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Glenn Reynolds, The Washington so-called Examiner:
Glenn Reynolds: Nashville Shows Tea Party Is America’s Third Great Awakening

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Rusty Shackleford
 

Prof. Reynolds was surprised to hear from some participants that they had never been involved in politics before, but something happened and now they are.

 
 

It’s America’s politicians and parties. They’ve grown corrupt, venal, and out-of-touch with the values, and the people, that they’re supposed to represent.

Rich folks appear to be doing okay.

 
 

something happened

The teabaggers are going to run Joseph Heller’s moldering corpse for public office? YEAH!

 
 

I’m sure it’s just an accident that he used religious imagery to promote the Tea Party.

 
The Sadly, No! house blues band sang not
 

With all those here at Sadly, No!
Through wingnut waters I do row
I row past all those wingnut islands
See the sweet, sweet mangoes on the highlands

But the tide done fetched this boat
Right up next to the ol’ shit moat

Now that shit moat’s been fertilizin’
Those mangoes oh so appetizin’
Still I know the price is steep
That shit moat runs so deep

Should I leave this boat
And wade through the ol’ shit moat

I just can’t take it anymore
I leap out and head for shore
But when I reach the beach
The mangoes are rotten and out of reach

Why did I ever leave the boat
And wade through the ol’ shit moat

Well I learn my lesson quick
But it never seems to stick
Why can’t I get it through my head
To always trust the shorter that I read

Why do I always leave the boat
Up to my armpits in the ol’ shit moat

Sadlynaughts! heed my tale of woe
You don’t need no damn mango

Stay in the middle of this ever lovin’ boat
Don’t go near that ol’ shit mo-oh-oh-wo-oh-oh-oat

 
 

I watched as Knoxville Tea Party organizer Antonio Hinton — who drew the largest crowd, perhaps because he is black, or perhaps because he’s an excellent speaker –

Nobody plays dumb like The Putz.

 
 

is that a penis in your hand, glenn, or are you just glib to see me?

 
 

600 strong! That’s a Big Movement! Meanwhile, of the just over $300K coughed up by that multitude, nearly a third went to the Wasila Palm Reader. Ron Popiel must be jealous…

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

In this case, it’s awakening too late, the already urine-soaked sheets clinging to the erstwhile sleeper’s flabby, dimpled thighs.

 
 

Fucking idiot.

(Also, WTF is WP doing telling me my comment is too short? Should I use the Pakin Automatic Complaint Generator?)

 
 

The Tea Party movement is bottom up…

That it is.

 
 

Even though the shorter makes no fucking sense, I’m staying in the motherfucking boat.

 
 

Tea Party Is America’s Third Great Awakening

All 600 of them.

 
 

America’s prior Great Awakenings, in the 18th and 19th Centuries, were religious in nature. Unimpressed with self-serving, ossified, and often corrupt religious institutions, Americans responded with a bottom-up reassertion of faith, and independence.

Americans’ response to self-serving, corrupt preachers was to flock to evangelical charlatans even more blatantly corrupt and self-serving than those they fled, but who could fire up a crowd with their moronic rhetoric… OMG HE’S RIGHT, it IS another Great Awakening!

 
 

PEE ESS the 3rd one already took place; according to wikipedia we’d be on the 5th with the Nutsuckers.

 
No Pee in Tennessee
 

Nashville Rats. FTFY.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Nashville scats.

 
 

Glenn might see a “Third Awakening” at a convention attended by 600 teatards. In the rest of the country, eh, not so much.

Tea party, ?9-12 activists lament weak GOP turnout for primary.

 
 

600 strong!

How many people like, say, your favourite band?

 
 

But 600 is just the beginning.

Today it’s only 600, but by the summer it will be 620. By next year there could be 670, even 680. And so it will go, onward and upward, ever upward, ever stronger, until they decide to stay home and watch the NCIS rerun marathon.

 
 

How many people like, say, your favourite band?

You’re missing the point! This was a political party Convention! They were accomplishing something democratic here! Every single attendee was in fact representative of thousands of rubes who could not find a way to shoehorn TP travel $ into their already strained Cheetos and Seabond budget.

