Cenk Uygur: Where Are The Tea Party Protests About Wall Street?

[Hissyspit]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/where-are-the-tea-party-p_b_549067.html

Cenk Uygur
Host of The Young Turks
Posted: April 23, 2010 04:42 AM

Where Are the Tea Party Protests About Wall Street?

We're down to the wire here on financial reform. I can't think of a better time to put pressure on Wall Street and Washington to make sure there is adequate regulation to ensure that we never have another bailout. The AFL-CIO is about to have a protest at Wall Street on April 29th. Great, that makes sense. I'm sure the right-wing groups who are also upset about the bailouts will join them.

If you remember, the Tea Parties were originally formed to protest the bailouts. They were so mad at the Wall Street bankers who destroyed the economy and then took our hard earned money for their efforts.

So, they will take this opportunity of course to launch their own protest of Wall Street. They will protest the TARP money, the easy credit, the lack of regulation, the wild risk taking and the excessive bonuses paid with taxpayer money. They're really going to take the fight to them.

Just kidding. They're not going to do anything. They're going to sit out this fight on financial reform and put absolutely no pressure on Wall Street at all. Because they are tools easily manipulated by right-wing organizations funded by corporate America.

I really feel sorry for them. They're dupes. They think they are so fiercely independent when in fact they are the most easily manipulated people in the country. All that anger toward the power establishment and what happened? They were used by that same establishment to fight against health care reform and to try to protect the health insurance companies. Suckers.

Now, when it's time to fight the financial companies, where are they? Nowhere to be found. Why? Because FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity didn't organize any bus rides to Wall Street. They didn't manufacture the outrage they did in protecting the health care companies. They used the Tea Party protestors for their own purposes and then left them on the side of the road, only to be picked up again when they need to protect another company or industry.

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On The Young Turks we talked to former vice presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party, Wayne Allyn Root. He has spoken at countless Tea Party protests and considers himself a part of the movement. In the interview below, count how many times I asked him where the Wall Street protests were and how many times he evaded, dodged and ducked the question. That's because there are no such protests and there never will be:

VIDEO AT LINK

[political_Dem]

1. A Question that is asked all the time.

But the real deal is simply this: the Teabaggers are not about pushing for fiscal responsibility in government nor Wall Street.

If they were, do you think they would have signs depicting their racial animus against Mr. Obama each time the camera basks upon this lowly group?

Come on now. Someone has to be unconscious and under the table to miss the large signpost that emits the Teabaggers' type of brand.

They're doing this out of racism. They don't like having a person of color in a powerful position. And they are afraid that all the skeletons highlighting the dastardly deeds of institutional and personal racism will come up to haunt them due to the new Sheriff in town.

Money is the least of their worries because their RNC handlers are funding their machinations and letting them off the leash to project their racist views to a world-wide audience.

[FrenchieCat]

2. No where! Wall Street ain't Black!

[ihavenobias]

3. Cenk wrote this after his debate with Libertarian Tea Party Leader Wayne Allyn Root (Video Here)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EEw6Ijz0Aw

But yes, still check out the full piece at the Huffpo Link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/where-are-the-tea-party-p_b_549067.html

[Dulcinea]

4. "The whole movement is a sad joke being played on its own members."

That sentence says it all. Angry, mostly old white people who are terrified the world is leaving them behind, and this is their last gasp of outrage.

Despite what they say, the Teabaggers have little to do with low taxes or fiscal responsibility. That's merely the smokescreen they hide behind because it's no longer socially acceptable to admit they're blatant racists who will never accept a black president. Especially one who's a lot smarter and more accomplished than most of them will ever be.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. What are we going to do about propagandists in this country?

That's what leaps to mind ... well, every single day.

The teabaggers are clearly being played, but that's working out just fine for the ones pulling the strings.

Just as it's settled law that you can't yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, we also need to declare that you can't yell 'Mushroom cloud' to start false wars and you can't just steer America into a ditch with an endless series of falsehoods.

1st Amendment or no, this has to be fixed.

[spanone]

6. the teashitters are an empty, cheap suit. they hate the black President, nothing else

[ihavenobias]

8. I agree that's part of the equation.

But I don't think it's ONLY racism. When you get a chance, check out this interview (there's also an article at the link in the video description):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIUnR47Qq0|TYT Interviews: R's Inciting Domestic Terrorism? w/ T. R. Donaghue of The Faster Times>

[CherylK]

7. K & R!!!

:kick:

[WillyT]

9. K & R !!!

:kick:

[libodem]

10. I'll start holding my breath

:kick:

[glinda]

11. Repubs didn't pay for the buses to run as it did not suit their interests.

[Naturalist111]

12. Hmm...You don't bite the hand that feeds you?

[Turborama]

13. K&R They are angry sore losers

They had high hopes for Sarah during the election and are furious that Obama/Biden won. They wilfully go along with any opportunity that's offered to them to vent that anger and will wear whatever badly tailored ideological costume is necessary. April 09's Faux news-Freedomworks-Koch Foundation Tea Parties, Angry Town Hall Mobs, Glenn BecKKK's 9/12 rally, Bachmann's Soreloserpalooza, Lynch Mob Outside the Health Care Debate, April 10's Faux news-Freedomworks-Koch Foundation Tea Parties, Gun Rallies (sometimes heavily armed) Protesting Against Things That Don't Exist and Anything Sarah Palin turns up at.

This is why they are the most easily manipulated people in the country. Angry people are irrational. Add to that their obvious ignorance, a sprinkling of racism and a heavy addiction to Faux news and you've got your answer.

They are these people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E">The McCain-Palin Mob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJghQMq49dw">The McCain-Palin Mob 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itEucdhf4Us">The Sidewalk to Nowhere, McCain Supporters in Bethlehem, PA

[ihavenobias]

14. Kick n/t

[pleah]

15. I'm to late to k&r. :(

I did get this posted on fb and twitter, though. ;)

[OhioChick]

16. Kick n/t

[ihavenobias]

17. Glad to see Michael Moore talking about this on CNN. n/t