Showing posts with label Coffee Party USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coffee Party USA. Show all posts

Utah Coffee Party? Really?!?

May 22, 2010 - Salt Lake City, Utah - A handful of libtards showed up for a little Coffee Party gathering, and I do mean "little." They got together downtown at the Federal Building to show their support for financial reform. Perhaps eight or nine people attended. The NBC affiliate KSL TV 5 video report noted that this event was their "first public rally in Utah." KLS did not actually give a "crowd" estimate, but their video says it all: Virtually nobody showed up, and the weather looked pretty decent. Be sure to read the comments at KLS.com too, as they're hilariously funny. RELATED: Baxter Swilley, Astroturf Poster Boy Chicago News Bench The Coffee Party: Try Not to Laugh -Part 1 Freedom Watch News The Latte Party USA Facebook Group

Recapping the Chicago Tax Day Tea Party

What a day for a patriotic rally in Chicago! Perfect weather and a magnificent setting in Daley Plaza, combined with dynamic speakers and an enthusiastic crowd made the April 15 Tax Day Tea Party a beautiful event.

Friend Anne Leary at Backyard Conservative put together a great post with photos, videos and many links about the rally. Anne's post "Chicago Tax Day Tea Party 2010 Pix and Video" is a must-read item. Also, check out the video of Kathy Barkulis' great speech. Friend John Ruberry of Marathon Pundit notes that the Tea Party Express has posted its candidate endorsements.  Friend Amusing Bunni has a good post, too: "Report from the Trenches, Chicago Tax Day Tea Party."

COLD COFFEE...
Meanwhile: Does anybody remember the Coffee Party USA? Seems it's cooled down and nobody's offering a warm up for the tepid slop. In Wichita, Kansas, hundreds turned out for a Tea Party rally, while about 50 coffee dunkers lurked around the corner. The Wichita Eagle has a good report with amusing videos. In Boise, the Idaho Reporter tells us that "several dozen" coffee slurpers showed up to counter a Tea Party event at the state capitol. Police estimate 1,500 Tea Partiers at the Boise event, according to KBOI Channel 2

Has anybody seen endorsements coming from the Coffee Party? For that matter, while candidates nationwide, from local offices to Congress, are begging for Tea Party support, how many candidates have you heard about that are courting Coffee Party USA endorsements? Sorry, Coffee Party USA, we've got you outnumbered and outflanked. Yours is a weak decaf brew.

ALSO SEE:
Stealth Attack: Hijacking of the Tea Party Movement
So, that 'Crash the Tea Party' thing was a bust
Why the Tea Party Matters

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Ron Paul Supporters Aiding Coffee Party USA

There are wackos in every group, and the Coffee Party USA (CPUSA) has more than its fair share. Another group with the same quality: Ron Paul groupies. So, are there Ron Paul supporters in CPUSA? Most likely. But are there influential Ron Paul loyalists who are influential within within CPUSA? Probably. Do they wish harm to the Tea Party movement? Undoubtedly, as the videos below demonstrate.
Also See: Fake Grassroots, Coffee Party USA National Kickoff Day, March 13
Many Ron Paul loyalists are under the tragic delusion that they started the Tea Party movement. Wrong. Granted, there was a Ron Paul events that were called "tea parties" in a monumental display of hyperbole, in November and December, 2007 - but they were nothing more than fundraising events for Paul's 2008 presidential campaign. While highly successful, they did not start a movement. They were money-bombs and demonstrations specifically in support of a single political candidate, period. Ron Paul's supporters' claims that they were the first to stage a "tea party" since the original in 1773 is pitiful: In July, 2007 there was a "tea party" in Indianapolis "to protest out of control government spending, 34% property tax increases and a 65% local income tax increase." No mention of Ron Paul. Quite a few claim that "Ron Paul is our leader of the Tea Party not Sarah Palin," which only exposes their ignorance of the Tea Party movement. It has no leader, but they share this incorrect view with liberals and Democrats. Neither Ron Paul nor Sarah Palin are "the leader" of the Tea Party movement. In fact, it's ignorant of the Ron Paul folks to call it "the Tea Party" without the word "movement" immediately following. It is, after all, a movement and not a party. Keep in mind that many Ron Paul devotees also believe that the world will end in December, 2012 and that aluminum foil really does prevent the government spies in black helicopters from reading what's left of their minds. Given all that bitterness and halucinatory thought, it shouldn't be surprising that many Ron Paul followers should find a home in CPUSA. They share the Left's thinly veiled, anti-Semitic, paranoid disdain for neocons. (Michael Rubin wrote that "If neocons were agents of Likud, they would have advocated an invasion not of Iraq or Afghanistan but of Iran, which Israel considers to be the biggest threat to its own security." Source). We see this nonsense displayed in the first video below: In the second video, below, a very confused "former Ron Paul supporter" named Jesse explains why he joined the Coffee Party USA: RELATED: Former Ron Paul Volunteer joins the Coffee Party - The Daily Paul Video: Ron Paul is our leader of the Tea Party not Sarah Palin Leave a Comment * Conservative T-Shirts * Follow CNB on Twitter * RSS Feed

