Rachel Maddow, Republicans and Tea Bags (NSFW)

[Falkenhayn]

Just watch. I'll forgo any Freudian analysis of the Republican Party/Conservative movement, because I can't do it any better than Dr. Maddow.

C&L.

[Koolaidkirby]

Oh lawdy... That was genius,

I particularly enjoyed the "a bit muffled" section.


But on a serious note, dont these people realize what the original tea party was about? the taxation without representation?

well they've got representation, and their representation wants them taxed ( the richest of them anyways)

[Elfdart]

I love Rachel Maddow and I want to marry her. Yes, I realize Iowa and Vermont have already reduced the odds from "not a chance in hell" to "you gotta be kidding".

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[Pulp Hero]

Massive teabagging...



This is the first time I've watched Rachel Maddow, and this has really drawn my interest.

This whole tea-party movement is the dumbest "grassroot" (not really grassroot, but some guillible people think it is) campaign ever. We are a NATION IN DEBT where the fuck do they want the money to come from.

[Invictus ChiKen]

Damn even the film crew couldn't keep a straight face you kept hearing them laugh there asses off over this in the background when the show aired.

[CmdrWilkens]

"Teabaggers are grossley underrepresented in Congress" bwahahaha. Seriously this whole deal is the mark of just utter insanity that makes the whole Teri Schiavo deal look like a great positional move by the (R)s.

[Patrick Degan]

The only way this could have been better is if John Cleese had done the commentary.

[Kodiak]

So, do Republicans get how ridiculous the idea of "teabagging" a person is? I mean, come one, how serious can we take a movement that nobody can even name without giggling?

[Patrick Degan]

So, do Republicans get how ridiculous the idea of "teabagging" a person is? I mean, come one, how serious can we take a movement that nobody can even name without giggling?

This is the party that seriously thought that Yukon Barbie was a suitable vice presidential candidate and "a leader for the future". What do you think?

[CaptainChewbacca]

So, do Republicans get how ridiculous the idea of "teabagging" a person is? I mean, come one, how serious can we take a movement that nobody can even name without giggling?

This is the party that seriously thought that Yukon Barbie was a suitable vice presidential candidate and "a leader for the future". What do you think?

For a second, I was trying to remember a republican man named 'Yukon Barbie' and thinking Gee, that's a weird name...

Clearly, it is time for bed.

[SirNitram]

So, do Republicans get how ridiculous the idea of "teabagging" a person is? I mean, come one, how serious can we take a movement that nobody can even name without giggling?

Quite the opposite, they're embracing it.

Senator Vitter sponsored a bill to honor the protests.

Reps. Davis, Chaffetz, Bishop, Tiahrt(Is that seriously not a typo?), Fleming, Crenshaw, Latta, Shadegg, Myrick, Posey, Gohmert, and Sanford will be speaking at various events.

Rooney, Rehberg, and Kingston are urging their constiuencies to go.

The support of these protests by militias, secessionists, and Neo-Nazis apparently didn't convince them it would be a bad idea to directly associate themselves with them.

[Mayabird]

It's as if a bunch of old farts got together and said, "We need to think of a way to make young people (whom we need to market to for our survival as a group) take us even less seriously than they already do. Let's find some weird sexual slang and use it totally seriously!"

[Glocksman]

So, do Republicans get how ridiculous the idea of "teabagging" a person is? I mean, come one, how serious can we take a movement that nobody can even name without giggling?

Quite the opposite, they're embracing it.

Senator Vitter sponsored a bill to honor the protests.

Reps. Davis, Chaffetz, Bishop, Tiahrt(Is that seriously not a typo?), Fleming, Crenshaw, Latta, Shadegg, Myrick, Posey, Gohmert, and Sanford will be speaking at various events.

Rooney, Rehberg, and Kingston are urging their constiuencies to go.

The support of these protests by militias, secessionists, and Neo-Nazis apparently didn't convince them it would be a bad idea to directly associate themselves with them.

I'm sure Diaper Dave Vitter and Larry Craig know all about teabagging.

This former Republican has trouble taking these assholes seriously because of the breathtaking hypocrisy involved.
IIRC, none of these (I could be wrong though) people spoke a single word about deficits and debt while Bush was POTUS.
Strange how they only became deficit hawks after McCain lost.

[Darth Wong]

IIRC, none of these (I could be wrong though) people spoke a single word about deficits and debt while Bush was POTUS.
Strange how they only became deficit hawks after McCain lost.

Apparently, they believe that an economic boom is the correct time to run a massive deficit, while an economic crisis is the correct time to balance your books.

[Duckie]

Tea Party Insanity: "Burn The Books!" (VIDEO)

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."

The video

I'd say that Fox was showing its true colours by endorsing morons who want to burn college textbooks and ban education and think that digital TV boxes are brainwashing machines by the communists who've run the country for the past half a century...

...but for that to be true they would have had to have hidden them before this event.

