"All aboard": Fox News promotes "Bigger & Better!" Tea Party Express II with birther Williams
October 26, 2009 12:12 pm ET
From the October 25 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends Sunday:
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Well, 1% of America does watch FOX...
The rest of the MSM & U.S. press can now go back to sticking their heads in the sand ... nothing to see here!
Fox News is like the Foundation for a Better Life commercials. Has anyone ever seen those? Moreover, has anyone ever seen those and not loudly chuckled at its utter absurdity? It features wholesome, straight, and white nuclear families doing sweet, Martha Stewart and Leave it to Beaver style activities to the back drop of whatever really awful country or Nickelback song is topping the charts. Out of five mockable commercials, I have seen maybe five black people, and even that, I feel, is a slightly hyperbolic number.
May I inquire as to how a "grassroots" movement can afford a road trip let alone a road trip that sounds like a Beyonce tour?
Oh yes, they're not being sponsored at all.
Just tried to respond to your mention of that old sitcom with the famous double entendre line that starts, "Ward, don't you think...?" I got flagged for profanity. This for quoting a line that showed up, (I think) on an almost weekly basis, during the Freakin' Fifties!
Don't get confused between "tea party patriots" and "tea party express".
"Express" is a paid-for arm of the GOP. It's astro-turf.
"Patriots" is the grass-roots organization.
The confusion caused by the "express" seems to be intentional.
See my post below.
this is the first time i've heard lloyd marcus having a conversation. and i hope i don't offend anyone but it seems 2 me that something is mentally wrong with him! for "tea partiers" 2 obviously be using this man as a token to show "diversity" in their "teabagging" movement is beyond disingenous and disgusting!
Hopefully it's nice that day...
The tea party patriots: http://www.teapartypatriots.org/
And the tea party express: http://www.teapartyexpress.org/
The former is a "non-partisan" group who claims not to be affiliated with any party.
The latter is an arm of the GOP.
Interesting how Fox promotes the latter, with no mention of the former.
http://washingtonindependent.com/62054/tea-party-patriots-vs-tea-party-express
http://washingtonindependent.com/63299/tea-party-activists-reject-pac-backed-tea-party-express
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/tea-party-patriots-founde_n_315170.html
So basically it too is an arm of the GOP.
Using his "math", it means that the Tea Party tour is actually a half-day and 2 cities.
"Freedom ain't free"
WTF?
WHAA HAA AA HA HAA HAA HA HAA
Whom do you think the American people should believe, you or them?
One of the things that is generally not allowed in these posts is profanity, so while you are free to express your opinion, there may at times be some censorship strictly for word choice. Bring all the opposing opinion you want, but be prepared to provide some semblance of evidence if you expect to be taken seriously. I hope your time here is pleasant!
Well, it was 9/12, and it was about 10% of 1 million!
And he thinks that if there were 1 million people protesting Obamacare that it means that Obamacare should be defeated. If he had half a brain, he'd know that 1 million people in DC (except it was actually less than 1/10th that size, but just for discussion's sake) means 300 million NOT in DC. So how does it compute in his brain that 1/3rd of 1 percent should convince Obama and Congress that Obamacare should be defeated?
And then Williams complains about several things.
"Ridiculous spending." Well, then, they should have been protesting during Bush's terms, because that's when ridiculous spending happened. We haven't seen that during Obama's term. The bank bailouts were necessary to keep the whole world from entering a Depression - that's not ridiculous spending. The same for the Financial Stimulus bill. Necessary spending and the ending of tax cuts is not ridiculous. Tax cuts during wartime are ridiculous.
Then he mentions "intrusion." Well, Bush was very intrusive with his warrantless wiretapping and his demeaning of gay marriage. I could go on and on. Give me some examples of Obama's 'intrusiveness'.
Then he says that his upset is over "the utter lack of priorities and common sense." No examples given though - because there are none. It's an accusation without basis. But Bush, now there's someone who showed a lack of common sense (invading Iraq without thinking about or planning for the aftermath) or a lack of priorities (his administration's principles never had a major meeting on terrorism before 9/11, and they threw out the handbook they were given by the Clinton Admin simply because it came from a Democrat). Again, if they are upset about these things, why weren't they out protesting during the Bush Administration?
Then he defends FoxNews because they've been subject to "petty" attacks from Obama. Except they haven't been subjected to "petty" attacks (or as RightON would say, "whining"). FoxNews has been subjected to substantive attacks since they have been poisoning the public discourse! If an administration was doing what this guy suggests, then yeah, they should be criticized. But it's a strawman argument.
Then the black guy pipes up again, and complains about the "bazillion czars" that Obama has. Except Obama has fewer czars than Bush did. And czars aren't bad anyway - they help with ownership of specific initiatives in a way that others within a President's administration might not be able to do.
Yet again we see that the Tea Party people don't have a leg to stand on when they attack Obama and try to justify these events.
Taking the country by storm? More like annoying the country en masse.
The media fail to point out the black reporters who felt threaten at some of the rallies. A few was qouted as saying they had to stay near the police the whole time.