'Tea Party: The Documentary Film': No, really, this trailer is not a creation of The Onion
By David Neiwert Saturday Nov 21, 2009 5:31pm
Yes, they're perfectly serious. The film's pitch line: "Liberty's march has a new generation of patriots."
Here's the cast of characters, including:
NATE: Nate, a young black man from Detroit, Michigan, voted for Barack Obama in 2008 from an upbringing that taught him to mistrust America because of the color of his skin. As a Libertarian with a paradigm shift and a newfound understanding of the nation he loves, he is risking the anger of family and friends by joining the march against a President’s policies that would victimize the very people he loves the most.
Translation: Nate, the only relatively sane-seeming black person we could find for the film, whose key role is to help blunt the image of tea parties as an almost purely all-white phenomenon featuring angry white nationalists who have no compunction about carrying racist signs and calling the president a racist.
JACK: Jack is a father of two young children, a little league baseball coach and a health insurance agent. He risks losing his job under current healthcare reform. He is a Democrat turned Constitutionalist and the younger brother of a Vietnam veteran who is marching for his children and the future of the America he believes in.
Translation: Even though Jack has a fairly obvious motive for opposing health-care reform, he was included because the filmmakers couldn't find a health-insurance lobbyist who could convincingly portray himself as a moderately sympathetic figure.
JENNY BETH: In 2008, she and her husband lost a multi-million dollar business, were forced into bankruptcy and home foreclosure. Nine months later, she is working as a national leader in the grassroots tea party movement, organizing events and taking her message to the steps of the National Mall with the company of millions behind her.
Translation: Beth helps provide a portrait of America's most benighted victims of the Bush administration: Whole-hog ideological conservatives who made lots of money relying on conservative values (i.e., the cutthroat pursuit of profits at the expense of everything else) and who suddenly lost everything when Bush popped the housing bubble. The resulting cognitive dissonance -- "OMFG we lost our entire fortune because "conservative values" like a mania for deregulation and cutting taxes for the wealthy caused a near-collapse of the entire economic system! And now we have to rely on a liberal black man to fix the problem!!!!" -- drove them completely insane, so that now of course they think the solution is to go back and embrace the very policies that destroyed their wealth in the first place.
WILLIAM: William is a patriot renaissance man, a pastor, colonial re-enactor, painter, poet, Vietnam veteran, former Pentagon and Secret Service employee and a man of the march. He can be outrageous and funny or somber and reflective, full of antics and unpredictability. He marched for the Vietnam Memorial during the Reagan Era and this time, his journey back to Washington, DC leads him to the front lines of the march down Pennsylvania Avenue on September 12.
Translation: Plain ol' nuts.
Anyway, after the movie gets its only scheduled theatrical appearance at the FreedomWorks-sponsored D.C. debut, it's straight to DVD.
Oh, we can hardly wait.
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You don't really expect me to watch that, do you?
It's your patriotic duty to watch some of your fellow citizens (conservatively, billions of your fellow citizens) see who can be biggest buffoon of all. Will it be Nate? Does Jack have a shot? And what about Dr. Fred? Will his medical degree help or hinder his quest to outdumb his fellow Baggers?
How else will you know, unless you watch the film yourself? This could be the most important screening in the history of history.
PS Let me know who wins, I've got to do laundry that day.
Typical lefty. Can't even acknowledge the TRILLIONS of people there at that rally...
