National Tea Party Organizers Freaked Out by A New Way Forward

by: Mike Lux

Thu Apr 09, 2009 at 16:45


So I know this may be a little twisted, but there are a few things more fun for me than being attacked by right wingers. I consider it one of the greatest honors of my life that I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh (4 times by name), Sean Hannity, Cal Thomas, and Paul Weyrich, and even had an "expose" of me done by National Review. I get a little thrill every time it happens.

It happened again today, this time as a way of attacking the New Way Forward movement, and as usual, they got the most basic facts in their article wrong. A reporter named Judi McLeod, whose work (according to her byline) has appeared on the aforementioned Limbaugh along with Newsmax.com, Drudge, Fox News, and Glen Beck, "broke" the following news flash:

Mike Lux :: National Tea Party Organizers Freaked Out by A New Way Forward
Mata Hari would have nothing on today's far left, whose latest wolf-in-sheep's-clothing sabotage aims at the heart of America's growing Tea Party Movement.

Sabotage moonbat moves to undercut America's 2,000 plus Tea Parties has bypassed sneaky for sinister.  

"Just this morning, I received word that a new radical organization calling itself "A New Way Forward" has put together an underhanded sneak attack designed to undercut the popular uprising known as the Tea Party Movement," Bill Wilson, of Americans for Limited Government (ALG), warned mainstreet Americans yesterday.

"Simply put, their idea is to stage phony rallies throughout the country on April 11--made to look like they are part of the Tea Party movement--while actually opposing Tea Party principles and supporting the complete government takeover of our banking system."
Memo to mainstream Americans: The far left, masters of hypocrisy and street theatre, will use decoys in "The Way Forward" to pose as YOU in an attempt to undermine and shut down the Tea Party movement.

Just like the Moonbats, they can count on the mainstream media to help them pull off their doublecross.

"`The Way Forward' scam was conjured up by an Obama activist named Michael Lux," says Wilson.  "Lest anyone try to tell you that Mr. Lux is sincere in saying he wants to "help rebuild the banking system", don't you believe it for one single second.  Before starting up his new Obama front group, Lux was a high-paid lobbyist for the AFL-CIO, a top executive for the leftwing People for the American Way, and a special assistant at the Clinton White House."

"His plan now is to divert people's attention from the April 15 Tea Parties by holding his phony rallies, on April 11th.  He knows his fellow left wingers in the mainstream media will go along with his scheme to nationalize our banking system--and that's why it is up to you and me to expose it for what it is right now!"
"So here is what I am asking you to join me in doing now:

• "Alert your family, friends and neighbors to the fact that the "Way Forward" scam has nothing whatsoever to do with the real Tea Parties;
• "If "Way Forward" sets up one of its phony rallies in your community, organize your own protests and make sure the media knows you are standing up for free enterprise and;
• "Send me any information you can to help expose the "Way Forward" rallies for what they really are--a blatant move to socialize our banking system.

"If Michael Lux and his "Obamunist" comrades have their way, they will nationalize our banks, seize their assets, and place fellow Obama lackeys in the top positions of authority.  That's how ruthless they actually are."

Meanwhile, on April 15 be on the lookout for tea-drinking wolves in sheep's clothing.

The only problem? Well, I had nothing to do with starting, or organizing, or otherwise "conjuring up" A New Way Forward. ANWF was started by grassroots activists with no money and no backing from organizations in DC. I heard about it several days after they got it started, and then kept hearing people buzzing about it. I was so impressed with what they had been able to put together, and with their policy ideas, that I just called up the number on their website and asked how I could help, and ever since have gotten more and more involved.

I really wish I could claim credit for it, because this kind of organizing is an admirable and smart way to take on this fundamental issue of what to do on to fix the broken banking system.

Ms. McLeod got one other massive thing wrong as well: Rather that being a front group for Obama, ANWF strongly disagrees with the Obama banking policy.

I guess facts have never been all that important to right wingers like the folks who put out this story, and I do appreciate the mention - I really do. But your lame tea party movement has already been exposed as a sham, guys, so no need to get so worked up about A New Way Forward eclipsing you: it's already happened.  


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I love it! (4.00 / 3)
Great job, Mike.

They seem to think these are bad things.  :-)

Before starting up his new Obama front group, Lux was a high-paid lobbyist for the AFL-CIO, a top executive for the leftwing People for the American Way, and a special assistant at the Clinton White House."

