A response from a friend (and Obama voter) regarding the CNN gotcha video.

John,

The YouTube video you posted on Logpundit of the nervous (and stupid) CNN reporter is a good catch.

I can’t believe that she tried to write the entire crowd off as Fox News right-wingers. What poor reporting.

CNN: 0, Bloggers: 1

I really agree with the angry woman’s implied point: it isn’t so much that I object to federal income taxes, per se, but rather than neither I nor any other citizen has any real say in how they are spent. I would feel a good deal different if there was some real transparency with washington’s finances, starting w/lobbyists and their capitol hill donations. Maybe the ‘net will make things different, though I’m not yet convinced that it will. Certainly, it can, at least in principle…

My biggest wish would be to encourage as many people as possible to have ZERO taxes withheld throughout the year, so that they would have to pay their taxes all in lump sum payments during April.

My response:

Yeah, when the dude had the sign that said, “Republicans suck too” with “Ban the Federal Reserve” underneath it, I’m sure that made the reporter feel small. I also thought that “the ban the fed” stuff would never be shown on any news channel…and it wasn’t, as this is on YouTube.

I looked at the news…the story was hard to find in the NY Times, and non-existent in the money hemorrhaging Boston Globe. I heard NBC was being confrontational as well. Fox had a few stories, but less than I thought. National Review, much the mouthpiece of the GOP, did link that video I showed you, but otherwise the response from them was VERY muted. In other words, no featured articles on the Tea Parties. The editors had a pro-bailout stance when it hit the fan last fall, sounded like a bunch of welfare queens. You could tell William F Buckley, Jr. was long gone at this point. So, I don’t know if they pulled back coverage because of concerns of astroturf (i.e. media fed fake “grassroots”), but I think the more likely explanation is that Fox and National Review don’t want to see anti-bank, anti-fed signs. It’s all about socialism, see. I was a little surprised that the video slipped through the cracks at National Review, but sometimes it happens.

Thing is, Obama didn’t even raise taxes yet…just wait until next year.

I’m sure most protestors pay their taxes in full in April, or pay quarterly. I’ve heard about people who have been waiting for a substantial refund and have been delayed for at least a month, they are worried they won’t get it back.

Populism has long been about the struggle between citizens and the banks, not so much with employers (unionism). Right now the Dems are very beholden to the banks (Chris Dodd as head of banking and commerce, is particularly egregious) but so are the GOP. That’s why the mainstream spin is so ridiculous. At this point nationalism of failed banks (Citibank, Goldman Sachs) isn’t such a bad idea. Pay the bankers what I make, a government employee wage and if they want to make more money let them risk rich people’s extra money, but don’t mess with our pensions. That way if they fail they fail. But if it’s too big to fail, then, like the Hoover Dam, it is property of the US government.

I mean, at this point, could a bunch of Timmy Geithner’s do worse than ruin the economy of the entire world?

Qualifier: OK Free Marketeers, I’m open to suggestions. This is an open forum. Persuade me that I’m wrong.

Update: I don’t have cable. It seems that Fox News TV was saturating the airwaves with Tea Party newscasts, but there were few reports on the site about it. So Fox provided more than ample coverage. I just saw the outrageous video on MSNBC and I have to say they have no class.

A concerned citizen takes CNN to task for pinning the TEA parties on Fox News. You could tell this reporter was getting a little nervous.

I would venture to guess that current GOP politicians have the most to fear from the Tea Party Movement, if they don’t get on board.

This poster was found at a gun shop in Texas. As always with cool stuff, it came from the Coach.

Hardly any of the kids I know even know how to jump rope. Today parents are excited if their kids play a Wii instead of a DS.

Let me give credit where it is due. God Bless the Navy for their incredible job here. Obama answered his first 3 am call. I’m an eternal optimist so I’ll hope that this is a “speak softly and carry a big stick” policy by Barack. That being said, you can’t just ask people to ignore this situation like he did earlier.

After Barack Obama’s embrace of the troops in Iraq I was actually warming up to the guy, but now that his international bow and flagellate tour is interrupted by a hostage crisis on the high seas, his silence is shameful and embarrassing. There were more pirate attacks this time last year off the coast of Somalia, and yet it is now, for the first time in, what, centuries, that an American vessel has been hijacked by pirates in, what, centuries? The pirates want to see how weak we are, and I fear Barack Obama, with all the nuance he can muster, just may demonstrate exactly how far we can capitulate.

