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Europe’s Hysterical View Of The Tea Party

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Tea Partiers inevitably view themselves as freedom seekers, touting liberty in the face of Big Government, with the world embracing their bravery.


Tea Partiers tend to be social conservatives with an evangelical Christian bent who oppose Big Evil Government — no matter how radical their candidate is, or whether they are in opposition to their own religious beliefs, their party backs them just the same.


It baffles other countries. It baffles many of us in America too.  Wall Street Journal which slants to the right reports:


Tea partiers don’t get much positive press here in Europe. They are generally portrayed either as a gaggle of stump-toothed Appalachian mountain men or as a KKK lynch-mob. A typical column in Britain’s Guardian newspaper last month described them as “a movement most of whose emergent stars would appear to be better suited to prison or lunatic asylums.”

The Guardian is a left-of-center newspaper. But our Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, has also felt it necessary to signal his disapprobation: “How shall I put this? We seem to have drifted apart,” he recently told the Financial Times.


‘Have I Got News For You‘  is a British television show on BBC. It’s been broadcast since 1990, and is currently the BBC’s longest ever running panel show. It’s satirical — and in this episode has some fun with Tea Party politics here in America:


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E43IXUKY-c&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube]


David Cameron the Conservative Prime Minister states they’ve “drifted apart”.  The GOP here in America, seems to have drifted apart from the Tea Party as well — immediately after they backed them in full support, in order to get their candidates elected.


Ron Paul, who is thought of as the originator of the Tea Party — although its inception is not exact, was ostracized by the GOP — possibly because the GOP consider him a threat in their campaigns, since he’s not quite as partisan as they are.  Dr. Paul, who most leftists have issues with, including me — is still his own man.



A big old hat tip to a friend that sent me the episode of this show and wishes to remain anonymous.


A big thank you to tcbishop12 for his help.


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18 comments

By Anomaly – February 3, 2011

  • http://www.squidoo.com/twirling-spaghetti-fork Andrew Goulding

    We’ve got an even lower opinion of the Tea Party in Australia!

    • http://FreakOutNation.com Anomaly100

      @Andrew Goulding, How many Tea Partiers would you say there are in Australia?

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  • GemiHemi

    Wow, I never thought about it like that before, Makes sense dude. Wow.

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    • Gypsy

      Hilarious! But not everyone in America is more or less on the Right. Hell no.

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  • Shiva

    This is hilarious. You have to love English humor. But someone needs to tell them the tea party was born in conservative corporate offices to combat the black man in the white house and get the vote out for republicans based on lies they tell the tea party minions to regurgitate.

    They must love the wax ball tea party guy newly elected to congress whose tax plan lowers the taxes on the rich and raises the tax on the poor and poor middle class

    Good old boy Paul Ryan
    –Over a third of taxpayers, mostly low- and middle-income families, would pay more in taxes under the House GOP plan than they would under the House Democratic plan in 2010.

    – The richest one percent of taxpayers would pay $75,000 less, on average, in income taxes under the House GOP plan than they would under the Democratic plan in 2010.

    – The income tax proposals in the House GOP plan…would cost over $225 billion more than the Democratic plan’s income tax policies in 2010 alone.

    Now there is some gold old tea party values.

  • http://FreakOutNation.com Anomaly100

    @Shiva, You should tell them if only to give them more material. You’d be their new hero!

  • Shiva

    @Anomaly100, I want to move to Britain, have a ton of friends there and my ancestry back to the 1500′s there. I could spend the rest of my life looking at ancient ruins there.

  • http://FreakOutNation.com Anomaly100

    @Shiva, I really miss London. I’ve got a few friends there as well. I’d go in a heartbeat. I want to learn more about politics there. It’s a whole ‘nother thing!

  • http://the-reviewer.com TheReviewer

    Europe has their own tiny groups of politically insane,…The Tea Baggers can’t get a foothold as ling as the BNP and other White Nationalists have them beat. (and how tone deaf does one have to be to go to England and explain why they call themselves the Tea Party?)

  • http://www.therationalmiddle.com Michael Chase

    A good pickup this and well done…

    I am not sure of the existence of conventional wisdom linking Ron Paul to the Tea Party, although some percentage of Paul supporters did gravitate towards the group in the spring of 2009.

    The Tea Party was certainly a creation of Dick Armey’s Freedom Works, in collaboration with Roger Ailes and Fox News. There is no disputing the cash flows and gratis air time throughout the first half of 2009. It is a classical and extremely well crafted bit of brand building; they saw the market (Ron Paul’s legion of motivated Goldwater Republicans; pure Libertarians, fundamentalist conspiracy believers, et. al.) and built a brand to capture the segment.

    The ultimate undoing of the group, I think, is that the brand attracted and accepted the most extreme elements of the American political right. Also, the economic and social goals of the group share no points of commonality; these are working class Americans who have been recruited to push policies contrary to their interests. Eventually, most in the group will catch on.

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