4/15 Oklahoma City Tea Party — Not sure who sent to me, but I have an idea . . .

[Update: Michelle Malkin has pics from Tea Parties everywhere!]

The CNN reporter in the above video breaks off the report by saying “This is not family viewing.” Whaaaaa??? An Ace commenter . . . comments on that statement.

“This is obviously not family viewing”?! WHAT THE F__K? Seriously? Seriously? But it’s okay to take your little ones to an anti-Israel/anti-Jewish protest with signs that have swastikas and sayings like, “Kill all the Jews.” Really? Holy shit, what world do I live in? I don’t remember following the white rabbit down the rabbit hole.

Tea Party Protests on Tax Day — What’s it really all about, Alfi? Maybe, it’s all about this:

Oh yeah, baby. Those are some big numbers — Big. Negative. Numbers. Betcha that you’re wonderin’ just who will be paying for all that deficit spending. Look in the mirror, and in your children’s faces, and their children’s. But, if you be a big tax & spend Liberal you say, “we can just tax the rich SOBs that have raped and pillaged the U.S. economy since Reagan — let them pay for it!” Cute — if only it were that simple. Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey is looking at these numbers:

Perhaps the Gallup poll does reflect the future after all. If 48% believe that their taxes are just right, it might be because that’s the exact same percentage that will pay zero in the near future, according to Barack Obama’s tax policies. With Obama’s emphasis on refundables, 48.7% of Americans will wind up paying no income tax at all. For them, zero is the right amount, and they have no reason to be unhappy … yet.

Unfortunately, in a short period of time, even those people will have to start paying taxes, and not in small amounts:

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At some point, we have to start paying these bills, and when we do, it will hammer the middle class.

That’s what drives the Tea Parties — not taxes today, but all of the spending that will eventually require crushing taxes to resolve. The Obama administration plans a spending spree unlike anything outside of world wars in our history, and wants to sell a fantasy that only the rich have to pay for it. It’s ridiculous on its face. The amounts are staggeringly high, and even 100% confiscation wouldn’t begin to cover it.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds takes a look at this day of grass-roots-planned protest and sees a similar meme: Tax Day Becomes Protest Day

Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies — dubbed “tea parties” — to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org.

So who’s behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize.

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Likewise, I spoke to an organizer for the Knoxville tea party who said that no “professional politicians” were going to be allowed to speak, and he made a big point of saying that the protest wasn’t an anti-Obama protest, it was an anti-establishment protest. I’ve heard similar things from tea-party organizers in other cities, too. Though critics will probably try to write the tea parties off as partisan publicity stunts, they’re really a post-partisan expression of outrage.

There are some media outlets, take the LA Times for instance, that push the idea that these Tea Party Protests are part of the Great Right Wing Conspiracy — like this Marc Cooper Opinion piece in today’s edition: Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity

The Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monica to South Carolina. But no need to burn up your bandwidth reading complicated instructions. Here’s a simpler recipe:

Go to a hobby store. Buy a scale model of a U.N. One-World-Government Black Helicopter and a tube of glue. Toss the model kit. Sniff the entire tube of glue. You’re all set for the party.

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Then again, this rash of tea parties is being organized not only by the pseudo-journalists at Fox News (with Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto and Sean Hannity actively stoking the flames) but also by FreedomWorks, a conservative lobbying outfit headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey.

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The Tea Party movement, more than anything else, is a rather garish display of a Republican right that seems to have lost not only the national elections but also any semblance of political bearings.

“Who’s Marc Cooper?” you ask — He’s the director of Annenberg Digital News at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC. Be careful where you send little Johnnie or little Jennie to school. Oh, I forgot — we’re all glue-sniffin’ right-wing extremists so it don’t matter where we send our spawn for their “higher” schoolin’.

But, maybe you haven’t heard of these Tea Parties yet. Unless you read the blogs, listen to AM Talk Radio or watch Fox News — how could you have? As Howard Kurtz reports:

The New York Times has run zero stories (the only mention was Times columnist Paul Krugman taking a brief swipe at the parties.) The Washington Post has done zip until today, with a story on two planned D.C. parties on Page B-4. The Chicago Tribune ran a 300-word story and an item on postal workers mistaking tea for a hazardous substance. The Los Angeles Times did a 500-word piece on a small protest in Hermosa Beach and has a media piece today. The Boston Globe, published in the city famed for the original tea party: nothing. CNN ran its first news story on the protests Monday (followed by a piece by me on the coverage). MSNBC’s coverage had consisted of Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox mocking the “teabagging” until Chris Matthews held a more serious debate Monday.

To help these Johnnie-Come-Too-Late MSMers get their facts straight, Michelle Malkin gives them a primer on how all this Tea Party stuff started, and then snowballed!

At Pajamas Media Jeff Emanuel explains who these Tea Party Goers are:

In 2009, when discretionary budget totals and annual deficit projections in the trillions of dollars are being bandied by an administration that speaks as though wasting that amount of money were a commonplace undertaking, those ruggedly individualistic, fiscally responsible Americans who have quietly suffered the effects of the government expansion and waste imposed by Presidents Franklin Roosevelt (New Deal) and Lyndon Johnson (Great Society), and who have witnessed the sullying of Ronald Reagan’s economic reputation, have decided to suffer in silence no more.

You can get PM’s live coverage of the nearly 1,000 Tea Party Protests here.

There’s one at the Santa Monica Pier starting at 3:00 PM today. I’ll try to make it for at least a few pics — might not be possible. (The wife’s a tax accountant with her own agency — this is the biggest day of the year for us and the end of a looooooong, exhausting slog for her.) If not, then I’ll look for images on the net and post links to those.

Oh, and best not to forget this charmin’ little fella:

Dun dun dun Dun Dun!

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