Cross posted at MEGA-DITTOS!!! The Tea Party Cult.
Here's a simple question. You've seen video of tea party crowds waving signs and making noise. But have you ever seen a reporter go up and talk to one. Has anyone anywhere in the media pressed tea partiers to answer some fairly basic questions about their discredited ideology.
Has anyone forced them, out of their own mouths, to discredit their own ideology?
In today's video, I talk to a guy named Scott Shubitz. At the time I spoke to him, he was working on a Ph.D. in history at Florida State. In other words, he is what passes for a "scholar" in the tea party movement. He does have some knowledge of some lesser known facts of history, but he puts those facts into the service of usual "less government" nonsense.
Watch.
[Outside a Town Hall meeting with then Congressman Allen Boyd, August 26, 2009.]
Scott Shubitz: Grover Cleveland ...
Male Voice Off Camera: I was gonna ask you about that ...
Shubitz: ... And there was a drought in Texas in the late 1880's, and he said no. We're not going to bail the farmers out ...
[Cut to zoom out of a still photo of Rush Limbaugh]
Rush Limbaugh: The objective here is to make everyone as dependent on government . . .
{Cut to Shubitz]
Joe Lyles: Should we get rid of like, our emergency response to hurricanes and other disasters ... you wanna get rid of that?
Shubitz: At this point, that's too radical ...
Joe Lyles: At this point ... A natural disaster like a drought, is that something we might want to ...
Shubitz: It's in the scope of people to step in and act for themselves . . . but if a hurricane comes ...
Joe Lyles: How?
Shubitz: How?
Joe Lyles: How? Can you move your farm ... pick your farm up and move it a couple of states over where it's raining? Come on.
Shubitz: [Laughs]
[Cut to closing tag]
We are just a few days away from our internet pre-screening of the film, and the launch of our fundraising campaign to bring the film to a big screen near you.
Stay tuned.