Chicagoist: Chicago's Tea Party

mrarey2008

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:47:08 -0600

To be clear, I don't believe in conspiracies, what I do believe in is consensus and closing ranks. The financial sector has been pilloried for months now and they're doing everything they can to push back. Are there individuals with a great deal of money making great efforts to spin that push back? Sure, and they're wise to coordinate. That doesn't make them any less wrong. The conservative movement has pinned its hopes on some loud-mouths like Santelli and Rush Limbaugh (a high school educated draft-dodging drug addict sports broadcaster who William F. Buckley wouldn't cross the street to kick in the shins) It's embarrassing to anyone who holds to the values and principles of conservatism to see this farce play out.

Ingrid

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:42:31 -0600

But did you notice that every single person that was interviewed had nothing insightful to say? PMLHS was pretty much saying what they were all saying, which was pretty much nothing. If you look past his skin color, he's being just as much of a kool aid drinking idiot as the rest of them.

Spook

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:21:48 -0600

p.s and look at Mr. Sean "Pretty Much Like He Said" Caar smiling and grinning with nothing to say like a good uncle tom stereo type. The reporter had to prod him into saying something by reminding him that Lincoln freed his people. I hope he sees this!

Spook

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:16:25 -0600

Hey King of the Idiot mob, I guess you missed the fact that the House Negro had absolutely nothing to say, has the audacity to accuse some one else of drinking Kool Aid He is just a black empty prop, but I guess that's how you like em, sucka

prattfall

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:06:29 -0600

This FTW

mike_thoms

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:56:43 -0600

I was just going to post "what kind of sociopathic narcissist brings their kids to something like this"

Lincoln Park Yuppie

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:51:31 -0600

If you think Santelli's "rant" was anything but from the heart, you've obviously never watched him on CNBC before, nor did you choose to do any research before engaging in libel against him. I always chuckle at those on the left who always think that whoever is against them is involved in some sort of conspiracy. You know, maybe the Republican party is really that inept? They certainly have done a terrible job sticking to their supposed core principals during this decade.

Navin

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:44:16 -0600

Here Here, These mouth breathers were all strangley quiet and absent when The Bush admin was literally dropping of PALLETS OF CASH with no accountability in Iraq. Dep of Homeland Security, largest expansion of goverment in history. What can you expect of people too stupid to even look up the most dumbed down definition of "Socialism".

deliciae

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:32:43 -0600

Also, you think leftists don't plan protests? I know a lot of leftist activists, and they plan for months and coordinate. The difference is that we do it openly. We don't have our PR people develop a sneak campaign in which some nudnik goes on the tv to deliver a scripted rant and then pretend that a grassroots movement spontaneously developed around it.

KingMob

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:53:22 -0600

A black guy that isn't a democrat is a "house negro". Yeah, that's not racist. Also, you think leftists don't plan protests? I know a lot of leftist activists, and they plan for months and coordinate. It's not like people are going to show up out of nowhere. I find the reaction of establishment liberals and Obama supporters to this highly revealing, to say the least.

mrarey2008

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:50:56 -0600

Serving in the military during the previous administration I saw the hideous waste that went on. Millions, billions, that was squandered on whatever pen and paper warrior plan Rumsfeld or Cheney thought might work. All while troops returning home couldn't get decent medical care, were denied due pay and found themselves stop-lossed time and again. I don't agree with everything the President is doing, but I think that, unlike the previous occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. he's got the interests of most Americans at heart. I say this as someone who voted republican, not Bush, more often than not, until this last one. Santelli's rant has been shown to be nothing more than some PR hot air, another attempt by the far right to fight about the wording and not the issues. Crooks and Liars did a great bit on this over the weekend. http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/rick-santellis-rant-was-coordinated-eff

ophmarketing

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:47:27 -0600

morons, standing around in the cold so rich people won't have to pay taxes That pretty much sums up the Republican party.

Spook

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:36:39 -0600

ahhhhh Mr. Sean "Pretty Much Like He Said" Caar Yea, he's not Black Liberal, because he's a Republican House Negro! They ask him a question and he looks to some scraggly white dude to answer for him I bet the found him in some at some Wriggleville frat bar trying to "fit in" and be what he aint, white!

austin5454

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:31:18 -0600

Glad to see families exploiting their children for causes that the kids don't understand. And, considering that the children are young enough to have not yet lost empathy, they may even oppose their parents if they did understand it.

Not_another_username

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:15:26 -0600

What a bunch of morons, standing around in the cold so rich people won't have to pay taxes.

ophmarketing

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:02:02 -0600

Whoops. Turns out 'spontaneous grassroots outrage" takes quite a bit of advance planning. http://www.alternet.org/workplace/129523/right-wing_%27tea_party%27_movement_was_planned_months_ago_by_gop_billionaires/ Maybe next time, kids.