Huckabee: Once the Tea Party Movement Gets 'Taken Over' by Special Interests 'They're Done'
Mike Huckabee pretends like the tea baggers are not an astroturf movement already and that any semblance of them being a grass roots movement has not been dismissed a long time ago. This had to be one of the strangest panels I've ever seen on Fox with Geraldo bringing in Jesse Ventura, Mike Huckabee and Rod Blagojevich to weigh in on the latest event with Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin doing their best to scare the crap out of the American electorate in Tulsa.
After showing some footage of Beck and Palin at their Taking Our Country Back tour, Geraldo has Huckabee and Ventura weigh in. Huckabee of course tries to pretend this group is still a grass roots movement and also fails to acknowledge that the two people he's being questioned about are his fellow employees at ClusterFox and the role they've played in promoting the movement.
Ventura dares to point out that the tea baggers are not anything that could be considered a grass roots movement and Rivera makes sure he doesn't get to say much more about it before ending the segment.
Rivera: Governor Huckabee, last time you were on this show you made a little bit of news when you said of CPAC, the traditional conservative wing of the Republican Party that you were rejecting them at least as an organization and in some ways because you thought that they were bought off by the various lobby groups ect.
Huckabee: Well there was an article...
Rivera: I don't want to put words in your mouth...
Huckabee: Yeah.
Rivera: But are you embracing the tea party activists. Do I read that from you?
Huckabee: Yeah the tea party really I think represents something completely different. It is not a trade show and you know it was interesting that there was more reaction to the article about my comments on your show than actually what I said. What I pointed out was and it was interesting that Politico, the web site was the one that blew it up, it was Politico and Mike Allen from Politico who had written an article talking about how the ACU, the over all sponsor of CPAC had squeezed Federal Express for two million dollars to fund this initiative that they were going to do and they rejected it went to UPS to take the opposite position, saying we'll write editorials, we'll...
Rivera: You point that they're the establishmentarianism people and the tea party are the real passionate folks?
Huckabee: The tea party people is still a stallion. It's still a stallion. It hasn't been completely saddled and nobody is riding it. There are people who want to ride it, but it's still out there on the wild.
Rivera: But they (?_).
Ventura: Well first of all, I don't think the tea party is such a grass roots organization. I think they're being financed and being... there's more than just grass roots going on now.
Huckabee: I think there's some people who are after them and want to take them over, but I don't think anybody has been able to capture them and I think the moment that that happens they're done.
On fox this morning they said over 6000 people showed up at the Palin/Beck sideshow. I have to wonder what the real number was since fox has been known to put their thumb on the scale a few times.
This is kind of fun, watching the republicans try to cozy up to the tea baggers while at the same time keeping them at arm's length.
Rove was asked this morning if he thought Palin would be a presidential candidate in 2012. He said if she prepared herself and then tossed in, "she was a vice presidential candidate in 08". Yeah, and how did that work out for the sane republicans?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
and usually multiplies it by ten, than by ten again. So the actual number was probably 60.
If Sarah's whole family was there that might kick the numbers up a bit. Then you add in Beck's imaginary friends and you get a few more.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
"...since fox has been known to put their thumb on the scale a few times."
That's not a thumb. It's Roger Ailes's fat arse.
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Oops, my mistake. From where I am it looked like a thumb. Upon closer inspection, you're right.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf7xV2rSxg0
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It hurts to watch this. HURTS.
Jesse Ventura is a voice of reason on that show and too few want to tackle what he is talking about. Notice how Geraldo shuts down the debate on the Iraq War when Jesse brings up no Iraqis were on the Airplanes that flew into our Buildings.
Here's Jesse's new book he has been making the media rounds to publicize. It brings up some pretty interesting topics and covers a lot of history too few are comfortable hearing about.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Conspiracies-D...
He still amazes me that he was a Navy Seal in Viet Nam, Harvard Professor, Professional Wrestler, and Governor of Minnesota as an Independent.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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I had never heard that either and when I went to wiki I found an empty page, so I don't know.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-S...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Refreshed from a semester as a visiting professor at Harvard University, former pro wrestler and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura (search) says he's considering an independent run for the White House in 2008, although he acknowledges that being leader of the free world might be too confining for him.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,117215,00...
