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I was reading this and midway through I had a thought. The one thing that provoked the thought was somewhere in here:
Over the last few weeks, [film critic Roger] Ebert has used his busy Twitter page to give the tea party belittling nicknames, predict it will quickly fade and opine that “a loud movement is not the same as a mass movement.”
“I write about the TeePees because it’s so sad how they’ve been manipulated to oppose their own best interests,” Ebert said in an e-mail, using his latest epithet for the tea party followers. “I am a liberal.”
And Andrew Brietbart came along and gave voice to this thought.
Andrew Breitbart, publisher of several influential conservative blogs including Big Hollywood, defends Ebert the new-media user while attacking Ebert the political thinker. Breitbart says that Ebert’s Twitter posts reveal a patronizing view of tea party adherents that serves as a “caricature of the liberal mind-set” and that the critic brims with “raw contempt for Middle America.”
That’s why when liberals create or take over a political party and give it a name, they choose the name “democrats.” The word comes from the Latin (oops, forgot to read my hand notes) Greek democratia, meaning “rule of the people.” Free and open participation, by everybody.
When they open their mouths, or in Ebert’s case twit their tweets, just about everything they have to do & say is concerned with selecting who is to participate.
“Don’t pay any attention to those people, over there. They are not part of the everyone I have in mind.”
This is the most stark and simple insight you’ll ever gain about what a modern-age democrat really is. (I really don’t know, nor do I care, whether Ebert himself is registered with the party.) They are advocates who labor tirelessly, demanding this-or-that issue is to be placed on the scale of democracy. And then they insist on placing their thumb on it. We have to listen to “everybody,” but then we have to look to them to define “everybody.” They’re constantly picking & choosing who is supposed to be left out.
Update: All those who demand evidence to support the above, feast your eyes.
And this is no anomaly by any means. “Listen to me, don’t listen to those people over there, I’m part of ‘everybody’ and they are not.”
Hat tip to Another Black Conservative.
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You know, I realize a lot of my fellow tea partiers are unable to articulate well their reasons for joining the movement when a microphone is shoved into their faces.
Well, after seeing the two videos on the Coffee Party site, I am unconcerned that their side is any better.
I think in the second video out there, some girl actually says … something really close to this “why would anybody be opposed to health care for everybody when you don’t even have to pay for it?”
Morons.
- philmon | 03/02/2010 @ 10:11The FIRST thing that comes to mind about your Coffee Party chick is she can’t be all that frickin’ bright. I mean, making a video while standing outside in a frickin’ snow storm? WTF? Is this the Weather Channel? I’m bettin’ her loft in The Village would have been a lot warmer. And I might have listened to what she was sayin’ without being concerned her cute lil nose was gonna freeze off her face.
- bpenni | 03/02/2010 @ 10:27That’s some weakass coffee, must be decaf… instant crystals…been sitting on the counter for 3 hours.
ZZZzzzzzzzzz……..
- tim | 03/02/2010 @ 10:42I’ve done quite a bit of my own ranting about this in the past several days over at “the cage”… had a couple of “friends” join the movement. Even had an argument with one of them over it.
- philmon | 03/02/2010 @ 10:48Democracy is from Greek, not Latin. “Demos” = people and “kratia” (from “kratos”) = power/rule.
Love the site, by the way. No one may read it but I do, regularly.
- Rich0116 | 03/02/2010 @ 15:38The Coffee Party.
Two girls, one cup.
- rob | 03/02/2010 @ 20:10tim gets the prize. Hilarious.
She keeps talking about accountability and “the process.” To people on the right, the definition of being accountable to the process is showing up at the voting booth. To the left, the definition of being accountable to the process is preventing people who disagree with them from getting to the voting booth.
- Andy | 03/02/2010 @ 20:21Oh my, seems this isn’t the grassroots group they’re trying to present themsleves as –
From Gatewaypundit –
‘”Annabel Park is a former Strategy Analyst at the NY Times who was one of organizers and operators of the United for Obama video channel . You would find that out at Legal Insurrection”.
- tim | 03/03/2010 @ 06:05When the Tea Party grows up, it will become The Whiskey Rebellion.
Faster, please.
- JoanOfArgghh | 03/03/2010 @ 06:15Democracy is from Greek, not Latin. “Demos” = people and “kratia” (from “kratos”) = power/rule.
You’re right, of course. A fourth-grade proofreader would’ve caught that. Ah well, one of them things with guys in white robes & bare feet running around.
Annabel Park is a former Strategy Analyst at the NY Times who was one of organizers and operators of the United for Obama video channel . You would find that out at Legal Insurrection.
And I did, since the whole thing scrolled up on Memeorandum yesterday. She’s busted. But the point of it is the effort to re-define democracy by re-defining this concept of “everybody”…and that campaign shall continue.
Glad to see you on Rich, I should mess up more often.
- mkfreeberg | 03/03/2010 @ 07:06There’s a lot of us nobodies around.
Kinda reminds me of a song.
“… guys running around in white robes and barefoot.” Heh.
- philmon | 03/03/2010 @ 07:24