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Tea Partiers Are Rich, White, Educated, And Enjoy Glenn Beck

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Based on the amount of attention the group is getting these days you’d be forgiven for assuming that Tea Partiers hold the secret to the universe. The NYT and CBS News have just released the results — in a splashy A-1 article in the Times, no less — of a huge, comprehensive poll they’ve jointly conducted. While the results mostly jibe with much of what we’ve recently been hearing about the movement, namely that it’s more mainstream than the media has previously portrayed it (18% of the country identifies with the party), some aspects may surprise.

Most surprising perhaps is that Tea Partiers tend to be better educated and wealthier. Yes. Perhaps not the conclusion you would draw based on much of coverage, but according to the poll “Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class.” So there’s that.

Perhaps less surprising is the fact that the party is primarily white — only one percent is black, 89 percent are white — and they are mostly male. Also, they are not fans of the president, though they have “favorable impressions of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and George W. Bush, but not Ron Paul or John McCain.” Also not shocking: 63% say they get the “majority of their political and current events news on television from the Fox News Channel (that’s compared to 23 percent of Americans overall).

And here’s the part of the poll that will likely make it to the cablers: 24% of these wealthy, educated, white Tea Partiers say “it is sometimes justified to take violent action against the government.” This in comparison to 16 percent of Americans overall.

And here’s the part that will likely make it to The Daily Show and SNL: 30% of Tea Party supporters are birthers; another 29 % are unsure where Obama was born. This compares to the 20% percent of Americans overall believe the president was not born in the United States. Emphasis mine. Honestly.

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  • The Real Royal King

    I know I am shocked. I had no idea that the Tea Partiers were overwhelmingly White and Republican. I am also shocked that so many are Birthers. I hasd thought this was a terribly diverse group, spanning the political, ideological, racial and ethnic spectra. Next, I suppose you’ll be telling me that this group is inordinately fond of American processed cheese food sandwiches on Wonder Bread with mayonaise.

  • Averreauxii

    I do not think they are “educated” at all considering their TEABONICS themed signs.
    http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=teabonics&w=all&s=int&referer_searched=1

  • m

    You forgot to add “old”. Rich, white, educated and old is the Republican/conservative base.

  • Barney

    …but…but…Keefy Uberdouche and the rest of the media said they were all inbred, toothless, ignernt hillbillies

    …and that they were 100% white..and hated Bammie cuz he was a Negro…and that they were violent…and unemployed…and blah, blah, blah

    Check out this counter-protestor

    http://spitfiremurphy.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/tea-party-2.jpg

    ..real man of genius

  • JamesA1102

    What bothers me most the Tea party is the unreality of the movement. TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already but Federal taxes are at a record low.

    http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=137

  • JamesA1102
  • JamesA1102

    Plus we have one of the lowest tax burdens of any country in the world: http://www.publicagenda.org/charts/international-tax-burdens

  • Cecelia

    Give it up, TRRK,

    It sounds like Tea Party protesters are likely to be more affluent and educated than you.

  • atreyue

    “Also not shocking: 63% say they get the “majority of their political and current events news on television from the Fox News Channel (that’s compared to 23 percent of Americans overall).”

    Glynnis, is that 23% of Americans overall from Americans who watch political news or just americans period? It seems like this statistic is more than a little misleading, given how dominant Fox is overall.

    That number of Americans with a birther complex was far more than I would have expected. I wounder what accounts for it.

  • Cecelia

    “namely that it’s more mainstream than the media has previously portrayed it”

    They’d portray hemophilia as being more mainstream here…

  • The Real Royal King

    Many thanks, Averreauxii, but I am afraid Cecelia has a point. The following are clear signs of a highly-evolved, well-educated, articulate group: socilism, tax’s, baught, alliens, did’nt, descent (for dissent), polititions, repeel, plummer, sactity, amensty, borror, boarder (for border/How often have we all seen that?), are country, offical, mortage, hugh (for huge), your fired, infromed, daugters, useing, wroking, stimulas, theif, lier, constution, offishal, lanaguage. Of course, you have supplied many other examples of the branch of MENSA.

    Seriously, thanks. That is the best laugh I’ve had in years!

  • Stants

    Some weird things. All the tea partiers I know HATE the birther madness, love Ron Paul, and are poor college students.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    JamesA:

    Your chart of relative tax burdens throughout the world proves the point. Do you really want to tax us to the point that our economy emulates the anemic growth of Belgium, France, or Italy? Could it be that the reason why the US has had the strongest economy in the world for the last 50 years is BECAUSE we have a lower tax burden than those competitors?

