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So I was watching Glee the other day (yes I watch Glee, okay?!), and man has that show jumped the shark. It’s frustrating, because Glee went down in flames the way a lot of good shows do: it got too busy constructing a leftist fantasyland to tell a decent story. It’s another victim of what I like to call “liberal backslide.”Bear with me here for a second. I realize Glee was never an elegant allegory of fiscal conservatism. And no one could claim that it ever had an ironclad grip on reality. The show takes place in an underfunded Ohio...

A Long Island federal jury rewarded Nancy Genovese, 58, a mother of three, $1.12 million in compensatory damages after being arrested in 2009 for attempting to photograph a helicopter at a Air National Guard base in the Hamptons. Genovese intended to use the photo on a “Support the Troops” website; she was arrested for trespass and insulted as a "Teabagger." From The New York Post: Southhampton cops searched her and found a legally owned rifle that she was transporting from a nearby rifle range. She contends a deputy sheriff arrived on the scene later and said to her, “I bet...

Im part of 1% like Mitt! Thank GOD WE DONT Share same Bubble id kill myself after 1 verse of America the Beautiful! don't care what u think! Cher has made it abundantly clear that she doesn’t even want to breathe the same Mormon-cootie air as “spineless racist” Mitt Romney and his “racist homophobic women hating tea bagger masters.” A dream about Romney winning the election once brought her to tears...

I was on Sean Hannity's show the other night, and the question was whether Obama's statement denying his divisiveness is defensible. It's not. Obama said, "I don't think you or anybody who's been watching the campaign would say that in any way we have tried to divide the country. We've always tried to bring the country together." If this weren't such a serious subject, his statement would be laughable. Let's just say it's ludicrous -- and disingenuous. A Gallup poll showed that at the end of Obama's second year in office, 81 percent of Democrats approved, while 13 percent of...

Commentary: 2010 elections guarantee gridlock, anti-capitalist class warARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- “What’s distinctive about the Tea Party is its anarchist streak -- its antagonism toward any authority, its belligerent self-expression, and its lack of any coherent program or alternative to the policies it condemns,” warns Jacob Weisberg in Newsweek. But why not three cheers for the Tea Party Express? Admit it, something historic is brewing. And yes, it’s good for America, even the anarchy. Revolution is renewal. Tea-baggers want to take on both parties, “restore honor” and “take back the country.” Bring it on, the feeling’s mutual. OK, maybe...

Not a surprise, but I’m not going to lie to you. This one hurts. What’s happened to the world where Leia is on the side of the Empire, my friends? "Is there anyone you haven’t met that you’ve always wanted to? Obama. I’m surprised you haven’t met him. I know. I love him. Hopefully I’ll meet him sometime. I’m just happy he exists. Do you think Tea Party is just people who are pissed that there is an African American president? Yup, and the fact that they chose to call themselves “teabaggers,” which is slang for a certain act involving...

Farewell to the Tea Party. It was fun while it lasted. It certainly got a lot of undue media attention. But it died a premature, yet welcome, death. Ironically, what killed the Tea Party was not opposition from either the Republican or Democratic Party. The Tea Party committed suicide, rendered irrelevant by a succession of current events. The central premise of Tea Party loyalists, after all, was that they were anti-government. You know the drill: All government is bad. Taxes are bad. Government bureaucrats are bad. Then, unfortunately for them, just as they were gaining traction, tea baggers ran into...

Editor's Note: NewsBusters Publisher and Media Research Center President President Brent Bozell released the following statement today regarding the broadcast and cable news media's silence about President Barack Obama's use of a crass sexual slang term to refer to Tea Party members. If President George W. Bush had slurred the gay-rights movement during his presidency, it would have immediately dominated the news of every single national media outlet. Reporters would have pummeled the Administration and demanded an explanation and apology for the offense, and rightly so. You don’t smear anyone – let alone fellow Americans who elected you to office...

I had a feeling this vilification of the working class, tax paying citizens who make up the Tea Party Movement was coming right from the top and in a new book, Obama says as much. ABC’s Jack Tapper reported this, in his post “GOP Opposition to Stimulus Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers”: Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.

Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations. In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year ... That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.” Tea Party...

In an interview, U.S. Representative John Conyers, D-Detroit, repeatedly referred to anti-government activists as "tea baggers" and said that their "rational abilities" are "compromised" because of their anger. "We are here now to understand the frustration of the tea baggers and the people who are angry," said Conyers. "Many times when you're angry, your rational abilities are compromised." The comments came at the Michigan Democratic Party endorsement convention. Conyers, who is Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, turned the conversation towards the tea parties and the recent health care bill after being asked how Democrats could remain in contention in...

Well, I finally saw my first LIVE Tea Party yesterday. It was going on at the corner of University and Oakland Park in Sunrise where I was heading to do some couponing activities at WalMart. My first observation was that it seemed a lot more exciting in person than just watching a Tea Party on YouTube. Even though they were just making an appearance with the Gasden Flag and signs such as "Remember November," their mere presence served as a great reminder to folks driving by. I also knew it would drive the DUmmie types even CRAZIER than they...

The idiot attacks, insults, bad mouths not only Tea Party attendees, but Free Republic as well. He claims that the source of the disgusting phrase 'teabaggers' is from a FREE REPUBLIC.COM rally held a year ago! And of course FReepers are racists because they participate in Tea Party rallies! I'm fighting mad over this bonehead and his bizarro world 'lectures' that freedom/Constitution loving PATRIOTS of all shapes, sizes, genders, religions, COLOR, etc. are 'racists' because 'everyone looks exactly like you'--that is KKK white Obama hating because he is black racists. Keep it up, Koolaid Keith. The Tea Party attendees KNOW...

In this epsiode of the Conscience of Kansas I interview Lynda Tyler from Kansans for Liberty. We discuss the upcoming TEA Party in Wichita Kansas. Next we hear from Doug Giles of clashradio.com talking about man made global warming. In the second half of the program we talk with Warner Todd Huston about the national story of Marvel Comics and Captain America and TEA Party goers being depicted as a white racist hate group. Get the details here!