Tea Party Convention

[Flex]

http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/artic ... icle=28780

But, Chomsky, the firebrand liberal who spent most of his life critiquing and attacking US hegemony and foreign policy, said the left is failing the country by not reaching out to those in the Tea Party movement, who are frustrated and fed up with American government.

“They shouldn’t be laughed at. It’s not a joke,” Chomsky told the packed theater. “Ridiculing the Tea Party shenanigans is a terrible mistake. Why are those voices of discontent being mobilized by the extreme Right?”

I feel conflicted by this argument (I posted something similar by Naomi Wolf upthread). Yeah, obviously, if they're serious about the rhetoric they absolutely should be reached out to. But the evidence is that that vast majority wouldn't really put their money where their mouth is. Just like the vast majority of Democrats jumped ship off the anti-war movement after "their guy" got elected.

[eumaas]

http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/artic ... icle=28780

But, Chomsky, the firebrand liberal who spent most of his life critiquing and attacking US hegemony and foreign policy, said the left is failing the country by not reaching out to those in the Tea Party movement, who are frustrated and fed up with American government.

“They shouldn’t be laughed at. It’s not a joke,” Chomsky told the packed theater. “Ridiculing the Tea Party shenanigans is a terrible mistake. Why are those voices of discontent being mobilized by the extreme Right?”

I feel conflicted by this argument (I posted something similar by Naomi Wolf upthread). Yeah, obviously, if they're serious about the rhetoric they absolutely should be reached out to. But the evidence is that that vast majority wouldn't really put their money where their mouth is. Just like the vast majority of Democrats jumped ship off the anti-war movement after "their guy" got elected.

I wrote off the whole Tea Party thing long ago and have argued with libertarian friends about whether or not they should attend. I think it's interesting that Wolf and Chomsky are defending such things against liberal attacks--and let's be clear, many liberals have stepped over the line and started talking about how dissent is unpatriotic--but it doesn't change my opinion of the Tea Party movement.

[Mash]

Shit. I thought this was the Tea Bag thing ...

[Rat Patrol]

I counted 1 misspelled Obamacare sign on the Red Line this morning on the way to work. Palin's rally on Boston Common started at 9:00am. And the protests.

Message discipline in the crowd was a little less than...airtight...at this particular bagging. I wonder why.

[Mash]

ha! Getting on the MARC train at BWI I saw a lady wearing a straw hat with tea bags hanging from it ... cracked me up.

Bimbos for Bimbos!

[JoseUnidos]

The Savannah Teabaggers had a rally today - my favorite sign:

[tepista]

my fave:

[eumaas]

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opi ... ve-liberty

[Flex]

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opi ... ve-liberty

I was about to post that very same article...

instead I'll urge support for Harley D. Brown for Congress.

[matedog]

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opi ... ve-liberty

I was about to post that very same article...

instead I'll urge support for Harley D. Brown for Congress.

Get R Done!

[Dr. Medulla]

Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it. When the dangerous and dark “other” does so, however, it isn’t viewed as normal or natural, let alone patriotic.

[This] is what white privilege is all about. The ability to threaten others, to engage in violent and incendiary rhetoric without consequence, to be viewed as patriotic and normal no matter what you do, and never to be feared and despised as people of color would be, if they tried to get away with half the shit we do, on a daily basis.

http://ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com/20 ... -wise.html

[Flex]

This offends my sense of comedy and sense of humanity, probably in that order:
[youtube][/youtube]

[Dr. Medulla]

This offends my sense of comedy and sense of humanity, probably in that order:
[youtube][/youtube]

Watch Weekend Update in the 80s when she would do a segment and realize that both she and Dennis Miller would become total loons.

[rcs]

my fave:

http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Glenn_Beck

[Flex]

What a fun game: http://thisisterrorism.com/post/5507775 ... -was-black