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Title: Matt Taibbi Among the Tea Partiers
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Published: Sep 30, 2010
Author: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010
Post Date: 2010-09-30 10:18:00 by tom007
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Matt Taibbi Among the Tea Partiers Posted by pzmyers on @ 8:49 am Article printed from speakeasy: blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy URL to article: blogs.alternet.org/speake...i-among-the-tea-partiers/

This post first appeared on Pharyngula.

Matt Taibbi is one of my favorite political writers, and he’s perfect for scrutinizing the Tea Party movement — he’s a gonzo swashbuckler who specializes in exposing the inanities of American culture, so plopping him down in the midst of the teabaggers is like opening the henhouse door for a wolf.

Scanning the thousands of hopped-up faces in the crowd, I am immediately struck by two things. One is that there isn’t a single black person here. The other is the truly awesome quantity of medical hardware: Seemingly every third person in the place is sucking oxygen from a tank or propping their giant atrophied glutes on motorized wheelchair-scooters. As Palin launches into her Ronald Reagan impression — “Government’s not the solution! Government’s the problem!” — the person sitting next to me leans over and explains.

“The scooters are because of Medicare,” he whispers helpfully. “They have these commercials down here: ‘You won’t even have to pay for your scooter! Medicare will pay!’ Practically everyone in Kentucky has one.”

A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can’t imagine it.

Read the whole thing. Who are the teabaggers? Cranky, ignorant old racist hypocrites who are all about me-me-me-me, deftly manipulated by the big business establishment.

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#1. To: tom007 (#0)

Practically everyone in Kentucky has one.

The 'scooters' are coming, the 'scooters' are coming !!

Just out there watering the tweee of Libtardee !

Lysander_Spooner  posted on  2010-09-30   10:46:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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