Posted on 02/09/2010 5:19:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The tea-party movement has no leader. But it does have a face: William Temple of Brunswick, Ga. For months, the amiable middle-aged activist has been criss-crossing America, appearing at tea-party events dressed in his trademark three-cornered hat and Revolutionary garb. When journalists interview him (which is often—his outfit draws them in like a magnet), he presents himself as a human bridge between the founders' era and our own. "We fought the British over a 3 percent tea tax. We might as well bring the British back," he told NPR during a recent protest outside the Capitol.
It's a charming act, which makes the tea-party movement seem no more unnerving than the people who spend their weekends reenacting the Civil War. But the 18th-century getups mask something disturbing. After I spent the weekend at the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville, Tenn., it has become clear to me that the movement is dominated by people whose vision of the government is conspiratorial and dangerously detached from reality. It's more John Birch than John Adams.
Like all populists, tea partiers are suspicious of power and influence, and anyone who wields them. Their villain list includes the big banks; bailed-out corporations; James Cameron, whose Avatar is seen as a veiled denunciation of the U.S. military; Republican_Party institutional figures they feel ignored by, such as chairman Michael Steele; colleges and universities (the more prestigious, the more evil); TheWashington Post; Anderson Cooper; and even FOX News pundits who have heaped scorn on the tea-party movement's more militant oddballs, such as Bill O'Reilly.
One of the most bizarre moments of the recent tea-party_convention came when blogger Andrew Breitbart delivered a particularly vicious fulmination against the mainstream media, prompting everyone to get up, turn toward the media section at the back of the conference room, and_scream, "USA!_USA!_USA!"(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Yawn, this commie propaganda is old and predictable.
One of the most bizarre moments of the recent tea-party_convention came when blogger Andrew Breitbart delivered a particularly vicious fulmination against the mainstream media, prompting everyone to get up, turn toward the media section at the back of the conference room, and_scream, “USA!_USA!_
Yeah I guess this is bizzaro coming from commies
Black Helicopters Over...
Why they have to be black???? RACISIM!!!!!
Could be worse. The white NHL helicopters are the ones that are really out to get us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_xIUOLYYRg
Sounds like a pretty good list of folks to not trust to me.
The “kooks” just got a Republican Senator elected in Massachusetts. And that Republican Senator today voted against confirmation of another Ibama commie doofus to the NLRB. Who’s laughing at who?
Racist Kooks is so last year. I guess the EMOcrats really are into recycling.
Translation: Newsweek dominated by statist, collectivist, socialist and communist “elites” who can’t stand the idea that the people might reject rule by the faux-intellectual nobility.
The big news here is that Newsweek is still in business.
>Like all populists, tea partiers are suspicious of power and influence, and anyone who wields them. Their villain list includes the big banks; bailed-out corporations; James Cameron, whose Avatar is seen as a veiled denunciation of the U.S. military; Republican_Party institutional figures they feel ignored by, such as chairman Michael Steele; colleges and universities (the more prestigious, the more evil); TheWashington Post; Anderson Cooper; and even FOX News pundits who have heaped scorn on the tea-party movement’s more militant oddballs, such as Bill O’Reilly.>
Hey! That’s my shortlist! It goes on a LOT longer than that buckeroo!
Newsweek? What’s that? Never heard of it. Is it a TV show or something?
Is Newspeak still published?
“But the 18th-century getups mask something disturbing.”
You bet your ass, New York poodle-boy - disturbing for you, that is. We’re coming after you New York City fascists and communists and giving you a choice - emmigrate to China or North Korea, or it’s our choice, fat boy.
A clash of inalienable rights.. now what?
LOL! I was thinking the same thing.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the ramp full of Blackhawk Helicopters in front of the Tennessee national Guard hanger located at nashville Int’l Airport?
They flew down from Fort Campbell in KY, like they do about once a month...
Its kind of interesting that Michael Moore didn’t make the rounds of the tea parties looking for dumb comments to twist.
It must really frighten the left even more than we realize.
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