Teabagging Alert! Obama Gets in Their Faces!
President Barack Obama may very well be getting in the faces of the lobbyist-orchestrated teabaggers at a New Hampshire "town hall" this very minute. Click above to listen in.
Too bad it would be impolitic for Obama to talk about the so-called teabaggers (and the lobbyists like Dick Armey who are organizing them to rile the Democrats) the way David Shuster discussed teabagging while guest-hosting Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show this past April 13. Here's that video:
A classic oral report, and if the video's not working for you, click on the jump line right below for the next page to see the transcript:
They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending--spending they did not oppose when they were under presidents Bush and Reagan. They oppose Mr. Obama's tax rates--which will be lower for most of them--and they oppose the tax increases Mr. Obama is imposing on the rich, whose taxes will skyrocket to a rate about 10 percent less than it was under Reagan. That's teabagging in a nut shell.
Taking its inspiration from the Boston Tea Party when colonists tossed British tea into the sea because the tax in it had not been voted on by their own duly-elected representatives--that's exactly the opposite, of course, of today's taxes, known in some quarters as taxation with representation.
But as "New York Times" columnist, Paul Krugman, points out today, this time, the tea bagging is not a spontaneous uprising. The people who came up with it are a familiar circle of Republicans, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, both of whom have firm support from right-wing financiers and lobbyists. As well as Washington prostitute patron, Senator David Vitter, who has issued statements in support of teabagging but is publicly tight-lipped.
Then there was the media, specifically the FOX News Channel, including Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. Both are looking forward to an up close and personal taste of teabagging themselves at events this Wednesday. But most amusing of all is Neil Cavuto, a member of the network's executive committee. Neil's online bio says he joined the network in July of 1996, three months before the FOX News Channel went on the air.
Cavuto, defending his network's proportion of teabagging said, quote, "We are going to be right in middle of these teabaggers, because at FOX, we do not pick and choose these rallies and protests. We were there for the Million Man March.
Can we roll that footage, the FOX News coverage of the Million Man March backing in October of '95?
Of course, the Million Man March occurred, as NewsHounds.org points out, almost a year before FOX News was on the air.
We can only speculate why widespread teabagging made Cavuto think of the Million Man March, unless he got them confused with Dick Armey. And in Cavuto's defense, if you are planning simultaneous teabagging all around the country, you're going to need a Dick Armey.





3 comment(s)
Meanwhile after all is said and done I hope I am wrong but I doubt if the bill will pass because the Dems are such chickens and want to be re-elected and the American people are not smart enough to know when they are being duped. I saw a commercial that said "your health insurance rates MIGHT go up 95% if the bill is passed".
It's getting harder and harder to watch the news because I get so angry. What will it take until people see the Republicans for what they are - wolves in sheep's clothing.
Check out this quote - this is what it reminds me of:
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life....
Who said that? Adolf Hitler.
He was no Christian and Republicans and conservatives who can be so callous and hateful re: the poor and the new poor (the middle class), who always maintain that they take the higher ground but act so low in every regard. They are not real Christians either. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Christ had compassion on the people the Bible says. Do you think the Republicans have compassion on the people? Now they are drowning out and "tea-bagging" at these meetings and putting out these shameful commercials. (See the one with the woman who said she was from Canada and would have died of a brian tumor?)
I wish I had the money for a private investigator but I bet anything that one is a hoax. How about when Kerry was running and they were all calling out "flip flop flip flop" because his position changed as circumstances changed.
If you say something enough times and loud enough the American people will believe it. It's so sad.
Wake up and open your eyes. Our health care system sucks, our insurance coverage is a joke and the companies dictate what is "necessary" for your health and their next quarter profit.
How much more will people take. Apparently a lot. It's a really sad statement about our people that they can be so stupid. Flip flop!
muchogroucho
Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 11 2009 @ 5:43PMnyc
hi, muchogroucho,
may i suggest u read less adolf, and more constitution? just a thought.....is that ok?
Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 18 2009 @ 12:35AMWhy do people say lobbyist are behind the tea parties when the AMA, AARP and EVERY lobbyist wants 'health care reform'?
Posted On: Wednesday, Sep. 9 2009 @ 9:15AM