When people were protesting the Iraq War, they didn’t have $500 a plate fundraisers. Then again, they didn’t have sponsorship from Fox News, the backing of corporate lobbyists and the attendance of prominent conspiracy theorists like Alan Keyes.
Conservatives, you win! Bwahahaha!
(I should also note that my scorn for protests defies ideology. As I’ve said on this site about liberal protests in the past – they don’t do anything in the modern age. Liberal protests weren’t able to stop George W. Bush’s unneeded war in Iraq, and the conservative tea parties won’t stop Barack Obama from fixing the economy George W. Bush broke.)
Who could have predicted…
When people were protesting the Iraq War, they didn’t have $500 a plate fundraisers. Then again, they didn’t have sponsorship from Fox News, the backing of corporate lobbyists and the attendance of prominent conspiracy theorists like Alan Keyes.
True. They just had financial backing from ANSWER, Moveon.org, ACT and other left-wing sugar-daddy organizations.
People like Ed might be stupid enough to believe those anti-war protests were just all of the “little people speaking truth to power” but those with more than 2 functioning brain cells know better.
you forgot george soros, dumbass.
Shorter Jay: The Iraq Invasion was and is awesome, as anyone with more than 2 functioning brain cells knows.
left-wing sugar-daddy organizations
Right. Move-on, a massive grass-roots organization, which regularly votes on issues, is exactly the same as strictly top down outfits like Fox News, $500 a plate dinners, and corporate lobbyists. Nice equivalence, Wile E.
Yes, when I think of massive cash-heavy organizaions, I think of MoveOn and ANSWER. I’m shocked you didn’t throw in ACORN.
Look, I know it’s sad that a whole movement is being led by a former radio sidekick who’s the puppet of massive corporations, but it’s the best you got.
Twice in one night, Jesse FTW!
financial backing from ANSWER
Jesus, you’re stupid.
The whole “George Soros” funds the left continues to amaze me.
Conservatives just can’t grok the fact that successful progressive blogs are successful because they get readers for advertisers.
Wing-nut blogs? “HOPE ME CHARLES JOHNSON! MAYBE IN TEN YEARS I CAN MOVE OUT OF MY PARENTS’ HOUSE!”
They just had financial backing from ANSWER, Moveon.org, ACT and other left-wing sugar-daddy organizations.
As others have noted, Rupert Murdoch wipes his butt with the budgets of groups like that. And ACT was a voter mobilization group, not an anti-war protest group. But otherwise you got everything right! Not.
Unfocused protests don’t accomplish anything. If half of MLK’s protestors had “Free Mumia” and “LBJitler” and “Kill the Jews” signs, along with various issues like legalization of pot and reducing greenhouse gases, it wouldn’t have accomplished much.
We’d all love to take millions of protestors seriously, but if you don’t know what they want, what’s the point?
By contrast, the tea party folks have a single thing they are protesting about, and they are tapping into the general anti-tax, anti-spending bias of the majority.
Jay: “People like Ed might be stupid enough to believe those anti-war protests were just all of the “little people speaking truth to power” but those with more than 2 functioning brain cells know better.”
Which just convinced anyone with “2 functioning brain cells” that right wing extremist Jay either doesn’t have “2 functioning brain cells” or is a mendacious troll just like his fellow traveler Jay Tea (just not as smart).
Jay, you are more credible when you stick to the one thing you know: exploding toys (and small ones at that). It’s your defining issue and why the right wing loves people like you: you are easy to manipulate because you are a fanatic who can’t look at conflicting evidence and doesn’t think for himself.
Jay, suggesting that real grass roots organizations (as opposed to the corporate lobbyist paid for Tea Bagging parties marketed by centrally controlled corporate FOX channels) are some magic kind of wealthy just makes you sound stupid. Really, really stupid.
And as for “sugar daddies,” why don’t you go sit on that Australian fascist Murdoch’s lap and tell him (your sugar daddy) what you want for Christmas.
He’ll tell you you’ll get ammo and coal and apocalyptic TV hosts as long as he gets billionaire tax cuts and a deregulated environment so he can own all of the media in your town on which he’ll subsequently advertise Chinese made lead painted toys to your family.
Because what is capitalism if the totalitarian Chinese can’t sell lead painted toys on an Australian owned US TV station for Christmas?
By contrast, the tea party folks have a single thing they are protesting about, and they are tapping into the general anti-tax, anti-spending bias of the majority.
LOL
Jay Caruso: “People like Ed might be stupid enough to believe those anti-war protests were just all of the “little people speaking truth to power” but those with more than 2 functioning brain cells know better.”
Ummm… I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you are stupid. You shouldn’t make fun of people calling them stupid, when you are stupid.
You argued there wasn’t a ‘Gun Show Loophole.’ This is a sign you are dumb. Or a liar. Or both.
It’s both, isn’t it?
This was my favorite part of that HuffPo item:
Organizers of the event in Washington, D.C. told the Huffington Post that several Republican officeholders had asked to speak at the event, only to be turned down in favor of Alan Keyes.
How fucked up do things have to be where Keyes comes out as any kind of winner?
Bodies of water are being polluted with Lipton because white trash want to fit in with millionaire Fox and Clear Channel hosts who talk about Obama raising “our” taxes
How fucked up do things have to be where Keyes comes out as any kind of winner?
FUBAR. They think they’ll get more press by having Keyes speak over Pete Hoekstra?
“The whole “George Soros” funds the left continues to amaze me.”
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/06/26/follow_the_money/
Yeah, where would ANYONE get the idea that Soros to the Left is like Steinbrenner to the Yankees?
Right, because DailyKos’ success as a website has nothing to do with the fact that it gets major hits every day, is very well run, and has managed to become the envy of any right-wing blogger whose only hope was to get Charles Johnson on as his sugar-daddy.
Like I mentioned in another thread, as long a Republicans continue to deny reality (e.g., America is a left-center nation, the Republican/conservative brand is horribly tainted by eight years of Bush II) they will never manage to re-invent themselves into a competitive unit beyond the southeast part of the country.
Keep up the good work, Mr Ghost. And try to avoid linking to articles that are four years old and pre-date the death of the Republican party ca. 2006.
MrGreyGhost: “Yeah, where would ANYONE get the idea that Soros to the Left is like Steinbrenner to the Yankees?”
A story that’s nearly four years old. I’m impressed by that level of evidence.
On a serious note…
Yeah, Mr. Soros has donated money to progressive causes. But to think he’s some kind of super patron who is funding the entire operation is madness.
I would say that evidence indicates that voting doesn’t really do much, either. On issues that don’t matter that much to me, like abortion or gay rights, there are tons of differences between the parties. On issues that do matter to me, like economic issues and civil liberties, there really isn’t any difference at all. Both parties like to steal from the Americans and give the money to their campaign donors ( military contractors on the right, financial service companies on the left), and both parties think endless assertions of states privilege and warantless wiretapping are fine.
What’s left, violence? It’s not like most people don’t already agree with me and didn’t already vote against that stuff. Obama just went back on his promises and did them anyway.
Don’t forget how the left was also funded by the Fluoride lobby, in their massive multi-generational plan to make conservatives go nuts by interfering with their precious bodily fluids.
Liberal Tea Parties: Epic Fail
Jane Hamsher, uses a bullhorn to talk to 14 people.
Comedy gold.
14 people.
Cuz this is really stirring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys6ioYfo8AQ&feature=related
Pretty blatant distraction attempt, even for someone as unsubtle as Dennis. As noted above, I first heard of the liberal protests yesterday. For weeks now the Fox sponsored Tea Parties have been hyped up. I expect both protests to have about the same effect.
economic issues and civil liberties, there really isn’t any difference at all
Please, peddle that Ralph Nader crap elsewhere.
As noted above, I first heard of the liberal protests yesterday. For weeks now the Fox sponsored Tea Parties have been hyped up. OW
Is Fox News sponsoring these, as in financing them?
And why didn’t Jane know that? She’s a JournoLister, isn’t she?
It’s like she was acting like she was getting ambushed by a Fox guerilla and she wasn’t prepared to answer her own claim, like she was Amanda Terkel or something.
Cuz this is really stirring:
“Do we believe in paying for consequences?”
“NOOOO- YES!”
Hilarious.
I can smell the fear coming from this blog. Admit it or not, people don’t attack things like these “tea parties,” unless of course they are honestly threatened by them. On April 15th, our voices will be heard. Whether you or Jon Stewart try to ridicule us into silence or not.
It’s okay, tea partiers. I’d be mad if somebody cut my taxes too.
Wait, they did. Place a teabag in my hand, my kingdom for a teabag!
I can smell the fear coming from this blog. Admit it or not, people don’t attack things like these “tea parties,” unless of course they are honestly threatened by them.
Often, in fact, we attack things we find funny.
Oh, God, yes. I’m terrified of tea parties. All those doilies… *shudder*
Mark my words, the pictures are going to be effin’ hilarious.
Consider this Yo: How many people were involved in the protests against the Iraq War?
How much did they affect policy?
If you guys get turnout into the hundreds of thousands(Roughly as likely as Jerry Buss leaving me the Lakers in his will), you will affect policy still not at all.
As an aside, I will also point out that if you can “smell the fear” coming off of this blog, the odor is probably less indicative of fear and more indicative that it’s time to shake the Cheeto dust out of your keyboard.
On April 15th, our voices will be heard.
Saying what exactly? I’d really like to be afraid of the tea party movement so maybe one of you guys could explain to me what it is and what it hopes to accomplish so i can quaking in my boots for the right reasons.
Seriously. i really haven’t got the slightest clue what you people are being so pissy about.
Speaking of tea parties and their well-heeled backers:
http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-is-pretty-awesome.html
Funny. Pro-reality Americans aren’t afraid. Nervous maybe, given the depths of the Bush/Republican Recession.
Fear is the opposite of being a progressive, pro-American citizen.
Is Fox News sponsoring these, as in financing them?
What do they SELL advertising for? If they give the “teabaggers” (LOL) something other people have to pay money for, then they are financing the event.
Duh.
I can smell the fear coming from this blog. Admit it or not, people don’t attack things like these “tea parties,” unless of course they are honestly threatened by them.
If you have mistaken laughter for fear, I suggest you stay out of the tough part of town.
So I was trying to find out for myself what this tea party thing was all about and I came across this bit of stunning writing at Malkin’s blog:
So the first Tea Party opposed the Stimulus bill.
On April 15th it’s going to be about “wasteful government spending, confiscatory taxation, the selling of our posterity into the bondage of debt, the devaluation of our currency, and bailouts of private enterprise.”
That’s some seriously refined focus there.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/12/countdown-to-tax-day-tea-party-asheville-nc-organizer-erika-franzi/
My wife received a solicitation from the RNC yesterday. We used the business reply envelope to send them a teabag.
What do they SELL advertising for? If they give the “teabaggers” (LOL) something other people have to pay money for, then they are financing the event. Repack
Why didn’t Jane Hamsher just say that then, Repack, instead of letting herself get Amanda Terkeled ? All the liberal blogs have given out specific instructions on what to do when getting ambushed by Foxes….yell out Andrea Mackris.
Duh. Jane’s supposed to know that. Standard operating procedure.
Adam wrote:
“By contrast, the tea party folks have a single thing they are protesting about, and they are tapping into the general anti-tax, anti-spending bias of the majority.”
Most of the “tea party” pictures I’ve seen have prominent “Impeach Obama” signs. Or is that the ’single thing’ you were referring to?
Look, if you want to talk about “messages” and “perceptions”, then you have to admit that the public perception of these “tea parties” is that they are anti-Obama events. Just because a few wingnuts claim it’s an “anti-tax” protest doesn’t mean that the public perception is changed. It’s not as if the Republicans have a lot of credibility with the public to begin with, and this fringe has even less than the Party.
If you don’t care about the public perception of a protest, then it becomes little more than a “show of force”, which is really what this is.
As for “the anti-tax, anti-spending bias of the majority”, I refer you to the recent polling data. You have the majority of Republicans behind these anti-Obama tirades, not the majority of the nation.
The crucial, fundamental, and fatal flaw of the new Republican strategy is that it assumes credibility. For far too long, the Republicans have behaved as if they can make any stupid and outlandish statements and the public will believe them because they have credibility. Polling proves them wrong, elections proves them wrong, reality proves them wrong, but they still believe that they have credibility.
Coming so close after Bush’s departure, the Republicans have about as much credibility on “anti-spending” issues as a guy that everyone saw getting busted on “COPS” does on “sobriety” and “family values” issues.
But you don’t care! The GOP said it’s turned over a new leaf, so the public will automatically believe it, right? Just like they believed “secret Muslim” and terrorist fist-jab”, uh-hmmm.
Why didn’t Jane Hamsher just say that then, Repack
I didn’t think that I needed to explain to anyone that I only speak for myself, but apparently I do. Now, for the hard of thinking:
I don’t know Jane Hamsher. I haven’t read what she said about whatever you are referring to, and having my own opinion does not require that I do so. The thoughts I post here are my own, and I have no more responsibility to explain her thoughts than she does to explain mine.
Your demand that I explain the thoughts of someone I don’t know and whose words I haven’t read reveals a lot about your analytical ability.
yo mama: “I can smell the fear coming from this blog.”
Since small can’t be transmitted over the internet, that fear you are smelling must be coming from you.
“Admit it or not, people don’t attack things like these “tea parties,” unless of course they are honestly threatened by them.”
We also laughed at Sarah Palin, and we weren’t scared of her.
Whether you or Jon Stewart try to ridicule us into silence or not.
Thanks for your blessing, yo mama.
By the way, the people who will be taxed LESS under Obama are being used as pawns by the wealthy who will be taxed SLIGHTLY MORE under Obama to protest taxes. Is that more ironic, laughable, or scary? It’s understandable. These pawns and overlords are the same sheep who bought into the Iraq Invasion. How’d that turn out? One would hope that the sheep would have learned by now. Apparently not.
Now go get yourself “tea-bagged” and play your “rusty trumpet” with your fellow insects, Ed. Enjoy!
[...] friends feel that the zombie like sheep need to pay for Fox’s sponsorship. I believe Oliver Wills puts it correctly when he says: When people were protesting the Iraq War, they didn’t have $500 a [...]
Yap yap yap. On 4/15, those of us that are fed up with our teleprompter-in-chief and his irresponsible spending are speaking up. Won’t matter what you say. The left uses ridicule as a weapon to discredit and silence, and you can tell these protests are threatenging to them, otherwise there wouldn’t be multiple posts dedicated to them on many left-wing sites. You can’t silence us. You can’t ridicule us into shutting up. And that is what worries you.
Oh noes teh tea partees! Nooooo! Even tho I is not threaten by tehm, i spend all days makeng posts about tehm!
