Michelle Malkin Claims the Tea Party Movement is Grass Roots Counter-Insurgency
On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Michelle Malkin tries to claim that the tea party movement is grass roots, and that it's 1993 all over again with health care reform.
Malkin: It's going to be a monumental month on the ground, and we've seen this percolating since February, and I've been covering the tea party movement, these counter-insurgencies on tax payer rights groups, and I think that this administration and the Democrats have vastly underestimated just how grass roots this movement is. And I think it's been, I think it's been comforting to think that it comes from the top...
Stephanopoulos: And it's a grass roots movement organized around what? What is the issue?
Malkin: Around larger government, reckless spending, and not only the redistribution of wealth, but now the redistribution of health. And I think that the White House has failed to counter the basic notion that people's health care "rights" or entitlements are going to be redistributed by social engineers. And we've seen these "town halls gone wild", that's the phrase now and I think as these law makers go back they're going to face the heat. These You Tube videos are viral, and to me it's actually very reminiscent of Hillary-Care fifteen years ago today. You probably remember this. When Hillary went to Seattle to sell the health care plan it was really a turning point when she was booed, directly, and I'm, I lived and reported in Seattle for three years. That was an extraordinary event. And we're going to see a replay of that.
The other guests go on to explain why these times have very little in common with 1993 when Hillary Clinton was trying to push health care reform.
Think Progress has the break down on how absurd Malkin's remarks are trying to claim that the tea bag movement is even remotely a grass roots one. Media Matters has some rebuttal on her new book: Malkin distorts Michelle Obama biography to attack her and her father as corrupt.
...what this dimwit has to say anyhow?
Oh yeah, that's right - the propaganda machine that keeps booking her on MSM programs.
Malkin is harping on yesturday's news - everyone knows it's an astro-turf movement, not grass roots.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
The tea party doesn't qualify as a bowel movement.
The colonists disrupted the sale of tea by throwing it overboard. These clowns aren't disrupting anything. They're just whining.
And it was non-taxed tea to help a company with connections to King George in competition with our taxed tea.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Ironic that now daughter Cheney wants to become Queen Lizabeth III of America.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
just like the brownshirts they admire so very very much.
I swear, as the great FSM is my witness, if I was at one of those meetings and these fascist fucks started their shit...I'd get arrested for whuppin some nazi ass.
That picture of Malkin---it just gives me the creeps. It's like looking at Charles Manson.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Hold it up side by side. VERY CREEPY!
teh crazy inside...
Malkin...I betcha she's one of those girls that would go to metal/hardcore shows and was all into the skinheads, and got passed around like a cigarette in prison and never realized or admitted to herself that know matter how many she fucked, she's never be one of them...
I think that might be part of what makes her so crazy bitter.
She's a goddamned embarrassment to all Americans of South-East Asian decent.
She was born just before he was incarcerated.
rabid
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
nice hair on such an empty head.
as in fake B.S. fueled by hatred and bigotry of confused and ideologically blind followers.
who want to keep things as they are.
... are coming out of her ass!
that is inappropriate.
Malkin also claimed that Rachel Ray's scarf in a Dunkin' Donuts commercial was a terrorist symbol. The woman is insane.
Malkin, I mean. Rachel Ray is just a hypocrite.
glad to see malkin, again, rushing to the defense of the uber-wealthy
glad to see malkin, again, rushing to the defense of the insurance industry
Why does he keep having these nutjobs on his "round table"? If they laughed after everything MM said, then I could understand it.
http://www.historicalnames.com/images/0KA/KA-...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
George Step-on-an-octopus, should be embarrassed and ashamed to have had her on his show. She knows damned well this whole tea bag shit was put together by people who saw a benefit for themselves and the baggers were truly used as their tools. The baggers are just too stupid to see how they are being used and how stupid they look. They are protesting against their own good. Idiots all.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFZsrs32Co
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Exactly patricia. The same thing happened with the Greensboro massacre. The CWP was trying to rally the low income people to unionize the textile industry. Wages were very low in the area and the CWP was trying to improve that. It didn't turn out to well and a lot of those same type people are teabaggers and birthers.
obnoxious.
then stephenapolous kisses her butt. why?
and maybe a little pissed off.
