Nine huzzahs, a bucket of toilet water and a two cartons of Luckies to C-SPAN, for making what appears to be the most comical collection of Tea Party Convention videos thus far — which really shouldn’t be very hard. Here is some Georgia speed freak, bulging eyes and all, dressed like a Scottish person and speaking with a Scottish dialect (but only when he wants to). He is “representing” a dead person named Button Gwinnett, one of Georgia’s two signers of the Declaration of Independence, a fact that, until now, only fourth-graders in Georgia had known. Now let’s find a Sarah Palin fan!
Run for your lives.
National Tea Party Convention Attendee from Georgia [YouTube]
National Tea Party Convention Attendee from Orlando, FL [YouTube]
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Nothing like putting a feather in your hat if you want to be taken seriously.
Now I know who buys stuff from infomertials.
I bet this guy’s a hit at the reinactments of southern Civil War victories, also.
His eyes, they don’t blink!
He “signed the American Revolution”! Genius!
Fourth graders AND fans of “1776 The Musical”. Although Mr. Gwinnett is conspicuous in his absence in the play…
I was driving around Portland last week, and I saw a Scottish-Outfitters-type-place. I wondered “Who the hell shops there?”
Now I know.
Oh, god. I’m looking forward to this coverage sooo much.
Is that a quill under your kilt, or are you just happy thinking about Palin?
The convergence of LARPers and historical reenactors that is the Tea Party movement is absolutely terrifying, especially since they’re so BAD at it! But, really, why do they expect to be taken seriously when they’re sub-Williamsburg quality “dress up in frilly shirts and tricorner hats”-ers?
Button Gwinnett, strangely enough, was known to David Cross, who incorporated him into the Founding Fathers/flag-shitting sketch on Mr. Show.
Mr. Button Gwinnett Impersonator calls to mind a very useful term coined by Spanish writer Javier Marias: “vaudeville patriotism.”
And shouldn’t we be reassured that apparently “all the people who love Sarah” have signed that poster? What is that, maybe 150 people?
I do love the scotch.
As long as Alan Keyes is giving interviews, everything’s good.
Now, Button Gwinnett’s been well known among gamers ever since robot Button Gwinnett’s role in Fallout 3, 2008′s biggest game by far.
I do want to see something on Tancredo’s opening speech, where he reportedly called for the reinstatement of literacy test for voting. No, they’re not racist at all.
[re=508557]Accordion-o-rama[/re]: Macaroni, also.
Fake Scottish Guy wants to “encourage the dissolution of this tyrannical government.” That makes him a terrorist, and, according to Glenn Greenwald, a suitable target for government assassination without any nonsense about “a trial” or “rights” or “justice.”
In this case I would have to agree that it is an excellent idea.
How much would you bet he’s a Civil War “re-enactor” too? and the usual leading man in “Hello Dolly” at the dinner theater? And gay, gay, gay….
“I am holding a picture of the next president of the United States, Sarah Palin”♡☺❤✞
I believe Tania from Orlando haz a giggly girl-crush!❤☀♡
[re=508576]Oldskool[/re]:
From your mouth to God’s ears. I love me some crazy Al.
Button Gwinnett was always my favorite on the old Hollywood Squares.
“Tania Ashe” is a pretty good porn name. If only she were hotter…
[re=508569]Vulpes82[/re]: I’m surprised the civil war re-enactors are not there. They dote on everything. I think you’d need a few Klingons to liven things up, though. just sayin’.
I think Mr dressup from Georgia was one of the guys we were fighting against in the revolution.
The Teabagger convention? Just go down this street and hang a right at the stand selling the Gadsden flags, then keep going until you see a row of Patrick Henrys doing the “Give me liberty or give me death” speech and you’re there.
What would be fantastic would be to appear at such a convention dressed as Comte de Rochambeau, who (per Wikipedia):
“… participated in the American Revolutionary War as the commander-in-chief of the French Expeditionary Force which came to help the American insurgents.”
So, you’d be dressed as Ancien Régime aristocracy, documented as aiding foreign insurgents, and unambiguously on the Tea Party’s side.
It would be a hoot.
Is this his real accent or is he “in character” as he imagines dear Button spoke?
[re=508560]Flanders[/re]: Watching him not blink makes my eyes itchy.
Whose side are the Demon Sheep on?
Demon Sheep. Great name for a rock band, NTITAI.