  • The Real Royal King

    I don’t know about hemophilia, Cecelia, but I long for gout in my old age. Everyone thinks you are decadent and wealthy.

  • The Real Royal King

    I assume by “poor college students” you mean those with a GPA of 1.2, or less?

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    Funny how the scientific survey conducted by the liberal bastions of CBS and the NYT says that Tea Partiers are BETTER educated than the public at large, yet the Leftists on this board will continue with their narrative that Tea Partiers are stupid. As Al Gore used to say (too much): denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

  • atreyue

    JamesA1102 says:
    “What bothers me most the Tea party is the unreality of the movement. TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already but Federal taxes are at a record low.”

    “Plus we have one of the lowest tax burdens of any country in the world: http://www.publicagenda.org/charts/international-tax-burdens

    I got bored with digging all the info up, but the top 2 countries are on government-paid health care and I’m sure a lot of others are on government-run health care systems. It’s no surprise that their taxes are so high given their entitlement programs. The US is low because it didn’t have them. Where will the US be on that chart in 5 or 10 years?

    Anybody can figure out that more government spending programs has to equal higher taxes to pay for them. So a movement that’s most recognized goal is to reduce the size of government and government spending doesn’t really seem so dumb.

  • The Real Royal King

    Since when have the rightists around here, save and except Cecelia and you, ever assigned any merit to education? All the Marys in Heaven, Jeff Merrill, singularly and in the aggregate, and his ilk think an education evidenced by a GED or above is a disability.

  • Penguin60

    “I don’t know about hemophilia, Cecelia, but I long for gout in my old age. Everyone thinks you are decadent and wealthy.”

    That would be in the 1800′s. Now it’s fat and out of shape. Stock up on the Indocin.

  • JamesA1102

    Your chart of relative tax burdens throughout the world proves the point. Do you really want to tax us to the point that our economy emulates the anemic growth of Belgium, France, or Italy? Could it be that the reason why the US has had the strongest economy in the world for the last 50 years is BECAUSE we have a lower tax burden than those competitors?

    So you’re saying you want us to be more like Mexico? Low taxes has really worked out for them. And if you looked at the first chart we had built and sustained that strong economy in the the 50s, 60s and through the 90s, when we had a much higher tax burden.

    Plus of the countries you cited, France has a higher standard of living, Belgium and Italy are not too far behind. Both France’s and Italy’s increased last year while our’s declined.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#2009_report

    But that is not the point I was making. It was how can anyone say our taxes are too high when they are at the lowest level in decades and in the world.

  • atreyue

    I guess that would depend on one’s definition of education. People are taught what to think instead of how to think for themselves, more often than not.

  • roxsteady

    Actually, you got that 18% identify with tea partiers wrong. It’s 18% of the population that says they are tea partiers. Which means we still out number them. Also, just looking at the people who attend these rallys and the one’s in the photo above, there is NO WAY IN HELL, that these people are educated or wealthy. Clearly they claimed to be wealthy but, these folks can’t even spell. And 62 % of them favor the government run social security and Medicare. Wealthy people don’t give a shit about those programs because they’re not on them. The old, white, teabaggers are. Seriously, take a good look at these people. Do you see captains of industry? Wall streeters? If these people were educated they wouldn’t be watching fox news. That poll also said that the people who watch Beck and Hannity believe they are “actual news” programs. Now, you tell me, just how educated does that sound?

  • The Real Royal King

    Think about it, Penguin. Seated at a crushed velvet chaise with your slipper-clad foot atop a silk pillow in a Paris salon, engaged in the most stimulating conversation whilst substantial women go about serving you pate and Chablis.

  • roxsteady

    By the way, ABC, CBS and NBC’s news programs are still higher rated than fox. That’s where the 80% of the rest of us get our news and you don’t have to take my word for it. Look it up!

  • JamesA1102

    Anybody can figure out that more government spending programs has to equal higher taxes to pay for them. So a movement that’s most recognized goal is to reduce the size of government and government spending doesn’t really seem so dumb.

