Rachel Maddow: Is There a Rift in the Tea Bag Movement?

[SESdisciple]

I love how these politicians and reporters have no idea what the phrase "tea bagging" actually means. This is beyond amusing.

[tuttt99]

Using the epithet "teabagger" to demagogue the Tea Party:

That don't impress me much

[communipaw2009]

why do i think she is hot

[Argedionx]

Rachel the Slut of TV

[irishgeal1]

as she said herself midway into this idiots rant, she's a great lover of props, need i say anymore.

[diviamush]

Ricky Maddow and the rest of her communist friends at csnbc appear to be very jealous of Fox News. The Kill CSNBC in the ratings, Oreilly beats Ricky and Keith Awfulman combined.

[DaveBpt]

Tea baggers are selfish idiots who dont want to pay taxes and don't like programs they don't use themselves. Guess what though when they need unemployrment or some other program then they scream if they don't get help

[julieyard1]

ask some of the older teabaggers how they feel about medicare and social security .

alot of that social security check money goes straight in the gas tank to get them to these rallies.

[Arcturistheballer]

@DaveBpt when has anyone from the tea party screamed for help from the government (never). None of them use those systems like food stamps and other entitlements because they have a sense of personal responsibility and jobs.

[walkerazcarpenter]

Okay, this explains why there was such weak attendance, they were trying to get in on the tea party and the libertarians went home so they didn't add to the stupidity sponsored by FAUX NEWS. Ron Paul won't shift his message, so the right wing extremist republicans will never see eye to eye with libertarians. They only want to steal your ideas for a protest as if it was their idea. It shows how lacking they are in having an original idea.

[DevieBoy66]

This Maddow guy probably teabagged a lot of guys during his college days.

[x37green]

With all of this press, we Libertarians need to push for more recognition, and educate the public about freedom and our rights. Join the Libertarian party nearest you and plan some more protests.

[AmishMarine1]

I'm happy about this, Libertarians are much more honest and valid than the GOP. They also actually have ideas, unlike the GOP.

[metalpsalm]

Tea parties belong to all American

[dkkght46]

Rachel Maddow is officially the last person in the world allowed to joke about Teabagging. What does she know when she cannot get her head from the clams of Rosie and Ellen. Notice how rachel Madcow and Anderson Cooper where having a field day with this?

Godamn, even Shep Smith from Fox is better looking than Rachel Madcow. Its caused by and emotial outpour due to penis envy!

[dehvja]

Libertarians should go indepedent and form a third viable party. A strong libertarian candidate would give president Obama a run for his money in 2012. But the GOP as it stands today wouldn't win an election in the next 100 years.

[HuellsJewels]

Get real. I like Libertarians. They're a very valid special interest group. But they're no more viable as a political party than the US Chamber of Commerce.

Anyone can afford to pretend to like Libertarians because we all know we'll never be governed by one. That's why all the lefties are blowing smoke up your ass. They still hate 90% of your platform.

What exactly is Gordon's problem, BTW? That Republicans are finally agreeing with him?

[dehvja]

I honestly believe a strong Libertarian candidate is capable of drawing suport from the moderate left as well as the moderate right, and that would be a huge chunk.. BTW, I'm a ''lefty''... and I like Ron Paul. But politics remains politics and I will always be a skeptic.

[lezlitaz]

no, they are using the tea parties to further the left / right party fight. both parties suck, they could care less about anything other than getting reelected

[tubaboy71]

AHH yes Newt is bad he actually made Clinton reform welfare so he could say he balanced the budget. Who is also has a rift? Seems the left can not make up their mind as if this was about racist red necks, anti-CNN and a GOP ralley. Intresting...Obama took what Bush did and trippled down so to say it is Bush at this point is disingenuous. Obama is DOUBLING the national debt ..meaning double what was there before Bush and double what was there after Bush!

[electrostatic1]

Thank God someone is telling the truth... The founders of the Campaign For Liberty mostlyhate Hannity and Gingrich.. There were times yesterday when I was so angry I wanted to deck someone..

[Eagle0watch]

How can not hate a biggot asshole like hannity? Are you kidding me ? And don't even let me get started on Limbaugh!

[Isawanangel1X]

ah HA..here it yes..yes THIS IS TRUE

[rickelmonoggin]

I sympathise with the Ron Paul supporters. At least they are consistent and articulate .

The neo-teabaggers are an incoherent rabble led by hypocritical opportunists in the right wing media.

[seanmdh]

Try what, Doing what the Declaration of Independence says we can do. DoI Para.2...That whenever an form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it IS the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness....To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. I must be a radical because I know the DofI??

[whatthehellpeople]

Oh yeah, more big talk from an idiot who considers himself conservative.

Just try it.

[kcp12304]

grass roots corrupted by AstroTurf

[resumebuild]

stop the partisan bullshit. it is not about republican or liberals, it is about ending taxes that not all states agreed to in the 16th amendment that started in 1913. Stop Taxing on our labor.

[waltermh111]

lol, you wish it was that organised.

There are a few different groups trying to get involved, and its confusing any message that may have been there originally.