Lets play make-pretend!
What are the odds there would be no teaparty if McCain won? Since most of this debt was rung up my St Ronnie, HW and W and there wasnt a peep from these people, in fact they elected them. There concern only happened when the black guy got elected, gave em a tax cut, suddenly they want their country back? No racism there, no..not at all…just average folks. Great MSNBC has hat guy with a different hat and the guy who had taxpayers=ni***rs on too.
[re=508597]OReillysVibrator[/re]: I’m going with a third option……he’s working on his second fifth of Glenfiddich.
[re=508578]JMP[/re]: But a literacy test would cast the Tea Party movement into oblivion. So there’s that.
Aaargh, me hearty! Yer crank is warm as toast. What say ye?
If the people who actually fought the American Revolution were anything like these jokers, we’d still be speaking English.
These people, they are not even fucking retards. They are kaaa-ray-zee. This Tania the giggler, she has been hauling around a 4 foot close up of Sarah Palin, whom she familiarly calls “Sarah,” to this shindig, to DC, to “various tea parties?”
They are all screaming “look at me, look at me, look at me.” The horror, the fucking horror, of this whole sad example of mass mental illness.
Hey, I’ve known about Button Gwinnett since the 8th grade, when our history teacher/wrestling coach used to make fun of him. His point was that a lot of the dudes who signed the Declaration were gay American nouveau-royalty, not oppressed colonists. With an emphasis on the gay.
Kinda Marxist/reactionary of him, now that I think about it.
More annoying than a Renaissance Faire guy still ‘in character’ during dinner at the Olive Garden.
Never mind that Gwinnett was Welsh. Maybe Willie the groundskeeper was also a signer.
btw, Button Gwinnett is the perfect hero for Teabaggers. What a bitter, whiney person:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_Gwinnett#Revolution
Hey, did he say they were all going to give Sarah Palin a kiss? *All*?
I smell a sequel to Nailin’ Palin….
[re=508597]OReillysVibrator[/re]: The real Button was born in Gloucestershire; the fake scottish act shows the guy is either misinformed or just likes to wear skirts and fancy hats.
Ew, I shouldn’t have said ‘smaell’ a sequel.
Now I feel really gross.
[re=508629]Prommie[/re]:
You have to love the bad cosplay, though. Does that guy really think that this Gwinnett dude walked around in full traditional Scottish dress? He should have carried a bagpipe for full effect.
Incidentally, according to Wikipedia, Gwinnett was Welsh.
[re=508626]honkyman[/re]: Good morrow me froos and shroos, what all this tea partying ruckus be aboot? What say ye? I said… what.. say.. ye..? Hello? Can you not see I am an 11th level half-elf illusionist ranger???
[re=508607]germansteel[/re]: Demon Sheep In Name Only
“Recently, a meth user from Georgia attended the Tea Party dressed as this guy, thereby desecrating the grave of Button Gwinnett and all Georgians.”
Wikipedia – 100% truth.
He just wanted any excuse to wear a skirt. What he’s really wearing is a Betsy Ross outfit with a few last minute alterations.
Wheeee the People!!!
[re=508646]Nim, ham hock of liberty[/re]: That was fast. Sweet!
The costume proves to me that he’s a patriot. The brogue shows me he’s authentic.
“The first-ever National Tea Party Convention started with a bang Thursday, as conservative firebrand Tom Tancredo used his kickoff speech to rail against “the cult of multiculturalism” and the country’s “socialist ideologue” president — and declare that the tea party movement is here to stop it.’
“the cult of multiculturalism?”
Good job assholes way to kick off a convention that is supposed to be about Taxes.
Remember this?
Taxed
Enough
Already
TEA?
These rabid assholes can’t even hide their racism for 3 fucking minutes.
[re=508634]Scarab[/re]: NOTHING is more annoying than a renn-fairy still in character at an Olive Garden.
Needs moar fuckin harpsichord.
That settles it. Teabaggers are the new Tories.
[re=508650]Joshua Norton[/re]: Since you asked for it.
(hope this works; hillbillies fucked with it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Dc_-L4fyLUo
The only reason I remember Button Gwinnett is from my childhood examination of the Guinness Book of Records. Apparently, copies of his signature are amongst the most sought after in the world owing to the fact that among the original signers of the Declaration of Independence he has the fewest surviving copies.
Oh the the Scottish dude? Definitely gay.