    Yeah but why is the outrage always over government programs that help people. I don’t disagree that both Social Security and Medicare need to be reform and the retirement age increased. But how come none of these people ever protest about out of control military spending. This chart is old but it shows that we spend almost 10x more than most other countries on defense:
    http://www.publicagenda.org/citizen/issueguides/americas-global-role
    And our spending has increased since then, the current military budget is over $750 Billion for this year alone. The Health care bill that just passed spends over $900 Billion but over 10 years time. Granted we are fighting 2 wars that need to be funded, but the estmated cost for those are only $250 to $300 Billion. Where is the other $400 to $500 Billion going?

  • Penguin60
  • roxsteady

    For those of you who believe these inbred idiots are educated, could you explain the incoherent signs, and their inability to actual explain their beef? It’s always, socialism, and smaller government. You know, stupid talking points these idiots picked up while watching fox. Speaking of which, you probably missed the takedown of Bill O the clown by Ed Schulz and Keith Olbermann. That idiot Bill O chastised the crazy quack, Tom Coburn telling him that no one on fox had ever said you’d be put in jail if you didn’t buy insurance. Que the video tape of several people saying it on their nutwork and Beck saying on Bill’s show. This is one of many reasons why we Liberals are so sure that these people are inbred, idiots who don’t know what they’re talking about. Garbage in, garbage out!

  • roxsteady

    Sorry, that’s actually explain their beef!

  • Cecelia

    “Of course, you have supplied many other examples of the branch of MENSA.

    Seriously, thanks. That is the best laugh I’ve had in years!”

    Some of them are poor spellers, you’re a poor statistician.

    You’re even…

  • roxsteady

    Seriously, can anyone here pick out the wealthy guys in the photo above?

  • Cecelia

    roxsteady, for someone who misspelled her …ahem…alma mater… you’re awfully judgmental…

  • roxsteady

    At least I notice my spelling errors. Again, can you pick out the wealthy in that crowd? I’d say no because unless they supplied tax returns, they’re full of shit. These people are uneducated, toothless banjo players and you all know it.

  • Cecelia

    roxsteady, look up the term nouveau riche.

  • roxsteady

    I believe in calling people what they are. Pathetic sore losers who got their asses kicked in 2008. That’s all this is. Can you honestly say that any of these morons voted for Obama? Which is why they’re pissed off. We Liberals recognize it and actually enjoy watching them cry like little girls. Just wait until November!

  • Penguin60

    The milk of human kindness has curdled in your veins.
    A compassionate Lib, what a joke.

  • Cecelia

    Actually, you had your “spelling error” pointed out to you, Ms. Fordam…

  • Olby Sucks

    I see the far left loons have themselves in a tizzy, today! Spinning and diverting from all things factual! It’s
    a beautiful day in the Sierras. ;)

  • roxsteady

    Why don’t you look up the term bullshit because that’s what you’re spreading. Instead of fixating on me, why don’t you explain to us all why we shouldn’t believe our eyes and ears? THEY’RE STUPID! DEAL WITH! Clearly you empathize with them but, the question is why? Family members?

  • Cecelia

    roxsteady, I’ll be just fine and will still live in the best country in the world regardless of what happens in Nov. Take your political rah-rah-team mentality to someone else.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    JamesA:

    The link you cited for tax burden is misleading because it looks only at “middle class family of four,” not total tax burden across all demographics. That is misleading because the tax code has become steadily more progressive for decades (must especially because of the Bush tax cuts).

    The correct measure is federal tax revenue as a percentage of GDP, which has been steadily rising for decades:

    http://carriedaway.blogs.com/carried_away/2003/10/us_government_s.html

  • Olby Sucks

    And “roxsteady” rolls in to debunk philby/phony/evie/mark/robert. LOL!

  • Cecelia

    Clearly, I empathize with the New York Times…, you don’t . Hurt much? :D

  • roxsteady

    Obama won the election fair and square and you folks just can’t deal with it. I can’t tell you how much fun it is to hear these folks who are being left behind squirming. It’ really is a glorious day!

  • Cecelia

    It’s called dissent and yes, it’s glorious!

  • Olby Sucks

    Does it get any worse that not knowing how to spell the very college you “graduated” from?

  • The Real Royal King

    And, isn’t it interesting, Cecelia, that these parvenu who most assuredly had a gift, a skill, the discipline, the motivation, the industriousness to advance themselves, along with a society and government which aided them every step of the way, as they should, are so vehement in denying the opportunities afforded to them to others wanting to be part of the American dream?

