James Wolcott: Beclowned
Watch this. Liberal toady James Wolcott argues that since he didn’t see big Tea Party crowds on his favorite left-wing tv stations and didn’t read front-page stories about the protests in his favorite left-wing newspapers, they weren’t newsworthy and no one really turned out except at the ones Fox News covered. C-SPAN host Susan Swain then displays front page after front page of local news coverage showing thousands of Tea Party participants:
“Does that change your view?”
Wolcott: Er, no.
A classic beclowning:
By the way, the unofficial estimate of yesterday’s nationwide turnout has now surpassed 240,000.
And here’s another estimate based on newspaper accounts: At least 250,000.
I’m continuing to update the mother of all Tea Party photo collections here.
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
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Keep this in your memory banks. The face of the Tea Party-bashing movement:
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Nearly a quarter million people, many of which got off work from their PAYING jobs, which supply the Fed with tax money, to protest, and in many cases, signing PETITIONS of grievances which will be sent to Washington.
A quarter million.
Nah, nothing happened.
Riiight.
His criteria for success: “This does not strike fear in anybody”.
So, the successful MoveOn.org that he mentions is successful because they strike fear in people? Nice goal.
Isn’t striking fear in people also a terrorist goal?
(No, I am not saying that MoveOn.org are terrorists. I’m just questioning the notion that he believes that making people afraid is a reasonable goal.)
Is it just me or does this guy look like Jabba the Hut? Get some sleep, My. Wolcott!
Mr. Toad is a contrarian fool. He is intellectually dishonest and just pushing the same anti-Conservative blather.
He and his ilk can dissemble all they wish.
Change IS coming.
Ha. Oh, I see. The protesters aren’t angry enough. (Towards the end of the video.)
You see, you must act like a raving Code Pinker in order for people to really believe you’re angry instead of just “miffed”.
What IS that? An Orc?!
Don’t tell me this isn’t a joke.
Maybe we are in Bizarro World after all?
This guy looks like an evil-alternate lookalike of Benjamin Franklin or something?
Frankly, I would rather look at the undercarriage of Inflated Scrotum Guy than Jim Woolcott’s hideous, puffy mug. Did his mother have a clandestine affair with Jabba the Hutt?
there is no reconciliation with these wacko libs..this country is becoming a fascist state
A quarter of a million people turned out to an event that had no big dollar sponsors, no large organization, just every day people who’re motivated to act.
I love my country(even more)today.
Next step is to keep the movement going. Otherwise Mr Wolcott may be vindicated. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Typical left wing response from Mr. Wolcott. No surprise here. Liberals cannot conceive of a true grassroots movement. We are small now, but we are growing.
He does have a point in there, though. At some point this movement IS going to need more organization and more specific goals. That is what makes the collectivists so successful. They organize and then attack smaller targets. We need to do the same. It is harder for us since we value our freedom and individuality. Kind of a “herding cats” problem. Plus, we work for a living either at a business or at home with the kids. (As an at-home-dad for a long time I can tell you raising your kids IS a full time job!)
We can expect a ton of derision and criticism from the left. Great! We can learn from it.
He needs to wash his hair.
C-Span covered the DC Tea Party speeches last night-no comment just a live feed. Laura Ingram did well, umbrellas everywhere.
James Wolcott: Beclowned or Jabba the Hutt? There will always be socialist/fascist scum such as Jabba the Hutt Wolcott so we keep an eye on them while J-No keeps an eye on we Right Wing Extremist. Perhaps we should have sympathy for Jabba the Hutt Wolcott: being than ugly HAS to hurt. But how could anyone that ugly be associated with the word
Vanity? It is beyond my hard little heart it is.
Think his mother abused him? She should.
The movement needs to explode in time for next year’s mid-term elections…also the year that the Bush tax cuts expire.
I smell a tax revolution in the making.
BIG TIME
Thanks Michelle – That’s a face I could have lived the rest of my life without seeing.
The Left and MSM continue to deny these grass roots efforts are out there. We MUST organize and be ready for the 2010 election! Get on board and get your friends on board. Our country is at stake!
So ACORN, or Al Sharpton, et al, draws a “crowd” of 100 and the MSM characterizes it as a major news event.
A quarter million working Americans sacrifice a days pay to attend an event and the reaction of the MSM is … “eh – no interest there.”
There will be no convincing these morons, folks – they believe what they want to believe and what their dear Leaders tell them. Why waste our time on them.
