Event co-organizer Jerry Weingarten, a tea partier from Morristown, NJ, told TPM yesterday he expects the event to draw crowds of multicolored faces not generally seen at normal tea party events.

I wonder if they'll be armed. And then I wonder whose side they'll be on!

I wonder if they'll re-use some of the people Bob McDonnell rented for his response to the State of the Union?

You'll see one or two black/brown people but all it really is is a white trash meet up. These people sat around saying nothing for 8 fucking years while Bush & Co. ran this country into the ground. Fuck these people.

They probably paid people to be at the event.

i have no idea how our country could have regressed so fa. i swear, these peoples' goal is a new feudalistic society. back to a time when there was divine rights paced upon the rich and religion really was tool used by the powerful to usurp more power. welcome to the middle ages.

hahaha yeah diversity i think they mean "divisive". This must be the coloreds section rally as apposed to the whites only rally they like to promote.

Really hoping someone gets photographs of the crowd.

The co-organizer really said this, "I hope people will be surprised," Weingarten said. "From our point of view, if there was just one other than white face [in the crowd] it would be surprising.". Really, in the whole movement a sign of diversity is an event with 1 other than white face. That seems to be really setting the standards of diversity at a very low level don't you think?

Frankly I could care less if the tea party has or doesn't have diversity. From my personal perspective it has very little minority engagement. At a very basic level in my neck of the woods a bunch of the organizing takes place at church and to a lesser extent work. Regardless of their diversity or their organizing methods the tea party has no new ideas. I mean seriously what is their platform? I would agree that they all seem defined by their dislike of Obama and/or his policies but what are their policies? I think it is pretty clear that the platform Bush II ran on, hell even Reagan ran on to an extent was more spending for national defense, cutting social welfare programs, tax cuts (well in Reagan's case he actually had to raise taxes to get out of the early 80's economic downturn with Paul Volcker in the background) and support for loosening regulations and free trade(Glass-Steagel being the true cherry on top). I think it is pretty clear that those policies have failed and it is time for a new way forward, a pragmatic way forward. Current GOP leadership has no new platforms, their platforms are tax cuts and reduced government spending but no decrease in government spending for defense. Thus defense spending will continue to be more of a major influence on the overall nature of our government. I can not say that I am a constitutional expert but from what I remember their isn't a major influence in the constitution of defense policy/laws/ideas. Sure the national defense is discussed but from what I remember their is a bunch of stuff about personal liberty and the civic relationship between citizen and citizen-elected government. So again I ask why is the tea party relevant when it's influence only extends to those politicians who back failed policies, failed policies still being felt in our country right now (two wars, loose and many outdated regulations in our marketplace, increased government oversight of the public). Those policies don't speak to the constitution I grew up and they don't speak to the freedom I was brought up to believe in.

Anything featuring Andrew Breitbart is BS - Breitbart suspect.
He has zero credibility and pledges to do what it takes to discredit his targets.
He has been proven - twice - to have published fabricated "evidence" which was false.

Why is he still featured?
This event is a sham.

Maybe he can get the Black Panther Party to do security.

Brietbart will bring a video crew, and by creative filming, the final video will show about 500,000 people, 35% white, 30% black, 28% hispanic, 7% Asian.

I'm sorry, but it's beyond my comprehension. How dumb do you have to be to plan an event to highlight your group's diversity and then invite a race-baiting, Acorn-destroying, NAACP-trash-talking, Shirley-Sherrod-libeling bigot to be one of the main speakers?

You can't make this stuff up!

"Look! Look! A (beep) showed up! See, we ain't racist at all! But businesses should be able to throw out (beep)s if'n they feel like! (Lukey, soon as the cameras are off us, git that (beep) outta my sight!)"

Iced tea, please. Unsweetened.