The ‘Crash’ That Burned
Our tipsy medical administrative assistant in Chicago aside, it appears that tea party crashers simply aren’t showing up in the numbers that Democrats hoped for … or for that matter, showing up as anything resembling competent crashers at all.
The self-conscious and smug hipsters profiled earlier and their erratic, pimply allies in the “pea party” movement (singing, with tedious predictability, “give peas a chance”) hung around the fringes of yesterday’s gathering in Boston, but were by no means infiltrators. If anything, Boston has provided us with something of a poster child for the failure of the “Crash the Tea Party” initiative, a man PJTV tipster Rick Lippencott captured cavorting around in an Uncle Sam costume with a red ball rubber nose, holding up a toy gun, and mocking the Second Amendment.
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Instead of creating images of bigotry, they showed themselves to be clowns.
It wasn’t this pathetic everywhere, of course, and there was action outside of Boston and Chicago. Take Salt Lake City, for example.
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Jenni Dansie found this group of “No Tea, No Party” protesters off by themselves, apparently the victims of an overzealous black tee shirt salesman. Note the group’s body language as it focuses on a man in a blue button-down shirt who came over to talk to them, like gazelles frozen in front of an oxford-wearing Mormon leopard.
But the simple fact of the matter is that the “crash” never materialized in any meaningful way. The plot was a bust. The only thing approaching successful infiltration was a real tea party supporter in Lansing, MI, who posed as a member of the “Crash” movement expressly to mock them.
“LOOK MOM! EYE KRASHED DA TEE PARTIE!!” Indeed. Other than the odd handful of LaRouche supporters comparing The One to Adolf, this, too, was the kind of respectful, hopeful tea party turnout we’ve come to expect.
Does somebody know how to say “too dumb for Alinsky” in russian?
“slishkom tup dlya Alinskiĭ” Romanization
“слишком туп для Алинский”
слишком туп для Алинский
Elize, Babelfish delivers this for ya-
слишком тупоумно для Alinsky
Heh.
Folks, mea culpa, I trashed a couple of pieces in Cyrillic that seemed to be spam before I caught on.
All my fault, sorry.
“slishkom tup dlya Alinskiĭ”?
That sounds right.
Well, a new anti-crasher sign is born!
One wonders exactly what these delusional fools believe.
Do they actually believe that the tea partiers are racists (or anarchists or just plain morons) and will reveal their “true colors” by gravitating to and supporting these “crashers” once they appear at a tea party? If so — and they still believe it after yesterday — then their delusional condition is bordering on psychotic.
Or do they believe that by faking the existence of a tiny percentage of racists in the tea parties — a dozen or so individuals out of thousands of others — will somehow mean the votes of all those thousands won’t count come November? That would seem to take “wishful thinking” to a new level of lunacy.
It’s pathetic enough that these people have no actual, legitimate arguments to offer in favor of their positions on the issues and thus must resort to the lame fallacy of ad hominems hurled at the tea partiers. But it is way, way beyond pathetic to believe that the ad hominem becomes a valid argument if one merely goes into public and pretends to be what the ad hominem claims.
These people are pitiful.
It’s more that they know, in their heart of hearts, the Tea Partiers are racist, homophobic, etc. but are smart enough to hide it.
So their goal is show the rest of the world what they (the crashers) already know. And if that involves manufacturing the evidence, no big deal. They are doing it for a noble cause, which they believe justifies any deceit.
Yup. “Fake but accurate.”
Depending on context,either
Слишком тупой для Алинского
or (probably more correct for a sign)
Слишком туп для Алинского
Notice that you have to use “Alinskogo” here
LOL!
Let this be how the Left goes down in the history books.
Let this be the Left’s epitaph: Epic Fail!
How about too dumb to know how dumb they are.
Love that one.
The ignorance of the college kids is what gets me the most. Pathetically ignorant, inept, brainwashed. Could not earn a slice of bread if these lives depended on it, and still not interested in this great land of ours. Like a little child – “I want that!!!!”.
Hooray for the motorcycle club, what a great response! The next two national elections just cannot come fast enough.
An Instapundit reader tells of a Pittsburgh Tea Party that saw some people walking by yelling, among other things, “traitors!”.