I want to point out that Government is a thing, an entity that feels no emotion is not right, wrong, good or bad.It merely is. Now that said lets explore big government and what the fuss is all about. Let me explain in the most basic terms how governemnt works. Let's pretend for a moment that a government is a stick. So one day you make a big stick. Now this stick can be fairly handy. You can use it to knock fruit out of a tree. If you make the club really strong and powerful you can use it to crack coconuts or what ever your little heart desires. Including wacking an animal over the head for meat. Now if your smart you will redsign this stick and make it very useful.. Say putting spikes on the end of the stick for spearing fruit high in a tree.Possibly even a very pointy end to spear fish. You see this is a very great and benevolent thing you have created... Only one problem. You will eventually stop using the stick.. either because you are too old to lift it or you're dead and now the stick has a new owner. You see here lies the most dangerous aspect to large
governements or dangerous sticks.THE OWNERS CHANGE HANDS. Now the new owner takes the same very useful stick and begins to club all his very nice nieghbors.. Yep women and children a like. You see you have no control over who will control this country in 50 years. The next leaders might not be so nice. You have given them huge power to control you and though they may do right by you now that is not a gaurunteed future. The past would tell us that governemnts eventually become corrupt and take freedom away from the people sometimes under humanitarian reasons.. No matter what the reason, turning ones freedom over to even a really nice government is never a good idea. I am niether a republican, nor a democrat, not a constitutionalist, liberal or conservative, I am merely me. I wish to be free. In fact I will stop at nothing to make sure that I am and remain free. I am an enemy of the state. THere are millions of people in america and around the world who feel the same. At some point we will get to the boiling point and most of you will wish it had never happened. And no it will not be peacefull. Those of us who are true in our thoughts are not racist nor do we wish our views forced upon others. But, beware. If you try to force your beliefs on me through the governemnt you will not like my reaction.
That was a great read. I'm game to watch the trailer now.
(edit-- looks like an awful film)
If you hadn't told me up front it "WASN'T" from The Onion, I'd of thought it was a joke.
And yet somehow, I'm still LMAO. :)
Free screenings at the Nutjob Fox Theater for the Gullible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPBvFXf9Q2U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcwXBnncxQY
P.S. That comic in your vid is BRILLIANT!!
They shoulda gotten this guy to star innit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4XTmqBJLSw
their last bag of tea was nothing but seeds and stems!
probably have to pass on paying for this particular propaganda ....whatever it's classified as, video,,,,eeeek.Anyway the "trailer" has convinced me there is no logical or rational reason to watch anymore much less waste time or money on it. I find it very sad that there is even a market for this kind of crap but according to my local paper it's widespread. Of course my local paper is very conservative with well over 10% unemployed who cannot apparently afford a stamp to vocalise opposition. AAARRRGGGHH I know but Peace anyway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4XTmqBJLSw
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Dork Like Me?
This movie is destined to be unintentionally funny. Like Night of the Living Dead.
Reefer Madness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1jB7RBGVGk
Ya that's it, they been smokin the wrong kind of tea!
In England, smoking a joint is how they prepare lamb at the restaurant Much Ado About Mutton.
Oh the stupidity. I'll say it again, the morons who talk about "tyranny" and "socialism" and say the government is too big are the same morons who said NOTHING when Bush and Cheney were in the house.
Can't wait for the sequel. *Hurls*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqZU2H_Fhgc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQqBeK9TwI8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujpfCRpqkFs
Tyranny, to the citizens of Know Knothing Knation, is anything that makes them afraid (i.e. anything they don't understand).
Terr'ists make them afraid, so they're happy to give up all of their liberties to a dictator president if it means fightin' the terror.
Health care reform makes them afraid, so they're happy to join their own oppressors to help kill it.
Democrats make them afraid (thanks to a sociopathic Republican Party and its powerful media noise machine), so they'll scream whatever they have to scream to keep Democrats from getting anything done.
It's probably a good thing that most of them are fools, or they'd surely have organized better by now.
These TeaBaggers are being intentionally led in opposition (to everything Democratic) – but not wisely IMHO. Attack dogs often turn on their owners. The Teabaggers are being conditioned to object to everything. They will eventually bite the hand that bred them. We are seeing that now as they shout down their Repub rep at town-hall meetings. We saw that when Sarah wouldn’t sign their book. We’ll see more of it.
Oh, we're definitely already seeing that. They're so politically inept that they sabotaged an election to a seat their party held for roughly a century and a half.
Because they demand uniform, lockstep conformity to . . . well, they don't really know, do they? They're never quite sure what they're yelling about. They just feel something.
They're basically fundamentalist crazies. And like all fundamentalist crazies, they're breaking into sects.
