Today We Are One: Photos from the Tea Party’s One-Year Anniversary
Exactly one year ago, the “Tea Party” movement was born.
Though there is no exact date marking the precise emergence of the Tea Party movement, everyone agrees that it coalesced sometime in late February, 2009, in response to the massive government spending program called “The Stimulus Bill.” Since that time, the Tea Party movement has grown to stand in opposition to “Big Government” in all its forms, and in commemoration of its one-year anniversary, several cities hosted Tea Party Birthday Parties on Saturday. This post is a photo safari to the various BirthTea Parties around the country.
New York
Urban Infidel covered the New York birthday party and brought home these pictures:
St. Louis
Gateway Pundit featured coverage of Saturday’s party in St. Louis, where 1,500 people gathered at the foot of the Gateway Arch:
Temecula, California
The American Power Blog documented the festivities in Temecula in southern California, where a small BirthTea Party erupted on Saturday. Attendees including the dreaded Tax Zombie (no relation):
What a great photo collection of creative Tea-Party signage, Zombie!
Some of my favs:
“I don’t belong to the party of ‘NO’. I’m with the party of ‘HELL NO!’”
“Redistribute my work ethic!”
“Doesn’t matter what my sign says. The press will call it racist!”
For a REAL ‘astroturfing front group’ for progressives/liberals pushing Obamacare and trash talking the TEA party movement, google this group–”Coffee Party USA”–they’re very sneaky, aren’t they, trying to slip under the radar as a ‘grassroots’ group? The ‘founder’ Annabel Park has already been outed by a FReeper as “a Democratic Party political operative who was featured in the Washington Post previously as part of “Asian Americans for Obama”-http://www.asianamericansforobama.com/wash-post-article-featuring-annabel-park-dave-kumar
An astroturfing liberal by any other name!! LOL.
enjoyed the pix very much!
re Pelosi: she’s reached new heights of hypocrisy. in addition to saying the Tea Party is astroturf, she also says, AT THE SAME TIME, that she really agrees with a lot of what the Tea Party stands for. amazing.
Mrs. Pelosi will you please tell us exacatly what you do agree with in the TEA PARTIES??
we will be happy to tell you what we do ‘not’
agree with in OBAMA’s plan!
My photos from Dallas:
http://s951.photobucket.com/albums/ad352/JustAlBlogger/Dallas%20Tea%20Party%20February%202010/
[IMG]http://i951.photobucket.com/albums/ad352/JustAlBlogger/Dallas%20Tea%20Party%20February%202010/Untitled_Panorama2.jpg[/IMG]
Ahh – I knew that Annabel Park and the Coffee Party most probably were some kind of astroturf, and a follow-up to the “Tea Party is Over” website effort.
Their local chapter (assembled from all the progressives they could round up in San Antonio and Boerne) came to the San Antonio Tea Party one-year rally, last Sunday. They were noisy – but essentially lame, and didn’t have the stamina to keep it up for more than an hour. Forty people (at best) and a lamoid with a bullhorn who kept shouting accusatory questions about racism through the hedge at the Sunset Station, while the SATP was basically holding a town meeting, while a number of candidates for local office were talking.
About forty people, to judge from their own posted videos – heck, our worst-attended protest over the last year had about that many attending.
8. JustAl: “My photos from Dallas:…”
Thanks for the tip — I just updated the post with a link to your photo set from Dallas.
9. Sgt Mom: “… the San Antonio Tea Party one-year rally, last Sunday….”
Do you have a link to any online photos of that event?
These are some really great photos from the most important political movement of the 21st Century. Thanks for all PJTV has done this past year to support the cause of freedom! –MJ.
Nice to see you here, Zombie. Your photo compilations are Z-best.
I love that the Brits are having a tea party too. That just makes my day.
“…you repeat a falsehood enough times, it becomes true.”
Actually, you repeat a falsehood enough times, it becomes true to some of the people, specifically, the brainless.
Or you don’t need to fool all of the people all of the time, just fool some of the people some of the time …
9. Sgt Mom:…essentially lame, and didn’t have the stamina to keep it up for more than an hour.
Er, one hour pay for one hour protest.
