Teabaggers delve deeper into bizzaro wor…



Teabaggers delve deeper into bizzaro world

WASHINGTON (CNN) – The organizer of a “Tea Party” protest in Virginia says he intends to move forward with plans to burn House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Perriello in effigy next weekend at a rally to protest Democratic health care legislation.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/14/tea-part-organizer-vows-to-burn-pelosi-and-perriello-in-effigy/


Isn’t the whole burning in effigy thing meant to have at least the appearance of spontaneity? Glad to
see the baggers working so hard for Democratic victories in 2010 and 2012. At this rate we won’t even have to campaign.

just for fun here are a couple of my favorite comments attached to the CNN piece;

These folks are getting more and more extreme. They are so far out of mainstream American society, yet CNN and other outlets keep covering them like they are reasonable protestors. Do these “patriots” have any idea that the majority of Americans favor of a strong public option for health care? This has been shown to be the case in survey after survey. Pelosi and Periello are fighting for good health care for all Americans. Don’t we deserve that? Yes, we do.

I would just add to that we don’t know what percentage of the population are self declared teabaggers, birthers, Palinites or Beckies. 9/12ers (I suspect that the overlap of these groups is almost 100% i.e. they sign up for the full package.) A responsible media would endeavour to find this out but the media we have knows that if the true figure is very low, say in single digits percentage wise, they would have to go out and find real news to cover.

This one mirrored my initial reaction perfectly:

Well, that will certainly convince people that the Tea Baggers are not unhinged or out to lunch in any way…


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