New Mexico Tea Party

Great job Lee.. Really showed some of the intelligence out there…lol

Lucky you, Lee. A quick drive north and you can wash off the bad vibes in Santa Fe.

first lee, last night i offered up the lovely kat, for one night only, to anyone who could show me a minority protesting. so have fun with that. (we’ve talked she’s okay with this) how does trying to reduce, reuse, and recycle prevent someone from traveling and enjoying their childhood pleasures?! well, he does seem like he has had a lifetime of sitting in a parked car revving the gas to show his friends the power of his big manly engine, so i’ll let that one slide.the business owner saying “a nice lovely throwback to conservatism of 1941″!…HAHA…ohhhh, those were good times for all! then he goes immediately into his “best burger in town” mode. classic! btw. those four freedoms…fear, want, speech, worship…to bad conversatives are the ones fucking them up!finally, my fav, the ayn rand guy. virtue of selfishness. i wonder if he has ever recieved help that he needed from someones kindness? it’s assholes like him that really piss me off. let that fucker need a kidney and see how fast he doesn’t want someone else to be selfish! the thing i absolutely can not stand in people is hypocrisy and that’s all these teabagging douches are!

Great stuff, Lee. I’m really glad I took the time to watch that. Thank you for sharing it.QT

Awesome Lee. That last guy was my favorite: I don’t want socialized health care/I pay for my health care. I hope that guy doesn’t lose his job, he might develop a healthy appreciation of “socialized” medicine.

@gypsyI enjoyed the business owner and the Ayn Rand guy because they actually made some sense. No, I don’t agree with the philosophy of Ayn Rand and I don’t agree with most conservative values. Neither of them called Obama a socialist, fascist, Marxist. They didn’t have slogans such as “No taxation without representation” which anyone with a 5th grade education knows doesn’t apply here.I liked these two guys because they spoke intelligently without name calling. They made statements not accusations. They didn’t accuse Obama of being Hitler and then say Obama is a fascist becuase he’s a fascist. The guy in Chicago interviewed on CNN truly epitomizes stuid is a stupid does.I don’t agree that the conservatives are fucking up those four freedoms. The neo-con republicans are the ones fucking them up, and those people are hardly traditional conservatives.The Ayn Rand guy is entitled to his opinion. So long as he expresses it in a respectful manner without spouting crap like Obama is communist, I have no problem with him.Lee’s video did a great job of showing at least two types of protesters. The ones who are Fox News parrots, and ones who can make a thoughtful argument (even if I personally disagree with those arguments).

Great work, Lee. I particularly loved the pretzel logic of the “No Taxes” guy.

sierra, i agree, lee did a great job in not just going to the easy soundbite in the crowd. but is the bar so low that we now respect and “like” people just becasue they don’t scream “socialist, fascist, marxist”? i’m not conservative. i’m not religious. i strongly believe that we are contributing to global warming. i do and spend a lot to try to make people less fortunate than me a little more comfrotable in their life. so it doesn’t matter if someone intelligently states their thoughts and beliefs to me, if those thoughts and beliefs go against what i believe in i will always have a problem with it.

Awww… Albuquerque, one of my favorite places!No one asked about the title “Tea Bags– Red or Green?” Since EVERYTHING is served with chili peppers in Albuquerque, it’s important to specify “red” or “green” when ordering. Nice punning, Lee.

Thanks, Lee. I was getting a little too upset over this tea-bagging phenomenon (I need not list all of the blatant absurdities and hypocrisies surrounding the whole thing), frustrated by the idea that so many people in this country could be so blind and ignorant.But when you let these blind and ignorant people talk for a little bit longer than a sound-bite, and approach their position with respect as opposed to immediate hostility, you start to see them as real people, people who are probably quite pleasant to talk to, who have been fooled by those in power into misdirecting their (in many cases justifiable) anger towards an invisible enemy and away from those who really deserve it.It’s easy to laugh at them or get angry at them, but we should be focussing our attention on the people responsible for creating and spreading the lies they believe in.

Gypsy,First, it is possible that the bar has gotten that low. Not really, but in all seriousness I liked what the restaurant owner had to say. He has a strong belief in freedom of speech. He didn’t say that he believed the tea baggers were right or wrong, just that they had the right to express themselves. I think his comment about the name calling was a dig at both sides, and maybe he’s right (that said I do have a hard time not calling someone who says Obama isn’t a citizen a douche bag idiot). The spiel about the burger was free advertising, so be it.The Ayn Rand guy, I don’t agree with him, but he was at least informed and thoughtful. Given what we’ve been hearing and seeing lately from Faux News and their parrot followers, I’d say that guy was a breath of fresh air.

Thanks for the nice comments.I was trying not to editorialize but the order I put segments in was deliberate – the Ayn Rand / egoism stuff was well spoken but I put it right before the guy who didn’t give a shit about preexisting conditions on purpose; the articulate argument for ‘just take care of yourself’ trickles down to stupid. Same with the ‘stop name calling’ followed by Armed And Dangerous…The danger of the tea parties, I think, is that it’s NOT all kooks. (Or totally kooks)

Lee, how is New Mexico working out for you? Is it turning out to be more affordable than California? And if you need to relax after too many encounters with the tea bag crowd, just drive to Ojo Caliente mineral springs… you’ll love it!

We love New Mexico – it’s a lot more affordable.I’m in an income free fall right now but working on some great projects and just need one of then to come to fruition.

As a person who was born and raised in ABQ, I am not so happy to see this. People are free to voice whatever opinion they have, but these “tea parties” are obviously orchestrated by Fox and the far right wing of the Republican party, no matter the claims that they are non-partisan. Why didn’t they protest big gov’t spending during the Bush administration? (answer: because that spending-Iraq, military, etc, “fit” into their political belief system.)As a Latino I am embarassed at the Latino guy who seems to have not have a clue why he was really at the protest except for being spoon fed Fox News propaganda.