[re=508607]germansteel[/re]: so Skoal Rebel gets kicked to the curb?, for sheep?, I see how you are. Why do you hate Skoal Rebel?
Why do you hate America?
p.s. can I haz $430 so I can go to this thing?
They should show in costume. Like the audience in “Let’s Make a Deal”. That would at least add a little dignity to the whole mess.
[re=508636]XOhioan[/re]: The inclusion of this loser in the wiki entry update is spot-on and hilarious. I hope it stays up forever.
[re=508655]Escape Goat Nation[/re]: Do you think they want to hide their racism? I saw a Twilight Zone today(an original- not the remade crap) where a neo nazi sees Hitler come to life – who tell hims what to do. At the end, Rod Serling talks about Hitler(or his shadowy spirit) being present anywhere where a person or a race or any group is hated- the haters bring him. The teabags and their sort see themselves as patriots and “real Americans” when they are the facists they scream about so much.
Pip pip, wot? That guy’s Scottish accent is about as Scottish as Caesar Romero’s mustache.
The only thing anyone in Georgia knows about Gwinnett is the north-of-Atlanta county of the same name. It is know for having the highest per-capita asian latino population in Georgia. New residents moving to Gwinnett County must be either Korean or an illegal immigrants.
[re=508578]JMP[/re]: Curious…..Based on the signage at tea parties, I would think a literacy test would hurt Republicans the most.
How many teatards are there? 500? 600? Isn’t that Opry place huge? Figures…the average teatard has enough sense to go to a real KKK rally. They’re free.
[re=508638]Liquid[/re]: Nailin Palin: Quitters take it Deeper
My question is — where do these people think they will get these new representatives the “Real Americans” they talk about? If they are anything like these people in the clips, I can’t see that they ever could be elected. If they think Scott Brown is different, they are sadly mistaken. He is as narcissistic as the rest of them otherwise, he never would have posed as that naked man in Cosmo.
Also too, if Sarah really believed it, she’d speak for free not take $100,000.00 speaking fee. She must have taken lessons from the book of Rush!
OMG OMG OMG – contents of the tea party convention gift bag. Fanny pack at 0:30!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGUE0_tJ3o
Button Gwinnett raises a very interesting point, albeit unintentionally: most of these tea-baggers reside perpetually in the land of make believe.
Holy shit , they’re everywhere!!!!
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/22/2334311/ishot-5.jpg
That is my new mental imagine of Neihlist
[re=508660]Cape Clod[/re]: Yeah the Guiness Book is where I had heard of him too.
I’m sure that these tea-baggers are going to be setting all kinds of new records for teh stoopid though.
Reminds me of a raging, hardcore Trekkie convention, only without the “cool.”
Button Gwinnett died from a duel that he initiated. Sad.
I had to watch this with the sound off. Conclusion: Scotty McFwappyCap is a huge doucher.
[re=508562]Lefty Lucy[/re]: Two Georgian might have signed something, but how many blow jobs did they have to be promised before they would do it? If were up to the southerners in the founding period, we’d be taking tea in the afternoon–Oh, I guess they are, in a teabagging sense. We’d still have slavery. History of the southern states in the revolutionary period?
Standing up for slavery, special interests and the rich. Some things never change.
Gwinnett County is also home to the “Run Away Bride”, that lady who read “The Purpose Driven Life” to that murder man, and several other idiots. They also shot Larry Flynt there.
Wait. I’m confused. I thought my Button Gwinnett was tucked up there with all the vulva.
[re=508688]whiskey tango foxtrot[/re]:
That is some bullshit swag. Where’s the copy of Mein Kamph signed by Sarah and Glen?
[re=508624]Lefty Lucy[/re]: Ok, literacy test bad idea. How about a Southern accent test in order to vote?
[re=508572]norbizness[/re]: David Cross was once a Georgia 4-th grader, so, there’s that.
There were THREE!
. . . .But please, give us more insightful historical analysis.
[re=508688]whiskey tango foxtrot[/re]: And they guy who thinks the megaphone is actually some sort of cup that won’t hold no iced tea because of the hole in the bottom…
FoxNews reported the attendance at 600,000.
[re=508733]NYNYNY[/re]: Or an ignorance test. You have to take the U.S. citizenship test. If you pass, you fail, you elitist commie.
