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.
This is actually the beginning of a democrat civil war. Most of the women in this march were lilly whites or lilly white wannabes. But there is an equal power struggle between non-whites to send the white democrats to the end of the line.
more like 4 day old shrimp
“Uterati”
You are really leaving yourself open to charges of microagression from all of our transgendered women!
Mental illness and/or demonic possession.
Bttt
As usual, the LEFT does not have a clue what the Tea Party is, nor any revelation on how it was created.
THEREFORE, they have no hope of being able to create something similar.
TO THE LEFT: You just don’t get it !!!
What happened to the Coffee Party?
I certainly hope so! If the women’s march defines the Democrat Party, they are toast!
Did that actually happen??!! I’m glad I wasn’t eating as I read your post.....
Don’t think Soros paid $50 million for the Tea Party.
We'll see if these same organizers can draw a similar crowd of women. I suspect they've reached their high water mark already.
Make this little guy the leader. Liberal women didn't seem to mind how he treated women.
And Air America will take down Rush.
We’re not laughing with you, we’re laughing at you.
Based on what was left behind I think they qualify to be called the Pee Party.
They ought to call it the Yeast Party..
They stink, are Ugly and irritate the hell out of you.
At their next event, Men With Penis Hats should hand out
summers Eve, Gallon jugs of vinegar and Alum.
Harpies don’t douche... (that I know of)
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