Meet the Vancouver Sun's Chris Parry: Idiot

Serious moonbat here folks:

A reportedly corporate-financed grassroots" anti-tax movement, paid for, planned and promoted by right wing think tanks, corporate lobbyists and Fox News Channel, has failed to bring about the "popular uprising" against the Obama administration its creators had hoped for.

The day of "tea parties" pushed by Republican operatives and partisan advocacy groups such as FreedomWorks, that sought to protest the Obama government's tax and stimulus policies by encouraging people to 'wave tea bags' brought about only a few hundred "tea-baggers" in most parts of the U.S., despite relentless promotion by Fox News TV hosts.

Participants had hoped to rally hundreds of thousands of people to begin a grassroots movement that would force Obama to change government policy. But the turn-out was far from what was hoped for, with most rallies looking decidedly ont he small side, especially compared to the 2006 immigrants rights rallies or the 2004 pro-choice march on Washington, both of which attracted millions.

4,000 people are reported to have shown up in Cincinnati, Ohio, while Chicago drew an estimated 5,000 protesters and Des Moines, Iowa drew 3,000. Farmingville, New York, drew 50 hardy souls.

Those that did show up to the right wing event Wednesday didn't hold back from expressing their thoughts on government. Protest signs seen in the Washington D.C. tea-bag protest featured slogans such as "Commander in Thief," "Party like it's 1773" and "Hang 'em high," the latter also featuring a list of Democrats the sign holder wants taken to the gallows.

According to reports, organizers of the D.C. event were told by National Park Service officials that the "million tea bags" they had hauled in on the back of a pickup would have to be taken away, rather than be dumped as planned. They reportedly complied with the request after realizing they didn't have the correct protest permit.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a local think tank, offered to provide its 12th floor board room as an alternate venue to dump the tea bags.

A 68-year-old woman at the Sunbury Pennsylvania protest had to be rescued by police from the Susquehanna River when she inadvertently fell in while trying to dump tea bags in it.

White House press spokesman Robert Gibbs said of the protests, "I don't know if the President is aware of the events. I think the President will use tomorrow as a day to have an event here at the White House to signal the important steps in the economic recovery and reinvestment plan that cut taxes for 95 percent of working families in America, just as the President proposed doing; cuts in taxes and tax credits for the creation of clean energy jobs."

Rising popularity in the polls for President Barack Obama, a strengthening economy, and the unfortunate choice of name for the movement ("tea-bagging" is slang for a sexual act) are considered the prime reasons for the failure of the event, but recent exposure of the groups behind the protests also drove some away from taking part.

This freakin' turdball keeps going but i figured I'd excerpted enough and was especially concerned for those of you who might be eating while reading.

What a maggot. 

Yea, that's a little harsh... I actually held back some.

Comments

[Mark]

Glenn Beck just read some of the exact story on his radio show just now. Unbelievable. The Sun will be hearing from a few of us today.

[Chris Parry]

Maggot? Why so?
Just because you don't like the facts doesn't make them not facts. Point out what's incorrect about the piece and I'll correct it. Otherwise you're just yelling in frustration because you don't like what you see.

[vanderleun]

Oh, Chris. We don't have time for every maggot sucking moonbat dumping his days in some dying newspaper.

We just simply note the froth and although we might like to correct you, we always remember the truth when it comes to Chris Parry: "No. Condom. Thick. Enough."

[renee]

Chris Dear, I know it's a scary, scary concept to think than average American citizens on a grassroots level, planned and paid for the tea parties all by themselves and you'd rather console yourself by thinking up some right wing conspiracy theory backed by rich folks in a board room and the evil Fox News network.

Do be careful about signing on to those conspiracy theories, next thing you know, Janet will be listing your fears in a left wing extremist alert! Poor Nancy looked positively frightened in her interview talking about the whole tea party affair!

All we had to do was get a permit, the invites were face to face or sent online to our circles of family and friends...who invited their family and friends. We had copy machine programs, only printed 1000 of them and ran out early, and a small number of shirts (donated by a local business person) with the option for people to place orders for more if the turnout called for it.

A local band volunteered, some politicians who are running in 2010 came so we could ask them questions, and we sang some patriotic songs together, had several speakers, most of which had immigrated, legally, from communist countries. They were very passionate about sharing some perspective on what they are seeing happen in their adopted nation.

No one was paid to speak and none of the politicians in office that we invited came. We called them, in mass, from the event and told them how disappointed we were. We didn't serve food and we didn't have need of a litter clean up afterwards either. Most people handmade their signs out of materials from home. There was little need of any funding; no pork needed.

We were in the middle of town and had a lot of people coming and going, heard several say they were there during their lunch hour. Our tea party started at 12 noon and ended at 3 pm. There was a petition line but I didn't sign in because I was listening and recording the speakers on my new video recorder that I haven't figured out how to download, yet. I'm pretty sure others didn't get to sign either, especially those folks who had to get back to work because that line was long the whole time.

If I had to guess, watching people coming and going, it was an easy 3,000 turnout. However, the local papers reported only 1,000 in attendance when we know 1,500 people signed the petition. Other tea party organizers are seeing the same lack of accuracy in how their numbers are being reported. But, I mean, what's 1000 here or there? No big, unless you do that times 800. It's ok, really, we are used to being demeaned by the media.

There were small tea parties and large tea parties in every state. I had a choice of four in my area within a 2 hour driving distance. I found out about the one I attended from Facebook and I googled information on the others. Not all of these tea parties are being counted in the collective. You see, that's the difficulty in trying to assess numbers to grassroots, locally supported events. But that's ok by us, there's nothing to see here, and nothing to be afraid of.

We were so peaceful, we had one policeman walking around smiling and greeting us. I suppose the local police knew that a bunch of law abiding citizens, veterans and all, didn't need all that crowd/riot control stuff.

We have learned that the majority of the mainstream media isn't a concerned citizen's friend anymore. Funny thing, I heard today, a few papers have picked up on this and fired their agenda driven biased editors. It was so sad to hear that Fox News had more viewers yesterday than ALL the others COMBINED plus another 700,000 on top of that!

This is a new leaf for most of us, just about everyone there said they hadn't protested before. You know with that kind of population, you really can't predict what we might be able to do. Apparently, there were a lot more people this time around than at the last tea party events a few months ago, and I'd expect this is only going to grow. There were a lot of my friends that couldn't come and they really, really wanted to be there but jobs are hard to come by right now. Can't wait until we do this on a weekend or a holiday when us tax payers are not busy at work.

Maybe if your paper is still around and you haven't lost your job, you'll get to report on the tea parties planned for the 4th of July. If needed, we could do one before then, now that we know how easy these things are to pull off.