Posted by: Paladin at January 04, 2010 12:40 PM (XZu3c)

Dude, that's like, uh, a rave, right? Or is that like, uh, a type of Nike shoes?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 04, 2010 12:42 PM (VJHap)

Hey, I'm claiming credit you tea-bagging teabagger! Hehe. I'm such a serious, independent journalist. Giggle. I said teabagger on TV!

Well, if it was clever and interesting, I might be put off.  But yawwwnnnn.

Cordially....

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at January 04, 2010 12:49 PM (T2MEx)

Have you tried to pay them with clunkers?

Posted by: Posted by: Huge, Quickly at January 04, 2010 12:50 PM (z37MR)

Hey, we wouldn't get invited to the cool cocktail parties anymore! And really, what is the point of being in politics if you can't purposely ignore MoDo at last call? 

 Some NRCCer with standards at January 04, 2010 12:52 PM (7BU4a)

Standards mean you haven't drank enough yet.

They key to this video is described in its own promotion:

The Wall Street Journal dubbed him "the undisputed guru of the form." He creates political animation from an undisclosed location somewhere in San Francisco.

A SF wing nut liberal made the video. Remember how much the left raised hell a few years ago when Bush appointed someone who was going to try to get this BS organization back toward the center and away from blatant political BS like this.

If I am not mistaken it is illegal for government money to be spent on political ads;. I guess we will all have to wait on Holder to prosecute.

Posted by: Your 1L ConLaw Professor at January 04, 2010 12:56 PM (8/DeP)

Beat your face private.

What the fuck has this nation become.

Our tax money funds NPR calling us vulgar names= GOOD.

Brit Hume suggesting Tiger Woods turn to Jesus Christ= BAD.

I can't believe that shit.

Ball dipping is now a language?

NPR:  40 years of full retard.

Man, it's really silly for all those conservatives on the comment line to threaten to stop contributing. What are they going to do, quit paying taxes? If NPR "contributions" went to zero, the Public Option would just kick into high gear.

But for Reee-ly Stooo-pid, I'm going for the administrator at National Public Radio who commissioned an animated video. What is this, the McCarthy era:  Charlie McCarthy? The Constitution may or may not allow gummint to finance broadcasting (mwahaha), but video belongs to the Public Broadcasting TV Network, not to Radio. There's gonna be trouble now. They've crossed turf.

Smug fucks.

They, and especially their collegiate thralls, are the ones engaged in the behaviors caricatured

These assholes are going to be debrided very soon now. Reality is gonna be brand-new for these CommieLite parasites. But we do owe them thanks; they've been kind enough to designate themselves with their Obongo bumperstickers, buttons, Cultimulcheral regalia, and manifest lunacy.

I have my own brand of fun with NPR.

It involves feeding them bullshit during their fundraisers.
I like to see how long I can keep them on the phone without really committing to giving them money.

Try it when your bored!

Do they have a 1-800 number to call? Just go to various pay phones (yes, they still exist even in the Age of Cellphones), dial the number, and leave it off the hook.

I do this with "Pacifica Radio" fundraisers all the time .Those people have some non-profit radio stations here in California that are even worse than NPR, if you can imagine that.

If you think about it carefully, you morons will realize that it is perfectly consistent of NPR to mock citizens for exercising their 1st Amendment rights under the Constitution!

You see, while the exact same amendment protects NPR from government censorship, NPR regularly self-censors itself on behalf of the Government!

It's analogous to a whore saying that a respectable lady, who doesn't rent her body out for money, is stupid.  Insulting to the lady yes, but perfectly logical from the moral situation of a whore.

It's analogous to a whore saying that a respectable lady, who doesn't rent her body out for money, is stupid.  Insulting to the lady yes, but perfectly logical from the moral situation of a whore.

Which reminds me of Churchill's legendary retort to Lady Astor that he had already established what she was, he was just dickering over the price.

These assholes are going to be debrided very soon now. Reality is gonna be brand-new for these CommieLite parasites. But we do owe them thanks; they've been kind enough to designate themselves with their Obongo bumperstickers, buttons, Cultimulcheral regalia, and manifest lunacy.

And yet, after the "New Right" of the 1980's and then the Newt Right of the 1990's, they are still there. I would love to drag them in front of a revived Un- American Activities Committee, blacklist them and defund them fully, but I don't share your optimism.

Posted by: Garrison Keillor from Lake Wobegon at January 04, 2010 01:26 PM (fh7Kf)

Indeed, how does anyone like this guy? Even my parents, who hail from the Upper Midwest and like jokes about the region more than anyone, find him annoyingly slow when they don't find him asinine.

