There have been plenty of racist signs and slogans at tea party rallies over the years, but some who've looked at tea party rallies have determined that racist slogans actually aren't all that prevalent. If that's true, it's probably because shrewd political insiders -- FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity -- guided the teabaggers from the movement's early days and urged participants to tone the offensiveness down a smidge.
Those same insiders also provided lots and lots of money, along with networking opportunities and free publicity. And so the tea party became a real force in American politics.
What about newer grassroots anti-Obama movements? Well, they don't seem to be getting the cash and advice. Especially advice:
Hundreds of protesters wielded signs, chanted slogans and argued with each other Tuesday outside Desert Vista High School in Phoenix, while President Barack Obama spoke about housing and the economy inside....What group was behind this protest? It appears to be a little-known one:
Racially-charged sentiment infused the protests and split the crowd....
Obama foes at one point sang, "Bye Bye Black Sheep," a derogatory reference to the president's skin color, while protesters like Deanne Bartram raised a sign saying, "Impeach the Half-White Muslim!"
... “He's 47 percent Negro,” shouted Ron Enderle, a 77-year-old Chandler resident....
A grassroots group with thousands of members is planning nationwide protests August 6 calling for President Obama’s impeachment.The group also has a non-Facebook site. The list of rallies at the site includes a link to a video of this Phoenix protest. (None of the nasty stuff shows up in that video.)
The group, "Overpasses for Impeachment," has gained steam since launching in mid-June and now appears to have a presence on all 50 states....
The organizing has been done mainly via the group's Facebook Page, which has spawned Facebook groups in all 50 states....
The group may have racist elements, but it seem, well, pathetic. The crowd in the video is sparse; the chants are at the level of "Obama sucks!" And when you click from the group's site to its gofundme page, there's this bit of sadness:
Wow ... only $999,076 to go to reach that $1 million goal!
Sparse crowds, racist slogans, and no money. The tea party minus Koch and Fox News would have equaled this.
618 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 601 – 618 of 618You have no clue what you are saying when you state that the "Tea Party is dead" or you other nonsense about the Koch Brothers and FOX.
My wife and I live in a rural area of NM, we are in our 70's and just can't get to where the big city Tea Party rallies are held, but we contribute frequently to insure they keep going. As election time nears, we will put more cash in their tank! The photos of the rallies I have seen and talking with friennds who attend tells me all of these RACIST charges are typical media BS. The National Park service stated that when the TP had a rally on the Mall in DC they left it cleaner than when they came. We are simply CONCERNED Americans standing up for the country our forefathers helped build and defend. BO has no American values or DNA and is spending us into Detroit status.
Additionally, I have our two uncaring Democrat senators on speed-dial and call them often to complain about BO's RADICAL agenda and anti-business policies.
As regards the Koch Brothers, they are Americans that used Free-Market Capitalism to build their fortune, as opposed to BO's puppet master, foreign born George Soros, who made his billions betting against America.
FOX news is the #1 Cable Network, having more viewers than CNN, MSNBC and HLN combined! In the marketplace of ideas, fair and balanced always wins. 82% of American's label themselves as Conservative.
If you think the Tea Party is dead How do you explain Ted Cruz. Why is the IRS apparently very concerned about the potential power of the Tea Party. Several Tea Party candidates have been elected to Congress and cone 2014 there will be even more. the American people are fed up.
For every active tea partier there are hundreds with the same views. When it gets hot enough, the War is already won.
We sat through 8 years of 'hate Bush' vulgar 'humor' and insults. Even liberal jokes about hanging George Bush and a film about assassinating him. Obama has major policy disasters, which even some Democrat politicians have begun to recognize, yet the left-wing rant claims all criticism is racist. If you don't know what the issues are by now, it is because you wish to not know. We can disagree without hating. Try it.
We can't fail. Why?
We have love on our side. Liberty loves the person. Socialism/Statism hates the person. The path of oppression is necessarily filled with violent hate. Here's an example, I think from you, lemme see...if we have a million dollars, we're prostitutes to the Koch brothers, and if we have nine hundred bucks, we're 'sad'? I do see something sad alright, but it's not us. We don't name-call, we love. Didn't your mother teach you better? Maybe all she taught you was how to hate. It's not too late to change, I believe in you!
Also, I'm a 'self-identified' half-Jew too, too tempting for any hater to resist while eating from the Hata Salad Bar.
I invite you to go on without vicious smarminess and pidgeonholing everyone to get along in life. Just try it for a day, don't knock it til you've tried it!
