Miss Liberty America: The First Tea Party Beauty Pageant
They’ve got their own baby clothes, their own universities, and now they have their own beauty pageant. On July 4th weekend of 2012, the inaugural of edition of Miss Liberty America will be held in Las Vegas, with the “ultimate mission of promoting Liberty, the military, and the documents of our founding fathers.” In honor of those ideals, tea baggers will choose a winner from a field of young, swimsuit-clad female contestants who will have to shoot firearms and answer questions about the Constitution.
The brain behind the event is Alicia Hayes-Roberts, sister of Tea Party presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes, who explains the mission on the Miss Liberty America website:
MISS LIBERTY AMERICA is dedicated to discovering America’s elite feminine patriots and giving them the opportunity on a national stage to showcase their patriotism, intelligence, talent, and beauty. The contestants will be judged in categories of personal interview, swimsuit, evening gown,…
Keith Olbermann: The Dangers Of The Tea Bagger Candidates
In a special twenty-minute commentary, Keith Olbermann blisteringly indicts this election season’s wave of “tea party candidates,” entirely by quoting their own words. The picture revealed is of “a group of unqualified, unstable individuals who will do what they are told, in exchange for money and power, and march this nation as far backward as they can get.” Via MSNBC:
Rand Paul Backer Stomps on Woman Outside Kentucky Senate Debate
Don’t say you weren’t warned about these people. From Tom Diemer at AOL’s Politics Daily:
A Rand Paul supporter stomped on the head of a MoveOn.org volunteer Monday night outside of a debate between the Kentucky Senate candidate and his opponent, Jack Conway.
The woman, identified by CNN as Lauren Valle, was pushed to the ground — her blond wig was pulled off in the scuffle — and then held down…
Senate Candidate O’Donnell Unfamiliar With First Amendment
New York Magazine notes an interesting debate exchange between Delaware Republican candidate for Senate Christine O’Donnell and her opponent Chris Coons: “Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?” The situation is laden with irony, of course, as O’Donnell was a “Constitutional Government fellow” at the conservative Claremont Institute. This is a pretty good indication of the level of constitutional knowledge in the Tea Bagger movement.
Tea Party Comics
Editorial cartoonist Ward Sutton gave the Boston Globe’s comics page a tea-party-friendly makeover; “There’s a growing concern among a certain segment of the country that the comics page is out of step with mainstream values.” Check out the patriotic versions of strips such as Calvin and Hobbes:
Fire From The Heartland: Rise Of The Mama Grizzlies
Fire From The Heartland is a new DVD about the “rise of the conservative woman.” The most scary thing about this trailer is that it exemplifies the trend/movement/meme of Sarah Palin-types identifying themselves as “mama grizzlies”.
What If The Teabaggers Were Left?
From Nick Pell at Black Sun Gazette
Recently, an article by Tim Wise explored the idea of a Tea Party movement dominated by radical black Americans. I’m not familiar enough to comment on the rest of Tim Wise’s body of work definitively having never read any of his books. However, the article in question presents a golden opportunity to discuss race in America–something that I have wanted to do for some time. While black and Hispanic Americans certainly endure a great deal of racism ranging from the benign (”You’re very articulate for a black man” or the awkward “Gimme some skin, bruvvah!” type comments from white people who aren’t as hip as they think they are) to the decidedly malicious (Rodney King, Abner Louima, Amadou Diallo, not to mention hundreds or thousands of black men we don’t know about), one simple truth is frequently ignored by commentators of both a white radical liberal…
Teabonics Flickr Collection
Teabonics is a Flickr set exploring the vibrant and exciting new brand of English language emerging from the Tea Party protests. Don’t worry, it’s easy to get started on a sign of your own written in Teabonics.
Final Crazy Tea-Bagger Health Care Protests In Washington
Shortly before the passing of Congress’s health care reform bill, New Left Media did some final hilarious street interviews with tea baggers who had descended on Washington to protest. I’m curious to see what issue they turn their interest and astute political analysis towards next.
The Surprising Woman Credited With Starting The Tea Party Movement
The New York Times reports on the “first tea-bagger,” who is younger and (slightly) cooler than one might expect:
SEATTLE — Keli Carender has a pierced nose, performs improv on weekends and lives here in a neighborhood with more Mexican grocers than coffeehouses. You probably would not think of her as a Tea Party type.
But leaders of the Tea Party movement credit her with being the first.
Ms. Carender’s first rally drew only 120 people. A week later, she had 300, and six weeks later, 1,200 people gathered for a Tax Day Tea Party. Last month, she was among about 60 Tea Party leaders flown to Washington to be trained in election activism by FreedomWorks, the conservative advocacy organization led by Dick Armey, the former House Republican leader.
Entitled to Their Own “Facts”?
From Truthout:
Boston – If you ever wondered why God invented the delete button, let me pass along the e-mail that arrived on the wings of various listservs directed at the Mainstream Media.
“How much do we love you?” the author asked the MSM. “Let me count the ways: You lie, omit, distort and skew what otherwise should be unbiased accounts of ALL news, not just what furthers the interests of the ‘fringe left.’”
As my finger hovered over “block sender,” I scanned the list of wrongs. No. 1 was the charge that we, the MSM, had hidden the fact that Bill Ayers was the real author of “Dreams from My Father.”
This myth had been careening around the Internet for some time, but came back to life after a conservative blogger confronted Ayers at an airport. In a fit of snark, Ayers “confessed.” “Michelle asked me to … I wrote it,” he said,…