Posted by: Garrison Keillor from Lake Wobegon at January 04, 2010 01:26 PM (fh7Kf)

Indeed, how does anyone like this guy? Even my parents, who hail from the Upper Midwest and like jokes about the region more than anyone, find him annoyingly slow when they don't find him asinine.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 04, 2010 01:33 PM (ujg0T)

Oh my -- what a droll comment about ME!  Is it any wonder I changed my name from Gary to Garrison?...has a real upper-crust ring, don't you think?  I mean let's face it...how else would the afternoon tea and tennis crowd find anything Midwestern even remotely interesting...by the way, have you heard the story about my crazy Uncle Floyd from nearby Lake Wohocalaca...a REAL HOOT!

75 It makes me want to teach them how to speak "Bleeding Commie Douchebag" -- traditionally communicated through a sort of sign language...

Yeah, that sort of hemorrhaging, sobbing sort of sign language I love so much.

The AoSHQ portion of a comment I left ont eh NPR site:

For those of you NPR folks who are apparently historically-challenged, the Tea Party Movement derives it's name from the Boston Tea Party, not your family reunions. 

Posted by: Eric at January 04, 2010 01:41 PM (Qc/s6)

Another feather for his cap! He is truly unprecedented.

Hmm. That was ...

Noticed that most of the comments below the video expressed anger or frustration at this propaganda clip.

There are two constants. The right always lets the left set the terms of the debate, and the left always overreaches.

This is an example of that overreach, and at some point, even the so called "moderate" portion of the '52' that were enthralled with Obama's pant creases are going to get sick of this stuff. The tea party participants were not all AoSHQ hardliners. A significant portion of those who voted for Obama will look at themes like this and say, "Wait a second. I voted for hope and change from a guy who ran as a uniter. I was one of the enlightened ones who wanted to dump Bush. But just because I'm not totally 100% on board with writing a blank check to Fannie or having the government take over healthcare, these Obama base guys are coming after ME. And they hate me. Wow. I thought I was one of the good guys." 

Pour it on, libs. Keep mocking and alienating anyone who is one degree to the right of Noam Chomsky.

I'm guessing you're referring to KPFA in Berkeley and its sister station KPFK in Los Angeles. Commie radio 24/7. And between those two, and NPR, and the left-tilted MSM, it's no wonder that Air America is a massive failure in California; the market for moonbat left propaganda has pretty much been sucked dry already.

Bingo! But they DO have a 1-800 number for fundraising. (1-800-439-KPFA)Call and call and call. I bet in Oregon you can bankrupt it too.

how is that something that sane middle-of-the-road people will look at  and go "yeah, those people are talking sense!  Obama really is a socialist nazi antichrist muslim!"  it won't.  because it's CRAAAZY.

It's also not what they were saying, douchebag. 

But don't let reality intrude upon your little fantasy world. 

Now don't you have some calls to make to help people save money on their cell phone service?

stay angry my friends. stay angry.

You mistake my mocking you as anger.

Not that I'm all that surprised at your lack of insight into my state of mind.  Your ignorance is well documented.

Fun project!  I've been posting comments there with the word 'teabagger' in them and asking other commenters to report them for abuse as 'Hate Speech' or 'Obscenity/vulgarity' for using innappropriate sexual language to describe taxpayers.  Several of my comments have been removed already!  I wonder how long it will be before they ban me for using the term they used in their own video?

Ooooh!  That didn't take long!  Most of my comments there have been marked "An NPR moderator has removed this comment because it does not adhere to the discussion guidelines".  Snort.

my point was that the shambolic tea party movement is a bunch of perma-angry white people shouting and holding  grammatically incorrect signs on Fox news.

Thanks for playing the race card early; it saves time. A cursory examination of the videos taken at the protests proves that your assertion is false. my favorite sign seen at one of these protests captures your intellectual dishonesty perfectly:

"It doesn't matter what this sign says. You'll say that it's racist"

Further, these people are no 'angrier' than the so-called peace protestors carrying 'death to Israel' signs. And these people were lauded by the Left.

Posted by: jack kemp II at January 04, 2010 03:57 PM (1NK6R)

RAAAAAAAAAACIST!

how is that something that sane middle-of-the-road people will look at  and go "yeah, those people are talking sense!  Obama really is a socialist nazi antichrist muslim!"  it won't.  because it's CRAAAZY.

My, aren't you a stupid and uninformed person?