Not a brown face in the bunch LOL
Just because you believe it don’t make it so:
http://jonathanturley.org/2010/02/20/poll-one-third-of-texans-believe-men-once-co-existed-with-dinosaurs-and-over-one-third-believe-that-man-was-created-by-god-10000-years-ago-without-evolution/
BTW, where all da black people at?
16. skeeziks:
“BTW, where all da black people at?”
What part of the word ‘minority’ don’t you understand, brah?
God Bless these Great Americans!!!!!!
Support the Stupak Amendment……………NO taxpayer funded abortions
poison pill number one on the Democratic Deathmarch that is ObamaCare.
16. Ronnie: “Not a brown face in the bunch LOL”
17. skeeziks: “BTW, where all da black people at?”
Absolutely amazing. These trolls can look directly at pictures of black people, and then say, “I don’t see any black people!” What, do you think we’re blind? What purpose does stating the opposite of reality serve? Talk about “the Big Lie.”
Look, get it through your heads: When the Democrats come up with outrageously false talking points (i.e. “The Tea Party movement is 100% white”) that is intended solely as a TV sound bite to be accompanied by carefully chosen imagery which excludes all the non-white participants, to (theoretically) fool the uninformed masses, that’s par for the course, MSM-propaganda-wise. But when we’re sitting here looking at raw citizen-generated pictures of non-white people at Tea Party rallies, then you brainlessly repeating the outrageously false talking points only makes you look not just like a fool but like a completely noxious and malicious agent. Wise up by shutting up — unless you somehow enjoy the pain of shooting yourself in the foot repeatedly, like a political pervert who gets his thrill from public masochism.
Oh, and in case you wonder what I’m talking about, I’m referring to the non-white people in the pictures above, such as…
Two black guys
Black guy
Asian woman and black guy
Asian guy
Black zombie (heh)
Asian woman
…among others. And if you click through to the full reports from which these photos were taken, you’ll find many more minorities shown to be at Tea Party events.
I spent five years photographing left-wing rallies, and they were just as “white”, percentage-wise, as the Tea Party events. So you can keep repeating your childishly transparent lies if you so choose, but all it will earn you is derision.
Hi, Zombie – we posted a picture gallery on our website, http://www.sanantonioteaparty.us – there’s a set here http://www.sanantonioteaparty.us/1584/pictures-sunset-station-21-february/ and another gallery here http://www.sanantonioteaparty.us/xangel/index.html
Enjoy!
Why do liberals always obsess about blacks? Does it not count unless a black person says it? That’s racist my friend. The rest of us didn’t even notice one way or the other.
By the way, I never visit liberal blogs. Don’t you guys have anything better to do?
Here’s a cause that the Republicans should take up:
THE WAY to Really Call The Democrats’ Bluff and Save Us in the Process
Barak Obama just wants to give granny a pain killer, not treat her condition. And the state of Oregon would rather assist suicide than give one of its residents cancer treatments/medications.
In response, here’s what we do:
Introduce and pass legislation that would prevent the Federal government, or any of its agencies, from harming us, killing us, or otherwise prevent us from receiving life-preserving treatment, as a matter of its operating any sort of health care system.
Push for a constitutional amendment. Really raise as much stink as possible.
Credit Rose Pappas, senior citizen, Chicago, Illinois.
Let’s get behind this. I have a premium membership with Rush and have already emailed him. If you have access to Glenn Beck and/or Sean Hannity and/or Mark Levin through premium membership, please email them.
Also, if any of you are friends with Congressmen or Senators, please copy them.
21. Zombie:
ZZZZZZZZZ, don’t get so angry. The monochromatic tendencies of the right are on display with disturbing regularity. Perhaps you’ve forgotten the Republican National Convention. Don’t deny who and what you are. You want so desperately to be seen as a cross-section of America, but you’re not. You can claim there are just as many Democrats and Republicans in the Tea Bagger movement, just as you claimed there were 2 million people in DC on 9/12. Not even close.
Focus on your truths, not your lies. It’s the only way to reach the Promised Land.
17. skeeziks:
Just because you believe it don’t make it so:
Ahh yes. Another non-sequiter due to lack of ability to rationally and coherently address the topic at hand.
Given your brown nose (dont worry, Obamao has top notch proctological care that you will never see once his health scam passes) and the red ring around them lips, you’re the party of Kool-aid. Elvis vs the Stimulus Enlighten us, which of these two are you?
