Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Grassroots Envy and Teabagging Conservatives

Even though all poll numbers confirm that the American people are solidly behind President Obama and his agenda, you would never know it if you watched Fake News. They have been doing their best to whip up the most absurd conspiracy theories and promoting the unfortunately named conservative "teabagging" parties that are happening today.

Conservatives across the country have allowed themselves to be whipped up into a frenzy. They would have us think that this were some sort of a grassroots revolt against paying taxes, but that couldn't be any further from the truth. The fact is that these events did not simply start springing up all over the country on their own. Corporate special interests have manufactured this and are trying their best to pretend that it counts as being "grassroots". Sorry, just because they were able to lead the party faithful by the nose to a local event does not make their "teabagging" some sort of populist uprising.



And if you really want a laugh check out Andy Cobb's "Teabag Party" video (May be R-rated for some)...and his followup video "2M4M 4EVER!"

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gee, everything conservatives do are grounded in corporate interests! LOL

Even Rose Fernandez who was vastly underfunded in her unaccomplished campaign for DPI Superintendent was accused of being backed by heavy hitting corporate interest groups.

Gosh, guys, you need another line of attack. Seriously. Heaven forbid that conservatives actually plan a protest once in a blue moon.

Cory Liebmann said...

if it walks and acts like a duck...

there is no doubt that corp money is what drove this conservative teabagging session...follow the links and learn.

fernandez was supported by corp interests. it was to a much lessor degree than I thought they would, but she was still their choice and they even did a pre-primary poll and shopped it around the state trying to drum up support for her.

Anonymous said...

What campaign doesn't have some sort of corporate interest supporting it? What do you call WEAC dumping $700,000 into Evers' campaign?

My point, which I think is lost on you, is that Fernandez was dwarfed by Evers' campaign fundraising precisely because "those" corporate backers weren't there for her like WEAC was there for Evers.

The problem I have is liberal bloggers such as yourself try to tag the term "Corporate Interest" onto every conservative candidate - even those who are funded primarily from a grassroots level. It's dishonest and inappropriate.