And who doesn't? Sarah Palin proved she was coached on Boston by cheering on all our pro sports teams today, as a few thousand Tea Partiers, bemused onlookers and a bunch of liberal radical commie socialists mingled on the Common today:
It was all peaceful, almost festival-like, what with the booths selling T-shirts and flags and hot dogs. Well, yeah, and people calling for impeachment and taking back the country from the socialist heathens who were, um, elected by the people. I overheard a number of discussions between Tea Partiers and hippies and while neither convinced the other to change sides, they were very civil.
About the only people who actually got to see Caribou Barbie were the hated, loathsome media whom the Tea Partiers gave a giant platform in front of the speaker's platform. The rest of us could only hear Palin and, before her, some country singer and Michael "Let's take Boston back from the hippies!" Graham exhorting the crowd.
Sign of things to come?
One of my tax-and-spend Massachusetts peeps:
The people with the fake signs didn't fool anyone. For one thing, they were younger and more hipsterish than your basic Tea Partier. For another, their signs were generally too ludicrous:
Although I'm not sure about this kid:
Speaking of kids, hey, kids, shouldn't you be in school?
Palin pooch:
The closest to a confrontation that I noticed was when the Tea Party volunteer in red on the right (you could tell by the back-stage pass around her neck) tried to get the Gay Loggers for Jesus to leave the area immediately in front of the press flatbed. They refused, said they had a right to be there. "If there's any trouble, you're going to get kicked out," she warned them,
There was a signboard on which you could, well, sign your name:
Draw up the articles of impeachment now!
She didn't seem like a Nazi, nor somebody with the proper equipment to do any tea bagging:
Can you imagine Tea Partiers actually moving to San Francisco to vote against Pelosi? No, neither can I:
Janet Wu warily eyes the crowd to make sure they don't do more than verbally express their loathing of her lamestream media:
Government just sucks, dude:
Why didn't they hold the rally on the waterfront?
Flags for sale, we gotcher flags for sale right here:
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Comments
Class warfare
By adamg
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 2:00pm
Rhea Becker was there, too, files a report.
Whether you agree with
By anon
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 2:01pm
Whether you agree with anything they say, you have to admit that those Tea-baggers are some pretty ugly people. It is a proven fact that liberals are way cuter.
That kid with the hammer and sickle sign was weird. Was he being ironic? I think so, but he didn't quite pull it off. Good on him for making the effort to go out to the Common , regardless.
Whit
More photos
By adamg
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 2:08pm
Brian McFadden took a bunch. Lyetteann was there.
You're fast! I just put those
By lyetteann
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 2:22pm
You're fast! I just put those up. They were actually offering passersby tea, which I thought was quite nice.
It was very nice
By adamg
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 2:26pm
And thanks to Ian, I tried a watercress sandwich for the first time in my life. It was OK, but I think I preferred the egg salad.
Unless you are Michelle McPhee
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 1:37pm
McPheemaleDog and RedAssGroup are tossing their tootles about "they served SANDWICHES" and asking people to challenge their permit and such.
Which involves intrusive goverment behavior, of course, but it's all okay if OUR TRIBE does it!
Gamma problems
By Burzmali
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 2:26pm
You need to talk to your photographers. Clearly they have the gamma on their cameras set too high, because I have it on good authority that the tea-party is a diverse an organization not.
from the Boston Herald
By anon
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 2:36pm
from the Boston Herald website:
"Just keep on driving, limousine liberals
By Howie Carr
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - Updated 16h ago
Boston Herald Columnist
Hey moonbats, do us all a favor this morning and go celebrate diversity somewhere else other than on Boston Common."
link: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.b...
So, I guess anyone other than white right-wingers need not apply to the tea party? Sorry, but this has nothing to do with the original Boston Tea Party. I grew up in a working class blue collar family and we are HORRIFIED by Palin and her bigoted and ignorant opinions. Disgusting.
Typical
By cursedtofirst
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 2:38pm
Bush / Cheney administration subverts Constitution, 2001-2007, opposition to same = siding with terrorists.
Obama administration passes health INSURANCE reform, opposition to same = highest form of Patriotism.
Glenn Beck calls Obama a racist and loses advertisers = the PC Police exercising thought control.
