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We’ve written about Mr. Marcus before. But just in case his name is new to you, he’s a permanent fixture in the Tea Party movement, a great singer to boot, and he’s even got a book coming out soon. This video was made almost a month ago, but I just watched it this morning and thought that you, too, would like to watch it over your morning coffee:
I totally want to hang with Lloyd. LOVE.
According to this, Bill Clinton went to Massachusetts to try and breathe some life into Martha Coakley’s campaign before Obama shows up and either helps or totally extinguishes any chance she had at all to win. The jury’s still out.
Anyway, Bill had an audience of around 1500 folks, and used his speaking time to give the Tea Party movement even more momentum than they already had. Only he didn’t do that on purpose.
He said, “There is a mass national effort to discourage progressive independents from voting and to discourage disappointed liberals from voting.”
Say whaaa? Could someone please explain to me what in the holy hell that even means? What effort has there been to discourage ANYONE from voting? Have you guys seen any “Hey – don’t vote!” ads on TV? I don’t get that at all. He went on, “I came here to tell the people of Massachusetts this: This country’s revolution was born in Massachusetts. The Revolutionary War was first won here. The war was over here years before it was finally finished. It started with the Boston Tea Party, and the right wing Republicans have appropriated that on the premise the tea party was against government. What they were against was abuse of power.”
See, that’s not exactly right, Bill. The Tea Party folks are for LIMITED GOVERNMENT INTRUSION into the lives of Americans. We’re not against government altogether. But you’re spot on about the whole “against abuse of power” thing. We’re definitely all about that, which is precisely why Hot Scott Brown is gaining popularity. He’s trying to block a vote that is a TOTAL abuse of power.
Wow. I really gave Bill too much credit for being savvy enough to figure that out on his own.
And it must be true, because no-lips McTinglyLegs says so.
In this brilliant journalistic specimen of a clip, he basically says that we’re all white, generalizing and stereotyping the entire Tea Party as some sort of racially “monochromatic” movement. Because, you know, when a liberal feels threatened by an organized, grassroots effort that’s NOT liberal in nature, the knee-jerk reaction is to immediately throw the race card.
Gripping stuff, Matthews. That degree from the Hollywood Upstairs Journalism school is really working out for you, it seems.
I kind of like the reaction from RedEye best:
I wonder if those tingly legs of his will completely explode come November 3, 2010…you know, when all those insignificant, racist teabagging nutjobs are finally able to be heard loud and clear. Huh.
As many of our clever and competent readers know, Mock and I are proud supporters of the Tea Party Movement effort. In fact, we’ve spoken at one (well, acted more like cheerleaders, really, to keep hundreds of soaked folks in high spirits through crappy weather). Since we became “official” supporters back on tax day in April ‘09, we’ve seen the mainstream media tear the effort up with a slew of insults and personal attacks – we’re a bunch of redneck, teabagging, Stockholm-Syndrome, racist nutjobs. You know.
And Nancy Pelosi? I think she discounted us entirely when we were likened to a grassroots effort, calling us something like, um, astroturf? Yeah. I think that’s what flew out of her gaping piehole anyway.
So, you can imagine my delight when I saw this information (and from MSNBC, no less):
Just how angry is the public with the country’s two leading political parties? Angry enough that the conservative, libertarian-leaning Tea Party movement is more popular than either the Democratic or the Republican parties, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The Republican Party maintains its net-negative favorable/unfavorable rating in the poll, with 28 percent viewing it positively and 43 percent seeing it in a negative light. For the first time in more than two years, the Democratic Party also now holds a net-negative fav/unfav, at 35-45 percent.
I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to numbers, but I think that makes the Tea Partiers just a wee bit more popular than either one of the actual political parties. And, just to recap, Tea Party movement people are CONSERVATIVE in viewpoint. It’s a little tough to discount that kind of news, in my opinion. Perhaps a little ignorant.
My response? Let your freak flags fly, fellow teabaggers.
Oh yeah, and bite it, McBotox.
And that’s one of the reasons I like the guy. Frankly, the B.S. happy horse-crap rhetoric is old, and it’s nice to hear someone just say it like it is.
Speaking at a luncheon for a Midland County Republican Women’s group, he says that Obama is “hell bent on making America a socialist country.”
Then, he “accused the Obama administration of intentionally dumping illegal immigrants from other western states in Texas, recalling a conversation he had with local officials notifying him that illegal aliens that were caught in Nogales, Arizona were being dropped off by federal authorities in Presidio, Texas.”
He believes this is Obama’s way of punishing Texas. And then he encouraged the tea partiers to keep on partying.
“I say it’s time to make tea parties twice as big as what they were,” Perry declared. “I think it’s time for us to stand up and say to Washington, D.C. that we are no longer going to accept that kind of stuff sitting down and being quiet.”
You go on, Rick.
Read this article, written by the singer featured in the above video, Lloyd Marcus, who recounts his experience aboard the Tea Party Express tour bus and meeting with thousands and thousands of HORRIBLE WHITE CONSERVATIVE RACISTS.
Kidding!!!!
He actually had a blast traveling the country and meeting with all the tea party goers. The part that was less fun? Getting a bunch of emails from liberals who said stuff like, “”You are the dumbest self hating f****** n***** I have ever seen!” because they don’t like that he speaks out against this administration.
This race stuff is getting so out of hand. It reminds me of how much flak Michael Steele got for his innocent comment about fried chicken a few months ago.
And again – who were the folks shouting and complaining about race then just as they are now? Liberals.
Surprise!
The National 9-12 Tea Party In Washington D.C. – it’s happening as I write this, and I keep thinking of how cool it would’ve been there. Some are saying that the turnout may be in the MILLIONS.
But you know what? The MSM will say nothing about it. Go figure.
Holy crap, you guys. What a fantastic day! You might want to settle in and get cozy before you read this, because it’s going to be one of those epic posts where I’m too excited to leave anything out, and where I give you waaaay more detail than you probably want. But you’re just going to have to deal, because I’m totally fired up and utterly unable to contain myself over how much fun today was.
SO, Daisy and I met downtown at 11am this morning – to meet some of the other Tea Party volunteers and check in with the organizers and just get a feel for what the day was going to be like. And from the moment we arrived, it rained. It rained and rained and rained and basically just never stopped raining. This is the explanation for the fact that we’re in caps and braids. We would have preferred to look a little more fabulous and a little less like drowned cats, but this is the weather we had to work with. So while we were getting rained on, we pretty much resigned ourselves to the fact that no one was going to show up. The forecast called for constant, relentless, pouring rain, and for once in Indiana meteorological history, the forecast was actually right. And you know what? It would have been very tempting, if Daisy and I hadn’t been a part of the program, to just stay indoors and not deal with the crappy weather. And so I wouldn’t have blamed a single person for not coming.
There was to be a march starting at monument circle at 5pm, which would take the participants from the circle to our gathering site a few blocks away. Daisy and I, along with several other volunteers and speakers, waited for the marchers to arrive, hoping against hope that we’d see maybe 25-50 people coming down the street. And what we saw nearly made us cry. HUNDREDS of people marched towards us. Hundreds and hundreds of people, holding signs and smiling and getting completely drenched in the pouring rain. BEHOLD:
Amazing. And I can’t tell you how completely fired up we got over the sight of them. The video doesn’t do justice to the swell of pride we felt just watching those folks making their way to the stage area. Truly awesome.
The speaking portion of the program got underway a bit early, because the band was unable to perform or set up their equipment due to the downpour, and you guys, I think we actually did ok! We were nervous, and we may have flubbed up a line or two, but for the most part the crowd seemed really responsive and it was all kinds of fun to serve as the Tea Party cheerleaders. BEHOLD – the first segment of our shpiel, courtesy Jim Allison and Carpe Diem Productions:
Sound quality isn’t the greatest – but you should be able to hear how great the crowd was, and SEE the crowd when our on-the-spot videographer/singer extraordinaire, Ryan Wotherspoon pans out to them at one point in the clip.
All in all – a fantastic experience – and such fun. We’ll have some behind-the-scenes footage on our facebook fan page later this weekend, so be sure to check that out!! There’s also a few more photos from the event after the jump!
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You really oughta go to a Fourth of July Tea Party, you guys. And if you are within a couple hours of Indianapolis, you really really REALLY oughta go to the one being held here.
You know why?
Because Daisy and I are going to be SPEAKING AT IT.
I am not making this up.
Now granted, if you’re looking at the big list of reasons why you should go to a Tea Party, I am modest enough to recognize that “hearing Daisy and Mock speak” is kinda low on the totem pole. I mean, we’re just regular chicks, and we’re not experts on anything. But we are chicks who feel great passion about our country, and if you’re on this site then it’s a safe bet that you feel the same way. And what better way to spend the Fourth of July than with thousands of other patriotic happy people who want to stand up and be counted amongst those who believe in limited government and personal freedom?
So yeah – there’s that primary reason. But also Daisy and I are speaking at the Indy Tea Party. And we want to meet you. The organizers of the event are completely awesome, and they invited us to be a part of the amazing show they’re putting on, and we’re honored and thrilled and just amazed that EVEN AFTER MEETING US IN PERSON, they still want us to speak.
So come, you guys. And look for us Chicks On The Right!!!
It’s that time again. Time for a Tea Party. And, to just keep Janet Napolitano paranoid and Janeane Garofalo irritated and looking as if she’s perpetually smelling something really vile, Mock and I will be at our local Tea Party this weekend to protest the latest Cap and Tax monkey crap legislation – as well as all the other monkey crap legislation this administration has and is attempting to hurry through Congress just so no one actually reads it, of course.
Not in the loop on where your local Tea Party will be? Try checking out this site and looking for your state’ s event.
If you’re sick and tired of the government speeding along legislation and spending like there’s no tomorrow (at every taxpayer’s expense), then get your butts out there and make your voices heard. It’s all about grassroots, people…
And while you start planning your Independence Day Tea Party agenda in your neck of the woods, I’ll leave you with a few of my favorite Thomas Jefferson quotes. Frightening as it may be, these are all pretty apropos these days…
~Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
~Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
~Most bad government has grown out of too much government.
~The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Time to wake up, America…
You know what this is? This is Michelle Malkin and others inviting that horrid beast of a person, Janeane Garafalo, to one of the many Tea Parties being held across the country on the 4th of July. And it’s completely fabulous.
I hope that Janeane’s response to this invitation includes her making a total ass of herself on the Keith Olbermann show, because I would really really love to post that.
LOVE.
We at COTR will remind you, of course, but I thought I’d put the call to action out there to give you plenty of time to mark your calendar, get a sitter, make some signs, and get geared up to get out and participate (especially if you didn’t get a chance to on April 15th).
Click here to find a tea party planned in your city. And get ready to be profiled by the Department of Homeland Security! Oh joy!
I’ll be the chick with the big sign that says, “Bring it, Janet.”
Here are some May Day (May 1st) protests taking place across Europe. I’d like to point out that most of these are “nationalized” places that embrace the notion of socialism. I don’t know about you all, but throwing molotov cocktails at a demonstration is something I definitely DID NOT DO at my local Tea Party. In fact, post-REAL-cocktails were more appropriate for the tone of protest that Mock and I experienced in Indianapolis.
The talk of socialized or nationalized healthcare, the ever-growing power of our government and its reach into my pockets and the pockets of the private sector – it makes me look at footage such as this and shake my head in, well, disgust.
I don’t know how anyone could think this is better. But yet, our President believes that these countries are the “leading power in the world.” Go figure. And his is where we’re heading, people. If you think that socialism dressed in any type of clothing is the cure, you need to wake. the. hell. up.
And, of course, for those of you that are definitely going to write in and try to tell me how superior nationalized/socialized anything is as compared to American capitalism, I’ll just shut up now and let you listen to a French economist instead. She’s way more upbeat than me when it comes to delivering the news of the possible demise of everything the country that I know and love has stood for since its inception – at the hands of a too-powerful government. Dramatic? Why, sure it is. I’ll take that title.
Two words: Train Wreck.
Look at the love-fest happening between Janeane Garofalo and Keith Olbermann. He’s practically drooling at all of her hate-speech. I’m just going to summarize some of her drivel about the Tea Parties to save those of you who can’t bear to stomach actually listening to her:
1. “Let’s be very honest about what this is about. It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes – they have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about (Keith interjects: That’s right). They don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. This is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks and there is no way around that.”
2. “The limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist is much larger in their headspace than in a reasonable person and it’s pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring. It is a neurological problem that we’re dealing with.”
3. “This is about racism. It could be any issue, any port in the storm. These guys HATE that a black guy is in the White House. They immigrant-bash. They pretend – it’s taxes and teabags, but like I said most of them couldn’t probably tell you thing one about taxation without representation, the Boston Tea Party, the British Imperialism, whatever the history lesson has to be. But these people -all white, for the most part, unless there’s some people with Stockholm Syndrome (Keith interjects:…Which was bad news for the people at Fox News who were staging this…).”
4. “The Republican movement – the conservative movement has now crystallized into the White Power movement. ”
She goes on to suggest that Fox News’ only viewers are the 18-35 Klan demographic and “urban older white guys and the women who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.”
You know what I would love for her to show me? ANY DATA which shows that your average everyday conservatives have ever brought race up EVER when discussing their political ideologies. I couldn’t give two craps about Obama’s race, but now that she and the rest of her liberal buddies are so hell-bent on mentioning it, shouldn’t someone point out to HER that he’s every bit as white as he is black? I didn’t see one sign, or meet one person at our Tea Party who had an issue with the skin color of our President. When are liberals going to figure out that the only people making an issue out of his skin color are THEM?
Way to dismiss concerned Americans, Princess Pelosi…stellar job.
