Idiots, nutbags, bigits, racists, come to mind for the sign holders show.

George Bush is responsible for the election of a black president by allowing the country to fall into a crisis state it is in today and to the point where it is seething with racial hatred directed towards the wrong person. This is a clear example of displaced aggression - anger directed at the wrong source.

No one who looks at these "protestors" and reads their mindless (and often misspelled) placards can for a moment cling to the belief that these "rallies" had anything in the least to do with taxes.
The people milling about appear to be far removed from the $250,000-a-year crowd (even the ones who appeared in evening gowns and tuxedos looked more like members of a wedding than affluent business men and women).
I admit to a certain degree of intellectual snobbery - and I'm not about to change or apologize to those who offend my sensibilities. If one is hoping to appear on national television with a hand-made sign, have the decency to ask the proper spelling of words you plan to use, if you aren't sure. Plan ahead, in so much as you don't start out with 12" letters which dwindle to 10", then 8" then 2" as they progress across the poster board.
"How cute!" we say about our favorite Kindergarteners' "refrigerator art" or their misspelled lemonade-stand signs. Cute for five-year-olds, but we certainly hope for better from them when they reach adulthood.
There's nothing cute or endearing about hate-filled rhetoric to begin with; it's even less cute and less endearing when adults can't even spell the slogans they're attempting to share with America at large....
Sallie

It is the fall of Western civilization(or should I say descent)

OMG!!! These people are smart enough to find their way to the nearest costume rental store, but they can't find their way to a dictionary.
I think you're correct, Lenzy. We are witnessing the dissent (sic) of American literacy. Do you ever just quake in your boots (or flip-flops) when confronted by these proofs of ignorance? It's horrible to contemplate the way these images are being received throughout the rest of the world.
One thing's for sure: These people can be easily duped into signing documents as long as you take care to employ homophones....
BTW: Got a PM from a mutually dear friend today, which I'd like to share in a new topic that's similar in respect to "translation."
Sallie

It seems to me like the future laid out in "Idiocracy" is coming to pass even sooner than predicted in the movie. Mike Judge had it at 2050 but it looks like the timetable has been moved up.

but they're not rascist....

ah yes, the palinistas!!!
...she's doin' a workin' hard' heckuva job talkin' em all inta movin' ta AK!!!

you go girl!!!
..all she did in IN was a promo for movin' on up!!!



got infrastructure for all these 'implants' SP???
....no, i didnt think you did....
course im sure they can buy up all the outrageously high......housing up there!!

how about asking TX and AK to leave??????....

Well said Sallie.

Is it any wonder that these fine Americans tune in every day to their favorite rightwingtalker to get the day's marching orders and then to FauxNews to have the confirmed? That way they don't have to pretend to be able to understand the printed words that would appear before them in the newspaper or in the corroborating stories they could search for on those "internets".

The Right Wing Media has actually tried to Hijack the original Tea Party movement started by Ron Paul supporters of 2007. The Tea Party movement started as a NON-PARTISAN activist movement of Libertarians, Independants, Constitutionalists, Democrats and Republicans, back in 2007.

Air America Montel Williams Interview with Congressman Ron Paul Tea Party movement 2009


I personally do not see much of a difference between the Establishments Left vs. Right Paradigm. The main stream media propagates & perpetuates the establishments False Left vs. Right paradigm in popular consciousness and thus the population un-wittingly either embraces a Left Wing Socialist Marxist or Right Wing Fascist ideology as the norm. The term Tea Bag Party created by the Left Wing news media is a implied perpetuation of the false Left VS. Right paradigm = US against Them. That my friends is why i am Non Partisan. Vote 3rd Party.

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http://www.campaignforliberty.com


edited: link embeded video

This one at least has access to a dictionary. It appears he looked up the spelling, but didn't bother to check the definition. Sorry, Revolution Era Dude, close but no cigar.

REPUBLICNS SUCK TOO!! What Did CNN CENSOR At The 2009 Tea Parties.

The modern day Tea Parties started in 2007 as a Non-Partisan activist movement of Libertarians, Independents , Republicans , Democrats and Constitutionalists. In 2009 the Right Wing Media tried to hijack the movement, and change the 2007 message. They succeeded to some degree. But the real question is, Are Journalist Free to Report the Facts? That is like asking: Do the workers on the factory floor have a say so in what the car industry produces??? We must understand how information is controlled? what is the structure of the Media Institution? and What external powers are the Media and Journalists subordinated too?


http://www.campaignforliberty.com

of course media is controlled. suggest you pick up shenkman's "just how stupid are we?". the american electorate has several problems many of which are self-inflicted.

1) time constraint-to be a good citizen is time consuming. to read up on the issues from both sides takes time that most will not have.
2) unwliingness to look at both sides-this is very crucial and goes along the lines of "i've always voted democratic" or "our family is republican". consistant closemindedness is abdication of good citizenship.
3) single-issue focus-this is along the lines of "i'm pro-life". well that is all well and good but life isn't just about being born. unwillingness to study what candidates, legislators actually mean by their statements and actions is abandoning your duty.
4) what reporters can report-this is the thrust of the complaints of the so-called liberal media. certainly reporters tend to vote democratic but they do not control what is reported. editors and publishers do that and they are more likely to be republican. still it really doesn't matter because mutilple sources must be utilized in order to best decide issues.

the american people are stupid. they refuse to see things in front of them and they refuse to dig when things are hidden from them. this why tv, sound bytes and negative campaigning are so successful. those who use these agitprop tactics can count on their success because they can count on the american people not doing the job required as citizens.

I focused my energies squarely at the taxes that will gp up to insanity levels by the Obama administration. Illinois and California are perfect examples of what happens in a Democrtic party in the majority. By the end of his presidency in 2012, which will be the results as Americans wake up to the tax collector in their kitchen, Obama's political agenda will drive Americans into the stone age. Almost literally.

Naturally, you have NOTHING with which to back this up. All you righties do is mouth neocon talking points - letting them do your thinking for you.

Total BS

Product of the public education system.

California and Illinois is what is called "back up."

his tax levels are the in the same range people were paying under clinton,not hardly insanity levels

Or this will be another neocon lie-which America is getting used to hearing-and you'll be so busy telling more lies you won't own up to it. Weren't you claiming Obama was a Muslim terrorist a while back?

Hail the insanity and destitution of the Bush policies! Now, let's blame Obama for the neocon treason!

I am a product of the public education system.

What are you saying?

don't worry about that member Dr, they got themselves banned

The Controlled Oposition
April 15th, 2009 - Tax Day protest , Example of the LEFT vs. RIGHT Media further dividing Americans into the false Left/Right paradigm.

Paradigm: A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community

And one day they began seeing through BULL $HIT!

Excellent book, Shenkman's "just how stupid are we?" I just looked it over at the book store. Add a little fear, and antagonizing rhetoric and the Left /Right media is able at will to sell the biggest pile of bull $hit to the public regardless of the facts. I agree with all of your points Bird, Only if the education system taught a course on critical thinking.

I was recently banned from the so called Fair and Balanced Sean Hannity Forum for reposting this Piece. I am grateful the Left allows us to express our views without censorship.

that shows what hannity is about. your input is more than welcome here

I'll tell you what, some of those teabaggers were pretty darned old.
I'm not so sure you want to expose them all that much.
Some of them had more wrinkles than a box of raisins.