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Demonstrating proper tea bagging technique.
America’s Lil’ Ray of Rageshine, Michelle Malkin , reports that there were "Tea Parties" all over this great land of ours…but you’d never know it because the MSM is keeping the truth from us. The truth being small gatherings of disaffected middle-class white people with poorly made signs milling about and looking like they’re waiting for the fried dough stand to open before they go to the livestock exhibition.
Not exactly "if it bleeds, it leads", MSMy speaking.
But don’t take my word for it, let Michelle and her minions tell the story:
Liveblogging the Lexington KY Tea Party; Ridgefield CT Tea Party protesters say “DUMP DODD;” 3k in Orlando; Raleigh NC represents
By Michelle Malkin • March 21, 2009 02:20 PM
Scroll for updates…3,000 in Orlando…no national wire coverage of these thousands of protesters across the country, but AP covers measly anti-war protest turnout in Washington…
There are between
300-500peaceful, grass-roots activists protesting out-of-control government spending in Lexington KY. *Update: Organizer Leland Conway e-mails that final tally on attendance at Lexington is 1,200-1500.*Reader Eric is liveblogging.
For those who are not "down" with today’s "hip" "lingo", when Michelle says "Raleigh NC represents", she’s being all "gangsta" and shit, yo.
But never mind that, the important part of the story is these "grass-roots activists" are simple people just like you and me; farmers, shopkeepers, truck drivers, clerical workers, bikini waxers, and housewives, many of whom could use a good waxing. All of them brought together by shared concerns and word of mouth and …what? Oh, this?
That would be Angry Old Man Who Shouts At Clouds speaking from a stage set up by Newsradio 630 WLAP, local Lexington wingnut radio which helped promote the people’s uprising or tea-bagging or reach-arounding or whatever this was, which makes the whole demonstration a little less grassrooty and a little more station promotey.
This is not to say that there weren’t actual patriots and Going Galters in the audience and that people only showed up to score promotional WLAP t-shirts, Taylor Swift tickets, or two-for-one de-chiggering coupons good at Dub’s Chigger-B-Gon. And, by Gawd, we salute you tea baggers…
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That had me making humor noises. You are just so liberal hateful!!
I wonder just how far she can open her mouth once it’s unhinged like that. Could she swallow Dick Cheney whole and still have room for Newtie?
What percentage of that 1.5k people in Lexington would you say are showing in that picture?
Retarded fucking fucks. Piss on ‘em.
Glen Beck needs some mental health work.
Bill Mayer and guests were discussing Glen Beck.
People, let’s not hate on Kentucky. Lexington, where I live, btw, is usually a blue haven in a red state. I did watch some of this debacle. It seemed to be mostly religious conservatives, and wealthy, white people who are pissed that their 401k’s are not worth as many millions as a few months ago. Seems now they’ll only be able to retire to Florida instead of Antigua or the USVI. Boo hoo. The people who were hurt the most weren’t there. They’re too busy out looking for new jobs.
This was a propoganda event organized by local wingnut radio station WLAP. Take it for what it was worth…nothing.
Gee. We’ve got friends in Orlando. You’d think they would have noticed and said somethin’
Hunter Thompson was from that part of the world (or was it Louisville?) and he turned out alright.
Malkin is the living embodiment of butt-ugly.
Wasn’t Malkin ‘going Galt’. In which she was going to punish society by depriving us of her ever important and sagacious intellectual products?
Well, I guess you actually have to produce something of value before you take it away…
Gee whizzy what a mouth that gal has. Looks like she’s doing “flehmen” but, of course, that’s usually only done by aroused males. hmmm.
What say you, Merriam Webster?
Yer has a unique definition of “alright”.
Thompson was Louisville. George Clooney is from “that part of the world”.
Michelle Malkin, tea-bag fail.
-G
It’s not “national wire coverage” but the local daily newspaper that covers Ridgefield, Ct. was there and dedicated about 500 words to the Tea Party “protests.”
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, how “measly” was that Anti-War rally…
These people are dumber than hockey pucks.
In our very protestant parish, a small group was sitting out on the steps of the county building, their placards beside them. A friend of mine works there, and she watched from the thrid floor. Presently, a hatchback pulled up with lettering on the side representing a regional teevee news operation. As the single cameraman walked towards the steps, the protesters were galvanized; they stepped forth, brandishing their signs, and chanted directly into the lens. They wanted something done, and they wanted it now.
It would’ve played on the teevee as another raucous protest in our public square, albeit signaling the concerns of a small passel which would be on to something else by the next weekend, but which resembles on that small screen Selma in ‘64. A more accurate story would’ve been, ASTOUNDING MAJORITY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THIS BILGE! But that’s not a marketable message, is it?
Here’s a photo of the gathering in Ridgefield from another newspaper that dedicated 15 inches of copy – and a photographer – to ignore the event.
Clooney’s from Augusta which is on the Ohio River “above” Cincinnati and is about the same distance from Lexington as Louisville, just another direction
Now I know why I’ve been walking around like that, thanks.
The Orlando event was HUGE. They said so. But seriously, the PD estimate was 4K and that ain’t bad. Probably would have been more except there was no teabagging in Lake Eola allowed. How big was it??
“This is maybe the greatest single gathering of God-fearing patriots in the history of Orlando, Florida,” local conservative radio host Bud Hedinger, who emceed the event, told the crowd.
Wow!!!! i missed it? God fearing patriots?? how could I of? Like these:
Glenn Austin, 52, and his wife, Frankie, 43, of Oviedo, also said they were anxious about the economy. They chose to express their worries, however, in a rather novel way: They wrapped banners calling for the end of the Federal Reserve around the tiny waists of their Chihuahua, Pepper, and miniature pinscher-Chihuahua mix, Peanut.
Wow. Tyat is so… god-fearingly patriotic.
Malkin belongs in a mental institution
Clooney was born in Lexington, lived here and there in KY and OH, and attended Augusta High School.
The thought of being tea bagged by Michelle MalKKKin terrifies me. Those teeth are scary looking.
The possibility seems remote.
Here’s some exclusive footage of Michelle Malkin eating at a CPAC luncheon.
I don’t think that term means what Glen Beck thinks it means.
Of course, they got their crowd estimates the way radio gets its ratings estimates, by counting all of the people attending at regular intervals, then adding them up.
I believe their interval was 45 seconds.
Holy jezuz on a cracker that Daily Show clip was hilarious.
I laughed my ass off that night when it aired, and just now I laughed so hard my wife ran in from the other room because I had tears running down my face…
I think it’s great that the right-wingers have discovered public activism, having spent the last six years dumping on the millions who protested the war they wanted.
It’s not so easy, is it Ms. Malkin?