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) had all kinds of crap to spew about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who peacefully protested this adminstration’s policies yesterday. She said, “The ‘tea parties’ being held today by groups of right-wing activists, and fueled by FOX News Channel, are an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans and creates 3.5 million jobs. It’s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt. Not a single American household or business will be taxed at a higher rate this year. Made to look like a grassroots uprising, this is an Obama bashing party promoted by corporate interests, as well as Republican lobbyists and politicians.”
Let’s examine all the things that are wrong with her nonsense, shall we?
1. The tax cut she refers to is good for 2009. It’ll save your average person about $400 this year. Next year? Bush’s taxcuts are stopped, and all of our taxes will skyrocket, because it’s the only way for us to pay for all the outrageous spending that Obama is doing.
2. No one is “cheapening” anything except our wallets.
3. What corporations were promoting the Tea Parties? I don’t know of any. Fox News gave it media coverage, and non profits helped promote it AFTER the grassroots effort took hold, but that’s it. What crack is she smoking?
See, you guys? The liberals CANNOT TAKE IT when conservatives come together to voice an opinion. It is literally KILLING THEM that yesterday was so successful.
As much as I despise Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s idiotic comments, I can’t help but feel a little gleeful about how much we’re collectively getting to her.
LOVE.
Here’s a lovely little follow-up video to Mock’s most recent. It’s Susan Roesgen – the same reporter she has in her posted video below – in a past story, depicting Bush as the devil, then moving on to a Tea Party yesterday, scolding a Tea Party participant that it’s just plain wrong to say mean things about the President.
Ms. Roesgen, thanks for pointing out how tolerant liberals are of constitutional free speech – well, only when it’s convenient for you and your own personal agenda, of course. 
They hate it when conservatives have an opportunity to voice their opinions. CNN hates it the most. Just listen to this “reporter” from CNN badger one of the Tea Party attendees, interrupt him, and then portray him as some sort of extremist. The reporter back at the station is just as awful.
What happened across the country yesterday was a fantastic example of what being an American is all about. It was a pure display of patriotism. And the liberal media is collectively crapping itself over it. They simply cannot accept that this was a grassroots effort, one that was organized by regular American folks who are just sick and tired of what’s happening to this country at the hands of our current representatives. They can’t fathom that it wasn’t organized by Fox News or by some other large entity. They hate it, and because they hate it, they turn to their tired old tactics of simply denigrating the people who are simply expressing, peacefully, how they feel.
Case in point: Paul Begala’s article at (where else?) CNN.com. In it, he calls the attendees “Fox News clowns” and “right wing cranks.” But he didn’t stop there. He called us “goofballs” and “overpaid media millionaires” and “whiners.” He is absolutely certain that there was a big giant powerplayer behind this, because the alternative of regular everyday normal Americans thinking outside of the liberal agenda is unthinkable to him. And so, he does what is so typical of people like him – just resorts to insults and namecalling.
An anonymous (of course) person who noticed my post about the Tea Party on The Mock Dock forwarded me Begala’s article with the comment, “I saw you went to a Tea Party – I really hope this article makes you feel like a dumbass.”
Sorry to disappoint the liberals – but yesterday was a great success, if only to remind other like-minded Americans out there that they are not alone, and that they have the power to change the course of our future.
Well done, Tea Party goers!!!
Mock and I had a lovely time at tonight’s Indianapolis Tax Day Tea Party. Despite the cold, we managed to spread the chicksontheright word while supporting the notion that governmental fiscal lack of responsibility sucks monkey poo.
For those of you visiting for the first time because of our shout-outs at the Tea Party, welcome! We hope you’ll bookmark us and help us in our quest to re-brand, revitalize, and revamp the conservative party….one chick and one dude at a time.
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Dan Gainor wrote a great entry last week on the wave of tea parties sprouting up all over the country this week. Wednesday is the big day, and I know Mock and I will be at our own city’s tea party, live and in person. However, there are a lot of people that won’t be able to make their local protests, and that’s where technology is taking over.
Thanks to that wonderful little Twitter, the “revolution” has been compared to the one in Moldova:
Anti-government young people in Moldova sent out a message that reportedly said: “Come fight the Communists in the front of the government building. Pass this message on.” Fifteen thousand people took it seriously. Protests and repression followed. One activist was even charged for forming “an anti-Communist flash mob” -– essentially a protest on the fly via new technology.
Gainor points out that while we may not be fighting communism (“yet”), we are fighting “just wrong-headed socialism. But it’s wrong-headed to the tune of trillions of dollars.”
Maybe conservatives can use technology after all. In fact, here’s a handy-dandy Google map to help you get to your Tax Day Tea Party destination. Pass the protest sign, please.
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