March of the Teabaggers: Parade of Ignorance

[Stephanie]

Check out this brilliant video - interviews from the Tea Bagger Parade. You've never seen so much wrong information in your life. Select quotes below.

Link to video.

Reporter: So what did you come out here mainly to oppose, or what is your purpose here today?
Tea Bagger: Well mainly it's the health care bill
Reporter: Can you tell me about the bills that are being proposed right now?
Tea Bagger: Not really.

Tea Bagger: Medicare as it is now has worked very well, I think, for the populace.
Reporter: And do you think we should expand it?
Tea Bagger: It could be expanded to more of the population.
Reporter: So tell me about this sign.
Tea Bagger: "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy" - I mean it sounds sarcastic, but we do need to bury that whole plan.

Reporter: Do you think the Kennedy family would think it's funny?
Tea Bagger: Probably not, but they've done other stuff too, so -
Reporter: What are some of those things?
Tea Bagger: Well, I can't think of anything right off the bat.

Reporter to Tea Bagger with "Joe Wilson for President" sign: Joe Wilson had yelled "You Lie" out in the President's speech.
Tea Bagger: I had yelled it before he did a number of times, and so when he finally said it, I thought, somebody finally said it.
Reporter: He did vote in the past to provide some level of health care for illegal immigrants, which makes what he yelled ironic.
Tea Bagger: Joe Wilson supported that?
Reporter: Yeah.
Tea Bagger: Yeah, I am not supporting Joe Wilson for President.

Tea Bagger: I'd like to see a Christian in the White House, that's what I'd like to see.
Reporter: You don't think Obama's a Christian?
Tea Bagger: No I don't! He's a Muslim.

Junior Tea Bagger: He's already destroyed, like, most of the country. I mean come on, that's crazy.

Reporter: Why do you think he's the anti-Christ?
Tea Bagger: They mention his name in the Bible. I think it's under Hebrew, but it stated Barack Obama, but they took his name and they separated his name, and they deciphered it, and Barack Obama, in its content, means anti-Christ.

Tea Bagger: His mother was white. So he's not an African American. But he's going that way, because that pays off for him.

Tea Bagger: The Nazis had the brown shirts. Okay, Obama has proposed, and I keep hearing him talk about it, he wants to have a nation of 2 million citizen army, armed as well as the Army.
Reporter: Well he's talking about an army of volunteers, to do volunteer work.
Tea Bagger: They're going to be armed.
Reporter: I dont' think they're going to be armed with weapons.
Tea Bagger: They're going to be armed as well as the Army is.

Reporter: What is fascism? What are you trying to tell us with your sign?
Tea Bagger: Well fascism is a form of socialism, I would believe. I mean they're all intertwined: communism, fascism, socialism. They all have a little bit of each, they borrowed from each other.

Reporter: "Fire those wacky czars." Now tell me about this concern over czars.
Tea Bagger: What is a czar? They're a Russian king. Here, Jesus is our king.

Reporter: Actually, the first czar in the United States was appointed by Ronald Reagan. Does anyone find a concern with that?
Tea Bagger: Only due to ignorance. I've never heard that before.
Reporter: Yeah, he appointed a drug czar. Czars were expanded under George HW Bush. So czars are relatively new. But you are opposed to them?
Tea Bagger: I wasn't really aware of that til now.
Tea Bagger: I just don't know who they answer to.

Tea Bagger: We don't know who they answer to. Are they going to be given land, and power over the government?
Reporter: No actually all the czars that have been appointed, under Ronald Reagan, under George W. Bush, even under Obama, they have no executive powers, they only act as advisory committees.
Tea Bagger: You know this how?

Reporter: We've had advisors to the President for a long time. I think the concern is in large part due to the terminology, which began under Ronald Reagan.
Tea Bagger: Well I'm learning a lot more about the Republicans also. I've always been a Republican. I think that's changing.

Tea Bagger: Glenn Beck is such a logical thinker.

Astonishing, no?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. The teabaggers are probablt some sort of mutant drone

[ShortnFiery]

2. Here's my favorite comment:

m7superstar: I can't believe he only interviewed the dumb, illiterate Americans. How about the 10 or 20 educated conservatives on hand who kept these people from injuring themselves on their signs? What about them? What about the volunteer doctors and nurses in the crowd who kept these fine, healthy Americans from choking on their own tongues and pecking each other's eyes out? Totally biased video.

:rofl:

[JimWis]

3. Your right. Why pay any attention to them. They are a minority

who really have no clue what's going on. If you read those - political ignorance, listen to the wrong people, easily swayed - some very revealing comments.

[Stephanie]

4. I think it's important to SHOW they have no clue what's going on.

If you don't shine the light on them, some will make the mistake of taking them seriously.

[FLyellowdog]

8. You are so right!!! n/t

[jtrockville]

5. How did the ignorant become so influential?

[Gabi Hayes]

6. depressing, disgusting, nauseating, yes. astonishing? decidedly not, but I know what you mean.

btw, have you seen Idiocracy?

we're already there

[Stephanie]

7. No, I think I need to see that.

Yes, we're there.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. yes, we are. here's a quote

Narrator: We're gonna take you back, to the year 1939, when Charlie Chaplin and his nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world...

Narrator: ...But then an even greater force emerged, the U.N.
{pronounced un}


Narrator: and the U.N. un-nazied the world - forever.



not a great movie, by any standard, but it so expresses the mindset of these sheep who follow the likes of Palin, Beck, etal, that it seems more than prescient at this point.

he sets it 500 years in the future, which is way too far ahead

[Stephanie]

16. Send in the UN, now

And UN-stupid these people.

[Gabi Hayes]

19. it's one of those movies that's funnier when talking about it than actually seeing, but

it's worth watching so you can describe the best stuff to people who haven't seen it

[CatWoman]

9. The Stupid

it hurts!!

[mimitabby]

10. these are like the 'funny things kids say'

only they're not kids and they're not funny.

[Stephanie]

11. I know

I need a kick drum after each excerpt.

[Subdivisions]

13. I'll have you know that if my chihuahua

were the least bit interested in the space program she would know a whole lot more about that than these stupid people do about the reasons they were at that rally.

[gratuitous]

14. Notice how a little probing exposes their ignorance?

As soon as you go behind the slogan, they're cooked.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. yep--what impressed me

was that the reporter just stayed calm and asked them what they meant.

The stupidity makes me want to scream (like many of us here -- it makes us want to tear our hair out), but it's so much more effective to just stay detached and ask them to explain themselves. And have some facts on hand. (I get frustrated because I don't usually have info memorized, like how he had the background on the "czar" terminology.)

[Initech]

17. Such an unbelievably rampant sea of stupidity.

[Bobbie Jo]

18. Good Lord, that made my head hurt.

How these idiots found their way to DC without getting lost is a amazing. :dunce: