Tea Partiers' Next Target: American Business?

Tea Baggers expressing freedom and their independence by letting Newt Gingrich, Grover Norquist and the "Club for Growth" organize them into a day of protest with pre-printed talking points.

An excellent chance for the Tea Party "movement" to show how ineffective and insignificant they really are.

So either they are corporate tools of the Far Right or they are "community organizers," the type derided by Sister Sarah in her RNC acceptance speech.

They can protest MSNBC by turning off their G.E. light bulbs and sitting in the dark.

"Hell no, we won't glow!"

I've seen plenty of stupid protesters from one end of the political spectrum to the other, but these folks stand alone in their utter incoherence.

Man, when they realize who the principal organizers of boycotts are, it'll be like an outtake from Scanners...

Gee, for a guy who claims to have worked in advertising, Hardage sure is ignorant. Advertising on TV -- especially on cable TV -- isn't about the number of viewers, it's about targeting certain audiences. And, no, it's not about "sending a message" about the politics of a network (MSNBC, with four hours a day of wingnut Joe S certainly has trouble being portrayed as "socialist")

If we use web site traffic demographics as an indicator of viewer demographics, we can see that advertisers aren't favoring large numbers or certain political persuasions, they're favoring MONEY!

55% of those visiting Fox.com earn less than $60,000 a year.

59% of those visiting CNN.com and MSNBC.com earn MORE than $60,000 a year (30% earn more than $100K at both sites)

Now, if I want to advertise to sell a product, shall I advertise to people who have lots of money, or people who don't have very much money? Hmmm....

Because nothing says "Socialist" like "Capitalist Tool".

The stupid - it burns!

I like the idea. Take a day off to strike against your employer. I wonder if any of them would have the sense to go down to the unemployment office and file for that big fat unemployment check from the government after they tell thier bosses why they are on strike! I have a picture of roving bands of redneck ditto heads just waiting to get railed up by any body against any cause because they are too chicken shit to admit the real reason for all thier anger - flipping racist.

Still, I've been expecting this ever since Air America went on the air and some radio stations were openly liberal, and I've been expecting it at any moment since MSNBC started carrying open liberals. I'll admit it worries me because I've long heard that advertisers are squeamish about having their ads run in liberal media in a way they just aren't with conservative media, suggesting liberal media is much more vulnerable to boycotts of advertisers than conservatives. I especially figured the boycott of Glenn Beck was going to have blowback.

My guess, or maybe it's a hope, is that people on the left will be willing to support our media by making a point of letting advertisers know we responded to their ads and opening up our wallets to donate directly. Otherwise we'll never beat the boycotts.

Tim Rutten, writing in the LA Times, has some interesting data, too:

"So, is the lesson here that most Americans want their news refracted through the sort of forthrightly ideological lens both Fox and MSNBC now provide? No, and here's why. First of all, the universe of cable news viewers, while growing, remains relatively small. Fox's average prime-time audience increased an impressive 10% in 2009, but it still was just 699,000. MSNBC averaged 307,000 viewers and CNN 299,000. (A reasonably sized U.S. newspaper rolls up comparable numbers.) Moreover, over any given 24-hour period in 2009, the average Fox audience was 320,000; CNN had 185,000 viewers and MSNBC 149,000.

"What these numbers suggest is that the cable networks attract a relatively small national audience of what might be called "news junkies," who follow events throughout the day and are more likely to be strongly partisan than other Americans. By the time evening rolls around, they're hungry for analysis rather than recycled reportage, and like most Americans today, they prefer interpretation that reinforces their own opinions. The significance of this preference tends to be exaggerated because news junkies include most of the people who write about the media."

What tools. Not to mention fools, dupes and stooges.

So the "teabaggers" are going to expose "socialist-supporting companies" and bring them to their economic knees?

This is one of the stupidest things I have ever read. Obviously the word oxymoron is not in the typical "teabagger" vocabulary. And your typical teabagger obviously has never heard of Open Secrets.org. Of course that would require Internet literacy.

But what this little teabagger temper tantrum illustrates is how the reactionary right as successfully turned a small segment of American society against its own best self interests.

Somebody spiked the eggnog. Or the eggnog chai.

The Tea Party Patriots group is planning a "National Day of Strike" for Jan. 20

Well, of they're going to go on strike, then they need a strike song. How about:

There once was a teabaggin' maid, who always was afraid
Of brown-skinned folks and ACORN votes and death panels on parade.
She went to the National Mall, when a rally it was called
But when a city kid came too near,
She just about peed from fear.

Someone else will have to take it from there.

Beck is now reduced to advertising that Goldline junk after all of the top tier advertisers left. How is that nothing to show for? The stupid conservative guy is right about one thing though...this will be anohter epic fail just like the teabagger hate ins. These people will continue to marginalize themselves further and further away from reality. Besides, many of the companies they want to go after are in New York City and these rubes are not going to sway them with their antics.

It will be interesting if these guys are able to organize an effective strike. What if they realize the power available to an organized group. Maybe they'll organize in their workplace next and negotiate for better benefits and working conditions. Maybe they will want to form ... you know, unions.

These first five post's truly display why America can not afford to ever allow the American Taliban Conservatives back in power. The level of uncontrolled hate and ignorance displayed speaks volumes.
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It takes a deliciously stupid person to not understand the phenomenal irony that is boycotting private corporations that are supposedly helping to support the dissemination of a political agenda that serves to hurt the whole notion of free private enterprise.

Give them enough rope...

If these morons boycott Co.s that advertise on MSANBC they'll have to go without their Cialis!

Kunt Reckless lost in a big way today. Grand new party on the ropes.

These teatards just get crazier and crazier. Socialism is root in corporate america? What it demonstrates is that these buffoons don't have a clue what socialism actual is for that matter they don't really know what fascism or communism are either. If there really are enough of these morons to change the direction of America see ya in Denmark

It does have to do with George W Bush's dead sister. Died from leukimia around 5 years of age. You don't feel bad at all about them. George HW Bush's daugther. Barbara also went to the ER recently. Dick Cheney's enlarged heart, ER visits, sitting on a wheelchair election day. Nice camacade.

"On Jan. 20, Hardage is calling on tea partiers to "expose" the socialist-supporting companies."

I read this from above and rolled onto the ground. Anytime one can find tea-baggers and the word "expose" in the same sentence, it creates great fodder for us juveniles.

I believe we should expose the companies that back the right wing agenda that are supporting the tea-baggers by funding national events along with giving the supposed tea baggies talking points to be used at these "staged" events.