UPDATED: Tea Party Crashers: Not Quite Understanding the Assignment
Other party crashers made at least slightly more effective attempts.
“Public Skools & Safe Bridges R UnAmerican.” For some reason, a generation that gets the news from Jon Stewart utterly fails to grasp the finer points of subtle irony or sarcasm. Or apparently the definition of “infiltrate,” as he is captured standing among left-wing counterprotesters.
So far, the best attempt at blending in and infiltrating the tea party movement may be this sign:
“MIT NUCULAR Engineers for Palin!!1!” Admittedly, it still isn’t much, but we’re working with apparent amateurs. Apparently, Bostonians just aren’t good at this sort of thing.
By far the best submission of the day has been this Youtube video from last year’s tea party protests, of some young “billionaires” in their evening finery gracing the Washington, D.C., protest.
PJ Media and PJTV will have more coverage of tea party crashers throughout the day, if any show up. Though if April 14 was any guide, today’s “Crash the Tea Party” movement will be a hipster flop.
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UPDATE: We’re approaching mid-afternoon here on the right-hand side of the country, and with Tax Day tea parties well under way, reports of “Crash the Tea Party” infiltrators have been as light as MSNBC’s evening line-up.
The few scattered reports we have seen coming in to our reporting avenues (email tpcrashers@pjtv.com and #tpcrashers on Twitter) have been from Chicago, where ”infiltration” seems to be just another word counterprotesters got wrong on their SATs. PJTV tipster Kim Schratwieser found left-wing group World Can’t Wait represented in the crowd, blaring out their constant refrain to “end illegal wars.”
At least we can give the group some credit for trying to earn some tea party support, noting that ending those “illegal wars” would “stop biggest government spending.” Though obviously, they don’t understand the long-term costs of ObamaCare.
Speaking of health care, PJTV tipster Nora Mahaney-Turley captured this fine example of the medical profession counter-protesting:
“Arrest Bush.”
What a bunch of morons.
More scenes from the Tea Party…http://worldcelebritiz.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-scenes-from-tea-party.html
Morons? I would describe them as useful & hopeful idiots: useful by the left to spew their message of wealth destruction, class envy, & socialism; and, hopeful the lamestream media will be complicit (which they usually are) and report them as Tea Partiers, when in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
Who? The posters or the crashers?
“What are you rebelling against?”
“Whatta ya got?”
I thought not knowing what you were protesting was good!
great Brando ref !!!
Byron Dickens … i take great offense … i hold morons in MUCH GREATER esteem than that ..
Where’s my CAT bulldozer?
Bryon – I take GREAT OFFENSE at your statement … i hold Morons in MUCH GREATER ESTEEM than that ….
LOL, too funny.
Also, teapartiers need to start making signs saying, “We’re NOT with stupid” for when these goofballs show up.
=P
Shouldn’t that be “STUPID isn’t with us.”
Byron,
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Freedom for Palestine! Aztecs are people too.
(or something ..)
When I was younger I thought I was a democrat. I grew…realized I was probably a republican…then when I actually looked at my taxes and savings and what was going on in our country..I realized I was neither one. Infact, I have little to no respect for either party or the candidates the offer.
Stupid signs for stupid people…all very young it appears. No life experience, maybe no taxes, mortgages, real jobs that they must provide for a family day after day.. I would like to ask them face to face what their objective is..do they know the facts, or do they just follow.. Do they realize that we never get something for nothing…i.e. new healthcare plan.
If it gets no worse then these type signs, America will benefit.
I actually think most of these signs you refer to were made and held by Tea Party sympathizers -the sign are humorous. They mock the Lefty agitprop.
And, I think it is very effective. It makes “Tea Party Crashers” look like a joke.
Actually, Patty the guy with the “Arrest Bush” Chicago was the real deal. My wife took the photo and I sent it in. The Chicago Tribune report notes that he was involved in a brief scuffle with other attendees.
Good Job Brother and Nora. Small world.
Democrat LIARs (Liberal, Incompetent Alarmist Revisionists)stand out like sore thumbs at these events. Label them as disruptive liars and dismiss them.
It’s all about being sneaky and deceitful with these people. Nothing they do is above-board. I’m proud as a conservative that the means still matter.
Tea Party Crasher protection act: Define Tea Party as:
The Tea Party, New freedom Party, or whatever party must define a set of principles and constitutional amendments that define it.
Constitutional amendments/principles outline:
1) If you are on the “government dole”; you can not vote until one full election cycle after you are off the dole.
2) Islime is primarily a hostile subversive political movement whose Mosques should be viewed as terrorist recruitment centers and traitorous entities; and should be closed. No burqa or similar female garment should be legal since it should be presumed that women are forced to wear them and say they like it under threat of death: honor killing.
3) No war is legal, and no American can be forced to go or remain in an battle zone, unless the war strategy is “unmercifully crush all areas accommodating the enemy until unconditional surrender”; any political correctness, leniency, or less than crushing assault by the leaders in executing a war should be a criminal offence and any recognized group should be able to go to court to guarantee we are not reading rights to terrorists on the battle field.
4) No prisoner of war, or enemy combatant, has any constitutional rights.
5) The federal government can only be funded by a progressive national sales tax; withholding tax is from now on unconstitutional. The higher the luxury, the higher the tax. Grocery store purchased meat, fruit, vegetables, prescription drugs et al exempt.
6) No former member (or spouse) of the executive or legislative branch may ever represent a foreign government directly or indirectly.
7) Until 2060 or 50 years, no former employees/owners of: banks, weapons manufacturer, Wall Street, drug companies may run for congress or president.
8) Having lost the war on drugs, it is now perceived as the lesser of evils to tax and effectively regulate drugs in order to break the underground drug world that threatens national security not just from drugs but by the existing drug network that is exploited by terrorists.
9) Having won the war on racism; affirmative action in any form is illegal.
10) Freedom of speech is to be protected; The right to criticize Islime ( other religions or seculars et al) is absolute and can not be diluted by any political correctness.
11) The right of adult non –felons to own guns is absolute. (violent misdemeanors excluded from gun ownership)
12) The federal government can not enforce by any means unfunded mandates on the states, and any provision of law that attempts to create or cause to exist an unfunded mandate, now or in the future, is not enforceable; The federal government can not blackmail states by threatening to withhold funds to obtain compliance.
13) The USA is to use all natural resources to become energy independent. No oil from the mid-east can be imported after 2018. No “environmental tax” (cap and trade scam) can be added to energy cost; coal is to be used and the EPA can not regulate coal beyond 2005 standards.
14) The states have the final say on which of their states’ natural resources can be developed, no federal designation of any kind can prevent a state from exploiting its natural resources as it sees fit, including offshore.
15) Journalist appearing on TV/cable “news” (public airwaves) must be licensed and certified in the fields they cover. Mis-representing the facts is a lose your license offence which effectively means “the hook”! No licence needed for internet…
16) The Supreme Court must investigate (and make completely public all findings) persons running for president to certify their Constitutional eligibility. Two no votes out of nine is enough to disqualify; any doubt, the answer is no. If they are wrong impeach them.
17) The USA is one nation under God with liberty and justice for all its law abiding citizens. |Marriage is between a man and a woman. There are gay and lesbians that should be treated with respect by citizens and laws; That does not mean you “must” or should or should not: respect their homosexuality.
18) The USA is not a secular socialist society. The USA is a free market God fearing country; To each according to his earnings from each according to the sales tax on his purchases…
19) The Justice system can not “blackmail” people to testify against others.
20) All civil cases are automatic counter suits against the plaintiff. Juries may find against, and assess damages from, the plaintiff and plaintiff attorney in any and all civil cases.
What part of “Freedom of the Press” do you not understand? The whole point of Freedom of the Press is that you don’t need anyone’s permission to write what you please; your only obligation is that you must not harm anyone else’s person or reputation by spreading lies or issuing threats.
Does require at least an IQ of at least 102 to understand my post, my sincerest apologies to you…your comment has no relationship to my post…markthefake=bluster
These are pretty radical and easily debateable points. I seriously doubt if you could find 15% of the population who would agree with even half your points.
