The coffee party is a fraud. It's purpose is very clear - give those in the media the ability to run counter-stories to successful Tea Party gatherings, effectively cutting Tea Party media exposure in half.
The founder is OFA staff, and has been a part of left wing organizers for years. The Facebook group is a top-down managed group that opens chapters in cities, identifies organizers, and broadcasts talking points. From this, the Twitter #p2 crowd jumps in, yapping about civility and the need for intelligent discourse.
The first point is the obvious one. Those who accuse the Tea Party of a lack of civility are a day late and a dollar short. The manufactured media meme of Townhall rage didn't happen until the summer, and even then, it was the orders from Margarida Jorge on how to structure fake rallies that got people riled up. Lock hundreds of people out of townhalls while you let union members in handicap entrances and you're not really setting yourself up for civil speech. Throw in violence and physical intimidation, and you'll get that the Tea Party members had every right to get angry.
For this so-called Coffee Party to come out now is simply an attempt at branding. The SEIU funded Patriot Majority West was caught astroturfing websites attacking the Tea Party. The sad Clinton effort to identify Tea Party leaders and smear them was exposed. Along comes Annabel Park, formerly of the New York Times, who gets a full length feature in the New York Times, and suddenly we're supposed to believe that the Coffee Party is made up of earnest people who think government is our friend?
Let's be clear. No one really hates government in a free society. We hate assholes who use their elected positions to steal money from some groups and give them to others under the guise of social justice, environmental catastrophe, or some manufactured race war that benefits only race hustlers and community organizers.
I've shown the calmer side of the Tea Party, notably the August Townhall where SEIU staff members attacked a random vendor to send a message. Outside of the planned violence and the rote cheers from leftists, real conversations were occuring.
In addition, I personally called on numerous occasions for public debates from citizens, but got no takers. Civil discussion is only allowed when the Left calls for it.
But let's not take my word for it. Founding Bloggers blows the lid off the civility argument of the St Louis Coffee party as reported by KSDK.
Check out their screenshots.
Hmmm - seems like a rather partisan atmosphere to hold a civil discussion. But that's not all. The stolen AP image, now called the iconic image of Obama, hangs from the walls, but so do bumper stickers that say Cheney Satan / '08.
yep - that's the kind of non-partisan, civil atmosphere I'd use to kick start my party.
Still, they say 40 people showed up. That's not bad for a coffee house. Of course, all it did was pull people from OFA.
An OFA meeting last week the Weber Branch of the St Louis library had no one show up. That must have been pretty lonely for Erin McCann, who was going to tell everyone about the great strategies they had set up. Maybe, and this is just a suggestion, maybe the left should focus all of their astroturfing operations into just one group, and have that group show up over and over to the same events, rather than coming up with a new group each and every time they want to pretend to have the public behind them.
1500 people at the original St Louis Tea Party, versus 40 people at a coffee shop filled with Barack Obama memorabilia. Not an auspicious beginning.
I have no doubt there are some normal people who do wish for a return in civility. They're not on the left here in St Louis, who for some reason harbor a deep-seated hatred of everything west and south of 170. If the coffee party really wants to be something other than another lame attempt to increase the size of government, they can start determining what behavior they're going to call out on the left.
Until they do - they can expect some good press, but also undercover video showing the fake nature of their manufactured concern.
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