Wednesday — Teabagging Open Thread
Any news or video yet?
Here’s a few more items:
- Best assessment yet of the mixed up messaging of this thing from Matt Bors.
- FoxNoise Astroturf Party!
- Remember that recent spin insisting that today’s events are non-partisan? Well, the RNC officially endorses today’s bit of theater, which blows all of that non-partisan BS out of the water. Even the local GOPers get into the endorsement act.
So tell us what you hear out there or send us pictures or video via the comments. And, of course, there is plenty of other political happenings out there, so let us know what interests you out there!
EDIT: Brian Shields went to the Georgetown event and liveblogged it. Nice job, Brian!
UPDATE: Brian Shields is at it again – liveblogging the Laurel Tea Party. You go, Brian!
Tags: Open Thread
I’ve been surfing the net looking for coverage, and the pictures that are coming in focus on Obama and Dems. In fact, I haven’t found one yet that mentions Bush or Republicans even though I keep being told that this is a bi-partisan event.
Coincident? I think not!
There is a guy on Talk of the Nation right now waxing rhapsodic on the DC event definitely working the point that people in the crowd hated Bush and definitely see him as a betrayer of the conservative small gov business. Neil Conant didn’t ask the guy any real questions, but he never challenges the party line.
Vets not happy teabaggers using a Memorial as their venue.
I wonder what’s the correlation among teabaggers and truck nuts? 😈
1 Million Tea Bags and they forgot their Dumping Permit
Yo kids! The Sons of Liberty didn’t need no stinking permits!
people in the crowd hated Bush and definitely see him as a betrayer of the conservative small gov business.
Oh yeah they all hate Bush now.
So what, they’d vote for him again if they could.
The thing to remember about teabagging is that it is always important to remember to breathe through your nose and just relax. Actually, when you put it that way, it sort of feels like the whole last eight years was one long teabagging.
John Cole speaks the truth…
“You know what really irritates me about the tea parties? The basic fact that if right now, it were President John McCain and not President Obama, and nothing else had changed, these tea parties wouldn’t exist. You know it, I know it, and even the teabaggers know it. It is just such transparent bullshit that it is offensive. The most these guys ever did during the last lost eight years was put a limp Porkbusters logo on their website, but now that we have President Malcom X George McGovern Shabazz, they are freaking out like there is no tomorrow. So absurd.”
I think the speakers made an effort to leave the Obama hate speech out of it. They never mentioned him by name, only mentioned “the president” once. The event I went to seemed more directed at Congress.
Cassandra, I have updated your post. Brian is at it again!
Wow, that’s cool! Wonder if Brian will be coming up to Wilmington for that one too….
Yikes — guess not. I just noticed what the time is here….
Scroll down and watch the video!
It’s just two minutes long and put down all liquids. 👿
Anderson Cooper, that scamp!
This video is why I think Tea Parties could backfire on Republicans. Nasty and stupid.
What the hell did that newsreader mean at the end when she said you could see both sides of the issue in that report — conservative and liberal? There were no liberals in that clip — so I guess these TV types just claim to look at both sides of an issue.
Which doesn’t make them all that different from some bloggers, you know?
I just can’t bring myself to stand in the rain to go make fun of these people…
They moved the Wilmington event inside. Don’t worry, LG. DV is there. Oh my.
Heh. They finally issued a memo to teabaggers that “teabagging” has a sexual connotation.
I hate hate hate standing in the rain. By the end of the Laurel Party, my knuckles were near frozen.
Love the comments on UI’s link, and this one may be the best:
In Piscataway, NJ, a local teabagging party is being held in … Johnson Park.
Thanks for doing all of that work, Brian — make sure you guys click the link for Brian’s liveblog threads above to see the pictures he uploaded of each event he went to.
I’ve been glued to Brian’s blog all day!
I am still numb.
I posted a total of four Tea Party posts. Two liveblog, one photos, another commentary afterwards.
I am working on getting permission to post one of the speeches from the event from Shaun Fink. He was by far the most polished and most well thought out speaker at both events. Elbert told me had has experience behind the pulpit, and it showed as he was well able to get the crowd moving, no matter what the weather.
Great blogging Brian. I was the weak link. I was supposed to go to Dover but didn’t feel like it.
Don’t blame you. If both weren’t within 20 minutes of my house, and if the weather was any better, I wouldn’t have done it either.