I think he attempted to say something like "thats a valid point" when she finished babbling, as politely as he could - without rolling his eyes - just out of some sense of respect and/or good manners ...
but I thought he looked pretty annoyed throughout.
Then why the hell have her on the show in the first place? I mean, really. Is Stephie such a wimp that he can't even stand up for the dignity of his own show? It's obviously strictly about the fame and the paycheck for him, so he's not going to rock any boats. No one with any self-respect and integrity would ever allow that crazy woman on their show.
enough rope to hang themselves.
Either that...or they're simply just looking for ratings.
What a complete waste of space this bimbo is...
Not that'll do any good. I just wrote "This Week" and said my say.
Oh no...someone will have my health!!!
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
they don't give away my youthful vitality. Oops, too late!
http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I suppose that if Obama is willing to write "death orders" for our senior citizens, he'd also be willing to force us to donate our organs while they're still in use.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-pU8TFsg0
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I'm getting the feeling that this is one video I do not want to see.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Now I understand why Grimalkin is screeching so loudly.
BRAAAAAAAINS!!!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
This cries out for a video link. Ysb must be losing it.
It's tea time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HiuCaaQhxg
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...in China.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
I welcome our Chinese overlords and would gladly allow them to take my organs so that their superior race may flourish!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Cokie one week, Michelle the next, who next? Ann Coulter, then Beck?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Jeez, now insurgents are cool with these assholes?
And if Tea Parties are a grassroots movement, Starbucks is a mom & pop coffee house.
if they're white and xtian...any other color or religion, and they're a turrrist by goawd!
I wouldn't piss on her to help put it out.
She's some work of art. I really liked the "Government cheese" line she used. You can see the boys are Red State getting a chubbie in their Batman underwear when she said it.
ABC, why have her on? She's not going to say anything intellegent. She's not newsworthy - she's going to spew out the standard rightwing lines.
I didn't watch ABC yesterday. I got the info about the fiasco from C & L and other websites. I don't watch George unless he has Krugman on.
Why does ABC have her on??
Why does ABC have her on??
Well, probably for the same reason they booted Dr. David Scheiner off of their "Town Hall Forum On Health Care: Prescription for America".
They got wind of the fact that he supports a Medicare for All health care system and was going to say so. That he is a proponent of Conyers H.R. 676. That program had ZERO comments about Single Payer, "Medicare for All". Zip. Nada. None. CENSORED.
ABC is a tool of corporate America and they do NOT want to see their fellow corporations get stiffed out of their precious profits should a Medicare for All....Single Payer system ever be adopted in this country.
THAT is why they keep having tools of the Republicans on their shows and NOT doctors like David Scheiner (who was Obama's personal physician for over twenty years BTW).
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1kAmvnSTsE
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Abbywood,
I agree completely. I know why they do it. I know they won't put anyone from the progressive side on. God forbid! Cokie might have an aneurysm having a new idea penetrate that thick cranium. Will's toupee might spin like a propeller.
My larger point was why put on this insipid gasbag who not only doesn't bring anything new, she's not even entertaining in not bringing it.
How are the tea baggers who have lost their jobs going to feel about Michelle calling them lazy because they enjoy being on unemployment for as long as they can?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
If they could distinguish between their own personal interests and the talking points of the wingnuts who use them, they wouldn't be tea baggers now would they?
Guess not.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
...don't collect unemployment.
because a real teabaggers don't even file a tax return (much less) pay unemployment insurance...
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
That little princess needs a good bitch slapping.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Be nice!! I was just complimenting you this morning in the Open Thread about how chill you are with all the trying to be Buddhist thang!!!
We don't want poor Michelle bitch slapped! It would just rattle her itty bitty bwain and make her sound even more vile than she is now!!
Ommmmmmm......
Ommmmmmm.....
P.S. Are you in Prague yet??
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
I'm still in Seoul for the next 24 hours. Actually, sometimes a good slap is entirely in order, and non-violent (key yoga principle), to bring someone to their senses. Who knew?
She causes negative vrittis (energy swirls) which attach to others in her path. It is "heroic" to stop her.
--> I left you a note in the open thread.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0mEDE_w1xo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWVnPlUCrf8
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Bill Maher slapper her around a little bit. He scoffed at her book declaring the Obama administration as "corrupt" a wopping 6 months into it. What, was it already written last November, and she just filled in the blanks?