What’s the matter? Didn’t mom wake you up early enough this morning? You almost forgot to post your BS. There are several other threads that you forgot to spam as well.
markthefake describes himself
OK – this is enough. Someone at Pajamas might want to take a look at this. Not only is Bruce rather “challenged” in the brain cell department (which I can live with) but he is lazy (which I can’t live with). This is by far worse than the leftie trolls that lurk around here.
I am 100% a free speech guy. I would not want to limit the discussion here. We might, however, want to limit NON DISCUSSION just a tad. So how about this Pajamas Media guys… let’s say that you can only cut and paste the same 750 word 6th grade level drivel into 7 or 8 threads where it is completely out of context before it stops showing up – what do you think? If Brucie wants to have his mom help him come up with something new – maybe something on topic – fine and dandy. But I think we have had quite enough of little Brucie’s little manifesto.
Every one of us could do this all day. Bruce is just trying to defend the way he sees things. Saying someone is “challenged” is just putting them down because of their viewpoint. Now I’m guessing just because I’ve said this, then something is wrong with me.
I’m just going to chalk all this up to emotional response to a cause. Just remember that it’s easy to put someone down, and then make a point. Be a good steward and just ask the honest question that you asked, and it would be more powerful.
Since you took the low road of saying “challenged” in the brain cell department, I give you no credibility.
Bruce, making a sock puppet to defend yourself is even more pathetic than cut and paste spam.
Bruce, you copy&pasted this list into, it seems, at least a half-dozen posts’ comments. Don’t you think you’ve beaten that horse to death, and risk wearing out your welcome?
You can get a free blog of your own at blogspot.com — maybe you should try that to more fully explore these ideas?
Bruce;
Regarding point #17 – Just get the government out of the marriage business. You shouldn’t need a government license to wed.
Wrong again! Do your homework, dude. The TEA Party is a movement, not a party. It stands for fiscally conservative government (know what that word means?), limited Constitutional government, a strong defense and TERM LIMITS.
That’s pretty much it. Scary as hell, isn’t it? Watch out for those red blooded Americans carrying cardboard signs, they can be lethal!
I like that list- count me in as one of the 15% LOL
Free entertainment. Try again on July 4. By then some of these slackers will be going Tea Party themselves and finding they dig the Thrilla from Wasilla.
What a pathetic bunch of slackers.
Yes, this “slacker” is 62 and was a Navy wife for 27 years, a federal employee for 18 years. I know that’s threatening, but deal with it.
See you at the polls on Nov. 2!
It’s been pointed out by others that since the would-be crashers have become national news, that Tea Partiers have gained the advantage/leverage to now say that all incidents of offensive behavior witnessed at Tea Party rallies can be effectively labeled as coming from crashers. Spokespersons for Tea Parties should simply make that point — should there be any incidents — and remind the media that the crashers have publicized their intents, and the media have enthusiastically (and stupidly) given the world that news. Whether real crashers show up or not, it’s the Tea Party detractors who are now left with the burden of proof should bad behavior erupt at Tea Party rallies.
This is pretty amazing. An entire group of idiots—you readers—you are too dumb to even know when they’re being mocked. Priceless. Read the NYT poll yesterday that finds that basically teabaggers are responding to some kind of existential dread, but have no actual complaints about the way the country is being run.
@#8 “Tao:
You mean “Freedom for Pals-of-Stein”?
Really?! I would have thought Ben Stein would have TONS of friends after his funny movie….
They havin’ “freedom problems” in Jersey? I got “friends” who can fix that.
Yeah.
We have two easily spotted morons at our rally of about 5000 tea partiers. We probably doubled last years attendance.
We put signs on them so the media could spot them, and sure enough they came and interviewed at least one of these clowns.
This past Wednesday, “Tax Day”, I was one of the thousands who gathered in front of the California State Capital in downtown Sacramento for a “Tea Party.” Maybe you saw me on the news? Unfortunately, as a “Tea Party Conservative,” I was sorely disappointed!