Yeah Buttons, we need to go back to the Constitution and those halcion times when we had no indoor plumbing, sexy zippers, electricity, dentistry, or internal combustion engines. Those great patriots who had slaves and the near unlimited land resources of an indigent, sometimes combative, but always exploitable people. What say ye, indeed.
[re=508578]JMP[/re]: Yes! The first thing that came to my mind as well. Hooray history!
[re=508724]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Yep, what ye said.
[re=508743]EdFlinstone[/re]: 600,000 X $549 = _________
[re=508664]Suds McKenzie[/re]: Leave skoalrebel alone!
[re=508743]EdFlinstone[/re]:
Which Bill O’Reilley called just short of the billion expected to attend.
[re=508710]Suds McKenzie[/re]: sweet.
[re=508596]give us a bob[/re]: [re=508605]teebob2000[/re]: ok, which one of you precious little angels has been sending Ken e-mails at 3 in the morning?
“We’re all going to give Sarah Palin a kiss[...]” haha that’s a good one – I didn’t know her anus is that big -
It must be pointed out that there were 3 signers from Georgia.
http://www.presidentialgraves.com/graves/button-gwinnett
So is that mule-fucker who was running for Governor there?
Note to Nashville P.D.
They’re your problem now.
Use your best judgment.
What say ye? That Button II is officially insane. Like not even a question. Thank you to C-SPAN (which believe it or not is not funded by the government, not even one penny, a fact I’m sure Button appreciates!) for bringing us such jewels from across the nation.
How can a post involving Button Gwinnett NOT mention this Mr. Show sketch? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrbSy6XZvZ4
“Gwinnett organized an invasion of British East Florida. Due to the convening of the legislature, Gwinnett was unable to lead the troops himself and relied on a subordinate officer. The invasion ultimately proved to be a failure. Gwinnett’s loss of an election for governor in May 1777 is most likely due to the failed expedition.
At this time, McIntosh, reveling in Gwinnett’s embarrassment, openly criticized him for the failed campaign, although Gwinnett was cleared of wrongdoing. Gwinnett challenged McIntosh to a duel, which was fought on May 16, 1777, at the small town of Thunderbolt, near Savannah, Georgia. Both men were wounded. McIntosh survived, but Button Gwinnett died three days later of gangrene resulting from having a bone in his leg shattered.”
My Man!
Where is Scotty’s douchebagpipe?
No references to the Mad Hatter?
I wonder why Wonkette isn’t liveblogging this earth moving event?
Hemmoroid attack?
Shortage of drugs?
Hair appointment?
OK, I get that.
Can’t say I blame you.
But NEXT TIME…….
[re=508808]ez[/re]: So this douchebag got his ass kicked by an apple? figures.
[re=508853]RobPetrified[/re]: I know, right? Did they get snowed in and then everyone died? Come on.
[re=508646]Nim, ham hock of liberty[/re]: How many meth users are already in Congress?
I love the opening shot with what looks like a kind of concerned under cover security guy, talking on the cell phone w the head of security @ the helm w all the cameras…. Do we throw this guy out? Might he be harboring a weapon under the kilt?
By the way– his fake accent sucks.
As MIke Meyers always said– If it’s not Scottish— It’s CRAP!
BraveFart…
News today said 600 attendess
[re=508715]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Been to Shore Leave and it gets way more than 600- and the costumes are a lot better- the Klingons rock
“What say ye?” – “Thank you for your time.”….best ever…actually I prefer the Viking signer from Minnesota, Olaf Brett Favre, or the Michigan signer, Jennifervent Granholm (a transvestite), both of whom wanted to be first president, but, JUST LIKE GWINNETT, had foreign birth certificates…
Well, Gwinnett at least invaded Florida, to get those runaway slaves. There’s that.
What was it like, carving a plantation out of the wilderness, with only recently enslaved Africans to clear the land? It was freedom, people! Except for rivals. They should be shot.
[re=508578]JMP[/re]: Literary test?watch it Tancredo you would be wiping out your base.
She’s the Abomination of the Palin-nation! With Unitary Executives like St. Ronnie, George I, George II, Palin, China’s rise in the world is sure!
They all give Sarah Palin a kiss? So that’s why it cost five hundred bucks.
[re=508724]DustBowlBlues[/re]: What’s more, the British Army enlisted slaves! Thousands took the King’s Shilling in order to be free men!
[re=508742]blinky_twinkie[/re]: Maybe he thinks it’s a beer-bong.
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