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On cue, MM is blaming Obama directly for the NY flight thing. She had the nerve to post this blurb, the irony is just delicious:

Using military resources for a cheap photo-op. Scaring the pants off the public. Exploiting 9/11 imagery for self-aggrandizement. Keeping secrets and causing mass panic.
Um, can you imagine if a GOP administration did this?
Can you imagine?!

There are just no words. Apparently the last eight years are a happy void in her mind.

As hard as they tried, the April 15th anti-Obama tea parties just didn’t achieve that goal of being ‘non-partisan’ and a ‘grassroots campaign’. According to Michelle Malkin, the protests were about American’s being fed up with high taxes, even as 90% of the crowd protesting were receiving a tax cut courtesy of the stimulus plan.

Michelle’s adorable readers shared their stories of heroics and oppression from the protests, like this gem from chotii:

Lots and lots and LOTS of cars honked and waved and thumbs-upped. The guys driving big rigs (garbage trucks, 18 wheelers, UPS-sized vans and so forth) seemed to be uniformly glad to honk their approval. Even one public bus driver did!

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A lot of people tried to pretend we weren’t there. The people in hybrids and SmartCars seemed especially likely to try to make believe we didn’t exist.

OMG those hippies in hybrids and Smartcars, who are receiving tax breaks and spending less on gas, didn’t notice a couple of hundred people standing around on the sidewalks and parroting GOP rhetoric? Shame!

Of course the entire thing was non-partisan and just about taxes. It was covered evenly across media outlets and definitely was a grassroots campaign. /sarcasm

I mean, let’s look at how the media reported on the protests:

• Fox News Corporation — 133 mentions( Over Fox News and Fox Business )
• CNN — 36 mentions
• MSNBC — 32 mentions
• HLN — 24 mentions
• CNBC — 17 mentions

Definitely no hidden agenda there right?

Or let’s look at some of the corpor… sorry I mean lobbyist… wait, sorry I mean grassroots supporters of the Tea Parties and I’ll even use the Conservapedia.com definition (when available ) so I’m not accused of being an evil liberal!:

• American Family Association: The American Family Association or AFA is a non-profit conservative Christian organization that believes in protecting family values through consumer activism.
• Freedom Works: FreedomWorks is a conservative non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., United States.
• Americans For Prosperity (AFP) is a Washington D.C.-based political advocacy group which describes itself on its Web site as “… an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state and federal levels.”Who sponsors RightOnline, which helps show conservative bloggers how to harness the web to win people to their cause. Which, as a sidenote, nothing wrong with that.
• Sen David Vitter (R), who is sponsoring a bill to recognize the protests and declare April 15th as National Tax Protest Day. Yeah, seriously.

ThinkProgress has a list of the politicians who jumped on the opportunity to speak at the protests, and I’m happy to report that they are from both sides of the issues. Oh wait, nope, they’re all beltway Republicans. My bad.

But ThinkProgress is an evil liberal website, so I’m sure there were *some* Democrats in attendance that actually *are* upset by the stimulus plan and taxes.

As far as the attendance numbers, it was pretty good. No official headcount, but the estimates are around 500-1500 persons per protest, with ~2000 protests across the nation, putting the total around 1-3million people participating. Without discrediting the turnout, Fox News is calling it “Mission Accomplished” on the Fox Forum, Michelle Malkin calls it “MASSIVE” and “historical” in her posts.

That must mean when the anti-war protests broke out in 2003 that Michelle, Fox, FreeRepublic et al were astounded by the 20 million persons in 800 cities across the WORLD protesting?

hahahaha yeah, sorry. When The anti-war protest happened in DC in 2007, FreeRepublic reported how “low” and “thin” their numbers were at 25,000 attendees. Which happens to be about 25 times the amount of tea-party goers that showed up in DC. 25,000 = thin, 1,000 = massive. If that is how they are with numbers, I don’t think any one of ‘em has a better idea on how to fix the economy.

Conclusion
Ok enough of the snark, in all seriousness, I am GLAD that so many people turned out and coordinated these events. I’m glad that a portion of the protesters had best interests at heart and are honestly upset about how our government has been run, not over the past three freakin months, but DECADES.

At the same time I’m ashamed that right-wing pundits and politicians had to overshadow the protests and turn them into same-old beltway Obama bashing, and equally ashamed of the simpletons that were at there to protest a man and not an errant idea, policy, or even entrenched system.

Regardless of political affiliation, American’s coming together and protesting is EXACTLY what this country was built on, and I hope to see more of it. I may not agree with the partisanship that the GOP and it’s guard dogs pushed on the protests, but I can agree with the sentiment and ideals that the protests stood for: that Americans are finally getting involved and will let their gov’t know when they aren’t happy.

Hopefully that’s something that people on both sides of the aisle can agree with.

Apparently the “fine” bloggers over at RedState have started to run out of things to blame Obama for, so they decided to start making things up.

Most of you have probably already heard about the Microsoft bridge that will connect West & East campus, which currently is separated by a public highway. If not, here is the original CNN story.

Basically the Mayor of Redmond applied for $11mil in stimulus money to help build the bridge, which would alleviate traffic on the public highway and connect the two sectors, and Microsofts campus’.

Erick Erickson of Redstate.com, a mouth-breather neocon version of DailyKOS, somehow found a way to blame Obama:

Instead of the blue screen of death, let’s call it the blue span of death. Like the bridge to nowhere, Microsoft has somehow gotten its hands on $11 million of the stimulus dollars to build a bridge that will connect Microsoft to . . . well . . . Microsoft.

This is another example of Obama deciding he knows what’s best and us winding up with a raw deal.

Apparently Erick doesn’t do the whole “reading comprehension” thing, since the article he goes on to link states that the Mayor applied for the funds, and Microsoft has footed a little less than half of the bill for the bridge, which would be open to the public.

Last I checked, there are funds available for public infrastructure projects, and the Redmond Mayor took advantage, although Erick seems to think that Obama personally cut Microsoft a check for $11mil. Due to the low IQ of Redstate readers, the comments on the story are basically an echo chamber.

Caution, excessive swearing in full post.
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After analyzing the Kinderism logs, I’ve found out that this delightful comment WAS actually left by Miss Culver herself.

Granted, I drug her through the mud on the post, but that’s who I am and we all don’t expect anything else. In response to my criticism of her website and programming abilities, Leah took the high road and pointed out that I’m not as internet-famous as she is, and then suggested I get over it.

But, it’s true. I don’t have a vagina and a CS degree to flaunt, and it keeps me awake at night. If only there was someway to get a bunch of idiot Diggers to latch on to my every move, failure or not… hmm… I could possibly cater to the gay IT crowd? Maybe I should run a contest to etch corporate logos all over my bimmer?

It really hurts my soul that I’m not internet famous, but at least I’m not an egotistical bitch.