Labor protesters surround tea party at Palin rally

[Ohio Joe]

Source: Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hundreds of pro-union labor supporters are surrounding smaller groups of tea party members waiting for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to appear outside the Wisconsin Capitol.

Palin is slated to speak at the tea party's annual tax day rally.

But labor supporters still smarting from the passage of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's polarizing bill eliminating most public employees' collective bargaining rights are drowning out Palin's supporters, shouting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Scott Walker's got to go."

Walker is a Republican, and Palin is a former Republican vice presidential candidate


Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jdNtRDVVRBvdU87hfbovKNZJeS_A?docId=cb2300b2777b482c9ae3483e3413a63f

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Go WI!

[PearliePoo2]

1. Hope they have some cheese curds to offer Ms. Half-Term Quitty-Pants

Send the fake, fraud phoney back to Wasilla!

[freshwest]

8. Great, LOL at that. But you forgot the whey for Little Ms. Can't Tough-it-out.

[Tess49]

52. If you don't mind, I think I'll have to use this.

Half-Term Quitty Pants. Perfect. I must say, however, that I can't even type it without laughing. Not sure if I'll be able to say it without actually guffawing. We'll see.

[tavalon]

63. To go with her perpetual whine?

[Drale]

2. Does Sarah "You Betcha" Palin show or does she chicken out?

[liberalla]

5. I wondered that too...

She talks tough when she's safely nestled amongst a group of palin worshipers...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. betcha she'll be a "no show"

[66 dmhlt]

69. She showed - but was drowned out by Protesters ...

You can watch a YouTube thing of beauty here:
http://youtu.be/en7Jw72XKyI

[rabies1]

72. Proving loud and clear - Palin is not worth listening to.

Sad, that we have to use this type of event to get ANY kind of publicity. Stand near the tea party folks and you might get some coverage by the media.

[alfredo]

3. No rights, no peace.

[Oceansaway]

4. Solidarity Forever !...nt

[bluestateguy]

7. "and we surround them", said Glenn Beck

nt

[earthlite]

9. A lot of people cheered on the last civil war

but when the shooting finally stopped very few felt good about the experience.

[eggplant]

23. Wait, what?

[OwnedByFerrets]

57. Wow, that came out of left field....or was it reich?

[EvilMonsanto]

10. This Is Unbelievable!!!

How in the world does this insane person still have fans??????

What am I in the Twillight Zone or something???????
First her then O'Donnell
This is really not helping the woman's movement

A female has equal and often more competency than men in decision making
But the slim picks really doesn't highlight that

I mean Come Onnnnnnnnnnn...............

[oldbanjo]

11. Stupity of tea party and Republicans

[livetohike]

13. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[indy legend]

36. Never under estimate the power of a large group of stooopid people

[HopeHoops]

24. Don't forget batshit crazy Bachman.

[ShockediSay]

12. Tea Party is a Propaganda Front for Big Corporate$ Billionaires that don't want to pay taxes

IMHO

Follow the money !!!

[PearliePoo2]

14. Yup...and these clowns have been duped....

and are too stupid to even know they are being used.
Sad, fucking state of affairs we have here.

[ShockediSay]

15. Wouldn't surprise me is most of 'em were on the payroll

of the billionaire bankrollers of the tea potty,

especially Sarah Palin

[Iliyah]

16. You know the

corporate media won't show the hundreds of pro-union protesters only the handful of tea brats. MSNBC is saying the tea brats haved two stars, trump and palin. What a effin joke.

[Raksha]

73. That's for damn sure!

Re "Tea Party is a Propaganda Front for Big Corporate$ Billionaires that don't want to pay taxes."

And that's ALL it is. An "emperor's new clothes" moment, huh?

[madrchsod]

17. i see the AP high school dropouts are writing the news articles this weekend....

[Scottybeamer70]

18. Heh............

silly people.............she doesn't have to go there.............she can see them from her front porch.
How quickly you forget her amazing powers!!! She's a star all right.............in a universe far from
any intelligent life!

[bucolic_frolic]

19. VOUCHERS = DEATH PANELS

Both are methods of rationing health care. Vouchers will mean Grandma has no money, no representation, no say, no insurance in her oldest age. Defacto death panel.

[Raschel]

20. Death Vouchers

[bucolic_frolic]

29. Yes, Exactly!

Death Vouchers

[freshwest]

41. Got it in one! Welcome to DU.

[cui bono]

21. If you copied and pasted, they changed the story. n/t

[lunasun]

22. Kucinich said it right when he asked Walker How much $$$ removing

collective bargaing rights saved the Wisc. budget....................nothing NOTHING to do with the budget at all!!
Surround these folks like toxic drivel they are !!!!!

