PETER!

[olyclimber]

Crisis! Ron Paul! Neocons! Lib Media report! Teabagging!

 

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/paul-cautions-neocon-influence-infiltrating-tea-parties/

 

this has all the makings of a made for TV movie starring Steven Seagal.

[prole]

 

I thought this was a baseball thread.

 

[StevenSeagal]

Don't tell anyone. We're still in negotiations.

[Stonehead]

But wait, there's more.

 

"Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards. I mean these people, these liberal activists are kooks. They are looney tunes. And I’m not going to apologize for it, I’m just quoting Emanuel. It’s in the news. I think their big news is he’s out there calling Obama’s number one supporters f’ing retards. So now there’s going to be a meeting. There’s going to be a retard summit at the White House."

 

[Peter_Puget]

Now I'm pissed. I thought this was going to be a Baseball thread too!

[billcoe]

Me too, as I thought it was climbing related.

 

"His core issues, such as creating transparency at the Federal Reserve, recalling overseas soldiers and ending the drug war, are "not what is generally heard from the Republican party," he said."

 

Hmmm, maybe he did some routes when he was younger?

Edited February 10, 2010 by billcoe

[olyclimber]

I heard Obama was going to socialize baseball. Thats what this teabagger guy told me in the bathroom.

[StevenSeagal]

But wait, there's more.

 

"Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards. I mean these people, these liberal activists are kooks. They are looney tunes. And I’m not going to apologize for it, I’m just quoting Emanuel. It’s in the news. I think their big news is he’s out there calling Obama’s number one supporters f’ing retards. So now there’s going to be a meeting. There’s going to be a retard summit at the White House."

 

oh, the brilliance of "satire"! That Rush is so entertaining!

I can't wait for his next round of negro jokes, you know, the funny satirical kind of racism.

 

 

[Stonehead]

Sarah said it's ok, Not demeaning at all. We should really be focusing on bombing Iran.

[prole]

What's Trig say?

[Stonehead]

Tancredo said f'em if they can't pass a literacy test.

[StevenSeagal]

Sarah said it's ok Not demeaning at all.

 

well yeah, that's cuz libs ARE retards, so he was speaking the truth AND being funny at the same time. Isn't that brilliant?

 

That, and, she can't have the Blob talking shit about her when she's trying to run a campaign for President...you know, run a campaign while working as a paid correspondant for a major media/news channel, for a few years while saying slyly "oh I'm just thinkin' about it". That's not illegal or unethical at all, doesn't violate any campaign-media relations bylaws whatsoever!

[Stonehead]

Don't ya know that once bombs start falling on Iran then everything will be as right as rain. Military Keysianism!! Hell yeah!!!

[j_b]

The corporate media is for sure giving a lot of air time to a few hundred right wingers that met in a room. If they had been left wingers, they wouldn't even get a mention. Let's face it, tea parties are corporate tools.

 

Paul is wrong per usual: Democrats didn't wait for neocons to be hawks.

[j_b]

Ron Paul is a regular speaker at the annual convention for these people:

 

[video:youtube]t9BEZ-yreR4

[j_b]

But, hey, may be Paul is a commie too

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/ron-paul-cia/

[tvashtarkatena]

I've been calling those retards retards from day one.

Edited February 11, 2010 by tvashtarkatena

[j_b]

18 articles last week on the tea party just in the NYT and WAPost ... (probably was 24hr/day coverage on Faux News).

 

In the meantime:

"How Popular is the Tea Party Movement?

Des Moines register reports: “A third of Iowans from across the political spectrum say they support the ‘tea party’ movement, sounding a loud chorus of dissatisfaction with government, according to The Des Moines Register’s new Iowa Poll.” But how loud a chorus is this, really? 55 percent of Americans say they’re personally protected by a guardian angel. 38 percent of Americans have a favorable view of Cuba and 36 percent are favorably disposed toward socialism, but I don’t see anyone writing newspaper articles about how a populist wave of socialism is sweeping the country. The number of Iowans who like the tea party movement is smaller than the number of Americans who want marijuana legalized or the number of Americans who believe the government has had secret contact with extra-terrestrials.

 

Polls register largish minorities of the population as saying all kinds of things. It’s very hard to know what to make of any of those polls as snapshots without some kind of context and duration over time. Do people even know what the “tea party” movement is? Do the people showing up to the tea parties? I’ve previously discussed my encounter with a tea partier who likes freedom so much that she waves a flag endorsing chattel slavery. I take it that’s not the main thrust of the movement, but obviously there’s a mish-mash of sentiments represented by the attendees. "

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/02/how-popular-is-the-tea-party-movement.php

 

Why is the corporate media pushing the "populist" tea party?

[StevenSeagal]

Because they scream and yell a lot; anger and controversy and conflict sells newspapers and draws crowds of gapers.

[j_b]

18 articles last week on the tea party just in the NYT and WAPost ... (probably was 24hr/day coverage on Faux News).

[..]

Why is the corporate media pushing the "populist" tea party?

 

Could it be that they are afraid of genuine populism (i.e. the kind that actually benefits common folks) and would much rather promote the "small government anti-tax" types who suddenly rediscovered deficits and spending now that the borrow and spend republicans they blindly supported are out of power?

[j_b]

Because they scream and yell a lot; anger and controversy and conflict sells newspapers and draws crowds of gapers.

 

Can't be. When the left organizes protests that are typically much better attended than tea parties, leftists are then reviled as angry, yelling terrorists of some kind.

[StevenSeagal]

Because they scream and yell a lot; anger and controversy and conflict sells newspapers and draws crowds of gapers.

 

Can't be. When the left organizes protests that are typically much better attended than tea parties, leftists are then reviled as angry, yelling terrorists of some kind.

 

ok, how about overt racism and xenophobia? That sells too.

[prole]

Because they scream and yell a lot; anger and controversy and conflict sells newspapers and draws crowds of gapers.

 

The antitax, deregulatory portion of the Teabagger Party's incoherent, contradictory mishmash of a platform falls perfectly in line with the corporate agenda and elite aims in general. How this constituency reconciles itself with the racist, religious wacko portion of "the movement" is nothing new. It's been the ongoing story of American Conservatism at least since Reagan brought these threads together to win the 1980 election. These divisions are only more visible now as the application of its own policies have made the conservative base it depends on for electoral victories even dumber, poorer, and louder while making the corporate elite that really calls the shots for the GOP more contemptuous of and less likely to implement regressive social policies that might undermine "good business practices" (aka "selling shit to anyone regardless of race, religion, creed, or stance on abortion").

[Choada_Boy]

Jesus: "Peter! Peter!"

Peter: "Yes, my Lord! I'm here!"

Jesus: "Peter! I have to tell you something!"

Peter" "Yes, my Lord! I'm here! What is it?

Jesus: "Peter! I can see your house from up here!"

[Kimmo]

all i know is i'm gonna start taking politics more seriously.

seriously.