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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 03:50 PM
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Fox News Tea Baggers Consumed With Fear
Who knew we were so all-powerful? :silly:

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Fox News Tea Baggers Consumed With Fear
Filed under: General — Mark @ 10:14 am


The upcoming Tax Day Tea Parties are shaping up to be a source of unending hilarity. A week before the event, supporters are already fretting over their self-invented fears of being infiltrated by the liberal, Soros-sponsored, ACORN hordes, who apparently have nothing better to do than disrupt the Foxbots’ Mad Hatter Fests.


{Isn't it a little disrespectful to place a used tea bag on the American flag, staining it?}


The right-wing blogosphere is all atwitter with anxiety at the thought of lefties crashing their lame parties. Take a look at some of these examples:

Michele Malkin: And on the ground, the tax-subsidized and Soros-subsidized troops are going to try and wreak havoc every way they can. Many readers and fellow bloggers have seen signs that ACORN may send in ringers and saboteurs to usurp the anti-tax, anti-reckless spending, anti-bailout message.

Neil Cavuto: Only eight days before a nationwide tea party, some over-caffeinated crashers aiming to lay waste to it. Reports of very well-organized infiltrators trying to mix in and rain on this parade. Talk about taxing.

Townhall: The latest attack from the left is not aimed at the Republican party or Michael Steele or Rush Limbaugh, but at Democrat, Republican and Independent Americans across the country who have dared to organize “tea parties” to oppose rising taxes, more government control over private enterprise and less individual liberty.


I’m still having trouble grasping how the right can view liberals as weak, tottering, appeasers of Socialism, yet still fear their foreboding presence at a political rally. It parallels their thoroughly illogical perception of President Obama as lacking the courage or strength to be an effective leader, yet he is also a tyrannical despot plotting to enslave America and bend the world to his will.

The truth about these astroturf-roots charades is that they are nothing more than promotions for Fox News. They are pitched on the air and on Fox Nation. At least four Fox “personalities” are hosting the events (Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto, Sean Hannity, and Greta Van Susteran). Fox even describes them as “FNC TAX DAY TEA PARTIES.”

Any other news enterprise that covers these shams is acting as Fox’s PR agency. Would Fox hype NBC’s Today show concerts outside their Manhattan studio? Of course not. The press should ignore these staged commercial publicity traps and cease to be bullied into providing free advertising for their competition. The only coverage these jokers deserve is on The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 03:52 PM
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1. too bad they arent fearful of being exposed as an Astroturf bogus movement
Edited on Fri Apr-10-09 03:53 PM by Mari333
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ProgressiveFool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 03:55 PM
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2. What a bunch of pants-wetting little crybabies conservatives have turned into
Well, not like that's a recent phenomenon, but they seem to be taking the cue from Glenn Beck that it's actually OK to soil themselves in public now.
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Windy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 03:55 PM
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3. Thats exactly what they want. nt
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Happyhippychick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 04:03 PM
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4. I'm such a radical - I plan to show up with COFFEE!!!!
:rofl:
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TheCentepedeShoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 05:46 PM
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17. A Starbuck's latte
better have a fast getaway car :rofl:
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 04:04 PM
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5. Forgive my ignorance - what the hell is Soros? I try not to pay
any attention to the doings of the right because they piss me off to much, and I don't need that. I have seen that term, but don't know what it means.

Thanks.

mark
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 04:11 PM
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6. Here's some info on him-you'll see why the r/w can't stand him...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

Political donations and activism

Activities in the United States

In an interview with The Washington Post on November 11, 2003,<29> Soros said that removing President George W. Bush from office was the "central focus of my life" and "a matter of life and death." He said he would sacrifice his entire fortune to defeat President Bush, "if someone guaranteed it," and many continue to state this as Soros's position even after Soros clarified the statement in a Q&A session at the end of his March 3, 2004 address to California's Commonwealth Club.

