Tea Party Activist Assault Speaker At Texans' Day Of Outrage Rally In Houston, TX

He may well have been after the fact. Hard to tell. Remember, this is Texas. Tea Party country - Yeehaw! It still begs the question, why didn't the police intervene before he got to the stage?

Doesn't matter on this board maasanova. It could have been some union thugs or just those who don't like the Tea Party and are trying to give them a bad name which actually sounds more like what happened. If it was a Tea Party member perhaps he got tired of being the victim and decided it was time to give back. The haters on the left have been goading and assaulting for a long time. It's time to show them some love.

You are such a sad individual. The Tea Party is not even relevant enough to impersonate. The right-wing can show no love, but if this is how it's done, no thanks.

He could have been anyone, even just some random crazy off the street who wondered into the demonstration.

This is the silliest post. Yeah, some old, crazy with a camera pushing his way on stage to assault a speaker he doesn't even know. He came with the TP group.

Well I'm into facts, and I'm merely questioning the jounalistic integrity of this video and what it purports to be.

How do you know he was from the Tea Party? Is he holding a Tea Party sign? Where is the rest of the Tea Party group in the video? I just "googled Tea Party Houston" and came up with dozens of different groups. Which one was he a part of?

Can you offer any evidence at all to suggest that he is a Tea Party member?

Still doesn't say anything about the guy being in the Tea Party. In fact, this report calls the guy a "spectator" which to me means "non-participant of the event." But the title of the video still labels the guy as a Tea Party member, yet offers no evidence.

Go watch the video your damned self. Just the facts.

Excellent point!

How did you manage to make this about race? There's enough real episodes of racism that it only hurts the cause by trying to correlate what happened to racism.
As far as "it was all good", that's bullshit. It may have been "all good" for some, but those ranks are shrinking and to distract from the real issue it only serves to divide; which may have been the intention of this comment.

Thanks for posting this! It's a classic and still relevant. This movie, "Network", could've been made yesterday. +^d!

no, really, their time has come, they just didn't pay attention to what happened in france. it's a matter of time. i dont advocate violence, but there will be violence. the top 10% has forgotten statistics.

You are absolutely right.

Precisely. The wingnut agenda completely falls apart if you get angry because now you're aware of the assault on everything that is decent... and you might not take it anymore.

the top 10% are above reproach .
Because: we do become what we hate therefore the more we hate we feel justified
"Fear " We fear losing so we act like an losers.we start our revenge before we begin to battle. the enemy wrote the book winning the war "Know thy enemy" all leaders speak of this. fear is taught to control and blind others ( if you want fear try cancer),,,,
Know thyself and know the station of your appointment use the tools and talents to benefit those less fortunate embolden with good works

Excellent post and so true.

The have lost control of the message and the house of reps.

That's right.

I hope our Nation will survive too. And begin to heal.

That's the thing about the right wing, you could honestly be fascist dictator who follows Stalin's philosophy on Communism and get undying support so long as you call yourself a Republican.

typical Karl Rove teachings for cooperate take over.

The Brown Shirts are the new true believers that were recruited from the "Tea Party". Just as in the Nazi era they are the thug enforcers. What's that they say about history repeating its' self?

The corporations and the very rich have commandeered the Tea Party and they are setting the rules. The poor dummies who are still following them are marching to the corporate ideology.

The corporations and the very rich created the "Tea Party". The really scary part is that there are enough working people out there that bought into the lies and unadulterated bullshit to begin with.

commandeered? they started it from the git-go!

The Tea Party Republicans and The Blue Dog Democrats. Check and see who their campaign contributors are.

gotta disagree with you there man, i've yet to meet a rational tea party individual.

I'm with Nephwrack on this. I have not met a single decent tea partier. The ones that show up at protests are dumber than a box of rocks and meaner than snakes. I have actually tried to talk to them on occasion and found them to be allergic to logic.

Had a buddy in Southern Oregon walk past a group of tea partiers who were protesting Obama during the 2008 election. He was across the street and yelled, "GO OBAMA!" to the tea partiers. They stopped waving their signs and chanting their chants and stalked him over three blocks to his car.

