Tea Party run by Mad Hatters!!!! (Let's take back the language.)

skip fox

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Fri Apr-23-10 01:01 PM
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Tea Party run by Mad Hatters!!!! (Let's take back the language.)

Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 01:04 PM by skip fox

As we know, those who frame the debate are more likely to win.

Calling organizers of Tea Party "Mad Hatters" is a minor thing, not the entire framing, it is the type of may which might give people pause (besides giving them a little laugh, and being accurate).

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Vogon_Glory

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Fri Apr-23-10 01:19 PM
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1. Agreed. Put Tea-baggers Up Against Alice In Wonderland

Agreed. it's one thing for right-wing chest-thumpers to try to claim that they're representing the Sons of Liberty to a credulous, ill-educated, solemn-faced corporate media. It's something else entirely when it dawns on part of the public that the 'Tea Party' leaders have more in common with the Red Queen, the March Hare, and the Mad Hatter than they do with the likes of Tom Paine and James Madison.

Dick Armey, meet your nemesis, a charming young Victorian-era English girl named Alice.

Maybe it would inspire at least a few more people to discover, just like Alice did, that the Tea Parties' leadership is--just a pack of cards.

:crazy:

:tinfoilhat:

:dem:

:patriot:

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skip fox

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Fri Apr-23-10 01:22 PM
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4. Oh yes!

:)

You have the full implications!

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skip fox

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Fri Apr-23-10 01:21 PM
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2. "Mad Hatters" depicts them (via the Lewis Carroll reference) as

crazily obsessed, cartoonish, frantic, and humanly blind.

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chaska

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Fri Apr-23-10 01:21 PM
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3. BRILLIANT! No more Tea partiers, now they're Mad Hatters.

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era veteran

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Fri Apr-23-10 02:29 PM
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5. Feed your head

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librechik

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Fri Apr-23-10 02:30 PM
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6. man, I thought you said "Mad Haters" at first

makes sense

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mmonk

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Fri Apr-23-10 02:38 PM
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7. That's good though I prefer

Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 03:22 PM by mmonk

batshit crazy. Some of them probably don't read judging from their signs so they may be unfamiliar with Alice in Wonderland unless they made it to a movie theater recently.

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skip fox

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Fri Apr-23-10 03:16 PM
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8. You have a point. But it's not for their consumption, it's for public provocation.

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skip fox

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Fri Apr-23-10 03:30 PM
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9. Someone should do a photoshop of an old Alice in Wonderland poster

with the Mad Hatter jabbering on about nonsense with his 1/2 cup of tea spilling out of his halved mug with Palin's face over the crazy rabbit's and Alice sitting back in shock, wondering what madness is this (what adulthood? what empty political blather?) before her.

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skip fox

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:48 PM
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10. Photoshop of Palin as the Mad Hatter needed.

Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 04:51 PM by skip fox

Let's change the terms of political debate. I can imagine some of these idiots proudly wearing a "Mad Hatter" label (as some did the "Tea Bagger" label), but they'll look stupid in ways we can talk abouyt publically.

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AnnieBW

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:05 PM
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13. More like the Red Queen

Running around screaming "off with his head!" about everyone that offends her.

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skip fox

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:06 PM
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15. Right, but then you lose the "tea party" connection.

Hmmm.

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AnnieBW

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:03 PM
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12. Unfortunately, that compares them to this guy

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skip fox

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:05 PM
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14. I've not seen the movie, but have read the book. And in the book

the Mad Hatter has no wisdom or enduring charm other than as an example of a wacko.

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