tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post3060047798454248629..comments2023-10-28T03:07:12.758-07:00Comments on Mirror On America: Tea Parties and Make-BelieveBrian http://www.blogger.com/profile/07872444863142531165noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-21301111501610516472009-04-17T10:17:00.000-07:002009-04-17T10:17:00.000-07:00The truth is, the day before the so-called "revolu...The truth is, the day before the so-called "revolution" I'd shared with some friends that I would be suprised if the numbers of "teabaggers" was to go higher than 400,000. <br /><br />H*ll the actual number was MAYBE up to 200,000!?!<br /><br />So Um_depsite the NOT-so-hidden insidious agenda of Rethuglican hierarchy aided in no small measure by, mostly, their reich-wing media to bamboozle the "base" AGAIN_it appears to have been pretty much a PATHETIC washout.<br /><br />I think it actually says a lot about Republicans who are NOT theoCon or neoCON reich-wing nuts (for which there seems to be NO hope). "Newty" and those other good ole boyz have got to be worried that the ground really might be shifting beneath their feet, threatening to take the GOP under for good!<br /><br />How worreid might they be?<br /><br />This worried:<br /><br />[ WASHINGTON (CNN) - Steve Schmidt, a key architect of John McCain's presidential campaign, is making his first public return to Washington a bold one. <br /><br />Schmidt will use a speech Friday to Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights group, to urge conservative Republicans to drop their opposition to same-sex marriage, CNN has learned.] <br /><br />Steve Schmidt:<br /><br />“It cannot be argued that marriage between people of the same sex is un American or threatens the rights of others,” he says in the speech. <br /><br />“On the contrary, it seems to me that denying two consenting adults of the same sex the right to form a lawful union that is protected and respected by the state denies them two of the most basic natural rights affirmed in the preamble of our Declaration of Independence — liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."<br /><br />Well. Well. Well. THIS should be interesting :)<br /><br />Hat-tip: HuffpostTruthizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01955523196532537947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-73529401315017615112009-04-17T06:32:00.000-07:002009-04-17T06:32:00.000-07:00What gets my goat is the amount of media attention...What gets my goat is the amount of media attention (and hence, mainstream credibility) these so-called Tea Parties got. For an effort that yielded around 200,000 participants nationwide (most of these tea parties were sparsely attended) and pushed aggressively from February to April 2009 by Fox News, conservative bloggers and free PR from CNBC, they sure got a lot of sympathetic press and momentum.<br /><br />Compare that to the amount of press the antiwar movement or the antiglobalization movement protests get when they have online activity in the millions (online hits) and turn out people in force for rallies and marches that dwarf the nationwide numbers of these tea parties. For example, the last big antiwar march in Washington DC in 2003 got around 200,000 people but press coverage was sparse at best.<br /><br />These misguided people who participated in these Astroturf Tea Parties might actually believe they are sticking it to the Man by participating in these protests. In actuality they are just being manipulated by K Street lobbyists to serve a right-wing, corporate-friendly agenda.redantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608670655422465211noreply@blogger.com