Shocker. Latest Lib Grassroots Astroturf Group Led By Career Leftist
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, April 24, 2010, 2:53 PM
What a complete shock.
The latest lib grassroots astroturf group “The Other 95%” was founded by a career leftist who also co-founded the confused Billionaires for Bush group.
The Billionaires for Bush leftists were upset Iraqis was liberated from the Saddam Hussein regime. They liked the Clinton strategy.
Neil Munro at the The National Journal reported:
Tea Party activists and their myriad rivals in the Democratic Party’s coalition of supporters are using new media technology and tactics in a rapid-fire campaign to undermine, counter and demean the other side’s appeal to swing voters.
Shortly before this year’s April 15 tax day protests, for example, Marco Ceglie and several friends used Facebook to rally perhaps 100 people to stage a counterprotest in Washington under a professionally made banner declaring themselves “The Other 95%.”
Standing before a bank of reporters and cameras, Ceglie said that “we’re just moderates, we’re just Democrats, Republicans, we’re the other 95 percent, and we’re tired of seeing this fringe 5 percent [of Tea Party activists] on the news every night bashing taxes.” When interviewed by National Journal, Ceglie said the rally was “pretty much as grassroots as it gets… I’m not a Democratic activist myself [and] my first vote was for George W. H. Bush.”
But Ceglie’s website reveals his long career as a left-leaning political activist, including stints at the antiwar group Bring Them Home Now and at Billionaires for Bush, a street-theater group organized to protest the policies of George W. Bush. When asked whether he’s running an authentic grassroots campaign or an Astroturf campaign, Ceglie replied, “It depends on how you define ‘grassroots.’”
“I think a few people getting together to make a sign is much more authentic and sincere” than a corporate-funded Tea Party movement, he said. “My living is teaching people how to get their message out,” he said, adding that “I don’t make a full-time living in politics. I wish I did.”
Tea Party activists scoff at Ceglie’s group. “They’re Astroturf,” said Jim Hoft, who operates the GatewayPundit website. Grassroots movements are led by people who “generally have not been in politics, or associated with politics,” he said, adding that “80 percent of the people [in the Tea Party movement] are people who have never protested before.” In contrast, he said, Ceglie and his peers “are hard-core activists…. They’re experts, they’re weaned on this stuff.”
The emergence of the Other 95% group comes as Democrats have begun to reassess their initially scornful criticism of the Tea Party movement as “tea baggers,” as corporate-funded Astroturf, as racists and as potentially violent. On March 30, for example, President Obama said the movement contains “a broader circle” of people “who are legitimately concerned about the deficit, who are legitimately concerned that the federal government may be taking on too much.”
This more conciliatory message, however, is accompanied by a stream of statements from other top Democrats declaring the Tea Party groups to be extreme, racist or a potential cause of terrorism.
Once again we’re looking at a top-down stuctured leftist group unlike the true grassroots structure we see in the tea party movement. No wonder their freaking out.
There’s more at the The National Journal.
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Jo commented:
The new Rich Party is the left. This has been evident for at least the last two decades. Obama is already into the 10s of millions in his personal bank, and that is after taxes.
Andreas K. commented:
Why do I have the feeling that these people haven’t worked at all in their lives?
Amusing, that’s all they are. And they consider themselves to be “progressive”? “Smart”? “Intellectual”?
Oh dear.
My cat was smarter than the whole lot of them.
Valerie commented:
Jim,
I think you’re inside their decision curve.
dd5450 commented:
“we’re the other 95 percent, and we’re tired of seeing this fringe 5 percent [of Tea Party activists] on the news every night bashing taxes.” Hey jacka$$, I’ve never made it to a Tea Party event, but please don’t assume I want to be a part of your idiotic little guild. And by the way, last I heard, over 50% of Americans (not 5) thought the Tea Party folks were on the right track. So please take your little sideshow back to the Move-On offices and try to formulate a new plan.
ahem commented:
What get me is the ‘Blood for Oil’ canard. We didn’t get oil from Iraq in ’94 or in the second Iraq war. These people don’t have any discernable gray matter.
Paolo commented:
Nothing new: don’t you know that in any good communist country the Party always gets at least 95% of the preferences? Because they are the true expression of the (not fully conscious) proletariat, of course.
And remember: while the leftists’ opponents are potentially violent, the leftists are potentially peaceful.
Dipso Facto commented:
[W]e’re the other 95 percent, and we’re tired of seeing this fringe 5 percent [of Tea Party activists] on the news every night bashing taxes.
Excellent. Since these dopes are addressing an issue they made up themselves, and not the real issues that the tea parties are addressing, they’ll have no effect whatsoever.
The key part of the term “self-delusion” is the word SELF. You can delude yourSELF all you want. Your fantasies will have no real-world ramifications whatsoever. If you lie to yourself that the tea parties are fringe and extreme, you’re going to be flabbergasted when real-world events overtake you.
One such real-world event looming up in the headlights is the electoral slaughter of the Democrats in November. No amount of self-delusion will prevent that.
