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Another fine point that’s been made concerning the Tea Traitors, other than being scum, idiots, losers etc., is that they really don’t have the numbers or the support the main stream media would make us thing they have…

Sharon Cobb directed us to a very observant post by the great Southern Beale who correctly states, after collecting the facts, that the Tea Party movement is a media creation.

Much like the PUMA movement, which was basically a Tea Party/Birther/Republican group of sexually frustrated Right Wing feminists (all five of them), the media portrayed the Tea Party as some major event that drew losers from the four corners of the universe. Fact is there were tumbleweeds blowin’ through Nashville’s Opryland but you’d never know it by listening to the Corporate Media.
The MSM had some 200 correspondents on hand. basically a third of the entire attendance.

From Southern Beale:

For further perspective, note that in another part of the sprawling Opryland complex this weekend a group of 500 women bloggers, many of them “mommy bloggers,” gathered for their sold-out convention. To my knowledge no national news media covered the event. 500 women bloggers vs 600 right wing nutjobs in white wigs and tri-corner hats. Which one gets the national news media’s attention?

The New York Times did an awesome job of buying the spin that this is just a mainstream group of folks. Clearly they did not listen to any of the keynote speeches, in which we heard homophobic rants about morality, anti-immigrant bigotry from Tom Tancredo, and birther conspiracy theories.

So thanks, New York Times. Way to mainstream the Obama hate.

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So everyone says around 600 people showed up for Nasvhille’s Tea Party Convention, right?

For some perspective, the first Netroots Nation drew over twice that amount:

But even after acknowledging this relevant context, what we’re left with is an event with 600 participants and a grand total of zero current House members, senators, or governors. There were, by some estimates, 200 journalists on hand to cover this convention, creating a bizarre dynamic – one reporter for every three participants.

It’s all terribly odd. The first Netroots Nation gathering (the conference formally known as Yearly Kos) had 1,400 attendees. The Tea Party convention had less than half this total.

The media attention seems a little disproportionate to what, by all appearances, was an underwhelming get-together.

Indeed it does. But this is just another case where the “liberal media” lie is shown in all of its glory.

And let’s remember the national media’s coverage of the left’s anti-war protests was tepid, at best. It seems if a bunch of liberals get together, it’s not news. But some wacko anti-gay, anti-immigrant right wing nutballs gather for three days of hating on the President and 200 media representatives descend on the convention hall.

Weird.

Atrios is right, the right wing rules their world.

Beale is right. The media is Corporate. Through eight of the darkest years modern man has even known (2000-2008) the MSM, with an exception or two, seldom and in some cases never, reported on the crimes of the Bush Regime. Why should they? Corporate Fascism means great wealth. For Corporate Fascists anyway.

A solid example could be this tragic story that was first reported by British media. An American soldier waterboards his own 4yo daughter for not getting her ABCs right (he should be tapped and dumped in a sewer somewhere btw).

It’s difficult to surmise exactly what American media really stands for. But seeing what they don’t stand for is easy. Truth.

Thank God Scary Sara is forming her very own Tea Pot….Bag…whatever political party. Now the Ass-End of the Republican party will have a brand new Assroots movement to be part of.

(snort) Idiots…..

The Tea Bag convention went well for the ones getting the speaker fees. Sara Failin got 100k for displaying her incomparable brainlessness. And didn’t even have to act.
The Idiots who were duped into attending this essay in lifelessness paid dearly to get in. And they are most deserving of the hard, dry fucking they got…

From Politico:

Tickets for the Nashville event run $549, plus a $9.95 fee, while separate tickets to see only Palin cost $349. Republican Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee are also scheduled to speak at the three-day conference at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center.

The shallowness of this political pandering money grab in Nashville was obvious from the beginning. They didn’t have a Pledge of Allegiance, or even an American flag present.
No prayer was offered…

From the Washington Post:

The convention’s first day lacked the orchestrated staging of most modern political events. The convention host delivered a meandering welcome speech without notes, saying that he had misplaced them. Former congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) offered a fiery defense of Judeo-Christian faith and traditional American values, but there was no prayer or Pledge of Allegiance to open the convention. Nor was there an American flag in the convention hall. (Convention spokesman Mark Skoda, chairman of the Memphis Tea Party, blamed the oversight on the hotel staff.)