It’s the grain of truth in what they say that is most frustrating. Tyranny? They/We SHOULD be mad as hell at the prospect. Only 8 years of progressively harsher tyranny was met with silence. Taxes? Again – right sentiment. Only the cry should be about HOW taxes are redistributed and the power those who do that redistribution wield, not to do away with them. Socialism? Well, I guess naiveté can be excused for now…
But you are right about fear. After 9/11 many were mad, mostly because of fear. The last admin told them they would be kept safe – but none of them now want to pay the price of that perceived safety. Our economy is suffering a 2nd Great Depression with no jobs, no money, no hope. So they yell. They yell with Anxiety, Fear, Anger. That’s what they feel. Well, me too. They just have bad timing. I only wish they would think as well as yell.
And then we get types like Palin, who tell them it’s okay to act with your gut rather than think. And they think that’s great – as they do just that.
Kind of gets me thinking...
While the nutters are busy trying to claim the Ft. Hood shooting was "terrorism" instead of more common "workplace violence" in order to pin a "failure to prevent terrorism" on Obama's watch to go with Dubya's 9/11 failure... MAYBE President Obama SHOULD claim the Ft. Hood shooting WAS INDEED terrorism and then use it to push all kinds of unrelated government programs the way Bush did.
As long as they are told "we need this to fight back against the terrorists", they'll shut up and fall in line.
Whaddaya'think?
You know, I imagine that had Obama linked the need for health care reform to the need to fight terrorism, some members of Know Knothing Knation might have listened. And yeah, had Obama used the Ft. Hood killings as a reason to let him carry out his policies unfettered by people with silly concerns about tyranny, there would indeed have been some people willing to change their minds about him.
Unfortunately, most of Know Knothing Knation already fears Democrats, and anything Obama says will be deemed tyrannical, awful, wrong, Communist, Muslim, etc. Obama could literally come out tomorrow, and say, "You know, the tea baggers have great points. I'm vetoing health care, and focusing on terrorism," and they'd still go nuts, screaming about what an awful president he is. "A president who listens to us? How silly. Bush wouldn't listen to us! He'd do what he thought was right, and which would have been right! Clearly, Obama is not his own man! If he's so easily influenced by us, imagine how influenced he'll be by radical Islamists!"
In any case, isn't is fascinating how, in the Know Knothings's minds, the Ft. Hood shootings require that we profile and investigate all Muslims lest political correctness be the death of us all, but any suggestion that we might want to watch out for radical right wing militia folks is an unfair stereotyping of all conservatives?
I never ever felt the oppressive heel of government on the back of my neck, until the corporate fascist "small government" republican's started mico-managing everybody's lives.
How stupid can a moron teabagger be - not to have figured this out?
These people are so far out on planet Xenon, they think - Obama the repuke lite flunky - is a socialist! What a laugh.
Talk about being cluelessly stupid and hopelessly ignorant. These moronic assholes would buy a life raft full of holes, from the same republicans who sold them the sailboat that sunk. I cannot believe how fucking stupid 40% of america is. God help us, because these dipshits are determined to help the republicans exterminate both them, and us!
I wonder what sort of insane answers we'd get if we wandered among the crowds of Know Knothing Knation at these so called Tea Parties, and gave them a quiz on the basics of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the American system of government, and even the Boston Tea Party. Asking them basic facts.
I wouldn't antagonize them. I'd tell them that I am doing a survey of people at the tea parties in order to compare their answers to the crazy folks at liberal rallies, and see if they would like to show them what real knowledge of American government and the founders looks like.
I wonder what the most ridiculous answer would be.
Who does Ben Affleck play?
Really? Can I just stand in line at the theater and urinate on other people? What a pant load.
Don't pee on them or they'll become enraged.
and you'll have to do this.
"....As a Libertarian with a paradigm shift..."