  • writer

    AHH HAAA! Most Tea Partiers are white!! So what? And the left indeed wants it both ways. White conservatives are poor and stupid. They’re also all rich business men who manipulate the economy. They all live in mansions, and they all live in trailers. They all ride in limos, and they all drive pickup trucks. They all live on Wall Street, and they all live in the south. And in the far left ‘mind’, all of this exists at once and makes perfect sense.

  • roxsteady

    The truth hurts doesn’t it? You can’t square the gibberish that comes out of their mouths either can you? They claim that the American people are fed up but, apparently it’s just the 18% which sounds a lot like the 20% who voted for McCain and that other idiot. Hm? How’s that shrinking tent thingy workin for ya?

  • The Real Royal King

    Cecelia says:
    April 15, 2010 at 10:57 am

    It’s called dissent and yes, it’s glorious!

    Or, as some of your Tea Partier friends say, descent.

  • Cecelia

    “And “roxsteady” rolls in to debunk philby/phony/evie/mark/robert. LOL!”

    OS, do you think even the troll master could pull off that much of a heavy-breathing zealot personae?

  • roxsteady

    That’s Fordham University at Lincoln Center. What school did you go to Jethro? Ellie May?

  • The Real Royal King

    Olby Sucks says:
    April 15, 2010 at 10:57 am

    Does it get any worse that not knowing how to spell the very college you “graduated” from?

    You might have a point, Jeff, if you could spell “GED”. As it is, you are pointless.

  • Cecelia

    “Or, as some of your Tea Partier friends say, descent.”

    Upon the velvet cushions.

  • atreyue

    roxsteady,

    “More than three in four Tea Party supporters (78 percent) have never attended a rally or donated to a group; most have also not visited a Tea Party Web site. ”

    Trying to make the people you want to make examples of from rallies fit the mold of the “movement” as a whole isn’t going to work.

  • roxsteady

    Maybe I should have written it on my hand? Ha Ha Ha Ha! He’s still the President and it’s eating you inbreds alive isn’t it?

  • roxsteady

    Oh please, are they closet teabaggers? Keep telling yourselves that. You’ll be crying again in November.

  • Olby Sucks

    OS, do you think even the troll master could pull off that much of a heavy-breathing zealot personae?

    ——-

    No way.

  • Cecelia

    Now, Ms. Fordam, surely you would know that outright activists comprise a smaller percentage of people who are not active but who still share a common political outlook.

  • Cecelia

    OS, my sentiments too. She’s not a troll, she’s the real thing.

  • writer

    rox, no one can square the gibberish that comes from the left. Again, according to the left, all white conservatives are rich, poor, uneducated business moguls who live on Wall Street, live in the south, reside in mansions, live in trailers, ride in limos and drive pick ups.

  • roxsteady

    That’s right focus on me because you can’t possibly square that poll with what you’ve seen and heard from these idiots, geezers who are sucking off the government while trashing it. Beck and Hannity are news shows? I don’t blame any of you for changing the subject. You really have no other choice. This is working much better for you.

  • atreyue

    Oh, and anyone who knows real wealthy people would know they’re not necessarily easy to spot in a crowd. Besides the wealthy reference is to people making in excess of $50k/year per household. Hardly wealthy or rich.

  • Olby Sucks

    McGeorge

  • Cecelia

    Who’s changing the subject? We’re replying to your mindless yapping.

  • m

    >What bothers me most the Tea party is the unreality of the movement. TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already but Federal taxes are at a record low.

    And on top of that, if my memory serves me correctly a majority of tea party members PAY NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX!

  • writer

    Okay, rox, how is it that such stupid inbred people are able to wield all this power you attribute to them? Can you ever answer anything or talk rationally, or is name calling and insults the only trick in your bag?

  • roxsteady

    This article isn’t about the left. I think I’ve spotted some baggers right here on this site. When you can’t dispute the facts, pivot and change the subject. It’s very telling. Just don’t try to tell me that these folks are out there protesting because that tax cut for the rich they received from Bush is going to expire. See, people who are really suffering aren’t suffering because they’re dreading that. It will have no effect on them because THEY AREN’T RICH!

  • Cecelia

    They read “wealthier” and think Thurston Howell…

  • Olby Sucks

    You know you’ve flat ran out of “arguments” when all you can do is scream “Obama won, Obama won!”

  • roxsteady

    What power? They don’t have any. They voted and they lost badly which is why they’re out there. When I see Bill Gates or Jamie Dimon, or Ken Chenault teabagging I’ll believe the answers to those poll questions.

