Teabag is a Verb >>

I just returned from the Atlanta Tea Party and I wanted to offer some of what I saw—and what I did not see.

I arrived with my family at the Tea Party not knowing what to expect. I have only been to smaller rallies on the UGA campus, for example, and never to one of significant size. I don’t know what the estimates came to, but they ranged from 12 to 15 thousand people. Sean Hannity was there with Joe the Plumber, Dick Armey, and throngs of some very, very angry citizens. I saw signs bearing the hammer and sickle, one that said O-shit, and another that called Geithner a deer in the headlights…but I did not see a racist effigy of Obama on a noose nor an outbreak of violence in this entire crowd. In summary, they were more well-behaved than the leftist career protesters that throw rocks, fight with cops, burn flags, and the like.

What shocked me was the underreporting of this story coupled with the utter contempt by Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, CNN…and I joylessly watched as Janeane Garafalo psychoanalyzed conservatives, their limbic systems, and their authoritarian personality complex, all from a woman whose education does not extend beyond high school. That said, Keith did not seem to criticize her education like he does other conservatives, himself graduating from the “Bovine Studies College” at Cornell. Maddow, gussied up to look somewhat ladylike from her combat boots alterego, cited the urban dictionary to profane teabagging as a prison verb. Real classy, Maddow.

One of the largest criticisms of this movement in the following days was that of astroturfing, or starting a fake movement from the top down (using FOX and large corporations as a promotion arm), a contrary method to what we call “grassroots.” This is an unfair criticism since most of this was actually organized online, and Fox was the only station to even report on it, let alone go in depth into its inner-workings. CNN actually called it racist/white supremacist, disregarding of course inflammatory statements like “guns and religion” and “nation of cowards” that goad such groups and give them power, nor witless and unreferenced DHS reports amounting to liberal, shovel-ready dung.

Let’s look at past examples of leftist protest cheerleadineg from NBC…

Green Week and GE: General Electric, the corporate owner of NBC, issued a papal edict to launch “green week” on all their affiliates. Soap operas held green weddings, reality shows issued challenges for contestants to collect as much cans for recycling as possible, and television programs of all sorts bombarded consumers with the barrage of eco-friendly advertisements to wrenchingly alter their lives. This was nothing more than an attempt for a Godzilla on the rocks to curry subsidies and favor with the federal government, obliterate competition, and help cozy up to federal contracts. And this is the clincher:  most eco-hippies manipulated by this view it as a righteous gesture.

Code Pink: Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink have, as a small bundle of radical leftists, crashed hearings, pied themselves in the public square, and have been granted VIP coverage by almost all news outlets. In fact, they probably could not exist without high-profile guerilla tactics coupled with unending network coverage infusion. Despite their miniscule size, they are given unparalleled access on the Olbermann channel. 300,000 teabaggers is larger than the original Boston Tea Party, and larger than NBC's list of loyal viewers.

Immigration Rallies: Millions of immigrants have marched in rallies to a sympathetic media, in the past few years, during immigration protests…most of which have the opposite of the intended effect when Americans see how enormous the problem has become. Thousands waved the Mexican flag on US soil, angering Lou Dobbs and other commentators who strike a chord with America and the silent majority. Sadly, the progressive media privileges foreign nationals pledging allegiance to Mexico with the voting voice that they don’t give average citizens. Most barrio ghettos can be emptied to for such protests. Legally employed citizens have prior obligations.

The DHS “Right-Wing” Report: Normally liberal brainfarts make me angry, but this one actually scared me a bit. Bush spied on Saudi-funded mosques, Sami al Arian, and Islamic terrorists, whilst our Saul Alinsky protégé spies on his own political opponents. For an administration that refuses to call terrorists by their earned name, profile young Muslims boarding a plane, closes Gitmo and moves it to Bagram Air Force Base, expands wiretapping beyond Bush, and calls the War on Terror the “Overseas Contingency Operation,” B. Hussein has no issue labeling the anti-abortion, 2nd Amendment, border controllers as domestic terrorists, and furthermore slandering our troops with no statistical evidence backing the claim that they easily radicalize. Napolitano’s only experience with veterans is with Timothy McVeigh (14 years ago), and that is how she views all US servicemen. This report details not only how much contempt with which the American Left views our fighters, but a shocking revelation into the mentality of this administration and how they view political dissent. Military servicemen score high on aptitude exams and live model citizen lives, and contrary to the leftist myth, they are not a bunch of neglected ghetto boys we ship off as cannon food. Department of Defense statistics back this claim.

http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2008/20080114134026.aspx

http://www.armyg1.army.mil/HR/docs/demographics/FY08%20Army%20Profile.pdf

I feel the passage of the memo has distinct timing issues in order to rebrand all conservative dissent as the ravings of right-wing neonazis (who are actually socialist). Because you know… all those Ron Paul libertarians are bigots waiting in the wings, with their LOVE signs. This leak could have been deliberate.

The Methodist Church: The Bush Library Project at Southern Methodist University was protested by a vocal minority of the Methodist church. People could even sign with no verification they were members of the church, according to one criticism. Church leadership decried that this action was not even a platform in their official policies. MSNBC called it “democracy in action.”

I hope that the Republican Party gets the message, and I more deeply hope that the jeering and mocking from the DNC continues. These protesters were not the professional rioters that empty out of coffee houses and have nothing better to do. They were blue and white-collar workers, moms, dads, kids, taxpayers, workers, and professionals across Atlanta. I saw no unwashed beatniks. These rallies are the manifestation of the Conservative Movement on the march, with or without the Republican Party. And I hope Michael Steele listens, polishes his platform to the furor of the crowd’s sentiment, and I hope in turn that these crowds stop kicking the GOP and cut the embattled Steele some slack if he earns it. We need unity, and we need to march ahead.

At any rate, Obama entered the Oval Office proclaiming the intentions of uniting with the other 48% of America, a task in which he is failing miserably. Maybe it's because he's a black guy. >>