 
 

I’d say something witty but I’m on iPhone so it would have to terse and thus WP would tell me tu fuck off. POOP

 
 

600 strong!

Twice as manly as 300!

 
 

600 strong!

Have the caterers in Hell been notified that extra guests are coming?

 
 

600 strong!

How many people like, say, your favourite band?

Dang, if it were Polyphonic Spree that would be the number IN the band.

 
 

I just love that number – 600. The New England anti-war movement just had a meeting with about 400 attending (I believe this is an actual number without “revolutionary inflation” – it’s not from an ANSWER report). I haven’t seen any national media coverage… curious. Seriously, the anti-war movement is sadly weakened to the point of almost non-existence, and they get as many people in New England alone as the TPer’s get for their “national convention”. It’s quite funny.

 
 

I’ll be at a beer can collectors show in Fredericksburg this weekend that will have more than 600 people. 600 isn’t even a decent crowd at a boat show…

 
 

Whee, so 600 fucking losers show up and (from what I hear) Palin’s wankering to them gets air time on CNN.

2003’s anti-war protests which had over 1000x the turnout of this clusterfuck? Not so much.

*sigh* I hate the liberal biased media.

 
 

“Unimpressed with self-serving, ossified, and often corrupt religious institutions, Americans responded with a bottom-up reassertion of faith, and independence.”

What the fuck does he know about mid-18th century religious practices and the first “Great Awakening”? Not a god damn thing. I’m so tired of idiots like Reynolds taking a phrase from history and applying to their own miserable political ends. Presentist twat.

 
 

I’ll be at a beer can collectors show

Wait…you mean empties? A show of nothing but empties? Why don’t you just rip my heart out while you’re at it?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Have the caterers in Hell been notified that extra guests are coming?

No need for caterers, these 600 mighty teabaggers will feed on each other’s nutsacks.

 
 

600 strong! That’s a Big Movement!

and when 250,000 protest the war on a single day, it’s not worth mentioning

 
 

600 heard “Your pathetic movement is doomed” from keynote speaker Sarah Palin.

 
 

You can hang a lot of shit on Nashville.

But Reynolds belongs to Knoxville.

Just sayin’.

 
 

I’ll be at a beer can collectors show in Fredericksburg this weekend that will have more than 600 people.

It’s the Fourth Great Awakening!

 
 

these 600 mighty teabaggers will feed on each other’s nutsacks

Well, statistically maybe only 300 nutsacks to go around.

 
 

Additionally, I suspect Reynolds’ interest in the Teabag Movement will, like his obsessions over taking pics of unsuspecting UT co-eds, Obama “pivoting” on Iraq, Pajamas Media, etc., etc., will evaporate once he finds something else stupid to talk about.

 
 

From No-Visible-Means’ link above about the lousy GOP turnout, Florida, this related item:

Coming to the airwaves this week: Derek Black, the advocate for “the rights and heritage of European Americans” who’s threatening to sue the county GOP for denying him a Republican Executive Committee seat. Black says he’s paying $275 a week for one-hour Tuesday and Thursday slots on 1340 WPBR-AM.

Black’s show will emphasize “my own personal demographic and immigration concerns which are not talked about by any other public voices.”

Black, son of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Don Black and associate of ex-Klan leader David Duke, won a 2008 REC election but was disqualified for missing the deadline for signing a GOP loyalty oath.

 
 

What, no “into the valley of death rode the 600” parodies? I’m very disappointed, people.

 
 

Half a wit, half a wit, half a wit onward?

 
 

The history nerd in me would like to point out that there were four Awakenings, not two. But since the Second one was about abolitionism and the Third one involved the Social Gospel and the Progressive Movement, I can see why they’d gloss over those two.

The Christian in me would like to object to the use of religious imagery, but I know better than to expect anyone else to – being a corporate/political whore’s been second nature for too many churches for too many years.

And the casual observer in me would like to ask what the hell the author had to smoke before he was able to right “they’re not looking for a charismatic leader.”

 
Smiling Mortician
 

Americans responded with a bottom-up reassertion of faith

I simply cannot stop laughing at this image.

