CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party: It's "Anti-CNN Since This is Highly Promoted By the Right-Wing,, page 3
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reply posted on 15-4-2009 @ 10:56 PM by Fox News
reply to post by Swatman


That usually is not a good way to convey a message... However, it would have been funny to see her get pelted with tea bags!


reply posted on 15-4-2009 @ 11:06 PM by Swatman
Originally posted by Fox News
reply to post by Swatman


That usually is not a good way to convey a message... However, it would have been funny to see her get pelted with tea bags!


i was just laughing at all the different tea bag jokes that cannot be repeated on this site.


reply posted on 15-4-2009 @ 11:57 PM by lunarminer
reply to post by Swatman


One of the guys who is posting on another thread is calling the protestors trouble makers.

I was at the Atlanta rally, not one act of violence. Not one act of civil dissobedience, other than J-walking.


reply posted on 15-4-2009 @ 11:57 PM by lunarminer
reply to post by Swatman


Sorry for the double post.

Anyway, I have not seen one news story that any acts of violence occured at any of the Tea Parties!

That is just amazing.

[edit on 15-4-2009 by lunarminer]


reply posted on 16-4-2009 @ 12:21 AM by Jenna
reply to post by saber13


The problems we have today didn't start when Obama was elected, it has just finally come to the boiling point. And people didn't speak up until it affected them. That's usually how it works.

As for things that could be cut, how about that $4,545,000 for wood utilization research for starters. I'd say that over the last few thousand years we have figured out how to utilize wood. There is so much money being spent on pet projects it's ridiculous. This site has a pretty extensive list of things congress has been putting in the bills they have been passing that are nothing more than pet projects that goes back almost 20 years.


reply posted on 16-4-2009 @ 12:43 AM by saber13
reply to post by Jenna


ya i agree most pork sux but some is good and the other thing is that not all the pork gets financed in the end it just gets thrown into the bill so congressmen have something to show their constituents in the next election. And the probs started 8 yrs ago i know that but i doubt people are mad about bush making the government too big


reply posted on 16-4-2009 @ 12:58 AM by lunarminer
reply to post by saber13


This has nothing to do with Bush or Obama. The problem started over 30 years ago and has continued.

It is really funny how everyone colors the current problems with their own political biases. For years I have heard how President Reagan doubled the deficit while he was in office. Those same people will deny that Jimmy Carter doubled the deficit while he was in office as well.

Fast forward to the current day and the same arguments are heard. Bush doubled the deficit, while they deny that Obama doubled it in 2 months!

Put all that aside and realize that it is your money, your kid's money, and your grandkid's money that is being spent and your grandkid's who will be enslaved by this current level of government spending.

When you look at it like that, then you get mad. That is what this issue is about, standing up and yelling enough!

Don't you want to do that? If not, then why are you on a blog?


reply posted on 16-4-2009 @ 01:41 AM by lunarminer
reply to post by hadriana


Well speaking as a person who was actually there, there were plenty of people who were there who were black, brown, red, white, etc.

You have to realize that the camera men can only shoot from certain vantage points, and you can only focus on the first 2 or 3 rows.

That being said, I watched the Fox coverage after I returned from the rally, and I counted several dozen blacks in the crowd. So...I don't know what you were watching.

I would like to ask however, if you consider the opinions of the thousands of white folks there as being invalid?


reply posted on 16-4-2009 @ 01:51 AM by lazy1981
reply to post by TrueBrit


Although you do seem to make "some" good points Socialism is a failed system of government in any part of the world so lets please leave that where it lays, in the grave.

Capitalism really isn't a problem when you have responsible people and government there to keep the "robber barons" in check.

The US Government got a reasonably good handle on this with the anti-trust laws.

en.wikipedia.org...

And the people organized labor unions to combat unfair labor practices. And yes, I know they were formed under Socialist movements in the US. But try telling that to a Democrat or member of a Union, they will try and kill you rather than accept history.

en.wikipedia.org...

The point being that Capitalism in America worked out fine for many years and even caused this country to become what it is today. It is just the fact that the Government has allowed themselves to become too closely concerned with the ups and downs of a company and the "contributions" that are given by them. This way they don't make them take an actual stake in the country itself, they allow corporations to rape the country.

Likewise the people have become complacent and will not risk what many people before them did in order to gain better wages and working conditions. So it is partly the people, government, and corporations. Not the "form of Government" that is the issue in this particular instance.

And I leave you this from one of our wise men.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
-President Thomas Jefferson


reply posted on 16-4-2009 @ 02:00 AM by chise61
reply to post by hadriana


I really don't understand what is the problem with Joe the plumber being at a tea party ? This event was about way more than one person being, or not being there.

What i really don't understand though is why you bring up the fact that you seemed to see no diversity ? You have already stated that what you saw was on the tv, which means you were not at a tea party. So how can you possibly say that there was no diversity if you could not possibly see the whole crowd ? And what exactly does the diversity of the crowd have to do with the message behind the event ?

And how do you know what it looked like to MOST democrats, did you take a poll, are you their official spokesperson?


reply posted on 16-4-2009 @ 02:02 AM by lazy1981
reply to post by DrZERO

I find it a bit odd that those on the left such as this reporter seem to be disturbed by the mans assertion that Obama is a Fascist.

They also seem to be quite disturbed by the recent announcements that there are some that wish him to fail "due to his policy."


Wasn't it not too long ago (less that 4 months) that these same sort of liberals openly called for the failure of President Bush's Iraq policies, and openly calling him a Fascist. They even openly called for his out rite failure as a President and called him far worse than a simple Fascist.

Now believe me when I say that I'm no supporter of Bush's policies (not that they hold relevance any longer) but the point needed to be made that it was fine and dandy when it was the left, dog piling on Bush and calling for his disastrous downfall.

But, there are a few descenters (and maybe hardliners that are crossing a line) and the left can't take what they dished out for so many years?????


Now now, what's fair is fair.

Personally I can't stand either of the Presidents (old or new). I'm an Independent Conservative. And neither one of them is Independent nor Conservative.

But I should say that what's good for the goose (well you know the rest).

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