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Via Wonkette: The ‘Tea Party: The Documentary Film’ Trailer! (‘Liberty’s March Has A New Generation Of Patriots’). It makes you want to shed a tear like Glenn Beck (with the aid of Vicks under the eyes, of course).
The Tea Party movement of 2009 shocked the political establishment, the nation at large and left a big media machine dizzy in its wake. How did it happen? Where did it come from? Now, witness the story of the movement that’s driving our national dialogue against big government spending and a Constitution under assault. Follow the inspiring stories of grassroots Americans rising from the ranks to take on a government gone too far. From the earliest days as nothing more than a social networking movement to the lightning fast year that follows, culminating in Washington, DC on the National Mall with the largest protest in our nation’s history, TEA PARTY: The Documentary Film is history in the making. It’s an American Story like none other with an inspiring message for our times! A greater cause united them. A greater outcome awaits them.
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kept waiting for the punchlinethat voiceover combined with the costumes and all looked like a bit from the daily show. is this meant to be a serious attempt at docudrama?
Definitely won’t be on my Christmas gift list!
meanwhile, back at the ranchLatest meme going around the religious outback in Wingnuttia. Doubleplusungood.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/wind…
Is TEA supposed to stand for something?I see TEA Party as often as Tea Party. I know why they chose Tea Party, even though I think it’s a terrible misrepresentation. Taxation without representation? Please. Talk to the residents of the District of Columbia, or GLBT people who pay more in taxes than their straight counterparts if we’re well-compensated and not discriminated against in the first place. We have a Democratic House, Senate, and President and everyone is still contorting themselves to accommodate conservatives.
Or is it TEA Party because they just like to capitalize indiscriminately?
why did they cut the last line from the trailer?it goes like this: “Live from new York, it’s Saturday Niiight!”
Theoretically…I believe it’s been backronymed to “Taxed Enough Already” (which is a little bit odd, considering that Bush never saw a tax cut he didn’t like…). The main thing they’re going for, though, as you noted, is the ludicrous “protesting having to pay taxes at all is the same thing as protesting tyranny, because… er… because it is” association with the American Revolution.
I always have to wonderhow they block out the fact that tax rates have been declining for decades, especially for the rich. We’re only “overtaxed” in the imagination of people who think that taxes should only be applied to people they don’t like.
I want to knowif every single laid-off attendee of their rallies has declined unemployment payments on principle that people with jobs shouldn’t pay taxes to support people who aren’t working.
They only don’t want to supportpeople who aren’t working when the unemployed in question are “one of those people“…
I ws thinkingwelcome to the Twilight Zone