Michelle Malkin » “Tea Klanner:” The Left’s shameless new smear

“Tea Klanner:” The Left’s shameless new smear

By Michelle Malkin • April 15, 2010 03:50 PM

Tired of the old, sexual vulgarity “Tea Bagger” popularized by the likes of CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Matt Taibbi, the Left has concocted a new epithet for the Tea Party movement:

The “Tea Klanners” or “Tea Klan.”

The meme has been spreading on Twitter and left-wing blogs. Now, it has surfaced among Alinsky’s avenging angels at the Denver Tea Party (via Peoples Press Collective):

The captions read: “New shape, same hate” and “Tea Klanners.”

No, they have no shame. And they have no clue. Even as they scream ever louder about the bigotry of the Tea Party activists, the wide movement of anti-bailout, anti-cramdown activists continues to attract a truly diverse mass of people. Take, for example, one of the attendees spotlighted in Examiner editor J.P. Freire’s post on some rather, er, eclectic D.C. Tea Party protesters. Just go read it through until the end.

I’d like to see the “Tea Klanner” smear merchants wave teabags in that guy’s face…

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#101

On April 17th, 2010 at 10:32 pm, Misscheryl said:

ZigZag, you are, if nothing else, predictable..

Pound Sand!
#102

On April 18th, 2010 at 9:15 pm, corkie said:

maybe you should ask questions, instead of making unsubstantiated assertions, assigning motives to others, and speculating.

Maybe she should, but she didn’t.

And I think she has you figured out.

Btw, if you asked an intelligent question once in a while then people would take the time to answer.
#103

On April 19th, 2010 at 9:38 am, dcbprime said:

Wasn’t ridicule around prior to Alinsky?

If yes, then the use of ridicule itself is not “an Alinsky tactic” any more than, you know, using lungs to breathe air because Alinsky used lungs to breathe air.

zyzzyg, I think your question sounds too much like baiting. I know that’s why I had avoided offering an answer.

From what I’ve seen, Alinsky’s tactics are not exactly original when taken separately. (For instance, Gideon, it could be said, used rule number one.)

So, I’m really not sure what you hope to gain by your baited query.