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Reason
02-22-2009, 06:15 AM
Anyone know of a source that has some percentage numbers for how often RP is now on Fox News after the election versus before the election?

Conza88
02-22-2009, 06:23 AM
It's a complete & utter fcken pys-ops.

Michelle Malkin (DOT) COM (Don't be clicking it, if you can resist)

Lead Story

Tea Party U.S.A.: The movement grows
By Michelle Malkin • February 21, 2009 04:16 AM

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Seattle on Monday. Denver on Tuesday. Mesa AZ on Wednesday. Overland Park, Kansas today. What a week, huh? We got the anti-stimulus, anti-entitlement protest ball rolling — and now the movement, spurred further by CNBC host Rick Santelli’s call for a “Chicago Tea Party,” is really taking off.

David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily has a nice piece out today spotlighting the growing taxpayer revolt the rest of the MSM won’t cover. He interviewed our registered commenters Liberty Belle Keli Carender, who spearheaded the Seattle anti-pork protest, and HuskerGirl Amanda Grosserode, who organized today’s anti-stimulus demonstration against Democrat Rep. Dennis Moore in Overland Park, KS.

I’m happy to report on several new protest events now on the docket.

My friend Michael Patrick Leahy of Top Conservatives on Twitter and his crew are spearheading “simultaneous local tea parties around the country, beginning in Chicago, and including Washington DC, Fayetteville NC, San Diego CA, Omaha Nebraska, and dozens of other locations” for next Friday.

Time: February 27, 2009 from 12pm to 1pm
Location: Chicago, Washington DC, other cities, Twitter
Go to OfficialChicagoTeaParty.com for all the info.

Co-sponsors of the events with #TCOT include #DONTGO, Smart Girl Politics, Americans for Tax Reform, Heartland Institute, and American Spectator Magazine. The tea parties will be “simultweeted” with the hashtag #teaparty. You can find me tweeting here.

There’s a Facebook page here for the DC Tea Party. I hear that PJTV will also be stepping up to the plate.

If you are in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, reader Mark Christopher Frimmel has come forward to put a Tea Party ‘09 event together. He put up an ad on Dallas Craigslist, has contacted local radio and TV, and wants you to be there. The protest will be held on the outside stage at The Cowtown Bar & Grill on Friday, Feb. 27, from 3pm to 7pm, located at 7108 Camp Bowie Blvd Fort Worth, TX. Music, food, and great fiscal conservative company guaranteed.

Are you in Georgia? Reader Patrick e-mails that he’s “getting a tax protest off the ground in Atlanta. I’d appreciate it if you’d pass on the word. The blog is http://atlantataxprotest.blogspot.com.” He needs your help. Calling Neal Boortz!

Here’s a snippet from Hogberg’s IBD piece to get your motors running:



As unemployment soars and anger over Wall Street bailouts mounts, public outrage will seek an outlet. Populism could go in many directions — and could easily ebb when the economy revives. But if it takes shape as an anti-spending movement, it could revive conservatives much as the 1970s tax protests did.

To be sure, the protest sizes so far are a far cry from the left’s anti-globalization and anti-war demonstrations of the past decade. But they appear to have grass-roots origins. The organizer of the Kansas protest, Amanda Grosserode, calls herself a home-schooling mom who is “fed up” with the spending in Washington. She has been a member of Fair Tax Kansas City since last fall.

“My husband and I were feeling frustrated that the stimulus had passed with very little debate and no one had read it,” she told IBD. “I said, ‘We need to do something.’ ” She began contacting family and friends, and eventually received attention via Fair Tax Kansas City and local talk radio.

Grosserode received considerably more publicity after e-mailing popular conservative commentator and blogger Michelle Malkin.

“I think the taxpayer revolt is the new counterculture,” said Malkin, who has been publicizing the protests on her blog. “People want to stand up and say, ‘Hey, I’m paying for that, I do not support that.’ “

Brendan Steinhauser has a terrific set of detailed tips on how to organize your own tea party protest.

Don’t wait for someone else to do it.

Don’t make excuses.

Don’t think you can pull one off because you’ve never done it before? Look at mom-bloggers Liberty Belle and HuskerGirl.

Yes, you can!

***

I’ve put together a playlist of tunes for Tea Party USA — and several parodies submitted by commenters and readers. Bailoutmania is apparently bringing out the songwriters in you, too.

Edit: screw it, I'll make a thread. This insanity needs to be broadcasted.

zach
02-22-2009, 09:43 AM
So is this teaparty a hoax in order to do something bad? or just a hoax in general? I'm confused.

bg1654
02-22-2009, 09:58 AM
Could just be a controlled release in order to stop a boil over. The main stream media is all over this. This is a huge contrast from a couple of months ago.

zach
02-22-2009, 10:05 AM
Could just be a controlled release in order to stop a boil over. The main stream media is all over this. This is a huge contrast from a couple of months ago.

