So who attendin "tea party" tomorrow?

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: So who attendin "tea party" tomorrow?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">u know i have been tinking re the timing of the 'grass root opposition to current spending'...let mi get it straight...

dem is NOW up in arms re efforts to save the US BUT neva up in arms wen all dat taxation money was being channelled to Halliburton unda di guise of a military operation....how much taxes was spent in Afghanistan di fuss time rung, an here we go again

wi willing fi spend taxes to maintain some claim as leader of the free world but not willing to spend it to save di country we live in...

mi can agree wid not spending to save some a dem rogues but mi juss no undastan di driving force behind dem anger...an it ha nutten to do wid too much taxes as dem a claim..cause if it was, dem would have been doing dis 8 yrs ago in full force </div></div>Those who pays people like Rush Limbaugh and sean hahhity, recognize that they can bamboozle people as long as they can let them think that th emajority think it is right.
So they stage projects like these, then inflate the response,and use th einflated figures to miw down the fence sutters. they were mire than shocked at the low turn out though. They under estimate the intelligence of th epeople. the people did'nt take the bait this time.
They will try to use the upcomming immigration debate to do a better job.
as for the other points, they don't count in these people's mind. Since they own the mass media and control talk radio. So they decode the sibject.

[RichD]

Re: So who attendin &quot;tea party&quot; tomorrow?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">FOX Fan: How would you describe the overall mission and goal of the Tax Day Tea Parties?

The mission of the Tax Day Tea Party protests are to send a message to Washington and our elected officials. We must make sure that our decision-makers in Washington know that there is significant opposition to these reckless tax and spending proposals. We want to send the message that these elected officials work for us. We hired them, and we can fire them. If they don't want to listen to the American people and their constituents, we will work tirelessly to retire them when they are up for re-election. We want them to know that we are no longer the silent majority.

FOX Fan: Why is this an important dialogue for our country to be engaging in right now?

<span style="font-weight: bold">It is an important dialogue simply because we are heading down the slippery slope to socialism,</span> and that is not what this great country has ever been about, nor is that where most people want it to go. We are proud of our country and will do everything we can to stand shoulder to shoulder and protect the constitution and this great land. We CANNOT spend our way out of this massive debt. The excessive spending has got to stop. We cannot sit back and watch this happen from the sidelines.

FOX Fan: How and why did you get involved in this movement?

I became involved in this movement back in February after Rick Santelli had his rant on CNBC. I am a blogger and a member of TCOT (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and we all came together on a conference call on Feb. 20 to plan the first round of tea parties on Feb. 27. We had great success on the 27th and decided to start making plans for the Tax Day Tea Party! I am the nationwide event coordinator for the entire Tea Party Movement and also one of the Atlanta Tea Party co-chairs. I have never been involved in anything like this in my life. I have never been involved in politics or have been an activist. I am your everyday average American that is tired of screaming at my TV and radio. I have realized over the past six weeks that I am not alone!

FOX Fan: What is planned specifically in Atlanta? How many people will be in attendance?

Atlanta has a huge event planned! We have people coming from all over the country to the Atlanta Tea Party. Sean Hannity will be broadcasting live from our tea party, and John Rich of Big &amp; Rich will be performing. We have speakers lined up and entertainment for the attendees. This is going to be a great interactive event with video and audio production. Although we have no way of confirming how many will attend, we are expecting 10,000 people minimum... possibly many more!

FOX Fan: What happens after April 15th? What do you hope people will take away from this event?

We will not stop trying to have our voices heard and holding our elected officials responsible for their reckless and out of control spending. We will work to retire anyone that votes for the excessive budget that is now in conference. We promise that we will move forward, and all Tea Party Patriots are on board with this issue. This is not a partisan issue, but an American taxpayer issue. We will be finding a fiscally responsible Democrat and Republican for each Congressional district to challenge any representative that votes in favor of the budget. There will be even more tea parties on July 4. This is just the beginning!</div></div>

[evanovitch]

Re: So who attendin &quot;tea party&quot; tomorrow?

RichD , u memba how Busta use fi cawl 'red' fi mek Jcan no vote fi di PNP, well is from lass week mi a seh dem a try a McCarthy push in di US juss now...fi real...

an wat i dont undastan is why, at this time, wen di country already a face a fissure of sort wid di economics, dem a try mek di break even wider wid dis non issue...

dat coupled wid di whole heap a gun weh dat fringe a stockpile mek mi really believe seh di tawk bout racewar etc not dat allllll farfetched....