I pondered. Consider that no small number of people called the orginal Boston Tea Partiers “traitors”. And consider the kind of governance that the original traitor-callers supported in that case, vs the very issues that the original tea partiers were in fact protesting and opposing.
If today’s tea partiers be treasonous, by all means, make the most of it. And I am would be most curious to see a poll of just how many people vituperatively opposed to them in fact have not the slightest clue what the term “Tea Party” is referring to to start with.
слишком тупо для Alinsky
I second LeighB. The club seems to have embraced the Tea Party movement wholeheartedly.
I’ve been puzzling over how best to cope with provocateurs who seek to smear Tea Party gatherings.
The problem boils down to defeating such folks — and discouraging more attempts — while avoiding ugly confrontation for media distortion.
The ideal strategy may have emerged magically from distant childhood memories. I remembered a cruel trick from grade school. The class would simply, almost as one, get up and move away from some hapless victim as if he’d let a big one! The target, embarrassed, would try to move back into the cover of the crowd, only to have everyone move away from him again, making the spotlight brighter.
That strikes me as an ideal answer for Tea Party miscreants … with the added benefit of spoiling any media videos of extremist behavior in the midst of Tea Party protesters!
Dirty tricks on dirty tricksters. There’s some sweet irony in that!
Or we could all keep a purple SEIU shirt handy and, after a dozen or so don it, go beat the crap out of the infiltrator. Two can play the make ‘EM look bad game.
Fantom <—- Infiltrator
I think the motorcycle club has the right idea – we’re patriots, after all. I always come with a very large American flag. One guy at our gathering had one of those telescopic poles (I use one to clean my 2nd floor windows). A line of flags in the breeze will cover a lot of area.
If you want to engage rather than wallpapering a counter-protest, feel free. We all support the 1st Amendment. I discovered it was important to have all my talking points ready beforehand.
They’re all white people. Astonishing.
You simply dont get it!
Of course its racist to have an white-only, subversive counter-protests, but, but, but they only do thaaaat to expose the racism of the tea-parties, which are white-only as well, as long as its dark and you dont see them! Racism is bad, but sometimes you need to fight fire with fire and thats why sometimes racism is less bad and when Harry Reid says “negro accent” for example, its only because he wants health care reform and, and, and because he wants change and you, you dont want reform and change and you are racist and white-only at night and soooooooo its okay for Harry to be racist if he fights anti-healthcare racists like you (at night).
Its soooooooo obvious but stupid right-wingers dont get it again! Well whatever…
Racist, n. Someone who is winning an argument with a Leftist.
I’m surprised this old truism isn’t getting more play…
Reminds me of the fun we had with protest warrior back in 04-05, infiltrating the protests outside the RNC in new york, seeing the lefty chumps looking confused at our signs was a riot, and no harm done, only one traffic cone chucked at my head, and the NYPD were very good to us
I was there! Good times, good times….
Democrats posing as rascists?
That’s comedy gold!
I suspected that they would be brave enough to try to be real ‘infiltrators’ since they knew they wouldn’t be able to keep up the pretense if anyone engaged them in a conversation. How long would it take for one to slip and say ‘tea ba****s’ instead of Tea Party members, supporters or just Patriots? Would 5 seconds be too generous?
So far it appears none of the intellectual giants that showed up know what ‘infiltrate’ means. They look more like counter protestors than T Party supporters. Of course we can count on the LSM to not use them to paint the left as a bunch of idiots.
I was at the Sacramento event at the Capitol. We had a crasher. At least I assume he was a crasher. He was running around the grounds shouting at the top of his voice and there were Tea Party people following and recording him. Couldn’t understand a word he was saying (shouting). Later there was more shouting from behind the podium and all the cops went running. Other than that, there were a few counter protesters on street corners off the Capitol grounds holding signs that said things like “we need solutions, not shouting” and “Obama is a good man.” All-in-all, pretty lame.
Sacramento was an excellent event. Good crowd, good music, terrific speakers (really fine). There was also a candidates’ section which was fun. This year, every Sacramento media outlet had a truck there. Last year, it was FNC and PJTV. What a difference a year makes.