Anybody who uses the term "paradigm shift" automatically loses all credibility with me. It's become a meaningless marketing term, 99.9% of the idiots who use it don't have a clue as to what the fuck it means. A Paradigm Shift - as defined by Thomas Kuhn, refers to a radical change in scientific thought, a change that encompasses not only the current scientific theory, but also the worldview in which it exists. An example of this would be, for example, when scientific thinking switched from that in which the Sun revolved around the Earth to the current heliocentric model. So Nate, hate to break the news to ya, dude, but you waking up one day and suddenly start mainlining the Ayn Rand Koolaid doesn't qualify as a "paradigm shift" - not by a long shot.
THIS... is Sarah Palin's political future.
One can only believe in the audacity of HOPE... for the demise of the Republican Party.
Dumbasses with cameras.
Schedule
6:00pm Reception
7:00pm Panel about the Tea Party movement
7:30pm Movie Begins
* The movie will be screened in The Amphitheater. Once you arrive at the Reagan Building, just enter and ask a security guard for directions to The Amphitheater.
The premiere will be hosted by FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey and President Matt Kibbe. It will also feature the executive producer, Luke Livingston, and the 5 stars of the film.
8:45pm: Movie never seen again...
I'm thinking...Tea Bag Island? Preferably something down by Antarctica.
Just chuck them in the Everglades without any weapons.
at least the voice over dude sounds totally tongue in cheek
Anyway, after the movie gets its only scheduled theatrical appearance at the FreedomWorks-sponsored D.C. debut, it's straight to DVD.
Don't knock straight to DVD. When a movie goes to disc, it can get to millions more than when it runs in theaters. A POS like this is actually MORE dangerous on DVD than in theaters. Think "word of mouth."
I dunno it didn't help
http://image.allmusic.com/00/adg/cov200/drt60...
http://img2.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0609/2...
Nor
http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/...
The Secret was spread on DVD. It went far. *shudder*
THE CULTURE OF DUH
Liberty's march has a new generation of idiots.
Gotta have something to sell those eager teabaggers.
My gods, they are buying into their own press. "Next American Revolution"? A bunch of bigoted, stick with non-working status quo, scared of their own shadow Chicken Littles really think their inanity is a 'revolution'?
*falls of her chair laughing*
Ground Floor Video
William Luke Livingston
Luke Livingston 50 Years Old, Woodstock, Georgia
Mike Huckabee Addresses Pro Life March
Is Luke Livingston related to William Luke Livingston?
Jenny Beth and her hubby were probably house flippers, victims of their own greed.
Half a dozen houses at 300 to 400K each would be multi millions. They should have quit while they were ahead.
Rev. Jackie Lewis, 53, Cedar Hill, WA: securing execution of a document by deception in connection with renting a foreclosed home. Lewis sought foreclosed homes, changed the locks and rented the homes until a real estate agent disrupted the plot. Lewis claims, "God has shown me a way at the most opportune time in America to save their houses." Source: Seattle Times, 3/8/09
It's amazing isn't it? No matter how dispicable the crime for which they get caught, these scumbags always find a way to use the Invisible Sky Dude as rationalization.
... take individual responsibility? ;)
Somehow, I don't envision this movie ever seeing anything but the inside of my local Blockbuster.
Walmart will carry it as a discount, super-saver double pack:"Tea Party" and "American Carol".
OK, out of a Libertarian, Constitutionalist, Community Organizer & Idiot, which one is treasurer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcIszzV-WrY
It's being portrayed in the media as just a Ma and Pa Kettle go to Washington theme but in reality the whole 'movement' is a high priced con job.
They encompass all the emotional patriotic triggers, the flag, the revolution, the constitution, the period costumes.
This 'politics as theater' smearing of Obama and the Dems is being brought to you by Madison Ave. and big pocket Repugs behind the scenes.
Notice they don't run into any problems a protest on the left would incur.
No police in riot gear, no denial of crowd permits, professional staging, lighting and PA equipment magically appearing, TV cameras in place, even the crowd fluffers with their 'applaud now' signs.
There are already coaching classes given for the organization leaders and the crowds banners and posters will improve over time.