For those of you who don’t regularly watch the nightly news, or read the big city newspapers let me explain what a “Tea Party Conservative” is. We “Tea Partiers” are racist, homophobic, bible-thumping ‘gun-loving, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals just this side of crazy.
As a media-designated crazy, I arrived at the capital grounds with angry anti-government passion oozing from every pore. Imagine my disappointment when I found nary a hooded Klansman in sight. Nor were there any goose-stepping Nazis waving their swastikas while parading in front of the Capital steps. Instead, I was confronted by thousands of …of…ordinary Americans. I mean these were just plain folks. People from small towns and big cities. Retirees, working men and women, some with kids and grandkids. Many of them brought the family dogs along. Heck there were even people of color in the crowd – and darned if they weren’t being lynched!
And then there were the signs and banners! I mean, where was the “N-Word” and the “F-Word” the media had promised? Instead of the rampant hatred I so eagerly anticipated, all I saw were a bunch of boring screeds calling for a return to individual liberty, free enterprise, or controlled spending. Talk about a let down!
In desperation, I latched onto a TV-media crew. I figured that if anyone was gonna ferret out the real hatred that surely simmers just under the surface of these disgustingly wholesome people, the media would. Weren’t these the same media guys who, after months of ignoring members of the Tea Party Movement , then dismissing them as “mental morons”, have spent the past two months warning America of the Movement’s “dark side”. Wasn’t it the media who assured us that the tea party call for a return to “first principles”, the homage paid to the Constitution, the reverence for “American Exceptionalism” and the blind enthusiasm for American traditions, is really “code” for racist rage against a black man in the White House. I figured that if anyone was gonna expose the “real “Tea Party, these guys would.
So I tagged along looking in vain for all that uncontrolled anger. But no luck. These Tea Party people were so good at hiding their hatred; even the experts in hatred – the media – couldn’t crack the façade.
That’s when I spotted them. Just a handful, but they were there lurking in the shadows along the fringe of the huge crowd. One quick glance and you knew these certainly weren’t Tea Party types. No sir! Nothing disgustingly wholesome and all-American about the way they dressed. Then I recognized a few. These were the guys who were so darn busy, during the Bush years , marching in righteous protest of American “Imperialism..”
I recalled that during those “protest” marches, that the one guy over there held a sign that read “F**K Amerika!” The woman next to him held her favorite sign. That was the one calling for Bush’s death. That sign in particular stuck in my mind because it was so cleverly done. Maybe you remember it? It was a poster of the Republican president sporting a tasteful bullet-hole in his forehead,. I recall how she so lovingly had the blood and, presumably, the brains gushing down his face (assuming that Bush actually had any brains to gush in the first place.) Yeah, these were my kind of people! Like I said, none carried their cool signs on this particular day. But you could tell just by looking what lurked in their hearts. You could tell that these guys know what real hatred means. In fact, their hatred is so impressive, I’m actually thinking of chucking this Conservative thing, and joining their ranks. I just know I would fit right in!
entirely too hard and tedious to read when you don’t space or use paragraphs..sorry
I managed to read it. Yeah, it was a bit more difficult than if it had been double-spaced and put in a 18 point font, so what? That’s kinda similar to the whole point. Sometimes one has to chug through difficult things presented by others with differing points of view in order to learn where they really are coming from. Not all libs are total lemmingesque idiots on welfare nor are all conservatives knuckly dragging neanderthals with large trust funds.
Until we start learning from each other and really standing on those things that will remain, (like our Constitution)we will continue to slowly sink into third world status.
ehcuorg el racso,
A clear symptom of NYT deluded syndrome brought on by long-term readership and constantly designating oneself a “tea baggee”. You need to switch sides, or at the very least switch to being on top occasionally.
I guess the tea party crashers were too busy fornicating, doing drugs and intermittently reading Huffpo and watching MSNBC. Next year in the Castro District!
Sigh.
The good old days.
On a 6-lane street between downtown Los Angeles and Glendale, CA this afternoon, I noted with approval several young-ish people of different races demonstrating with a very large poster of Obama’s head with a Hitler mustache and the slogan “Impeach Obama NOW!” Cars driving by were honking in approval, which was a nice chnage from having to ignore the idjuts who are still out there occasionally waving their by-now raggedy banners about “Stop the War NOW!”
