The Tea Party Movement’s New Anthem?

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The first thing I thought when I saw this was, “Holy chit!”

But I’ll let you watch and decide….

This comes via Facebook:

(Uploaded the Video to LiveLeak before Youtube takes it down…) Couldn’t get that stupid embed to work. Grrr.

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34 Replies to “The Tea Party Movement’s New Anthem?”

  2. Excellent, excellent video. Succinct and direct is good.

    I wonder how long though, before the holders of publishing and performance rights for the song “Cult of Personality” and representatives of the band “Living Color” demand that the YouTube video be removed.

    Somewhere in that music industry chain is bound to be a Leftist with some controlling interest in the song. And we all know, Leftists do not argue on the merits. They attempt to silence critics when expedient. Sadly, I would prepare to be silenced here, unless the right to use the song has somehow already been secured.

    3…2…1….

  3. This video is beautiful. It needs wide exposure. I hope the band Living Colour are Tea Party friendly!

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  5. Nice sentiment.

    But the randomness of almost every (LITERALLY!) iMovie trick is tacky and tasteless. Every transition option, every title option. Gah. It detracted from the video and I only finished watching because it became a trainwreck of bad video choices. The video could be so much better with a bit of polish and . . . restraint in garish choices. Just sayin’.

  6. “When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” Did you not hear him say this in the campaign? Did you not believe him? I appreciate your desertion of the Democrats. But you need to pay attention, otherwise you’ll succumb to the next fad.

  7. Go to keepvid.com, type in the URL, then download the file in the format that works best for you. There are other programs/sites that do the same thing, but this has been the most reliable for me.

  8. I’m thrilled to see that easily-led people who went over-the-top for Obama have now gone all in for the Tea Parties, and have produced a video to show for it.

    Or – here’s a thought – maybe they can apologize to everyone they mocked, taunted and teased on Facebook, Twitter et al around November of ’08, and quietly vote for conservative candidates while those of us who weren’t taken in by a marketing campaign unravel the mess they helped empower. I love Obama-mamas, but if you didn’t see the writing on the wall in 2007, I’m not so sure that your snappy editing in ’10 is of relevance or interest now.

    Closing thought: if 10 percent of the people who voted for the President read his memoirs, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

    2. However, I think it is a good point to remember that the reason why the Republican Party lost was:

      1.) John McCain just sucked period. He was too moderate. Not to mention the fact that his official Blogger, Michael Goldfarb was a complete asshole.

      2.) Under Bush the Republicans got drunk with spending.

      3.) Iraq. We owned that and liberals won’t let us forget it.

      There’s more. But I think this will suffice.

      1. “Iraq. We owned that and liberals won’t let us forget it.”

        True — the left hates the idea of all those people liberated from a genocidal dictator.

        1. True — the left hates the idea of all those people liberated from a genocidal dictator.

          See the problem with that is. That is not why we originally went into Iraq for.

          We went in there for WMD’s. which were never found and never were there. But if you say that you are some sort of a liberal. Which is bullshit, of course. Bush made a mistake, he even admitted that, as did his Staff. Not only that, but the Pentagon was woefully unprepared to deal with the uprising in 2006. Having said all that, the surge worked, and we ended up defeating Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which showed up, AFTER we got there; and we won that conflict and the Iraqi people are now living under a American Sponsored and supported dictator. 😀

          Sometimes the truth hurts. But it’s still the truth.

          1. We went in there for WMD’s. which were never found and never were there.

            Nice sound bite and campaign slogan, but not exactly correct. First, WMDs and production capability for same were discovered; but not the large stocks expected. However, it does not necessarilly logically follow that such weapons were never there. How do you explain the materials that had previously been physically sighted and inventoried by UNSCOM but were never subsequently recovered? True, one possibility is that the Saddam regime, on their own and without oversight, decided to destroy these materials, but to not document it nor tell the UN about it in the face of UNSCR 1441. I find, however, that given the regime’s historical reticence to dispose of such weapons, their pointed defiance of the UN, multi-national inteligence reports and the long warning Saddam had prior to actual invasion it is more logical to assume the weapons and materials were hidden and/or moved.

            1. Nice sound bite and campaign slogan, but not exactly correct. First, WMDs and production capability for same were discovered; but not the large stocks expected. However, it does not necessarilly logically follow that such weapons were never there. How do you explain the materials that had previously been physically sighted and inventoried by UNSCOM but were never subsequently recovered? True, one possibility is that the Saddam regime, on their own and without oversight, decided to destroy these materials, but to not document it nor tell the UN about it in the face of UNSCR 1441. I find, however, that given the regime’s historical reticence to dispose of such weapons, their pointed defiance of the UN, multi-national inteligence reports and the long warning Saddam had prior to actual invasion it is more logical to assume the weapons and materials were hidden and/or moved.

              This all might be true. But Bush violated the Reagan rule, “Trust but verify…” He went on a single piece of intelligence. This is because He and the Wilsonians (or Neo-Cons, if you wanna call ’em that…) were eager for war. He wanted to settle the score for his Daddy. Plus, I think Dick Cheney had this nutty idea that Iraq would be a cake walk and they’d nail them and then move on to Iran. But that plan never happened, because of the problems in 2006 and plus the war got to be quite unpopular.

              Either way, it’s over with now. I think Bush learned his lesson. Because he said as much in some interviews. I also, I don’t place it all on Bush. His underlings were the biggest at fault, and many of them ran for cover, when it all blew up on him or resigned.

              So, there! 😉 😛

  9. This video is a mess. It obscures the message, using ticky tacky fonts and every silly cheap special effect to completely miss the point. The best shot of all was comparing the tax paper bundle to the Declaration of Independence. One of the commenters mentioned Obama 08 was a marketing campaign, a very good point. This won’t cut the mustard against a very slick operation.

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