why do tea baggers always spell words incorrectly on their protest signs?

[gopiscrap]

I have seen several signs on the net not spelled correctly and this past weekend I went past a small crowd of tea bagger protesters and just about every sign had at least one spelling error.

[alarimer]

1. Because they're idiots.

Dumber than a bag of hammers.

(I almost spelled dumber 'dummer').

[notadmblnd]

55. Oh c'mon, that's not fair

hammers have a use.

[Rex]

2. Because they are morans.

nt.

[gopiscrap]

7. yes I remember that guy was it during the 2009 health care discussions?

[Rex]

17. I think it dates back to the Bush Jr. era.

nt.

[Arugula Latte]

23. Yes -- It happened 3/2003, right before Shock & Awe

Here's an interesting little history of our friend the Moran sign guy. DU is credited in the "Spread" section:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-a-brain-morans

[gopiscrap]

43. for some reason I can't get bthe link,

can you be kind enough to recap it?

[caraher]

53. Here's an excerpt

Though the man’s identity is unknown, the photo was taken on March 23rd, 2003 outside of St. Louis, Missouri.1 On that day, approximately 350 pro-peace activists got together with civilian weapons inspectors at the Boeing missile factory, asking to investigate the weapons of mass destruction being produced there. When they were denied access, the protestors sat in front of the main gate in protest. Approximately 75 pro-war supporters came to the factory with signs discouraging the sit-in. One of these supporters held the “Get a Brain Morans” sign. The photo was initially shared on the St. Louis Indymedia Center2 in 2003.

[gopiscrap]

58. thank you

[northoftheborder]

69. Thanks, here, too, I didn't know how that word got started!

[arcane1]

25. I read once that he was heckling a protest at a missile-component factory

It may have even been pre-9/11/01, but I don't remember when exactly. Just that it was a while ago

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Because they aren't very bright?

There's a lot of evidence for that besides misspelled signs.

[Blue Idaho]

4. Spelling has a well know Liberial Bias... Nt.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Inglish isnt eesy.

[quinnox]

14. Neither is pimpin'

[gopiscrap]

10. bingo

[Hekate]

50. Pssst

do a quick and quiet edit and I won't tell anyone:
known
Liberal

[Hassin Bin Sober]

52. You missed the latest moran sign. Liberial

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023679228

[Blue Idaho]

56. Thanks - I didn't really want to point that out... nt.

[Hekate]

63. aaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

I can't keep up!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

64. Keeping up with tea-bagger stupidity is like being a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.

[Blue Idaho]

88. Boy you said it! ;-)

[quinnox]

5. Many of them are morans

And didn't pay attention in school.

[Bigmack]

48. Rush pronounces it "screw-el"...

... and they laugh and laugh.

Those people actually loved school.... both grades they attended.

[nolabear]

6. I always wonder that about scam emails.

Geez guys, hire a copy editor!

[gopiscrap]

12. no kidding

[Brigid]

59. Actually, I've heard that in some cases the reason for that . . .

Is to help get the emails past the spam filters on your computers.

[Ohio Joe]

8. Why are stupid tools stupid?

They just are

[Jack Rabbit]

11. Ahhh. . . maybe that says something about their home schooling?

[gopiscrap]

15. OMG yes!

[frylock]

13. homskuueld?

i'll bet they know how to spell Leviticus.

[gopiscrap]

16. Ha ha

[trof]

18. <pssst> they're not real smart.

Don't tell.

[gopiscrap]

21. psst: ok!

[FSogol]

19. They so fervently believe they are correct about everything that it doesn't occur to them

to double check their spelling.

[gopiscrap]

20. I am half serious about this post

I have been to a ton of progressive cause protests and very rarely do I see a sign that has words spelled incorrectly, but when I go past a tea bag protest it seems to me that almost always, there are a bunch of spelling errors very noticeable. Is it that they don't care? Was spelling not taught where they grew up? Is there a brain wiring thing?

[nadinbrzezinski]

65. Yes, partially.

What you are seeng is anti intellectualism on display. There is a certain disdain for knowledge, for knowledge sake. This includes spelling. Also the base of the GOP tends to be working class and ess educated, truly voting against their best interests.

That is a general statement. During the Filner scandal his supporters came from the same component of society but, people with English skills helped supporters without them. Which brings me to the second point, tea baggers are highly individualistic.

Hope this helps..

[gopiscrap]

68. yeah good points thanks

[redstatebluegirl]

80. Yes, they hate smart people.

Anybody with half a brain is the enemy to them, we are the ones teaching their young uns how to love blacks and gays! (sarcasm of course)

[JHB]

87. An overdeveloped sense of entitlement

They're "real Americans", so they know what's what. They're entitled to be taken seriously, and entitled to not have that seriousness questioned just because they can't be bothered to sweat the details.

Entitled to never be thought of as "dumbass"

[xfundy]

22. Haven't you heard?

Libruls make misspelled signs and always get in view of the cameras at their events. I'm not making it up, they've made that claim.

[gopiscrap]

24. No way....you're bullshitting?

[xfundy]

36. No. I'm not.

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/liberals-crash-tea-party/blog-300399/

Plenty more if you use the google machine.