  • Cecelia

    roxsteady, we are able to multi-task. We can talk about the NYT’s poll and make fun of you… :D

  • The Real Royal King

    Rox, I only say this because I love you like my luggage. I, too, find the Tea Partiers coarse, common, dimwitted and, above all else, self-centered and myopic. However, we are all Americans, and our areas of intersection in thought, belief, lifestyle and love of our nation are far larger than our points of departure and difference. The real culprits are not the Tea Partiers, but the Bachmanns, Becks, Coulters, DeMenteds, Gingriches, Limbaughs, Palins, Roves, Savage-Wieners and others who exaggerate our differences and try to exploit them for their own greedy, self-serving purposes. I am content to say that the average Tea Partier and I, if not brothers, are related in the second and third degrees of consanguinity or affinity, even if they are our crazy aunts, uncles and cousins who we would prefer stay out of our parlors when non-family members are present, but who are heartily and warmly welcomed to our homes during the holidays. I think you’re a bit riled up and prone to over-statement today.

  • roxsteady

    Actually, maybe you meant, you know you’ve flat RUN out of arguments?

  • Cecelia

    “I think you’re a bit riled up and prone to over-statement today.”

    hahahaha! Double irony!

  • writer

    So once again, all these inbred stupid tea partiers are also rich. Amazing how so many people who are too dumb to even earn a GED were able to land well-paying positions and become wealthy.

  • Cecelia

    No, rox, actually, I meant we can discuss all manner of things while making fun of you…

  • roxsteady

    Actually, I’m not riled up at all. I do enjoy a good tweeking though. I will disagree with one point. The Becks, Bachmann’s, Limbaugh’s and others are only able to exploit these people because they’re ignorant. Why is it that when you and I hear junk, we know it’s junk but, they don’t? I’m sorry but, you can’t excuse ignorance and these people are willfully ignorant. When you hit them with facts, they don’t ingest them. They disregard them.

  • Olby Sucks

    It’s irony and hypocrisy all rolled up in one big fat ball! LOL!

  • roxsteady

    But, it’s week Cecelia! Why don’t you try to enlighten a teabagger because there’s nothing you can teach me. Like the baggers, you and your ilk have proven your ignorance.

  • writer

    Again, tea partiers are all ignorant, yet they were all smart enough to become rich. Rich and poor, stupid and smart, all at once.

  • Olby Sucks

    rox, where are these “facts” you posed?

  • Cecelia

    “Why is it that when you and I hear junk, we know it’s junk but, they don’t? ”

    Because all the voices in your heads tell you so.

  • atreyue

    roxsteady says:

    “That’s right focus on me because you can’t possibly square that poll with what you’ve seen and heard from these idiots, geezers who are sucking off the government while trashing it.”

    Young people say “I don’t want to pay into social security since I’m not going to get it anyway.” Old people say “I already paid into it all this time, I at least deserve to get my money back.” It’s a psychological trap and I personally think the fair thing to do is not take money from people earlier in life to give it back to them later in life. People should be responsible for themselves instead of being told they need to be taken care of.

    “Beck and Hannity are news shows?”

    Where are you pulling this from? I”st not mentioned at all in the poll sourced in this article. Unless you’re substituting Beck & Hannity for fox news? That might just be a little disingenuous. Since you had the benefit of an education at a somewhat prestigious college, I expect you to be able to use real arguments instead of resorting to distortions.

  • roxsteady

    Dolts!

  • Olby Sucks

    But, it’s [week] Cecelia!

    by miss fordam

    ——-

    LOL!

  • Cecelia

    “But, it’s week Cecelia! Why don’t you try to enlighten a teabagger because there’s nothing you can teach me. Like the baggers, you and your ilk have proven your ignorance.”

    Rox, why do you sound you write scripts for Japanese marshal arts movies?

  • roxsteady

    Actually, you should either read the entire poll or go over to ThinkProgress because they have the information there. See how easy that was.

  • Cecelia

    rox, I’m sure you’re a very fine person. See you later.

  • writer

    You say Fordham, and rox says Fordam, let’s call the whole thing off. Everybody sing!

  • roxsteady

    I didn’t spell check my last comment but, it wouldn’t have mattered sicne it’s a homonym. I take it you didn’t hit spellcheck on your last sentence either? Why do you sound you?