It's a slick astroturfing effort that pulls all the levers that Americans have been conditioned since birth to respond to and will draw in many under the guise of being patriotic.
One thing you won't see the top layer that paves the way and calls the shots, that would destroy the facade.
They are the same bunch that dragged your country into this mess and are now trying to pin that tail on the Dems by proxy using a gullible pubic.
Sad thing is that, this being America, it will be successful enough to delude enough of the people enough of the time to affect the 2012 elections.
It's a two year, multimillion dollar election campaign brought to you by Republican party and Barnum and Bailey.
Politics as perpetual Kabuki? Interesting. And a two-year show…
It’s a decent strategy. Let’s say you had 2 years and 50 mil or so to conduct such theater. What’s the first step? Knowing that nearly everybody recognizes BushCo fucked everything up over 8 years, you have to get around the attitude that all Repubs are the same. No problem. Agree with the sentiment and blame ALL government…initially. The tricorn hats help. 18 months later it’s ALL Obama’s fault, and the need for change is again upon us.
No doubt this is the intent. Will it work? I’m not convinced the majority of Americans are as stupid as these puppet-masters think. I think they’ll have initial success, but that may quickly fall apart as they lose control of the strings.
This is Martin Short's baby?
Damn Canucks!!!
"As a Libertarian...against a President’s policies that would victimize the very people he loves the most."
What a surprise. Don't they preach the "virtue of selfishness"? He's just doing what other Rand-bots do.
Is the production company really called "Riddled with Bullets" WTF??
They probably see it as a clever way to show who they are, without any actual admission.
Riddled: as in spread around, not perforated with multiple holes.
Bullets: as in the bulleted lists of talking points, not ammunition for a firearm.
When they tell who they are....;o}
is that we now have a great example of Poe's Law to point to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p99rf63jCE
A little birdie told me nevermore.
I saw that, but decided to ignore it.
Loved it as a kid, but like 10cc doesn't age well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHNxBheFAt4
http://www.eapoe.org/WorkS/tales/dvlhda.htm
The guy did a good storyboard with this one.
I always wanted to see Moe Szyslak as Montresor and Homer Simpson as Fortunato.
So the Free Dumb Jerks want a revolution---they are already there--they are really revolting. The Founding Fathers these dopes are supposedly imitating would either be highly insulted or laugh their ass off at these ridiculous poseurs.
I think I just threw up in my mouth.
yes capitalism is self destructing
that is the good news
would you really want an economic ideology like capitalism survival of the fittest survive to now self destruct.
a ideology that believes it is morally right to make mega profits off the sick and needy for figuring out a way to not pay medical expenses for the sick and needy.
mega profits to figure out a way to stop paying due to pre existing conditions.
mega profits to figure out a way to invalidate a contract.
an economic system that has wars for profits under the false banner of protecting our freedom.
come on americans wake up we are imperialists and that system called capitalism has much to do with our imperialism
we are a selfish greedy nation that pretends to be a christian nation.
there is nothing christian about america.
this country killed one million vietnamese and did not bat an eye. oh we had protests but that was over the draft not the millions of men women and children we were killing under the pretense of protecting our freedom.
that like our present wars that nam war was a war for profits for the few not freedom.
read the new testament and see what jesus said about making mega profits off the sick and needy and wars for profits.
capitalism is self destructing the only thing keeping it afloat is chinese money.
now go back to work to that second job to make ends meet and dont forget to attend that tea party tomorrow after church.
mass media is not going to tell you these things as they are part of the capitalist system. ie fear of losing corp ad money.
After all, they don't want to PAY for anything except Benny Hinn and his ilk.
This is ridiculous, first they try to take over all print media by constantly publishing every lie they think up, now they want to try to take on Hollywood. First it was American carol (big flop) then Glenn Becky's so-called comedy act (bad news, he's making a sequal, saw the trailer tonight) and now this-stupidity on parade.
this reminds of Christian rock, patriot rock and Fox news. Just create some lame content but bathe it in right wing sentiment. It's a niche market, but very profitable because your upfront costs are low, i.e., no need for good writing, acting or production values.