Libertarians arent much better then conservatives at organising grass roots ever.

Yall should leave fighting and working to make better the government to the liberals.

[chriskoob]

so do southern teabags smell like your sister?

[trauts01]

Republican party = no orginality, no new ideas.

[trauts01]

The word "co-opted' is very appropriate.

What were once groups devoted to the Ron Paul Revolution and the message of peace, prosperity, and freedom from tyranny, have become belittle Obama hate groups. They have been "Co-opted" by republicans. It is easy to tell, the paranoid, bigoted, even racist overtones have gone from a few to almost all you can get in the way of information. Sadly, its mostly reposted BS with little or no basis in fact. once there was sourcing, now nothing but falsehoods.

[PeterOrszagCallMe]

Unfortunately for these libertarians I think it might be too late. Once Fox got into the driver car all the kooks got on to the crazy train calling for "book burning" and such.

[uyd]

Most of the people who are "TEA BAGGING"....HEHEHE....are part of the 95% of taxpayers who are supposed to get a tax cut under Obama's plan. What are they protesting?

[goldgrif]

what their riches masters of faux news and such want them to, they cant think forthemselves they are frightened children unable to see the light of day because they are controlled with blinders on by people they willingly give their minds over to

[primordialprophet1]

Just proudly paid my taxes and they seemed about right to me,as a result I will celebrate by putting my tea where it belongs,in a cup,with milk and two sugars:)

[doug47130]

Tea Parties everywhere! .... To what end?

What happens after that?

All of them go home watch American Idol, go to bed and in the morning start paying on next years taxes. Like everybody else.

[jrebstock]

todays pathetic tea-bag rallies will be an another embarrassment for the GOP (to go along with steele, palin and bachmann)...if there are 600 rallies around the USA that get a total of 1,000,000 PEOPLE, i'd call that a failure (yet FOX will claim its a victory)..if only 1,000,000 (nationally) show up today..that means only about 1/3 of the daily limbaugh/o'reilly crowd (3,000,000) participated. ...u can bet FOX will LIE about the # of partipants & inflate the figures.

[437thx1138]

Hey a likable wingnut. Cool.

[carboy101]

That guys pretty funny.

Isn't that so Republican. Why make up an idea when we can just take over someone else's. I still think they "Tea Parties" are dumb.

[Ender1zero1]

Put a bunch of angry people together with different views and values stir the pot really hard and hope the shit doesn't hit the fan, here's hoping no innocents get hurt.

[goldgrif]

if people get hurt those that instigated these "teabagging" groups, wont take the blame,

[Ender1zero1]

You're right the people responsible for putting together this nonsense won't take the blame because most of the people who did the on the ground organization have no idea who's actually behind the tea parties. It won't matter who takes the blame if violence happens it will reflect on the republican party.

[goldgrif]

here in louisville they keep saying we are getting taxed and refuse to hear that taxes are going down for them, they dont want the rich to pay 3% more. and most are claiming obama is cauing all government spending and refusing to hear about bush, there was about 90 to 100 here

[xhagast]

Is anybody getting the unemployment checks Obama extended? the extra food stamps? Anybody has children with no insurance that can now get medical care thanks to Obama? Is anybody there being able to refinance his morgage and not lose his home thanks to Obama? I bet many are(unless it is a village of 200 people). If they are and they are still making this fuss they deserve to be sold as sweatshop laborers to the Chinese when Palin become president.

[ndvuncle]

Republicans trying to grab Ron Paul's tea bags??

Sounds like a good ol' tea bag fight. Not to be confused with a cock fight. Afterward there'll be neocon circle jerks where you aim the guy to your right at the Fox sponsor...er...I mean, correspondent.

[darkally]

Isn't this what is happening in the new Bruno movie? Someone is trying to grab RP's teabags again!?!

[manster034]

BREAKING NEWS: Maddow gets teabagged,, ...........J/K she fucks women and dogs

[sitrucm]

I heard Hannity's right teabag hangs lower than his left.

[PoliticalSkeptic]

Tell him to find jump off the top of a 6 story building and make sure he lands square on his heels to fix that problem.

[diginando]

LOL

[adamsfall]

The Republicans are trying to hijack the libertarians populism. That is why Glenn Beck now has a show on Fox with a faux libertarian message.

[imaginepeace63]

Glen is a Nazi pretending to be a libertarain.

[Arcturistheballer]

@adamsfall glenn beck is not a libertarian , stossel is

[adamsfall]

@Arcturistheballer But he plays one on T.V.

[Arcturistheballer]

@adamsfall he goes on tv and says hes not....

[adamsfall]

@Arcturistheballer He just espouses their economic policies and waves around his copy of "Atlas Shrugged" which is a holy book for many Libertarians.

[Arcturistheballer]

@adamsfall yeah he beleives in their ECONOMIC policies, hes not a libertarian and doesn't claim to be. Just because you say he is does not make him one.

[adamsfall]

@Arcturistheballer When did I say he WAS a libertarian. If you read, and comprehend my post, I said that he is trying to HIJACK the libertarian's POPULISM and his show has a FAUX libertarian message. I am pretty clear about this.