Oh
god, help me. I’m getting a tax cut. Jayteabagger, suck my balls please, I’m scared
otherwise there wouldn’t be multiple posts dedicated to them on many left-wing sites.
You see, THIS is the bit you’re not getting.
You can’t silence us. You can’t ridicule us into shutting up.
We don’t want to. Please, carry on. TV, be there sticking microphones in people’s faces, please. I’d like to hear more about brainwarshin’ digital cable devices, anger about the bailouts passed under the Bush Administration, burnin’ evolution books and anger about their tax cuts, and anger about the couple-of-percent tax increase on people that make as much in a year as most of them do in five years.
Really, carry on.
And that is what worries you.
I don’t think you’re going to get this bit.
“The left uses ridicule as a weapon to discredit…”
Yeah, the left ridicules thing that are ridiculous. What a surprise.
[...] you can imagine my reaction when I spotted Steve Benen of Washington Monthly pushing an anti-Tea Party message by Oliver Willis of Media Matters. Willis did a straight-up ad hominem attack, comparing the supposedly phony Tea [...]
Listening to Republicans lament “irresponsible spending” after the last eight years breaks my IronyMeterTM.
You and me both, Spider.
I can smell the fear coming from this blog. Admit it or not, people don’t attack things like these “tea parties,” unless of course they are honestly threatened by them. On April 15th, our voices will be heard. Whether you or Jon Stewart try to ridicule us into silence or not.
You people said the exact same thing about Fred Thompson and Sarah Palin, and look how that turned out.
Why didn’t Jane Hamsher just say that then, Repack, instead of letting herself get Amanda Terkeled ?
So what you’re saying is that you’re pro-stalking? Got it.
Who thinks any form of socialism would be better than capitalism today?
The left uses ridicule as a weapon to discredit and silence, and you can tell these protests are threatenging to them, otherwise there wouldn’t be multiple posts dedicated to them on many left-wing sites. You can’t silence us. You can’t ridicule us into shutting up. And that is what worries you.
Oh noes! Super-genius Wile E. yo mama has us pegged! We’re using ridicule to mock yo mama and his deeply stupid ilk.
And now we cannot silence yo mama with this ridicule! He’s going to keep on keepin’ on making patently ridiculous statement in blog comments. Oh heavens, what should we do? Will we, the Reality Based, have the fortitude to continue ridiculing yo mama and his soon-to-go-Galt-we-really-mean-it-this-time-no-really-we-do allies in the struggle against Teh Librul Mockers? Time will tell.
“By contrast, the tea party folks have a single thing they are protesting about, and they are tapping into the general anti-tax, anti-spending bias of the majority.”
They are united behind one idea, but that ain’t it, since they all stayed silent while the treasury was raped for eight years. There’s no way they are protesting an enforced monopoly on tea, since one doesn’t exist, I’d give odds they don’t actually want to fondle Obama’s balls with their tongues and lips, and despite what I wonder in my darker moments, they aren’t all racists. Todd points out the “Impeach Obama” signs, and Jon Stewart said it the other night.
They simply don’t think a Democrat should be allowed to win. The believe that losing an election means they were disenfranchised in that election.
Yo Mama: “The left uses ridicule as a weapon to discredit and silence, and you can tell these protests are threatenging to them, otherwise there wouldn’t be multiple posts dedicated to them on many left-wing sites. You can’t silence us. You can’t ridicule us into shutting up. And that is what worries you.”
What’s the weather like in your world?
Seriously. We are not scared. We are laughing at you.
Teabagging is the name of a sex act…
urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabagging
Trust me when I say, we are laughing at you, we are not scared of you.
[...] Steve Benen’s on the same kick and he quotes Oliver Willis who has put on his deerstalker cap and came up with, you guessed it, exactly the same conclusion. [...]
“You people said the exact same thing about Fred Thompson and Sarah Palin, and look how that turned out.”
You forgot Rudy Giuliani.
Seriously, when Republicans start telling me my mockery is actually TEH FEAR, I just laugh even harder.
I heard somewhere that mockery is the sincerest form of mockery. That holds up in this case.
Parthenon: “We don’t want to. Please, carry on. TV, be there sticking microphones in people’s faces, please. I’d like to hear more about brainwarshin’ digital cable devices, anger about the bailouts passed under the Bush Administration, burnin’ evolution books and anger about their tax cuts, and anger about the couple-of-percent tax increase on people that make as much in a year as most of them do in five years.”
It’s the best of both worlds…
1.) These Teabaggers couldn’t be more entertaining if Jon Stewart set them up.
2.) We can laugh at them, and they think they are winning because of it.
[...] blogger Oliver Willis protested that the Tea Parties are not really “Grassroots.” Willis works for Media Matters, but blogs under his own name. Yet another irony lost, a [...]
Oliver isn’t attacking the Tea Parties because he’s afraid of them, or because he’s laughing at them.
He’s doing it because with the Democrats in power, he can’t be bothered to do the same oversight that he did when Republicans are in power, and he needs something to talk about other than sports and babes.
