rssBehold, the National Tea Party Convention’s Secret Breakout Sessions
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 12:17 pm
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Perhaps the strangest thing about the National Tea Party Convention’s quasi-blackout on media coverage is the innocuous nature of the stuff organizers don’t want covered. Here, for example, is the work-in-progress list of the breakout sessions that reporters won’t be allowed into.
The Leadership Institute: “Grassroots on the Ground”
FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform): “Operation Amnesty Shield”
Philip Glass, National Precinct Alliance: “How to Change Elections – Becoming a Precinct Committee Chairperson”
Young Americans for Freedom: “How to Involve the Youth in the Conservative Movement”
Dr. Rick Scarborough, Vision America, Author of “Enough is Enough”: “Why Christians Must Engage”
Mark Skoda, Memphis Tea Party: “Collaboration in the Cloud-Applied Technology in the TEA Party Movement”
David DeGerolamo, NC Freedom Tea Party: “How to Unite State Tea Party Groups”
Lori Christenson, Evergreen/Conifer Tea Party: “How to Organize a Tea Party Group”
Dr. B. Leland Baker, “Dr. B”, Professor of Management and Homeland Security, Researcher/Analyst, Author of “Conservatism and the Tea Party Movement”
Walter Fitzgerald: “Emergency Preparedness”
Smart Girl Politics: “How to Do Voter Registration Drives and Where to Find Conservative Votes” and “Women in Politics”
I can sort of understand the worry that national media, coming into town to cover Palin, would flood these events and make attendees uncomfortable. But I’ve covered, and filmed, and watched other people cover and film, convention breakout sessions on pretty much all of these topics.
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Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 1:18 pm
“How to Do Voter Registration Drives and Where to Find Conservative Votes”
Isn't this essentially what ACORN does (e.g. registers the urban poor, who will most likely vote for Democrats)? Funny to hear that the Tea Party people are adopting the tactics of their mortal enemy and boogeyman…
Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 2:50 pm
FRAUD!
Oh wait, it's only fraud if there are black folk involved. Teabaggers consider all black votes fraudulent.
Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 5:06 pm
Ignorant comment. The percentage of black conservatives is on the rise because they are beginning to understand the bill of goods they have been sold by the democratic party. The donkey's “chikin's is coming home to roost!” Notice the negro dialect I have injected. My uncle (by marriage) is black, descended from a slave family and the most conservative man I know. He discovered the lie years ago when he saw the enslavement of entitlement taking over his neighborhood in Phoenix and vowed to be a self-made man which, to his credit and ONLY his, he is.
And teabagger is still a derogatory term used by the left because they cannot tear down our ideas, they can just try to imply sexual acts because that is the center of their universe.
Nice try with the politics of personal destruction but that card has been played and is known. We will no longer be deterred by fears of being called names, especially of being called politically incorrect anymore. Since we can NEVER be considered politically correct, we won't be trying anymore. 2010 – the year America woke up. See you at the ballotbox. And don't forget to reply to this comment by calling me names and/or swearing since that is all you are capable of.
Comment posted January 13, 2010 @ 11:33 am
The percentage of black conservatives is on the rise because they are beginning to understand the bill of goods they have been sold by the democratic party.
Prove it.
Notice the negro dialect I have injected.
Good for you. Maybe you should think about not doing that anymore.
And teabagger is still a derogatory term used by the left because they cannot tear down our ideas
Teabaggers have ideas? I see only rage, and stupidity.
they can just try to imply sexual acts because that is the center of their universe.
Hey, I didn't base my political movement around a double entendre, you did.
Nice try with the politics of personal destruction but that card has been played and is known.
Whom did I attempt to personally destroy, exactly?
We will no longer be deterred by fears of being called names,
You're so brave. I'm so proud of you.
Since we can NEVER be considered politically correct, we won't be trying anymore.
You were trying? That's funny.
And don't forget to reply to this comment by calling me names and/or swearing since that is all you are capable of.
I didn't call you names or swear even once, teabagger.
Comment posted January 13, 2010 @ 12:39 pm
Don't be so tough……The baggers don't even quite know if they're Republican, at the moment. The GOP is usurping the movement by fundraising under the bagger title.
Not knowing who's in the house doesn't help them, either. Racists, extremists…..You know, the average, everyday American…..waving those socially important signs, trying to change what, exactly? Do you baggers even know, anymore?
Comment posted January 14, 2010 @ 3:35 pm
Typical sign they wave is about getting “the Kenyan” out of the White House——and that's at the civil end of the 'bagger spectrum
Comment posted January 14, 2010 @ 4:21 pm
LOL
the “Phoenix” 'hood
That's damn funny.
Notice the Irish/German dialect I have injected
Comment posted January 14, 2010 @ 8:35 pm
Typical sign they wave is about getting “the Kenyan” out of the White House——and that's at the civil end of the 'bagger spectrum
Comment posted January 14, 2010 @ 9:21 pm
the “Phoenix” 'hood
That's damn funny.
Notice the Irish/German dialect I have injected
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