 
 

*write “they’re not looking for a charismatic leader.”

 
 

But Reynolds belongs to Knoxville

Johnny Knoxville?

That’s kind of weird, even for a wingnut; but I look forward to Glenn getting plenty of nutshots in the next Jackass movie.

 
 

*write “they’re not looking for a charismatic leader.”

Which would explain Sarah “Palm is my Co-Pilot” Palin. Aside from her obvious sex appeal, she’s about as charismatic as Pamela Anderson without a boob job.

 
 

The fact is, shut up. We tea bag partiers have shown you liberals to be a dieying force in America. Sarah Palin is our Great leader and will take USA to greatness once more, no more apologize for America and bow and scrape to foreigen minorites like Obsama does. We will use the arsenhal of freedom to bring God, Guns, Free Markets and No Media Bias to the world.

 
 

I loved The Arsenio Hall of Freedom. Woof Woof Woof! Or was it Whoop Whoop Whoop? I forget.

 
 

I attended a national education convention at Opryland in 2008 and there were 600 in attendance just from Tennessee. There is no way the organizers broke even on this one with only 600 attendees.

 
 

Nashville Prats
They had a big convention
Nashville Prats
By dozens did amass
Nashville Prats
In numbers barely equal
Nashville Prats
My high school senior class.

Well…
Six hundred folks paid half a grand
Just like a passel o’ jerksees
And that’s twice as many as the guys
In that movie that was killed by Xerxes

Five hundred more paid a three-five-oh just
To listen to Sarah
An’ if one of ‘em ain’t a moran
I’ll eat that-a hat that you wear-a.

(And they was)
Nashville Prats
They call themselves Tea Baggers
Nashville Prats
By media they’s kissed
Nashville Prats
They think they’re patriotic
Nashville Prats
But all’s they know’s they’re pissed.

(Kick it!)

 
 

Attendance: 600. That’s less than a club in New York on a Friday night. Who do these dipshits think they’re kidding? And why does the MSM give them so much coverage?

 
 

I can tell you all with great confidence from down here in the glorious border state that even among the unbelievably obtuse citizenry in this reddest corner of Tennessee, this whole teabagger event was met with overwhelming indifference and much ridicule of Her Retardedness in particular.

Yeah, the news site for days was a pantload of coverage overkill, including insufferable attention paid to InstaPudding’s bloviations, but the comments sections seethed with derision. My heart was warmed consequently. Also, Glynda Reynolds is a puke-dick of the first order, and everyone around here knows it.

 
 

Johnny Knoxville?

Yes, he’s ours too.

 
 

“Glenn Reynolds: Nashville Shows Tea Party Is America’s Third Great Awakening.”

The other two of course were the rise of the KKK at the turn of the 19th century and the “Pet Rock” fad of the mid 1970’s.

 
 

The only “awakening” these people could hope for is the Algernon sort. That was fiction too.

 
 

“Glenn Reynolds: Nashville Shows Tea Party Is America’s Third Great Awakening.”

The first two of course were the rise of the KKK in the early 19th century and the “Pet Rock” fad of the mid 1970’s respectfully.

 
 

[cue scary music] The attendance number was actually 666.

 
 

“Attendance: 600. That’s less than a club in New York on a Friday night. Who do these dipshits think they’re kidding? And why does the MSM give them so much coverage?”

I’m sure there would have been more if there hadn’t been a buy-in fee of $349 just to see Sarah Palin, and $549 for the whole convention.

 
 

“Yeah, the news site for days was a pantload of coverage overkill, including insufferable attention paid to InstaPudding’s bloviations, but the comments sections seethed with derision. My heart was warmed consequently. Also, Glynda Reynolds is a puke-dick of the first order, and everyone around here knows it.”

I feel better, mate.

 
 

“And the Anti-Christ shall rise from the frigid tundra on the wings of a maverick and land a days journey from the loins of Grace Land you betcha.”

Revelations 3:16

 
 

I’m sure I’ve been to science fiction conventions with more than 600 attendees.

