Billionaires attend St Louis Tea Party - pictures

[proud2BlibKansan]

Billionaires for Blunt and Millionaires for (Ed) Martin showed up in full rich folk regalia to thank the Tea Partiers for saving their bacon. They thanked every new arrival trooping by for making them richer. One billionaire, in particular, Mark Magas, who carried a sign proclaiming "The Koch brothers and I appreciate your efforts!" thanked people repeatedly for helping lower his tax rate, complaining that under Reagan it was 60 percent, but since Bush it's been more like 40 percent.




(The woman holding the sign for Robyn isn't a Carnahan supporter but a supporter of Lacy Clay's sacrificial lamb this cycle, Robyn Hamlin.)

Most of the people walking into the event were bemused or even smiling at the gaggle of folks dressed in evening wear, holding champagne flutes, with the gentlemen waggling hefty cigars. The signs they saw were thanking them, and it's not easy to pick up on that kind of irony in the ten seconds they had to evaluate the message--especially if it's never dawned on you that you're a dupe for the wealthy. A few got it, though. One woman carried a sign saying "NO SOCIALISM." Magas loved it. "Thank you! That's what I've been saying!" he effused. Obviously, she knew she was being lampooned, because she yelled, "Well, excuse me for working hard and earning my own damn money!"
One of the billionaires, Cathy Sherwin (the redhead) said that some Tea Partiers complained that these people were fakes. But Sherwin's attitude is that the Koch brothers and their ilk have been faking a grassroots movement, never showing their own faces. She figures that, even pretending to be a billionaire, she's as "real" as those puppeteers.

Eventually, the billionaires left the entrance gate and walked down to the area in front of the stage. The Tea Partiers down there were much more savvy about these visitors. They had, in fact, come prepared for just such spies in their midst. The first photo shows local Tea Party guru Bill Hennessey holding a sign that outs the intruders.





But the billionaires were so friendly and outgoing--One Tea Partier told Magas to say hi to George (Soros). Magas responded, "I will. And you say hi to David (Koch) from me."--that there was lots of camera clicking and no confrontation at all.

And the other nice part about the event: I finally got to attend a Tea Party where some truth got told.

http://blog.showmeprogress.com/diary/5010/finally-a-worthwhile-tea-party-event

[begin_within]

1. Thankfully billionaires are finally getting some representation.

So many politicians pledge that they support hard-working, everyday Americans and that is just getting so tired. It's about time billionaires come into their own.

[babylonsister]

2. I'm so happy to see they didn't have to retire their

attire. Fits in perfectly here. Sadly.

But it must be great fun! :D

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I loved it when we did it here

It's great fun!

[47of74]

4. I don't think I could stomach going to a teabagger event

These people have a lot more intestinal fortitude than I do.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. It's great fun to go as a billionaire

We had teabaggers thanking us. They are so freakin dumb.

We were at a health care protest. And the teabaggers believed we were really insurance company executives.

But the best part was when one of the teabaggers started railing on fire departments. So one of our group asked him what he would do if his house caught on fire and he said "Oh, my neighbors would call the fire dept!"

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

5. LOL!

:rofl:

[me b zola]

7. I'm creeped out by the sign that says "communist infiltrator" n/t

[Confusious]

8. I think it's funny

ooooo, communists. I'm so brain dead I have to go back 20 years to find my boogymen.

[Wraith20878]

9. The Glenn Beck look alike is Hilarious

[KillCapitalism]

10. If real billonaires showed up...

we could set up an ass-kissing booth for them and watch huge lines form at Tea party rallies.

[cascadiance]

11. I have some photoshopping and video idea I'd like to work on later...

I think if you edited some video to Eric Clapton's old "Cocaine" song, perhaps with some newer lyrics, and threw in a photoshopped image to replace "cocaine" with "kochaine" in these images in appropriate places in the video, it might be a pretty cool youtube!





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5i6esL5SBI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37swmuC5obs

And it would fit the mentality of these teabaggers totally!

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. ROFL!!

[Beartracks]

14. Haha! Drinkin' the Koolaid, snortin' the Koch-ain! n/t

[cascadiance]

15. Hah, maybe I'll add the pic from this image too....

Would have a good message for those morons!

[kath]

13. Another Misspelled Moranic sign -- see 2nd photo "Nov. 2nd DEMOLTION Day".

Teh Stoopid, it burns!!