AFP Pic Caption, Video Description: 'Tea Party Radicals Rally on Tax Day'
By Tom Blumer | April 16, 2011 | 23:08
A photo taken at a Tea Party demonstration in Boston carried at Yahoo News carries the following caption (HT Powerline):
VIDEO: April 15 was tax day in the United States, and Tea Party radicals used it to stage demonstrations across the country, including near the site of the original Boston Tea Party revolt of the colonial era.
The photo was grabbed from an Agency France-Presse video with an identical description. The pic and caption follow the jump:
John's reaction at Powerline:
Spending our country into bankruptcy? Sensible! Trying to get a handle on our national debt? Radical! Such is the topsy-turvy political world in which we live.
The video at AFP's YouTube account, where embedding has apparently been disabled, is worth a look for its final few seconds, the time during which the picture involved was captured. The pictured Tea Partier endures an intolerant pro-union rant, where the roughly transcribed words which follow don't do justice to the hostility displayed:
The Tea Party means cutbacks for all of us. ... unions are here to tell you, you're not welcome in Boston.
Charming.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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So I guess it's now radical
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:10pm.
So I guess it's now radical to make gov't accountable. I thought they worked for us!
Speech
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:46pm.
Palin's speech was great. Check out Breitbart to hear what she had to say.
Palin's Speech
Submitted by tvhall on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 12:14am.
Better yet post it to your facebook page.
My facebook page has little to do with self absorbtion but is a platform for me to share the best I find on the web from the right with my sympathetic and not so sympathetic friends.
Charmant
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 12:29am.
Je suis une radical.
Vive les radicals!
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 138 (and Counting)
Bon matin cher cherie
Submitted by cocodrie on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 1:14am.
Vive la blonde
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Bon matin a tu, aussi, mon cher
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 1:28am.
Et vive les radicals, et le Tea Party!
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Blonde and Cocodrie*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 1:28pm.
Bon dit mon amies. S' enroler.
bon jour cajan-deux
Submitted by cocodrie on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 1:37pm.
comment sa vais beau-frere?
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Bon jour cocodrie*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 1:51pm.
c'as vas bien mon ami...Dont you just love this weather. Now if the world of politics could be this good. . Tres jolie surement.
Just another example of media bias
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 2:56am.
The Tea Party must be doing something right because they have the Democrats and the their media partners wetting themselves.
They must be scared to death
Submitted by kinijane on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 8:28am.
They must be scared to death of the tea party, in particular Sarah Palin and The Donald. Lets face it they tell it like it is,in plain spoken English that even the liberals can understand. Both sides take their shots and even the rino's are frightened. Wonder what is so hard about doing whats right?
A Mahatma Gandhi quoute:
Submitted by Anon150 on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 9:31am.
Seems to apply to the times we live in...
“First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.”
I think the Tea Party is now at the 'fighting' stage.
Is the list out yet? I've waited long enough.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 3:50am.
Certainly by now there must be a list or videos of the horrible radical, racial actions and words that are supposed to define the Tea Party movement. I even went to rallies to witness it in person, only to be disappointed. The MSM and politicians have been referencing the radical, racist Tea Party ever since the beginning, so it has to be real, there's got to be evidence....right? So, somebody let me know where to find this stuff. -bidn-
Call us rebels
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 4:08am.
Come on, liberals, call us rebels. Then, maybe, we'll get the support of the "international community" and the liberal press. We all know how much they love the rebels.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Of course!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 5:11am.
The media gets it wrong, once again. April 18th is tax day this year.
I guess 'radical' is better
Submitted by BikerHoop on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 6:12am.
... than some of the names I've been called by the libs. However, I believe I'd call what they're trying to do to this country 'radical' a lot quicker than what the Tea Party does or stands for. But, as long as it's the left that's calling me radical I'm proud to wear it.
Palin's speech in Madison was a classic.
Submitted by acaiguana on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 7:03am.
I recommend that you stop whatever you are doing and go to Breitbart to watch this speech.
It is an amazing speech and it is an amazing message.
ACA
...
Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
Any Name They Call Me...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 7:47am.
Any name they call me is a compliment and a badge of honor. Because they have no substance to counter our position, they resort to their ownretort which is name calling. The TEA Party has not only rattled their cages, they've tipped them over!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Madison radicals
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 8:37am.
Oh, I think for Madison, what took place there was pretty radical. First of all, they were entirely outside. They don't do things that way in Madison. Secondly, I didn't see one single drum circle. Now, you can say what you want about political protests, but you can't change the world without a drum circle. Everyone knows this. Clearly radical.
But more importantly than anything else, I did not see, nor have I heard of one single arrest, incident of property damage, or looting. Apparently these "Tea Party" people -have taken some whole new tact with their supposed protests. This seems particularly nefarious given the state of affairs in Wisconsin. Something is going on there and I just hope the FBI is looking into these mild-mannered displays; we don't want this kind of thing popping up all over the country. My God, people might get... well... I don't know. But it's radical, I tell you. Radical.
They probably didn't even leave the scene strewn with pizza boxes, water bottles, half-empty tofu containers (cause no one finishes their tofu), and roach clips.
Radical nuts.
Oh yeah- they're racists too.
April 15 was Emancipation Day.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 8:48am.
(As is black slaves, not tax slaves)
That's why tax day was moved to April 15.
French racism, straight up.
Are these radicals?
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 9:07am.
Nah.
What's the problem?
Submitted by The Irishman on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 9:31am.
A tea party aficionado gets yelled at by a pro-union crowd? What was he expecting?
Or is it the "radical" claim that is unsettling? I would note the next story refers to Code Pink as a radical organization as well.
Of course, as mentioned above, yet still omitted from the story, tax day is the 18th this year.
If the liberals ...
Submitted by Travalot on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 10:42am.
...ever get the government they 'think' they want, they will be the first ones to scream about the individual liberties and personal choices they no longer have. Can you imagine the caterwauling when they have to wait 4 months to see a doctor for ... anything? What has happened to us when a significant element of our population thinks it's radical to return to the principles of our founding?
Here is an AP bias bit on Yahoo
Submitted by Ashrak on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 12:57pm.
Palin: Wis. gov doing the right thing with unions
Ok, this is a AP article about Palin in Madison posted on Yahoo and linked on Drudge.
Compare the quotes from within it.
"Sarah Palin defended Wisconsin's governor at a tea party tax day rally Saturday, telling hundreds of supporters that his polarizing union rights law is designed to save public jobs."
and
"Capitol Police estimated about 6,500 people converged on the building Saturday, but said it was impossible to tell how many were tea partyers and how many were labor supporters."
Just "hundreds" were TEA partiers among some 6,000 opponents? And this just after the TEA party side just won, by more than the estimated total attendees, a statewide vote that was touted by the left as a Walker referendum? Nah, no bias in the reporting there huh? Its own article busts itself.
It goes on to talk about some cheering and booing and that TEA partiers "appeared" surrounded. Now, if they were so surrounded, and so lopsidedly outnumbered, then why was it so impossible to tell a difference? Why would it not have been easy to say directly, as opposed to imply, a few hundred compared to several thousand?
Some blatant bias in that article, for sure. I have no doubt that had Klopenberg won the Supreme Court election, the AP would have mentioned it to support it's angle that the TEA partiers were so vastly outnumbered. But the fact is the side they clearly support in this "report" lost the poll that matters, the vote, and they didn't want to mention that little FACT. Imagine that.
Great ...
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 1:12pm.
... catch.
LOL!!!! Typical lib
Submitted by Diesel on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 10:00pm.
LOL!!!!
Typical lib media.....pure $hit.
CAPTION
Submitted by m1xram on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 5:55am.
Radicals, Like Thomas Jefferson, Protest Tyranny!
The opposite of Left is Freedom.