Janet commented:
Here is a video at Newsbusters of the 95% group crashing the April 15th Tea party. The video is about 24 minutes but at the 9:50 point the main guy says that they are just a group of friends that came out on their lunch hr. & had the sign made. Leftists are such liars…
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/bob-parks/2010/04/16/tax-day-tea-party-liberal-voices-0
Jo commented:
Nancy Pelosi is a member of the Billionaires for Bush group? Right? It is her astroturf alabi.
they look like Nancy’s NASIs. Is Obama still running around naked in the woods? That was the last we heard of him yesterday.
Militant Conservative commented:
dd5450
April 24th, 2010 | 3:41 pm | #4
LOL, you great comic relief. You did take till the second sentence to get ugly. Your soooo uninformed and intoxicated with the rope smoking Obama and his ilk. You also admit to not attending any tea party movements, what’s the matter can’t handle the opposite view. I listen to you? NPR,CNN,MSMBC, then I step up to a higher cognative power. Your afraid of the truth and you know it. You can’t handle the truth nor the consequences. powder is dry.
P.S. I used no spell check for this post, can you?
Scrapiron commented:
95% will fit the group real well come Nov when 95% of the democrats who run for office lose.
O’Dumbo may still be running through the woods while a BBQ joint named a sandwich after M.O.. It’s called ‘one big assed porker’.
Solaratov commented:
Hint to the “blood for oil” boy (in the pic):
One does NOT wear a top hat with a tuxedo. That’s very tacky and an indication that you’re not familiar with formal dress.
Top hats go with white tie and tails. And occasionally with morning coats.
Accuracy counts.
Dmc in DC commented:
Alex Lawson and his angry hate thug crashing the Tea Party in DC 04.15.10 …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRJ7njTygs
I did some basic online research into this and posted my notes and related links. They basically pay for professional signs (and stretch limos) and act as obnoxious and disrespectful as possible, trying to stir up trouble of any kind. That is their typical tactic.
I have added this link to my video as well.
Dmc in DC commented:
[Here is a video at Newsbusters of the 95% group crashing the April 15th Tea party. The video is about 24 minutes but at the 9:50 point the main guy says that they are just a group of friends that came out on their lunch hr. & had the sign made. Leftists are such liars…
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/bob-parks/2010/04/16/tax-day-tea-party-liberal-voices-0
… Yup, that is Alex Lawson, aka Professional Liberal Potester.
http://www.ourfuture.org/user/14552/full
bg commented:
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re: Blood for Oil
just a sample:
Iraq’s Oil-for-Food Scandal
[It is about the UN and its legitimacy. During the run-up to the Iraq war, George Bush's opponents accused him of many misdeeds. Chief among them was "going to war without the UN." But if, the UN was, in fact, Saddam's enabler, if the UN Secretariat was effectively on Saddam's payroll, if important people in major antiwar countries were likewise beholden to the Iraqi regime, then that casts a wholly different light on "unilateralism."
[..]
Zeyad “dug up the list of companies, politicians, and organizations from 51 countries that had received bribes in oil from the former regime [Saddam] in return for their ‘services’ in defending the regime and opposing the US campaign against him.”]
Iraq and the Importance of the U.N.’s Oil-for-Food Scandal
[Conclusion
The U.N. has used diplomatic immunity to avoid prosecutions. There is such a tradition of secrecy in the U.N. that it is hard to achieve reform. The former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Negroponte, was not assertive enough in the U.N. We also need a Secretary-General who will be tackle corruption. Unfortunately, Annan has not done so.
While the U.N. is set up to look like a democratic institution, it is not. Tyrants have the most motivation to exert influence in the U.N. In order to reform the U.N., its budget should be cut. There is a conflict between people who believe we should try to appease other countries and those who believe we should confront other countries. Appeasement leads to events like September 11. Therefore, going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq was the correct decision.]
IRAQ: Oil for Food Scandal
[What did the earlier reports find?
A September report faults UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, his deputy, and the UN Security Council for allowing Saddam Hussein to graft over $1 billion from the humanitarian operation. The committee’s January briefing paper charged UN management of the oil-for-food “operated in an ineffective, wasteful, and unsatisfactory manner,” leading to some $5 million in documented contractor overpayments, and “undoubtedly much higher” losses not discovered by the limited UN audits. The February interim report found the program’s procurement office did not follow established rules “designed to assure fairness and accountability.” It also accused the former head of the program, Benon Sevan, of an “irreconcilable conflict of interest” because he helped a company owned by a friend obtain valuable contracts to sell Iraqi oil. Other allegations against Sevan are also being investigated. Sevan retired from the United Nations last year and has denied any wrongdoing.]
Jimmy Carter linked to oil-for-food scam
[Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict the United Nations from American soil and halt U.S. funding of the U.N.
Move America Forward today will call upon Carter to provide a full accounting of his meetings and conversations with Samir Vincent, who yesterday pleaded guilty to participating in numerous illegal activities as part of the U.N. scandal.]
links @ links..
okay, so, where’s all our Iraqi oil?? /sarc/
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bg commented:
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Comedy
Billionaires for Bush
Tragedy
Obama Visits Billionaires Row
[Michelle Obama (and other Obama campaign spokespeople) aren't telling the truth. It seems that a signficant portion of Obama's monthly campaign contributions are coming from "large donors"' -- i.e. rich people, not just the "$20 to $50" donations they're constantly bragging about.]
the Obama’s decieve?? nah, oh wait..
[So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.]
“You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” BHO
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