I'll have a report with video of the Teabag event here in Madison today

[zulchzulu]

I work about a block off the Capital Square and noticed that there will be a Teabag event here today. I'm going to act like I'm visiting from Canada and try to get as much literature and video of anti-Obama people as possible.

I plan on asking various questions about whether people are willing to give up their Social Security checks and whether they have diarrhea or not, since taxes help pay for water purification. Also, I'll ask about whether we need a fire or police department.

If you want to hear the right-wing radio feed, it's here:
http://www.wiba.com/cc-common/ondemand/player.html?world=st

I'll post in this thread as the day goes on.

[flpoljunkie]

1. Look forward to your reports. Love your questions!

[lamp_shade]

2. Bookmarked. Thanks.

[Hieronymus]

3. Fox just showed Lafayette Park in DC ... a handful of people. One man drove

from Alabama. You know from looking at him that he's one of the 95% getting a tax break.

[Kittycat]

5. Doubtful.

He probably doesn't work.

[Thrill]

6. He's protesting his own tax cut? lol

[Peacetrain]

4. Keep us apprised!! Fox news has bet a bundle on this

[joeglow3]

7. I might stop by one here and check them out.

They just added one this morning about a mile from my house. I am betting there will be 10-15 people TOPS!

[madwivoter]

8. I'm in Madison as well...

and I have some shopping to do so I was going to head down and do some 'sightseeing' around the capitol :)

Look forward to your updates later...

[holiday]

9. You can also ask

if they realize that Obama's taxes are cheaper on the wealthiest Americans than it was under Reagan.

You can also ask if they are okay taking pay cuts, so their money can go to the rich if they are so worried about the richest people's taxes

You can also ask if they realize they shouldn't be using the word tea bag as a verb

[Laelth]

10. Excellent questions.

You might also ask whether they know they are standing on state-owned, socialist, public property. Or, you might ask who's going to pay to maintain the state-owned, socialist roads that they used to get to the teabag event if the teabaggers get their way.

:dem:

-Laelth

[zulchzulu]

11. The report from the depths of knuckledragging Freeper Theocrat Asshat Hell

As others have indicated, this is the best "enemy" Obama can have. And it was all about bashing Obama. Yeah, he's a commie. Yeah, he's a socialist. Yeah, teabags (which were boycotted way back when as well as was a protest against no representation). Last I checked, we had an election and the people at this rally voted for THE LOSER.

So, as I walked through the rally of a crowd of 1,500 people bussed in from the conservative belt of Wisconsin (Waukesha to Green Bay), I noticed a lot of the usual signage you might have seen at a McCain/Palin Hate Fest. One of my faves was where apparently some guy named Carl Marx was there with Hitler and Obama.



Nice work.



Yeah, Obama bowed before the Saudi King. At least he didn't hold his hand or kiss him like Bush did. This is an issue with taxation? Oh, OK...



A fair amount of t-shirts and signs mentioned socialism (via taxation) as an evil. Surely, these people used roads paid for by taxes and had police protection paid for by taxes and even were at a venue, the State Capital, which is paid for by taxes. I'd say that at least three-quarters of the attendants at the rally receive SOCIAL Security checks. A number of vets there (including some guy in his 20s wearing a Vietnam Vet hat :rofl:) also get benefits from taxes. Maybe that's not "important". One sign where "no freeloaders" was an issue was seen by me as perhaps an anti-rally sign, but I digress.



Of course, you could see "Obama Nation" signs and buttons. Yeah, it's supposed to be "negative", get it? What was interesting about the crowd is that I wondered how many people were unemployed at this rally. These people had voted for politicians who sold them down the river.



Not to be outdone, there were a few "Obama is the Anti-Christ" signs. There were a couple signs asking about where the "birth certificate" is. When some guy in the video feed mentioned he wasn't a Democrat or a Republican, just a "conservative Christian", the crowd bellowed with growls and spitful groans of joy.



I was going to interview people, but felt that they would just look at me and try to steal my camera. Plus 15 minutes there was making me nauseous. The guy looking at me in this photo gave an air of being a McVeigh-type who gave me a dead-eyed look as I took the photo. Yeah, there was a few Ron Paul types there too.

Am I worried? I witnessed what can be called the Permanent 20% of idiots who will always vote Republican and who are racist homophobes. I can spot them a mile away.

I hope the roads built by our socialist policies allow them to get their ugly asses back from where they drag their knuckles.

[firedupdem]

12. Thank you for going into the depths of hell with these racist

clowns. You should start a new thread so everyone can see these. Thanks for your report. These are the dumbest shits ever. Same crowd from the Palin rallies.

[zulchzulu]

14. I started a new thread...

Good idea.

[meli224]

13. those are great pictures.

It shows what these so called "Tea Parties" are really about. This is all about Obama bashing. The media keeps saying it's all about taxes, bullshit! None of them will talk about what the other signs say, other than that reporter from CNN. I wouldn't have been able to hold my composure, I would have smacked someone.

[flpoljunkie]

15. Sadly, these folks don't realize they're being used to protest the end of Limbaugh's Bush tax cuts.

It's really quite amazing when you think about it. How many of those 'teabagging' today have taxable income of more than $250,000? Very few--if any.

[meli224]

16. I bet none of them do..

that is because it is all about the hatred towards Obama

[indimuse]

17. cant wait!

knr! :) thx.