[Lasher]

25. Sarah Palin gets frosty reception at Wisconsin Capitol

Capitol Police estimated the crowd at 12:30 p.m. to be around 6,500 people, but added, "There is no way to accurately determine how many people were attending any specific event."

The tea party supporters were lined along the sidewalk in front of the podium, surrounded by small barriers, perhaps to keep the sounds of counter protesters out. Several thousand counter-protesters surrounded them, chanting "Recall Walker," blowing whistles and horns, beating drums and sometimes booing the speakers.

Even though they used a sound system, it was hard to hear everything the speakers were saying over the counter-chants. The acoustics were such that you could hear the speakers better from afar than you could up close.

Only the shrill Vicki Mckenna, talk show host WIBA, seemed to be able to cut through the chanting, when she told them: "Shut up." The crowd didn't listen. Andrew Breitbart was similarly annoyed and told the crowd, "you've been so rude, go to hell. You're trying to divide America."

http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=33214

:wtf: These teabaggers dare accuse anybody of being rude and trying to divide America?

[Raschel]

30. Breitbart tells them to go to hell, more family values. I'm sure the Real Americans

loved that. Being all Christian and all.

[Lasher]

34. "You've been so rude, go to hell."

Those words mix together like water and oil.

[chervilant]

33. Interesting...

the first comment on that site is from a conservative woman who blasts the 'radical left' for their rude, uncivilized and illegal behaviors. She ends her WATB rant with "Radicals seem to be mystified by the reluctance of conservatives to boo and shout rude angry chants while standing in the wintry slush." hmm... I've yet to meet a 'radical' who is even remotely 'mystified' about any of the teabagger conservatives, but if that's the best excuse she has for the small numbers of Palin sycophants, who am I to argue?

When conservatives are this out of touch with reality, for them, the truth becomes too big a risk of cognitive dissonance.

[Lasher]

35. There is the danger, unrealistic people do unrealistic things.

We've extended the Bush tax cuts while we pretend to be concerned over the national debt. That's not realistic but it has very real implications.

[freshwest]

42. Lemmings running over the cliff and dragging us along.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

55. bla bla bla - i was there. 500 MAX baggers, the rest our side

[Lasher]

58. I figured that.

It's hard to surround someone if your numbers are not greater than theirs. Odd that the news media has failed to grasp the concept.

[Joey Liberal]

26. I'll bet Caribou Barbie will do some "Tweeting" now! nt

[Iliyah]

27. 6,400

probably were pro-union. The tea brats are too blind to see their evil ways. Divide America? Yes tea brats do.

[Name removed]

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[Swampguana]

31. Palin is still having Rally's???

[Matariki]

32. When the AP says "hundreds" and doesn't show photos of the crowd

I'm thinking it's safe to assume there were several thousand there.

[alcibiades_mystery]

37. Flip flop, motherfuckers

We remember your behavior at Kerry's rallies, and we're coming to show you how it feels. Turn-about is fair play, assholes.

[No Elephants]

68. ......

Now they're sullying the heroism of Joe Kennedy, Jr. and JFK in WW II as well, in that despicable TV series with Kinnear and Holmes.

Btw: Someone else was on the losing side of a war vote-- voted against the war, then voted for funding: Republican U.S. Congressional Representative from Illiniois, Abraham Lincoln. Wish we'd heard more about that from the Kerry campaign.

[Crowman1979]

38. Now we're surrounding them, how ironic!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

39. The headline and the body are at potential odds.

[plumbob]

40. Excellent! More like this, please!

Take it to 'em!

[iwishiwas]

43. Palin draws a crowd at the Capitol, and not all are friendly

Source: madison.com





Palin draws a crowd at the Capitol, and not all are friendly

JUDITH DAVIDOFF and JESSICA VANEGEREN madison.com Posted: Saturday, April 16, 2011 5:54 pm
.......................

Americans for Prosperity organized the rally and brought busloads of supporters from around the state. Tea party supporters, who gathered at the King Street entrance of the state Capitol, were surrounded on three sides by counter-protesters, who rang cowbells and shouted "Shame! Shame! Shame!" through megaphones. The counter-protesters were so loud at times that they easily drowned out the speakers, including Palin.




The two groups threw verbal barbs at each other and tea party supporters wondered aloud why police weren't doing more to control the counter-protesters.

"All we ask for is for our side to be heard," said one. "We won. Why don't they understand? If they had a rally, we'd never do what they're doing."

