Tea party group responds to NC protest movement with 'Marxist Mondays' song

[octoberlib]

With participants in North Carolina's Moral Monday protest movement preparing to gather at the state legislature for another weekly demonstration against lawmakers' hard-right agenda, a group affiliated with the tea party movement is offering a satirical song for the occasion titled "Marxist Mondays."

"It's time to laugh at the Marxist Monday crowd!" says a post at the website of the Voter Integrity Project of NC (NCVIP). It links to the reworking of "Manic Mondays," a Prince-penned tune made famous by The Bangles. The chorus goes:

It’s just another Marxist Monday
It’s a staged movement
Astroturf moment
Made for your amusement
Just another Marxist Monday


The song accuses protesters of "throw[ing] a tantrum," worrying about "look[ing] real hot," and wanting to "just live off food stamps and unemployment." It's a response to the NC Music Love Army, a grassroots group of several dozen musicians involved in the Moral Monday movement. They are recording original and classic protest songs, with proceeds from sales to benefit Planned Parenthood, Progress NC, and the state chapter of the NAACP, which has organized the Moral Monday protests.

http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/07/tea-party-group-responds-to-nc-protest-movement-wi.html


These people are ridiculous.

[Hissyspit]

1. Idiots

[EC]

2. Yet, their tea bagging

rallies were what? Real? They had big money behind them, not churches.

[octoberlib]

3. Yeah, notice the mention of the word 'astroturf', which they're experts at.

This song has all kinds of projection in it.

[midnight]

4. Anatomy of A Protest: North Carolina and Your (Formerly) Private Information

With North Carolina's growing Moral Monday protests entering their 10th cycle today, Art Pope's right-wing Civitas Institute is at hard if nonsensical work trying to discredit the thousands of concerned cititzens nefariously claiming to represent a cross-section of the state by revealing "who they really are" - ie: you know, dirty commie hippie riff raff and "outsiders." Raising a host of privacy concerns, Civitas has posted a detailed protester database on the 574 arrestees to date offering a wide array of personal information: name, age, race, occupation, mugshot, "Anatomy of a Protester," salary of public employees, and affiliation with revolutionary groups like the Democratic Party, NAACP, Council of Churches and Wildlife Foundation. The kicker: Turns out they're, umm, a cross-section of the state. The breakdown finds that 98% are from North Carolina, the majority are white, 80% are employed, more than half are clergy or work in health care and education, and the largest age group is 56-65. And God knows we're dangerous.


http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/07/08-0

[Notafraidtoo]

5. I hope they continue this stuff.

They are mocking Christan's who want to help the poor, showing their true selves hateful and cruel, republicans have tried for decades to hide the public face of their policy's and the tea party just comes and takes off the mask, then they wonder why they cant win presidential elections. the tea party is the democratic party's biggest ally he he.

[Triana]

6. Not a lot of room to talk about 'astroturf' and 'staged movements' when...

...the Koch Bros money is behind "Tea Party" and "Tea Party Patriots"

Facts of course show that 98% of the MM crowd are from NC, which would disprove the 'astroturf' claim.

Anyway, the teabaggers will lose interest. MM crowd should ignore 'em.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. A spin-off from True the Vote?

Assholes. And as always, WRONG:

"Last year NCVIP unsuccessfully challenged the registration of 500 voters in Wake County, N.C., most of them people of color. The group also presented to the N.C. Board of Elections a list of 30,000 registered voters who it claimed were actually deceased; following an investigation, none were found to have voted fraudulently."