So naturally, he’ll keep talking about conservatives, wherever they can be found. Gotta keep an eye on those guys.
Adam Herman: “He’s doing it because with the Democrats in power, he can’t be bothered to do the same oversight that he did when Republicans are in power…”
That’s right. Oliver will never attack Obama over anything… oh wait, he has. … less than a week ago.
oliverwillis.com/2009/04/06/an-obama-fail/
Care to try again?
Why didn’t Jane Hamsher just say that then, Repack, instead of letting herself get Amanda Terkeled ?
So what you’re saying is that you’re pro-stalking? Got it. –Zython
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First thing, imbecile, Jane Hamsher was in the middle of a big city, bellowing out nonsense with a freaking bullhorn. Hardly stalking her to be asked a question about something she just yelled out in a city street a minute after. She looked at first like she appreciated the attention, too.
And Amanda Terkel whined that she was on vacation when the interviewer asked her a question about something ridiculous she had just written. No one vacations in Winchester, VA in early March.
Dennis the Bigot: “And Amanda Terkel whined that she was on vacation when the interviewer asked her a question about something ridiculous she had just written. No one vacations in Winchester, VA in early March.”
You are a pathetic asshole.
You are defending O’Reilly based on her choice of vacation destination?
I’d say, “Welcome back, Frank.” but that might be an insult to the original. He was never as fucked up as you are.
(Perhaps that’s nostalgia talking.)
Oliver says,
Pretty blatant distraction attempt, even for someone as unsubtle as Dennis.
I can find something even more blatant. Try reading the thing above all these comments. They call it a “post,” and I’m pretty sure you’re acquainted with the guy who wrote it.
over 60 comments on this thread. maybe two people on here support the tea parties. and i’ve seen nothing but ridicule. no substance from anyone. that would lead a rational person to believe you’re threatened by them. the tea parties worry you. if they didn’t, this post wouldn’t exist, and there damn sure wouldn’t be over 60 comments. No one uses a bazooka to take out an anthill, and that logic applies to the left going bonkers over the tea parties……and then acting like they’re just a big nothing.
Right, sure. All of us concerned citizens really believe your bs.
April 15th, you people will be glued to the tv going bonkers, looking for anything you can to try to ridicule people into silence. It’s the way you all work. And I believe it was one of Alinsky’s rules also.
It’s not secret. Hell, it’s obvious. And it’s driving you nuts that your echo chamber can’t shut us up.
Eat it!
Bwaaaaahahahahahahaha!
the tea parties worry you
Sweet jesus, this again? WE ARE LAUGHING AT YOU.
No one vacations in Winchester, VA in early March.
Hate to burst your bubble Dennis, but I vacationed in Bayse, VA in early March two years ago, and that’s about 40 minutes away.
Vacations like that are often motivated by a human impulse I like to call “being a cheap ass.” And you know us liberals. We hate capitalism, so the less we spend means the more we can give to our government to fuel the socialist bureaucracy.
Shorter Dennis: That stupid bitch Terkel had it coming.
something ridiculous she had just written
Which was…?
And Amanda Terkel whined that she was on vacation when the interviewer asked her a question about something ridiculous she had just written. No one vacations in Winchester, VA in early March.” C S.Strategy
No, I’m saying she wasn’t ’stalked while on vacation’, like she whined to everyone and their brother she was. Stalking is what you do, Strowbridge. And whoever this Frank was, probably what you did to him to judging by how often you bring his name up as if you long for him, too.
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Hate to burst your bubble Dennis, but I vacationed in Bayse, VA in early March two years ago, and that’s about 40 minutes away. Eric Sipple
Well, if Bayse wasn’t a resort town with skiing and mountains right there instead of an apple factory like what Winchester is known for, then you might have a point.
No, I’m saying she wasn’t ’stalked while on vacation’, like she whined to everyone and their brother she was.
Ah, so you’re saying that stupid bitch had it coming because she wasn’t really “on vacation” or something. Thanks for clearing that up.
Oh, and what was the “something ridiculous she had just written”?
[...] part of bipartisan do Oliver Willis and Jane Hamish do not [...]
Oliver: “Pretty blatant distraction attempt, even for someone as unsubtle as Dennis.”
matt621: “I can find something even more blatant. Try reading the thing above all these comments. They call it a ‘post,’ and I’m pretty sure you’re acquainted with the guy who wrote it.”
Ummm… You do realize this is Oliver’s site, right?
Oliver gets to set the topics. He can’t distract from the topic at hand, because he’s the one who sets them.
Got it?
Good.
Yo Mama: “It’s not secret. Hell, it’s obvious. And it’s driving you nuts that your echo chamber can’t shut us up.”
Please, please, please keep talking. We want to you keep talking.
Remember, Teabagging is a sex act. Holding Tea Parties to protest high taxes is cute and all, but calling yourself Teabaggers and asking people to “Teabag the Dems before the Dems Teabag you” is not the best way to make a political point.
