Milwaukee Tea Party: 10,000 Strong plus 1 Lib Thug
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Saturday’s Milwaukee Tea Party and Constitution rally was held at Veterans Park on the shores of Lake Michigan. By anyone’s measure, the rally was a huge success.
If I wasn’t dealing with some temporary limited mobility issues I would have been there, but the pictures and videos are pouring in from FaceBook, Twitter and the ever growing conservative blogosphere.
Milwaukee area radio had been buzzing about the event for the past few weeks. It seemed every time I heard about the rally on the radio or read something on the event website, yet another great speaker had been added to the lineup:
- Michelle Malkin Author, Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies
- Scott Walker Milwaukee County Executive
- Vicki McKenna Rock Star of Radio WISN Radio Milwaukee, WIBA Radio Madison
- Joe the Plumber Author: Fighting for the American Dream
- Rachel Campos-Duffy Blogger at AOL Parent Dish Author: Stay Home, Stay Happy
- Pat Snyder WSAU Radio, Wausau
- James T. Harris WTMJ Radio, Milwaukee
- Willie Soon, Ph.D Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Marc Marano Former Spokesman for Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma Web site: ClimateDepot.com
- Eric O’Keefe Sam Adams Alliance
- David Clarke Milwaukee County Sheriff
- Mark Block Wisconsin State Director, Americans for Prosperity
- Pastor David King Founder, Milwaukee God Squad
- Rebecca Kleefisch Conservative Correspondent at Midday With Charlie Sykes
- Linda Hansen Wisconsin Prosperity Network
- Manny Perez JNA Staffing & Representative, National Hispanic Assembly
- Chad Kent Chad Kent Speaks
- Tim Dake Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty
The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department estimated attendence at 10,000, and as has been the norm at Tea Party events, there were no problems with violence.
All except for that one liberal provocateur.
The Underground Conservative has a great article on the incident that ended with the arrest of the lib disruptor. As detailed in that article, lib bloggers are already trying to spin this into a story of “mob violence”. Statist blogger Renee Crawford claims in her version of events that the disruptor was a – say it with me – victim being chased down by a mob of angry white men, acting in response to the call to violence that the speaker at the time of the incident (Vicki McKenna) was “preaching” from the stage.
Multiple recountings from other attendees tell quite a different story. They recall a hostile agitator getting into as many people’s faces as he could, screaming a mixed bag of obscenities and liberal talking points. All agree he was there spoiling for a fight. The video that is posted in the Underground Conservative article backs this up. Despite Renee’s interesting claim that she was the one to call in the police “to save him from the mob”, he was arrested after striking a woman who was trying to take his picture.
All I can say is: Renee, you’re amazing. 10,000 people somehow missed what really happened in front of their eyes, but you got it right.
Renee has tried to defend her article with comments she left at the Underground Conservative article. According to her attempt at defense, her description of “a mob of angry white men” was not a racist comment.
A second time you have simply amazed me, Renee.
Update:
This is the best video clip I’ve seen so far showing the attitude of this thug, as well as the complete lack of his being “chased by a crowd of angry white men”. Renee Crawford had also made the claim that Joe The Plumber was also involved in the altercation, intimating that he had acted as an aggressor. Joe is clearly visible here, attempting to calm the thug down and keep the situation from escalating.
And our liberal thug friend was not alone. It was good to see that the Obama supporters turned out in such force for their counter-protest:
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Great job! Nancy Pelosi tried to sneak in to Houston Friday evening. I read of her arrival on FB, and grabbed an extra sign, I had in my closet. She was asked to speak at the North Cypress Hospital, which is about 4 miles from my home. It’s a Dr. owned hospital. The bill says no Dr. owned hospitals, so you can guess how the meeting went. Wonder how much she was paid?
The most amazing thing happened. Over 200 people came from all directions. We were on the grass between highway 290 and the feeder road in front of the hospital. The police would stop cars on the feeder to allow protestors to cross the busy feeder ( rush hour coming home) to protest with us. Some had signs, some didn’t. All ages were represented. The traffic on 290 would honk, the semi’s blasted their air horns in support and those on the feeder rolled down their windows to cheer us on, and honked. It was exillerating!
When I left I walked away with a couple in their 70’s. Her Dr. is at that hospital. She was calling him in the morning!