As F.G. indicated earlier today, self-avowed Republican presidential contender Sarah Palin has taken to the stage and the national airwaves, calling for a revolution. Her complete sentence:
I guess down here that’s some southern sweet tea, and you know up in Alaska, we have a smaller version of Tea Party up there, and we call it iced tea, and I am a big supporter of this movement, believe in this movement, got lots of friends and family in the lower 48 who attend these events and, across the country, just knowing that this is the movement, and America is ready for another revolution, and you are a part of this.
If Sarah Palin is calling for a revolution, the Tea Party Nation is paying her handsomely to do so. With Palin getting private air accomodations and $100,000 for her 40 minute and 20 second speech, she was paid at a rate of $41.32 per second. Sarah Palin was paid $1,033.06 just to share that beautiful thought you read above. But behind the scenes, Tea Party Nation is already rolling out the counter-revolution. The organization declares on its website that:
* it is a corporation which has trademarked the phrase “Tea Party Nation” and will sue anyone else who uses the words.
* “You can and will be banned for being a liberal.”
* “Tea Party Nation reserves the right to ban anyone for any reason we feel necessary”
* “Trashing of TPN will not be tolerated.”
* “Questions regarding TPN posted in the public forums or blogs on the site will be deleted.”
* “It is not a forum for… calls for militant uprisings.”
* “Tea Party Nation’s strict No Tolerance policy will not make exceptions… if you see such postings, you immediately report them”
While Tea Party Nation’s speakers call for a revolution for the cameras, any actual revolutionary behavior or dissent will be result in swift dismissal. That’s an interesting combination.
Well, um, Sarah Palin certainly called for a militant uprising. How many people attending the tea society luxury gala reported her?
We have “only” ourselves to blame for this mess:
This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone has it all figured out. It’s sad that most of the people of the US don’t.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.
The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.
The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
(copied)
the czech republic? you are a kidder aren’t you? good thing you didn’t have to come up with that yourself, such eloquence and substance! amazing what they’ve accomplished in the czech republic since they got rid of the mother country. they can now editorialize.