More than four in 10, 41%, of respondents said they had a very or somewhat favorable view of the Tea Party movement, while 24% said they had a somewhat or very negative view of the group. The Tea Party movement gained notoriety over the summer following a series of protests in Washington, D.C. and other cities over government spending and other U.S. economic policies.
 
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, which controls both the White House and Congress, has a 35% positive rating compared with a 45% negative rating.

Thanks for playing, twit. Here's a certificate of participation to build your self- esteem.

my point is that the tea baggers' ire is not infectious

my point was that the shambolic tea party movement is a bunch of perma-angry white people shouting and holding  grammatically incorrect signs on Fox news.

These two points are not synonomous. One casts doubts upon the effectiveness of the protests. The fact that this movement is outpolling both existing parties is proof that your latest assertion is spurious.

 The other uses no fewer than five slurs/ talking points/misrepresentations to demean the movment. You cannot prove that this movement is composed entirely of white people. You cannot prove that all of these people are permanently angry. Shouting tends to be the norm at most protests. As for Fox news, the fact that other media outlets chose to ignore or downplay these protests was their choice. Fox didn't obtain exclusive rights.

Here's what I posted on NPR:

'Thanks NPR. Those in the TEA movement should learn to talk the way progressives did for eight years: "I blame Chimpy McBush-Hitler Halliburton. We're ruled by Cheney's JUNTA that steals elections and will NEVER surrender power! Eleventy!11! RACIST-HOMOPHOBE-NAZIS!"

That progressive-speak was so darned sophisticated. I'm starting to get nostalgic.'

Jack Kemp II- your advice for Conservatives is akin to a weasel advising hens where to hide their eggs.

Vim Toot!

Here's my comment at pbs' site:

Get ready for the unemployment line, npr hipsters. We're going to fire you. With malice.

Get off our backs. Get out of our pockets. Get a job because, we're gonna privatize you.

A very scary prospect for leftist parasites.

This one hit is all you'll ever get from me. I registered just to spit at npr for your intentional insult of people unlike you.

DIAF, liberal.

Happy New Year everybody!!!!!!

I was out of town for the holidays.

May I see a show of hands of those of you who missed me? he he he he he

P.S. All of the articles today are kind of dull and boring. How about posting one with pizzazz ...., you know, one that sparks controversy???

Posted by: jack kemp II at January 04, 2010 04:36 PM (1NK6R)

Jack Kemp the Deuce...Marketing Genius!

It doesn't matter what you personally think of the Tea Party movement. The fact that NPR is blatantly promoting propaganda against a group of citizens based on a difference in political views should be very disturbing to anyone. Look out, Code Pink....you may be next, after they get rid of all the conservatives.

Do the libs not realize that not all of them will have a place in the new Obama regime, once the dust settles? Just as the left used Cindy Sheehan against Bush, then dropped her like a hot potato, they will do the same to any of you. Illegals, minorities, feminists, gay activists....you will all be expendable at some point if you stand by and watch this kind of thing go on.

The commercials for GOP hopefuls just keep making themselves.  Keep em coming!

More aptly, teabagger refers to the media's "coverage" of Obama? 

How to speak NPR:

Sieg Heil!

Unterschiedliche Meinungen sind streng verboten!

Die Regierung ist dein Freund!

Heil Obama!

1)  NPR receives less than 2% of its funding from the government.

2)  Fiore does not work for NPR, nor was he commissioned to do the piece.  NPR picked it up.

3)  The cartoon was neither novel nor funny.  (Wow, tea partiers call liberals fascists, socialists and nazis.  What's new?).

4)  Blaming this cartoon on government support is a very "teabag" thing to claim.

5)  Does the tea party movement really want to engage in a discussion of tax-exempt orgs crossing the political advocacy line? 

Wow, Jeffery.  Since the cartoon wasn't commissioned by NPR, but only "picked up," there's no bias.  And today when I listened to some Brit douchebag from The Daily Show on All Things Considered describing how crazy the tea party and Sarah Palin supporters were (apparently they are "comedy gold" because they believe in things), that didn't display any bias either.  Even though the appearance on ATC was basically a promo for said Brit douchebag's new show on Comedy Central as well as the increasingly pathetic Daily Show.

I guess we should just sit back and enjoy NPR's totally coincidental propaganda on behalf of liberal causes, and obvious logrolling benefiting liberal media outlets?

No.

Let's take back that "2%" (why do I suspect it's higher?) and go after their non-profit status.  Let's mess with their happy little sandbox of mutual promotion.  Let's make them as uncomfortable and unhappy as possible, within of course the limits of the law.

Yes we can!

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