Every side has there nut jobs, I try to my best not to group liberals in the same group. But unfortunately i dont get the same respect.

My favorite type of liberals are the jon stewart liberals. The bill maher liberals are the ones i dont like.

tea partier's use the Kari Rove manifesto

That would be Jon Stewart.

Yeah, my bad. I stayed up pretty late last night

Isn't that the truth. The only thing they do is repeat the BS they've
been fed and if you ask them for additional info to back up why
they get that deer in the headlights look and are totally clueless.

+^d

Perhaps we should call them Gray Shirts.

and a rib, so that it will be hard to breath

sounds like the unionists and the teachers are acting like the Jews in Germany while the brown shirts were attacking. The Jews now know that to be passive when under attack can lead to dire circumstances. I suspect that we are going to see some terrible things in the future and we should learn from history.

I suppose there is no way to check out another possibility: that the guy with the bull horn is on the Koch Bros payroll, sent there to do specifically what he *tried* to do which is incite violence.

are you piggy backing my comment, or playing devil's advocate? or are you genuinely asking whether there's a chance it wasn't a tea party person?

because the koch guy would be on the side of the tea party- so i doubt it was mere trouble making.

interesting that you say that because for last few years I've been thinking that Democrats/liberals are becoming like the Jews of Nazi Germany with all the hate rhetoric the right has been spewing about them while they tend to make concessions all the time. Notice how many democrats will be quick to be apologetic in saying things like "I don't think Obama is God or anything like that....." before stating their opinion whereas you'd almost never hear that from a Republican about Bush or a Tea Partier about Palin.

It's like we have to act less than who we are like we should be ashamed of it while they make no bones about who they are and who they support.

If someone is on the Koch Bros payroll, they are a Tea Party member by proxy, at the very least. Some Tea Party members may not be on the Koch Bros payroll, but simply bamboozled by Fox "News" or Americans For Prosperity or Republican grandstanding or some other radical right wing propaganda. The dots have been publicly connected by different news organizations, so we know the Tea Party and Americans For Prosperity are just Koch Bros' operations.

We know for a fact, since Mr Walker's (Wisconsin governor) phone conversation with who he thought was a Koch Bro, and from numerous other times in history, that planting people in crowds to incite violence is standard operating procedure for Republicans.

Why do they want to plant people in crowds to cause violence?

To change the news story which gets delivered to the public.

The news story becomes, not about what the protesters are protesting, the news story becomes the violence. The violence becomes associated with the protesters, not with - or about - who instigated the violence or why. So the violence becomes associated with the protesters and the protesters' cause, even though falsely,

We see that with Fox "News" feeble and dishonest attempts to turn what is happening in Wisconsin, and elsewhere, into stories about violence. The violence is *not* happening without radical right wing intervention, so they *try* and massage the story enough to make it look as if it is. And if they can goad other media outlets into running stories about the violence (instead of the protesters' cause[s]), they have successfully silenced the protesters' voices.

I was simply wondering out loud if there was a way to discover if the thug with the bull horn and camera was on the Koch Bros payroll. Maybe he is, or maybe he is not. Either way, he is a Tea Party person, by his own declaration. And the only way I am aware of to successfully fight that beast, is with truth.

just like the tea partiers were allowed to distract and yell at events during the healthcare year, but a couple weeks ago any voicing of displeasure with the union shit led to meetings and town halls being ended abruptly.

it's a fucking shame that such cowards get to have such a prominent role in our political processes and sometimes government-- it's an embarrassment.

I found it disrespectful when the tea party was allowed to disrupt the town hall meeting about health care. There were people interested in hearing about health care and how it would benifit them. They were an embarrassment to our country, and got away with it. Now many of the tea party are in congress. Bad mistake electing these assholes. Nothing will get done. Look at what the gov. of our states have done. All politics,, not for the people.

agreed,yoou have a valid point there sir

That would be correct.

yep The world is flat and square. Women and money is the root to all evil.
Education is against the American way.

EXACTLY! Exactly on both issues. Corporate right will spend enough money to make sure every large pro public gathering is harassed.

agree

exactly.

Just one of many.