Tea Parties Get Their Own Theme Song | Oliver Willis

Tea Parties Get Their Own Theme Song

March 24th, 2009 Conservatives Tea Party 44 Comments

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And they got another useful black to sing it for them. The song and dance never dies.

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texan_reader says:

March 24, 2009 at 12:44 pm

OK, who commissioned and who wrote this connection of mostly irrelevant cliches?
Pryme says:

March 24, 2009 at 12:52 pm

Can’t watch the entire thing; I’m allergic to vapid generalities.
Duros62 says:

March 24, 2009 at 12:56 pm

Scared of what the French might say?

LOL!

That’s a parody, right?
Jay says:

March 24, 2009 at 12:57 pm

they got another useful black

They got? What, did they go and pick one up at a department store or something?

Once again the hate rears its ugly head. A black American has the gall not to get down on his knees and kiss the ass of liberalism which automatically makes him some kind of Stepin Fetchit cartoon character in the eyes of leftists.

I see at his Youtube page he also wrote a song for this girl:

http://www.gabriellelaverde.com/

What a horrible man he is.
Oliver Willis says:

March 24, 2009 at 1:43 pm

What, did they go and pick one up at a department store or something?
Maybe they got a two for one for him and Steele.
Eric Sipple says:

March 24, 2009 at 1:44 pm

Oh, Jay. Your out of control metaphors never get old. Keep up the good work.

Politics aside, the song was, um…bad. But what do you expect from someone whose website uses Papyrus for the font and it’s the least ugly thing about the site?
Douglas says:

March 24, 2009 at 1:50 pm

what are the exact freedoms being taken away? He seems to be repeating that his freedoms are being taken away. Which ones?

And the fact that freedom does not come free, is he implying that there is a military angle to freedom. Does our military play a role in protecting freedom? Does that military cost money? Are those costs not covered by taxes?

So what he is saying is that anyone who wants to pay for the cost of freedom through taxes, while simultaneously restoring civil liberties and rule of law to its people, should be removed as President?

And if the Revolutionary War Tea Party metaphor is used, what are they dumping metaphorically now? Are they dumping capitalism? Are they dumping democracy? Are they dumping progressive tax codes?

Or maybe they think having a tea party is like a seance that will bring back the King [Bush]? Doing things in reverse is their style.
texan_reader says:

March 24, 2009 at 1:53 pm

The black thing is irrelevant, but it does fall in line with a recurring theme on oliverwillis.com concerning black republicans and irony.

It’s still a ham handed propaganda song. Freedom isn’t free, yeah, but why would that be an affront to people who voted against McCain/Palin? Do Obama voters dislike freedom? What is he trying to say? The conservative crowd is always being rallied with emotive cheers about veterans and freedom, as though only they are patriotic. Once they are all riled up, they are told to get behind something that has nothing to do with the honorable themes they got so excited about. It’s bait and switch. It goes like this:

HEY CONSERVATIVES, DO WE LOVE OUR SOLDIERS? DO WE HAVE GOOD OLD FASHIONED VALUES? ARE WE GOD FEARING CHRISTIANS? YES YES AND YES! NOW – GO VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO WILL CHANGE NOTHING AND CONTINUE TO TAKE 25% OR MORE OF YOUR TAXES WHILE OFFERING YOU EVEN LESS IN RETURN THAN YOU WERE GIVEN BEFORE! WHAT DOES THAT HAVE DO WITH PATRIOTISM? NOTHING! WE JUST WANT YOU TO VOTE REPUBLICAN, SO WE GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE IN TO TRICK YOU INTO VOTING FOR THE BIG BUSINESS REPUBLICAN TICKET! WE NEED YOUR VOTES TO GET IN OFFICE AND DIVERT MORE OF YOUR 25% TO THINGS WHICH HELP ONLY THE WEALTHY! MEANWHILE, WE CUT SERVICES, CUT TRANSPARENCY, CUT OVERSIGHT, AND USE YOUR MILITARY TO INTERVENE IN ANY COUNTRY THAT CAUSES PROBLEMS FOR OUR BUSINESSMEN! WE MIGHT DO ONE LITTLE THING HERE AND THERE TO HELP CAUSES YOU CARE ABOUT, BUT ONLY JUST ENOUGH TO KEEP YOU WANTING MORE IN THE NEXT TERM! THANK YOU, SHEEP!!!

By the way, here’s a link to the song Lloyd Marcus did for Gabi. Very nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxd-NfUrf1g
johnnymags says:

March 24, 2009 at 2:33 pm

What’s funny, is that they totally don’t get the whole tea party reason in the first place- it was about the little guy getting the shaft from the “Achievers”, also known as the East India Company.
Sean D. Martin says:

March 24, 2009 at 2:34 pm

OW: And they got another useful black

Judging people by the color of their skin, are we?