Signs calling the first black President a Nazi and showing him with a Hitler moustache all over the country last summer = six months later, teabagger lady expresses her feelings of oppression because she presumes someone ELSE is going to call her a racist Nazi.
Just typical of the teabagger thought process, it seems.
I'm sure this will all be white-washed by the media
By Kaz
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 2:53pm
I just thumbed through all of the pictures here and at the Globe. I didn't find one non-white anywhere. The average age appeared to be about 65 too.
See, the fake Tea Partiers are just too obvious
By adamg
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 3:45pm
Paul Keleher took this and more photos
Copyright Paul Keleher
a disappointment
By deselby
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 4:40pm
I took a stroll around the Common. I missed Palin. I figured she'd be there around noon, but she'd come and gone by the time I got there.
The tea partiers did seem kind of frumpy and overweight. A lot of people from the poorer suburbs, based on their t-shirts. Their signs often were apologetic in a way - like "See, I'm not racist, etc."
The counter-protesters were kind of weak. I suppose it's kind of hard to protest a movement that's not for anything, but against a lot of things. You have to be against them being against big government, or whatever.
Palin arrived around 9:30
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 5:02pm
At least she was escorted into a totally quiet area via limo on a closed Tremont street by a trio of staties on motorbikes. There was no crowd, but window was open and she was waving. I waved back, with my bike helmet, wearing my Kick Gas shirt - it has a polar bear with a bike booting a gas pump. Totally unexpected - I had just surfaced from Park Street and I knew something was up when there was no traffic.
Just missed it
By Nonymouse
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 5:12pm
I must have been about 10 minutes early, then. When I got to Park street at 9:20 or so, I only saw a few crazy people yelling at me (well, at Democrats) to go throw myself on the third rail. Classy.
I had a conference call 10-11am and when I went out directly after, they were already dispersing. I was kind of disappointed - I hoping for a show.
Interesting
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 5:37pm
I was wearing a provacative shirt and got no such reception. Maybe they think cyclists are insane?
Was this photo deleted?
By Ron Newman
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 5:34pm
I don't see it here anymore.
It's there now
By adamg
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 8:54pm
Wasn't deleted, was messed up by somebody who really needs to check his HTML better.
It was delightfully whack-a-doo
By Lori Magno
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 4:10pm
Beautiful weather, and as texted by a good friend on the common today "like Woodstock for crazy people".
My post and pix will go up on my blog later, but the best comment from a tea-bagger was made behind me as I was walking back to work; "They have to organize these things better, it was way to easy for the demon-crats to infiltrate." I managed to stifle my laughter. Infiltrate? They were outnumbered 8 to 1 by students and the generally bemused public.
Alas, the tea baggers didn't get much of a fight (except for the two jerks that picked on a college student near me and my husband - but hubby stepped in and told them to cut the crap.) Most of us just came to take pictures for our blogs and laugh.
TONS of leftover flags (MADE IN CHINA) available on the common.
BTW - those people totally littered and there were NO recycling collection cans!
It's okay!
By Kaz
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 4:51pm
There's some sort of government worker who will be around to collect their trash for them!
*rimshot/cymbal*
recycling
By anon
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 6:56pm
Hey you loonie liberals, don't tell me I can't litter. That's anti-American! Recycling is for socialists, I mean communists. Yeah, like Canada and their communist health care. Palin for President!
Did they clean up after
By anon
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 9:36pm
Did they clean up after themselves? Someone who had been over there told us that all the protesters cleaned up after themselves and I hoped that was true.
It is quite ironic that the flags are being bought are made in China when that is one of the main reasons we have this financial meltdown in the first place...borrowing money and buying all kinds of crap from China.
I'm confused
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 5:26pm
the "recycle this bag" - I think it looks a lot more like Palin than Pelosi. Seriously. Projection perhaps?
Health reform pix from Boston Palin rally
By Tinker Ready
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 5:49pm
Angst over health reform came to Boston with the Tea Party Express today. But, clearly, it was not the key issue on the commons. And more than a few came in support.
I liked the part where the
By WhoDat?
