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Noam Chomsky talks about the rise of right wing protesters and about the people who belong to this movement.
Question: Why didn’t Fox “News” organize Tea Party protests when Bush was spending trillions of dollars?
“Fair and balanced” Fox News aggressively promotes “tea party” protests
http://mediamatters.org/items/200904080025?f=h_top
Fair and balanced?
Bush increased government spending the most since LBJ and doubled the national debt, yet not a peep from these so called “Fiscal conservatives”.
I think this is an excuse to bash our President.
Donk: The Republicans dominated government from 2000-2006, who was in control of the governments purse then?? The Democrats? Hah, right.
Zinger: Here you go http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Fox+news+tea+party&aq=f
There is several videos of Fox Noise promoting the Tea Party protests
Answer:
Answer by Jack Bauer my Hero
Because Bush is a republican just like them.
Question: What do you think about the “Tea Party” Protests?
i agree i think its great that people are actually doing something productive to help are country…even though i dont really agree with what they are protesting
Answer:
Answer by quad_rider22
they have every right to protest. They are just expressing their opinions about the current situation that this country is in. I can see some truth to what they are saying but I still feel there are better ways to fix the problems that this country has.
Question: Does anyone know for sure if the “tea party” protests will occur again on July 4th?
Just wondering….. I heard some talk about it, but nothing for sure.
Thanks for the schedule, don’t see one for the St. Louis area yet….
Answer:
Answer by aj
Yep…
Question: Why is King B. Hussein Obama allowing the US serfs to have “tea party” protests of his kingdom?
http://www.cincinnatiteaparty.org/
http://www.porkrevolution.org/
http://www.taxdayteaparty.com/
“what” is not a rational response to a written question. If you can’t hear, “what” makes a little sense.
Lots of thumbs down for “what” as an answer…seems others disagree with the validity of the response 
Answer:
Answer by delphi
What? Look at your question. You dare speak of rationality? Give it a rest.
The ignorance of others is not my responsibility.
Question: Does it bother Republicans that the chief organizer of the “Tea Party” protests are Corporate lobbyists?
Despite these attempts to make the “movement” appear organic, the principle organizers of the local events are actually the lobbyist-run think tanks Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works. The two groups are heavily staffed and well funded, and are providing all the logistical and public relations work necessary for planning coast-to-coast protests:
– Freedom Works staffers coordinate conference calls among protesters, contacting conservative activists to give them “sign ideas, sample press releases, and a map of events around the country.”
– Freedom Works staffers apparently moved to “take over” the planning of local events in Florida.
– Freedom Works provides how-to guides for delivering a “clear message” to the public and media.
– Freedom Works has several domain addresses — some of them made to look like they were set up by amateurs — to promote the protests.
– Americans for Prosperity is writing press releases and planning the events in New Jersey, Arizona, New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas, and several other states.
This type of corporate ‘astroturfing‘ is nothing new to either organization. While working to promote Social Security privatization, Freedom Works was caught planting one of its operatives as a “single mom” to ask questions to President Bush in a town hall on the subject. Last year, the Wall Street Journal exposed Freedom Works for similarly building “amateur-looking” websites to promote the lobbying interests of Dick Armey, the former Republican Majority Leader who now leads Freedom Works and is a lobbyist for the firm DLA Piper.
Americans for Prosperity is run by Tim Phillips, who was Ralph Reed’s former partner in the lobbying firm Century Strategies. The group is funded by Koch family foundations — a family whose wealth is derived from the oil industry. Indeed Americans for Prosperity has coordinated pro-drilling ‘grassroots‘ events around the country.
This afternoon, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, leader of the corporate-funded American Solutions for Winning the Futures (ASWF), blasted an e-mail to his supporters with a reminder to attend the protests, along with a “Toolkit” of talking points. Gingrich’s ASWF is funded by polluters and helped orchestrate the “Drill Here, Drill Now” campaign last summer. ASWF has been an official “partner” in the tea party effort since at least March.
http://thinkprogress.org/
A direct link to the article: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/lobbyists-planning-teaparties/
Answer:
Answer by OBAMA Cheerleader! GOBAMA!
Damn, I cant read all that.
Question: Any of you attend one of these “Tea Party” protests?
If so – what were you protesting specifically? Were you protesting the current administration or the government’s taxation policies in general?
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Answer by Dude
If there were any in my area I would have proudly went. I would be going, like the others attending, to dissent Obama and his economic policies.
Question: Why is it if you attend the “tea party” protests you are labeled as a racist?
Im not a tea party protester I just think its funny that one of the few times a conservative protests the reasoning behind it is said to be that they are only doing it because theirs a black man in the white house and they hate black people.
what were some of these racist signs that you have seen
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Answer by subwm4bush
Guilt by association since so many racists have shown up at our GOP tea parties. I mean grass roots independent tea parties of course. Just like we tried to tie President Obama to terrorism by his middle name and slight connection to educator and former radical Bill Ayers.
Question: Are there going to be any “tea party” protests in Chicago?
Most of us know about the “tea parties” springing up all around the nation to protest taxes and other policies the government has forced upon us over the past few decades. Are there going to be any happening in Chicago or in the Chicago area? Is there an official, or even non-official, website for these protests? Thanks.
Thanks TAT. Do you know of any future ones though?
Answer:
Answer by TAT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VDYcylsUpk
There has already been one
The second link is for the Chicago Tea Party website
http://chicagoteaparty.com/
Question: What’s with all these teabaggers at these “tea party” protests?
Does the winner get teabagged by Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Santelli, Hannity and all the other fake populist teabaggers?
Answer:
Answer by Cocken
Republicans have been waiting a while to get teabagged.