You disagree with his acts or the validity of his views, criticize those. But it’s hypocritical to say someone who is black (or white or red or yellow or pink polka dots) shouldn’t have certain views because of their race.

The Irish aren’t allowed to oppose affirmative action (due to the history of “Irish need not apply”). Asians aren’t allowed to express opinions in favor of incarcerating suspected terrorists (due to Manzanar, et al). Hispanics aren’t allowed to oppose immigration controls.

Willing to stand up and make any of those arguments? I suspect not. So why be willing to argue blacks aren’t allowed to oppose Obama’s policies?
Nancy says:

March 24, 2009 at 2:38 pm

The song is truly awful, I too couldn’t get through it. I had to wonder about the subtitles, can’t Republicannots not understand their black entertainer’s speech?
yo mama says:

March 24, 2009 at 3:07 pm

It’s a damn song. Who really cares about it, or who is singing it?

What’s important are the thousands of people who have never protested before in their lives, but now are because they are fed up with our incompetent federal government and it’s out of control spending. This spending is not sustainable, and eventually, we will cut off funds for such nonsense. If we don’t, our federal gov’t will destroy this country.

I support the tea parties.
jr says:

March 24, 2009 at 3:13 pm

I like Jesse Malkin’s new song “Haven’t Held A Job In 6 Years”
SaveFarris says:

March 24, 2009 at 3:15 pm

I’m allergic to vapid generalities.

Hope and Change!
Kevin says:

March 24, 2009 at 3:22 pm

Jay and Oliver…

“What, did they go and pick one up at a department store or something?
Maybe they got a two for one for him and Steele.”

Nope, he was a free gift after the GOP got wind of George Lambus http://www.livesteez.com/news/news_detail/1761
Oliver Willis says:

March 24, 2009 at 3:29 pm

Sean: The blacks that allow themselves to be used as song and dance men for the right deserve nothing — nothing — but scorn. Blacks on the right are largely there for window dressing and no more. The black organizations on the right – like Project 21 – are often just fronts for the same old conservative white guys. They deserve scorn, and I won’t ever stop until they do.
yo mama says:

March 24, 2009 at 3:42 pm

Can you comprehend the idea that a black american may have conservative political views and maybe, just maybe, isn’t a pawn? It takes far more brass for a black person to leave the democratic party’s handout farm and join the convservative movement than it does to go vote for more of the same with another democrat. Seems ridiculous to b**ch about a black guy exercising his freedom after blacks fought for so long for the right to do so. You almost seem to *want* blacks to vote as a monolith beholden to one party instead of as independent-minded individuals.

Strange.
Oliver Willis says:

March 24, 2009 at 3:57 pm

Can you comprehend the idea that a black american may have conservative political views and maybe, just maybe, isn’t a pawn
Sure, its possible. But the ones that pop up are almost always minstrel acts – Ken Blackwell, Michael Steele, JC Watts, etc.
Duros62 says:

March 24, 2009 at 4:16 pm

but now are because they are fed up with our incompetent federal government and it’s out of control spending.

And where the fuck were they 6 years ago?

Do you know how many registered Republicans voted? About 40 million. Do you know how many registered Republicans are black? 670,000.
Kind of a disparity.
Pryme says:

March 24, 2009 at 4:34 pm

Hope and Change!

which is why I waited to hear his speeches on why we should hope he wins and what types of changes he wanted to make before deciding whether or not to support him. In other words: he started off with generalities, but eventually fleshed them out.
Haplo9 says:

March 24, 2009 at 4:41 pm

>that pop up are almost always minstrel acts

Do you have some kind of meaningful definition of “minstrel acts” that is something less childish than “black person who doesn’t think in an Oliver Willis approved way”?
yo mama says:

March 24, 2009 at 5:16 pm

Duros – they *were* ticked off. It was hard to imagine someone actually being more fiscally irresponsible than Bush, but Obama has topped that in a mere two months. He’s brought the whole “tax and spend liberal” idea to a level not yet witnessed by mankind, and we’ve had it.
Sean D. Martin says:

March 24, 2009 at 5:27 pm

OW: The blacks that allow themselves to be used as song and dance men for the right deserve nothing — nothing — but scorn. Blacks on the right are largely there for window dressing and no more.

Painting with a rather broad brush. Can’t blacks on the right actually be there because they want to be, and not just because they’re too stupid to realize they’re being used? Perhaps we’re going to have to look out for these folks since they clearly can’t look out for themselves.
Sean D. Martin says:

March 24, 2009 at 5:32 pm

yo mama: It was hard to imagine someone actually being more fiscally irresponsible than Bush, but Obama has topped that in a mere two months. He’s brought the whole “tax and spend liberal” idea to a level not yet witnessed by mankind,

More unsupported talking points re-iterated by the nearly brain-dead parrot.