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/artic...
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
it would be more fun, entertaining and informative speaking with him than anyone else on that panel.
http://cursor.org/stories/seal_or_udt.htm
Jesse was in UDT not a Seal team.
...considering this wallpaper you're throwing up.
You made an account just to post that comment about Jesse Ventura's Navy record (a point that was hashed & re-hashed years ago when Ventura ran for Governor). Who's funding you?
I hate to see the memory of those who were there diminished by wannabe's like Jesse Ventura. Make no mistake UDT is tough and proud. Why embellish what you did? Jesse gets caught in his own stories. He can prove me wrong with his DD214. Every vet has one and it shows where we were, our MOS and awards we recieved.
Where is George W.Bush's DD214?
The truth will set you free but can you handle the truth?
You Are Correct Sir!
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
It just looks like four guys who for obvious reasons had no social plans for the evening.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Jesse Ventura interested in 2012?
Study the symptoms not the virus...
these asshats don't know how to brew a proper cuppa.
And now the bag's been in the water too long and it's stewed
me-oww!
The Tea Party movement was totally manufactured and financed by FOX, and consists of far right wing uneducated white supremacists. You won't see too many black people or Latinos in a Tea Party audience.
These people are such complete dupes (tea baggers), that they want to take the country back from the liberal socialists; when in actuality, this country is owned buy rightwing corporate fascists!
You can't fix a problem, if your so damned stupid that you cannot identify the problem - or if you are part of the problem.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Much of the deficit Obama has in front of him was created by GW Bush- yet Republicans now argue Bush inherited his debt from Clinton, and Obama created the current deficit all by himself- Are these people unhinged?
Remind a Republican of the reckless spending of Reagan and the Bushes,you'll be greeted with silence, or with threats of physical violence.
Here is a question- when is the last time a Republican prersident balanced the budget?
This video hurt my ears, Palin's voice is even more schrill than Edith Bunker, and of course Beck was busy on his crazyboard...
I believe it was Ike, who I really admire except for his problems with Tina.
CaliforniaMike blogs at All Voices and at his own blogs, http://www.mikerappaport.net/onevoice and at http://oneminutewithmike.blogspot.com.
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"Huckabee: The tea party people is still a stallion. It's still a stallion. It hasn't been completely saddled and nobody is riding it. There are people who want to ride it, but it's still out there on the wild."
The people is a stallion? Maybe he meant the party is like a stallion, but in the case of tea baggers and the image of a stallion it's just not a pretty picture. Oh shit, that whole paragraph is stupid!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
he was UDT. There is a big distinction. http://cursor.org/stories/seal_or_udt.htm
because you are suspicious of him (and his questions)...
...or because you have a thing for pro wrestlers?
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Jesse makes claims for things he never did. Have him provide his DD214 to show he was a Seal or in Vietnam. He won't do it because he was never a Seal and never in Vietnam. He should be charged under the stolen valor act.
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You made an account just to trash Ventura's credibility. Even your screen name is an implied ad hominem attack.
Who are you working for?
The Tea Party Movement is to grassroots as _________ is to the Beatles.
a)the Monkees
b)Sarah Palin
c)'nSync
d)Citizens United
e)all of the above
e
CaliforniaMike blogs at All Voices and at his own blogs, http://www.mikerappaport.net/onevoice and at http://oneminutewithmike.blogspot.com.
(exept the monkees had one good song)
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the 'Jeannie' song was damn good, though 'We're the Monkees' did have a certain charm, as I recall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6tgOEpb424&fe...
(I prefer the original version in black & white).
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One of my older sisters had such a crush on them. Anyone remember Monkee trading cards?
Ja wohl...
I've also had:
http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/photos/unca...
http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/wp-content/up...
http://www.hydroponicsonline.com/store/img-hy...
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I remember being really upset when I broke the thermos.
Whoops, the link didn't work. Anyhow it was a Charlie Brown playing baseball one.
But now I've got the thermos and no lunch box.
good song it is you're thinking of was either written
by Carole King or Neil Diamond, I would wager.
I'm sure Huck wanted to give some romantic vision of the Teabaggers as stallions,running wild and free. Actually they're like stallions in that they are so crazy they're unapproachable and they're shitting all over the place.
