JANE!

Strange Brew comes from moneybags instead of tea bags.

UGHHHHHHHH DICK thE PRICK ARMEY

their money comes from the Koch, Scaife, Bradley, Olin
LALALALALALALA
spingtime FOR HITLER AND GERMANY….LALALA

They’ve been reality challenged for a long time so this is nothing new. It’s the whole “stick their fingers in their ear” thing.

This looks to be one last big shooting of the remnants of the Olin wad. Now that cash is all gone, and the other sugar daddies that had been lined up to take its place — Adelson, Tubby Black, Murdoch etc. — have either taken huge financial hits or are in prison for pulling stinky financial scams. It’s not a good time to be dependent on wingnut welfare.

Why do you think that the wingnut cash is gone?

they will go down shooting at us dems i fear

Well done Jane. And quite a tepid response from the teabaggers. Maybe they need another infusion of Daddy’s money. Speaking of which, I think there is way too little transparency regarding the funding of popular blogspots left and right. I understand bloggers need to eat and I’m all for a robust blogosphere (particularly since it has all but replaced print journalism as the place for news and commentary) but I’m often confused by the priorities of many of the liberal blogs I read. When a blogger goes on about a particular topic is it passion or is it an editorial decision that reflects the priorities of the funders?

Here on the left side of the universe, the Sugar Daddies can be counted on one hand. Yet they have very different priorities. Sometimes I’m curious about how those priorities affect the everyday choices bloggers make about what to cover and how. Thoughts?

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, teabagging, based on an episode of Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm — a show that is often difficult to watch under any circumstances — has a distinctly rude connotation. A recent blog by T. Boggs certainly intimated as much.

How ’bout that Gephardt backing away from any type of universal health care (carefully worded, evidently, to avoid confusion with single-payer which is anathema in the U.S. of A. — home of Pirate Snipers Anonymous)? Lobbying has gone to his head. Let’s talk about that, maybe.

OT
An interesting new website critical of Goldman Sachs.

GS is, of course, trying to shut it down.

Reynolds doesn’t seem to have many gaskets left. Maybe some recycled teabags would work as a short-term fix…

A caller to Stephanie Miller pointed out this morning that the ’spontaneous,’ ’grassroots’ Tea Parties have been planned and coordinated for years. The domain http://www.chicagoteaparty.com was reserved in August of 2008 by Zachary Christenson, producer of WGN’s right-wing Milt Rosenberg show. So the Right Wing has been coordinating these spontaneous grassroots protests for years.

I love tea inna bag…don’t like teabaggers. Swift Boaters/Tea Baggers same!

zombie tea party

Nah, as full of shit as they were the swifites for the most part had actually DONE something in their miserable ass lives.

Our only “funders” are the small dollar donations of our readers, we have no “sugar daddies.” Are you asking if “passion” and “editorial decision” regarding our coverage of a particular subject factor in our readers’ priorities?

Yes, we’d prefer to write about stuff they want to read.

“MOGADISHU, Somalia — A Mogadishu airport staff member says mortar shells were fired toward the airport as a plane carrying a U.S. congressman took off safely from the Somali capital.”

here come the drumbeats

I’m not complaining – I’m an avid reader so I guess I fit your demographic. I didn’t mean to imply that FDL had SugarDaddies. (I wouldn’t mind if it did, as long as it wasn’t a secret.)

I must not be reading that first line of the post correctly; it would seem to make more sense with “are” at the end, not “aren’t”.

The link in the sentence, for instance, leads to:

While the notion of someone paying $500 to have lunch near Glenn Beck is itself amusing, I think Oliver Willis captures the broader significance: “When people were protesting the Iraq War, they didn’t have $500 a plate fundraisers. Then again, they didn’t have sponsorship from Fox News, the backing of corporate lobbyists and the attendance of prominent conspiracy theorists like Alan Keyes.”

I’d be delighted to have one, we just don’t. Never have.

here come the drumbeats

Let’s hope somebody on his team has the intelligence to understand the difference between rescuing a hostage in international waters and retaliating (no doubt, in a vastly disproportionate fashion) for criminal action on foreign soil…

A MAD TEA-PARTY

There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and the talking over its head. `Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,’ thought Alice; `only, as it’s asleep, I suppose it doesn’t mind.’
A bright idea came into Alice’s head. `Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?’ she asked.

`Yes, that’s it,’ said the Hatter with a sigh: `it’s always tea-time, and we’ve no time to wash the things between whiles.’

`Then you keep moving round, I suppose?’ said Alice.

`Exactly so,’ said the Hatter: `as the things get used up.’

`But what happens when you come to the beginning again?’ Alice ventured to ask.

‘We change the subject,’ the March Hare interrupted.

I think Wednesday’s tea party will be very similar to the one Alice attended.

I see what you’re saying — the point (which I’m making rather inartfully) is that their demonstrations aren’t “grassroots” if they’re being funded by corporate lobbyists.

Yeah, back when corporate backers started funding pro-Iraq War demonstrations, I had a bit of waffling about that. “Wow! I could be helping to organize demonstrations from comfortable offices, with up-to-date computers and banks of phones…but I’d be working for something evil.” I figured it was better to work for something that would still feel justifiable years from then. And y’know what? It still does!

You catch Newt on George yesterday, he wants guns a blazin.

No, I have a very low tolerance for the Sunday gasbag shows. My TV would not survive…

they aren’t grass roots if they are being funded by deep pockets and not organized from the bottom up. the funding could be corporate, it could be soros, it could even be the afl-cio.

when the deep pocket money comes first – that’s not grass roots.

when the people organize from the bottom up – that’s grass roots (and i’d give a pass if they then go ask for an assist from deep pockets, so long as control stays with with the roots. although all to often control becomes consolidated instead of dispersed)

that said, lots of organizing for good causes begins with someone(s) who self funds to get things going (see pacifica radio). but that doesn’t make it grass roots.

and to pretend otherwise is just lame of the tea party protesters.