Best sign I saw in Boston – a young college age male holding up a poster that said “We are ignorant and don’t know what we are talking about.” There was nothing else to say….
OMG you should have gotten his picture and posted it..
From Haavahd, no doubt.
No leftist clowns showed up at our tea party. I had a flip camera to catch them if they did, but my net is empty. Just as well…don’t need them at the tea party, don’t need them in Congress, don’t need them in the White House.
Just got back from the NYC event (it went from 7 to 9pm). About 20 counter-protesters, no crashers. One guy yelled out during one speech, “Obama, show us your birth certificate!” Everyone shushed him. He didn’t look like a crasher, just a a boor. That was it, as far as I could see, and I walked all over.
“LOOK MOM! EYE KRASHED DA TEE PARTIE!!”
There are two scenarios for this ‘un:
Idiot crasher identifying himself as a crasher and then misspelling words on purpose thinking he was making the tea partiers look bad? rotfl
OR
An even cleverer tea partier who decided to infiltrate the infiltrators with signs making the infiltrators look like morons. LMFAO X 3!
Delia, do you have 3 a**es?
Just kiddin’!
But frankly, I’ll take door #1 ‘cuz they are that dumb and I don’t think a Partier would waste the time, even though it’d be worth buyin’ the guy a beer.
Another thing I noticed, how come there’s no libiots here? Rightfully embarrassed as a whole, I imagine.
Sometimes, life is really good!
No Libiots? Leftists hardly ever comment on posts that will most assuredly embarrass them.
My either/or was basically stating that Tea-Partiers are smarter than the Leftist goons and I could totally see someone being a counter-counter protester making the counter protesters look bad too. Tit for tat. lol
Idiot crasher identifying himself as a crasher and then misspelling words on purpose thinking he was making the tea partiers look bad?
Sounds like a college level prank — and blatantly out front about it at that. The only thing missing was the winking.
I’m just home from my local tea party too. No crashers; one drunk infiltrator, but honestly, he’s the town drunk, so not sure if that counts. He slurred something and moved on.
I’m kinda disappointed; I was all ramped up for a fight (hyperbole, trolls, hyperbole). Maybe they’ll get their acts together by July 4. Anyone see the story about Obama referred to the tea parties today at a fundraiser in Miami. He said, “I’ve been a little amused over the last couple of days where people have been having these rallies about taxes,” the president said, noting the numerous tax cuts pushed by his administration. “You would think they’d be saying thank you.” (I got this from a story on foxnews.com)
ROTFL PBO. I think we are saying something else that ends in “ck” regarding your taxes thank you very much.
Also,
we need to keep tabs on Jason Levin, the “crash the tea party” middle school teacher!!
Beaverton School District says that “what happens during off-hours is a teacher’s business” and it seems they are not concerned .
He “twitters” ALL DAY….soooooooo he’s doing it on the state’s dime!!
He’s inciting the public..and obviously influencing young minds..
He will be back with more help…keep him in mind.
Gracie, you might be interested in this story in the Beaverton News.
Personally, I think he’s entitled to
make as ass of himselfsay anything he likes on his own time. If he was pushing his web site during school hours, that’s apparently against school policy.Not when he is promoting unrest…
also, if he was a KKK member, or a hundred other things, and twittering and kickin with that, they would pay attention,
..even after work, but reports say he states he twitters all day… So all day must be during school…
Funny part is, he probably would have gotten away with asigning a “trash the Tea Party” project to the students.
Well I have a short video of the Apple Valley, CA Tea Party that I need to upload tomorrow that didn’t have any counter protesters or infiltraitors. Just normal folks voicing thier opinions with interesting reactions from drivers going by.
All I can say , ( THE DUMB LEADING THE DUMB)
A couple of alleged Nazis showed up for the Santa Fe tea party. Their effort was lame, and they were quickly marginalized without incident.
A homeless lady held a sign claiming that the IRS paid for her wheelchair. Full disclosure: I know her personally. She’s harmless. I engaged her in conversation after the rally. She said that people were really nice to her, and better educated than the redneck crowd she expected.