Baxter Swilley, Astroturf Poster Boy

*** Update, April 3, 2010 - Disgruntled Democrats Join Tea Party (CNN) *** Seems I started a small firestorm with my March 11 post about the astroturfed Coffee Party. In the post "Fake Grassroots, Coffee Party USA National Kickoff Day, March 13" I examined a Coffee Party event in Chicago's ultra-liberal Rogers Park neighborhood and its organizer, Baxter Swilley. Since that post, major bloggers (and friends) John Ruberry of Marathon Pundit, Anne Leary of Backyard Conservative and Warner T. Huston at Publius' Forum, Right Wing News, The Reality Check and StopTheACLU linked to it on March 12. On March 13, Hot Trending Topics picked up on it. On March 14, the Swilley aspect of the story was picked up by these major bloggers: Northern Gleaner, Ed Driscoll, Instapundit, Riehl World, Keyboard Militia and Narbosa.com and Strangeness and Charm. BigJournalism.com also posted about it, even reproducing the Swilley "press release" in full -- I'm the guy who alerted the author of that post to the Swilley Coffee Party and forwarded the Swilley press release to him). Swilley is suddenly a hot topic for national discussion. That's not to say he hasn't gotten a lot of press in the past, but previous mentions were always local or regional for his work with Democrat candidates (such as Scott Lee Cohen) or causes (Citizens for 2016, promoting the Olympics bid). Now, however, Swilley is being written about nationally, and for a dubious reason: Swilley is suddenly a poster boy for astroturfing. He, like many others, sent out a pre-fab form document that was intended to look like a grassroots announcement of a local get-together for people interested in the Coffee Party. The results of the big national Coffee Party caffeine orgy is typified by liberal blog posts such as one from "Yogchick." She professes, in her blog's banner, to be "bipolar + on lots of drugs." What does the drugged out Yogchick say about her Coffee Party experience? Could it be that there is finally a populist backlash against the pseudo-populist Tea Party Movement? I certainly hope so. For the past twelve months, Americans have watched them hijack the country’s collective voice as they marched on Washington with their thinly veiled racist signs and fucked up conspiracy theories. Yogchick also wrote about attending her first Coffee Party, in the tony Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, on March 14. Amusingly, she wrote this: The Tea Party people resent the Republicans bailing out Wall Street and progressive Democrats resent how their party sold out healthcare reform to the insurance companies while abandoning the public option. We have the same frustrations and can work for the same solutions. This begs an important question: If she's in such agreement with the Tea Party, why swig Democrat Kool-Aid at a Coffee Party? The answer is, in part contained within the question: All that Kool-Aid (and those drugs she brags about taking) have made her compliant and susceptible to the Left's message that the Tea Parties are evil. Therefore, even with "the same frustrations and can work for the same solutions," Yogchick and those like her just cannot bring themselves to associate with those whom they have been brainwashed into thinking of as the Enemy. That, and the fact that the Tea Partiers tend to have more of an affinity for heavy metal rock, as opposed to the granola-crunching folksy music preferred by those who gravitate toward the Coffee Party. Perhaps Yogchick would understand that the Tea Party did not "hijack the country's collective voice," but actually represents a huge swath of the American citizenry. In her drug-induced haze, Yogchick and many like her mistakenly think that there is a single, monolithic "Tea Party." There is not, of course, whereas the "Coffee Party" is just that: A central, controlling authority that pulls the strings and calls the shots. Not so with the Tea Party movement, a loosely associated gaggle of hundreds of groups nationwide - often quarreling with each other - and none answering to a national central committee. Indeed, that's part of the appeal to the conservatives and many moderates who participate in Tea Party groups. On the other hand, Coffee Party members tend to be Leftists and liberals (excuse me, "progressives") who actually take comfort in a central committee, which explains their love of Big Government and, for many, an adoration of figures such as Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and even Josef Stalin. The Tea Party movement was a spontaneous grassroots phenomenon that caught on like wildfire. The Coffee Party, in contrast, has been highly orchestrated from its inception and continues to be directed in the same way that Organizing for America (OFA) pull the strings of its followers. Central command and control. Emphasis on control. Remember that Yogchick said that she and the Coffee Partiers "have the same frustrations and can work for the same solutions" as the Tea Party? That was a lie on her part, of course. The sad thing about it is that she and her coffee sipping comrades probably do not understand how or why it's a lie. Try this if you're fortunate enough to find yourself engaged in conversation with a coffee gulper: Ask them how they feel about tax cuts. RELATED: Coffee Party Astroturfer Baxter Swilley Has Missouri Roots Keyboard Militia Coffee, Coffee, Coffee... Rogers Park in 1000 words Video: Coffee Party Group Therapy Session at Ironic Surrealism v3.0 Donald Douglas destroys the Coffee Party phonies! 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Fake Grassroots, Coffee Party USA National Kickoff Day, March 13