LOL!

He’s kind of a one trick pony, ol’ newtie. He all but called President Obama a sissy for not leveling the whole country instantly.

And when they spend their lobbying bucks for tax breaks, they really do reap the benefits from a willing Congress: $220 for every $1 spent:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/…..sWYfo37yR0

They’re all welfare queens.

There is quite a difference between critical thinking grassroots and manipulated masses manipulated by the very thugs they are organizing against.

Again, every day I read this stuff I think Hollywood must be loving it — you just cannot make this stuff up. Oh the movie scripts.

There is some wealthy retreat out there where a wealthy group gathers and giggles at how smart they are to try and stir the pot to further divide the nation. Not to mention the humor of the irony of the Tea Parties…
Thanks for seeing through their badly executed “smoke and mirrors” job Jane.

BTW, Any Exxon mention perks my attention. Remember, the last two July 4ths in Columbus, OH — they have been the finale sponsors. The music to the finale: from Star Wars Episode Three when Anakin kills the younglings and the Clone Troopers march on the Jedi Temple. It was a very sick choice of music and it has happened two years in a row.

any mention of Armey’s name at chez cbl is met with a loud “Vagina Coast Guard !”

sorry, Darrell Hammond as Chris Matthews circa 2004 –

anyone who doubts Jane’s statement about their failure to comprehend Astroturfing, should look Here and read the comments from ‘GSue’ towards the bottom of the thread – then again ol Sue might just be the Olivier of concern trolls

Not grassroots but they are getting lots of TV time. glen beck will be here at the Alamo on 4-15. Getting network TV time also-in addition to faux.

Not to be crass or anything. But did the Sat protest against banks get any MSM notice? Compare the tea bag protest on 4-15-which does not(so far) have anything to say about how the rethugs waged a couple of wars on credit-paid by Saudi Arabia and China-any odds given that no mention of rethugs will be made by anyone connected with tea bag protest?

This is an anti dem protest, organized by lobbyists for-the military industrial complex, the big farm multis, any other corporate interest whose ox is being gored by those nasty dems.

This is all geared towards the sheeple and the sheeple will fall for it. What is needed is for the dems to show some spine and some smarts and counter program(to late for this, but still)

However, since the dems show zero ability in this area, expect the rethugs to hammer this until 2010. This might be a winner for them. If the dems get to thinking that the rethug party is over and done with. Hubris kills faster than anything else.

As near as I can remember, this is the first “grass roots” organization that has been able to fund mid-day, mid-week robocalls in Colorado–very slick, with a guy that sounded like a TV commercial voice over. I was working, so I didn’t listen long enough to hear who was supposed to be behind the call.

I can’t believe how disgustingly ignorant you people are. I saw a video where your ‘queen’ accused Fox of financially supporting the Tax Day Tea Party protests. It’s funny that when she was asked to cite her source, she made some lame excuse about being ‘busy’ and would return to answer the question which, of course she didn’t. If people like you need to make these false accusations to make yourselves feel better, you might want to actually THINK before you speak. You may be sued for libel and defamation of character. I just participated in a Tea Party with other AMERICANS who are simply fed up with the out-of-control spending of OUR tax dollars and are concerned for America’s future. Why would you have a problem with that? It’s YOUR money, too! P.S. Socialism doesn’t work! People very quickly get tired of working to support others who won’t get off their asses and get a job, so the workers stop working because they don’t want to ’spread the wealth’ that THEY have EARNED! So, pretty soon, NOBODY is working, as there is absolutely no incentive to. What is so hard to understand about that? I know I’m sending a message to somke pretty ignorant people, but even YOU should understand that. What is your PROBLEM??? That’s ALL the Tea Parties are about! Just wait until it slaps you in the face! But don’t worry, the right will accept you when you get a brain!

I’m an American, punk.

Umm,
What Part of “FNC TAX DAY TEA PARTIES” Don’t You Understand?

Actually USA1, Jane links to ample proof right here. She and Media Matters have been producing lots and lots of proof. Dunno why you’re not aware of it.

I think USA1 might be the guy in the Cardinal jersey.
http://images2.dailykos.com/im…..morans.jpg

Oh dear, your link is broken.

I’m sure we both thought of this classic photo after reading USA1’s parting shot.

Apparently Mr. USA1 missed the size of the “tea party” on November 4th when a majority of Americans said they were fed up with the bankrupting of our nation due to an illegal war and unethical activity run rampant in our financial industry due to a lack of oversight. We just didn’t wave any tea bags.

Hello USA1… welcome in… follow the yellow line to your seat. “Out of control spending” is what George W and Ronald Reagan did. President Obama is using controlled and targeted spending in order to give our economy a chance to survive the past 30 years of uncontrolled deregulation, which has led us to another republican depression. If you have a history book handy, look up “The Great Depression” and learn how FDR got us out of that one. President Obama is trying to restore our economy without a World War which is making it that much harder. The only proven way to do that is to have the government provide the spending that consumers are not providing. Spending is what keeps the economy going. The only entity that can do that right now is the federal government. Unless, of course, you have a couple trillion laying around. I’m sorry USA1, you probably mean well, but you don’t understand economics and your little tirade about Tax Day Tea Bagging and out tax dollars only proves beyond a doubt that you are just another LIV (Low Information Voter) republican. Thanks for stopping by…now follow that yellow line right out the door before it hits you in the ass.