Sorry that I can’t claim something more dramatic, but that’s the rather mundane sum of it all.
Thank you, this is just a test.
I did not get a chance to see any crasher today, but I would be tempted to give them a big smile and offer a handshake and a big “welcome, brother!” That may be enough to scare some of them away. If any of them accepts the greeting, then a conversation may be possible. Just tell them you are curious about whether they’d be happy to eat “free” government-baked bread after private bakeries are run out of business. If they say something like “I never thought about it”, there is still hope.
@Paules –
I actually find your comment comforting. Yet another example that conservatives aren’t mean and hateful and selfish. If this has been a lib protest, I be she would have been treated worse for sure.
But the simple fact of the matter is that the “crash” never materialized in any meaningful way. The plot was a bust.
There was no plot, genius. At the worst was a handful of college kids mining for comedy gold.
Meanwhile the “leftist” media was nice —
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/baycitynews/a/2010/04/15/TeaPartyrally15.DTL&tsp=1
Note that Pleasanton sits in a nexus that ought to have been a big draw given the humongous population, and it drew few people. The PARTY was the bust.
Did we read the same article? It says “thousands” attended. What’s interesting is the left wing SF Chronicle didn’t bother to send anybody to report on the rally. It used a brief local wire story. But I guess the tea baggers — the left’s term of choice — should feel grateful any notice was taken.
Did we read the same article? It says “thousands” attended.
It did say that. Maybe you have to live or work there to get it. That area physically is at a crossroads and is a natural meeting point for upwards of a million people. The rally drew fewer people than the local flea markets. At that location a midget changing a tire could draw a bigger crowd than that. Any political “movement” with big names ought to draw at least 10x of what it did. The low turnout indicates a ridiculously low voter sympathy despite what partiers want to believe.
Alston claims:
The low turnout indicates a ridiculously low voter sympathy despite what partiers want to believe.
Poll after poll shows that the majority disapproves of the healthcare “reform” bill and want it repealed. Repeat: polls consistently show the majority want the healthcare bill repealed.
So what on earth makes you think there is “ridiculously low voter sympathy” for the tea party viewpoint? Do you just ignore data to the contrary.
Well, go ahead, dream on.
Poll after poll shows that the majority disapproves of the healthcare “reform” bill and want it repealed.
Non sequitor. The tea party isn’t about the health care bill.
Rather than repeat basic things, read what I told Charlie Martin in the other thread –
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/exposing-the-party-crashers-the-big-day/#comment-514278
Poll data is consistent with my observations, not your spin.
We’re talking about the kind of people who re-elect Nancy Pelosi with huge margins. Not exactly a crowd likely to be sympathetic with the goals of the Tea Partiers.
Alston asserted:
Non sequitor. The tea party isn’t about the health care bill.
You don’t know what you are talking about. If you asked 1,000 people at a tea party protest whether or not the healthcare bill is a prime example of what they are protesting, you’d get about 990 “yes” answers.
It is true that the Tea Party is not SOLELY and EXCLUSIVELY about the healthcare bill, but the healthcare bill is very much symbolic of precisely what has motivated the Tea Partiers for the last year: the looting of our wealth through Obama’s massive increase in government spending and the destruction of our freedoms by the extension of government’s control over our lives.
There are many of us that could not attend. We were busy working to pay taxes to support the non workers of this nation.
However, we will be attending the 2010 vote, even if by absentee ballot
Some yahoo at the Spokane, WA Tea Party showed up with a sign that read “It’s quite possible that Gore Vidal is gay”. I walked by him and gave him a look as if to say, “what the what?” He just smiled a stupid smug smile and shrugged. He didn’t stick around long. Pathetic. Epic Fail!
TEA Party Poll
Just as a ham sandwich can be indicted with a little effort, any poll can be skewed depending on the pre-conceived notions of the poll takers, the wording of the questions, the tone of the questioners, etc.
With that in mind, when a political poll is conducted by CBS News and the New York Times it’s immediately suspect. When the subject of that poll is the participants in the TEA Party phenomenon now sweeping the nation, one should always take the results with a hefty grain of salt.
Nevertheless, the results are interesting even given the decidedly leftist nature of the pollsters.