Soros gave $3 million to the Center for American Progress, committed $5 million to MoveOn, while he and his friend Peter Lewis each gave America Coming Together $10 million. (All were groups that worked to support Democrats in the 2004 election.) On September 28, 2004 he dedicated more money to the campaign and kicked off his own multi-state tour with a speech: Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush<30> delivered at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The online transcript to this speech received many hits after Dick Cheney accidentally referred to FactCheck.org as "factcheck.com" in the Vice Presidential debate, causing the owner of that domain to redirect all traffic to Soros's site.<31>

Soros was not a large donor to US political causes until the U.S. presidential election, 2004, but according to the Center for Responsive Politics, during the 2003-2004 election cycle, Soros donated $23,581,000 to various 527 groups dedicated to defeating President Bush. (A 527 group is a type of American tax-exempt organization named after a section of the United States tax code, 26 U.S.C. § 527. A 527 group is created primarily to influence the nomination, election, appointment or defeat of candidates for public office.) Despite Soros' efforts, Bush was reelected to a second term as president in U.S. presidential election, 2004.

After Bush's reelection in 2004, Soros and other wealthy liberal political donors backed a new political fundraising group called Democracy Alliance which aims to support the goals of the U.S. Democratic Party.<32>

Soros supported the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which was intended to end "soft money" contributions to federal election campaigns. Soros has made soft money donations to 527 organizations that he says do not raise the same corruption issues as donations directly to the candidates or political parties.
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 04:13 PM
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7. George Soros
Edited on Fri Apr-10-09 04:14 PM by noiretextatique
one the many reasons why they hate him:

In an interview with The Washington Post on November 11, 2003,<29> Soros said that removing President George W. Bush from office was the "central focus of my life" and "a matter of life and death." He said he would sacrifice his entire fortune to defeat President Bush, "if someone guaranteed it," and many continue to state this as Soros's position even after Soros clarified the statement in a Q&A session at the end of his March 3, 2004 address to California's Commonwealth Club.

Soros gave $3 million to the Center for American Progress, committed $5 million to MoveOn, while he and his friend Peter Lewis each gave America Coming Together $10 million. (All were groups that worked to support Democrats in the 2004 election.) On September 28, 2004 he dedicated more money to the campaign and kicked off his own multi-state tour with a speech: Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush<30> delivered at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The online transcript to this speech received many hits after Dick Cheney accidentally referred to FactCheck.org as "factcheck.com" in the Vice Presidential debate, causing the owner of that domain to redirect all traffic to Soros's site.<31>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 04:34 PM
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9. I think Soros is the guy who shows up with the ACORNS
So we can throw them at the teabaggers while driving by in our Volvos.

:rofl:
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 04:48 PM
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10. Thank you all for the clarification. I will, however, have to rent a Volvo -
I have a Hyundai.
(But I have a pair of Betulas I can wear... with contrasting socks!)

mark
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TheCentepedeShoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 05:50 PM
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18. Well damn
I have a 94 Buick Park Ave
Probably built by a bunch of union guys and gals now collecting their "undeserved" pensions
This could be fun :evilgrin:
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 04:25 PM
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8. I wonder
What will be their explanation when no one shows up. Will it be because the God-fearing, gun-toting Americans found out (gasp!) liberals were going to be there and they had to go and :hide:?
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 05:08 PM
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11. And when each TEABAGGER party has a dozen rightwingnut TEABAGGERS show up,
and no one else...how will they blame the pinko commie socialist fascist liberals then???
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 05:18 PM
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12. They've even started a Facebook group for the parties.
All day coverage on Fox "News" - oh boy!
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 05:26 PM
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13. Actually, they are right - we're going to "attend" a tea party next week...
Edited on Fri Apr-10-09 05:28 PM by jpak
Can you say "Moran Guy"?

:evilgrin:
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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 05:28 PM
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14. anti-tax, anti-reckless spending, anti-bailout message
It would almost be funny to goto one of these things. You know complaining about why Bush Bailing out all these banks, or Bush running up the most debt in history or Obama having the nerve to cut my taxes... but then I figure anyone stupid enough to goto these events deserves to be tea bagged.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 05:31 PM
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15. Pft, get tough creme puffs gak on your own guts for a while see how you like it
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 05:35 PM
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16. Why, did they finally learn what "teabagging" is?
:rofl:
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