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 5:52pm
I liked the part where the emcee taunts Boston by saying conservative women are "smarter than you and hotter than you." Nobody's ever claimed the former about Palin and the GOP is the only party that seems to care about the latter. If we're on the brink of a peace deal between India and Pakistan and my choices of mediators are Madeline Albright or a "hot" woman, I'm going with Albright 100 times out of 100.
I don't get it..
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 12:06am
the whole Tea Party movement seems to be predicated on putting the republicans (or "conservatives" as Sean Hannity calls them)back into office, as they believe they are the party of fiscal responsibility. Have they forgotten it was the Republicans who spent us into this mess with massive tax cuts and two wars? This and the staggering lack of minorities in this movement really convinces me that it's more about the color of the CIC.
Dvdoff, you make a good point
By Anonymous
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 9:21pm
Dvdoff, you make a good point but Sarah Palin explained all that in her speech on the Boston Common. In fact she addressed it directly. She said Republicans learned their lesson over the last year and 1/2. She's a credible, knowledgeable and trustworthy source of facts and she has impeccable judgment so while I'm in no position to verify her claim, I am inclined to believe her ;-)
April Fool's Day was last week..
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 10:28pm
because you can't really believe that moronic woman has a clue about anything, other than exploiting her 15 minutes into 12 million dollars. As far as Republicans go, I'm afraid you're way off base. In fact on election night, I'm sure the bathroom scene from "Trading Places" was reenacted all over this country. You know the one I'm talking about, don't you? The scene where Eddie Murphy is smoking a joint in the bathroom and he overhears Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy talking about who would be running their company.
The woman with the green sign
By twheaton
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 8:18am
in the thirteenth photo down is absolutely right...
...only she forgot 'IGNORANT'.
I wonder which trailer park they bussed her in from.
Careful There!
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 1:05pm
Those of us who grew up stationary-domicile challenged might just become offended by your privilege-laden stereotypical statements ... and come whup yer ass! Hey cousin Tanya, get my .22 woodya?
I was raised in trailer parks - four different ones. Most people living in trailer parks aren't stupid - some lack formal education because of learning disabilities or family issues or both, but not stupid. Many are simply working long hours and living cheaply so they can buy a house in a few years. A lot of places in the US don't have them fancy brick public housing projects for low-income and young families to live in, after all. But we got our own set of stereotypes about those people.
Besides....
By merlinmurph
Fri, 04/16/2010 - 6:36pm
On UHub, you're only allowed to make generalizations about conservatives, rich people (by Obama's measures, which isn't even rich), Republicans - anybody that liberals love to hate. ;-)
Conspiracy theorists
By Sock_Puppet
Fri, 04/16/2010 - 7:44pm
Don't forget the conspiracy theorists and the paranoids. We're allowed to make fun of
youthem too. But if we make fun of poor people or liberals, the jack-booted thugs come and take us to FEMA concentration camps.Those kids not in school?
By Sock_Puppet
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 9:32am
At least ten of them were homeschooled.
So one would assume they're not taking any government handouts, right? Right? Aww, you haven't been paying attention.
That's right. Other people's children = welfare freeloaders. Mrs. Shirk's government-supported children = blessing.
Apparently there's not enough hypocrisy taught in the public schools. Good on them for supplying this learning opportunity themselves.
The Shirks??? LMAO This
By Mike in TX
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 11:27am
The Shirks??? LMAO
This reads like something you'd find in National Lampoon magazine years ago. Would be really funny if it wasn't true.
PHWOOOOMPH!
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 1:32pm
The sound of a head explosion. These people are more potent than blipverts.
If true, simply incredible.
By Finn
Fri, 04/16/2010 - 5:30pm
If true, simply incredible. Conservatives truly lack an irony gene.
Max Headroom says, "Catch the
By anon
Sat, 04/17/2010 - 2:18pm
Max Headroom says, "Catch the wave, Coooooooooooke!"
Where did those flags come from?
By Anon
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 9:49am
I've been to lots of parades 'round these parts, full of actual Massachusetts people, and regularly see those sellers with pushcarts alongside the parade route. Some have stuffed animals, others cartoon balloons...
and some sell flags, too.
But I've never seen one selling Don't Tread on Me flags.
Where did those flag sellers come from? Were they brought along the route (from Nevada) by the organizers of the event? Or will we now see these flag sellers at the St. Paddy's parade in Southie?