Black Helicopters Over Nashville

[proud2BlibKansan]

Never mind Sarah Palin and the tricornered hats. The tea-party movement is dominated by conspiracist kooks.

The tea-party movement has no leader. But it does have a face: William Temple of Brunswick, Ga. For months, the amiable middle-aged activist has been criss-crossing America, appearing at tea-party events dressed in his trademark three-cornered hat and Revolutionary garb. When journalists interview him (which is often—his outfit draws them in like a magnet), he presents himself as a human bridge between the founders' era and our own. "We fought the British over a 3 percent tea tax. We might as well bring the British back," he told NPR during a recent protest outside the Capitol.

It's a charming act, which makes the tea-party movement seem no more unnerving than the people who spend their weekends reenacting the Civil War. But the 18th-century getups mask something disturbing. After I spent the weekend at the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville, Tenn., it has become clear to me that the movement is dominated by people whose vision of the government is conspiratorial and dangerously detached from reality. It's more John Birch than John Adams.

Like all populists, tea partiers are suspicious of power and influence, and anyone who wields them. Their villain list includes the big banks; bailed-out corporations; James Cameron, whose Avatar is seen as a veiled denunciation of the U.S. military; Republican Party institutional figures they feel ignored by, such as chairman Michael Steele; colleges and universities (the more prestigious, the more evil); TheWashington Post; Anderson Cooper; and even FOX News pundits who have heaped scorn on the tea-party movement's more militant oddballs, such as Bill O'Reilly.

One of the most bizarre moments of the recent tea-party convention came when blogger Andrew Breitbart delivered a particularly vicious fulmination against the mainstream media, prompting everyone to get up, turn toward the media section at the back of the conference room, and scream, "USA! USA! USA!" But the tea partiers' well-documented obsession with President Obama has hardly been diffused by their knack for finding new enemies.

more . . . http://www.newsweek.com/id/233331

[liberal N proud]

1. 600 morons screaming USA, I bet that was really loud

:rofl:

These people are a joke and should be laughed at continuously.

[Canuckistanian]

5. They were screaming at the "liberal media"

It's funny - the Teabag corporate masters do everything in their power to get the media to PAY ATTENTION to this fringe group.

Then they make a big show of dissing the media.

I think the media should take that message and STOP COVERING them.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

2. This is what makes this movement dangerous

anyone who is so divorced from reality as to believe some of this crazy stuff could be capable of doing something stupid.

It is not just teabaggers that promulgate this kind of shit either, I have read this kind of crazy stuff right here on DU on more than one occasion.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Nothing on DU is as insane as the teabaggers

[spiritual_gunfighter]

9. speaking of Alex Jones

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x280261

[L. Coyote]

13. Teabaggers are paranoid crazies who empower real crazies to believe lies

and they create an atmosphere of concern about people with guns acting on their delusions and the delusions promulgated by this crowd.

And they use that ambiguously gay (no goddess EVER) Lord GOD guy to justify their insanity :rofl:

[SoxFan]

20. Thank you for pointing this out

There's less distance between Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich than people realize.

On edit: This seems to prove the point...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7684948

[Mari333]

3. jeebus

[Vinca]

4. The teabaggers contain some scary nuts who must keep the Secret Service worried.

[Vickers]

7. "Welcome to Brunswick! Who farted?"

I wonder if he smells like that nasty-ass paper mill they have there?

[CanonRay]

11. I used to smell that shit first thing every morning

it still makes me ill when I get within a mile of one.

[Mari333]

8. makes no sense..the media whores have been covering them like crazy

media too far left?? then why didnt the MSM cover the 400,000 people who marched on DC (LGBT) or the anti war marches of millions..
but spent a week covering 600 nuts?

[Zoeisright]

10. 'Populists'???

Hardly. An astroturf movement, like a chemically induced bowl movement, is never 'populist'.

[spanone]

12. patriots, my ass.

[SidDithers]

14. DU has its very own "black helicopters" crowd...

who, while Boosh was in power, believed we were a month away from war with Iran, and that liberals were about to be rounded up and held in FEMA concentration camps.

Sid

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Still not as insane as the teabaggers

And no conspiracy theory group is nuttier than the birthers.

[SidDithers]

16. Can't say you're wrong there...

the birthers really do take the cake. They've got Orly, after all.

Sid

[MercutioATC]

17. They have NO idea why the Boston Tea Party was staged.

Colonists protested because England eliminated a tea tax that they had been charging the East India Company, resulting in lower imported tea prices...which hurt domestic tea sales.

It had nothing to do with excessive taxation. Hell, it wasn't even a tax consumers paid, it was an import tax charged to the shipping company.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. LOL Great point!

We need to bring that up as often as possible.

[walldude]

19. +1 I was going to mention this as well..

they claim to be these huge patriots but they have no grasp of history at all.