Nearly 600 'Delegates' (teabaggers) From Across the United States Come Together in Nashville

[Swede]

That means they'll need around 600 port a potties. edit to add teabagger to headline


Nearly 600 conservative activists, ranging from the energized to the eclectic, have convened in Nashville, Tenn., for the first-ever National Tea Party Convention, angry at Democrats and Republicans alike.

The first National Tea Party Convention rallies many activists.The first night's speaker said the country "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House," referring to the president by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, and launching a tirade against the "cult of multiculturalism" that led to his election.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/tea-party-convenes-nashville-speakers-assail-president-obama/story?id=9754751

[rufus dog]

1. saw a picture on MSNBC

What a friggen joke, this minor event gets major coverage.

[HughBeaumont]

25. Well, it's that there "Liberal Media", dontcha know?

Half a million at a time convene in DC for progressive causes like GLBT rights, worker rights, anti-war (multiple times) . . . where'z the news crews? Asleep at the wheel, while this blobby bunch of bigots get carte blanche coverage.

[FrenchieCat]

2. I dont understand how so few people could get so much fucking coverage!

Oh yes....actually, I do.

Fucking media and their GOP propaganda.

[livetohike]

4. Me neither and here is my revolt:

I refuse to turn on the cable channels during their pumping up of this party of bigots. :hi:

[FrenchieCat]

5. The media is running this fucking country, and they are running it

into the ground.

The fact that a bunch of racists "couldn't get over the election" are given this kind of limelight.....treatment that other parties like the Greens and others haven't ever been
given shows exactly what our media thinks of us; that we are just that fucking stupid....
and to some extent, they would be correct.

Meanwhile, progressives keep on dumping on this administration, like that is gonna help
the propaganda that drowns out every voice anyway; that Democrats are gonna lose big in the
upcoming elections.

The fact is that if folks would manifest as much energy on fighting this media as they do in dumping on this administration, we maybe could get somewhere....but No! That would be too much work.

[livetohike]

9. You got it. I saw some guy, didn't see his name on the Ed

show yesterday saying that the media is driving down the successes of the Obama administration.I send my e-mails to the stations, but I think they hit the delete button without reading them. I know that phone jack hooked up to my satellite station is transmitting what I'm watching, so I will show my disatisfaction by not watching. Let their fricking ratings suffer.

The platform for these Tea Party bigots is making me sick. All the lunatics together in one room seeing who can say the most ridiculous thing and then America is supposed to believe these people are creating a huge groundswell. I wish I could think of something more effective to do about it.

Another thing, recently, I have had to put people on ignore here after nearly 6 years of being on DU. I never did that before, but I am so sick of certain people constantly putting down Pres. Obama and looking for every little bit of bad news to post. What has happened here? I came here to get away from the constant barrage of Bush and right wing talk and it seems DU in the past year is not a refuge from that anymore :shrug:.

[FrenchieCat]

20. 1/2 of the "nearly" 600 are reporters!

That's the sad part about this whole thing!

[EFerrari]

11. We had more than twice that many people at Beach Impeach

and even the local press wouldn't touch it. This is your "Liberal Media" in action, Frenchie.

[fasttense]

3. Wow a whole 600?

That is equal to 0.0004% of the voters in the US.

So a 100% of the Republicons showed up?}(

[pipi_k]

10. Yeah, we're royally screwn now...

:scared:

[opihimoimoi]

6. The hole gets deeper as they spout their crap...600? OMG...

[tularetom]

7. I guess Rachel Maddow sensed this thing was gonna be a joke

Heard somewhere she was planning to attend the convention and broadcast from there tonight.

Expect stuff you won't hear on the rest of the liberal media, like photos of empty meeting rooms, sparse crowds entering the convention hall, incidents of conventioneers threatening protesters/reporters and stories about merchants/vendors getting stiffed.

Maybe a shot of a huge row of porta potties with 2 or 3 people standing around.

Or a report on what a financial clusterfuck this thing is - they take in 600 people at $600 or so a pop, that's $360,000. They have to pay Palin $100k, rent a hall, provide other speakers, transport dignitaries to the convention, etc etc etc.

I'd be very surprised if this mess doesn't result in a lot of lawsuits and maybe even a few criminal charges.

[kctim]

8. As the OP says, these are 'delegates'

This convention costs alot of money to attend and is meant more as a lunch and learn kind of thing. Those who attend will then take that back to their own towns, cities and states. They are preparing for the run up to the fast approaching elections.
The number here in no way represents just how many people are behind and support the Tea Partys, and we must work even harder than we did in 08 for President Obama.

We make lite and ignore them at our own risk.

[EFerrari]

13. They're activists and this whole "movement" was started as astroturf..

If they had that much momentum, the corporate media wouldn't have to keep inflating their attendance numbers. In fact, if they're claiming six hundred, I wonder how many people really did show up.

[kctim]

17. I don't care what they are called

it cost almost $600 to attend this event and it is being held in Nashville. That is not the plan used if you are wanting all of your supporters to attend.
You may not believe their numbers are enough to be concerned, but I do and I will not stop working.

[EFerrari]

18. It cost many people at least that much to go to the last anti-war march

in DC and we got over a 100K people there. Three of us in my family flew from CA and stayed in a hotel for four days, add meals and cabs, it cost easily that much.

The thing is, they don't need numbers. They have the whole Noise Machine.

[kctim]

27. Glad you can afford to do such things

and by all means please keep ignoring them. I am afraid I can not join you though, I am too busy trying to explain to my Dem family members, Dem friends and Dem neighbors why they should not be going to the local get togethers and pooling their money to send others to the conventions.

[EFerrari]

28. Why would your "Dem" friends, family members and neighbors

want to go to these racist Republican meetings?

[kctim]

29. Because the vast majority are not "racist" meetings

or anything even close to that. They are meetings where most attending are tired of paying high taxes and govt intrusion into their personal lives and wallets. Also because they are everyday midwestern Democrats.

[EFerrari]

31. LOL. Good luck with that.

:hi:

[gratuitous]

16. Delegates?

I'm a delegate to our church's Annual Conference. I attend regularly scheduled open-to-the-public board meetings of my congregation, volunteer several hours every month in congregational and denominational activities, and contribute monetarily to the congregation, its district and the denomination. We maintain public records of our attendance, membership, budget and activities.

Who selected these "delegates"? What meetings do they have scheduled? Are they open to the public? What activities do they have, and what is the structure of their organization? What is their budget?

I am unpersuaded that these 600 yahoos represent anything or anyone besides themselves.

[gkhouston]

12. 600 people? Now we know why the unemployment stats are down.

Too bad it's only a temporary gig. :evilgrin:

[tkmorris]

14. "Cult of multiculturalism"?

Might want to hang a thicker veil on your White Power philosophy there big guy.

[leftynyc]

15. There are more people in

my office building this very minute. The media are slime.

[SoCalDem]

19. Just now, a reporter said he was told they were "sold out" @ 900

and that the 900 had each paid $550..

He said they considered it a "great success"..:puke:

but what bothers me is this..

900 (or 600) right wingers who can afford $550 each, gathered together in Nashville (probably more that that shop at any local supermarket on any given day)...and media swoops in on them, covers every word they say, tells us everything about their gathering , and how important it will be in '10..

and yet..

when millions of people all over the world took to the streets in '03, to try to stop a war from starting, the same "press" called it all "nothing to see here, folks..move along..just a few disgruntled left wing activists...aging hippies with papier mache' puppets & funny hats.."..

[FrenchieCat]

21. That's why when we regurgitate what the media sells us "Line, hook and sinker",

we should know better....but instead we go knee-jerk, believe the worse of this administration,
and might as well bend down for the media while they do their "job" on us.

I don't get the lack of insight from some who would post some tripe from politico,
and then use their energy to go after this administration instead of understanding
that it isn't this particular administration pulling our strings.

[SoCalDem]

23. I've warned about Politico from the first time they had an "on-camera" pundit on tv..

I knew the fix was in... and sure enough, they have polished their patina, and are now the darlings of all media..:puke:

they are just a shinier version of Talon News, Drudge, Newsmax, FoxNews

[EFerrari]

22. How many of those tickets were purchased by SarahPAC?

lol

[SoCalDem]

24. or The Heritage Foundation?

or Richard Mellon-Scaife's little organization

[EFerrari]

26. Yeppers.

:hi:

[Liberal In Texas]

30. Well, they should fit in one hotel, it'll keep the gird-lock down in Nashville.

Put them in the Grand Ole Opry House and you would hardly notice.

:rofl: