From FOX: This Tea Party Will Be the Fad That Flopped

[proud2BlibKansan]

JOHN TANTILLO: This Tea Party Will Be the Fad That Flopped

By John Tantillo
Marketing Expert/Founder and President, Marketing Department of America

I’d bet my Borsalino hat that five years from now the tea party of 2009 is going to be considered little more than a fad that flopped. In fact, it shouldn’t even be compared to the monumental event that kicked our great country off with a rebellious bang.

The one thing I know Karl Marx got right was that history repeats itself: the first time as tragedy; the second time as farce.

This is America, I’m never against someone making a buck, but the merchandising of the tea party shows better than anything that we’re talking about a fad here, nothing more.

This time it’s a farce. Like anything marketed, popular movements need a symbol that resonates widely and deeply. The connection can’t be complicated or second hand. It’s got to have clout and it’s got to instantly make sense to everyone.

For colonial Americans, tea was a powerful symbol. It was something they drank a lot of and it was taxed heavily and this taxation was something they had no say over. Throwing it overboard said everything that needed to be said. They didn’t steal it; they rejected it. This was a statement that went straight to the British purse strings. It might have looked spontaneous, but it was sophisticated and made perfect sense in the context of the time.

Tea has nothing to do with our frustrations today. If tea was taxed at 100% most of us could still afford to drink it. Unfortunately, the tea of this year’s tea party is just a recycled symbol and, not only that, this symbol doesn’t make much sense.

more . . . http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/04/11/tantillo_tea_party/

[FrenchieCat]

1. I have never heard of a news organization involving itself to lead

a government protest. Never.

[Ikonoklast]

4. And you still haven't.

Now, Faux as the functioning propaganda organ of the Limbaugh Party...

They are almost an Onion parody of themselves at this point.

[MiniMe]

8. News organization? Faux Noise?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. However, the Teabagging of America has been providing comedy gold...

[Supersedeas]

12. easy comedy anyways

[Ken Burch]

3. SO...this article is telling us that the Franklin Mint won't be putting out

commemorative tea service sets anytime soon?

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. No but Zazzle will.

It's further down in the article.

[Kingofalldems]

6. This teabagging follows a pattern set in 1992

Around the time Clinton was first elected the dittoheads and future freepers started something called 'Bake Sales'. It seemed to excite them and relieve some of the angst they feel because their boy lost.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. I had forgotten all about those bake sales

They fizzled out pretty quickly if I remember correctly.

[zbdent]

9. merchandising the "Tea Party 2009" proves one thing ...

a freeper and his money are soon parted ... wait ... did I misspell "fool"?

[Cha]

10. Tea has nothing to do with anything but teabagging

has everything to do with the brainwashed party of NO.

[DearAbby]

11. What a visual, FLOPPING TEABAGS! n/t

[BlooInBloo]

13. Just like the Clinton Pots & Pans ho-down or whateverthehell it was.

[jonnyblitz]

14. it will probably be mostly infiltrating DUers who show up!

:rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. And if they didn't show up at all . . . .

[TankLV]

16. In honor of this "tea bagging" - I'm gonna visit my local "tea room"...

I'm sure I'll meet 2M$M, too!!!

[Deja Q]

17. Teabagging and "flopped". If anybody wants any visuals, there are plenty online...

[peaches2003]

18. Most people think of tea parties as a revolt against txs

However, the tin foil hat groups are looking at these as a revolt against Obama. No matter how many people show up they are going to see all these people want Obama out.

[biopowertoday]

20. That is the intent-of the Tea Parties -its a revolt against taxes and the bailouts.

[peaches2003]

21. Yes, but.......

the tinfoil hat groups are trying to make the tea parties about much more than that, believing that everyone who attends also thinks Obama is the anti-Christ and will support armed revolution to get him out.

[Overseas]

19. The teabagging has worked in some ways

It has made protesting seem foolish. I think that was part of the aim.

We see clips of people who are probably in the 95% of us that earn less than 250k and won't get any tax increase, protesting to protect the super-rich who will have their taxes restored to Clinton-era levels, using an important symbol of our country's history very inappropriately.

Taxation without representation? The super-rich are very well represented in our government. There are thousands of lobbyists protecting their interests every day. The super-rich Wall Streeters got their bailouts from the Bush Gang and have a few of their guys on our president's team of rivals.

But the rest of us need a lot more stimulus spending that will put us back to work and give us enough financial security to start spending again to create more demand in our economy.

However, if we try to hold demonstrations right now, demanding more bailouts for the public sector, we are confused with the goofy teabaggers and less people will want to join our efforts.

I admire President Obama in many ways. I appreciate his cutting taxes for most of us and knowing that 95% of us will either get a cut or no increase in our taxes-- WHEN WE GET BACK TO WORK.

[alcibiades_mystery]

22. Tea Party vs. Urban Sombrero

:rofl:



via con dios, motherfuckers...