[RichD]

Re: So who attendin &quot;tea party&quot; tomorrow?

yuh nuh si dem saying is a demonstration of di love for their country...di ressa unno nuh love your country

[RichD]

Re: So who attendin &quot;tea party&quot; tomorrow?

dis mek me laff

can you guess the news outlet?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">For thousands of Americans, Tax Day was a moment to protest what they see as bloated budgets and a pile of debt being passed on to their children.

For CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use the word &quot;teabagging&quot; in a sentence.

Teabagging, for those who don't live in a frat house, refers to a sexual act involving part of the male genitalia and a second person's face or mouth.

So when the anti-tax &quot;tea party&quot; protests were held Wednesday across the country, cable anchors and guests -- who for weeks had all but ignored the story -- covered the protests by cracking a litany of barely concealed sexual references.

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interspersed &quot;teabagging&quot; references with analyst David Gergen's more staid commentary on how Republicans are still &quot;searching for their voice.&quot;

&quot;It's hard to talk when you're teabagging,&quot; Cooper explained. Gergen laughed, but Cooper kept a straight face.

MSNBC's David Shuster weaved a tapestry of &quot;Animal House&quot; humor Monday as he filled in for Countdown host Keith Olbermann.

The protests, he explained, amount to &quot;Teabagging day for the right wing and they are going nuts for it.&quot;

He described the parties as simultaneously &quot;full-throated&quot; and &quot;toothless,&quot; and continued: &quot;They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending.&quot; Shuster also noted how the protesters &quot;whipped out&quot; the demonstrations this past weekend.

Tea Party participants were not amused. The events were held in dozens of cities across the country, and while some demonstrators were criticized for wielding off-topic and sometimes insensitive protest signs, most took to the streets to speak out against government spending.

Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, said the media coverage was &quot;insulting,&quot; reacting specifically to CNN reporter Susan Roesgen's combative interviews with Illinois demonstrators in which she declared that the protests were &quot;anti-CNN&quot; and supported by FOX News. She left the teabagging jokes to her colleagues, though.

&quot;I've never seen anything like it,&quot; Bozell said. &quot;The oral sex jokes on (CNN) and particularly MSNBC on teabagging ... they had them by the dozens. That's how insulting they were toward people who believe they're being taxed too highly.&quot;

Max Pappas, public policy vice president at FreedomWorks -- a small-government group which promoted the tea parties -- said it's a &quot;shame&quot; media outlets cracked jokes at a genuine &quot;grassroots uprising.&quot;

&quot;I think what that reveals is how worried they are that this might actually be something serious. You make fun of things you're afraid of, I'd say,&quot; Pappas said.

If anyone thinks the orally charged remarks on mainstream cable were just a coincidence, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's segments over the past week with guest, Air America's Ana Marie Cox, would dissolve all doubt. Their on-air gymnastics, dancing around the double entendre of the week, looked like live-action Beavis and Butthead.

By one count, the two of them used the word &quot;teabag&quot; more than 50 times on one show. And on Monday, Cox even let the viewers in on their joke -- referencing Urbandictionary.com, a site which offers a number of colorful definitions for the term &quot;teabagging.&quot;

&quot;Well, there is a lot of love in teabagging,&quot; Cox said. &quot;It is curious, though, as you point out, they do not use the verb 'teabag.' It might be because they're less enthusiastic about teabagging than some of the more corporate conservatives who seem to have taken to it quite easily.&quot;

Jenny Beth Martin, a Republican activist who helped organize one protest in Atlanta, said she's not too worried about the protests being dismissed by some media outlets. She estimated 750,000 people attended more than 800 protests in all 50 states, and that at the very least the local media and community newspapers documented it.

&quot;Our message definitely got out where it needed to get,&quot; she said.</div></div>

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: So who attendin &quot;tea party&quot; tomorrow?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">FOX Fan: How would you describe the overall mission and goal of the Tax Day Tea Parties?

The mission of the Tax Day Tea Party protests are to send a message to Washington and our elected officials. We must make sure that our decision-makers in Washington know that there is significant opposition to these reckless tax and spending proposals. We want to send the message that these elected officials work for us. We hired them, and we can fire them. If they don't want to listen to the American people and their constituents, we will work tirelessly to retire them when they are up for re-election. We want them to know that we are no longer the silent majority.

FOX Fan: Why is this an important dialogue for our country to be engaging in right now?

<span style="font-weight: bold">It is an important dialogue simply because we are heading down the slippery slope to socialism,</span> and that is not what this great country has ever been about, nor is that where most people want it to go. We are proud of our country and will do everything we can to stand shoulder to shoulder and protect the constitution and this great land. We CANNOT spend our way out of this massive debt. The excessive spending has got to stop. We cannot sit back and watch this happen from the sidelines.

FOX Fan: How and why did you get involved in this movement?

