Well, there was definitely some of that, but mostly it was just ignorance and stupidity. I’ve been surfing around looking at pictures and videos from today’s Fox News/media event, and I gotta tell you, the vacuous stupidity and blind spittle-flecked hate is painful to behold. Regardless of the last-minute “bipartisanship” spin (someone at Teabagger HQ must have belatedly realized that getting a lot of really stupid people all torqued up might not end well), these things were basically Obama hate-fests. Without further ado, some images of “The Teabaggers”:
Just your basic racist:
The ever-popular Barack Hussein Osama bin Obama bin Hitler:
More racism:
The perpetually persecution-complexed (but what’s this have to do with taxes?):
The omnipresent fetus fetishist contingent (I guess representing all those fetal taxpayers):
A “Get A Brain, Morans” moment (probably just one of many):
And finally, someone from the reality-based community, asking the question that every dumbass teabagger should have been asked:
There are some figures on the turnout at five thirty eight — not all locations are in, but so far it’s about 111,000 with the estimated total at possibly 250,000 nationwide. To add context, it helps to consider that Barack Obama’s rallies routinely drew 70,000 people. Given the months of almost 24/7 promotion from Fox and other right-wing media, I’d call it a DUD. A tempest in a teabag. Or maybe a barf bag, or, looking at some of these fine folks, a colostomy bag.
More pics where these ones came from at Huffington Post, (if you can bear it).
I didn’t see any Latinos or Black or Browns or Native Americans.
It looks more like a Readers’ Digest picnic than a protest
If this keeps up, Glenn Beck is going to have to send out for more batshit!
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second picture down — another moran!
Torontonian – as far as I can tell, Reader’s Digest has nothing to do with this type of wingnuttery. It is conservative, but not in a nasty way.
Also: Scholiast? I can haz schoolz?
And: I still don’t get why they call it teabagging.
Finally: The Mudflats has a great report on the Alaska wingnut-fest. She calls it a “huge anti-Bush rally”.
http://www.themudflats.net/2009/04/15/huge-anti-bush-rally-in-downtown-anchorage/
At least the double entendres were fun, the best from Anderson Cooper, ” it’s hard to talk while you’re teabagging”
What else but stupid would we have expected from Fox News viewers anyway? Or, are they an insult to stupid people?
That goodness most of the libertarians weren’t taken in by this – The guys at Lew Rockwell saw it for the Republican Fox-News astroturf nonsense it was.
Even if it is a dud, a quarter of a million people should be able to supply enough footage to sustain weeks of Fox spin.
If only they’d shown up in silly Indian costumes, like the last time a bunch of middle-class crackers got together to demand tax cuts.
Hey, look at my psycho governor talking secession! And in my own backyard, no less!
Good morrow, all!
Somewhere, somebody among the “teabaggers” (and the jokes just keep on, er, coming…I better quit while I’m…uh, never mind…) declared that “This was the biggest event of its kind, ever!”
You might want to ask Jesse Jackson about that. He was there when the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr declared, “I have a dream!” There was several hundred thousand people attending that speech in Washington, DC, that day. I saw bigger rallies and turnouts at Obama speeches during the campaign. Hell, Ron Paul drew bigger crowds, and greater dedication, and he made light-years more sense than anything the “baggers” ever said.
BTW, the same people who organized these “spontaneous” outpourings of outrage work for corporatiosn who routinely send billions of dollars of profit offshore, to avoid paying taxes. After all, only little people, such as thee and me, pay taxes. That leaves Joe and Mary Sixpack on the hook to the tune of approximately 100 billion US per year. You wanna teabag somebody? Start with Exxon Mobil, Citibank and maybe WalMart. There is nothing more ludicrous that misdirected outrage.
You only wish I was kidding…CTZen
Sore losers, the US election was six months and their guy (&gal) lost. The US still has one of the lowest tax rates in the industralized world and 95% just got a tax cut, so they are full of shit. Lets hope that the tea partys allow the rednecks to blow off some steam and then STFU!
No, far from it. “Remember Descent the highest form of patriotic.”
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Also too everywhere such as, guys and gals!
scho·li·ast (skl-st)
n. One of the ancient commentators who annotated the classical authors.
“The thought of what America would be like / If the Classics had a wide circulation / Troubles my sleep”
–Ezra Pound, Cantico del Sole