isn’t authentically black. But take our word for it, she is authentically outraged.
Update: For some reason our Digg It button not working in this article. You can Digg it here. That is, if you want to send Garofalo the memo.
Everyone’s ratings were up on the night of the Tea Parties, but the ratings at Fox were in the stratosphere. They can’t even see MSNBC in their rear view mirror anymore.
The Comedy Network’s Daily Show and Colbert climbed into the top ten at the expense of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’S Larry King.
The ratings for Ed Schultz’ EdShow were so abysmal that MSNBC may rename it “Weekday at Bernie’s.” And all that talk about “teabagging” caused Anderson Cooper to suck. Or maybe we should have said his ratings sucked. Yeah, that’s what we should have said.
Source: Neilsen Media Research via Media Bistro
Janeane Garofalo and Keith Olbermann are complete opposites. She’s angry and nuts, but he’s nuts and angry. Watching their alternate reality is like being dropped into some parallel universe where everything is twisted about 180 degrees.
Here are a few choice comments from Garofalo on Olbermann’s Thursday show. Amazingly, she knows things about you and the Tea Parties and Fox News that no one else has ever known. Or ever will know.
“Racism straightup. Nothing but a bunch of teabagging racists.” Blah-blah-blah. “These guys hate that a black guy is in the White House.” Blah-blah-blah. “Fox News loves to foment this anti-intellectualism because that’s their bread and butter.” Blah-blah-blah. “The Republican hyphen conservative movement has crystalized into the white power movement.”
Olbermann actually treats this lunatic like she’s a rational human being. Of course, that would be the pot calling the kettle black.
Hey, that wasn’t a racist comment. No matter what Garofalo says.
Update: Please read our subsequent Memo to the lovely and gracious Janeane Garofalo:
Source: HotAir.com
Back when Rupert Murdoch founded Fox, he said he was doing it because CNN was biased, out of touch and ignored a major part of the audience.
Murdoch’s wisdom was never more evident than during yesterday’s Tea Parties.
First, a CNN reporter asks a man why he’s at the Tea Party, interrupts his answer, and raves about the state of Illinois gets $50 billion in “stimulus” money.
We could excuse it as the emotional excesses of a single reporter. Except for one thing: the YouTube video of the segment is titled “CNN Reporter Roughed Up at Chicago Tea-Party” despite the fact that there was no physical confrontation whatsoever. The bias is simply endemic at CNN.
This one simple clip demonstrates why Fox has higher ratings than the other cable news networks combined.
You read that right. Evidently some people weren’t sure they had genitals. Or whether their genitals had integrity. Or something.
For the lamestream media, especially the WaPo and NY Times, this is what passes for “all the news that’s fit to print” these days. Puny penis puns.
Source: Washington Post via Ace of Spades
Ahhh, it’s just Code Pink trying to disrupt the Santa Monica Tea Party. Here’s what they say about it on their website:
The Santa Monica Tea Party of 2009 and Tea Parties all across America are being organized by friends of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, all about getting less funding for government. Let’s show up with a better message: STOP funding wars and Wall Street, and start funding the needs of the people — health care, education, and a green economy. Join us as we crash their party.
Santa Monica Tea Party
Wednesday, April 15th 2009
4:00–5:00 PM
Santa Monica, CA
Location:
Santa Monica Pier
100 Colorado Ave.
Santa Monica, CA
90401
Contact:
Audrey
[email protected]
Send Audrey an email. Plan to attend. What could possibly be more fun than a bunch of Code Pink lunatics protesting people who are protesting taxes?
Oh, how we wish we’d been in Washington, DC last Saturday.
That’s when a liberal group staged an anti-Tea Party that was attended by 120,000 people. Oh, wait. We misread the news report. The actual attendance was 12 people. No, that’s not a typo. Twelve sad, pathetic, lonely people showed up.
Twelve. Twelve thousand. Twelve million. Who cares? As we’ve seen with the economic “stimulus” mess, a few more zeroes mean absolutely nothing to liberals.
In an attempt to explain away this embarrassing lack of interest, liberal blogger Jane Hamsher announced that the far more successful conservative Tea Parties are “financed by Fox News” and are attended by “just a bunch of people on the conservative end who are pissed off that they’re not the ones stealing right now.”
So she’s in favor of higher taxes. And she’s in favor of stealing as long as the thieves are liberal.
The only surprise here is that she got eleven other lunatics to attend her little protest.
Source: FrankStrategies.com
Cincinnati has long been nicknamed “Porkopolis” because of its long association with the pork industry. So it’s a particularly poetic twist of fate that Porkopolis should be the scene of a huge Tea Party tax protest this Sunday.
Thousands of latter day tax rebels showed up in the city’s Fountain Square for the Cincinnati Tea Party, a grass-roots effort protesting Washington’s recent record setting spend-a-thon. But did the mainstream media notice?
“Unless you frequent conservative websites,” NewsBusters noted, “you’d have no idea that such events were being staged.”
In fact, over 150 Tea Parties have been brewing across the country, despite being virtually ignored by major news outlets (with the notable exception of Fox News and CNN).
Instapundit reader Ed Steiner attended the Cincinnati rally and provided a firsthand account of media bias in action:
One of the local TV stations—WCPO—did a hatchet job on the Tea Party…The station did a 30-second scan of the Square and then did its own internal Fairness Doctrine by highlighting the few Obama supporter signs and doing an interview with the local Dem Party chief.
Here’s a philosophical question: If an event occurs but the news media don’t cover it, does it make an impact? Or put another way, if the news media report something but no one listens (Air America anyone?), does it have an influence?
Don’t touch that browser! Stay tuned for more Tea Parties come April 15.
Source: NewsBusters, Pajamas Media
Last week we witnessed the sad spectacle of the president’s press secretary attacking Rick Santelli, a reporter who made the mistake of disagreeing with part of the president’s “stimulus” plan.
“This is a copy of the President’s home affordability plan,” Gibbs drawled. “It’s available on the White House web site, and I would encourage him (to) download it. Hit print, and begin to read it.
Santelli responded in an interview with Larry Kudlow. And he responded with all the passion of his earlier comments.
“The 92% of the Americans that are paying their loan on time,” Santelli said, “do you think there’s no pain there? These people are probably cutting back, their 401(k)s are down. It’s tough. Just because they’re making their payment and they’re current, doesn’t mean they’re not cutting back as well.
“Do we want to teach our children that you can get out of a mistake and that there are do-overs?” he asked. “I just don’t think that’s American. And I read it and guess what? I still don’t like it.”
We don’t know what Robert Gibbs wants to teach his children. But we’d suggest he use part of his substantial salary to hire them a math tutor so they don’t end up as bad with numbers as their old man.