I am wondering how many are willfully ignorant of this: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Brokow+explains+Canada+Americans/2627850/story.html
especially the video link at the bottom of the page.
Mental note to 16. Ronnie, 17. skeeziks and to all the other leftists: It’s difficult to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Your lack of respect for your opponent in civil discourse doesn’t help you or your belief in your “leaders’”. Communism, Socialism, Fascism all fail and continue to fail every time and everywhere they’re tried. “The problem with Socialism is”, as Margret Thatcher once said, “you run out of other peoples’ money.” The difference between socialism and capitalism is: Capitalists know how to make money, Socialists know how to spend it. I’d rather be in the first group, because there’s more competition there. With more competition, prices go down, wealth goes up, supplies go up, demand goes down and everybody wins, that is, those that win understand capitalism.
Besides, Americans already tried communism and it nearly killed all those that tried it. Hint: Jamestown.
Know your history to navigate your future.
David W. Lincoln: Your superior intellect is too sharp for me. Please explain what it was in the story about Tom Brokaw you wondered about? If it was general knowledge about the nation known as Canada I thought it informative for second graders, but if it was meant for adults it seemed condescending.
And I thought the video link regarding nude vacations was supercilious. Did I misunderstand or was there another link to which you referred?
49erDweet, I have defended free trade amongst those who champion “Buy America”. They simply do not get, either because they do not want to get how much the US is dependent upon trade, or it simply didn’t occur to them.
It smacks of the episode where Axelrod went to the Canadian consulate in Chicago and let the folks there know that it is only politics that the then candidate Obama was engaging in, when he wanted free trade to be renegotiated.
Plus, how many adults in the US actually bothered to find out that Canada is the largest supplier of oil to the US? Because, just because oil is sold to the US, doesn’t mean that oil can’t be
sold elsewhere.
Plus, why is it that a certain segment of the US political arena is allowed to get away with the charge that the US unilaterally moved into Afghanistan and Iraq? Don’t words mean anything to anyone?
So, to those who consider themselves to be part of the Tea Party Brigades, if you want to close the borders to what is currently imported by the US, borders can be closed so that US exports will not enter other countries. For, if the US is thinking that by expanding exports they can get themselves out of the mess caused by arrogance, as detailed in “Check the numbers” by McKitrick & McCullough – the US had better be careful how it treads. For when
toes are tread upon, a colder reception is in the offing.
To those who demonize the Tea Party Brigades, the warning is this:
You are in a tunnel, and the light you see isn’t daylight.
Add a black woman at the left of the photo with the arch. She is wearing a black coat over something purple (sweater?), next to a woman in something fuzzy and pink.
“BTW, where all da black people at?”
Since we made the “liberal” Democrats quit enslaving black people and controlling them with Jim Crow laws, black people are free to go where they please. It’s none of our business where they are, so we don’t track their movements.
If they want to go to a tea party protest, they can. If they don’t want to, they don’t have to. It’s called freedom.
Don’t bother thinking about the concept of freedom. It’s a right wing thing. You “liberal” Democrat types wouldn’t understand.
I am hoping that civility exhibited here by Brian Williams, http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/02/26/2213393.aspx
will be an attribute of the Tea party Brigades, when they come across those not from the United States.
Nancy P. is an android run on Demo juice and metal flavored botox.
There were protests before CNBC’s Rick Santelli went ballistic on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade about frugal people paying for freeloaders’ mortgages, but when he called for Tea Parties, the concept rang true with those of us who got that part of our history. The enthusiasm coming from finding we are not at all alone keeps fueling the Tea Party. Meanwhile, the Beltway GOP wants to give more powers to the Fed. Obama is not the only one with a hearing problem. Throw the bums out.
Sheeziks, you are far too obsessed with race. The tea party is about limiting the taxing and regulatory burden of government. It is about our freedom as citizens of the Red, White, and Blue. Or are you upset that there are no black stripes in Old Glory?
IRONY = the “Fuck Capitalism” banner for $15.00.
I was on the gateway arch in 2003 and it was great. It is just impressiv what was build there. And the museum is worth a look.
I was also misinformed about the tea party movement until I joined a great site that made me understand it better. I met many of friends on the site and must say I was impressed with the way they think. I thought they were all insane people then I discovered why they are the tea party movement. It is because they care about the United States and the constitution.