LOL, after Niewert's description of the main characters, I'm tempted to go see this film, just for the laughs.
until everyone in America with a mind of their own knows it. The republican strategy is clearly, CLEARLY: oppose everything Obama or Democratic congress does like your life depends on it or they're dead as a party. This president must be metaphorically "killed in the cradle". And they're going for broke. End of story. Now tell everyone you know.
They do know that if America succeeds, if America continues to be a country of laws, honest and honerable the the republican party is finished for good! They are in it for the fight of their financial lives. There entire future has been planned around them staying in ofice and making shit loads of money while pretending to do public service. They do the same thing with religion, they use the right words, make the right gestures, but when it comes down to the actual facts they worship at the foot of the dollar bill.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that is killing America!
Bush redistributes Ten Million Dollars out of the funds meant for the Iraq War (AND TO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS) to his BROTHER JEB to sick a battalion of riot cops onto the streets of Miami to put down protesters during the Free Trade summit, where they round up EVERYONE who happened to be on the streets, including tourists and elderly bystanders...
Yet tyranny has arrived now. Now that a black man is president. A black man who allows people to show up at protests armed with semi-automatic weapons.
God, I'm so tired of these idiots crying about their oppression.
This movie is going to top Battleship Earth for worst crap propaganda film of all time.
The first and most shocking thing is their insanity. It like being in an insane asylum each time you talk to one. The second is greed. They will do or say anything for a buck.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that is killing America!
I for one applaud the teabaggers for dressing in Revolutionary War costumes. I think ALL teabaggers should dress as they would have back in the late 18th Century. Especially the black teabagger(s).
I don't believe they were ignored, I'm pretty sure they got to vote last November.
And as for mocking, what do you expect when you go around in phony colonial garb acting like Renfolk?
"Liberty's march has a new generation of patriots." What they hell does that mean, exactly?
A lot of people are scared and ignorant. A dangerous combination when there are so many people such as Beck and Rush who are so willing to take advantage of their ignorance.
They're a much bigger threat to our Democracy than the Taliban and need to be taken seriously.
Soylent Green is..................... PEOPLE!
Turn up the sub-sonic thump! Flash jingoistic fascist imagery! Cue the low strings in the creepiest modality conceivable! OK, now, in slow, sonorous drone...
Notice there's no difference between this and a WWE cage match advert.
It's so unbelievably easy to rile up a nitwit. And alas, there are so many nitwits for the riling.
"Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. TeaParty-the T-shirt, TeaParty-the Coloring Book, TeaParty-the Lunch box, TeaParty-the Breakfast Cereal, TeaParty-the Flamethrower."
Once you learn to use the Schwartz, you can become a Tea Bag master!
how they made the Washington Monument look like a cross at 00:37. Other than that, this could have been a Monty Python skit.
Does anyone else feel some level of despair that so many of our fellow citizens are functionally illiterate, politically ignorant, and emotionally stunted water carriers for Corporate Megalomaniacs like Murdoch and the Bush cabal?!
Poking fun may be gratifying within the immediacy and anonymity of the inner tubes, but the evolution of our species is slowed to a pathetic crawl by the fears and resentments of these puerile people.
Moreover, I grow tired of hearing their insupportable--and often racist--rantings about fascism, communism, socialism, ad nauseum (like they have a CLUE what are any of these isms...).
These people are armed, and their disgusting svengalis (yes, this means YOU, Becky) are pushing them ever closer to a macro-level volatile response: maybe on the order of declaring their 'new civil war,' complete with a resurrected confederate flag...
I wonder if our nation will survive this domestic terrorism...
The nation will easily survive these nimrods, as long as they are kept out of power. Let them declare a second civil war, it will be over much quicker than the first. The original Confederates were at least united regionaly, these feckles idiots are as widely spaced as can be, and there is no real unity even among themselves.
The only thing you need fear is domestic terrorism from these people, a reveloution is outside of their abilities. Most of these fools will go out Ruby Ridge and Waco style.
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