Why is it so difficult to paint "Protesters" and Teabaggers as corporate clowns?

[BuyingThyme]

I hate all this talk about liberals having to answer in kind with our own protests. That's not possible because our protests are of an entirely different kind (the real kind).

I think we failed at our best opportunity with the original Teabaggers. The Teabaggers were literally sponsored by the largest corporate media powers of their kind -- the largest in the history of the world (Fox, Pig man, Hannity, etc.).

We should have blown them out of the water when we had the chance. We should have made them too embarrassed to leave their homes. But we didn't.

And now we're left hoping that our elected representatives will be able to handle the latest wave of corporate clowns on their own. But elected Dems simply can't do it because with very few exceptions they don't really understand what's going on and don't have what it takes to rattle the cage.

So now we have to find a way to beat them at their own game, a game which we don't play.

I suggest some kind of legal sabotage. Set 'em up and knock 'em down.

[SleeplessInAlabama]

1. Because there are assholes on Twitter, etc....

Saying "oh look guyz it's the outrage of the people!" and the corporate media (exception to KO and Rachel, heyyyy!) refuses to say what it is.

[phantom power]

2. How would you humiliate them?

[izquierdista]

3. Wedgies

I recommend burly union men to yank their underwear (or Depends) up to their ears. You can't mentally humiliate someone with a lizard brain, so you have to do it physically.

[BuyingThyme]

4. I don't know. Can we require them to register as corporate lobbyists?

And post photos of them with comical fake mustaches?

[BlueIdaho]

5. Because the MSM do not want to tell that truth.

They will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to this story - even though they know its true.

We would need photos of the buses, photos of the same people showing up in different districts or different states, and photos of the same signs showing up in different places before they will be forced to report the truth

[dgibby]

7. Which is exactly what we should be doing.

Videos of the buses, caravans, meet ups in the parking lots; also, proof of residency in order to get into the meetings, security to remove hecklers/disrupters. Time to run the Philistines away from the Gates.

[LostInAnomie]

6. Because people do not like to believe that they can be manipulated.

I have no doubt in my mind that wide majority of the tea-baggers and the town hall screamers are sincere. But, they are sincere because they have been manipulated into believing the corporate propaganda. People simply don't want to believe it can happen. They don't want to believe that if they pitched to in just the right way they can be fooled into doing things against their own interest. In fact, it's an incredibly hard thing to prove, but it is true.

[azureblue]

8. Bush wouldn't let us in

to his so called town meetings, so why should we treat let them in?

[bowens43]

9. They're not corporate clowns,

they're mindless lemmings. They're easily led and even more easily misled. They believe the things that they say. Because of their prejudices and their fears, they are easily manipulated by the corporate whores.

[SoCalDem]

10. Because you have to go "real world" on them

and the media has to expend the time necessary to expose them.. I've spent most of the day, researching & phone calling, just to out ONE of them..and there are literally THOUSANDS of them.

the democratic party needs to spend some money on this stuff, and get people ..paid people.. to dig into the lives of these vermin, and expose them..They have the run of the kitchen, and even when the light gets turned on, they don't scatter because they know the can of Raid is empty..