Posted on 04/24/2009 7:41:00 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
In his own inimitable style Lou Dobbs savagely attacks the liberal media, including three of its worst malefactors.
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Definitely. Some don’t realize it but but when Lou condemns the damage being done by the illegal invasion he speaks from personal experience. As a youth he actually worked in the fields doing manual labor with immigrants. He went on to graduate from Harvard with a degree in economics. He’s also done some terrific programs defending the Second Amendment and owns a firearm.
Maybe he’ll jump ship like Glenn Beck and join Fox.
I keep hearing that there were only 250,000 to 300,000 total in attendance at the tea parties across the country. How can that be? I attended two here in Michigan. Lansing was reported to have close to 5,000 and Troy had around 1,500. There were many more in Michigan alone...
I heard ~ 750,000.
I think that’s a pretty good summary of the tea parties. Individuals may have had some different priorities - out-of-control spending, the huge tax increases on the way, the giant step taken Obama and his Congress toward socialism, etc. - but it was a grass roots repudiation of the radical Chicago leftist and where he’s taking us.
I met some guys from my old unit (101st) in an airport and felt compelled to buy them all a few drinks. In comparing their time in Iraq to my time in Vietnam one of them mentioned some time with Geraldo. I wasn't surprised to learn that he was universally detested and thought a complete phony by the real soldiers.
I think that’s exactly why it’s hard to get an accurate guesstimate. It wasn’t like one big mass demonstration in DC. They were held throughout the country. I think the most important thing is that they were a spontaneous grass roots reaction. To me, that makes them more important than a long-planned event with partisan committees just rounding up bodies ordered to participate. It was the real thing - the people speaking out and standing up to be counted!
That’s interesting. Speaking of the military, do you remember when, during the war in Iraq, Geraldo was on camera and made a drawing in the sand of our troop positions? It caused quite a furor. I was one of many who told Fox that he should have been fired for that.
That was one of the instances cited by the lads that really pissed them off. Had more known about it Garaldo might have had his TS card punched. As it was he received quite a number of "Brown Hands" when he shook hand on camera. For those who don't know the infantry "brown hand" tradition it involves digging deep to get your hand particularly stinky before shaking hands or touching an object someone else will put near their face. Let's just say Geraldo probably had some very interesting thoughts when he was stroking his mustache.
It does summarize what I was feeling, and couldn’t put my finger on, but of course far more eloquently than I could ever hope to express myself. And to hear those MSM shills say, “did you know you’ll be getting a $400 tax cut...” really teed me off. That’s exactly what’s wrong, they’re giving tax breaks while they’re breaking the bank with debt!
Eventually, the piper has to be paid, but that isn’t part of the MSM conversation.
Statist sycophants!
Excellent point you made about the “tax cut.” Everybody from Rush to the Heritage Foundation has been saying that since the vast majority of the people targeted for a tax cut are not paying ANY federal income taxes now, the so-called tax cut is a welfare check. And you’re right about paying the “piper.” The next generation is already in hock because of the massive deficit Obama is passing on to them.
Tampa’s Tea Party was tepid at best and not well attended. It was held in downtown Tampa, a cesspool for fawning black and leftwing zero followers. Move it out to the I-4/I-75 corridor. That location already drew national attention for the proposed flag controversy. On Saturday, April 25, 2009, the new Tampa Confederate Flag Memorial site will be dedicated with appropriate hoopla and good speakers. This would be an appropriate Saul Barry Alinsky agitator moment.
Who would want to live in an America run by the “ideals” of people like Garafalo? Olberbaby wouldn’t even want to live in it as much as he caters to nuts like her. If their main rebuttal to legitimate arguments raised by right-wingers is that we’re racists, then these people are dumber than they look.
I was at the Tampa Tea Party and I thought it was reasonably well attended, given the fact that it was downtown and difficult to get to and park for. A good microphone system certainly would have helped as well. I agree that the next one needs to be somewhere easier to get to and park. If I am in town, I’ll be at all upcoming Tea Parties and am getting more to attend as well. Saturday or July 4th Tea Parties should be better attended since most of the people attending actually have a job, although the current administration’s policies are making many more people available to freely attend!
The account you guys gave about the Tampa Tea Party is interesting. I live in Palm Beach County and down here we met at the West Palm county courthouse. There were about 300 of us. If I hadn’t been there I wouldn’t have known it occurred! Our local liberal rag, The Palm Beach Post (famous for libeling Rush Limbaugh during his rehabilitation), virtually ignored it - a couple sentences at bottom of C section. This, however, isn’t discouraging to me. There were probably thousands of such unreported, spontaneous gatherings in addition to the much larger ones. And our congressman is the ultra-liberal Robert Wexler. You know, he’s the guy who was discovered to not even reside in his district (covered by Fox)! I think the fact that this was a grass roots authentic expression of the people has overcome the efforts of the liberal politicians and MSM to downplay it. Among themselves, they KNOW something important happened and that it wil continue to grow.
As Lou pointed out, Garafalo is just an ignorant, self-important hate-monger. I was once told by an old cleric, who was my spiritual mentor, that the only thing worse than being a self-centered egotist is to be a self-centered egotist with NO ABILITY! I think that applies here.
I was at the evening session in Tampa and I had it pegged at 2,000+. Apparently the police put it closer to 3,000 - 3,500. I am hoping that there is something in the area on July 4. I believe we could get enough people together for that to force the media to report it. We had 2 local TV reporters at our gathering, but I didn’t see the reporting on it and didn’t look in the newspapers afterward. Both area newspapers are liberal, with the St. Pete Times bordering on communist, so I don’t really get the newspaper.
There were some huge gatherings and I personally think it would be more powerful with fewer, larger gatherings. Instead of 20 different smaller gatherings in the Tampa Bay area, have 1 or 2 that would have 10,000 or so each would really get attention.
Yes, and many tea parties consciously tried to avoid getting to 'political' so as to attract the highest number of participants possible.
The organizers of the tea party in my neck of the woods wanted to keep to the 'high road' and not attack anyone directly, especially locals.
They feared it would be characterized as a 'Republican' event rather than an activist protest, so to speak.
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