I became involved in this movement back in February after Rick Santelli had his rant on CNBC. I am a blogger and a member of TCOT (Top Conservatives on Twitter), and we all came together on a conference call on Feb. 20 to plan the first round of tea parties on Feb. 27. We had great success on the 27th and decided to start making plans for the Tax Day Tea Party! I am the nationwide event coordinator for the entire Tea Party Movement and also one of the Atlanta Tea Party co-chairs. I have never been involved in anything like this in my life. I have never been involved in politics or have been an activist. I am your everyday average American that is tired of screaming at my TV and radio. I have realized over the past six weeks that I am not alone!

FOX Fan: What is planned specifically in Atlanta? How many people will be in attendance?

Atlanta has a huge event planned! We have people coming from all over the country to the Atlanta Tea Party. Sean Hannity will be broadcasting live from our tea party, and John Rich of Big &amp; Rich will be performing. We have speakers lined up and entertainment for the attendees. This is going to be a great interactive event with video and audio production. Although we have no way of confirming how many will attend, we are expecting 10,000 people minimum... possibly many more!

FOX Fan: What happens after April 15th? What do you hope people will take away from this event?

We will not stop trying to have our voices heard and holding our elected officials responsible for their reckless and out of control spending. We will work to retire anyone that votes for the excessive budget that is now in conference. We promise that we will move forward, and all Tea Party Patriots are on board with this issue. This is not a partisan issue, but an American taxpayer issue. We will be finding a fiscally responsible Democrat and Republican for each Congressional district to challenge any representative that votes in favor of the budget. There will be even more tea parties on July 4. This is just the beginning!</div></div> </div></div>
There certainly are not 'the silent majority.

They are more like the <span style="font-weight: bold">noisy miniscule minorty </span>

[evanovitch]

Re: So who attendin &quot;tea party&quot; tomorrow?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">yuh nuh si dem saying is a demonstration of di love for their country...di ressa unno nuh love your country </div></div>

i also guess dem tink di bankers etc who bring di country dem love to its knee fi dem personal greed r just misunderstood while Obama juss a hurry come up black who juss trying to be honest in assessing di damage and honest in wat will reverse said damage...yeah, mi can see dem cognitive reasoning

[RichD]

Re: So who attendin &quot;tea party&quot; tomorrow?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">yuh nuh si dem saying is a demonstration of di love for their country...di ressa unno nuh love your country </div></div>

i also guess dem tink di bankers etc who bring di country dem love to its knee fi dem personal greed r just misunderstood while Obama juss a hurry come up black who juss trying to be honest in assessing di damage and honest in wat will reverse said damage...yeah, mi can see dem cognitive reasoning </div></div> well their pundits are telling them that obama is a radical demagogue who is trying to grab power anywhere/anyhow he can.

[evanovitch]

Re: So who attendin &quot;tea party&quot; tomorrow?

so wat happen to the checks and balances put in by the CONSTITUTION dem love fi reffah to as dem LOVER ,in preventing dat happening...

i cannot fathom how dem people can reason seh di Constitution is set in stone re the right to bear arms, but di separation of governing bodies, Presidency, Judiciary n Legislative is iffy....

an dem a mek men who mekking millions from juss speech mek dem lose dem mind even as dem lose dem shut from di factory jobs disappearing at the hands of di very backers of these speech mongers...

fi real...sometimes mi wonda if dem ha mind r reasoning ability...dang

[RichD]

Re: So who attendin &quot;tea party&quot; tomorrow?

so hannity sey is about peopel who are &quot;fed up about fear mongering fed up about weakness on national defense and fed up about spending&quot;

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: So who attendin &quot;tea party&quot; tomorrow?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> dis mek me laff

can you guess the news outlet?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">For thousands of Americans, Tax Day was a moment to protest what they see as bloated budgets and a pile of debt being passed on to their children.

For CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use the word &quot;teabagging&quot; in a sentence.

Teabagging, for those who don't live in a frat house, refers to a sexual act involving part of the male genitalia and a second person's face or mouth.

So when the anti-tax &quot;tea party&quot; protests were held Wednesday across the country, cable anchors and guests -- who for weeks had all but ignored the story -- covered the protests by cracking a litany of barely concealed sexual references.

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interspersed &quot;teabagging&quot; references with analyst David Gergen's more staid commentary on how Republicans are still &quot;searching for their voice.&quot;

&quot;It's hard to talk when you're teabagging,&quot; Cooper explained. Gergen laughed, but Cooper kept a straight face.

MSNBC's David Shuster weaved a tapestry of &quot;Animal House&quot; humor Monday as he filled in for Countdown host Keith Olbermann.