Anyone considering a Day Without a Ticked Off Taxpayer? Probably not, since we’ve got bills to pay with our own money.
james wolcott, okay. who the hell is he and why does he have that look of constipation in his eyes?? he is simply another of the many nobody’s that pushes the left side of the moon bs.
poor thing. To deny that our momentum is growing is how these liberals are admitting they are afraid of us.
He’s right. This cannot be the end. We must continue this fight, and we cannot allow it to be defined by the ugly leftists such as the esteemed Mr. Wolcott. This is real, it’s sincere, and it’s as American as it gets.
There wasn’t either real organization? OK liberals – get your talking points down. Either we were well-financed astroturf or we didn’t have real organization.
How can both sides of that coin be bad???
It’s that the idea must not ever be allowed to flourish. The mere idea that there are people who are dissatisfied with Washington is dangerous. If the idea ever is allowed to germinate, more and more people will begin to wonder if there is some value in questioning Washington. And Washington, and its toadies the MSM, must squash that possibility at every turn.
It truly is a propaganda war, and the stakes are individual freedom.
We must never weaken.
FIRE JANET NAPOLITANO
July 4th, here we come
Since when has Jabba the Hutt been a liberal?
Up to now, Mr. Wolcott has skated by on his good looks. Now he will have to earn his money.
Let’s use FilmLadd’s suggestion and have the next rally in front of Vanity Fair’s offices.
We didn’t spend big PAC money to organize in 2 or 3 “important” cities, so somehow we aren’t as successful as the “real” protest rallies.
Oh well, it’s Vanity Fair. It’s not like we expect much logic from them anyway.
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And this person’s opinion is important why? (Although I must admit that it’s always fun to see a liberal smacked around by the facts!)
the weak hate it when the strong don’t submit. liberals live to give up, and are always critical of those who question their favorite position, submission.
I had to look up Mr. Wolcott on the intertubes. He’s a journalist. That explains his lack of curiosity.
The MSM only respects protesters who block things, break things or blow things up.
BTW that guy wasn’t James Wolcott, I’m pretty sure he was Andy from Little Britain. That scamp, out of his wheelchair again.
As mentioned by a couple of folks above, we have to keep the movement going. Or this guy is going to go down in history as a prophet rather than the far left idiot that he is.
I guess the next round is the Independence Day parties. Which is a Saturday, so most of us won’t need to take time off to attend. I’ll be in
Cheyenne. But I’m thinking instead of a bunch of little ones, we need one giant one at the Washington Mall. Preferabley sometime when Congress isn’t on vacation. I know, try to find a time that Conservatives have the day off and Congress is in session.
Tough to do since, unlike the Acorn crowd, we have jobs to consider. Not much chance of us rounding up a bunch of conservatives willing to spend the day holding a sign for $10.
Toady. Ha ha ha!! He looks like a big toad.
A big toad with a little whiny voice.
He doesn’t think they had any impact and that they were so unimportant because the liberal media papers didn’t cover it?
So, if the papers and the lap dog media don’t cover it, it didn’t happen.
Hmmmmm….Politburo anyone?
Self-imposed blindness, deafness, and brainless. Denial, denial, denial of reality and the GROWING movement by the people not the political parties.
Marxism has a face and it ain’t pretty.
the toad says, paraphrasing, ” ..there was no organization…” well, da, no stuffins? It was well known they were grass root demonstrations. Without the financial help of groups like Acorn and LaRaza as the moons bats have.
Just another left wing dolt, afraid of what he saw.
Who reads ‘Vanity Fair’?
Hey, when a quarter million people show up in DC each January to protest the horrors of abortion, it’s no big deal either.
Sheezus, Dude. Go get a vitamin b shot, stat.
Must be all that organic tofu grown with restaurant waist products.
Or all the sushi oil waste bio-fuel fumes from his Saab.
The picture of health. He looks like he coulda been in the English Parliament circa 1774
As I have said before, I can forgive stupidity and even ignorance, but never willful ignorance. It’s an attribute that is OK for people who live under bridges but not for people in positions of power and influence.
Hutts
Has Walsnott been embalmed?
He looks like Young Frankenstien.
What a jerk. Because the people being interviewed didn’t act like some sort of raving lunatic he doesn’t think their anger is real. They are just “miffed”.
Ron White is right, you can’t fix stupid.
I hope the American people stay involved, stay connected and keep pressuring their elected officials. I hope that when the next election rolls around in your area you send a clear message and vote out incumbents. Maybe then some of these smug, self righteous liberals will realize that the headache they are suffering from is the result of being hit upside with the clue bat.