Despite some tense exchanges, though, Capitol Police reported just one arrest for disorderly conduct. Police estimated the crowd at 6,500, adding that the lines between the tea party rally and the counter-protest were so unclear that there "was no way to accurately determine how many people were attending any specific event."....................

Read more: http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_f16f1738-687d-11e0-8ed9-001cc4c002e0.html

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Good job WISCONSIN PROGRESSIVES.

must see youtube--the Progressive crowd drowned out palin et al.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en7Jw72XKyI&feature=player_embedded

[plumbob]

44. Excellent! More like this, please!

Sic 'em!

[murielm99]

45. "We'd never do what they are doing?"

How many town hall meetings did you a-holes disrupt?

[Patiod]

67. +1

[Plucketeer]

46. Lovely! Just Lovely!

A fitting chant for the tea party enchantress! Wonder if she had plenty of notes scribbled on her "palm pilot"! LOL! :rofl:

[iwishiwas]

47. According to Capitol police, about 6,500 attended the rallies.(equally

divided)--but the progressives sure were LOUD!!

http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_adb16862-6868-11e0-ac3c-001cc4c002e0.html?nstrack=sid:391875|met:102|cat:106|order:1

from another article...


According to Capitol police, about 6,500 attended the rallies. Officials could not say which was bigger, mainly because the counter-rally protesters spent as much time jeering the tea party event as they did listening to their own speakers. Most observers agreed, however, that both crowds seemed roughly equal in size.

[craigmatic]

48. Wonderful news.

[chollybocker]

49. Why the hell is she even there?

She's not running for anything. She has no real job. She voluntarily quit her last job. And as a former weather girl, she was once a union member.

Why is she blabbering in WS?

[demwing]

50. Wow! So many newcomers in one thread!!!

Welcome to DU!!!!!!!

[demwing]

51. So the counter protesters drowned out the amplified voices of the speakers?

and its still hard to tell how many of Tea Baggers there were compared to Everyone else?

Just a rough guess - of the 6500 people attending, 500 were Tea Party, and 6000 were sane.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

56. I think I blew out an eardrum today

hope not! but with every syllable I speak (after today's protest), I get a corresponding "beep" in my right ear!!

It is like "this is what democracy looks like" in my ear ALL the time now!

[Lefta Dissenter]

60. It's the

Democrabeep! or the Democrabeat if with drums...

Where were you standing for the rally? I was off to the left side (basically facing the left end of the stage) near the Capitol, up behind the giant speaker, where there was a little opening in the fence for cops and TPers to go through. Most of my friends were in the bigger part of the crowd, left side, but in front of the speaker and big screen. It would have been more fun down where they were, but I wasn't about to give up my valuable square foot of space, where I could be particularly annoying... I mean, welcoming... :D

[primavera]

53. Damn, those guys are heroes!

It just fills me with such pride to hear things like this - not an especially common feeling in this day and age.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

54. Ho. Le. Shit

I just got home from this

One of the top 5 protests ever for me

[Raksha]

74. I wish I could have been there too...

I think you saw history being made.

[Nossida]

59. It is so wonderful

To see the American People finally find their Voice,
and Standup to this Corporate funded Tea Party Riff Raff.

The Tea Party is the vehicle the Rightwing is using to
turn our Republic into a Theocratic Corporate State.

[Historic NY]

61. So how much did they pay their darling bitch?????

[sce56]

62. So where are the photos? My sister was there!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

64. I was gonna say, "Hats off to Madison"

but looks as if it's still cold there and they need them.

A most warm-hearted K&R for all the demonstrators who made her feel unwelcome.

[Hubert Flottz]

65. Scabs of feather, Sarah & Squat Walker.

Two "people" with zero shame or compassion. The radical right wants to unplug Granny from her federal life support system, which she worked and paid for and believed in all her working life. The Pub pack is smelling poor man's blood in the turbid waters of shit creek and are on the attack. The GOP,(Greedy Obnoxious Predators)as usual, prey on our most defenseless first and kind of work their way up the food chain.

[iwishiwas]

66. GRAND showing of WI progessives.

[Search4Justice]

70. The sound of the Quitta from Wasilla"s ...

... voice makes my skin crawl. Ick.

[AllyCat]

71. I know Kathy Abel. She's a hoot. Love that she got some press :)

[Lorien]

75. Beautiful! nt

[Odin2005]

76. GO LABOR!!!

[Mz Pip]

77. I wonder how much Sarah was paid

to come to WI to spew her idiocy. I doubt she did it for free. I doubt she does anything for free.