I’m afraid what the Glennbot would make of that, though. *beep beep*

 
 

The fact is, you liberals are still realing from the death blow palin and the tea bag movement has dumped on you — your tax and spend and bias the media methods no longer work here, in the Heartland

 
 

The fact is, even if ONLY 600 people were there, they were comited PATRIOTS, more comited than YOU liberals who foolishly worship The One as a God, which is idolotry,

 
 

Fake Gary is boring. We need better fake Garys.

 
 

“The fact is, you liberals are still realing from the death blow palin and the tea bag movement has dumped on you — your tax and spend and bias the media methods no longer work here, in the Heartland”

I’ve been waiting for Gary Ruppert to go completely bonkers for years, and, by God, he finally done it! By the way, Gary, it’s spelled “reeling”.

 
 

death blow palin

oral sex; ur doin it rong.

 
 

Either that Puvis or more likely 3rd rate fake Gary.

 
 

death blow palin

***BWHAAAAMMM!***

“We’re missing the Death Blow!”

 
 

http://pajamasmedia.com/ejectejecteject/2010/02/04/one-of-us/

Shorter Bill Whittle; becoming conservative made me sexy and confident, and so can you. (Not even a parody, just a legit shorter).

 
 

becoming conservative made me sexy and confident

I understand alcohol has much the same effect and at a lower cost in brain cells.

 
 

If Palin gave a blow job to very drunk gocart, I would have to kill myself: Hence, Death Blow Palin.

 
 

Considering the blizzard of publicity the Tea Party got, 600 is an incredibly low number of attendees. I mean, anyone who went was guaranteed to be on National, Nay, World-wide TV. And see The Sarah. But only 600 showed. Wow.

 
 

If Palin gave a blow job to very drunk gocart

Not. Enuff. Alcohol. on god’s grey earth.

 
 

Shorter Bill Whittle; becoming conservative made me sexy and confident

For very small values of “sexy” and unjustifiably overlarge values of “confident.”

I understand alcohol has much the same effect and at a lower cost in brain cells.

He goes on about no longer being an elitist, so I’m guessing that any lost hypothetical brain cells wouldn’t be noticed.

 
 

Why did Sarah Palin write “TGIF” on her shoes?
“Toes Go In First.”

What did Sarah Palin say when she found out she was pregnant with Trig?
“Is it mine?”

How do you put a twinkle in Sarah Palin’s eye?
Shine a flashlight in her ear.

How do you keep Sarah Palin busy for hours?
Write “See Other Side” on both sides of her hand.

 
 

When I saw the title I thought of that Lovin’ Spoonful song, Nashville Cats.

 
 

What did Sarah Palin say when she found out she was pregnant with Trig?
“Is it mine?”

Hoooo!! Audible noises from that one.

 
 

“Shine a flashlight in her ear.” Classic.

 
 

I posted this at Bill Whittle’s place. Elites may notice that I went Godwin on him. Its in moderation. I not hold breath. Godwin not apply if author TRY to resemble Hitler. I talk like this so not to appear elitist and be more in touch with common man. Gocart want to smash Bill Whittle in million peices.

“Heh, the Founders valued education very much and were strong proponents of the Enlightenment. Something the present so called teaparty “patriots” hold in contempt much like you do or pretend to do. They were all “ELITES!” in their day.

There is a book written by a “populist” German author in the 1920’s that you should read if you have not already done so. Your style reminds me a lot of his. It is called “My Life.”

 
 

I hear that there were 300 journalists: One for every two teabaggers.

 
 

Americans responded with a bottom-up reassertion of faith
I simply cannot stop laughing at this image.

In retrospect, it was not the ideal moment to strike a match.
———————-
Your style reminds me a lot of his. It is called “My Life.” Struggle“.

 
 

I doubt it’ll make a difference. You’ll get a lecture on how they support and love the Enlightenment but people like you are communist elites with a liberal bias who reject everything they stood for and any REAL Enlightenment observer would agree with them and of course the Founders would have. Or something like that. Although I certainly salute the effort.

 
 

Smut Clyde! Shit, you are correct. I get in someones face and I make a stupid error. Fuck me.