Either way, we'll have our love-infused rallies, so you continue to have your hateful protests (see pic) -- http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/10/unfortunately-all-too-real-photo-ows.html
A picture paints a thousand words! I truly do hope you breathe the air of freedom all day, fellow American, because that's what we're fighting for, even for hate-speech blogging trolls. Try it, you might enjoy that, too! And remember, dear American who has chosen the path of hateful Liberal, love always conquers hate, it never fails, nor will we! Love YOO! The Tea Party
The Tea Party and the Conservatives are not weak, we're not dead. We're growing and will be most effective!
I can't stand koolaid drinking libtards. Dumb as sticks and not only blind but ignorant of what is happening before their own eyes.
You are an Idiot. You support a party that is clueless. I have only one question for you. Who said
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country"
Remember it was the one all you liberals point back to JFK. How is your party in line with that thought now? Free cell phones, no jobs and way too many on government support!
Obama’s Attorney Gen Holder sells guns to Mexican drug cartels that kill Mexicans with those guns not to mention our Border Patrol agents.
Look at how Black Panthers who intimidate voters are treated by Obama administration,compared to how Tea Party members are treated by Obama's IRS, or how our Alinskyite leader treats white Boston cops trying to do their jobs compared to how he treats his friend, black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Be careful you liberals who paint with your broad brush, lest a broad brush paint you.
If a group of people can be accused of being racist by association, because of some unsolicited supporter who shows up to their rally, then wouldn't that all the more make the Democratic Party RACIST for embracing former Klansman Robert Byrd,who used the N word in an interview during his over 50 yr tenure in the democrat Senate from 1959 to 2010?
Would that also make Obama a racist because of support from racist Muslim Black Panthers who hate white people & especially white Jewish people?
Another delusional speaker on behalf of the sheep amongst us. The genius of the Tea Party moniker is its simplicity and roots. Tax us to fund your power trip, your heinous, and over board you go. I'll run by own life thank you, take care of my own, and pay for it myself with cash, blood, sweat, and tears. "We" stand for the republic established for individuals to succeed or fail on our own. Blood-sucking vampires need not apply. There are plenty of places in Europe. America isn't going to be turned into Greece and that's exactly what the Progressives have been trying for a long time. The Tea Party serves as a wake-up call to people usually too busy working and taking care of their own business to push back against the tide. Up to our ears is quite enough. Big governments and kings have got to be chopped down to size.
You know, I go to work, raise my kids and save money, buy property and try to prepare for my old age. I like to hunt, fish and shoot guns. i love off-roading, hiking, boating and back yard BBQs. I am a member of the Tea Party patriots in palm Springs California. So you're saying the money we have raised (Tea party express) is all sent in by racists? Did i describe myself as a racist? I dare say liberals are the most racist beings to ever walk this earth. Your intolerance for anything other than your point of view says it all.
Obviously, ole barry has a Lot of Obedient Idiots on here!! LOL!!
The Tea Party is alive and well and thriving out of necessity - the necessity for truth which is suppressed in this mad mad NBC CNN world of SPIN!
You are the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! lol
I do not really care what liberals think, because most of them are idiots anyway, but sometimes I just have to see it in print.
You think we are racist, well I happen to know that the $10,000 reward for the first person who could find a Racist sign at any tea party gathering is available, why don't you collect? Oh, you can't find a racist sign at any Tea Party movements? I have a book that is about 200 pages with pictures from just about every single Tea Party rally uyp till 2012, there is no where in that book that you will find a Racist sign.
The only people who are racist are people like you who keep bringing the subject up like Jackson, Sherpton and few other of the race baiters.
If we were so racist, why were there 3000 of us last month marching with the Black American Alliance in DC for jobs?
Why don't you jut put your Racist head in a bucket of sand.
The Tea Party is far from dead, every night at my meetings I am seeing 3-8 new people coming to the meetings and signing up, we are over 1000 no. This is true with many of the Te parties that I communicate with (82 in all) that are linked to my email.
This si just rubbish these liberal/progressives are putting out there trying to discourage people.
Take a hike!
So much for "Operation American Spring"
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/05/operation-american-spring-is-still-waiting-for-its-millions-of-patriots/371092/
http://dcist.com/2014/05/photos_operation_american_spring_fa.php
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/16/watch-live-operation-american-spring-warns-of-fema-roundup-civil-war-chemtrails/
Post a Comment