Based on 1580 respondents in a random telephone sample. of whom 56% were TEA Party supporters, the poll was conducted April 5th-12th. Some of the highlights: . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1632)
Don’t click the link. It’s an attack page according to my security software.
Where does the 56% figure come from?
It’s not an attack page…”
“teleprompter for sale…leans left”….etc
tea party is a national movement that is very effective. even the smart-aleky potus comments on them. he knows what success the movement is doing throughout america. agusta maine, the belly of the beast, was a huge success. the media pukes tried desperately to find nasty infiltrators disguised as tea party folk acting up but they were isolated on the fringes only. honest efforts like the tea party are the most difficult to besmirch, even with bad actors.
There was a very very small counter-protest at the Morristown, NJ Tea Party. They were maybe 6 or 7 Drew University students with anti-war signs.
I noticed them not from the signs but their greasy hair and goth clothes – then checked out their signs. They didn’t look too happy about being outnumbered 200 to 1.
Ironically, they were standing next to the statues of Washington, Lafayette, and Hamilton on the Morristown Green.
That New York Times poll shows just how deeply rooted institutional racism is in this country. We must reflect on our doctrinal errors. If the party leadership finds this is insufficient, we must volunteer to help bring in the crops.
Ah,what?
There were two loud-mouths at the St. Charles, MO Tea Party, but our Lieutenant Governor, Peter Kinder, just spoke over them. They succeeded only in making fools of themselves. Another one made the mistake of trying to capitalize on a picture of a National Cemetery; I shut her up when I said, “You’re offending me; my husband is buried there.”
Later in the day in Clayton, MO a different one appeared in a nazi-type shirt. He was covered by “not one of us” people and one of our favorite bloggers, Sharp Elbows, and was chastised to the point where he skulked off like the low-life he was. Why do these people do these ridiculous things.
Hilarious incident at the Ann Arbor protest yesterday: the speaker pumped up the crowd about voting out every last Democrat and then holding the Republicans’ feet to the fire, and the counter-protesters erupted, “Yes we can!” They were shouting, “Yes we can!” to the idea of voting out all the Democrats!
At the Freedom Plaza rally in DC there was a guy dressed as a monk holding a sign saying — well ,never mind what it actually said, let’s just say he was in Westboro Baptist mode and fooling nobody — and — I swear I am not making this up — a guy in ghilly suit and a sort of ceramic ox-head helmet thing with horns. Think ‘ancient Babylon meets Soldier of Fortune’ and you’ll have it. He/it just kind of sat there. It must have been pretty hot in that suit, too hot to get up and protest the lunacy of the teaba**ers I guess.
No crashers worthy of the name (ha!) at the Washington Monument rally unless you count the people holding up the “Thanks for the tax cut” sign. Pro tip: Make sure your crasher sign can be easily distinguished from mockery.
In the D/FW Tea Party held in Grand Prairie, I think we only had one protester who was being followed around by Tea Partiers. He was saying we were all crazy, but that was all I heard. I think this turnout was lower than last year, but I could be wrong. The event organizers even went out of their way to have legal immigrants from Vietnam and Mexico speak at the event, I guess to show we aren’t racists. I’m personally sick of all the talk, because it sounds like a lot of whining and complaining to me. Why don’t we just physically remove these idiots from office and tar and feather them? Like our Founding Fathers did, because it sure took a lot less for them to take up arms and rebel.
LaRouche supporters? Man, they were kicked out of democratic politics 40 years ago…
Folks, if you think left wing democrats are bad (ok, you do…lol) these LaRouche supporters make them look like mom.s apple pie, trust me. I remember the LaRouche types back in their heyday (60.s and 70.s). They have not changed for the better..over the years, trust me. Actually, there are some on the far, far right that might like what they propose for law and order tactics…I really thought they had left the scene years ago, but it appears they are back. I remember one of thier candidates in the midwest about 25 years ago saying that if/where they found drug dealing on main streets of big urban cities they would support “rolling tanks and spraying bullets” to clean them out. Man, those folks were something else. I just hope the t-party folks stand way clear of them….they are definately from another planet. Beware !!
