Meet Mark Skoda, the Man Who Hijacked the Tea Party Movement and Expelled Tea Party Express

Monday, July 19, 2010 | Kristinn

[kcvl]

Mark Skoda

[Altura Ct.]

Skoda just another PC idiot that wants to grovel and get on his knees.

[FrankR]

As I have previously posted on this subject, as well as posted on the "FEDERATION" webpage guestbook (which was deleted), this is nothing more than Alinsky in action. "Isolate", "divide", "ridicule", etc.

The TEA party movement is NOT a political party, with a capital "P"; it's a conglomeration of people who are fed up with high taxes, big government, desertion of the Constitution, and the tyranny in Washington.

As a scattered movement, we are a hard target for the left to corral - similar to guerilla warfare. The minute we "group" have have "national leaders", we are doomed.

"Groups" are the left's speciality; they know how to corral them, intimidate them, and they are grand target for misquoting for the media.

To be a FEDERATION (sounds too much like FEDERAL) we become the British Redcoats, marching over an open field, in single file abreast, providing easy target practice for the radical left.

Groups, a.k.a. "herds" can be rounded up, corralled, and loaded into boxcars for the slaughterhouse.

As a free entitity, the media could not pin us to any one ideology, they had to interview thousands to get any sense of the true picture...now, with a "national spokesperson", it's down on one man's opinion, and one man's answer.

We don't know these people; for all we know they are ACORN members, NAACP moles, or SEIU thugs seeking to do to the TEA party movement what obama and his goons are doing to America...destroying it from the inside out.

Interesting that this should spring up right here when the dems are getting desperate about November, and attacks on TEA party movement are springing up everywhere...based on months' old news.

Just a bit too coincidental for me to swallow.

The left's media is all over this, of course...they see BLOOD IN THE WATER. They see a solitary target to demoralize, demonize, and focus on...who they will rattle into submission and wallow in every gaffe and "mis-speak" the new "leaders" make.

I say "dump the chump" right now; calling himself the leader to bask in the glow of free publicity does not make it so.

If your TEA party affiliate is on his "membership list", do what you need to do to get it off.

This is nothing less than a hostile takeover, orchestrated from the left...they are coming out of the woodwork to attack the TEA party and this new revalation of a "FEDERATION" is just a little bit too convenient right now.

The TEA party movement is not an organization, it's not a club, and it's not a political party...it's just Americans standing up for America.

[piytar]

Skoda and the NTPF are libs. How can I tell? They’re delusional, esp re their fantasies of running the TEA Party and moving it left.

The NTPF aka Coffee Party in TEA Party clothing will be flushed soon, just like the first Coffee Party...

[piytar]

TWP - Thread Winning Post! Pithy one, too!

[EternalVigilance]

Thanks. :-)

This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go.

-- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[Uncle Miltie]

Movements don’t need leaders. They can catch up later after we’ve stormed the barricades.

[oldbill]

There is no leader to the Tea Party, or Parties, nationally or locally.

I am sick of these opportunists who claim they are the self appointed leader of some Tea Party group. Like this guy and Dick Armey and others.

The beaurty of the Tea Party is that it was a spontaneous consensus of like minded Americans who “were mad as hell and counldn’t take it any more”.

Even today Santelli of CNBC is claiming that he is the founder of the Tea Party. Santelli? Rand?? No way.

The Tea Party is a movement without a founder. If there was a seminal moment that could be traced as the origin of the Tea Party, it is not Santelli’s rant. It was the attempt by the rulers in Washington of both parties - Bush, Kennedy, McCain, Rove, Pelosi, Reid - to push through an amnesty for illegal aliens in 2006-2007.

With 70-80% of Americans in violent opposition to an unwanted invasion, public outrage melted down the switchboards and Outlook boxes in the Senate and forced them to back off the amnesty program that cheap labor Republicans and Hispanic vote grabbing Democrats wanted to shove down American throats.

It was the first example of people power, and it awakened a vast majority to the fact that the people did have it within their power to take back the country. Santelli just got caught up in the wave - he didn’t create it. And the Tea Party’s future lies in remaining a spontaneous, popular (not populist) movement.

It doesn’t need self-promoting hacks claiming to be leaders who speak only for themselves and just want to get on TV because the talk show producers find it easy to call on the same few morons rather than do a real search for true Tea Party people.

[pabianice]

The “Tea Party” is like the Unitarian Church. Leaderless, welcoming anyone who wants to be a Unitarian, and from the outside, opaque.

[Starstruck]

Now all we need is for someone to start the International Tea Party Federation and kick the National Tea Party Federation out. Maybe followed by the Intergalactic......and so it goes.

[MEGoody]

While I agree that tea partiers should not quietly allow racist rants to be associated with us, I don't think we should be so afraid of being called "racist" that we cave to every little thing the race-baiters scream about.

We know they are going to make stuff up about us anyway. We should just loudly and repeatedly reject those claims and not let fear cause us to try to stiffle free speech.

[tophat9000]

Skoda has a show on Sunday night in Memphis (at least that's as far as I know since January) He's a good conservative, smart as you can get and speaks well. I have no problems with Skoda and doubt he's running for anything, he's got a face for radio.

Be very aware the left loves to turn and co-opt people...the fact that this guy claims leadership of the Tea Party, a leaderless movement, by public denouncing a fellow Tea Party member for the "crime" (racist) that left is desperately trying to pin on the Tea Party, and does it in the left favorites blogs....all the waring sign of a someone that been co-opt is there ...he giving the sound bites the left wants

[MEGoody]

Can someone explain to me why having radio talk show hosts as leaders of the Tea Party is wrong?

There is no "leader" or "leaders". The radio hosts have a bully pulpit, so they are naturally more in the national spotlight than the rest of the tea partiers, but they aren't the leaders.

[MEGoody]

They are purposely going to infiltrate the Tea Party Movement and start putting "plants" in place.

That's why we need to actively disassociate ourselves with such folks - when it's real.

For example, if I am at a rally and spotted someone sporting a sign that says "Lynch Obama" (which as far as I know has never happened to date), I would go to the cops nearby (they're always there) and ask them to ask the person to move across the street or something.

They have the right to free speech. They don't have the right to color the rest of us with what they have to say.

[muleskinner]

Not a problem, until they start posting material that creates big, national political problems for them and the movement they somehow think they represent. Obvious to everyone else, except the blogger and his/her followers.

[montag813]

What kind of stupid assclown gives an interview to the Huffington Post to denounce a fellow conservarive?

Skoda is clearly a troll. I say we expel him from the civil society. Henceforth, NO tea party member or conservative should so much as return an email from this jerkoff.

[Agamemnon]

Now that I see the guy's face, I believe he was in Nashville in February when Sarah Palin kicked off the Tea Party event there. Am I correct?

FReegards!

[worst-case scenario]

Well, how do the ideas thatthey articulate get selected? They may get a lot of call-ins, or go to rallies, or otherwise get feedback. But they aren’t just serving as megaphones for other people. They aren’t just ventrioloquist’s dummies. They have to select whatthey are going to say.

So on what basis do they make that decision, I guess is my question.

The Tea Part movement isn’t like the Democratic or Republican parties, where delegates are selected locally and go to a state convention and develop a platform (by state) that each state party wants to get enacted. It’s a lot more fluid than that. These guys have the bully pulpit and can articulate .... what? Whose ideas? Their own? Or things that their listeners want them to say?

[kristinn]

Yes. He was one of the organizers.

[Ammo Republic 15]

Exactly...and he looks like Wolfman Jack to boot!