The majority of the nation disagrees with you, and the more vocal you guys are, the louder the fringe will be. The louder the fringe is, the easier it is to paint your party as the party of extremists. And you know you won’t be able to control the fringe. (Both sides have that problem, but it is worse when there’s no leader.)
OW SAID “Sweet jesus, this again? WE ARE LAUGHING AT YOU.”
LOL! Keep telling yourself that. Maybe you’ll believe it eventually. But we sure don’t. Left-wing politics doesn’t ignore dissent it doesn’t like, it squashes it. Ridicule is just one tool.
Funny how dissent is no longer patriotic when it’s fiscal conservatives.
Aprik 15th, folks. Aril 15th.
Aprik 15th, folks. Aril 15th.
Why should we mock you? You guys seem do be doing the heavy lifting here.
Dennis the Bigot: “And Amanda Terkel whined that she was on vacation when the interviewer asked her a question about something ridiculous she had just written. No one vacations in Winchester, VA in early March.” C S.Strategy ”
I didn’t write this. Care to try again?
Dennis the Bigot: “No, I’m saying she wasn’t ’stalked while on vacation’, like she whined to everyone and their brother she was. Stalking is what you do, Strowbridge.”
Responding to someone in a public message board on a political site is stalking? Really?
Care to back that up, or would you like to shut the fuck up, you whiny little baby?
Dennis the Bigot is now defending real stalking while falsely accusing others of stalking.
You are a fucking mental mess, do you know that?
You need to be institutionalized before you do harm to yourself or other.
Oliver: “Sweet jesus, this again? WE ARE LAUGHING AT YOU.”
Yo Mama: “LOL! Keep telling yourself that.”
TEABAGGING IS A FUCKING SEX ACT WHERE YOU DIP YOUR BALLS UP AND DOWN IN SOMEONE’S MOUTH!
Is it really that hard to believe we hare laughing at you?
Funny how dissent is no longer patriotic when it’s fiscal conservatives.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
No, I’m saying she wasn’t ’stalked while on vacation’, like she whined to everyone and their brother she was. Stalking is what you do, Strowbridge. And whoever this Frank was, probably what you did to him to judging by how often you bring his name up as if you long for him, too.
So according to Dennis:
Following someone wherever they go? Not stalking.
Responding to someone’s posts on a blog comments section? Stalking.
Glad to see you have a firm grip of your own sanity.
over 60 comments on this thread. maybe two people on here support the tea parties. and i’ve seen nothing but ridicule. no substance from anyone. that would lead a rational person to believe you’re threatened by them. the tea parties worry you. if they didn’t, this post wouldn’t exist,
So ever talking about anything ever means you’re afraid of it? That’s not the way a “normal person” thinks.
Which was…?
Allow me to answer that question, since Dennis is too chickenshit to do it himself. Her post was questioning why the Alexa Foundation would ask Bill O’Reilley to be a guest speaker when he has stated that rape victims have it coming. So yeah…
To be fair to O’Reilly, though, he’s said the same thing about kidnapped children.
For all the libtards bleating about the “raping of the treasury” and wondering why there were no similar protests about Republican malfeasance over the last 8 years:
What part of this chart do you not understand? In case you’re confused, let me simplify it for you: the bars in gray represent the actions of the evil Republicans, while the bars in red and orange reflect the actions of a Democrat controlled Congress and White House.
If Bush and Republicans “raped” the treasury, what Obama and the Democrats are doing now is a full on gang rape with the victim’s family forced to watch and then gutting her with a rusty knife for a finale.
Shorter DaveinSoCal: The Iraq Invasion didn’t cost a cent.
That’s right. Oliver will never attack Obama over anything… oh wait, he has. … less than a week ago.
oliverwillis.com/2009/04/06/an-obama-fail/
Care to try again?
Let’s actually look at Oliver’s “attack” shall we?
He didn’t do the right thing in recognizing the Armenian genocide. There’s no way to wiggle out of that, just a bad call by the Prez.
Oooh! That’s quite a brutal and scathing attack, isn’t it?
Fail. Care to try again?
Oooh! That’s quite a brutal and scathing attack, isn’t it?
I’m truly sorry that President Obama isn’t a colossal fuckup like his predecessor was. It makes it really hard for a blogger to find stuff to bitch about when the President is actually good at his job.
Shorter ed: I’ve got nothing.
Dave in South Cal: “Oooh! That’s quite a brutal and scathing attack, isn’t it?”
So complaining isn’t enough. He has to rant and rage for it to be oversight?
“Fail. Care to try again?”
No. You’re a fucking loser. I proved Adam Herman was wrong and I don’t give a fuck if you disagree. You’re a Republican. Your opinion doesn’t matter.
Dave, i’m going to use your buddy Dennis’s line of brilliant debate and claim that your graph is bunk since it’s linked from Pajamas Media. If it were true, it would come from a real source.
Don’t blame me, you guys came up with it.
Dave in Socal, that’s a great graphic. That alone should be enough to make people understand.
And this sums it all up too……
http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/04/13/tea-parties-their-critics/
OH NOES TEH TEA PARTIES AN TEH GAY PARTIOT!
