As a liberal, I desperately fear the great big Tea-Bag Party scheduled for April 15, in the sense that I may just crack some ribs laughing. Will this sort of thing ever get old? No, it will not:
Yes, teabag pictures sure are likely to create quite an impression, though there is something to be said for the vividness of the real-life experience, I suppose, in terms of communicating precisely what you want. And it is indeed a good thing that the teabag will hold up. I suppose there would be few personal disasters that could compare to the trauma induced by a collapsed teabag. It would take forever to get the hair out of your teeth, at the very least.
So on the whole, no, I would very much encourage the geniuses behind this national Conservative Tea-Baggery to take to the streets as planned. Michelle Malkin, however, fears that The Left has set in motion a diabolical plot to insinuate certain of its members into the very thick of this public tea-bagging:
For the next 9 days, the left-wing blogosphere and left-wing clueless pundits will hammer away with their unreality-based Tea Party smears.
And on the ground, the tax-subsidized and Soros-subsidized troops are going to try and wreak havoc every way they can. Many readers and fellow bloggers have seen signs that ACORN may send in ringers and saboteurs to usurp the anti-tax, anti-reckless spending, anti-bailout message.
Damn that Soros fellow, anyhow! Why must he be constantly spending his vast ill-gotten fortune in a secretive and shadowy fashion in order to spread rumors and lies that there is some shadowy secretive conspiracy behind the actions of political opponents? He's always doing that. Fortunately Malkin is above such tactics, and duly provides proof of the Soros-ACORN sabotage-scheme, in the form of a link to a blog that links to a message board where a random commenter says that ACORN is up to no good. CASE CLOSED. I mean, obviously this is not just paranoid gibberish; the commenter certainly sounds like she's very calm, collected, and sensible:
Groups like ACORN and CODEPINK are nothing but Anti-American criminal organizations. BEWARE. I just stocked up on Pepper spray at http://shop.christmascentral.com/items/item.aspx?itemid=63674 JUST IN CASE
And, yes, that is a real link to an online Christmas Ornament shopping site, one that does indeed sell pepper spray, although, regrettably, this pepper spray is not holiday-themed.
Anyhow this should put paid to any suspicion whatsoever that the Tea-Baggers are kind of loony. No, they are perfectly right and calm and rational to leap from a single post from by a pepper-spray-happy Tea Bagger on a far-right comment board, have that bounce around the online right for a few hours, and then finally tie all the loose threads together to quite soberly announce that the real mastermind of the insidious plot to destroy their protesting... is, of course, Barack Obama personally.
All of this certainly seems like a Nixonian effort that is being coordinated by the Obama White House, not independent Democratic activists.
Right. Because what else could possibly explain why the Tea-Bag protestors are coming across as fringe issue lunatics?
MORE, JUST BECAUSE IT'S FUN. This is excellent advice from a Wizbang commenter:
If you plan on attending a Tea Party event? you had better get a tetanus shot and carry some mace or whatever else would come in handy for when the Obama brownshirts ( ACORN ) squad attempt to cause an uproar/chaos, so the media can detract from the event and label it rightwing hate speech.
Nothing like whipping out a can of mace in order to prevent coming across on the teevee as someone involved in an uproar.
MORE. Dave Noon and John Cole have some fun with this too, but without the dangling testicle jokes. That is the sort of value that we here at Whiskey Fire provide to you, our readers, at no additional cost.