But hey! They got to dupe the basket-cases that were lame enough to attend. “Mission Accomplished".

Some Iowa attendees were eager to display all the cool stuff (you betcha’) that they got for their month’s rent. Nothing like a cool, plastic megaphone and a TPN fanny pack, made in China, to provide one with a genuine sense of belonging…

Here’s some dysfunctional dim wits from Orlando after huffing glue in the ladies room…

Steve at Whitescreek found this gem. The perfect example of…well…I’m just not quite sure. Mid Life Crises?…

Next time you plan on attending a Tea Party, why not just send Scary Sara a check, save the gas money and stay home. Please.

In the midst of juggling all the info that’s coming available there is one thing that is reasonably certain. There is far more to this crime than just some “youths pulling a prank".

James O’Keefe is a scum bag and deserves what he gets. But the more we find out about Stan Dai, the more it looks like ol’ Stanley is the axis of evil here.

I’ve seen better heads on a mug of beer.

Dai has quite a resume’. Reads like a report card for the Hitler Youth.
As Justin Elliott of TPM reports, Dai is neck deep in the Radical Right’s cesspool of insanity, for such a young man. If in fact he is “24″ as is said.
An effective activist for the lunatic fringe in college, Dai has shown an amazingly honed talent for organizing and speaking out for evil…

Stan Dai, the accused Landrieu phone tamperer who penned an anti-feminist parody called The Penis Monologues as a conservative activist in college, went on to work for a program designed to get women and minority students interested in espionage work.

Mark Hosenball of NEWSWEEK, who has followed the story with zeal, reports some very interesting revelations concerning Dai and his sordid background…

Ann Pauley, vice president of Trinity Washington University, acknowledged to NEWSWEEK that a key objective of the “Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence” at her school was to expose female and minority students to the kind of work spy agencies do and potentially interest them in becoming intelligence officers. Dai was associate director of the program between August 2007 and October 2008….

….As we reported Wednesday, the introduction-to-intelligence program that Dai helped to run was entirely funded by a grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, otherwise known as the intelligence czar’s office.

The Director of National Intelligence, at that time, was none other than Admiral Mike McConnell. McConnell succeeded fellow NeoCon, John Negroponte, as DNI in Feb of 2007. In August 2007 Dai became involved in “collegiate spy recruiting".
McConnell has a degree from George Washington University. Dai is a student there.
Oddly enough…McConnell was also a tremendous fan and enabler of the Protect America Act. The legislation pushed by Bush/Cheney that enabled random spying on American citizens. Info on Booz, Allen, and Hamilton will tell you more about McConnell.

Seems these people have a hard-on for tapping phones.
One thing is clear. The Bush era Fascist movement is alive and well and until this botched attempt to undermine a Democratic Senator’s office, flying well below the radar.

John Michael McConnell was a Booz Allen Senior Vice President (1996-2006).

Dov Zakheim was the Booz Allen Vice President.

Zakheim allegedly co-authored Rebuilding America’s Defenses, Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, the Project for the New American Century’s (PNAC) position paper (published September 2000) which advocated the “necessity” of a Pearl-Harbor-like incident to mobilize the country into war with the Middle East. Since May 20, 2008, PNAC’s website is not accessible and that 90-page PDF document is no longer available from that source.

The PNAC or Project for the New American Century we know well. They are now posing under the name Foundation for Defense of Democracies. An organization that Stan Dai is an undergraduate fellow of.
The FDD are no strangers to assailing Democratic Senators.

From a previous post-Mar 21 ‘08:

In a release by Democracy For America (The Good Guys), we find the FDD in the process of funding Swift Boat type efforts against Democratic candidates.
I didn’t say any particular candidate, I said Democratic Candidates. Most of them running for the vitally important Senate seats that will be contested this November.
These US Senate contests may well be more important than who wins the White House and the PNAC/FDD are attacking and spreading their filthy lies as we speak.

Same old players, some new names, same old subversive, treasonous agenda. We’d be fools to take our eyes off of this instance and Democratic politicians of all stripes should be very vigilant in securing their persons and effects.

…and the shit gets thicker.