And Amanda Terkel whined that she was on vacation when the interviewer asked her
Interviewer? I didn’t see one. I saw a hack O’reilly butt-boy.
Attention commentors: CS Strowbridge has flipped his lid! LMAO!
Classic.
OH NOOOES TA TEAS PARTIES MAKES MAD!
What part of this chart do you not understand?
Start with the first 3 years. Oh, and too, add in the cost of the 2 wars we haven’t finished.
OH NOES TEH TEA PARTIES AN TEH GAY PARTIOT!
You should really take your med, yo.
Anyhow, read my comment above yours.
OH NOES TEH TEA PARTIES AN TEH GAY PARTIOT!
You really have no idea how funny that is, do you?
yo mama: “Attention commentors: CS Strowbridge has flipped his lid! LMAO!
Classic.
OH NOOOES TA TEAS PARTIES MAKES MAD!”
What the fuck are you talking about?
I think we, as liberals, should support these so-called Tea Parties. Perhaps we could set up a booth near the festivities and sell scones and muffins.
And mouthwash.
It makes it really hard for a blogger to find stuff to bitch about when the President is actually good at his job.
“actually good at his job”? Now that’s just laugh-out-loud hilarious.
I know you’re distracted by your new found obsession with teabagging, but when you can find the time here’s something you can look into: You were a frequent critic of the Bushitler jackboot tactics on subjects such as detention of prisoners at Gitmo and privacy invasion of American citizens, so it should be easy for you to comment on similar (or worse) Obama policies.
Like this:
Or this:
You’re a Republican. Your opinion doesn’t matter.
Channeling our “postpartisan” President I see.
Those are examples of Obama not doing the right thing, Dave in SoCal. I don’t recall you giving a shit when George Bush, Jr. was the nominal President.
your graph is bunk since it’s linked from Pajamas Media. If it were true, it would come from a real source.
Here’s the original source. And as noted on the chart, the data comes from the CBO and the White House.
You’ll have to come up with another feeble excuse to avoid addressing it.
Start with the first 3 years. Oh, and too, add in the cost of the 2 wars we haven’t finished.
Sorry, the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan ARE included in there. So what about the first 3 years? And how about the rest? Especially 2013-2019, when the deficit, after shrinking from the 2009 high, begins steadily climbing again.
I think we, as liberals, should support these so-called Tea Parties. Perhaps we could set up a booth near the festivities and sell scones and muffins.
Don’t liberals have their own grassroots “nationalize the banks” movement (i.e. A New Way Forward) that they are supposed to be championing? You know, those protests that have literally tens of people turning out?
Ummm… You do realize this is Oliver’s site, right?
Oliver gets to set the topics. He can’t distract from the topic at hand, because he’s the one who sets them. CS ‘Smoochie’ Strowbridge
The Butt-Kisser — “Famous writers and bloggers get this one. It’s the poster who just can’t say enough about how brilliant was that last entry, how they wish they could say it half as good, etc. My assumption is that these folks are angling for some kind of personal relationship with the writer.”
Those are examples of Obama not doing the right thing, Dave in SoCal.
“not doing the right thing”. Jesus, could you be any more wishy-washy and whipped?
I’m sure that “not doing the right thing” was exactly how you referred to the same policies when they were Bush’s. /sarcasm
Like this:
The decision signaled that the administration was not backing down in its effort to maintain the power to imprison terrorism suspects for extended periods without judicial oversight.
Oh, sure, NOW it’s a problem.
I don’t recall you giving a shit when George Bush, Jr. was the nominal President.
I happen to agree with the first one (imprison terrorism suspects for extended periods without judicial oversight), what with me being a right-wing warmonger and all.
For the second, there a world of difference between data mining of telephone calls in which one end is overseas (which I support) put in place by Bush with the ability to access ANY data on private or public networks WITHOUT regard to privacy laws pushed by Obama.
I’m sure that “not doing the right thing” was exactly how you referred to the same policies when they were Bush’s.
Team Reality-Based has been on this from the get go. See Greenwald, Glenn. And please show us where you opposed that stuff under Cheney/Bush Jr. Thanks in advance.
Oh, sure, NOW it’s a problem.
Not for evil right-wingers like me.
But we should be seeing liberal heads exploding over this. Unless their outrage with this evil Constitution-shredding policy was tied to the occupant of the White House rather than with the policy itself.
For the second, there a world of difference between data mining of telephone calls in which one end is overseas (which I support) put in place by Bush with the ability to access ANY data on private or public networks WITHOUT regard to privacy laws pushed by Obama.
Huh? You may wish to recheck your recent history. See Greenwald, Glenn. Again.
This thread is hilarious.
Team Reality-Based has been on this from the get go. See Greenwald, Glenn.
That’s a laugh. “Team Reality-Based” has been mostly keeping its collective mouth shut over this, other than a few weak bleats of half-hearted protest. Now that the target of their ire would be Obama, the need to criticize over this issue has magically evaporated.
Glenn Greenwald is one of the extremely few liberals who has been consistent on this issue from day one. Much as I disagree with his politics, I at least admire his conviction.