Isn't that how she writes all her books; fill in the blanks?
I bet there's a template somewhere on the tubes.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Small, insignificant, annoying, leaves a rash, and you need off to keep her away.
Malaria, Dengue Fever, and how many other plagues?
What she said:
Malkin: "It's going to be a monumental month on the ground, and we've seen this percolating since Septem.......February"
Freudian slip much Malkin?
As Jane at FDL has pointed out here:
http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/a-brief-his...
Malkin has been in on the Tea Bagger astro-turf crap since before the election. She needs to be called on it!
To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. - Noam Chomsky
by so-called "serious" news magazine shows on the networks is to drive away any free thinkers that still actually tune in.
By having on extremists like Malkin, they focus on the only demographic that counts. Right wing nutcases who, in addition to carrying the water for the elites, also spend their small disposable incomes on the $19.95 informercial products that are sold on those same networks in the early AM.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
She's used to being treated like a wise queen on Fox, but then on this show the other guests are looking at her like she's someone who escaped from a mental institution. They don't want to be rude to her and tell her she's full of shit, so they just sort of talk around her. She came all perky and ready to be adored but they didn't even invite her to eat at the adult table.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
to Michelle Malkin, Michele Bachmann and Ann Coulter chatting at a private party?
Oh man.....My imagination's giving me a big fat headache just thinking about it.....
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
"You only THINK you're bat shit crazy...but I've proven that I AM!"
"What? I've questioned Obama's very existence...not simply that he is not a U.S. citizen! Top that, ya crazy bitch!"
"Amateur! I was bat shit crazy back in the Clinton Administration...while you were still sleeping your way onto the FOX network!"
"Heh...I have a whole constituency that still votes for me...even after I said batshit crazy stuff during the Presidential election!!"
"heh...I got both you bitches beat! I slept with Glenn Beck!"
"WHAAAA...girl...that ain't bat shit crazy...that's plain NUTS!"
Disclaimer: The above conversation is fictionalized and only intended for the entertainment of our audience. It is not intended to disparage in any way the reputations of any of the people be satirized. They perfectly capable of doing that on their own.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Probably not as far from true as you might think
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
i am not 100% sure if human ears can hear in that sound range
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffu4rPBLyNw&fe...
I think I'm ready for tea.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...the fringe-dwelling rightwing is trying so hard to derail Obama's administration. It's not like the country will ever, ever, ever give them another try.
and that nightmare is less likley to happen with a Democrat in the White House.....
They are in a rush because they want a Republican to trigger the End times- via a nuclear war so they can all die and be with Jesus...
die and be with jesus part of that. Can't they just?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCdGqed6Ajg
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
From what I just heard on MSNBC a whole lot of republicans are running from the birthers as fast as they can. Seems even Ann Coulter has said the birthers are nuts. Has Michelle made a public statement about this?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
What is Michelle Malkin doing sitting at that round table. She is a well known complete hack. She has absolutely no journalistic integrity.
"This Week" = "This Weak"
George is having a contest with David Gregory to see who can have the absolute worst Sunday Morning show. David was way ahead so George went for a hail mary....or in this case, Hell, call Michelle.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
...tea bagger, I guess I need to comment here...
So first let me say Malkin and Glenn Beck are johnny come lately's and dont know shit about what it means to be a teabagger.
...and first on the list of (what you need to teabag with) is a set of balls (so) ...Beck and Malkin are both disqualified.
second of all...you need to quit filing income tax returns, and I know Beck or Malkin don't have the balls for that so...
Third of all to be a teabagger you have to hate both Neo Libs and Neo cons, ...and of course they both fail at that too.
real teabaggers spit on Malkin and Beck.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
there's nothing quite like being a part of a mom and pop operation......with billions in parent company backing.
Sure it is. If you think Astroturf is the exact same thing as grass.
me-oww!
Even my dog knows the difference.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
the validity of a particular statement.
"Dogs are smarter than Mrs Malkin"
My dog knows the diff too. She'd never try to eat astroturf.
me-oww!
What I noticed is that everybody kind of ignored Malkin. Sure they responded to her but if you watch they don't look at her and act as though she is not there when they are talking. It just seemed to be they acted as if she was a... fucking crazy troglodyte who is not part of the planet earth.
