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Progressive Dems Launch Potty-Mouthed Campaign Against Tea Party

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It is reasonable to assume that if someone saw a passerby wearing a shirt that boldly declared “F*ck Tea,” they would probably expect the reverse side to say something stupid like “Coffee Is The Sh*t!” In fact, these tea-damning shirts do exist, but the slogan on the back takes a political jab at a different type of “Tea”, stating “Progress Is The Real American Party.” Hear that, Rand Paul?

The Agenda Project, a group intent on strengthening and advancing the progressive movement in America, is behind the printing and distribution of the shirts. And as the group’s founder Eric Payne told Politico, they are meant “to dismiss the Tea Party and promote the progressive cause.” You can purchase the shirts for $22.50 on the F*ck Tea  website, where they can be customized in colors like Black Tea, Green Tea, White Tea, and Earl Grey – clever! There are even children’s sizes for the politically concerned toddler in your life.

For now, the merchandise is restricted to shirts and a coffee mug, but Payne expects new products – like a Glenn Beck toilet bowl cleaner – to be released in the coming months. While you wait, however, you can watch the Agenda Project’s Tea Party-bashing video, which combines statistics regarding the least progressive aspects of the Tea Party (example: 59% like Glenn Beck) and mashes them together with shameful photos of fanatics, all set to the aptly titled and delightfully upbeat Lily Allen song “F*ck You.”

Note: There aren’t any asterisks in the song to soften the blow of the swears, so play the video at your own discretion:

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  • MichelleF

    There’s the classy left for ya!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    *LOL* This ought to be as successful as the Coffee Party.

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Children’s sizes too , huh ? They should probably make Michael Moore sized too , for the swine that would buy this garbage .

  • VW

    yawn. I heard the head of this group is a UNC undergrad with an MBA from Wharton and THIS is the best she could come up with. way to go, lady.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Callan/100000200979966 Joe Callan

    But it is TEA that they hate? I thought progressives loved tea–particularly green.

    This is about as well-thought out as an attack slogan from the right that acidically states: “F*CK PROGRESSIVE…auto insurance.”

  • shootfromthehip

    What a delightful video!

    I shall be sending it to all 4 of Michelle F’s Facebook friends.

  • BR

    the vile left strikes again.

  • Iris

    Great Video, will go viral CAUSE did ya notice that it was YOUNG PEOPLE and the teatardsare the old hatemonger farts Just like the old fool right wing hatemongers here. The future belongs to PROGRES, HA, HA

  • BR

    ps

    Liberal tolerance is a myth

  • shootfromthehip

    We tolerate everyone but you, BR.

    Kisses!

  • Iris

    BR, who would be insane enough to tolerate the right wing hate spew you moran and I do mean old fart morAn

  • roxsteady

    I’ve never heard of this group but, I won’t be buying any of these shirts. If I want to see over the top hatred spewing idiots, all I have to do is watch the various teabagger reach arould rallys that have been held over the last 2 years complete with incoherent signs. Oh, and in case youhaven’t heard, the baggers now have a 34% negative view by Americans which is higher than their positives. What took them so long?

  • alamo2

    These jerks are another reason I so dislike the right wing and the left wing. A bunch of loud, foul-mouthed jerks, including the right wing and left wing trash that spew their inane comments on Mediaite. Olbermann and Limbaugh, and the rest of the trash have ruined public discourse, leaving it to the idiots who type their foul comments hour after hour on this website and others. All you do is hate, hate, hate!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Kelly/720731075 Chris Kelly

    This idea is so vastly dumb that I’m surprised the teapartiers themselves didn’t think it up. The only reason there’s still a teaparty movement is because their other opponents are almost as dumb as they are.

    If there are any sane, smart, civil people who want to oppose the ‘partiers in sane, smart, civil ways, see my coverage:

    http://24ahead.com/s/tea-parties

  • NORBIT

    Heh! – Heh! Heh!

    The rabid Democratic dogs from THE PARTY OF HATE, in DESPERATION MODE!!!

    Did someone say the GOP wants to round them all up & ship them to join their comrades in Venezuela???

  • Iris

    alamo you can take the holier than thou road but you know as well as everybody else on the planet where the hate and meanness has come from just look at the video, were the kids wearing guns? Were they threatening anybody? Were they caslling for the overthrow of the country? Big f”in deal they used the f word.

  • BatBoy

    alamo2 said:
    These jerks are another reason I so dislike the right wing and the left wing. A bunch of loud, foul-mouthed jerks, including the right wing and left wing trash that spew their inane comments on Mediaite. Olbermann and Limbaugh, and the rest of the trash have ruined public discourse, leaving it to the idiots who type their foul comments hour after hour on this website and others. All you do is hate, hate, hate!

    I think you just described yourself!

  • alamo2

    Iris said:
    alamo you can take the holier than thou road but you know as well as everybody else on the planet where the hate and meanness has come from just look at the video, were the kids wearing guns? Were they threatening anybody? Were they caslling for the overthrow of the country? Big f”in deal they used the f word.

    Iris, you and I are on the same side of the poltical aisle, but from what I see, your comments add nothing to intelligent discourse. You are just as bad as MichelleF, Notsofast, Murf, Norbit, and the other foul-mouthed nuts that have ruined Mediaite. And by foul-mouthed, I mean more than the so-called F word as you put it. I mean stupid, inane, crass comments that do nothing but insult those with whom you disagree. Shame on all of you.

  • BatBoy

    BR said:
    Liberal tolerance is a myth

    And an oxymoron too!

    Good call BR!

  • stoogedudes

    I could not get myself to buy this shirt.