What will be fun then is to watch the media do their own self introspection and flog themselves over how they didn’t see this coming and how could they have missed it. What and where were the warning signs.
Stay involved America, stay in control but stay angry.
Are we sure this guy’s first name isn’t “Baghdad”?
Typical reaction from that side! The Left and MSM continue to downplay or outright ignore our grass roots effort. We must be ready for the 2010 election! Organize, get your friends on board, make a noise and be ready to start to take our country back!
Is he ill he doesn’t look good. That is an unsettling picture.
I am reminded of Ben Franklin without the spectacles.
Except Fox News probably experienced a ratings spike on top of high over all ratings and the newspapers this guy reads well they are all going under. So he might check and see if they went out of business. If a Newspaper fails, and no one reads it in the first place, does it matter?
Boyle looked MUCH better.
On April 16th, 2009 at 12:44 pm, John Deaux said:
Television stations should be first on the list, mornings and noons, then hit the insignificant newspapers, magazines and “journals” in the late afternoons and evenings.
For you guys in New York, that means Rockefeller Center in the morning (or hopping over to Jersey to smack around MSNBC), then hit Times Square and other spots in the afternoon…
Somebody start getting the permits. July 4th is probably already crowded with other permit stuff going on…
Their address:
Vanity Fair Magazine
4 Times Square 17th Floor
New York, NY 10036
I have much more confidence in conservative chances after seeing and hearing this fool!
2000 or so in Charlottesville, VA.
We need to focus on local elections, City and county governments and local school boards. This needs to be a sea change, not a one shot deal.
I hope our local people were watching. The stimulus was being touted like the some bag of gold had been handed to us. No mention that that gold has a cost and it hasn’t been paid for yet.
Keep getting the word out. This is just the beginning. Let’s take our country back. The 2010 elections will be here before we know it. We have to be ready.
So let me get this straight, yesterday’s events were just a bunch of people protesting higher taxes. And because of the mess the economy is in, the ONLY way out of it is to increase taxes.
Yo, Bonehead, Cut spending. Shrink government. Stop rewarding failures, individual and corporate.
Typical liberal economics. Jeez Louise.
“There was no rage, these people were just miffed”.
I guess mature adults who can express their disapproval without losing control of their emotions are to be dismissed.
The only protestors worthy of Mr Wolcott’s attention are those that throw toddler like tantrums, hurt people and break things.(Like that window at UNC)
Along these lines, yesterday I Googled “tea parties” to see if there was any coverage that would indicate how many people were turning out. Ranking 3rd was this article by the Vancouver Sun. Now keep in mind this was ranking 3rd in the middle of the day, way too early to declare that the turnout was “tepid.” I went to leave a comment decrying news reporting that was devoid of any real facts to support the story’s title, but my comment wouldn’t post, and then I noticed they disabled comments to the article completely (and the comments function is still disabled, nor are you able to read the comments that had made it through by the time I tried to comment…7 comments when it was disabled).
Besides the CNN clownery, in my mind this article ranked next to highest in illustrating a liberal bias in the MSM. The Sun should be ashamed…although that begs the question, can a liberal actually feel shame?
Hopefully it will kick in when they all end up in the unemployment line, or when they have to file for bankruptcy, which clearly cannot come soon enough.
Ok, if they aren’t screaming, raging, burning cars, pelting the police, and storming the politburo, they aren’t effective? Well, I guess that would be correct if you’re a libtard socialist. However, if you’re smart, informed, educated on policy, work hard, pay taxes, believe in God, love America and ain’t afraid to say so, support our military, want to defend our borders, and defeat terrorism….. you MUST be one of the “few”, one of the “proud”, one of the tea party attendees… Let’s get this “party” started!
Yep, it is clear the only view that matters to him is his own. I have to force myself to not use a Jabba the Hut referance…… it would be insulting to all slug creatures in the universe. I will just leave the greasy haired, simpering, Nancy-Boy alone
Redpeach –
Re: Vancouver Sun — Obama’s popularity “rising”??? LOL.
Contrary to their assertions, they must be really afraid because they are working so hard to dismiss and demonize this.
The local protest here in Monterey, CA was fairly covered on the early news by NBC affiliate KSBW. Some of my family members were still at the protest when the early news aired, so they stayed up to watch the coverage on the late news.
Gone. They didn’t replay the video shot or mention the teaparties.
