NPR attacks us... "Learn To Speak Tea Bag”

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[DecoyJames]

Ridicule of Americans who participated in Tea Party rallies is not just for MSNBC and CNN anymore. National Public Radio (NPR) has gone all Alinksy on Tea Partiers, and your tax dollars are helping to pick up the tab.

A prime example of radical socialist Saul Alinksy’s Rule #5 (Ridicule) is featured prominently on NPR’s website — in the form of a flash animation titled “Learn To Speak Tea Bag” — which ridicules tea partiers, pro-lifers, opponents of the Democrat Party’s health care reform, and more specifically, three Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives (John Boehner, Eric Cantor and Michele Bachmann).

[Skepolitic]

Didn't Newt promise to defund government endowments like NPR, CPB, NEA, etc. in the Contract for America? Yes, he did and, despite many years of a Republican president and Republican majorities in House and Senate, the Republicans accomplished nothing in limiting the scope of government. Instead, we got vast expansions in Medicare, NCLB, a bloated and ineffective Homeland Security Department, bridges to nowhere, and numerous other expansions of national government.

The Republican party elite despise the tea party movement just as much as the Dems. The only difference is that the Republican elite think they can exploit the tea partiers for political advantage.

The sad thing is that they will probably succeed. As contemptuous as the Dems are in their ridicule of the tea party movement, at least they don't pretend to identify with its proclamation of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government.

[bigbob]

Perfect to send to your local NPR station to explain why you won’t financially support them. I enjoy some of their music programming, but as long as they see fit to insult ?50% of their potential donors, screw them. I’ll just be a freeloader.

[MMX_FLEX]

It is a new year - MMX FLEX!

[Swiss]

Every liberal I know personally thinks NPR is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

[zeebob]

I feel your pain about the dial up. Anyway, the four steps he breaks down are DEMORALIZATION; done deal through 3 generations of Marxist BS in the education system. DESTABILIZATION; through the military, foriegn relations and the economy ie spend enourmous amounts of money, promise the people whatever they want especially if it produces crushing debt, and overlay it with an gargantuan Big Brother government. CRISIS, notice nothing works right any more, every level of society is going broke ond becoming dysfunctional. The last was NORMALIZATION; at that point the takeover is complete. There was one amusing part to this scenario. The leftist professors,ACLU, and Southern Perversion Law types will be dissapointed because instead of them rolling into power with the Marxists “they will be lined up against a wall and shot” I had to chuckle at that

[dog breath]

I listen on occasion, but the extreme liberal bias is annoying to put it mildly. Getting many perspectives is useful in forming opinions, but the smug self righteous tone and the liberal whining sometimes threatens to drown out the broadcast. The other day someone asked me what that shrill whining noise coming from my radio was and I had to say it was just NPR.>

[whodathunkit]

I have felt for a long time that a true indicator that our country is back on track will be the disappearance of this liberal mouthpiece from the public airwaves.

[Cyber Liberty]

The only thing that irritates me more than the liberal media sticking us with a name that means a particularly disgusting homosexual sex act, are good folks in Tea Parties sporting teabags to reinforce the image.

[alrea]

NPR is public, but they don’t act like it. They are left-ideologues who live on the public dime, and its time they get a real job.

Couldn't agree more. We STOPPED donating during the funding drive over a decade ago.

[rockinqsranch]

Yes, the goal of the Left is to destroy that which is America, and rebuild a new World order with what was once The United States of America as simply another of many Global States in a New World Order governed by a centralized Socialist government entity.

The steps you have relayed are most important to the enemy plan to achieve their goal.

Thanks for your response.

[Excellence]

No matter what we “sport,” the left will find a way to equate it to some disgusting act. It is what they do, and what they do is who they are.

[paulycy]

good folks in Tea Parties sporting teabags to reinforce the image.

The homosexual culture that uses the disgusting definition of that term is a very small percentage of the whole American population. We are aware of it only now because of the use of it by the leftist media who knows of it because they champion the causes of the activist homosexual community.

The vast majority of Americans, probably 96+%,have never heard the disgusting definition of that phrase. All it means to them is a way to make tea or as a reference to the Boston Tea Party, one of our most important historical stories.

I continue to use the tea bag symbolically because I refuse to concede the tea bag's obvious use as a reminder for the Boston Tea Party which started the whole American Revolution. Kill the Tea Bag and next you'll be backing away from using Tea Party then the whole history and symbolism is lost.

This is a war of ideas. War is hell. If we can't hold on the the predominant definitons of an ordinary object then we lose that battle. Again, most people have never heard the disgusting definition of "tea bagging" including myself who grew up and worked most of my adult life in "hollywood" and am quite familiar with the activist gay community.

The more we use it the more they have to back off.

Don't let them re-define the concept of tea bag or tea party. Please.

[andy58-in-nh]

How many NPR listeners does it take to change a light bulb?

One to demand change regardless of the cost. Another to swap a perfectly functioning 60-cent bulb for a $15 florescent while loudly demanding that the Federal government subsidize alternative energy. And a third to pledge his support in exchange for an autographed copy of "Earth in the Balance" and an NPR bumper sticker for his Prius.

[IamConservative]

How many NPR listeners does it take to change a light bulb?

One to demand change regardless of the cost. Another to swap a perfectly functioning 60-cent bulb for a $15 florescent while loudly demanding that the Federal government subsidize alternative energy. And a third to pledge his support in exchange for an autographed copy of "Earth in the Balance" and an NPR bumper sticker for his Prius.

...and two to turn the ladder.

[jessduntno]

“Every liberal I know personally thinks NPR is the greatest thing since sliced bread.”

Thay all will also tell you they read five books a week and don’t own a TV...the tri-fecta of liberal lies...

[jessduntno]

“Every liberal I know personally thinks NPR is the greatest thing since sliced bread.”

They all will also tell you they read five books a week and don’t own a TV...the tri-fecta of liberal lies...

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The comments on the NPR website are all very negative, except one which is more or less neutral.

[andy58-in-nh]

LOL. Accurate description of Anderson Cooper.

Seriously, the best way to get back at NPR is to defund it. Remove all sources of public finance, boycott their advertisers, and ridicule them right back.

[tacticalogic]

The whores know who their pimp is, and what he wants them to do.

[wbill]

Nobody of note cares about NPR.

My Dad listens to NPR.

When I asked why, he replied, "The better to know my enemy."

He's a pretty smart guy. :-) Wonder how many other listeners they have like this?