  • JamesA1102

    The link you cited for tax burden is misleading because it looks only at “middle class family of four,” not total tax burden across all demographics. That is misleading because the tax code has become steadily more progressive for decades (must especially because of the Bush tax cuts).

    Well when you look at the effect of the Bush tax cuts, the taxes for the wealthiest have dropped dramatically.
    http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3150

  • roxsteady

    Off to grammar school?

  • writer

    Fordam?

  • Olby Sucks

    You need spellcheck to tell you the difference between weak and week, miss fordam? The fact you get your “news” from tp is very telling. Why do you use a differnt name to post here?

  • atreyue

    sorry roxsteady, I looked at this links to the poll on the cbsnews website, where they apparently didn’t link to the entire poll on their article. So is a program where someone talks about current political events and offers their own and other people’s opinions on it not a news program? How many people pretend that Jon Stewart and Colbert are news programs? How often do those shows actually do a better job of covering news stories or provide more accurate insight into events than supposed ‘news’ programs. Just because you’re not a “journalist” doesn’t mean you can’t run a news program. If you’re not watching C-Span, you’re probably not watching news anyway. You can’t only fault the people who are not on your “side” as you see it.

  • TylerDurdin

    Roxy, what fake college did you graduate from today, blooter?

    Rich? Where were their limos?

  • Penguin60

    As my now deceased Mentor once said, “don’t get in a pissing match with a skunk.” Sound advice.

  • roxsteady

    I have to go get a pedicure but, while I’m gone maybe you could explain this one….25 percent of the movement’s supporters think that the administration favors blacks over whites. Now, if that’s true, why is unemployment for blacks at 17% while it’s 9.7% overall? I told you they were morons!

  • JamesA1102

    The correct measure is federal tax revenue as a percentage of GDP, which has been steadily rising for decades:

    So you are saying that people in the Tea Party are not outraged by their own taxes, which are at a low point, but rather overall taxes as a percent of GDP?

    And that chart ends in 2003 at which point the line was heading down, not up. If you look at the update done in 2004, the number drops lower and is at the lowest point since the late ’60s:
    http://carriedaway.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/us_government_spending_and_taxation_in_r_1.gif

  • The Real Royal King

    Olby Sucks says:
    April 15, 2010 at 11:29 am

    You need spellcheck to tell you the difference between weak and week ….

    Actually, Spell Check determines whether a word, standing alone, without context, is spelled correctly. Spell Check would do nothing with “weak”, even if were used, inappropriately, as seven (7) consecutive days, nor would it do anything with “week”, even if it were used, inappropriately, to describe the state of your spine.

    Wrong, again, Jeff!

  • The Real Royal King

    Olby Sucks says:
    April 15, 2010 at 11:29 am

    Why do you use a differnt name to post here?

    Spell Check would have picked up on “differnt” [sic].

    Wrong again, Jeff!

    What other name would you suggest, Jeff? You are already using most available names to post here.

  • writer

    Why would taxes be of concern to tea partiers? They’re all so stupid that none of them even have GEDs or jobs, and earn so little that they don’t have to pay any taxes. Of course, that doesn’t count the ones that are rich, which is all of them.

  • TylerDurdin

    Sorry NYTs, no matter how hard you try, being white isn’t a bad thing!

  • atreyue

    roxsteady says:
    “I have to go get a pedicure but, while I’m gone maybe you could explain this one….25 percent of the movement’s supporters think that the administration favors blacks over whites. Now, if that’s true, why is unemployment for blacks at 17% while it’s 9.7% overall? I told you they were morons!”

    The government can’t force employer to hire people and it can’t force people to get jobs. What it can do is continually extend unemployment benefits (I think it’s at least 99 weeks at this point, with more legislation to follow). Do you think that encourages people who are unemployed to look for a job when they get paid almost as much to do nothing at all? Besides, is there another group in America that has been given more handouts and had more programs target them than the Black community? Think telling people they don’t need to be responsible and that they couldn’t succeed on the own anyway is going to lead to higher or lower unemployment numbers?

  • TylerDurdin

    TRRK, (-)check picked you right out!

    LMAO

  • The Real Royal King

    See, that’s the tricky thing about spelling and grammar. The product is “Spell Check” which is why I capitalized the first letters (proper noun) whilst the process is or may be spell-check. Notice that is not capitalized. Don’t be embarrassed, however. Even some modestly educated people get tripped up on this.

