Protesters take part in a rally as part of the national Tax Day Tea Party to protest taxes and government spending in Lafayette Park April 15, 2009 in Washington, DC. April 15th marks the day American citizens must file their annual income taxes with the federal government. (Getty Images) more pics » Barack Obama isn't particularly popular right now with right-wingers who are mad about having to pay taxes. In response to Obama's bailouts and overall economic policy, teabaggers set out today... Read Full Story
(Getty Images) See more pictures >> Today was tax day and it was the culmination of a conservative movement to protest President Barack Obama 's economic policies (namely bailouts and taxes) by holding modern-day tea parties. Protesters demonstrate in Chicago. (Getty Images) The tea parties took place in major cities all over the country, urged on by cable television and radio personalities such as Rick Santelli and Glenn Beck . The teabaggers , as they've come to be called, believe that... Read Full Story
(Getty Images) It's tax day and Anderson Cooper just couldn't help himself from some sweet, sweet teabagger puns. Rachel Maddow has been having all the fun this week while mocking the ridiculous monicker of the conservative anti-Obama movement protesting the president's economic policies. But Cooper couldn't hold back any longer. While visiting with David Gergen, the director of the Center for Public Leadership, last night, Cooper slipped in a clever teabag joke. The two were talking about... Read Full Story
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I’m not a big fan of politics or politicians because of the back and forth bullshit with no resolve, and constant manipulation of people to get attention to one side or the other. And a lot of times they do the most retarded crap to gain notoriety or attention, and yesterday was one of those days for conservatives. On April 15 th , tax day, thousands of republicans and conservatives organized a group to protest the recent stimulus packages and bailouts for Americans and American... Read Full Story
Dr. Ron Paul has suggested that it is not un-American to talk about secession. The state of Oklahoma passed a resolution, which basically says they don’t have to listen to the federal government. Not since the Dixicrats and the federalization of the Arkansas National Guard, have we seen such bitter talk about leaving the union. Usually talk of secession brings to mind the Southern states forming the Confederacy and the long bloody Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 Americans on both... Read Full Story
The Tea Party's GOP Takeover When Republican House leader John Boehner spoke at last week's Tea Party rally at the Capitol, it sent an unmistakable signal: Wing nuts have taken over the GOP. At the rally, House Republicans officially sponsored an event at which members of the crowd carried messages of hate. One sign called the president a "Traitor to the U.S. Constitution"; one depicted him as Sambo. Another placard compared health care reform to the Holocaust. There were some outrageous... Read Full Story
Igor Panarin's Doomsday Tea Party One ex-KGB analyst has been warning for years that the US will collapse in 2010. Conservative activists think he may be on to something. —By Nick Baumann For more than a decade Dr. Igor Panarin, a Russian academic, has been predicting that sometime around 2010 the United States will collapse, splintering into separate states, some of them controlled by foreign powers. Outside of Russia, no one's put much stock in his crackpot and stereotype-based theories... Read Full Story
Bill Bennett, Please Leave Frederick Douglass Alone 09/22/2009 by Jim Naureckas William Bennett at the Values Voter Summit (AlterNet, 9/22/09 ): I don't know why more of the African American leadership doesn't talk about Frederick Douglass.... Probably because of his deep devotion to Lincoln, and his deep devotion to this country. Frederick Douglass at the dedication of the Freedman's Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln ( 4/14/1876 ): It must be admitted, truth compels me to admit, even... Read Full Story
On Which Planet Was The Tea Party Griff Jenkins Attended? Reported by Ellen - September 14, 2009 Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins has been caught twice gushing over the diversity of tea party protesters while standing amidst a sea of white faces. At the closing of Glenn Beck’s 9/12 special report Saturday (9/12/09), Jenkins effused about the peacefulness of the crowd while either missing or ignoring the undertones of violence and racism. With video. Read the rest . Source: News Hounds Beck... Read Full Story
Fox News -- home of outrageous smears, falsehoods -- promotes "tea parties" protesting "journalistic malpractice" Fox News has promoted what it has referred to as October 17 "tea part[y]" protests by "Operation: Can You Hear Us Now," an organization that plans "to show the MSM [mainstream media] that we as the American Public are absolutely fed up with their journalistic malpractice." Read the rest . Source: Media Matters
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