More irresponsible than Bush? Bush created the war that we’ve spending a trillion on. In eight years Bush did nothing to avoid the economic collapse (actually helped it along) that we’re going to blow more trillions to fix. Just because some of the bill came due under Obama’s watch doesn’t mean he’s the one who incurred the debt.

“tax and spend” ? Who, exactly, is he taxing, yo mama? You?
Oliver Willis says:

March 24, 2009 at 5:36 pm

Blacks on the right are not in positions of power. They must kowtow to the true paymasters (ie Steele genuflecting to Limbaugh). They must always parrot the con line on race, even when socially conservative black voters don’t even believe that mess because it hurts black people.

You think the alliances between trippy liberals and older blacks is a natural alliance? No, but liberals don’t treat blacks like an afterthought. The right does.

And the blacks who accept that kind of treatment deserve absolute scorn for their Step N Fetchit act.
yo mama says:

March 24, 2009 at 5:42 pm

Sean D

Obama has spent more money in 2 months than the entire Iraq War, which dems voted for btw, has cost us. Add in this insane budget – the largest in the history of mankind – when we’re already in debt up to our ears, and people have just had enough of the bs. Eventually, there is going to be a tax revolt, even if Jon Stewart makes really super duper cool jokes about it.
Duros62 says:

March 24, 2009 at 5:49 pm

but Obama has topped that in a mere two months. He’s brought the whole “tax and spend liberal” idea to a level not yet witnessed by mankind, and we’ve had it.

Oh, settle down, Beavis.

Obama has spent more money in 2 months than the entire Iraq War,

Why is that, I wonder?

when we’re already in debt up to our ears,

Why is that, I wonder?

Go get a fresh Huggie. You earned it.
Sean D. Martin says:

March 24, 2009 at 5:54 pm

OW: (ie Steele genuflecting to Limbaugh)

As could also be said of several whites. Steele’s race wasn’t a part of that.
yo mama says:

March 24, 2009 at 6:16 pm

duros said:Obama has spent more money in 2 months than the entire Iraq War,

Why is that, I wonder?

He’s a border-line socialist. And people have had enough. But I love your logic, which seems to go like this: Bush spent too much, therefore to get out of debt, we must spend trillions more that we don’t have. Not. Gonna. Work.

Brilliant.
Duros62 says:

March 24, 2009 at 6:23 pm

He’s a border-line socialist.

HA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Bush spent too much, therefore to get out of debt, we must spend trillions more that we don’t have.

Gee, if only there had been a surplus when Obama took office.

We’re not talking about getting out of debt. We still owe the French for the Revolutionary War.

Try to pay attention. I freely admit I know next to nothing about economics, but next to you, I’m Paul friggin Krugman.
Haplo9 says:

March 24, 2009 at 6:28 pm

>They must kowtow to the true paymasters (ie Steele genuflecting to Limbaugh).

In what way was Steele’s race relevant in the whole Steele vs Limbaugh flap Oliver? (The stupidity of the whole thing notwithstanding.)

>Blacks on the right are not in positions of power.

Hmm.. Let’s see. Clarence Thomas? Condoleeza Rice? Yeah, no power at all. Or are you going to say that none of that is “real” power, since it isn’t the president?

>They must always parrot the con line on race

Or.. what? What horrible consequences await if a black conservative deviates from the “con line on race”? I mean, it couldn’t be that black conservatives might actually agree with the notion that affirmative action, for example, isn’t such a good idea, right?
Parthenon says:

March 24, 2009 at 6:36 pm

He’s a border-line socialist.

Really? Holy shit! Thanks Yo! Just give me some facts to back that up and I’ll start spreading the word!

Man, all this time, and I thought we’d elected a president that would probably be in the conservative party in Canada/Western Europe and is center-left in the United States. You sure saved my bacon.
Sean D. Martin says:

March 24, 2009 at 7:12 pm

yo mama: duros said:Obama has spent more money in 2 months than the entire Iraq War,

Why is that, I wonder?

Because he’s cleaning up a mess that began long before he got into office.