Today, for the first time in a long time, I missed George W Bush. Someone who wasn’t afraid to call an evildoer evil, and when hit in the mouth took the fight to terrorists. I have some problems with how the Iraq war has been handled, but during the Bush administration nobody wanted to hijack our boats and push us around to get paid.

What irks me most is it seems that Barack’s biggest problem is how the pirate’s are crimping his style.

Another one making the rounds:

I’ll tell you how bad the economy is…

CEO’s are now playing miniature golf.

Hotwheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.

Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.

People in Africa are donating money to Americans.

Motel Six won’t leave the light on.

The Mafia is laying off judges.

PETA serves chicken wings at their meetings.

McDonalds is selling the 1/4 ouncer.

People in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children’s names

A truck of Americans got caught sneaking into Mexico

The most highly-paid job is now jury duty

Mothers in Ethiopia are telling their kids, “finish your plate, do you know
how many kids are starving in the US ?”

Even people who have nothing to do with the Obama administration aren’t
paying their taxes.

And finally…

Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Hey, neat…
the guy who made $50 billion disappear is being investigated by the people
who made $750 billion disappear.

There’s a tea party going on in Lafayette.

April 15th 4pm -7pm ACROSS the street from the Federal Courthouse at 800 Lafayette Street - in Richard Putnam Park

Hello Everyone,
On April 15th, in over 1,600 small and large cities across the nation, there will be PEACEFUL ASSEMBLIES of concerned citizens. These assemblies are being referred to as TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Parties - reminiscent of the Boston Tea Party. They will consume the media, as every sizable city will have tens of thousands of fed-up taxpayers on the steps of their government buildings. Baton Rouge, for example, is expecting well over 10,000 on the Capitol Building. Large cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, , New York, Dallas, Sacramento, etc., are expecting hundreds of thousands each! This is a grass roots movement the media doesn’t want to advertise. But they can’t stop it now as the word is spreading like wild-fire
This will be an event which has never occurred in America’s history. The SILENT MAJORITY is finally coming together to stand against the insanity that has been going on in Washington for decades and now threatens to destroy every ideal and belief that this country was built on. YOUR future is severely at risk. The socialist owned media has manipulated and confused and convinced society into sitting back while short-sighted politicians on both sides have slowly manipulated YOUR rights and wasted YOUR money. The entire structure of our society has been ransacked! YOU know this. YOU can feel it in the back of your mind. And in your heart.
And now YOU have a chance to join with your friends, family, and neighbors to send a message, loud and clear, to our government. A message that says WE, the people, insist that our government return to the ideals of Capitalism and Democracy and Free Enterprise - NOT socialism, fascism, or nationalized bureaucracy. Return to the ideals that empower individuals - not government. For it is WE, the people, as individuals, who built these united States into the greatest country in history. But it is government which continues to turn away from those things and thereby creates more and more problems. THIS was the lesson our Founding Fathers knew.
If you are interested in being a part of that message then I urge you to take a few hours of your time to join us as WE, the people, stand together and peacefully proclaim that WE will be the Silent Majority - NO MORE!

This is going around

We all know those cute little computer symbols called ‘emoticons,’ where:

means a smile and

is a frown.

Sometimes these are represented by

Well, how about some ‘ BUTT ICONS?’
Here goes:

(_!_) a regular ass

(__!__) a fat ass

(!) a tight ass

(_*_) a sore ass

{_!_} a swishy ass

(_o_) an ass that’s been around

(_x_) kiss my ass

(_X_) leave my ass alone

(_zzz_) a tired ass

(_E=mc2_) a smart ass

(_$_) Money coming out of his ass

(_?_) Dumb Ass

You have just been e-mooned! Send
this to 5 people within the next hour and you will be blessed with people laughing at your e-mai l.

This is NOT a chain letter, so if you don’t mail it out, you won’t have bad luck. (But who wouldn’t want to e-Moon a friend?)

From the Coach,

Pretty good analogy….the author is unknown, as far as I know.

1 Corinthians- 10:13 (Douay-Rheims)