Posted on 01/26/2017 6:23:03 PM PST by drewh
On Thursday morning, the hosts of Morning Joe discussed the Women’s March that took place on Saturday, January14th. Their guest, Nancy Gibbs, editor in chief of Time magazine, spoke about the cover this week, which focused on the Women’s March and how it will materialize into a movement. During the discussion, there was frequent mentioning of the Tea Party movement and how liberals could emulate the success of the conservative protest.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Joining us now, the editor in chief of Time magazine, Nancy Gibbs, this week’s cover story is, The Resistance Rises: How a March becomes a Movement. And this– We had a lot of debate on this show about was the march just a march? And one, I think, major point in that conversation is that march was a massive data grab of names, phone numbers, and people who want to have their voices heard.
NANCY GIBBS: Right. I mean it turns out there's some advantage in defeat when it comes to not just the energy and the momentum, but the determination to let's have this be more than an expression of feeling. This has to turn into action. We're gonna see over the coming months whether they’re able to accomplish what – you know they are studying the Tea Party and some Hill staffers who watched how the Tea Party was able to succeed have created a primer on how to lobby Congress. That's been downloaded half a million times.
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DONATE The entire panel of Morning Joe all agreed that the march mimicked elements of the Tea Party movement and implied the Women’s March could possibly be better and more organized. This, however, was interesting because of the negative tone MSNBC has had in the past when speaking about the Tea Party.
It was also mentioned that the original aim of the march was to make it about the women marching, rather than Trump. Despite this, many of the signs and speeches turned out to be anti-Trump instead.
WILLIE GEIST: So the – the groups explicitly wanted to be pro-women and not anti-Trump. That’s how they – that was the message, again, with obviously a lot of the signs and the comments from the stage were – were anti-trump. What– What are the demands? What do they want the outcome of all this energy, these incredible pictures that we all saw – And I think they took us by surprise how big a lot of these crowds were. What do they want to happen next? Is it electing more candidates? Is it finding a better presidential candidate three or four years from now?
NANCY GIBBS: Well, they know they have a significant challenge. It’s interesting something so big is, start small, think small. It has to start with state legislators, Democrats have 16 statehouses they – you know governors, the disproportion over the last eight years of the movement of the state level towards Republicans is gonna impact redistricting and – and so, you know, in the mid-term elections and beyond, it's crucial that they actually are getting voters out and running candidates who have a chance of winning.
Brzezinski and her co-hosts harped on how large the crowd size was on Saturday for the march and commended the group for getting that many people together, even though their message has not been clear.
HAROLD FORD JR.: I would imagine these numbers were so big. I understand what Michael is saying, but I would love having this crowd than coming up with a message or not -- or having a message and not having a crowd. So you’ve got a huge crowd. The Supreme Court nomination will come next week. That could be a galvanizing force. Obviously the politics in various states in electing people, but whether it’s collective bargaining rights whether it’s civil rights here, obviously will be issues to organize. What have you heard early on will be the – the organizing message to Michael's question?
GIBBS: I think that's one of their challenges because the principles of the march ran a thousand words long. It didn't distill to one single point. And, you know, intersectional feminism is not an easy sound bite--
HAROLD FORD JR.: That’d be a tough sound bite.
GIBBS: So, you know, I think that that’s a challenge. On other hand, the Tea Party over time, also a leaderless movement, as Michael says that was organic but that distilled a message about, you know, the constitution in small government, and then Obamacare. As it’s – By those town hall meetings that summer of 2009 it was all about Obamacare. And I think what will be interesting to watch with this movement is, what is the message and the issue that they distill.
Throughout the segment, and the entirety of the show, Friday’s upcoming March for Life was not mentioned at all.
I thought the Tea Party movement was irrelevant, marginal, and ineffective. The TV told me so.
More like a douche party.
[Their guest, Nancy Gibbs, editor in chief of Time magazine, spoke about the cover this week, which focused on the Women’s March and how it will materialize into a movement.]
I hope they succeed in alienating every normal human being.
The TEA party was about limiting government.
The B party is about getting free stuff.
They can call themselves the Uterati.
The only movement the left knows about is a BOWEL movement..since all they do when they protest is poop on cop cars
Hmmmm, The Pu**y Party. Catchy. I’m sure that will work out well for them. Especially the costumes that looked like female parts.
They would be the laughingstock of the entire world. I hope they go for it
Snort...ROFL.
Nope. They are unorganized for one thing and have no real direction. They’re all over the place and have no focus.
They’ll never in a million years get that the Tea Party was a spontaneous grassroots movement that grew out of a reaction to the death throes of Keynesian progressivism. They think they can engineer a mirror image from blue Legos.
Douche party ? I doubt it. These evil bitches probably smell like the tide’s in.
Never happen , the endless river of Obama supplied tax payer funds has dried up , LOL
It will be an Occupy Wall Street redux.
LOL
What that protest, or march which had vulgar slogans on signs, swearing and blowing up the White House, the same march which was organised by a woman who is a muslim and wants Sharia law in this country, and supports Hamas. the same protest which had women wearing hats shaped as vaginas.
What a freak , ignorant march it was. Hopefully the people there have thought about it, watched it, and realized just how stupid they look.
They are already a laughing stock. My family and friend out in Europe, and here are all laughing and disgusted by what they saw. How embarrassing for them.
One fat , ugly young woman had a shit on saying I welcome refugees with my legs open.
sick.
The underlying idea of the so-called TEA Party was, as the acronym plainly denotes, that citizens are Taxed Enough Already. Such a motivating idea remained alive to give impetus to the 2016 Presidential Campaign for Trump!
On the other hand, the motley crew assembled last week had no such core and freedom-oriented idea. Instead, it centered on the tired old liberal/progressive Democrat insistence on limiting population in order to facilitate more success with their socialistic policies.
Watch the appearance, tone and behavior of the participants in TEA Party marches/Right To Life marches versus the angry, vulgar outrage of last week's crowds.
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