Jonah Goldberg And The Teabaggers Play Pretend

4:57 pm EST April 20th, 2009 | News | 12 Comments

In National Review, Jonah Goldberg writes that liberals were laughing at the teabagging protesters because their signs were crude and unprofessional and after all conservatives don’t have time for that sort of thing.

Well I should note two things about that.

1) We’re laughing at you because you guys hold up signs calling Obama a fascist and a non-citizen.

2) Conservative organizations like the Young America’s Foundation were, in fact, handing out professionally made signage:

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12 Responses to “Jonah Goldberg And The Teabaggers Play Pretend”

  1. Colin says:
    April 20, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    I was at the same tea party you attended and yes, there were professionally made signs. However, I have also attended a number of antiwar protests here in DC and the percentage of professionally made signs courtesy of ANSWER and other organizations was significantly higher than either what I saw at the DC tea protest or pics from other tea parties across the country.

    Please tell me that you have the honestly to at least acknowledge that.

    Plus I would note that YAF is based in the area — Herndon — and I would be surprised if their signs were widely found in tea parties across the country.

  2. Oliver Willis says:
    April 20, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    Nobody disputes whether there is a much longer history of protest activism on the left. We’re a movement designed against the status quo. We certainly have far less corporate sponsors.

  3. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    April 20, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    Colin: “I was at the same tea party you attended and yes, there were professionally made signs. However, I have also attended a number of antiwar protests here in DC and the percentage of professionally made signs courtesy of ANSWER and other organizations was significantly higher than either what I saw at the DC tea protest or pics from other tea parties across the country.”

    Really? This is what you are concentrating on?

    Jonah Goldberg makes a bullshit claim (‘The left is laughing because the right has homemade signs.’) and you ignore the real reason the left is laughing, and concentrate on the signs.

    This is why the left is laughing at the right.

  4. ed says:
    April 20, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    Really? This is what you are concentrating on?

    Colin’s not big on addressing the pertinent issue of a given blog post.

  5. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    April 20, 2009 at 8:28 pm

    Me: “Really? This is what you are concentrating on?”

    ed: “Colin’s not big on addressing the pertinent issue of a given blog post.”

    The left is pissed off because Obama is not going after the people who tortured detainees. The right is pissed off that Obama gave the Queen an iPod.

    Modern politics in a nutshell.

  6. sgwhiteinfla says:
    April 20, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    Former Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards

    There continue to be many disturbing consequences from America’s ongoing economic disaster. One, too seldom noted, is that we now have a subset of Americans who apparently have too little to do and thus too much time on their hands, some of which is taken up with silliness. The economy is still in the pits, Americans are still coming home from Iraq in body bags, presidents (past and present) continue to stretch the limits of constitutional authority, personal spending is down and government spending is up, unemployment is going up not down, Iran has just sentenced an American journalist to prison, north Korea is firing off rockets, and Newt is railing about . . . a handshake.

    Such is the state of Republicans these days.

  7. jr says:
    April 20, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Jonah’s Cheeto-fueled syphilitic rantings are always a hoot

  8. Jaim says:
    April 20, 2009 at 11:55 pm

    So it’s cool to compare the anti-war protests to the tea-baggers?

    Good, because by that standard the tea-baggers can’t come up with a mere tenth of the numbers the anti-war protesters did.

    Dirty hippies should get real jobs.

  9. Grumpymann says:
    April 21, 2009 at 6:20 am

    Is there really a difference between laughing at and mocking?

  10. Colin says:
    April 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

    We’re a movement designed against the status quo. We certainly have far less corporate sponsors.

    Uh-huh:

    http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2008/06/16/daily51.html

  11. Oliver Willis says:
    April 21, 2009 at 11:23 am

    Yeah, those corporations are really lining up to support Employee Free Choice, Universal Care, and the like. Sure, big business was betting on the likely winner last year, but lets not pretend the GOP is working for the little guy.

  12. Colin says:
    April 22, 2009 at 9:28 am

    Yeah, those corporations are really lining up to support Employee Free Choice, Universal Care, and the like.

    Yep. Their message:

    http://www.coalition4healthcare.org/latestVideo/?_c=xxa7rzhuiv5fag

    Their membership:

    http://www.coalition4healthcare.org/about/members/?_c=xxa7rzhuiv5fag

    Big business and big government go hand in hand. Big business hates the competition and rough and tumble of the free market where they could suddenly be knocked off their pedestal. This is why they use government to help achieve their aims. To wit:

    Wal-Mart favors a higher minimum wage (to help beat lower wage competitors that can’t compete with economies of scale):

    http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/25/news/fortune500/walmart_wage/

    Agribusiness loves the alternative energy scam that is ethanol:

    http://www.slate.com/id/2122961/

    GE supports green energy tech so it can sell more of its turbines:

    http://www.ge-energy.com/businesses/ge_wind_energy/en/index.htm

    The reality is that big government represents the ultimate in the status quo. The dynamic, ever changing environment of the free market represents the complete opposite. It’s hard to claim that you want to take on The Man when you push to expand his powers.