OKAY, FOLKS, YOU DON’T GET IT. We are trying to reach those outside the tea party, the AP uses these photo’s to make Tea Party folks look stupid, now to us, of course, wearing a patriotic outfit doesn’t seem stupid we are proud of our past, but we are trying to reach outsiders. If you want to stand around and preach to the choir while the country sinks into the abyss by all means wear your custom and bring crazy signs. You know why Beck said bring no signs right? So the opposition doesn’t mix in with racist signs and stuff, the MSM does that stuff themselves, they hire people to do it.
G8 Protest with Costumes and funky signs
I think Beck is worried that it could revert to this -the main stream media is doing their best to portray the Tea Party movement as crazed white people that dress up and take to the streets like the G8 Protesters.
Good grief.
P.S. I don’t think it was you, but this reminds me of a freeper whose name I can’t recall. During the presidential election, I began warning that Obama was a Socialist/Communist/Marxist. A freeper wrote a similar post to me, informing me that I “didn’t get it,” that calling Obama a Socialist etc. was a turn-off to “people outside our movement” blah blah blah.
Suit yourself.
I took the reason Beck did not want signs at HIS rally was that he wanted it to be about faith, not about politics. The 8/28 rally was NOT a Tea Party rally, either, although attended by many tea partiers. It was perfectly legitimate to try to keep politics from intruding upon that rally, given its subject matter and tact.
However, other Tea Party rallies are SOLELY about politics and about INDIVIDUALS expressing their individual views on the direction this president is taking the country.
Anyone who thinks signs and costumes, etc. have HURT the Tea Party movement, or will hurt it in the future, is totally out of touch with both the zeitgeist and a basic understanding of how visual media works.
These are PROTESTS and should look like protests. What a load, Beck.
"Racist signs"?
You seem to be saying "racist signs" are a huge and prevalent and, if they occur, unaddressed occurence at Tea Party events.
You could not be more WRONG.
I have yet to see a racist sign. I did see a video of Tea Partiers telling a person with a racist sign to take it down or leave. One instance.
You must be buying the garbage put out by the NAACP. Have you been to a Tea Party protest?