Also, the report that was filed has been scrubbed from the KSBW website.
Poof! Vanished!
And then I wake up this morning and click on the link that advises of a high level meeting at CNBC with Immelt worrying that coverage is “too-anti-Obama”.
I’m fed up. The MSM deserve to die.
the 200 anarchists in london at the g20 summit was covered because a bunch of wankers broke windows and trashed the city. but hundreds of thousands of adults raising their voices to protest governmental actions is dissed. i wonder if they would cover that same 500 people at 500 events around the country if they broke windows, firebombed cars, thrown rocks at the police, and generally acted like the oh so important left. this is the same reason the left cowtows to muslims, and totally disses christians. muslims commit violence, christians don’t. there probably is a lesson here, but i don’t want to learn it.
Criminy.
Although I suppose Immelt knows what’s in store for him and has revved up the butt-kissing as much as possible (didn’t realize that was possible) in order to be first in line when he inevitably needs to be bailed out.
The doofus looks like a Bizarro Dr. Michael Savage.
One of the problems with voting out the incumbent is that:
1. If he/she is a Republican, you will get a Democrat that will probably be far worse.
2. If he/she/it is a Democrat, you will probably get a Republican that still doesn’t get it.
The real question is how do we find candidates with a real chance of winning that are not Democrat or Republican.
3rd Party candidates historically have only caused the side they mostly concur with to lose therefore making their presence undesirable. See Ralph Nader and Ross Perot.
Can we have a 3rd party that won’t split the Republican party vote in half? Can we tear away enough Democratic votes that a 3rd party will split both the Republican and the Democrat party evenly?
There are many that want a 3rd party built around the abortion issue. That one issue is probably not enough to win an election. There are also many Democrats (mostly women) that would never vote for a pro life candidate because they want their choice to have an abortion preserved. They will however, vote for an anti tax candidate.
How do we co-opt the Republican candidate or create a 3rd party candidate that will stand for low taxes and less government while overcoming the Democratic opposition to pro life to get Democrats to cross over?
Maybe 4 parties.
Democrat- take from the rich and give to the poor, big government, pro abortion
Republican- pro-life, fair taxes, big government
Conservative- pro-life, low taxes, small government
Reservicrat- low taxes, small goverment, pro-choice
Who and how many would vote in each category?
He looks like he could “teabag” standing up.
The predictable media pattern is playing out exactly according to script:
1. Give the protests the “Cone of Silence” treatment;
2. If the protests *must* be covered, do so in a combative and dismissive fashion; and
3. Afterward, claim that things like “tepid turnouts” and a “lack of passion” and the fact that only the FNC treated the protests as a serious news event mean that the movement itself has been “discredited.”
This is largely the same playbook they used against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. And the only reason it didn’t work in the end was because the Swifties themselves managed to find a way around the media blockade.
The Tea Party protesters will need to do the same, but not just for an election cycle. This is a war for the soul of the country, and it’s going to be waged over decades against a determined, desperate and vicious opposition.
Yes that can and sometimes will happen. The primary first and then we shall see. But voting for the evil of two lessers has caused us to lose too much. If any are to remain Republican we have to clear out the RINOs.
I have been a registered Republican since my 21st birthday: can I stay, will I? I really am having my doubts. Above all else I hate cowards, weaklings and traitors. I can deal with an enemy-I won’t even try to deal with a traitor.
But what do I know? After all I am a veteran, Christian-pro life, gun owner Right Wing Extremist thank you
How you doing lgm?
I hope the next rally in Atlanta, whether it is a Fair Tax, Tea Party, or throw the bums out protest, is held in front of CNN, preferably their parking garage just before 5 PM when it is time for them to go home.
Maybe then we can get their attention.
I hope we are building a candidate base for the next elections. As the Sarah Palin attacks show, the Republican must be more versed in the issues than the standard Democrat who gets a media pass.
I am a pro-life right wing extremist that needs to get a gun to protect my rights against the likes of LGM.
Some people get beat with an ugly stick, but this guy got beat with the whole woods.
Why do I keep feeling that this fellow, Wolcott, wasn’t wearing pants for this interview?
Before becoming the culture editor for Vanity Fair, Wolcott sold Mother Jones door to door.
I’m curious as to what NUMBER of folks rallying would this jerk consider a “movement”?
To me, the Tea Parties getting ANY coverage at all made them successful. Those in America who thought they were alone now know that there are others of us out there! This is the beginning of an effort to hold all politicians accountable and to fire those who refuse to operate honestly and fairly.