Sounds to me like you been doing good for a long time.  


Ha! Ha! (4.00 / 2)
Gosh Mike, you weren't even the first front-pager to blog about it on your own blog (I did last weekend). Some leader you are!

There was an interesting program segment discussing both movements on our local Pacifica station morning show this morning.  Before this, that was the only context in which I'd heard both of them discussed together.

Basically, they went over once again how the Tea Parties were launched from an astroturf womb.  Makes all the above read like just one more classic case of wingnut projection.  

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3


classic tin-foil-hattery (4.00 / 3)
it just drips with breathless paranoia.

How long can Reichwing extremists keep on shouting "boo"? Don't people get tired of all the crying wolf? If you really believe all this stuff your mind would snap from the insanity of it all .. and that's happening a lot lately and they go out with guns blazing.

And isn't a sinister moonbat an oxymoron?  


Explains a few things (4.00 / 1)
The only good thing I can say about McLeod's piece is that it was well-written. It was all wrong, but well written. It was "well-written" in that it stood head and shoulders above most of the rightwing nutso linguitically inferior crap we hear most of the time. Sadly, that means that lots of people will buy it, hook,line and sinker. No wonder Americans are such a confused lot.

The orginal Boston Tea Party raiders disguised themelves to evade identification as "regular white people", and to keep from being blamed for anything, later on.  McLeod has disguised herself as literary, perhaps hoping to evade later guilt as well.  


I thought it read like a conspiracist's screed. (0.00 / 0)
It will get the few hardcore up in a tizzy and the ten of them might stage a counter protest in Dallas if the location happens to be near a McDonalds. To me it has such a conspiratorial tone that I would think it would sort of scare the large majority of potential participants into thinking they are involved in some sort of uprising that requires them to make a real commitment rather than just going out to hold their clever sign with others in hopes of getting on the TV.

I'll agree it doesn't have a ton of typos and the sentences are complete, but the language is the standard mass email inflammatory yelling that makes the BS-detector of most modestly sentient beings go off.


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WTF with the bambi-ish 'most basic facts...wrong' (0.00 / 0)
you looking for a job with the K-School, down the hall from David Gergen?

WHEN have these fascist bastards given a flying fuck about

basic facts?
complicated facts?
any facts?

I'm reading McCullough's book about harry truman ... in 60 years the Democrats have turned into this pansy ass white collar sissy party who won't call fucking liars, fucking liars - THEREFORE, the fascist party gets their 48 or 55% of the turnout when they deserve 1/2% of the eligible voters.

they haven't given a shit about facts since I watched RayGun run when I was 20 in 1980 - and I SAW that with my own ears.

rmm.  

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Keep it up. (0.00 / 0)
If you're getting attacked by both Kos (assuming that was actually him commenting on the previous posting) and Hannity, I'd say you're just where you should be.

Congratulations!


McLeod's Piece... (0.00 / 0)
... belongs in the great wiki as the definition of vitriolic screed. I can't read past the first few sentences of such vicious garbage.

Mike, you should never (0.00 / 0)
miss an opportunity to link to your site, even for an audience who mostly knows about it.

http://www.anewwayforward.org


Do I detect "populist voter envy"? (0.00 / 0)
I don't know anything about Judi McLeod, but I can't help but believe that there are much smarter conservatives out there, who can talk about very real concerns about a government borrowing that puts not just their own future, but their children's future, into some form of debt slavery. And for what? So that Obama can keep the Wall Steet creeps and crooks happy, while making "down payments" on social programs that he's going to have trouble making the second payments on, unless he sells off the Grand Canyon?

I read some of the snickering comments about the teabag naming problem at dailykos, but I suspect that a lot of the snickers are going to turn to tears in the next few years.

See The Radical Right for a video arguing that conservative populists are dumping the big government faux-conservatives. If the populists within conservative and Republican ranks manage to at least create the illusion that they are really against the ossified Congressional Republicans who helped rape the American taxpayer during the Bush years (and played their part, along with corporatist Democrats, in setting us up for this financial mess), then I can easily believe that a resurgence of the Republicans will occur.

Personally, I'm rooting for populists who lean Republican to help reform that awful party, and similarly for the Democrats. Some rivalry amongst populists for voters that don't have a strong partisan tendency could be very good, in terms of helping voters break out of behavior that maintains the corporatist status quo.

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