{"id":290009,"date":"2010-02-07T14:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=65574"},"modified":"2010-02-07T14:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T19:30:46","slug":"scenes-from-the-great-teabagging-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/290009","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from the Great Teabagging Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, it’s all over — and the Teabaggers didn’t disappoint.<\/p>\n

Racism<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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“We do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country<\/strong>…People who could not spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House — name is Barack Hussein Obama.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Birtherism<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe media, the politicians \u2026 all say, no, it\u2019s all been settled. I say, if it\u2019s been settled show us the birth certificate. Simple<\/strong>,\u201d Farah\u2019s said, as his remarks were cheered by the roughly 600 activists gathered in Nashville for the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Theocracy<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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As fallible men and women, it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again<\/strong>.\u201d The country, she said, needs politicians unafraid \u201cto go that route, not so afraid of the political correctness . . . to proclaim their alliance to our Creator.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Faux populism<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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There was another who dressed in a leather veteran\u2019s vest with medals festooned on it. He also wore a Vietnam Veteran hat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just dressed this way to get attention,<\/strong>\u201d the man said, halfway through a scotch at an \u201cIrish pub\u201d 200 feet from the ballroom where Palin will be speaking, down\u00a0a casino-style carpeted hotel hallway. \u201cI\u2019m really a retired millionaire.<\/strong>\u201d […] He talked in detail of the Mercedes he drove here; the Rolls Royce he bought in Florida that he won\u2019t drive on rainy days like today, and that he\u2019s a major donor to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. \u201cJust sold my last business for $3.3 million,\u201d he said, laughing, seemingly taking great delight\u00a0in his get up and the gag he was pulling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ethnocentrism<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Cultures are not the same. Some are better. Ours is best.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wagnerian melodrama<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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I will live, I will die for the people of America.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And here’s the kicker. Wait for it…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Organizers said anyone who had shown up “looking too crazy” would have been tossed out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Clearly, they were grading “crazy” on a curve.<\/p>\n\n

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Well, it’s all over — and the Teabaggers didn’t disappoint. Racism! “We do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country…People who could not spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House — name is Barack Hussein Obama.“ Birtherism! \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}