Does anyone out there remember the Coffee Parties? Posted on 04/24/2010 4:49:43 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Does anyone out there remember the Coffee Parties?
You can be forgiven if you have forgotten them. They made a brief appearance due to media driven hype over a month ago and then quickly disappeared from view when they inspired a collective yawn from the public. The photo at right shows a typical Coffee Party "rally" from back then. Typical in that few people showed up to protest against private ownership (aka free enterprise). Even the organizer of the Coffee Party non-movement, Annabel Park, seems to have lost her enthusiasm for the cause as evidenced by her Twitter page. After an initial flurry of posts, Park's interest pretty much petered out as you can see.
However, despite the utter failure of the liberal Coffee Parties to counter the popular Tea Parties, the MSM continues to hype them to the point of absolute absurdity. And the latest entry in this category comes from Steve Tuttle of Newsweek with his claim that the Coffee Party now has 200,000 members and that they had 500 meetings one one day recently.
Here is Tuttle in the midst of extreme hype mode. Please be prepared to have your BS meters fly off the scale while reading:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
200,000 coffee party members and how many millions of tea partiers?
If this be Coffee give me TEA.
sarc/
200K members. So what?
200 Pre-K members more like it.
I don’t think you are being fair.
If they include all the absentee voters and all the members ACORN sign up to vote, they very well may have 200,000 members.
I’m sure the local Fairlawn cemetary has at least 500 Coffee Party members.
What’s a Newsweek?
200,000 idiots.
Yes, and Newsweek has 22 million paying subscribers, 100 times what the publication monitors say. And as Mark Twain once wrote, “But I am the lost Dauphin of France!”
The last liar wins....
I will wait for a reliable source such as CNN to tell me how any Coffee Party members there are. Bwahahahaha.
Coffee makes me poop.
Their name isn’t even original. But libs never are. Fail on their part.
Strategy Analyst - The New York Times
registrant for the website was listed as “Real Virginians For Webb, 14461 Sedona Drive, Gainesville, Virginia 20155” until the information suddenly went private behind a proxy. That’s “Webb” as in Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, one of at least two elected Democrats for whom Park has actively campaigned (as evidenced by this campaign video, “Real Virginians for Webb”:
EricByler (Coffee Party co-founder Eric Byler):
Annabel Park and I directed a film called 9500 Liberty which is being talked about right now because events in our film mirror the controversy unfolding in the state of Arizona. Annabel and I wanted to make clear that when we speak about immigration in general, and about local enforcement of federal immigration law in particular, we are representing ourselves as independent filmmakers. We are not speaking for Coffee Party USA.
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"Ending the Partisan Warfare in America" -- Annabel Park with Nicole Kurokawa, Omar Ali, and Phil Lawson
•Nicole Kurokawa — regular CNN commentator and Senior Policy Analyst at Independent Women's Forum, recently published in the American Spectator Online, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Sun-Times.
•Omar Ali — author of the landmark book Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third Party Movements in the United States, and a regular CNN commentator.
•Phil Lawson, creator of the Coffee Sphere, will also present startling results so far of the Sphere poll.
That’s funny, they seem to only be able to get a half dozen to show up at any of their rallies, and that’s by offering free weed ... uhhhhh, I mean free “espresso”.
Question: Why would a private company like Newsweek suddenly oppose private ownership? What could be their motive?
Maybe sales have been so bad that they have not been able to give their stupid magazine publishing business away.
Park is a moron.
The policy espoused by the Coffee Party wacko is simple:
1) Constitution free mob rule, and
2) Those other than Democrats get to shut up and be civil.
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