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Teabagger candidate Donn Janes (TN-08) takes Sarah Palin’s palm-written crib notes and turns it to a campaign commercial:
Apparently cheating is one of the teabaggers’ most cherished values.
On Real Time With Bill Maher last night, Maher rightly blasts the teabaggers as being a cult, not a political movement:
…cult members always attribute all of their problems to one simple explanation. Now here’s an amazing statistic. In a recent poll almost ninety percent of Tea Baggers said that they thought taxes had either gone up or stayed the same under Obama. Only two percent thought they went down. But the reality is taxes have gone down for ninety five percent of working families taxes went down.
Think about that. Only two percent of the people in a "movement" about taxes named after a tax revolt have the slightest idea what’s going on…with taxes.
So, it would be easy to just mock, except that those who fall under the control of cults aren’t necessarily weirdoes, they’re victims. And we shouldn’t forget that these people are our relatives, our neighbors and the folks at the next table in the restaurant. Especially if that restaurant is Hooters and it’s dollar wing Wednesday.
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Maher is definitely on to something here. It does have some of the attributes of a cult. Male dominance. Purity of thought, i.e., nothing new or contradictory (to dogma) allowed in from outside. I’m not so sure, though, about the love-bombing. Haven’t seen much evidence of that!
Yes indeed, seems rather cultist.
I have heard that the teabaggers draw some of it’s membership from other quasi cults such as the Promise keepers,etc.
“principles, accountability, integrity, fair tax” where were these teabaggers during the Bush administration. So pathetic.
Remember the kids in class who were the best at not getting caught at cheating. They were often the President of the class, the kids getting the best grades and often the kids on student counsel.
Maher “elitist means reader”
America: Dumb as we wanna be.
Well, that was more careful and polite than I expected. I was expecting another treatment like I got with Religilious. He knows it was my idea.
Bill, if it is cult, who is the charismatic leader?
I thought cults had to have leaders. This thing seems leaderless, like a school of fish, or an honest to god political movement. And TEA is another word for pot, I shouldn’t have to tell a wise and connected guy like Bill that the TEA Party movement was started in order to legalize medical marijuana. He should know that already.