Yeah, this is fishy. It's like revolution is the new cool thing, like being libertarian was the cool thing a while back or something.

what the hell.

ladyjade3
02-22-2009, 10:18 AM
Yeah, this is fishy. It's like revolution is the new cool thing, like being libertarian was the cool thing a while back or something.

what the hell.

Stop it. What do you think success looks like? It HAS to catch on with a wider audience, and it is. This is just the MSM seeing an angry mob and running out in front with a pitchfork. They need the ratings desperately right now. They've been sorely punished at the stock market, losses all over their balance sheets and are trying to figure out how to stop getting spanked.

They like Ron Paul because he is POPULAR. He gets ratings, he gets them buzz, he makes them relevant. This is all a good thing. It's not some kind of conspiracy bait and switch. It's about business, ad revenue and money.

For us and Dr. Paul, we finally get to be heard.

RedStripe
02-22-2009, 10:47 AM
Stop it. What do you think success looks like? It HAS to catch on with a wider audience, and it is. This is just the MSM seeing an angry mob and running out in front with a pitchfork. They need the ratings desperately right now. They've been sorely punished at the stock market, losses all over their balance sheets and are trying to figure out how to stop getting spanked.

They like Ron Paul because he is POPULAR. He gets ratings, he gets them buzz, he makes them relevant. This is all a good thing. It's not some kind of conspiracy bait and switch. It's about business, ad revenue and money.

For us and Dr. Paul, we finally get to be heard.

Yea but now our message is getting wrapped up with the bobble-head morons on MSNBC and Bush-supporting idiots who have absolutely no credibility.

The libertarian reputation is stained when these political opportunists jump on the bandwagon.

heavenlyboy34
02-22-2009, 10:50 AM
Yeah, this is fishy. It's like revolution is the new cool thing, like being libertarian was the cool thing a while back or something.

what the hell.

It sucks when the MSM takes good ideas and squishes the life out of them. :mad::(:p

zach
02-22-2009, 11:19 AM
For us and Dr. Paul, we finally get to be heard.

Agree with that whole passage! I'm a bit skeptical unfortunately, but what you say is completely right. I may not like this "hijacking" or whatever it can be called, but, at least more people are becoming aware of these ideas.

LibertyEagle
02-22-2009, 11:34 AM
Yea but now our message is getting wrapped up with the bobble-head morons on MSNBC and Bush-supporting idiots who have absolutely no credibility.

The libertarian reputation is stained when these political opportunists jump on the bandwagon.

WHAT libertarian reputation??? Are you in this to get our liberty back or are you in this for some other reason? I don't get it.

tangent4ronpaul
02-22-2009, 01:46 PM
Stop it. What do you think success looks like? It HAS to catch on with a wider audience, and it is. This is just the MSM seeing an angry mob and running out in front with a pitchfork. They need the ratings desperately right now. They've been sorely punished at the stock market, losses all over their balance sheets and are trying to figure out how to stop getting spanked.



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mconder
02-22-2009, 01:47 PM
Stop it. What do you think success looks like? It HAS to catch on with a wider audience, and it is.


I can't believe anyone would suggest extreme cation should not be observed after all they (FOX and others) have done to us. I agree with Conza88 about this being nothing more than pys-ops...an attempt to co-opt most of our numbers and then convert our energies to mainstream apathy and ineptness.

misterx
02-22-2009, 01:53 PM
Can't we just be happy that the message is getting out and we are gowing in influence? I'm tired of all the paranoia from people who seemingly want to remain a fringe group forever.

mconder
02-22-2009, 01:55 PM
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I just ordered one. I don't know why they need to charge $7.95 shipping on a T-Shirt, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it.

dr. hfn
02-22-2009, 02:48 PM
our revolution is spreading...

trey4sports
02-22-2009, 03:09 PM
Stop it. What do you think success looks like? It HAS to catch on with a wider audience, and it is. This is just the MSM seeing an angry mob and running out in front with a pitchfork. They need the ratings desperately right now. They've been sorely punished at the stock market, losses all over their balance sheets and are trying to figure out how to stop getting spanked.

They like Ron Paul because he is POPULAR. He gets ratings, he gets them buzz, he makes them relevant. This is all a good thing. It's not some kind of conspiracy bait and switch. It's about business, ad revenue and money.

For us and Dr. Paul, we finally get to be heard.
THANK YOU!!!
ive been trying to say this myself but never quite comes out right. this is not a giant hoax. our movement is gaining steam!

Chester Copperpot
02-22-2009, 03:18 PM
Stop it. What do you think success looks like? It HAS to catch on with a wider audience, and it is. This is just the MSM seeing an angry mob and running out in front with a pitchfork. They need the ratings desperately right now. They've been sorely punished at the stock market, losses all over their balance sheets and are trying to figure out how to stop getting spanked.

They like Ron Paul because he is POPULAR. He gets ratings, he gets them buzz, he makes them relevant. This is all a good thing. It's not some kind of conspiracy bait and switch. It's about business, ad revenue and money.

