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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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I declare, I'm beginning to think that the teabaggers are more of a comedy act than a serious political movement. They've now got the brain-damaged Ted Nugent, usually good for a laugh, as a fervent supporter and they've scheduled a convention, then called it off for a lack of interest. The corporate media is treating it in their usual, mendacious fashion -- ignoring it.
Tea Party moves their convention
Posted by Raven on Jun 26, 2010 • (11)
A small piece hit CNN’s blog today stating that the National Tea Party Unity convention was moving from its set date of July 15-17 to October 2010. The reasons given by the organizing committee include:
#9632;“it would more advantageous to hold the convention in the middle of October just prior to the November elections.”
#9632;“The heat in Las Vegas in July is keeping many who would like to participate from attending.”
#9632;“We have also received numerous emails from people who were forced to decide between family vacations and attending the convention.”
CNN’s piece basically served as publication of their statement without applying any critical analysis to it. There are some basic questions you should be asking here that don’t even require you to be a veteran event organizer.
To make the point bluntly their stated reasons for moving the convention are bullshit, and CNN buried the real reason this is happening in the story which was “moving back the date allows other Tea Party groups to attend the convention.” In other words they’re two weeks from their event and they’ve got no attendees and no interest in it.
This should be a juicy media story about the staying power of the Tea Party movement. Are they going to keep it going or does the excitement fizzle out at some point? That’s pretty much the first question I’d be asking if I were a reporter covering the Tea Party and this crossed my desk.
But just to drive my point home let me talk a little bit about what would be involved moving an event like this. It’d be a Herculean task that you wouldn’t try simply because you wanted to influence the elections or deal with some attendees complaining about the Vegas heat (when they’d likely rarely leave the hotel anyway). The only reason you’d take this sort of extraordinary action two weeks out is if your event was in imminent danger of completely failing due to lack of attendance and media attention.
Just some of the many things that’d be involved if you chose to do this would be:
#9632;Re-booking all of your speakers..... |
And so forth.
Is this a sign of the coming demise of conservative lunacy? I doubt it. If the teabaggers go under as an organization (do they even have an organization?), they will pop back up as the same thing in a different cloak. And with perhaps a less embarrassing moniker. It could be fun to watch.
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Ebone4rock
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USA
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 Posted - 07/06/2010 : 05:37:51 [Permalink]
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| They've now got the brain-damaged Ted Nugent, usually good for a laugh, |
What? Sweaty Uncle Teddy?! The Motor City Madman?!
To speak of him in such a way is sacreligious! |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2010 : 07:18:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ebone4rock
| They've now got the brain-damaged Ted Nugent, usually good for a laugh, |
What? Sweaty Uncle Teddy?! The Motor City Madman?!
To speak of him in such a way is sacreligious!
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Here's the latest on Ted the Motor City Twit; he thinks Africa is a country.
Jog my failing memory, but didn't some airhead beauty queen or other say the same thing. Or was it Sarah Palin?
I dunno, hell, it might have been GWB.... 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 07/06/2010 : 07:26:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ebone4rock
| They've now got the brain-damaged Ted Nugent, usually good for a laugh, |
What? Sweaty Uncle Teddy?! The Motor City Madman?!
To speak of him in such a way is sacreligious!
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If Ted Nugent brings his guitar, all if forgiven. He's a bad ass on guitar...
I'm about to go to TAM. It's July in Vegas. This will be the biggest TAM ever. Citing the heat is mind mind bogglingly dumb. |
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 07/06/2010 : 11:43:15 [Permalink]
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 07/06/2010 : 11:45:54 [Permalink]
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BREAKING NEWS!!! Air Conditioning invented! Tea Party Convention is back on schedule!
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sailingsoul
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Posted - 07/06/2010 : 14:25:01 [Permalink]
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| Have they blamed Obama for the heat and complained how he's not doing anything about it? They will. Ooooh, that devils child. How will the universe survive another minute with him in office? SS |
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W't if they held a convention and nobody came?
