Tea partiers skip prayer and Pledge of Allegiance at opening of national convention.

[G_j]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/05/tea-party-prayer-pledge/


Tea partiers skip prayer and Pledge of Allegiance at opening of national convention.

The inaugural National Tea Party Convention began yesterday in Nashville, TN despite teabagger infighting and controversy surrounding the event in recent weeks. Tea Party activists have criticized the “scammy” convention’s cost, organizer Judson Phillips’ intention to make money of the event, and Sarah Palin’s $120,000 speaking fee. Just last week, Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) withdrew from their speaking engagements at the convention. And today, the Washington Post reports that the teabaggers — who often boast of their patriotic bona fides — got off to a slow start:

And outside the convention hall, entrepreneurs sold souvenirs: sterling silver tea bag necklaces ($89.99), bags of “Freedom Coffee” ($9) and T-shirts emblazoned with a bald eagle ($20).

The convention’s first day lacked the orchestrated staging of most modern political events. The convention host delivered a meandering welcome speech without notes, saying he misplaced them. Former congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) offered a fiery defense of Judeo-Christian faith and traditional American values, but there was no prayer or Pledge of Allegiance to open the convention — nor was there an American flag in the convention hall. (Skoda blamed the oversight on the hotel staff.)

[Mari333]

1. oops!

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. It's just as well. They're all hypocrites anyway.

No sense pretending they love America.

[Lance_Boyle]

3. Yeah - Opryland Hotel. Not an American flag anywhere in sight in THAT place...

Hopefully this will end the "tea party" once and for all. They commodified and killed the phenomenon simultaneously. Good riddance.

[farmout rightarm]

4. I fart gleefully in their general direction.

:D

[DebbieCDC]

5. Wow is Gawd going to be mad!

No prayer???? No flag???? No national anthem???? Those Communists! How dare they!

:rofl:

[DrDan]

6. flag pins in the lapels? There had better be.

[madinmaryland]

7. Why do they hate America? And they have made baby Jesus cry.

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. Republicans don't have to follow their own rules.

[Lerkfish]

9. but how many portapotties were there?

:)

[LostInAnomie]

10. Now, if anything bad happens there we'll know why.

God must be appeased with prayer and The Pledge. If not he strikes people down for their immorality. Ask the people of Haiti and New Orleans.

:sarcasm:

[KingFlorez]

11. They had to skip all that boring stuff and get right to stupidity

[old mark]

12. Yeah, that hotel staff forgot the flag - probably immigrants anyway,

stealing American jobs.

How can these simple 'bagger folk afford all this grand celebration?


mark

[JBoy]

13. Is a tea bag necklace made of pearls?

[Romulox]

14. I won't say that piece of crap pledge, either. nt

[johnnie]

15. .