The real reason the RW media is claiming the left is going to infiltrate the Tea-Bagging Parties

[rvablue]

Fox News, Free Republic, Cry Baby Beck, et al, know damn well that their ridiculous tea-bagging circuses are going to bring out some of the most vile, racist, bigoted elements of society.

So, in order to cover their asses, about a week ago, starting with Neil Cavuto on Fox, followed up by Malkin and many others, they started concocting this story that the Left was planning to infiltrate and disrupt their protests.

But where did they get this "inside info?" There is no organizing going on here or at DKos, or anywhere else that I've seen.

That's right. They concocted it in their own paranoid minds as an excuse for when the KKK and their ilk show up to participate. They will cry "Look that's not one of US!!! That's a member of ACORN trying to ruin our reputation!?!?!?!?"

Why do I say this? I waded over into JimBob's cesspool today and they are already planning on calling out anyone with hateful or bigoted signage as an impostor of the Left.

Today, a couple of individuals have posted that they MIGHT go and counter protest. Given what I've shared here (and I happen to think I've struck upon something) I would urge everyone to stay away. Ignore them.

Go, and you will be giving them what they have been salivating about all week. Attention and potential drama and conflict that might extend the measely 1-2 minutes of news coverage they will receive otherwise.

[LostInAnomie]

1. Wouldn't doubt it.

Either that, or whenever the teabag parties fail to actually materialize they can blame it on infiltrators.

[Windy]

2. This F*** country has gone nuts!!!!

Where was the outrage when our men and women were getting killed by the thousands in Iraq and all those 10s of thousands of Iraqis...
and where was the outrage when billions of our tax dollars was shipped to Iraq and ended up missing....

Wow...

[county worker]

3. It's amazing that anyone would think we give a shit about their teabag

bullshit.

They are irrelevant except to their own selves. 66% of citizens think Obama is doing a good job and about that many think the country is going in the right direction.

The teabaggers make up less than 25% of the people.

[emilyg]

15. Obviously we do - so

many posts on it on DU.

[jobycom]

4. I think they are just trying to pretend someone gives a damn just to advertise the silliness.

If they pretend we are taking it seriously, then they feel less stupid taking it seriously.

Pretending it's an issue gives them an excuse to advertise these things.

[rvablue]

6. What an excellent point you make and I hadn't thought of it like that

this tea-bagging thing is so freakin' silly and ridiculous and they know it.

So, thinking (or hoping) that counter protests might happen is a projection of their self-consciencness about how dumb they are going to look and a deluded bid for relevancy.

Nice theory! I like it!

[Gabi Hayes]

17. they're doing what they should have been done when the war protests were ongoing:

paying attention to them, with the obvious distinction that, in addition to covering them, they're giving them positive coverage, to the point of making up garbage about the LW 'infiltrators'

interesting to see what sort of legs in the rest of the 'legit' MSM coverage like this gets

the worse things get economically, the more you can count on themes like this gathering support

won't matter, really, if/when the shit really starts hitting the fan, because things could get so bad that no media will be needed to tell the hoi polloi how the real world is treating them: when you don't have a roof over your head, can't afford any health care, can't feed your family, nothing you read/see/hear on mass media will make any difference at all.....only thing about it is, that the media, in their refusal to cover in depth ANY of the issues that have mattered since Carter's presidency, are more culpable than any other single group, politicians and the megacorpirates who own them, included. Oops....guess that includes what media have evolved into since then. you can than the 1996 Telecommunications Act for a lot of what's happened since then.

thanks, Clinton/Gore (remember who the spearhead of that bill was?)

[janx]

38. Right.

Insisting that there will be disruptors makes the silly event seem legitimate.

[Turbineguy]

5. Wingnuts

cleverly disguised as Liberals. Then they get beat up. Then they get arrested for getting beat up.

This could get complicated.

:popcorn:

Lightly salted, no butter. Thank you.

[Why Syzygy]

9. They'll get a backwards "T" scratched on their faces!!!

:rofl:

[chaplainM]

14. Hilarious! eom

[myrna minx]

23. LOL.

[myrna minx]

24. LOL.

[Turbineguy]

28. Now

THAT's funny!

[FSogol]

7. If you went to protest, you would double their crowd. n/t

[Why Syzygy]

8. It's insta tea, sponsored by and for Faux Noise.

I wouldn't step foot near one of their 'events'.

Despite its repeated insistence that its coverage is "fair and balanced" and its invitation to viewers to "say 'no' to biased media," in recent weeks, Fox News has frequently aired segments encouraging viewers to get involved with "tea party" protests across the country, which the channel has often described as primarily a response to President Obama's fiscal policies. Specifically, Fox News has in dozens of instances provided attendance and organizing information for future protests, such as protest dates, locations and website URLs. Fox News websites have also posted information and publicity material for protests. Fox News hosts have repeatedly encouraged viewers to join them at several April 15 protests that they are attending and covering; during the April 6 edition of Glenn Beck, on-screen text characterized these events as "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties." Tea-party organizers have used the planned attendance of the Fox News hosts to promote their protests. Fox News has also aired numerous interviews with protest organizers. Moreover, Fox News contributors are listed as "Tea Party Sponsor(s)" on TaxDayTeaParty.com. Media Matters for America has compiled the following analysis of Fox News' promotion of the tea-party protests.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/steve_katz/2009/04/has-fox-news-gone-one-tea-bag.php?ref=reccafe

[rvablue]

10. Good. And I don't get all the cross-outs in your post. n/t

[Why Syzygy]

11. Fixed. It was a bracket in the original text. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

21. can you say RCTV, anyone?

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3107

just think of the howls of indignation if any other M$M outlet had provided such aid and comfort to the enemy during the great patriotic invasion/occupation of the last six years

[Why Syzygy]

29. Faux IS the opposition party at the moment, you know.

Just ask Bill and Buck.

[Gabi Hayes]

30. of course...that's why I thought of RCTV's role in the Chavez coup.

not a perfect analogy, of course, but they did their part in helping to steal the 2000 election, if by nothing more than stirring the antiClinton propagand to the point of damaging Gore enough to allow Bushco to make a 'competitive' race of Grand Theft 2000

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. Infiltrate them? What, and ruin perfect Crazy already worthy of mockery?

They're already a sad spectacle. How can we improve on that.

[populistdriven]

13. Hey lets go set up a table and sell tea to drink and donate profits to local Democratic campaign.

[knitter4democracy]

16. Yeah, but I'd pay good money to see a couple start actually teabagging.

Right there, in the protest, in front of everyone with a sign saying that they were teabagging. Heh.

[Beam Me Up]

18. Eewwww

No. You don't want to see that. You don't even want to joke about seeing that. Trust me.

Shivers!

[GoCubsGo]

22. Funny how.the only discussions I 've read on the subject...

...here and at Kos and other left-leaning sites have been those making fun of them based on THAT definition of "tea bagging". Maybe that's what they're really afraid of--that everyone else will catch on, too.

[knitter4democracy]

33. It sure would be funny, though.

Heh.

[DS1]

19. mmm. rogue tea

[Sparkly]

20. Exactly -- they want a big brouhaha, but....

Anybody else remember "Cagney and Lacey?" In the opening of each show, there was a short clip where they're walking down the street talking and a guy jumps out opening his trench coat to flash them. They glance at him as if to say, "So?" and keep going. I think that's the way to deal with this, basically.

[Joe the Liberal]

25. That sounds like something they would do, it makes sense........

but we'll see, It wouldn't surprise me one bit.

[MineralMan]

26. I'd say ignore it, but if you MUST go, here's an idea:

Wear a dark suit, if you're a guy, or serious business attire. Take a good quality digital camera and be there taking photos of everyone. Be visible. Be obvious. You don't actually have to take any photos...just be seen to be taking photos. A telephoto lens would be an excellent prop.

Thing is, these freepers are so paranoid that they'll be absolutely certain that you're some sort of Fed spook that they'll be nervous as heck. Just stay in public, with people around and they won't come near you. Just keep "photographing" them. You'll drive 'em nuts.

Just sayin...

[NMMNG]

27. Who gives a damn about their ridiculous teabagging?

What I find asinine is that the parties are ostensibly to protest "government spending" and the like. Funny how they didn't care about Bush spending billions a day on the Iraq war and giving countless millions to his corporatist cronies, yet as soon as he's out of power they're all about protesting gubmint spending. Likewise they didn't care about his Department Homeland Insecurity ceaselessly nosing into our private lives ("If you have nothing to hide why are you so worried about it?") but now they're raging in the streets over alleged governmental invasions of their privacy. Hypocrites, the lot of them.

[jberryhill]

31. It's also a pre-excuse for low turnout....

"The Obama thugs scared everyone away and they stayed home."

It's like that invisible kid that used to slip in through your bedroom window, make a mess, and then flee before mom showed up.

[EFerrari]

32. Who would spend a day with these people on purpose?

Probably not even their poor mothers.

[Froward69]

34. I hear ya

I wanted to do a civic duty and try to educate with a witty sign. but then I thought better of the idea. I will stay home and blast them when they post pictures of all 10 who do show up.

[radfringe]

35. Curses! Foiled again...

and I was going to bring some lemon and honey for the tea

[DCKit]

36. It's not that kind of teabagging.

The loony wingers just don't get it.

But please folks, do stay away. The looniest of the loony *will* be there, and I'd hate for any amongst us to get hurt.

[HughBeaumont]

37. 70 % of the National Debt was rung up by THREE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS. WHERE WERE YOU THEN??

I'd have that on a sign . . . if I cared enough to go to one of these. It's just the spinning that results from the sign would send me into a vertigo powered by dead Reagan talking points and bad Lipton tea.

[Laelth]

39. Good advice. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[ima_sinnic]

40. I predict the "teabaggers" will end up like the "pot bangers"--remember them?

all six of them?