For us and Dr. Paul, we finally get to be heard.

yep

+1773

tonesforjonesbones
02-22-2009, 03:32 PM
Oh I totally agree and it is EXCITING! So, what if the libertarian party becomes the new conservative party and grows..and libertarians start getting elected...will you "purists" bail? That's called being a martyer. tones

Conza88
02-22-2009, 06:16 PM
Can't we just be happy that the message is getting out and we are gowing in influence? I'm tired of all the paranoia from people who seemingly want to remain a fringe group forever.

Happy? Like sit back and relax, be all content?

Ahhh no...

And like I've said countless times, this opportunity should be used to get people off faux news and out of the mainstream. Direct them to LewRockwell.com and Mises.org..


Stop it. What do you think success looks like? It HAS to catch on with a wider audience, and it is. This is just the MSM seeing an angry mob and running out in front with a pitchfork. They need the ratings desperately right now. They've been sorely punished at the stock market, losses all over their balance sheets and are trying to figure out how to stop getting spanked.

They like Ron Paul because he is POPULAR. He gets ratings, he gets them buzz, he makes them relevant. This is all a good thing. It's not some kind of conspiracy bait and switch. It's about business, ad revenue and money.

For us and Dr. Paul, we finally get to be heard.

I'd love to believe this too. Unfortunately I don't.

Have you already forgotten the blackout? What changed? They desperately needed ratings back then. He was INFINITELY mote POPULAR back then.

You don't think ANY of the Channels have an agenda? They just automatically FLIP their esoteric and rhetorical style from pro status quo, to anti status quo. And the others do the exact same except from anti status quo, to pro status quo? It all happens naturally, in concert? :confused:

C'mon..

micahnelson
02-22-2009, 06:18 PM
Can't we just be happy that the message is getting out and we are gowing in influence? I'm tired of all the paranoia from people who seemingly want to remain a fringe group forever.

But if we don't stay on the fringe we are going to have to wash our clothes and shave!

Mini-Me
02-22-2009, 06:37 PM
WHAT libertarian reputation??? Are you in this to get our liberty back or are you in this for some other reason? I don't get it.

I can't speak for him, but I think what RedStripe is concerned about might be this: The warmongering, faux-conservative neocons have a horrible reputation among 2/3 of America right now, and they're widely being accused (and rightly so) of being unprincipled hypocrites. For instance, the neocons were for the national socialist bailout bill, but now all of a sudden they're against the socialist stimulus package. They're so discredited and hated now that if they become the focal point of "revolutionary" attempts, the attempts themselves might become irreparably discredited by association, at least in the eyes of independents and Obama fans, who now comprise the majority of Americans...and just as much as disillusioned Republicans, those are the people we need to sway now that the Obama admin is running amok.

Increased popularity and anger over the state of affairs is great, and I'm all for it...but the neocons are on a sinking ship, and I think we should be wary of them coopting our pro-liberty agenda, watering it down, making a mockery of the idea, and taking us down with them.

idiom
02-22-2009, 06:40 PM
This is why a civil war won't help. Obviously the NWO is on all side of any fight.

paulitics
02-22-2009, 07:37 PM
I can't speak for him, but I think what RedStripe is concerned about might be this: The warmongering, faux-conservative neocons have a horrible reputation among 2/3 of America right now, and they're widely being accused (and rightly so) of being unprincipled hypocrites. For instance, the neocons were for the national socialist bailout bill, but now all of a sudden they're against the socialist stimulus package. They're so discredited and hated now that if they become the focal point of "revolutionary" attempts, the attempts themselves might become irreparably discredited by association, at least in the eyes of independents and Obama fans, who now comprise the majority of Americans...and just as much as disillusioned Republicans, those are the people we need to sway now that the Obama admin is running amok.

Increased popularity and anger over the state of affairs is great, and I'm all for it...but the neocons are on a sinking ship, and I think we should be wary of them coopting our pro-liberty agenda, watering it down, making a mockery of the idea, and taking us down with them.

sums it up.

Conza88
02-22-2009, 07:43 PM
I can't speak for him, but I think what RedStripe is concerned about might be this: The warmongering, faux-conservative neocons have a horrible reputation among 2/3 of America right now, and they're widely being accused (and rightly so) of being unprincipled hypocrites. For instance, the neocons were for the national socialist bailout bill, but now all of a sudden they're against the socialist stimulus package. They're so discredited and hated now that if they become the focal point of "revolutionary" attempts, the attempts themselves might become irreparably discredited by association, at least in the eyes of independents and Obama fans, who now comprise the majority of Americans...and just as much as disillusioned Republicans, those are the people we need to sway now that the Obama admin is running amok.

Increased popularity and anger over the state of affairs is great, and I'm all for it...but the neocons are on a sinking ship, and I think we should be wary of them coopting our pro-liberty agenda, watering it down, making a mockery of the idea, and taking us down with them.

UMmmm...


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Reason
02-23-2009, 01:28 AM
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