Huh? You may wish to recheck your recent history. See Greenwald, Glenn. Again.
Sorry, ed, but holding up Greenwald as a shield doesn’t get “Team Reality-Based” off the hook from addressing this issue.
Any blogger who felt the need to expend effort criticizing this policy when it was Bush’s should at least be consistent and criticize Obama.
Unless they’re hyper-partisan shills for Obama. See Willis, Oliver.
Dave in So Cal is SMACKING b****es down today!
April 15th, join in the protest of the most fiscally irresponsible administration in the history of the USA.
join in the protest of the most fiscally irresponsible administration in the history of the USA.
Why are people still demonstrating against the Bush administration?
Me: “You’re a Republican. Your opinion doesn’t matter.”
Dave in SoCal: “Channeling our ‘postpartisan’ President I see.”
Fuck you. It takes two to be bipartisan, and since it is clear the Republicans have no intention of doing so, why should we even try?
Here’s a fucking clue for you, the American people support Obama and the Democrats over the Republicans. The Democrats don’t have to reach out across the isle. The Republicans do.
Fuck you. It takes two to be bipartisan, and since it is clear the Republicans have no intention of doing so, why should we even try?
Yeah, I’m sure that’s why Obama made his “I Won” comment, because he just KNEW the Republicans weren’t going to play ball with him so why bother trying?
The Democrats don’t have to reach out across the isle. The Republicans do.
Sorry, idiot, that’s not how it works. Bi-partisanship goes both ways. Saying “shut up and do it my way” doesn’t qualify.
That’s some fucked up logic you got there, Smoochie.
Oh, and go fuck yourself, douchenozzle. Go write me a DVD review or something, bitch.
Sorry, ed, but holding up Greenwald as a shield doesn’t get “Team Reality-Based” off the hook from addressing this issue.
It’s not a shield, genius, it’s a basic example of how some of us have been consistent, as per your original comment.
Oh, never mind. As with Jesus, there’s no pleasing some people.
Hey, you have fun defending the Republican brand. It’s awesome.
It’s not a shield, genius, it’s a basic example of how some of us have been consistent, as per your original comment.
Sorry, but the only “us” that’s been consistent is Greenwald.
But please continue deluding yourself.
Hey, you have fun defending the Republican brand. It’s awesome.
Where am I defending the “Republican brand”? The majority of politicians calling themselves Republican have been a bunch of spineless, corrupt idiots. There are only a few (like Jeff Flake) who actually stick to their conservative principles.
I’m sure that Democrat brand will be equally awesome, sometime around 2012 when the deficits start climbing again and we are long past the point where the Democrats can deflect the blame for the country’s problems on Bush.
Here’s the original source. And as noted on the chart, the data comes from the CBO and the White House.
First off, The Heritage Foundation, the neo-con think tank? Really?
Secondly, that only concerns the right hand side. No source is given for the left hand part. Interesting.
Dave, its you and your kind that screwed up this country, not me. If you want us to be “bi-partisan”, you’re going to have to beg for it.
Saying “shut up and do it my way” doesn’t qualify.
Why not? Worked for the last 8 years.
Well, if Bayse wasn’t a resort town with skiing and mountains right there instead of an apple factory like what Winchester is known for, then you might have a point.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha…
Oh, I’m sorry Dennis, were you being serious when you tried to base your argument on what towns people vacation in like you have any proof at all? My bad, dude. I promise, I’m really sorry about laughing at you like that.
That would be the Obama admin, ow. You know, the one that’s pledged to spend more money in 3 months than Bush did in 8 years.
And this thread is still hilarious.
August, congratulations. You’ve officially become CS’s “mini-me.” You’re an ass and I will no longer converse with asses. Cheers.
This is funny though. 100+ comments for left wing dolts who claim the whole tea party movement is nothing but a joke and that they’re “laughing at it.” If it’s such a joke, why the hell are you people still discussing it? Why are left wing blogs writing about it every day and why are left wing blogs trying to falsely claim it’s not a grass-roots movement, but just a corporate backed astro-turf charade?
Seeing as how 90% of left wing blogs now get their talking points from “JournoList” hacks, the irony is pretty thick.
If it’s such a joke, why the hell are you people still discussing it?
And if it’s such strong, grassroots organization, why are you here feeling the need to defend it on a liberal blog?
If it’s such a joke, why the hell are you people still discussing it?
Dunno how many times I have to say this: I cover the hot issues of the day and the crazy stuff conservatives come up with instead of being serious about the major issues of the day amuses me to no end.
I just wish these tea-bagging hippies would get real jobs.
“If it’s such a joke, why the hell are you people still discussing it?”
I’ve been to the zoo to see the monkeys play with their own feces multiple times as well. Republicans are amusing to me, and I need a good laugh now and again. Why shouldn’t I enjoy the spectacle of you guys making asses of yourselves over and over again?
tia!
“If it’s such a joke, why the hell are you people discussing it?”
Because the liberals on this thread like to discuss things that are funny.