The "Coffee Party USA" is having a sort of grand opening, if you will, this Saturday, March 13. It's been carefully orchestrated nationally to appear to be grassroots, but we'll see why it's not in a moment as we look at a Chicago event. That event, in the north side neighborhood of Rogers Park, is being coordinated by Baxter Swilley, 34, a very busy Democrat operative who most recently served as Scott Lee Cohen's downstate director. He was also a major player with U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky. (Also see Ron Paul Supporters Aiding Coffee Party USA)

The Tea Party movement - hundreds of groups across the country with no central committee or governing body - have been falsely criticized by the Left and Democrats as being controlled by the Republican Party. That is simply not true.

What is true, however, is that a bizarre response to the Tea Parties has arisen, and it is the spawn of the Democrats. They call themselves, laughably, "The Coffee Party USA." We'll call them CPUSA (which, of course, could also stand for "Communist Party USA").

While the Coffee Party USA attempts to make itself appear to be grassroots, it is not. In an attempt to be "grassroots," CPUSA has distributed hundreds of form letter press releases for local organizers to send out. Chicago News Bench intercepted one such press release, which announces a March 13 event in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. It is quite amusing.

Click here to see the full press release for the Rogers Park event,
then click here to see the identical press release for a Kansas City event.

The cookie-cutter press releases are, of course, intended to be localized and personalized by the senders. Local organizers are suppose to put their own names on the releases, along with the times and locations of their events. In the case of the Rogers Park event's press release, organizer Baxter Swilley, neglected to add "Today's Date." Swilley sent the release as an MS Word attachment. In the body of the email, he accidentally admits that this event and all of the others on March 13 have been orchestrated by a higher authority. Swilley wrote this (emphasis added):
I hope you all can join me at the Coffee Party USA kick-off on Saturday, March 13 at Charmers Cafe, 1500 W. Jarvis in Rogers Park - 10:30 AM. Clearly, this organization is not led by someone from Chicago. Otherwise they would know that we'd all be at a huge parade on this day and instead of drinking coffee we'd be drinking green beer. So, let's compromise... after a cup of coffee and civil dialogue on the important political issues in our communities we will go next door for one of those beers at the Poitin Stil - a quaint Irish Bar. 
So much for "grassroots." According to Swilley's own email, CPUSA ("this organization") is not led locally. That's no secret, of course, but it is an admission that they are getting their marching orders from some central authority. Namely, CPUSA, which performs a function that the Tea Party movement has no equivalent of: A controlling, order giving central authority. The CPUSA people are drawn to a central committee, whereas the Tea Party people are suspicious of any attempt to form such a body. Tea Partiers are independent thinkers. CPUSA appeals to those who look to a Big Uncle figure for guidance and thought suggestion.