Nuts like this will just keep fueling the Tea Party fire. Not only does the gov have to change, these left wing wackos need to crawl back under their rocks. None of them have any good ideas to advance the country.
Mr. Wolcott’s image is not suitable for family viewing…
I think for the next Tea Party, it’s time to put a face forward to lead — not necessarily rally behind — the movement. It’s time to drop any assertions that the Tea Parties weren’t mostly ideologically driven because the MSM and libs sure as hell have already pegged it so, so be damned and let’s call the reason and passion which fuels the Tea Party like it is! I’m not any hard-core Palin fan (F. Thompson, where ARE you??), but she does strike a chord with the frustrations and outrage that the MSM fears. I know she’s tired, but she’d be doing a service by acting as a “hostess of the movement” to start integrating all this emotion and drive into a force which could be aptly directly a later time.
James Greenidge
Queens, NY
YTZGal: No, they don’t deserve that.
I would also like to kindly request that we refrain from insubstantial attacks on his appearance, please.
He’s absolutely right about one thing…it isn’t going to change anything in DC. The elitist spenders inside the beltway and their mindless bureaucrats couldn’t give a rat’s hindquarters about what the people of this country think, as long as the sheep continue to play nicely with one another.
Funny that the ‘revolt’ is being commented upon by one so ‘revolting’.
Dang, this guy looks like he pulled a week long bender, soiled himself 3 days ago and has not cleaned up yet.
Ummm…
Is that Helen Thomas? It would explain a lot…
I for one would like to say that I find Mr. Wolcott to be a very attractive man.
—- Barney Frank
Was the protest small compared to most leftist hatefest protests? Yes. But it is only the beginning. And most of the Tea party protesters have actual JOBS to go to unlike the leftist trust fund babies with their ‘Che t-shirts’.
Another point this twit misses. Where is the rage he asks? Its there homeboy believe me. Conservatives just have better, more (Gasp) civilized ways of showing it. He is so used to leftist Brown Shirt tactics that anything short of mayhem seems to lack passion. Truly pathetic. So on the one hand Conservatives are listless people with no passion or we are dangerous terrorists to be watched by DHS. They cant even get their stereotypes straight.
And yet, if we had gotten violent, they would take it as proof positive that the DHS report IS talking about us and that we really are right-wing extremist wackos…
What they wouldn’t be saying is, “Gee, they’re really passionate about this… I guess they’re really mad.”
Sorry- we will not make insubstantial comments on his ugliness–the attacks will be quite substantial.
Jaba
Jaba
Jaba
We are in a cultural, economic and political war for our way of life, our children’s and grandchildren’s and for many of us our very life indeed. These people kill enemies when they get in power-the Ayres affect.
Jabba the Hutt Wolcott or any other slur will do. We call it hitting back.
Baby killer
fool
mercenary
Ho Ho Ho, Ho Che Mihn is going to win
All the old rules are out–I am in this to not only survive but to win. At the moment we have the political process. But I will NOT use the kind of language these Socialist/fascist used about Reagan and Bush ll. Besides Jabba the Hutt Wolcott is ugly.
Jaba
Jaba
Jaba
Barney “Chin Dimples” Frank, I expect, for one.
This “third party” idea is not going to pan out, folks. You can bet your last dollar that the Paulbots will make a run at this, as they tried to turn a few Tea Parties yesterday into “Ron Paul for President” shout-outs. Paul will never get the conservative base, as much as I agree with him on a few Constitutional issues, such as dumping the 16th and 17th amendments. Paul is a libertarian – not a conservative.
If Helen Thomas isn’t Wolcott in drag, then maybe they should get together… they sure are well matched.
As ugly as those two are, ugly like theirs comes mainly from inside. The outside of them just reflects what’s on the inside.
I disagree. Palin, admirable though she may be, was willing to subordinate herself to John McCain, and if you were making a list of those who personify the problems with Washington McCain would have to be near the top. That makes her a poor spokesperson for this movement.
*He is just part of what I call the Clown Cluster, and more and more people are coming to recognize it daily; It starts with P-BO and his inner circle, his entire Cabinet, the MSM, and for good measure, a sprinkling of RINO’s.
*Take your pick citizens of the USA, be a part of the Clown Cluster, or a member of the Tea Party Nation!
Talk about pork,it looks like he has eaten lots and lots of pig.I believe the numbers are wrong.I am convinced it was closer to half a million.