But now I’m wondering if they perhaps weren’t “crashers” of some sort, having their own mini-demonstration away from any Tea Party activities, and trying to be ugly with a picture of That Person with a Hitler mustache drawn on it. If that was the case, I wonder how they felt about cars honking in *support* of impeaching his skinny ass.
NahnCee, we’ve got pictures of similar posters from several sites — all of them have a reference to Lyndon LaRouche’s group in smaller type near the bottom. That doesn’t mean yours were LaRouche people for certain, but if they looked professionally produced that’s the way to bet.
but let the signs “speak” for themselves…the first one was a dig at “no child left behind” and it NOT being funded…the second was a dig at how Bush43 SAID the word incorrectly throughout his 2 terms…the 3rd sign is error free…the fourth?…then why not show a pic of him giving the “salute” or drinking…cuz it didn’t happen any more than that tea bagger spat on that black guy…
People unclear on the concept, indeed.
In Lansing, Michiganistan the turnout wasn’t as high as last year but it was reported (to great cheers) that a couple thousand people had shown up to kiss Bart Stupak goodbye in his far-flung district up north. Most of the speakers were really and truly quite terrific, and Pete Hoekstra stopped by to say thanks and offer his encouragement. There were a few progressives on hand; and with the exception of the LaDouche…errr…the LaRouche bunch, they were actually quite polite.
Photo gallery for the event may be viewed here: http://tinyurl.com/y3ue58z
Michiganistan. Bwahahahahahaha! Too true.
Nice pics. What a scary bunch of folks you have there in Michigan. (That was sarcasm, for those who haven’t seen Snark’s photos of kids, dogs and little old ladies…) Nice to see the media was in attendance. Remember in November! May Hoekstra follow in the footsteps of Scott Brown. Socialists beware. Be very, very afraid.
My favorite pic? Re-Elect No One…
It always seemed a bit strange to me that the Tea Party opposition, in am effort to show that the Tea Partiers were bigots and racists, had to manufacture racism and bigotry from their numbers.
@ Bruce Stein and Dave Smith: Will you guys Puleeze get a blog? These are called comments, not diatribes or tomes…
In a forum, you’d be banned. I’m just sayin…
@ Bruce Stein and Dave Smith:
Puleeze get your own blog. This is a comments section, not a diatribe section or a ‘Tome’ section. Bruce, in a regular forum, you’d be kicked off for posting all over the place. I’m just sayin’…
Oh and Oscar, methinks he doth project too much.
(no, it’s not a typo.)
Whatever you think of their politics, these “party crashers” you hold up as examples of deceitful, stupid and lacking a sense of irony all seem to have made funny and ironic signs openly protesting the tea party movement. If someone lacks a sense of humor or self-awareness, it is the author of this post, not these particular party crashers.
You seem to have completely missed the author’s point. He was illustrating that these “crashers’” ostensible purpose was to blend in with the crowd and be mistaken for an actual Tea Partier, while holding up some ridiculous sign that will further the media stereotype of real Partiers of being stupid racist rednecks and so forth.
Way to let that point go sailing over your head. The signs caused these people to stick out like sore thumbs. The “I have no idea” sign mocked herself, not those around her. Another stood in the middle of a bunch of antiwar protesters instead of the Tea Partiers, and a third said “Generic Angry Slogan.” As if anyone passing by, even the agenda-drive state-run media, would be foolish enough to confuse these impostors with the real deal.
This comes on top of the observation that the crashers’ behavior is despicable in the first place. It’s dishonest. You don’t further the goal of a free exchange of ideas and an honest discussion of government policy, by planting yourself in a crowd of the opposition, masquerading as one of them, and trying to discredit an entire movement by perpetuating a bunch of ugly stereotypes. You do it by engaging the Tea Partiers honestly, openly, with ideas of your own, in the proper formus – blog postings, writing to the editor of the New York Times, calling in to a TV or radio talk show, whatever. I find this sort of thing utterly reprehensible, and I don’t recall any conservatives engaged in this during all those ceaseless antiwar protests in 2003-2005 or so. (Those people already had ignorance to spare and didn’t need any pretenders in their ranks, apparently.)