    There is nothing that I enjoy more than sitting back and enjoying a glass of iced tea, or during the winter, I dip the teabag into my mug and enjoy a warm delight.

    LOVE tea!

    Ooh, don’t even get me started on sassafras tea!

  • Bootleghaircut

    Perfect.

    conservatives sure love to try to dish it out but just can’t help but wind up showing how inherently hypocritical they are when somebody really hits them where they live.

    Clearly from all the conservative squealing the progressive had hit the target once again.

    And if you don’t think so in the immortal words of Dick Cheney; GO FUCK YOURSELF.

  • Iris

    alamo, we may not be on the same side of the aisle because i don’t think that when people call for the overthrow of this country one should just sit by on a fence and when people hate your president to the point of questioning his citizenship and more cause he’s black that they should be patted on the head. What kind of civil discourse do think you can have with people like that, not much cause I’ve seen you try

  • felixw

    This T-shirt is about as substantive as the various leftwing media accounts of the tea parties.

    But those on the Left should make no mistake about this. The key tea party issues of government accountability, fiscal responsibility, lower taxes and individual freedom aren’t going away. Their attempts to ridicule people for wanting a less bloated intrusive government will backfire on them. It’s already happening….

  • MichelleF

    Alamo says:

    You are just as bad as MichelleF, Notsofast, Murf, Norbit, and the other foul-mouthed nuts that have ruined Mediaite.

    Hey, alamo, I don’t swear, so I’m wondering what language you are referring to of mine.

  • MichelleF

    And Iris the viris, it’s MORON, not MORAN.

  • MichelleF

    Yeah, let’s go back to the Bush years of civl discord:

    A Short Walk Down Memory Hole Lane,

    http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20090816

  • Iris

    Michelle, you might want to decide to actually read the posts you choose to comment on. I said I meant morAn , there are some here who understand that spelling

  • MichelleF

    Iris, You don’t make alot of sense. Just sayin!

  • Iris

    Michell, Like I said there are some that understand it, mostly those who actually live a life outside of this place, just sayin

  • MichelleF

    Hm, it must be another one ot those inside phrases, like epic failure that you and rox got from your “idiots for Obama” club. I was denied entrance to that club because I had an IQ over 100.

  • Iris

    No Michelle,i ts just that you deprive yourself of anything that doesn’t come from Glenn becks ass or newsbusters..morAn!

  • MichelleF

    No, I’m pretty sure it’s because you make no sense.

  • Iris

    Pretty sure? How about everyone else knows you have no clue. I keep tellin ya get some kind of life, you sit there like a sad sack 24/7 posting these comments, for God’s sake get a life and you might get a clue as to whats goin on

  • murf

    Urban Dictionary

    chandelier (n) noun

      
    Nickname of an annoying internet stalker, who thinks it’s cool to make stupid and insulting innuendos about people that are too smart for him/her  to understand.

    Iris in a nutshell 

  • MichelleF

    You mean everyone like, you, Rox, BFD, yweston, royal race-baiter, ted, etc? Yeah, you guys are a smart bunch, no doubt!!

  • Iris

    Smurf , no matter what you do its still obvious you’re old, sorry

  • murf

    Iris, I know your fear of white and old people is a heavy burden in your life and a constant struggle. Hopefully in time you will grow out of that bigotory , and paranoia.

    Ps. I’m 30 , if that’s old, you probably are too young to be on the Internet .

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Iris said:
    Great Video, will go viral CAUSE did ya notice that it was YOUNG PEOPLE and the teatardsare the old hatemonger farts Just like the old fool right wing hatemongers here. The future belongs to PROGRES, HA, HA

    roxsteady said:
    I’ve never heard of this group but, I won’t be buying any of these shirts. If I want to see over the top hatred spewing idiots, all I have to do is watch the various teabagger reach arould rallys that have been held over the last 2 years complete with incoherent signs. Oh, and in case youhaven’t heard, the baggers now have a 34% negative view by Americans which is higher than their positives. What took them so long?

    At least Lawrence O’ Donnell will have these 2 intelligent viewers .

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    alamo2 said:
    Shame on all of you.

    I dunno, not a very clever slogan.

    I could have come up with a better one.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Not sure why I quoted alamo2. lol

  • Firstrate

    you people need a life

  • Integr8d

    I’m surprised the progressive neo-cons aren’t ordering them in droves…

  • http://libertyinprogress.blogspot.com/ ProgLib

    Yeah, let’s go back to the Bush years of civl discord:

    A Short Walk Down Memory Hole Lane,

    http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20090816

    I thought you wing nuts hate when liberals bring up Bush, yet, you choose to reference the golden years of him in office. Interesting bit of hypocrisy there, Michelle.

  • BatBoy

    This article is just another in a long line of HATE promotion by Mediaite!

    We have come to know that the LEFT and the Democrat Party are the promoters of HATE, BIGOTRY, RACISM and are very good at it!

  • Cancon1

    Mediaite sucks!!!! This site sucks, the whole thing is a Leftist circle jerk!

  • Tony the Fist

    You people tickle the hell out of me. One big disfunctional family.

  • Tony the Fist

    P.S. though certainly eye-catching this kind of thing does not advance progressivism. Saying what you’re against does not say what you’re for. If the tea party is against reckless government spending, what are their opponents for?

  • apf

    Perhaps the biggest problem with these shirts is one is left to wonder exactly who they are supposed to be supporting or not supporting. Let us not forget that the Boston Tea Party, after whom today’s Tea Party Protesters are loosely inspired, resulted in barrels of tea being thrown into the sea:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party#Destruction_of_the_tea

    In other words, “F*ck Tea.”

  • http://none pyrope

    Predictable.

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