Hilarious: Rightwing Tries to Claim Mantle of Thomas Paine

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When did I ever say "completely ignore"?

I wonder how much attention, both nationally and locally, the media will pay to these events?  I'm gonna go out on a limb and say not much.

Come April 16th we'll see how much attention will be paid to these events...both nationally and locally.

You liberals/progressives have killed the necessity and validity of protesting.  Every time I turn around some liberal/progressive organization is whining about something.  Hippies with their PETA signs outside of KFC, 8 people protesting the war in Iraq every Saturday, don't you people have jobs/lives?  Hit up zombietime for the best of the best.  My personal favorite has to be the 14 protesters who descended upon Helena over the Buffalo debate making front page news....I wonder what will happen when thousands  of conservatives across the nation meet-up and try to effect actual change?

Conservatives rally when the need is real, I blame having actual jobs and having to support themselves & their families.  Taking one day off every year or two for a really-real cause is all that most can afford.

FYI, Beck's a commentator, not an actual journalist...nor has he ever claimed to be.  You do understand that there's a difference between commentary and hard news, right?  Kind of like your site here...you comment on the news of the day, you don't report it =)

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by: Rusty Shackleford @ Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 20:02:56 PM UTC

"thousands of conservatives across the nation" (0.00 / 1)

At least you can't be accused of overestimating the ridiculously low expectations ...  That way when 10s of thousands across the nation turn out to make fools of themselves you will be able to declare this nonsense a rousing success.  Completely ineffectual, of course, but hey, dream big Rusty.

And, since you have finely developed that wingnut talent for missing the obvious, it's painfully and ironically foolish to claim that "not much" media attention will be paid to this farce when FOX news is openly organizing for it.  After all, FOX is the biggest and best of news media, at least if you ask them.

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by: Rob Kailey @ Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 21:01:43 PM UTC

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Really? (0.00 / 0)

FOX news is openly organizing for it

Source?

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by: Rusty Shackleford @ Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 22:59:19 PM UTC

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How ignert are you? (0.00 / 1)

You think?

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by: Rob Kailey @ Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 23:14:08 PM UTC

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How ignert are you? (0.00 / 1)

You think?

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by: Rob Kailey @ Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 23:16:54 PM UTC

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How ignert are you? (0.00 / 1)

You Think?

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by: Rob Kailey @ Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 23:18:07 PM UTC

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How ignert are you? (0.00 / 1)

You Think?

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by: Rob Kailey @ Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 23:19:23 PM UTC

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How ignert are you? (0.00 / 1)

You think?

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by: Rob Kailey @ Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 23:20:58 PM UTC

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Yeah, I read that this weekend.... (4.00 / 1)

Thousands of people are rallying and Fox is reporting on it...that's their job, don't ya know?!

"I recommend getting some kind of organizing committee together," said Amy Kremer, national event coordinator for TaxDayTeaParty.com. "You definitely can't do it alone."

Using social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, Kremer suggested would-be Tea Party organizers contact friends, relatives and colleagues to spread the word while simultaneously setting up a Web site for the cause. Once that happens, "people start coming out of the woodwork to volunteer," said Kremer, adding that local radio stations and newspapers are also a good way to disseminate event details.

ZOMG, FOX NEWS IS TELLING PEOPLE ARE FACEBOOK AND TWITTER...OH NOES!!!!11!!1

You do understand the purpose of the media, don't ya kitten?

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by: Rusty Shackleford @ Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 23:59:15 PM UTC

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read that? (0.00 / 1)

Which one of many, little camper?

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by: Rob Kailey @ Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 00:39:40 AM UTC

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LOL (2.00 / 2)

You don't count liberal blogs as actual "news sources", do you?!  Come on kitten, you're smarter than that...aintcha?

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by: Rusty Shackleford @ Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 13:26:23 PM UTC

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...conservatives rally? (0.00 / 0)

conservatives always rally. look at all the health care clinic protesters. i mean, talk about people who apparently have endless amounts of time on their hands...

I love the meme that liberals "don't have jobs/families," etc. It's funny, and yet so out of touch it kind of explains in and of itself why people don't show up in mass numbers for conservative tax rallies. For one, most people support Obama's policies. For another, there are a lot (the majority?) of parents who want to, say, increase school funding or have access for their kids to health care.

Maybe instead of trying to find the answers to your political woes in stereotypes, you should examine the track record of your beliefs. You know, war, poverty, torture, deficit, etc.

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by: Jay Stevens @ Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 13:39:07 PM UTC

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Accurate much? (4.00 / 1)

I said "jobs/lives"...lives meaning, "having something better, more productive to do with your time."

Try to keep up, Jay.

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by: Rusty Shackleford @ Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 14:12:27 PM UTC

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source? (0.00 / 0)

You have some data to show that conservatives are less lazy and have more fulfilling "lives"?

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by: Jay Stevens @ Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 14:49:23 PM UTC

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GOP celebrating a radical community organizer?? (0.00 / 0)

Just wait 'til word of this heresy reaches Lady Sarah of Tundraville, after all her ridiculizing & scoffing at Obama as a mere "community organizer."  In true from-on-high fashion that would make King George (the III or the W) proud, I expect we'll soon see flaming effigies of a weepy eyed Beck illuminating Fox News Headquarters for his celebrating a radical community organizer... who risked life & limb, full of hope, to secure "liberty and justice for all."   Our founding fathers were radical community organizers and local progressive do-gooders who had had enough of King George's theocratic oppression, and we all know what that led to (granted, a work still in progress.)  But wait, Glen Beck?  Really?  He probably just misunderstanded some bad leftovers from Bush's FDA or USDA regarding ptomaine pain...  That makes more sense.  Things like this usually work themselves out in the end, so to speak.  

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by: Silas Dogwood @ Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 22:05:22 PM UTC

Rusty, Rusty, Rusty.. (0.00 / 0)

You aren't serious are you? Fox News is "only reporting the story"?

Yeah...right.

Hey Rusty, this whole tea bagging thing has nothing to do with, well, you know, tea bagging right?

As I understand it, this so called "grass roots" (funded by millionaire rightwingers and their "think tanks"/consulting firms) uprising, is all about high taxes, big spending, and huge deficits, right?

So, where were you guys when Bush was running up trillion dollar debts and spending like a drunk sailor on leave?  And Rusty, is it really all that terrible raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans to a percentage that is 10% LOWER than your "tax cutting" hero Ronald Reagan pushed through 30 years ago?

You guys are too much...

Why don't you go out and actively campaign to deny health coverage for poor kids or something?

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by: big sage @ Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 02:20:55 AM UTC

Ok? (2.00 / 2)

As I understand it, this so called "grass roots" (funded by millionaire rightwingers and their "think tanks"/consulting firms) uprising, is all about high taxes, big spending, and huge deficits, right?

Source?

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by: Rusty Shackleford @ Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 03:50:14 AM UTC

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Rusty.. (0.00 / 0)

You do get your information from a source OTHER THAN Fox News, right?

How about Dick Armey's little group FreedomWorks? How about Americans for Prosperity? How about "Stop Spending Our Future"?  

Gee Rusty...where do you suppose the organizational staff, the money, the shoddy looking web sites, promoting this tea bagging, are coming from...Joe the Plumber?  

But hey...why did you duck my question?  

Where were you guys when Bush and his Republican Congress were running up huge deficits, and spending like drunken sailors? And Rusty, is it really that horrible to go back to the Reagan era tax rates?  

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by: big sage @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 01:14:22 AM UTC

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