Your response, meanwhile, is to label the crashers’ pathetic efforts “funny and ironic.” Sad, really. I don’t know what else to call it.
Let’s see…. protesters during the Obama sdministration are bad, but the protesters during the bush administration were noble and patriotic.
right….. gotcha
In our small town we had a nice rally at the band-shell in the park…maybe 500 in attendance. That site was too obscure for the infiltrators so they took their attack signs about 200 yards away to a main street. We were not visible from their location, hence their “protest” made no sense at all.
Meantime ONE protester with a sign did come through our group and got hassled until the MC interrupted the speaker and called the man to come to the stage with his sign. She calmly explained that we believe in the first amendment but that he was interrupting our meeting. She told him to give her his sign so she could read it. She read the sign, both sides, over the PA system. Handing back his sign she told him that now everyone knows what you think, step over to that table and you can read our literature on what we believe.
That totally defused the situation. No one could have designed a better approach to the intruder. Our meeting proceeded and predictably the ‘lone ranger’ got an interview with the Public Radio reporter on site.
Asked to come forward at the presentation of the colors it appeared that about one third of the crowd were military veterans who got a standing O.
Anyone with one sane cell left in their body will recognize the government and media induced stupidity of these “people”. We need to ignore party politics (read crimes against the boss) This is AMERICA, we need to stick up for it, not a political party. WE THE CITIZENS ARE THE EMPLOYERS, WE NEED TO QUIT HIRING IMMORAL IDIOTS TO ATTEMPT TO CONTROL US. tHE WHINING MINORITY DOES NOT RULE.
Ok This was just plain fun. I’m as amused at people threatened by this as by the posting itself. Thanks!
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Not to worry. We film these guys and post them on the internet. In many cases we are able to identify them.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.” — Author Unknown
What is it with mostly white twenty somethings who predominated in this meager attempts? Could it be they really have very empty lives, are filed with insecurity and are striving to be “relevant” and “make a difference”? You know, those twin virtues that are cliches and are really code words for left wing activism. I encountered one such speciman, a female, on my way to the car at the DC protest. There she was telling her male companion in a loud voice that everyone who had attended was a racist. She was just a robot, programmed to respond to certain stimuli a certain way and couldn’t deal with the facts. She is the victim of left wing control freaks and is oblivious to the fact that she has been stripped of all human dignity for she no longer belongs to HERSELF. The antics of so many you watch on these videos highlights young people who are too stupid to understand how their spirits and souls have long departed and they have traded their humanity for the thought that if they parrot their perceived betters, they are better than everyone who does not. Emptiness and vanity were on display in many parts of the country on April 15. It was painful to witness and I wonder if the day will ever come when they snap out of it and understand how, far from being iconoclastic and cool, they are merely tools of the establishment.
Let’s do the math shall we ? Tea Party crashers =’s Useful Idiots !! Class dismissed.
Buck
Enjoyed the postings, but especially the signs!
Where have these young people been drinking?
Are there more like them drinking the same stuff?
I don’t mean alcohol, I mean something that changes
their brains from thinkers to brainless followers!
#17 OSCAR LE DOUCHE(bag) You admit to reading the NY Times,(a comicbook for crypto stalinists with 4th grade reading levels),and have the gall to call PJmers idiots? This is the rag whose resident slime slinger,Frank Rich proclaimed EMINEM a genius!No wonder the TIMES slimes tea partiers as feeling “existential dread”:it’s a classic case of projection;if I wrote for a discredited ,impotent and moribund crypto stalinist rag , I would definitely feel existentially challenged.As you do yourself,DOUCHEBAG,the TEA PARTY and the cultural counterrevolution it embodies is mobilizing to excise 40 years of oppressive and virulent statist tumors from the body politic.You may actually have to move to Cuba ;your little world is beginning to go the way the Berlin wall.
“crypto stalinist” – clearly you have no capacity for original thought, silly parrot.
CD:CURE YOUR CRYPTO VD!