Tea Party gets pranked. They think they banned Rachel Maddow from their site.

[ck4829]

Tea partiers beware: "You can and will be banned for being a liberal."

Organizers behind the upcoming Tea Party Nation convention we wrote about this morning told members today that MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tried to join the group and "we banned her 7 minutes after she joined."

TPMDC, which also has signed up for the TPN mailing list, received an email to all members warning them that as the convention nears "we will in all likelihood be invaded by liberal trolls looking to disrupt the site." The subject line was "Liberal Troll Alert!"

"Tea Party Nation reserves the right to ban anyone for any reason we feel necessary to ensure the well being of the site and our members," the group writes in the email, which you can read in full after the jump and view here.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/tea-party-nation-warns-members-beware-liberal-trolls-like-rachel-maddow.php?ref=mp

There's no confirmation process for people who join. You do have to give an email, but you don't have to click any confirmation saying you are that person connected to that particular address.

Thanks, Rachel Maddow impersonator! You've turned an otherwise boring Thursday afternoon into a very fun afternoon indeed.

[krispos42]

1. Man, then I nuked Obama like three times this year

At the time he was taking unusual pride in his African-American heritage. :crazy:


Sorry, Mr. President.

[superduperfarleft]

2. If I had the time, I'd spend my day signing up all kinds of people.

George Soros, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Mao, Fidel Castro.....

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. I'm off today. Thanks for the suggestion!

:evilgrin:

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Banned for being a liberal?

You mean all that rhetoric from the teabaggers about being for everyone - not just white, elderly, Republican, bigoted folks - was just horse puckey? Who woulda thunk it!

There'll be a lot of disappointed DU members who expressed a desire to join in solidarity with these dickheimers (although I hesitate to call them 'Democrats' or liberals'). TOOBAD!

[tosh]

5. ...

:thumbsup:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. They must be against free speech. They banned me.

You have been suspended from Tea Party Nation
Sorry, Adolf Hitler, you can not access Tea Party Nation as you have been suspended. If you think you've been suspended in error, you can contact the administrator.

[Hawkeye-X]

6. The site's over

Godwin right there. :P

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. ADOLF HITLER??

That's good. :rofl:

[TicketyBoo]

14. Seems to me

they should LOVE Adolph Hitler.

[havocmom]

7. I'm Spartacus, err, Rachel; No! I'm Rachel Spartacus Maddow! No!...

There should be many such registrations :evilgrin:

Will this be deleted for advocating an attack on another site? :shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Damn. I wish I had thought of this!

Maybe I will go back and register using my rushsux email address.

But wait. I wonder if [e-mail] is taken? :evilgrin:

[ck4829]

11. That's the beauty of it all, you can use anything you want in the email line

"[e-mail]" for example.

[Berry Cool]

12. Her show should be a lot of fun tonight.

I think a lot of us should try to sign up on that site using names like Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, David Shuster, etc.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Rachel's response:

We asked MSNBC's Rachel Maddow for a response to the Tea Party Nation banning her from their site, and she suggests the idea is so ridiculous they made it up as a publicity stunt.

"I used to be an activist, too, so I understand the strategy of using the name of a well-known person to try to get publicity," Maddow told TPMDC in an email.

"Of course, this idea of me trying to join their listserv is completely made up, but still -- I'm flattered the Tea Party folks think I'm well known enough to help their cause," Maddow wrote. "I wish them all best luck with their conference."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/maddow-says-liberal-troll-wasnt-her.php

[superduperfarleft]

15. "Sorry, George Soros, you can not access Tea Party Nation as you have been suspended."

That took all of five minutes. :rofl: