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    About the time Hollywood and TV stopped portraying America as the good guys and started portraying them as the bad guys??? Movies always had our country doing good things, helping out the world, being the hero, then it became popular to make everything into a conspiracy, big bad boogie men controlling all of us. Crooked leaders, anybody who controlled anything was evil and crooked. Those kind of movies became popular at the box office so more was made. Look at all the Oliver Stone movies, everything is corrupt and the little guy is a victim.

    I guess reality followed fiction. You tell the world you are a villain for so many years, they start to believe it. Imagine that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by janelle View Post
    About the time Hollywood and TV stopped portraying America as the good guys and started portraying them as the bad guys??? Movies always had our country doing good things, helping out the world, being the hero, then it became popular to make everything into a conspiracy, big bad boogie men controlling all of us. Crooked leaders, anybody who controlled anything was evil and crooked. Those kind of movies became popular at the box office so more was made. Look at all the Oliver Stone movies, everything is corrupt and the little guy is a victim.

    I guess reality followed fiction. You tell the world you are a villain for so many years, they start to believe it. Imagine that.
    I see your point and it makes for interesting thought. However, there have been corrput leaders and people in America. You can't deny the desire to watch a dramatic film where in the end the 'little guy' defeats the 'establishment'.

    In some ways this could be seen as contributing factor.
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    You want to see corrupt leaders look at the Soviet Union, etc where no one has freedom. No movie about corruption would be made in those countries cause the film makers would be locked up for life is not worse.

    I like our freedoms but we all need to know the difference between a good story for the boxoffice money and real tyranny. Hollywood people whining how bad we have it do not get the irony of being able to say how bad we have it and not being locked up for saying it. That proves we don't have it that bad after all. LOL

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    Obama targets teabaggers at Town Hall
    http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/04...-at-town-hall/
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    Mr Happy to have a 'serious conversation' said "I won" when the Republicans tried.

    What an arrogant A HOLE!!!!!!!!

    And good god, he's still blaming the 'failed policies of the last 8 years'

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    President Obama said the following at a town hall meeting/100th day in office sermon:
    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21870.html

    “Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I’m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, Obama said, “let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.”

    Strange that Obama could so easily reference something he was unaware of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u68hv...layer_embedded
    but nonetheless, tea party organizers are taking the president up on the offer (they say “accepted his offer” because “called his bluff” sounds too harsh for hope):

    The National Leadership Team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition today accepted President Obama`s invitation “to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.”

    The invitation was extended by the President at a Town Hall Meeting held in Arnold, Missouri today. Michael Patrick Leahy, a member of the National Leadership Team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, said “We want to broaden the scope to address the President`s runaway march to socialist-statism, and the rampant across the board irresponsible spending he is promoting with his $787 Billion Stimulus Plan and his $1 Trillion Annual Deficit, his takeover of General Motors, Chrysler and the Banks.”
    The rest of that press release is here. http://www.parcbench.com/article_det...00&topic=front

    Of course, the president’s “invitation” was of the “kiss my royal butt” variety, so don’t expect an actual meeting to come from any of this.

    You’ll notice how the entire tea party movement is being dismissed as a Fox News stunt, which anyone who’s followed this since the beginning knows is a complete pile of Pelosi. As a matter of fact, didn’t this whole thing, at least in part, get rolling because of Santelli’s “rant” on CNBC? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZB4taSEoA


    One frustration for the left that lingers from the Tax Day tea parties is that when the liberal sock-puppet media did show up, they were only fishing for wackos to discredit the tea party movement and instead ended up providing everyone with laughable examples of their own bias. http://dougpowers.com/2009/04/16/the...susan-roesgen/

    The Two Faces of CNN’s New ‘Minister of Government Defense’ Susan RoesgenYesterday at a tea party, CNN reporter Susan Roesgen, who is apparently also serving in a dual role as Washington, DC’s Minister of Propanda & Government Defense, was incensed at the “anti-government” (not to mention “anti-CNN”) sentiments at a rally she was covering and tried to set one tea partier straight on how horrible it is to question the motives or show any disrespect toward the Commander-in-Chief.

    Below is a video of that exchange, but it’s preceded by a clip from a protest rally not long ago featuring a likeness of then President Bush, complete with Hitler mustache and devil horns, that Roesgen referred to as “a lookalike.”
    Thanks though to the president for helping boost attendance on July 4th even higher than it would have otherwise been. http://www.teapartyday.com/
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    Matt Kibbe at Reason magazine has the best explanation for the protests that I have yet seen in print: http://reason.com/news/show/133177.html

    What were the tea parties about? Reading the signs and talking to people (unlike CNN’s incredibly hostile Susan Roesgen, I actually let folks answer my questions in their own words), the “agenda” was crystal clear. Tea party activists were worried and angry about government bailouts for the irresponsible, about spending that “stimulated” record growth in government and not much else, and about government borrowing that will place unconscionable burdens on future generations of Americans. My favorite sign of the day: “Give Me Liberty, Not Debt.”

    Some tried to diminish the tea parties as misguided tax protests. In reality, the protestors demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of economics that went well beyond objections to higher tax rates. You can’t spend money you don’t have, the tea party attendees understood, and government spending above current revenues must be paid for with higher taxes, more borrowing (to be paid for with higher taxes in the future), or artificial government expansion of money and credit, which can only debase the currency and make everyone poorer through inflation.
    Read on as Kibbe describes the “stages of denial” the left has experienced as it’s grappled with the revolt.

    Unlike lefty protests which are usually organized by unions and Communist front groups, attracting assorted whack jobs, anarchists and conspiracy theorists, these tea parties really were “grass roots” events that brought every day Americans out of their comfort zones in the world of “normal”, out into the streets to put their collective feet down. These are people who pay attention.

    This is why the left is so unnerved. This is why they’re trying so hard to paint us all as racists, and rednecks who don’t know what we’re talking about. The fact of the matter is, we *do* know what we’re talking about…..and the more people are able to see past the Obama “razzle dazzle” the more his radical agenda is exposed, and endangered.

    http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/04...e-tea-parties/
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    LOL, just as soon as my hubby heard him say that he shot off an email to the White House accepting the debate challenge. I think Obama thought it would just be another thing to say so people will still like him. I am glad the people picked up on it and answered it. We may see him speak without his teleprompter but I highly doubt it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by janelle View Post
    LOL, just as soon as my hubby heard him say that he shot off an email to the White House accepting the debate challenge. I think Obama thought it would just be another thing to say so people will still like him. I am glad the people picked up on it and answered it. We may see him speak without his teleprompter but I highly doubt it.
    I did, too. You can email via whitehouse.gov

    I suggest everyone go do that. Let him know this movement is REAL and we aren't giving up 'cause BHO chooses to make fun of us.

    He is such a punk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by anothersta View Post
    I did, too. You can email via whitehouse.gov

    I suggest everyone go do that. Let him know this movement is REAL and we aren't giving up 'cause BHO chooses to make fun of us.

    He is such a punk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by YNKYH8R View Post
    Are you sure it's not whitehouse.com?
    No, it's whitehouse.gov to send an email to the pres.
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