[Patrick Degan]

Beck Hails Latest Teabagging Rally as "Success"
Surprise book-roast event added to festivities

TV comic Glenn Beck expressed satisfaction at the success of the special teabagging protest rally against taxation for the wealthy held over the weekend and was particularly surprised and delighted at the unexpected but wholly spontaneous book-roast staged by the rally's sponsors. "Clearly, morality is once more on the march in America," said Beck as he took part in tossing a few tomes into the flames, then asked for marshmallows as "evil liberal ideas" went up in smoke.

[The Cooler King]

I love Rachel Maddow and I want to marry her. Yes, I realize Iowa and Vermont have already reduced the odds from "not a chance in hell" to "you gotta be kidding".

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I fell in love with Rachel Maddow when she was just an MSNBC commentator; she always seemed able to cut right through the bullshit her opponents were spewing, and expose how ridiculous they sounded. This is a perfect example, and another good reason she has her own show. I love how, during this whole 'teabag' debacle, it takes a massive effort on her part NOT to break down in laughter (her crew notwithstanding).

[Elfdart]

I love Rachel Maddow and I want to marry her. Yes, I realize Iowa and Vermont have already reduced the odds from "not a chance in hell" to "you gotta be kidding".

LINK

I fell in love with Rachel Maddow when she was just an MSNBC commentator; she always seemed able to cut right through the bullshit her opponents were spewing, and expose how ridiculous they sounded. This is a perfect example, and another good reason she has her own show. I love how, during this whole 'teabag' debacle, it takes a massive effort on her part NOT to break down in laughter (her crew notwithstanding).

If you think teabagging is bad, wait til the Republitards unveil their next nationwide campaign:

Donkey Punching!

[Darth Wong]

On FOXNews.com, they're hyperventilating about a "liberal backlash" against the "grassroots movement" of teabagging

First, it's still hilarious. But second, what the fuck is this "grassroots movement?" What kind of grassroots movement is initiated by nationwide publicity on a multi-billion dollar TV network by multi-millionaire celebrities?

[Elfdart]

Astroturf is more like it.

[Crossroads Inc.]

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Beck Hails Latest Teabagging Rally as "Success"
Surprise book-roast event added to festivities

TV comic Glenn Beck expressed satisfaction at the success of the special teabagging protest rally against taxation for the wealthy held over the weekend and was particularly surprised and delighted at the unexpected but wholly spontaneous book-roast staged by the rally's sponsors. "Clearly, morality is once more on the march in America," said Beck as he took part in tossing a few tomes into the flames, then asked for marshmallows as "evil liberal ideas" went up in smoke.

Can I get a link and full article for that? it just seems so surreal.

[kinnison]

Oh lawdy... That was genius,

I particularly enjoyed the "a bit muffled" section.


But on a serious note, dont these people realize what the original tea party was about? the taxation without representation?

well they've got representation, and their representation wants them taxed ( the richest of them anyways)

Yes, the people who don't pay any tax (or a minimal amount) want to have lots of social programmes paid for by someone else. What a surprise!

Taxation without representation is bad. Representation without taxation is worse; that way, you can vote in any sort of damnfool nonsense, costing billions and sucking the life out of the productive part of the economy, and suffer not at all yourself.

Newsflash guys! People who take enormous risks (as in the risk, at startup, of losing everything they own) to create a new business - and create jobs for lots of others in the process - expect, if they succeed, to be able to keep the fruits of their labour. Don't let them do that, and they will just leave - and pay no tax at all.

None of the above, of course, applies to inherited wealth above some level or other - and it definitely doesn't apply to bankers, every one of whom should be decorating a lamp post.

Incidentally, there is a great deal of evidence that when a country goes above a certain top tax rate (probably around 60%) the total tax rate in that bracket goes down. Why? Because they hire expensive accountants to minimise their tax, or just leave the country. Is it more important to punish the rich than to maximise tax take?

Incidentally, in the last election, from the point of view of an outsider, there was a really hard choice. On one side an empty suit and a crooked lawyer; on the other side a geriatric zealot and an anti-abortionist, creationist theocrat. Which pair was worse is a difficult question. Where is Jack Ryan when you need him?

[CarsonPalmer]

Can I get a link and full article for that? it just seems so surreal.

Think for a second, man! 'Tis a satire!

[Darth Wong]

Newsflash guys! People who take enormous risks (as in the risk, at startup, of losing everything they own) to create a new business - and create jobs for lots of others in the process - expect, if they succeed, to be able to keep the fruits of their labour. Don't let them do that, and they will just leave - and pay no tax at all.

But if the fruits of their labour scale in an exponential fashion once you exceed a certain point, then it becomes irrational: the wealth does not have any relation to the person's output. And that is the way the capitalist system works. So why shouldn't the rich carry an increasing tax burden?

None of the above, of course, applies to inherited wealth above some level or other - and it definitely doesn't apply to bankers, every one of whom should be decorating a lamp post.

Why doesn't your logic apply to bankers? It appears to apply to bankers.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Can I get a link and full article for that? it just seems so surreal.

Think for a second, man! 'Tis a satire!

Its harder and harder to tell thesedays you know