National Tax Day Tea Parties

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 09:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoRvb1t1XT0   Posted on YouTube: April 14, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 14, 2009 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 1144

 
Thom confronts Andrew Langer of the Institute for Liberty about the anti-Obama conservative protests

[ProfessorPlum]

1. Hi Thom, is that really you?

Love your show.

[navarth]

2. a post from the best man on radio...can't beat that!

keep it coming, Thom. you are the best.

[griz2008]

3. THANK you, sir.

As I don't have enough posts yet to make my own thread, I want to append this video with an idea I had for counter-protests.

Batshit Parties.

yes, you heard right. Batshit Parties.

We should all buy Guano and send it to Republican Representatives, Fox News Pundits, et cetera.

I'm not sure on the details of buying and mailing Guano, but I imagine small sample sizes can be had on the cheap.

We should send these packages with a small note:

"Didn't want you to run out."

in reference (duh) to Jon Stewart saying that Glen Beck might run out of batshit for his crazy.

as for the Actual Tea Parties, I say we take bags of the stuff and sling it at them, seeing as they are dumping tea into our rivers and costing taxpayer money by sending teabags to the government that need to be inspected and dealt with.

What say you, DU?

[ProfessorPlum]

4. I share your frustration in talking to that guy

i can't get anything through the skull of some of my in-laws, either, who rail against the very people who would help them, and embrace the people impoverishing them.

[eagertolearn]

8. It's called brainwashing and the GOP's are good at that. As my

grandfather told me "religion was invented to control a wide body of people" and boy is this becoming more and more apparent.

[ihavenobias]

11. I'm still on Friday's podcast...

Has Thom discussed how the funding for these events is coming from the rich (as Cenk discussed yesterday)? I hope so. More importantly, I hope (at least) Maddow and or Olbermann pick up on it.

[ihavenobias]

13. Never mind, I'm listening to Monday's podcast and I have my answer. n/t

[Yavin4]

5. The Idiot That Tom Is Interviewing Says At The End...

that his wife is a military doctor. So, in essence, he's protesting against his wife.

[Hulk]

6. Just face it...the repug/neocon/fascist party is hopelessly lost in space....

They are going to have tea parties to bitch and moan about basically being "insignificant" in the world of politics.

Yes, they don't like paying taxes. That's #1 on their agenda. They don't like abortion, gun control, illegal immigrants, gays, liberalism, "bigger government"....but they LOVE big military spending, aggressive international military action to push the third class world around, social programs that benefit THEM, LOVE using words like "socialism", "communism", "fascism"...even though they honestly don't know what the words mean.

We are talking about a dismal group of americans that have lost all sense of power and are wandering on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Let them protest. Question them...as it will frustrate the hell out of them to try to make reason out of their actions, but let them protest. Maybe it will rain and they will get their asses good and wet. Certainly they will give the propaganda network some news to cover. It will be entertaining.

There is no real logic to these bozos. They are hopeless. I wish I was there to chuck tomatoes at them as they shout their brain dead slogans and cheer like the sheeple they are. Land of morons. We are #1!

[griz2008]

7. read my post above

instead of tomatoes, throw Guano! we don't want these people to run out of batshit for their crazy!

[jfkraus]

9. Where's that picture of the huge...

group of 12 people who protested Obama's citizenship a couple of months ago? That's what these Tea Bag parties will look like.

[griz2008]

10. here's the link to my first independent post, 'Guano CounterProtest'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=33334&mesg_id=33334

[mckara]

12. National Tax Tea Party A.K.A. When Sheeple Attack

Let's hope this movement fizzles out with a tepid response to their "protest" tomorrow.

I wonder if we should attend selling "I'm with Stupid" t-shirts?