Swilley, by the way, is big-time Lib operative. He was behind Citizens for 2016, a group that supported Mayor Daley's bid to bring the Olympics to Chicago. He was the Political Director for the John Edwards-Campaign Organization - Missouri, where he is listed under the "Edwards for President, Inc. Missouri Leadership." His short bio summary there says that his experience "includes political director for US Representative Jan Schakowsky and campaign manager of Jackson, MS Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr.'s 2001 re-election campaign." (Harvey Johnson was the first Black mayor of Jackson.)

Swilley has also worked for U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Chicago, a former Black Panther. Oh, and Scott Lee Cohen, who won the Illinois Democrat primary for Lt. Governor in February, 2010 but was forced out of the race by the Illinois Democrat Party. Swilley was Cohen's downstate coordinator and spokesman. He's been a busy boy.

In 2002, as Schakowsky’s Political Director, Swilley was instrumental in creating a 2,500 person field organization to designed to give Democrats a landslide win that November. (Source: http://www.hicsocial.org/Social2003Proceedings/Judith-Rae%20E.%20Ross%202.pdf - page 13)

What we have in Baxter Swilley, is a devoted Democrat operative who moves around from state to state, organizing locals in "grassroots" efforts even though he himself is an outsider. Originally from Maywood, a suburb 13 miles due west downtown Chicago, Swilley embedded himself in Chicago's north side in Rogers Park in 2001. That's the same year, not coincidentally, that Jan Schakowsky hired Swilley as her Political Director. Ironically, his Democracy For America page shows that his favorite quote is "Keep it real."

The CPUSA, it is claimed, was "founded by" Annabel Park, a big-time Democrat operative. According to Frank Ross at BigJournalism.com, the CPUSA is, to paraphrase him, a front group for Democrat Party diversionary and fakery tactics:
Yet there was nothing accidental about Park’s anti-Tea Party activism; the Coffee Party’s roots are about as grassy as the signature surface of the old Houston Astrodome; and Park’s facade of cooperation is undermined by her “tea bagger” epithets on Twitter. Meanwhile, her claim that the Coffee Party is “purely grassroots” and “independent of any party” is laughably rebutted by the fact that the registrant for the website was listed as “Real Virginians For Webb, 14461 Sedona Drive, Gainesville, Virginia 20155” until the information suddenly went private behind a proxy. That’s “Webb” as in Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, one of at least two elected Democrats for whom Park has actively campaigned (as evidenced by this campaign video, “Real Virginians for Webb”... Full Post at bigjournalism.com... 
To listen to Park herself, however, she did this all by her lonesome. She tells that lie in a video posted at the CPUSA's website. "Keep it real," as Baxter Swilley likes to say, just doesn't play with the CPUSA.

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Tea Party, Coffee Party and... Latte Party???

The Latte Party USA is a Facebook group that offers frustrated Americans a place to let loose with humor and wise cracks. The group's slogan is "Wake Up and Smell the Left." Why? Because the Latte Party is a satirical response to the Democrat Party-controlled "Coffee Party," which is a stupid response to the Tea Party movement across America and, more recently, also sweeping into the United Kingdom. Latte Party USA membership is free and open to anybody, and members are encouraged to post snarky comments and links to stories about tea parties, coffee parties, or any other kind of party. The liberals have had too much coffee already - do they really need more? Yes, says the Latte Party USA, because overly-caffeinated liberals are damned funny. There's no dress code, but a beret will get you a front row seat.