The protests, he explained, amount to &quot;Teabagging day for the right wing and they are going nuts for it.&quot;

He described the parties as simultaneously &quot;full-throated&quot; and &quot;toothless,&quot; and continued: &quot;They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending.&quot; Shuster also noted how the protesters &quot;whipped out&quot; the demonstrations this past weekend.

Tea Party participants were not amused. The events were held in dozens of cities across the country, and while some demonstrators were criticized for wielding off-topic and sometimes insensitive protest signs, most took to the streets to speak out against government spending.

Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, said the media coverage was &quot;insulting,&quot; reacting specifically to CNN reporter Susan Roesgen's combative interviews with Illinois demonstrators in which she declared that the protests were &quot;anti-CNN&quot; and supported by FOX News. She left the teabagging jokes to her colleagues, though.

&quot;I've never seen anything like it,&quot; Bozell said. &quot;The oral sex jokes on (CNN) and particularly MSNBC on teabagging ... they had them by the dozens. That's how insulting they were toward people who believe they're being taxed too highly.&quot;

Max Pappas, public policy vice president at FreedomWorks -- a small-government group which promoted the tea parties -- said it's a &quot;shame&quot; media outlets cracked jokes at a genuine &quot;grassroots uprising.&quot;

&quot;I think what that reveals is how worried they are that this might actually be something serious. You make fun of things you're afraid of, I'd say,&quot; Pappas said.

If anyone thinks the orally charged remarks on mainstream cable were just a coincidence, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's segments over the past week with guest, Air America's Ana Marie Cox, would dissolve all doubt. Their on-air gymnastics, dancing around the double entendre of the week, looked like live-action Beavis and Butthead.

By one count, the two of them used the word &quot;teabag&quot; more than 50 times on one show. And on Monday, Cox even let the viewers in on their joke -- referencing Urbandictionary.com, a site which offers a number of colorful definitions for the term &quot;teabagging.&quot;

&quot;Well, there is a lot of love in teabagging,&quot; Cox said. &quot;It is curious, though, as you point out, they do not use the verb 'teabag.' It might be because they're less enthusiastic about teabagging than some of the more corporate conservatives who seem to have taken to it quite easily.&quot;

Jenny Beth Martin, a Republican activist who helped organize one protest in Atlanta, said she's not too worried about the protests being dismissed by some media outlets. She estimated 750,000 people attended more than 800 protests in all 50 states, and that at the very least the local media and community newspapers documented it.

&quot;Our message definitely got out where it needed to get,&quot; she said.</div></div> </div></div> <span style="font-size: 11pt">

Why is it that those who are complaining about the debt being passed on the their children, are not concerned, by the more imminent sceptre of the inabillity of those children to afford to live in a similar economic class as they did? The income of workwers is fallingg bu a phenomenol rate.
what are they sayng about that

They quietly ignore the reality of eroding earnings on todays worker. as a matter of fact they support polocies that dies exactly that. Yet they moan about debts to be paid by them in the fiture.
well I don't believe that many of those children will be even in a pociotion to pay taxes, at the rate it is goiung with the pressure to reduce wages to workers.
They won't be earning enough to pay much of a tax, much less worrinh aboit debt.debt.
The country will be bankupt,if workers are not paid enopugh to afford taxes even at tthe rate we are payung now. It will be a third world country.
Since that is the only diffwewncwe betwween a 3rd world country and a developed one.

this debt t9o children is a hollow tube. we can see right through it. You can't be concerned about debt payment onthem,whe you are not concerned about the more famaging loss of earnings. </span>

[evanovitch]

Re: So who attendin &quot;tea party&quot; tomorrow?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so hannity sey is about peopel who are &quot;fed up about fear mongering fed up about weakness on national defense and fed up about spending&quot; </div></div>

u tink anyone pint out di irony of him Hannity saying dat re 'fear mongering'...afta all, him picture deh deh next to di term eena di dictionary

[evanovitch]

mek u tink wat n who is really dem problem dont

http://www.mediatakeout.com/2009/32131-t...you_to_see.html

[Amberal37]

Re: mek u tink wat n who is really dem problem dont

Hey, just wanted to introduce myself, fellow Jamaican born/bred here, but been living in northern Europe for near 30 years, I will be seeking advice and contributing where I can over the next few months, but for now...

Seems that most of you are based in US.

From what I hear on these threads, America is a racist and scary place to be in. I knew some of this before, but if the reality of what you guys are saying on this thread is anything to go by, then it would be seen as a total shame on ALL Europeans that the whites in America have this type of extreme reaction to a black man as a president.

By the way - love Obama, Michele and there kids, hold my breath and pray for them each time they are in the news-it seems almost everday, but I guess they know that people can't get enough of them. Even if we FEEL that we should say are fed up of hearing about them (but that would be the lie of a guilty conscience).