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The coffee party miniphenomenon
Examiner ^
| 03/13/10
| Michael Barone
Posted on 03/13/2010 1:43:51 PM PST by freespirited
While traveling by air across the country last week, I had occasion to work in an airport lounge which had CNN on the television. During a little more than an hour, the announcer screened videos of two pro-Democratic ads and ran a story on the so-called coffee party movement, formed by a few liberals sympathetic to Democratic policies. It would be interesting to know how much coverage CNN has given to the tea party movement, which has brought something on the order of 1 million people into its gatherings over the past year; more than the coffee party group, I suspect, but perhaps not all that much more. And how is the coffee party movement. Gateway Pundit has answer. On Wednesday, the day of Barack Obama’s appearance in St. Louis, 2,225 showed up for a tea party rally in St. Charles County and 2,300 participated in a protest outside a Democratic fundraiser in downtown St. Louis. In contrast, 30 people attended a coffee party gathering in St. Louis on Saturday.
The numbers tell you something. Something that the CNN producers might want to take note of.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coffeeparty; mediabias; teaparty
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I think CNN probably gave more coverage to the tea parties than most of the treason-media complex. Whether it was fair is an entirely different story.
To: freespirited
Hysterical and “outraged” commie libs wired on caffeine. Not a pretty sight.
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posted on
03/13/2010 1:46:42 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(A proud American-American since 1949.)
To: freespirited
They have taken over the rainbow, the colors lavender and pink, and the work “gay.” THEY ARE NOT TAKING “COFFEE.”
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posted on
03/13/2010 1:48:50 PM PST
by
Persevero
("Our culture is far better than a retarded Islamic culture." -Geert Wilders)
To: freespirited
"coffee party" ROTFLMAO
Does the left play games, or what?
To them, it's all about the "name"...symbolism over substance.
the tea party movement is based on an historical event to protest high taxation, and a modern day push to return to the rule of law and the Constitution.
The "coffee" party is a fart in a hurricaine.
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posted on
03/13/2010 1:50:42 PM PST
by
FrankR
(Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
To: freespirited
"Coffee Party" doesn't make sense; it doesn't even sound like anything.
Actually, it sounds so Starbucks-elitist that you know where they're coming from and whom they represent.
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posted on
03/13/2010 1:50:52 PM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
To: freespirited
The Coffee Party is just another Soros trick to ease peoples opposition to socialism.
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posted on
03/13/2010 1:53:12 PM PST
by
GeronL
(I Own Me (yep, boiled down to 6 letters))
To: freespirited
George Soros funding this effort - Chock Full o’ Nuts;)
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posted on
03/13/2010 1:53:39 PM PST
by
sodpoodle
(Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
To: Tanniker Smith
I wonder how they feel about Starbucks open carry policy?
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posted on
03/13/2010 1:54:41 PM PST
by
sodpoodle
(Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
To: freespirited
I like how they tried to portray the Tea Party movement as astroturf, when it was started by a single blogger. Yet this astroturf movement was started by a NYT strategy analyst and an Obama volunteer.
To: freespirited
To Leftists and liberals, everything in the entire world is nothing but fake labels, and therefore can be countered with a contrasting labelled falsehood. So they create coffee parties to try to contrast the Tea Party movement.
What they literally cannot comprehend is the reality behind the Tea party label - that if Tea Parties were not called Tea Parties, they would still exist.
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posted on
03/13/2010 1:58:05 PM PST
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: FrankR
"coffee party" ROTFLMAO Does the left play games, or what?
To them, it's all about the "name"...symbolism over substance.
They have no creativity at all. It's all imitation of sincerity. They can't muster anything else.
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posted on
03/13/2010 2:00:46 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: freespirited
coffee party. How phony. It’s more like a tupperware party, it’s nothing but plastic.
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posted on
03/13/2010 2:02:52 PM PST
by
Vision Thing
(He has a white house, and he wants to paint it black.)
To: Vision Thing
The same warmed-over, recycled gaggle of Trotskyites.
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posted on
03/13/2010 2:14:01 PM PST
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: sodpoodle
Chock Full o’ Nuts;)
Oh, that is brilliant. If any lib makes a haughty comment to the effect of "I'm attending a coffee party" we have the best retort ever...
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posted on
03/13/2010 2:18:24 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(2010 - The Second American Revolution. The first shot was fired 1/19/2010 -- here in Massachusetts!)
To: freespirited
(as posted on another coffee party thread) ...
If the left finds humor in calling Tea Partiers “teabaggers” would they also find humor in the right calling Coffee Partiers “beaners?”
;-)
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posted on
03/13/2010 2:21:14 PM PST
by
al_c
(http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
To: LostInBayport; dirtman821
Chock Full o’ Nuts is the brain child of Dirtman.
See link to earlier thread.
Brilliant;)
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posted on
03/13/2010 2:21:24 PM PST
by
sodpoodle
(Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
To: LostInBayport
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posted on
03/13/2010 2:22:50 PM PST
by
sodpoodle
(Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
To: freespirited
Che Rainforest, Coffee Party Green Emphasis Chairperson
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posted on
03/13/2010 2:24:05 PM PST
by
garjog
(Used to be liberals were just people to disagree with. Now they are a threat to our existence.)
To: freespirited
“This coffee tastes like mud!”
“Well, it was ground this morning!”
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posted on
03/13/2010 2:28:19 PM PST
by
garjog
(Used to be liberals were just people to disagree with. Now they are a threat to our existence.)
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