Airborne stupidity: tea party plane flies anti-Obama banner; not smart enough to challenge politicians

Supporters of Ron Paul had their blimp, and now their successors in the tea parties have their own anti-intellectual airborne effort (link). This from the Danville Tea Party "Patriots" - the same group that wanted to burn a Rep. in effigy -

The group’s project coordinator, Susan Lee, raised funds during the last two months to fly a plane over Washington, D.C. morning traffic today with a nearly 100-foot-long banner reading “OBAMA STOP DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY” in five-foot-tall letters.

..."It was just something that I had this inspiration for and I started looking into it,” Lee said. “It was a lot cheaper than (other options) and it’s much more exciting and novel. We’re excited.”

While they were spending two months planning their latest cheap stunt and collecting over $1300 for it, I wanted people to hold politicians accountable and help undercut the mainstream media.

The reader is urged to compare their effort to what I was suggesting during that same two month period. For instance, I wanted people to "cross-examine" Janet Napolitano about immigration enforcement in mid-November. The "patriots" could have easily found someone - even if they'd had to pay them the $1300 - to go to her event and try to ask her the question at the link.

What I wanted could have had a major impact on the Obama administration's policies. What the tea party did was just yet another in their long line of cheap, ineffective, anti-intellectual stunts.

Comments

one of the ways to get your point over is to march by the millions with guns and flags in this way we can take it back and show the world we are back as a nation state that deals with its enemies in the old way.

Lonewacko you are naive. It is obvious those "allowed" to ask questions are planted.....Others are not even allowed in....You just don't get it.

You put too much stock in intellectual responses, LW. BO was not elected after a thorough review of his past or what his future policies could be, but on little more than slogans like "Yes we can!" and simplistic spin and by vilifying George Bush. This is all about visceral politics, not debates from podiums. BO will be defeated in the streets, by the rabble rousers, in the spirit of Samuel Adams. Get real! You may not be impressed by this but the great unwashed reacts differently.