 
 

Probably the sickest part of the Tea Party Convention;

http://www.webcenter11.com/news/state/story/Palin-Obama-could-win-votes-by-playing-war-card/zTkS2v-SQ0yBsGpOTdzZJg.cspx?rss=201

I’m not sure what makes me want to vomit more. Sarah Palin advocating mass killing (think 9/11 times 300 and spread out over an entire country instead of a few city blocks) for political gain, the fact that she manages to talk about it with that same happy oblivious not-a-care-in-the-world grin on her face as when she’s talking about hockey moms or basketball, or just the fact that the statement was taken in stride by her adoring supporters and barely even noticed by the press or her opponents.

There’s a lot of things wrong with this country. The fact that a major, popular politician can say something as obscene as this on national TV without getting a single rebuke surely has to top the list.

 
 

“Americans responded with a bottom-up reassertion reinsertion of faith…”

Me fix.

 
 

Hell, even the evangelicals have been proclaiming America’s Third Great Awakening for almost 20 years now, and it ain’t showed yet. If Instaputz thinks a crowd of 600 on a Saturday night in any medium-sized metro area in America is a sign, he needs to back away from the wacky weed and keep his hands in plain sight.

 
 

Tea partiers are all more war, more torture, more enemy combatants, more corporate power, less banking and insurance regulations . . .

Its all part of their “Restore the Constitution and give more power to the little guy” schtick. Its funny because they’re not Jewish.

 
 

Watching the puppets vie for puppet-in-chief has as much appeal to me as mud wrestling. As Michael Hudson pointed out in his recent G&B interview, running Obama was a brilliant move on the part of the oligarchs. By running a machine fascist draped in sheep skins, he has accomplished things quickly that W and Darth Cheney would have received a lot of push back on. But Palin may just be too stupid to get the backing of the oligarchs. She really is a freakin moron. Time will tell and it really doesn’t matter.

On another sour note – Zero Hedge has a brilliant analysis indicating that the Great Vampire Squid has moved up from just taking down investment banks to countries and continents. It has its tentacles wrapped around the PIIGS and is slowly and inexorably pulling them towards its beak.

 
 

It’s squids versus piigs!

 
 

It’s squids versus piigs!

Vampire squids vs piigs! And fascists in sheep skins! AIIEEEE!!!

 
 

By running a machine fascist draped in sheep skins

*mental note: must buy Lambskins condoms for Santa’s mommy*

 
 

Glenn Reynolds: Nashville Shows Tea Party Is America’s Third Great Awakening

I think Reynolds mistakes “turning over in its sleep because the cat jump on its crotch” with “awakening”

 
Rusty Shackleford
 

…running Obama was a brilliant move on the part of the oligarchs.

I swear I remember primaries. I bet if Santa comes back he will explain how they were a mere illusion.

 
 

the Great Vampire Squid has moved up from just taking down investment banks to countries and continents. It has its tentacles wrapped around the PIIGS and is slowly and inexorably pulling them towards its beak.

I would SO TOTALLY go see this movie.

 
 

Rusty, you have to understand that they (the oligarchs) ran Obama as the Establishment candidate to defeat Hillary Clinton who, despite being the spouse of a former oligarch, President Bill Clinton, and an oligarch herself (senator from New York State), threatened the oligarchy because shut up that’s why.

 
Rusty Shackleford
 

Damn, oligarchs is crafty.

 
 

I would have been impressed if there were over 9000.

Let’s see, if the maximum possible take is $550 multiplied by 600 teabaggers, for a total of $330,000, then Ms. Palin ate up 1/3 of the gross. I hope it was worth it.

 
 

Holy fuck. The US has to jettison those southern states like…yesterday.

 
 

By running a machine fascist draped in sheep skins
I know that book.

 
 

Just sayin’, but 16,007 people went to see the Nashville Predators faceoff against the San Jose Sharks and 1,181 folks showed up for David Lipscomb’s home Basketball game versus Jacksonville. I suspect the most Nashville-ans in attendance for Sarah ‘the Quiter’ Palin were working for the hotel.

 
 

Jeez, our little science fiction convention in Spokane bloody Washington had 600-ish total attendance and that was the very first year… of course, we had Tim Zahn, he at least speaks in complete sentences. (nerd out)

 
 

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