  • writer

    Now Minister Royal will offer his critique of rox, for spelling Fordham as ‘Fordam’.

  • Olby Sucks

    phony queen, why are you answering for roxsteady? Stfu.

  • TylerDurdin

    TRRK, you can now stop enthralling us with the intricacies of Spell Check, and regale us with your comparison of KO to the Nobel Prize winning author, William Faulkner, as you did on Mediaite’s post on KO and MST.

    Inquiring minds await your analysis.

  • TylerDurdin

    Looks like the king has gone off for some noontime ” rough trade.”

  • libra blue

    The NYT said it so it must be true!

    And 96% of blacks voted for Obama so I guess that makes them a bunch of racists.

  • TylerDurdin

    The question is why is the NYTs such a white organization? Why is MSNBC such a white organization?

    Investigate that NYTs.

  • TylerDurdin

    Hey, NYTs: were ANY of the tea party people making this kind of money??????

    New York Times Executives Get Big Raises In 2009 Despite Layoffs

    First Posted: 03-12-10 05:05 PM | Updated: 03-12-10 05:16 PM

    “The New York Times filed a proxy statement Friday that revealed its top executives’ 2009 salaries — as well as a bizarre bonus for hiring minorities.

    Paid Content analyzes the filing to reveal that both Chairman Arthur Sulzberger and CEO Janet Robinson enjoyed huge boosts in salary in 2009:

    In total ’09, Sulzberger’s compensation was $5,986,738, more than double the $2,331,599 he earned last year. His base salary for last year was $1,046,238. Robinson did even better, earning a total of $6,262,755, which included a base salary of $962,500, for a significant 31.9 percent rise in earnings over last year’s $4,753,314. “

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  • Toshiba2

    This is rich, Tyler is now decrying the consequences of capitalism! What’s next Tyler, will you express your convictions on global warming!

  • TylerDurdin

    Toshiba2 , sorry loser.I ‘m showing what hypocrites the NYTs’ is like you are, libby.

  • TylerDurdin

    This is rich, Tyler is now decrying the consequences of capitalism.”

    Thanks for admitting that the “consequences” of capitalism is success!

    LOL

  • Olby Sucks

    toshiba2-none too bright.

  • Munch

    Olby Sucks says:
    April 15, 2010 at 1:05 pm

    toshiba2-none too bright.”

    A roxy want-to-be.

  • The Real Royal King

    writer says:
    April 15, 2010 at 12:03 pm

    Now Minister Royal will offer his critique of rox, for spelling Fordham as ‘Fordam’.

    Right before the Hutaree arrests the “h” began disappearing on typewriters and computer keyboards all over America. I think it was done to suppress the news. I, myself, must use a bamboo skewer to hit the “h” every time I type it.

    I have duly castigated Rox once today, and the misspelling has not gone unnoticed. I find it curious, as well. I suspect the (W ite) Tea Partiers are behind it.

  • writer

    As long as the ‘k’ doesn’t disappear for spelling Amerika, we’ll be o ay. Damn!

  • The Real Royal King

    Jeff, ave t ose cocktail gowns you ordered from t e link above arrived, yet? My wife is going to accompany me to a meeting with ugo C avez, and s e may need one.

  • TylerDurdin

    The King can’t spell BMW.

  • Toshiba2

    Tear, you guys hurt my feelings!

  • The Real Royal King

    Until the Gee Squad arrives I ave to use t e Cyrillic “к” for that, Righter, but I suspect you can read “Ameriкa”.

  • TylerDurdin

    Toshiba2, share with us the terrible “consequences” of being successful?

  • Toshiba2

    Looks like you already got that covered my friend!

  • The Real Royal King

    That’s good.

  • writer

    Minister Royal, I’ll have to go to the trailer I keep parked behind my mansion and get my reading glasses.

  • TylerDurdin

    Toshiba2 says:
    April 15, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    Looks like you already got that covered my friend!”

    OK, from your own personal expertise, share with me what the benefits are of being a loser, such as yourself.

  • Toshiba2

    Ouch!

  • The Real Royal King

    writer says:
    April 15, 2010 at 1:27 pm

    Minister Royal, I’ll have to go to the trailer I keep parked behind my mansion and get my reading glasses.

    If you’re going to be reading, don’t forget the ChapStick.

  • writer

    I’ll send one of my servants to get it. Already back in the mansion, and can’t be bothered returning to the trailer.