[gopiscrap]

37. OMG

[Blue Idaho]

27. Maybe - but have you ever talked to any of these fools?

Let's face it - TeaPublicans call them useful idiots for a reason. The term low information voter only scratches the surface. If you ever get a chance to look in their eyes it's obvious that the lights are on but nobody's home.

[Evasporque]

75. HUGH!!11! SERIES!111!!

reely!

[d_r]

26. yeah, there dum

[kestrel91316]

28. Spelling is for librul elitists. They are proud of their ignorance.

[Summer Hathaway]

29. Coz gude spellin and gramaticalness

ar onlee for L-eatist libruls and them sech.

Beesides, if god wanted peeople to reed gude, he wuldn't hafe put all them hard wurds in the Bibel.

[mysuzuki2]

30. How else would we know they were teabaggers?

[gopiscrap]

31. Hey, I hadn't thought of that!

[bluevoter4life]

32. Because public schools are only for evil Socialists n/t

[Mike Nelson]

33. Do they even attend public shools?

I think many do not...

[gopiscrap]

35. most of them were home school til the 8th grade

by religious psychos and then if they went on to school it was probably to some wacko religious private school or a substandard charter.

[matt819]

34. Because their stupid? (nt)

[Oilwellian]

38. I have enshrined them

[napkinz]

45. Love it!!!!

[TheCowsCameHome]

39. So people will notiss them.

[William769]

40. Because they accidentally bumped their etch a sketch & didn't catch the misspelling.

[Junkdrawer]

41. Crayons with spell check have yet to appear at Dollar General?

[FreeState]

42. Homeschooling?

or Private schools, take your pick

(I'm an awful speller, I don't really think it has anything to do with intelligence or background.)

[dembotoz]

44. making signs is hard

i have made posters and signs for everything from county fair booths
to parades to presentations for work to protests.

i suck at spelling

there is no spell check
perhaps they get more information from fox news and talk radio so they are not as used to writing stuff down.

what ever it is
thank god
because to other folks it makes them look stupid and hinders there message

[TransitJohn]

46. Because they're fucking stupid. eom

n/t

[Skittles]

47. think about how stupid you have to be to fall for the teabagging "movement"

HELLO!!!

[backscatter712]

49. Anti-intellectualism.

Some may come from the religious fundy backgrounds, and the bad schooling.

A lot of it is exploitation and marketing. I'll bet Koch funded groups like FreedomWorks deliberately misspell a lot of the signs they pass out to their teabagger hordes, so as to seem more folksy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

67. ^^^^_____^^^^ yup

[treestar]

51. Probably because they don't read much

Spelling gets ingrained when you see the words repeatedly on the written page.

[Art_from_Ark]

57. Or maybe they spend too much time reading stuff on the Internet

where misspellings abound, seemingly everywhere.

[madinmaryland]

54. Because they think that something is seriesly hugh that they must cast asparagus.

[demwing]

60. It's hard to concentrate on spelling when you're foaming at the mouth

[Jamaal510]

61. That's to be expected from

those who are so passionate about how much other people get taxed who make more than them.

[Shrike47]

62. Their passion exceeds their ability to communicate.

[Warren DeMontague]

66. It is a post-modernist Andy Kaufmanesque performance art bit.

Really, it's total brilliance masquerading as drooling imbecility.

[muntrv]

70. Because they don't need that edumikashin.

[jwirr]

71. When you are anti-education it is often because you stopped learning sometime in your teens and

never picked up the challenge from there. They do not know how to spell.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

72. they cannot make signs either.

They don't think about contrast or font or size of letters. I've seen business signs painted on plywood here in Dorkville that have unreadable script on them. Readable garage sale signs....fuhgeddaboudit!!

I've also noticed tea baggers don't plan where the letters go...they run out of room on the right side of the poster oftentimes.

Anti-intellectualism, anti-artistic and creative, lack of planning, impulsiveness.

[Stupefacto]

73. Welcome to DU

[Coyotl]

74. Because the Tea Party does not appeal to people with an adequate education.

If you are educated well enough to spell, there is a near zero probability the tea party will appeal to you.

[appleannie1]

76. They don't like book learning and are home schooling their kids to be as dumb as they are.

[brewens]

77. Thems reely libruls pretendin' to be tea partee folk. We spell reel gud! n/t

[LeftinOH]

78. Becase spellnig and grammer are for eleatist's and liberal's. n/t

[woodsprite]

79. Makes it easy for them to find eachother. n/t

[Notafraidtoo]

81. It goes to the root.

The misspelling of signs is a clue into why they are teabaggers in the first place, you would think if you are going to a protest rally with a sign you would take 10 seconds to make sure you spelled it correctly but they don't.

They don't fact check to make sure the things they believe are true and have been tested, Its very easy to find this info online by simply fact checking to the source and looking at government data from around the world.

The results of teabagger political belief is horrifying and very easy to find from both history and current governments,They just don't care if what they believe is correct or not, they simply assume it is just like their signs.

[Niceguy1]

82. it isn't

Limited to the TP. Kids today don't know the difference between your / you're, etc.

[opiate69]

83. Because they're sub-literate fucking imbeciles.

[CanonRay]

84. One word: Stewpid

[GeorgeGist]

85. Its a subtle sign of protest ...

agains edumacation.

[rug]

86. Because being wrong is more important to them than being right.

[Initech]

89. It's all the home sholing they believe in!