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Old 04-22-2010, 03:53 PM
 
Location: The Woods
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The "tea baggers" are afraid of being called racists. Well one look at your rallies and nary a black or hispanic in sight. Why is that? Why do the crowds look just like the ones that attended the Palin rallies? How come nobody heard of the "Tea Party" until Obama was elected? Bush left Obama a $1.3 trillion dollar deficit but were conservatives up in arms? NO they weren't because they were enjoying their Bush tax cuts. Now they have to pay the piper and they're screaming their heads off like infantiles.
The left doesn't have to do anything to destroy them since they're doing a good job of it themselves.
You lie. There are non-Whites in the tea parties. I believe there was a Black at the tea party in Montpelier, VT (and there aren't many Blacks in VT). NBC tried race baiting one at another tea party.

There were protests of the bailouts, etc., under Bush.
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Old 04-22-2010, 03:55 PM
 
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The "tea baggers" are afraid of being called racists. Well one look at your rallies and nary a black or hispanic in sight. Why is that? Why do the crowds look just like the ones that attended the Palin rallies? How come nobody heard of the "Tea Party" until Obama was elected? Bush left Obama a $1.3 trillion dollar deficit but were conservatives up in arms? NO they weren't because they were enjoying their Bush tax cuts. Now they have to pay the piper and they're screaming their heads off like infantiles.
The left doesn't have to do anything to destroy them since they're doing a good job of it themselves.
The Republicans did not rally around him. They were angry and at their own party so much so that they didn't vote for them. Bush may have started this but Obama is Bush on steroids. He is making things worse, not better like he promised!
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Old 04-22-2010, 03:56 PM
 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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This probably does no good for someone that uses an adjective as a noun, but do you know what the word stereotype means miamirob? You can look it up in the dictionary while checking out the proper usage of the word infantile. It is an extremely ignorant thing to do and it makes you look foolish.
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Old 04-22-2010, 04:00 PM
 
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^ this is city data not an English class and I really don't care what you think.
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Old 04-22-2010, 04:06 PM
 
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Isn't it quite logical that if the Tea Party "movement" has been organized to destroy the electoral gains of the left, that the left would then in turn organize the "movement" do "destroy" the movement that threatens those gains? Or, is the argument that the Tea Party should be unopposed and just given a free reign?
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Old 04-22-2010, 04:17 PM
 
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Ther real problem is they are trying to hit a moving target with no liens to either party. that is why its a popualitst movement and so feared. They wants veryoens head in washington ;that strike the most fear i teh party that is in power naturally. in the end they can do nothign really.
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Old 04-23-2010, 05:57 PM
 
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Will Mainstream Media reporters and editors expose, screen out, or help Tea Party saboteurs? | Washington Examiner (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Will-Mainstream-Media-reporters-and-editors-screen-out-Tea-Party-crashers-90572559.html - broken link)
"In other words, some on the Left in American politics are running a KGB-like "false flag" operation to discredit the Tea Party. They couldn't sell the transparently nonsensical idea that Tea Partiers are just a bunch of racists, homophobes and morons, so the Crash the Party agents on the Left are infiltrating the Tea Party in order to pose as a bunch of racists, homophobes and morons.

It's a classic KGB-style disinformation campaign. Will mainstream media editors and reporters be fooled? Will they know it when they are being scammed by Crash the Party? Will they expose Crash the Party operatives or cooperate with them in their effort to misrepresent millions of Americans?"



Media Research Center: Coverage of Tea Parties is disparaging and biased
http://dailycaller.com/2010/04/13/me...gingly-biased/


Blacks, the Media, & the Tea Parties
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/...tea_parti.html
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Old 04-23-2010, 11:04 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Fearful of other people's right to free speech and their right to assemble, the radical anti-USA Left is making a concerted effort to destroy the grassroots Tea Party movement made up of everyday average Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, who are fed up with Big Government and Big Business destroying this country.

The Left Wing's Organized Effort to Destroy the Tea Party

There are many reports that these nutjobs plan to infiltrate the April 15 Tea Party protests, create more illiterate, racist signs to photograph and send to the left-leaning Obama-loving media.

The left-wing media-created "Coffee Party" also has grand plans to destroy the Tea Party movement:
How to Destroy the Tea Party: Make Them Our Friends and Allies

Both The Tea Party and The Coffee Party are made up of disgruntled citizens who do not feel Washington is listening to them.

Many of the Tea Party people are furious at the Republicans and George W. Bush because of big business bailouts and feel their politicians are more loyal to big business lobbies than they are to them.

Similarly, many of the Coffee Party people are furious at the Democrats and President Obama because of the current health care bill which is one big sellout to the insurance companies and feel their politicians are more loyal to insurance lobbies than they are to them.

Both sides, whether they realize it or not, are coming to the same conclusion: our elected officials are more beholden to special interests (big business, Wall Street, and corporations) than they are to the People.

The solutions? Probably something both groups can support:

-- Campaign finance reform

-- A Constitutional Amendment barring corporations from having "person" status and therefore the ability to influence elections through campaign contributions and advertisements.

If both groups worked together on this, real change could happen. Change that repairs the system and makes our Government accountable to The People and not Wall Street / Big Business / Corporations.

We should be inviting The Tea Party crowd over to our side. Especially the ones who got involved at the very beginning and feel disillusioned with what The Tea Party has become. We don't have to pretend we agree with them on anything other than what I've listed.
This is nothing but an attempt to try and legitimize the phony Coffee Party, a left-wing group organized just recently to pretend that they "mirror" the Tea Party. The Coffee Party is trying to quietly subvert our natural, grassroots movement by their lies of "agreeing with the Tea Party, per se, but just a more balanced, less racist, less violent, less extremist way." By acting like they are really a "balanced offshoot" of the Tea Party, they can work behind the scenes to garner mainstream media support to destroy our movement by accusing us of the very radicalism, racism and violence that they are so endeared to.
All that crap sounds so much like Alinsky but I think that all of it comes right from the mind of Cass Sunstein. The man is in charge of propaganda and this is much of what he has said up to now. He wanted to infiltrate any group that promised to cause trouble in 2008. Yep, he has put them up to all this.
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Old 04-23-2010, 11:08 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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OP is playing the paranoid victim.

It's what right wingers do. Convince their lemmings others are out to "destroy them"......LOL
How about you giving me some of the knowledge you have about Cass Sunstein to prove that he is not behind all of this. Maybe you need to read the things he wrote in that paper in 2008 and his books "Nudge" and "On Rumors".

Ah yes he is the baddy here since all that has been done lately was involved in those writings. Just think, he did two of those things before the Tea Party movement was started. He was ready, just in case.
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Old 04-23-2010, 11:10 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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That's my favorite question that is always met with silence: What freedoms of yours were taken away? Everybody here avoids that one like the plague.
That seems to be the same tack that many of us used to take to drive liberals away when the Patriot Act was passed. Can you think of any of your rights that were taken away at that time? Hell, you weren't even original since we beat you to it by nearly 10 years.
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