We liberals sooo want the Tea Party movement to flourish. The thought of all these wackjobs huddled together complaining about EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN combined with Palin running for President as a republican… whoaa get me another beer honey hah!
Liberals DO want the Tea Party to succeed. The ones calling them “wackjobs” are Leftists.
Don’t be confusing the two.
I can see somebody has got their brain in gear and is cruising in fifth, well said ” Seerak “,.
The Tea Party and Sarah Palin…it’s like Christmas and New Years for liberals- on the same day! You wackjobs have no ideas… it’s all no no no! You sat back for 8 years and watched Dubya dismantle the economy but didn’t utter a peep as long as he kept up the smoke and mirrors act with the tax rebates, stock market scams and interest rate snookery. You sheeple let this happen but now you don’t want to pay the price after the fact. Too bad… you dummies got what you deserved!
Calling folks ” sheeple ” is just plain wrong and offensive and the following remark is vindictive ” Too bad… you dummies got what you deserved! “, you make yourself sound like an arrogant aggressive snob. There is a recognition in the Tea Party movement that the Washington beltway is being dominated by special interests and this is damaging the US at all levels and many folks in the Tea Party movement are critical of the Bush administration and for good reason.
One of these days liberals will be issued a new set of lies.
Today apparently, is not that day.
Looks like Jason Levin is going to have plenty of time to ponder his 15 minutes of fame:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i6z-jvV_nO2EMPxGArNaDAH8bWOgD9F3TB900
Tim:
Do you realize that you’re proving what most people think of the Left when you come on to a site like this, not to debate ideas, but to attack? Uh…it doesn’t make your side look too emotionally mature.
I feel like a traitor, I missed the local tea party. I had to go with my son to explore a prospective university. We had presentations one of which had to to with tuition and room/board. One young man asked a question which tipped me and I said you’re a Republican. At first he wouldn’t admit it to me until I confessed that I was missing the tea party. There was instant recognition and mutual appreciation. Another young man we were talking to was representing the school in some form. When we got around to talking about student housing, he explained that he was living in a multicultural group at the dorm. That’s when l asked him if they taught him how horrible he was and how responsible he was for all the world’s ills because he was white. His face instantly blossomed into an ear to ear smile. He replied, well they tried. Enough said. G-d bless you all and keep up the good work!
Michael Smith — If you asked 1,000 people at a tea party protest whether or not the healthcare bill is a prime example of what they are protesting, you’d get about 990 “yes” answers.
If you asked 1,000 people who don’t attend tea parties what tea party protesters are protesting, you’d get about 990 “Obama” answers.
And before you cite polls again, that people may not be in love with the health care bill for various reasons doesn’t make them your fellow travelers. Lots of people are against the implementation, not the idea. Lots of people are against the partisanship and lack of leadership, but not necessarily the idea of health care reform.
If you asked 1,000 people who don’t attend tea parties what tea party protesters are protesting, you’d get about 990 “Obama” answers.
So what? The issue at hand is your assertion that, “The tea party isn’t about the health care bill”. You expect me to believe what the non-tea partiers say about that issue as opposed to what I’ve seen and heard with my own eyes and ears at the tea parties? No thanks.
And yes, I’m aware that not all of those opposed to Obamacare are against the very idea of healthcare reform. Indeed, many tea partiers hold that reform is very necessary — but they don’t want “reform” that consists of a massive new injection of the very poison that has made us sick, namely, government intrusion and intervention in the healthcare market — they want reform that consists of repealing at least the most destructive and cost-inflating of those government intrusions.
There are even some who are opposed to Obamacare on the grounds that it doesn’t go “far enough” and include a “public option”.
Even so, if — in the face of 58% of the voters wanting Obamacare repealed — you want to go on believing that the tea partiers have “ridiculously low voter sympathy” — feel free to so believe.
We’ll see in November.
“Hooray for the motorcycle club, what a great response! ”
Really too bad…that’s all it was. Normally…a biker club would have no problems…bending them over a bar stool….something like in the well received movie in San Francisco….”Loving Fudge Packers”.
How do you fit four tea paarty infil-TRAITORS on a bar stool?
Well … ya have one biker…turn it upside down!