You keep wanting to hold him completely responsible for having to deal with things that started before he was in office.
Zython says:

March 24, 2009 at 9:53 pm

Duros – they *were* ticked off. It was hard to imagine someone actually being more fiscally irresponsible than Bush, but Obama has topped that in a mere two months. He’s brought the whole “tax and spend liberal” idea to a level not yet witnessed by mankind, and we’ve had it.

yo, don’t beat around the Bush. They’re angry because the money isn’t being used to fund “American” things, in this case, killing A-rahbs and gays.
Glenn says:

March 24, 2009 at 10:24 pm

They misspelled “losing” as “loosing”. And it was godawful.
Plantsmantx says:

March 25, 2009 at 12:27 am

“So why be willing to argue blacks aren’t allowed to oppose Obama’s policies”

No one said he wasn’t allowed. He is, obviously. On the other hand, Oliver and anyone else who wants to can refer to him as Stepin Fetchit. Where does this “not allowed” crap come from?
texan_reader says:

March 25, 2009 at 12:44 am

The right’s new buzz is “we’ve had enough!” Obama is doing something, and “that’s enough!” He’s doing exactly what he said he would do, and he’s not wasting time, but “that’s enough!” They are trying to push this narrative that we gave him an inch and he took a mile, when he is simply doing exactly what he said he would do.
Jesse Ewiak says:

March 25, 2009 at 1:11 am

Yes, blacks are in such positions of power in the Republican party. Thus, the vast Black Republican Congressional Caucus.
Oliver Willis says:

March 25, 2009 at 4:10 am

Clarence Thomas? Condoleeza Rice?
Let me amend my statement: No blacks with any common sense or rationality are or have been in positions of power in the GOP. This includes Warmonger and Pubic Coke.
Jay says:

March 25, 2009 at 10:47 am

Ok so now we have the lowdown from Oliver:

A. If you’re black and a Republican/conservative, then you’re nothing but an Uncle Tom “Yes massa” loser that allows themselves to be used by conservatives. They are nothing but window dressing.

B. If you’re black and in a position of power, then you have no rationality or common sense.

The bottom line for Oliver with regard to black Americans apparently is: Vote Democrat, be a liberal or you’re nothing but a race traitor.
Sean D. Martin says:

March 25, 2009 at 12:03 pm

Jay: The bottom line for Oliver with regard to black Americans apparently is: Vote Democrat, be a liberal or you’re nothing but a race traitor.

That’s phrasing it very harshly, but I’ll admit my first thought on reading Oliver’s qualification that “No blacks with any common sense or rationality are or have been in positions of power in the GOP” was similar. That he’s suggesting being a black Republican is alone sufficient proof of stupidity.

I don’t care for Clarence Thomas or Condi Rice. I don’t think either should be in the positions that they’ve held. But that has nothing to do with their race. I’m seeing a double standard at work here, your actions will be judged differently if you’re black.
texan_reader says:

March 25, 2009 at 12:03 pm

There are plenty of black conservatives, and they are not “yes massa” losers. They simply have conservative values and vote like many other conservatives. See my earlier post about that.

The point I think OW is making here is that, usually, when a black person is prominent in conservative/republican political circles, it’s not necessarily due to merit or genuine enthusiasm but is simply a political move by the party to push that person into the spotlight to make the party seem like it represents all folks equally.

Since the given argument is that republican policy, more so than democrat policy, actually hurts blacks and other minorities disproportionately (depending on your opinion about the effects of affirmative action, just about anything else, etc), the prominent black republicans come off looking like Clayton Bigsby, just pure irony walking and talking.
Oliver Willis says:

March 25, 2009 at 12:28 pm

I’m seeing a double standard at work here, your actions will be judged differently if you’re black.
The standard here is if you’re a black public official or party operative, try not to be part of a movement that screws over black people – or in the case of the RNC, how about you do something, anything, to stand up against the racists/nativists rather than shuck and jive?

Blacks used to be Republicans, until the GOP decided to take in Southern Democrats and become the party of ~~racism~~ state’s rights. Even now, there’s been an opening for social cons to make overtures to blacks who agree with them on a lot of issues. Thing is, the right is still locked in to blaming minorities for the world’s ills (they’ve just shifted the blamee from blacks to hispanics).

It’s no coincidence that window-dressing appointees have come from the GOP and the first black president is a Democrat.
Haplo9 says:

March 25, 2009 at 1:11 pm

>No blacks with any common sense or rationality

That’s rich. A know nothing blogger on the internet says a sitting Supreme Court justice has no rationality. That’s like me claiming that Tiger Woods is uncoordinated.

>not necessarily due to merit or genuine enthusiasm but is simply a political move by the party to push that person into the spotlight to make the party seem like it represents all folks equally.

You know this how? You can sense it? Have some evidence? Internal memos? Nothing at all, more likely.

>given argument is that republican policy, more so than democrat policy, actually hurts blacks and other minorities disproportionately (depending on your opinion about the effects of affirmative action, just about anything else, etc),

Right. The key word there is argument. You know, disagreement. Oliver and yourself apparently can grant that white conservatives are able to have an argument here, why are black conservatives somehow not allowed to partake in this argument without being race traitors?

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