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Dear Huckster,
They already have...
Justice’s wife launches ‘tea party’ group
The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court.
By Kathleen Hennessey
March 14, 2010
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/...
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
That's Clarence Thomas's supplemental retirement plan.
All that fried squirrel must be going to Huckabee's fat head as well as his fat ass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3QAzSWVA4
From Falwell to Huckabee, I guess these fat assed Christian Mullahs when using the bible as a weapon against others, must be over looking the part about gluttony being a sin.
the teabaggers are not a grassroots movement is to look at who is leading them. A true grassroots movement would not need Glenn Beck to egg it along.
an ignorant screeching cat whose tail has been caught under the rocking chair well beyond it's allotted 15 minutes.
I still think we could use the teabaggers if we had a concerted mind to. If we could infiltrate them with some strong, charismatic folks, who in turn would point them at K Street, that'd be useful. It would also call Beck's hand AND an anti-K Street teabagger movement would give us all a sense of poetic justice.Sort of like turning the corporations' cannons on themselves.
reading off a teleprompter on the podium or the notes off her palm pilot?
NoGWBpolicyleft... I just said the same thing to my wife less than an hour ago.
Ok, it was a little longer rant but essentially the same; the repuke base is so stupid it will go against their own self interest following those who have nothing but disdain for them.
Yup, Huckabee is right again. *Once* they get taken over by special interest – they’re done.
…and…
They’re done.
clueless...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL1y-X0kIrI
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Grifters without conscience or scruples leading a political party.
http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=12138772
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
He's swelling up like a watermelon. God, he's getting HUGE!
What world do these reichwingers live in?? It certainly isn't the real one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcCdX1iu9Uc&fe...
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...The Hair, No Hair and Flaming Hair. No Hair reigns supreme. Yay.
You have one group of people full of self-pity who fancy themselves as victims of a liberal government when in fact much of that government has changed little from the previous regime. Another group of people who cynically manipulate their feelings of self-pity and victimhood, thus perpetuating that attitude. The fact that the country is controlled by big business and that government has to ask permission to go to the bathroom is totally lost on these people. It's about as grassroots as poison ivy grown in a hothouse.
Hey Huckle berry , you fountain of crap ! They are right wing / special interest owned , organized , advertised , bussed and funded .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Got Glenn "THE DRY DRUNK" Beck and Sara "DINGBAT QUITTER" Palin stirring up more BS as usual I see.I think at least Edith Bunker had a more pleasant voice than Sara "SCREECH" Palin any day.
I followed your link. Harvard itself lists him as a former "Fellow," and goes on to descibe: ( http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-S... )
"The Fellows Program represents a unique opportunity for political practitioners with diverse experiences and viewpoints to spend a semester at Harvard. Fellows interact with students, participate in the intellectual life of the community, and pursue individual studies or projects. ... Study groups present a tremendous opportunity for students to learn informally from leading public servants, political practitioners, journalists, academics, and more."
I kind of like Jesse Ventura. But being a guest Fellow giving one lecture and/or leading a study group is not the same a being a professor. Neither at Harvard, nor a community college.
I love how outraged Palin is about the Deficit now that a Democrat is
in office. The old game of let the Repubs. run up the Deficit by putting Two wars on the credit card and totally neglect everything else.
To bad palin could not fit the word Hypocrisy on her hand a word that personifies the Republican Party like no other.
That's the funniest fucking healine I've read all week! This is almost as good as unemployment encouraging hobophobia!
You're playing semantics. While technically he was UDT or a "frogman" if you will. The UDT and Seal missions were complimentary enough for the Navy to merge them at which time it became acceptable for all former UDT's to call themselves Seals. If the Navy no longer makes a distinction between the two why would you? They may not be exactly the same thing but they were similar enough that the Navy has no problem with it therefore he has not broken any laws or stolen any Valor hence why he's never been charged for it.
Now, having said that, please understand I am not defending his actions. I'm only offering you an explanation.
"Every snow flake pleads Not Guilty after the avalanche"!
just admit it? Why not be proud of what you were rather than making things up? If he won't be honest about his service record what else will he lie about?
he takes the stuffing out of these assholes all the time. Hes got this stuff nailed.
Well then I guess they're done.
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