Just a quick update of the prevailing story of the year.
Majikthise (Lindsay Beyerstein) has more details on the perps……

It seems Flanagan once interned for none other than our own Lamar Alexander. Also, dig this…

STAN DAI, Lisle, Ill.,

Attends The George Washington University majoring in Political Science. He is editor-in-chief of The GW Patriot, an alternative conservative student newspaper, a Club 100 Activist of Young America’s Foundation, and an Undergraduate Fellow on Terrorism of the Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies formally known as, wait for it, the PNAC.

Yep. It’s them again. The PNAC. The Israel-First traitors of yore (which included Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby) that penned the guidelines that sent us to war in Iraq. The most treasonous, un-American group that has ever existed in this nation.
We are that much closer to the source of this crime. Stay tuned….

Yet another recap….

1) All in the Family:

Scott Brownie, the Senator elect from Massa2shits, was once a naked model. Not such a big deal at all, if one wasn’t a moralizing, Bible-thumping Republican.
First, Brownie gets naked, than offers his daughters up to the general Republican public (brings the story of Lot to mind).
Now we find that Scott Brownie’s wifey did a nasty little part in an old, crappy, 1984 muzack video.
“Girl with the Curious Hands” indeed.

All that lewd behavior back in the ’80s….I wonder if Mr. and Mrs. Brownie ever had a hair test to see how much coke they snorted back then. I’ll give 1000 Colonies for the daughters, but that’s it.

2) Harold Ford Jr. R - Wall Street

Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time knows that we have been Ford Jr’s primary nemesis in Tennessee. He has dodged us, ran from us, avoided us…all the standard action words apply. Though the act of sheer cowardice HFJ displayed at TPM is still one of the foremost efforts in chicken shit I have ever witnessed.
Harold Ford Jr. is not a democrat and never has been one. He is still the most two-faced, candy-assed punk this blogger has ever seen in Democratic politics.
Now, he want’s to take his lie machine to NY and campaign for Senate.
There are plenty of New Yorkers that are stupid enough to support him, but fortunately rather few demographically speaking.
Ford’s efforts will fail and he will once again be just another insignificant DLC punk who could have been a contender if he had any honor at all.

3) Saints Come Marching In:

Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints.
I’ve been a fan since I was eight (if you don’t believe me I have 30+ year old Saints hats that are too moldy to touch. I’ll be glad to post pics). Never had much hope of Benson being smart enough to spend money on a good crew (much like his predecessor John Mecom). Why should he have? NO fans are so dedicated they flock to the games with bag-on-head and Benson gets his money without producing.
This is truly NFL history in the making. Not only are the Saints in the Super bowl, but Tom Benson just might become a popular figure in NOLA for once.

Saints by 7 in the big game.

4) Tim Tebow- Fuckus on the Family

Poor kid, all that talent and still an idiot. I hate abortion. I also hate the death penalty and war, so unlike most on both sides of the equation, my ducks are in a row.
Trouble is, there are times that all three are unavoidable.
Tebow has a right to purchase air time just like any other American. And the right to state his views.
It’s one thing to deplore killing, but to join with a Fascist Pig organization like Focus on the Family and a scumbag pile of lying, fake Christian filth like James Dobson is all it takes to realize that Tebow will be joining Mike Vick and other famous assholes of modern sport in marring his career forever.
I hope it’s just his youthful ignorance that is preventing him from realizing that James Dobson and FotF are not just about anti-abortion. They are also pro war and pro death penalty which makes them hypocrites of the first order. They are anti-birth control and anti-sex education. They symbolize everything that is foul and disgusting by using the name of Christ to achieve personal gain and power.

It’s also sad that pro-choice groups are giving this 30 seconds of idiocy the brightest spotlight possible. It makes them sound anti-free speech and gives political credibility to a commercial that would otherwise go mostly unnoticed.

5) High Speed Rail Cannot Prevent Fail:

It is said that after the President gives his State of the Fucking Disaster speech tonight that he will introduce plans for High Speed Rail development.
That’s great! HSR is a truly wonderful, productive thing. Just ask the French, Japanese, Chinese and everyone else who has what we don’t.
But that will not be enough for the Democrats to win back their base. If Dems and Obama want us energized again PASS THE FUCKING HEALTH REFORM LEGISLATION WITH 51 VOTES AND A PUBLIC OPTION!
Nothing else they do will bring us home.