Michelle Malkin, Freedomworks Caught Inflating Teabag Attendance
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Whoops. Only off by 1,930,000.
Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the group that organized the event, said on stage at the rally that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance.
At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large. ABCNews.com reported an approximate figure of 60,000 to 70,000 protesters, attributed to the Washington, D.C., fire department. In its reports, ABC News Radio described the crowd as “tens of thousands.”
On a personal note, my one one-on-one interaction with a teabagger revealed the same conservative nonsense we hear on Fox.
Discussing health care, the young woman I spoke to first said coverage was cheap. So I asked, not if you have a pre-existing condition. So she said it would cost a little more. I responded, well not everyone can afford that kind of fee – if you can even get coverage in the first place.
Her response?
“So? I wanted a pony when I was kid.”
You flipping morons. Health care is not a pony. Conservatives make me sick.
RELATED: This took me four minutes and 19 seconds on Google. I timed it.
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Got any photos O-Dub? I’m curious to know how many were bold enough to show up in sheets.
the young woman I spoke to first said coverage was cheap.
She is mistaken.
We paid for their 2 stupid fucking wars, now we get health care that’s actually almost adequate. Not too hard for anyone to understand, even a crazy person.
chow shark, as stated in another post, I already sent your response to the clan to Sen. Byrd.
Quaker, “mistaken” for what, my wife, and daughter are covered and it is cheap, but it requires shopping around, and going through the underwriting, yes it took longer to get them covered but they are both covered for less than 200 per month with Anthem Blue Cross. You know what though, I am for Darwinism, I am against the seatbelt law, the helmet law, and other laws that have been on the books for far too long. If you are too stupid to survive in this country, then you need to get out of the gene-pool, (this is certainly one reason to support abortion). Now what would your response be? “Oh that’s smart, without those laws our healthcare costs would be even higher because of accident victims.” Yes, but in the long term we would have a smarter less costly populous. LOL still drinking.
So Sayeth the Impaler!
Oliver, I do love the Michelle Pics though, if she where a lobbist I would _____ her. Current events fill in the blanks question.
Oh and I got an estimate, and Tetley confirmed that there where well over 1.8 million tea bags on site.
It costs 1,000 a month to get Blue Cross insurance. The tea baggers don’t even have insurance. Look at their teeth
the young woman I spoke to first said coverage was cheap.
No no no no, she misunderstood. What she meant was she whored herself out to the cause cheap. Probably a pack of smokes and a 6 pack was all it took.
“So? I wanted a pony when I was kid.”
Hey, we’re headed in the right direction! The nut on CNN awhile back was equating healthcare with his wanting a Hummer. Pretty soon they’ll be down to equating it with a Big Mac!
“…equating healthcare with is wanting a Hummer.”
Which kind of “Hummer,” the car or…
This is DC. There were people protesting on the national mall about something. We don’t call that a huge protest. We call that “saturday.” Every weekday in this city, more than 450,000 people come downtown just to go to work. If you can’t even approximate that order of magnitude (or at least disrupt traffic), then I can’t be bothered to care.
You only get credit if I haven’t heard of your cause before (e.g., wow, 50,000 people on the mall protesting against patent extensions on a digital music encoding scheme. I didn’t know that cause had so much passion). 60,000 people to mindlessly parrot when Bill O’reilly, Glen Beck, and the Republican senators are telling them to believe every day? Not impressive.
Tyro, you must be lying. If there were 50,000 people protesting patent extensons, it would have been widely reported by the national media, just like the tea-bag protests. Right? Right?
Grow up and drop the insulting teabagging terminology. This is not middle school. You’re not going to impress your posse with how bold you are by showing off and defying your teachers.
If you have a valid point to make, make it without what amount to ad hominem attacks.
Do I expect my comment to go live in this echo chamber? No, I do not.
Hugs & kisses,
Vinnie B
“I am for Darwinism, I am against the seatbelt law, the helmet law, and other laws that have been on the books for far too long. If you are too stupid to survive in this country, then you need to get out of the gene-pool, (this is certainly one reason to support abortion). Now what would your response be?”
That you’re an idiot.
If you are too stupid to survive in this country, then you need to get out of the gene-pool
Yes, Impaler, because everybody who has ever died in an accident in this country is just too stupid to have survived.
The really smart people stay at home all day and snark from the safety of their home office onto the Internet, and that way nothing will ever hurt them ever.
Grow up and drop the insulting teabagging terminology.
Your comment went live. And the teabaggers coined themselves as such in the first place, completely oblivious to the previously established sexual connotations.
I look forward to the next conservative fringe movement that innocently does something like establish an organization whose acronym turns out to be FELCH.
Tyro, you must be lying.
For the record, I did make that up as an illustrative example of a cause that 50,000 people would be shocking to see coming out for.
Getting health care insurance is not like getting a pony.
It’s not even like getting car insurance.
The problem is, we are fiddling with all of these weird metaphors like “buying insurance” when what we really want is to make sure everybody who needs health care gets it, just the way we expect that every child will go to school and every fire will be extinguished.
That’s why things like “excluded pre-existing conditions” are anathema, because they are attempts to exclude people from something that, regardless of how it is delivered, should be accessible to everyone.
“The problem is, we are fiddling with all of these weird metaphors like “buying insurance” when what we really want is to make sure everybody who needs health care gets it, just the way we expect that every child will go to school and every fire will be extinguished.”
It’s capitalism gone wild; hyper consumerism even with life and death concerns. I guess that’s the Darwinian theme expressed above.
Impaler, the average cost for employer-paid insurance in this country is about 7K-9K per person. I pay about 10K per employee per year. You don’t know shit about capitalism other than what you read in books.
they are both covered for less than 200 per month with Anthem Blue Cross….Now what would your response be?
My response would be that you are very lucky. Apparently your wife and daughter are both in excellent health and have never had any major health problems. You apparently have the wherewithal to pay for routine health procedures out of pocket.
Further, my response would be to wish your family continued good fortune. The type of coverage you seem to have is of the sort that insurers like to rescind if it looks like the patient is going to cost them money.
The really smart people stay at home all day and snark from the safety of their home office onto the Internet, and that way nothing will ever hurt them ever.
I’m guessing Impy wears a helmet at all times.
Your comment went live. And the teabaggers coined themselves as such in the first place, completely oblivious to the previously established sexual connotations.
Thank you. The joke is more than “olol teabag”. The main punchline is that the right-wingers are so incompetent, out-of-touch, and prudish, that they used teabag as a verb, and no one said “hey, this might be a bad idea”.