Could be that management forced Grimalkin on him This Week.
I didn't watch the clip, but it's not different from The View. The View is obviously liberal leaning, so they need Elizabeth for the controversy. You must have people tune in to sell products.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
I can just imagine that when she says, "And we've seen these "town halls gone wild", that's the phrase now..." everybody with their face in their hands shaking their head.
Michelle is on beck tonight. Nuff said?
Beck just said that one of Obama's appointed czars is a communist, but he didn't say which one.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
According to Michelle Malkin, if you're poor then you shouldn't have quality health care? What's the quickest way of driving all the citizens of USA batshit crazy? Putting peabrain people like michelle malkin, bachmann, beck, o'reilly and coulter, pretty much any repugnicans on teevee. I'm getting so dissolucioned with watching the news or even reading it on the internet. I'm about to lose my health insurance and everytime i look at the news and see all these inmoral liars and thieves it just puts my anxiety wayy...wayyy up. I can maybe say I was sane while i was ignorant on how the system works, if you don't know it doesn't affect you kinda thing.
Did anyone else notice the way Malkin talked about the Health Czar meetings? How she said people have a "sense of lack of trust" because it took a lawsuit to get the names of those attending the meetings, and that the Czar had ties to the health industry? Is she so dumb that she doesn't remember Cheney (ties to the oil industry) and his secret energy meetings at the begining of Bush's first term? She didn't seem to have any problem with THOSE meetings. I can't believe someone else on the panel didn't call her on that.
Also, if you think about it, back when Hillary tried to introduce national health care in the 90's, the Republican response wasn't a different proposal, it was Whitewater, which took the national focus off the important issue. Now, its "birthers" and teabags. Karl Rove is a proud man.
She really gets it. She wants to be a Taliban and is emulating their every aim!
Counter Insurgency to the government of the US is a crime, and the charges they name accordingly. Death by hanging is a popular conclusion to each of their proscribed punishments if convicted.
I can't f**king believe I'm seeing this whacko on "This Week!" It's insane that this cartoon character gets a panel spot on a Sunday morning show. Are you kidding me, George? You've totally lost the plot.
Further proof that you can be an whacked-out, maniacal partisan and get all the airtime you want... as long as you're a conservative. Outspoken liberals need not ever apply.
Interesting how these right wing dolts had no problem with Bush's massive expansion of executive powers, and running us trillions of dollars into debt.... (and righties were strong supporters of these policies)
Given their support of GW Bush, do these right wingers have ANY credibility when they come after Obama?
Anytime a right winger calls obama a reckless spender, remind them of GW Bush....
No, of course they don't have a SHRED of credibility. So why the hell do they keep showing up on my TV?!! How can you invite a known nutcase like Malkin on your Sunday morning show and still pretend to have one ounce of dignity or credibility? The TV world has gone stark raving mad.
is Michelle's deportation hearing?
;]
:)
Yes, shame on anyone who is poor, unemployed, working class, uninsured or uninsurable expect to have the right to medical treatment like, oh, say, the military, Congress, the wealthy.
wtf? why is she on?
One of Malkin's children can grow up, get a job with benefits, have a rich kid accident the day his insurance kicks in and his ass gets taken care of. Never mind the kid is years from having paid his way. In the meantime thousands who have been paying into the system for 20, 30, maybe even 40 years, many who have never filed a claim, have lost their insurance. Twits like Malkin don’t have any problem with that. They are moochers and what they are complaining about is their special people way of mooching is being threatened. Her ilk reminds me of Soviet era bureaucrats who got deluxe health care on everyone else’s ruble while healthcare was a crap shoot for the average citizen.
filled with an artificially flavored blend of FOXy foam.
Roots in terrorism, perhaps.
Dick Army might know something about this lobbyist right wing funded Grass roots terroristic insurgency.
They would like Iraq and Pakistan. Religious, No gun regulations, No grenade regulations, weak Gov't, religiously segregated, no workers rights, corporate facsism, yearning for another hard fisted dictator.
What the right yearns for.
To bury her and the anti-healthcare people. "Redistibution of health?" Now poor people aren't entitled to be healthy? WHat is this bullshit? Because, if health is being concentrated, it certainly isn't among the poor, is it?
By god, we do want a redistribution of health, don't we? I sure as hell do!
Comments are closed on this entry