  • writer

    Of course, being lectured on spelling by someone who spells America with a ‘k’……

  • TylerDurdin

    Toshiba2, how does it feel to be named after a TV set?

  • drex94

    ACTUALL TEA BAGGERS SPELL AMERIKKKA WITH 3 KKK

  • TylerDurdin

    drex94, slip back into your coma,

  • writer

    Minister Royal is conserving the other two ks in case he needs them later. Like the actual KKK, spelling America with a ‘k’ also pretty much dwindled down to nothing after the sixties. The Minister is either getting senile or trying to be retro.

  • silkworm

    I see nothing here for which one should apologize. If you have worked hard and earned your positions and the money that comes with it, so what. No guilt on my part. Although, I do no watch Beck on a regular basis.For those who see a problem with that, let me quote Robert Gibbs : Tough Sh**

  • felixw

    The Left didn’t like the Patriot Act until they figured out that they could use it to monitor and harass conservatives.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100415/pl_afp/usattacksfbiqaedapolitics

    Welcome to the topsy turvy world view of the current administration, which works hard to ignore any association between terrorism and Islamic extremism, yet is very interested in monitoring individual American citizens, who they see as the real threat to the country.

    At the next tea party, look around and see if you can identify the FBI agents in the crowd.

  • drex94

    FBI KKK NWA NRA GAY BBB PTA ARM WASP FOX ALKAYDA BBC

  • stevor

    Rich, white, and educated? Now that’s indicting?

    Too bad so many Democrats are POOR, multi-colored, and IGNORANT. Now, that’s the kind of party I’d prefer to be associated with, and then have a President as ignorant as I to represent me.

    Yeah, those TEA partiers can’t be American since we know the Democrats have DUMBED DOWN the USA, leaving the only conclusion that TEA partiers are from some SMART country. Now which one might that be?

  • MDT

    Item #1:
    Everyone knows when you combine the NYT and CBS you have absolute gospel truth.

    Item #2:
    Other polls say 40% are Black or Hispanic people (yes, I realize that Hispanics are Caucasians…)
    Most of them also say that over 40-50% are not Republicans…(like a few of my friends).

    Item #3:
    And, even if they were ALL educated, white people… what right do they have to get together in groups?
    (What’s next? Sports, voting..? …the horror of it all.)

    Item #4;
    *Alert* The Tea Party Movement is growing beyond traditional control mechanisms…
    Hide the children(!) and politicians (!!) and QUICK…call them names(!!!)

    Item #5:
    “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”
    -Mahatma Gandhi

    (A lot of you are at stage 2 and moving into stage 3…see ya at stage 4!)

    Item #6:
    “Doh!”
    -Homer Simpson

    Item #6:
    You’re welcome.

  • MDT

    To “The Real Royal King…”

    If you have a moment and can pull yourself away for being a grammatical and spelling champion for Jeff and whomever (see, I used an ‘”M” with the “who.” That was cool, right..? but now, where do I put the period…it goes around here somewhere…ah! I give up)

    IF you’ve got a sec, I could use a little help over here please. To wit;

    -I’m using colons instead of semi-colons AND I listed “Item #6″ twice in my last post.

    -In THIS post I’m capitalizing words with absolutely no regard for…well…anything.

    -I’m also twisting and buckling against the constraints of deeded and proper discourse through the unbridled wantonness of sarcasm.

    I’m at my wit’s end.

  • Munch

    Ahhhhhh, White and rich!

    The Gold Standard for everyone. TRRK wishes he were one.

  • Nachi

    “Educated”??? You jest. And Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell are in the manger with Jesuss!

  • TylerDurden

    Rich and white?

    Like: Tom, Hanks, Susan Saranden, George Clooney, , Sean Penn, KO, Bill Mahar,etc

  • TylerDurden

    BTW, NYTs, In an AP/GfK poll, 31 percent of Americans identify themselves as Tea Party supporters.

  • Sunnyr

    I don’t know about the “rich” part, but we all love Glenn Beck. And Fox News Channel. We are better educated on the history of our country than most, and we are politically astute. And, most importantly, we are itching for November to get here so we can make a Lame Duck out of the Marxist Messiah.

  • Munch

    The poll found that their average take home pay was $68,000/year.

    Yes, in the world of liberalism, that’s rich.

  • pyrope

    Is there something wrong with being rich or white or educated?

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