Tea Party Insanity: "Burn The Books!"

[babylonsister]

This is getting scary.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/12/tea-party-insanity-burn-a_n_185991.html

Tea Party Insanity: "Burn The Books!" (VIDEO)
April 12, 2009 at 02:23 PM

Video at link~


Big bucks are pouring in to the tea party movement. Fox News reports that organizers are making a fortune in merchandise sales -- the online store for the Tax Day Tea Party website has already lodged over $48,000 in sales, according to tea partier Eric Odom.

But the big bucks aren't only in T-shirts with pithy slogans - Fox's Glenn Beck said on his radio show that he plans to attend a $500 dollar-a-plate fundraiser for the tea party movement.

One wonders how much that fundraiser will resemble the scene in this video of a small event organized by the 9-12 Project, in which a man rouses the rabble with a conspiracy-alleging rant.

"In the early 50s our country was infiltrated by the communist party," he says, calling the Obama administration the culmination of that infiltration. "They're doing everything they can to brainwash our public...This thing they're putting on our TVs," he says, presumably referring to digital cable converters, "it's a brainwash unit!"

As his speech winds down, he exhorts his listeners to get their kids "the hell out of college. They're brainwashing 'em!"

The anti-school message resonates with one woman.

"Burn the books!" she yells from off-camera. The surprised camera man asks if she's serious, and which books she'd burn. "The ones in college, the brainwashing books, like the evolution crap."

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I'm tempted to get into that racket.

Of course, everything I would offer for sale would have double entendres and hidden meanings that would turn them into objects of ridicule among the cognoscienti.

[Fozzledick]

6. I can't help wondering if some "Log Cabin" republicans haven't already beat you to it

Tea-bagging? 2M4M? Coincidence or secret code fnord? :tinfoilhat:

[chollybocker]

15. LOL. Great link.

[whyverne]

2. Ah, the American Taliban

bring 'em on.

[pink-o]

3. Fahrenheit 451, anyone? n/t

[amyrose2712]

4. My thoughts exactly. One of my favs. nt

[MadMaddie]

5. Sounds like and feels like the beginning of Naziism!

The Nazi's burned books etc, they loathed any education other than their brainwashing schools.

Don't underestimate the impact of this kind of talk. Beck is really close to crossing a line in the sand.....

[opihimoimoi]

7. The GOP is OLD and INTHEWAY as they stagnate with obsolete solutions

The Dem Party is a Party of EVOLUTION...they move to whats BEST for America and All it s Citizens...

The GOP is "What About ME?

The Dems is "What About US?

[AllieB]

8. We should take advantage of their idiocy by marketing merchandise to them.

With double entendres about teabagging and misspellings. Then, we could either keep the profits or donate them to liberal/progressive causes.

[zeemike]

10. I got one...write a book with some catchy RW hook

And make the authors name Hugh Moran.
I am sure they would snap it up and someone could make some money in these troubled times.

[AllieB]

11. We would have to program spellcheck with freeper misspellings.

in order to write a book they could understand. Series, casting asparagus, etc. I'm sure you can think of others.

[zeemike]

14. We have some experts here on satirical buggery

They could do it in an hour or so. And the freepers would never know that they were being had.

[L. Coyote]

17. teabagging.org is still available. Why not a non-profit sex education group?

Why market merchandise when you can just get check in the mail, made out to teabagging.org and from a freeper to teach pregnancy prevention :rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. A celebration of ignorance

And it's their children that will pay the price for it in the end.

[Politicalboi]

12. This is going to blow over

They are going to burn themselves over this.

[depakid]

13. Missive from down under (in response to Rachel's teabagging segment):

"Oh dear....yep, I guess if any party were into "teabagging" it would be the Repukes.

What a sorry lot they are....

But onto the point they are trying to make: people are out on the streets to protest RICH people paying a reasonable amount of tax? You are right: the US is insane."
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She's just going to love this next bit!

[LynnTheDem]

16. Dear world, as you have long known, we in America have some of the

stupidest MFers on the planet.

But they're just an irrelevant fringe minority, albeit bloody loud, so don't hold that against all the rest of us, 'k?

[chollybocker]

18. "Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned."

- Heinrich Heine.