PHOTO: MSNBC's "Faces of the Teabaggers"...SEE if you can detect the common theme on these faces.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/faces-of-the-tea-party

Faces of the Tea Party - Team Cosgray

Kari Huus says:When we arrive, the smell of baking cookies pervades the Cosgrays’ ranch-style home in the countryside outside Monticello, Ind. Outside, it is clear and silent except for their chatter, and the crunch of our footfalls crossing the field covered by cut corn stalks.

The Cosgrays are a close family, knit together by conservative Christian beliefs. They work hard, study hard and live in a place where they have their own water and power supplies, and where they could plausibly be self-sufficient. Their oldest son Alex, 27, farms 20 acres of family land - refusing government subsidies, on principle.

To Sam and Laura Cosgray, massive government spending in the name of averting economic crisis has been an affront to their common sense, and their sense of fairness.

“We bust our backs every day going to work, teaching our children values and working, and that you don’t rely on the government... (you) make it on your own,” says Laura Cosgray, a 47-year-old mother of four. “Then the government has the audacity to come in and take our money... to prop up the banks that are failing because of corruption and greed.”



The Cosgray family on their farm outside of Monticello, Ind. From left, Nicole, 16, Rachel, 20, Laura, Sam, 48, Tyler and his baby, Bella, 4-months-old, Amanda, and her husband, Alex.

[unapatriciated]

1. Do they seriously live in white county?

[tishaLA]

2. Isn't that hilarious?

You really can't make up shit like that.

[WillyT]

3. Why Yes... Yes They Do...

:rofl:

:hi:

[eppur_se_muova]

39. Freepers never can spell -- they forgot the 'r'. nt

[young but wise]

4. Ugh, I hate the media.

Where are the faces of people that are not involved with the corporate funded tea party?

[Bitwit1234]

5. Since my sister was a tea party nut from Indiana I didn't

think every body there was. Goodness. And look at the lie....patriots. they want to destroy they country and the constitution what in the hell kind of patriot is that.

[SoCalDem]

6. Well-fed white folks

low information voters with some time on their hands, apparently.. Perhaps they could be convinced to relinquish some of the farm subsidies they no doubt are getting.. THAT could help with the "deficit" they all care so much about (suddenly).

[HughBeaumont]

7. Get the fuck over yourselves.

What, Cosgrays, you think you OWN "hard work and studyin'"? For every story like theirs, there are 10,000+ others that do the same things they do and get nothing but bony fingers for their efforts. I always resented the implication that people aren't financially successful because they don't WORK hard enough.

"massive government spending in the name of averting economic crisis has been an affront to their common sense, and their sense of fairness." I see. But massive government spending on the two wasteful wars and wasteful tax cuts for the wealthy . . .. that's pretty much OK in your books, right? Assholes? Can we stop living under the fairy tale that the National Debt went from $0 to $12 Trillion AFTER January 20th, 2009? Hmmm?

[dawg]

10. Damn straight!

:bounce:

[Erose999]

"When she worked at a drive-in bank, she put Tea Party flyers into the canister with the cash"

Note the use of "worked"... PAST TENSE lol. I wonder what the circumstances were that resulted in her leaving that job?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

17. Probably harassing people with political messages

Fucking assholes.

[Nordmadr]

24. Something I think should probably get her fired. N/T

[Kalyke]

42. I would have complained. Seriously, I would have parked, walked into

the bank and asked to speak to the manager.

FWIW, my hubby's boss sent out a companywide email urging his employees and their families to vote for the Republican for governor. I realize that we live in a Right To Be Fired, errrr.... Right To "Work" state and that he owns the company, but where the hell is the decorum in business anymore?

[mysticalchick]

46. Ohhh no ...

.... I'd be having NONE of that. Uh huh. And I'd say the same thing if they were doing it for a democratic candidate. Just no. I will not foist my ideas on you and I won't have yours foisted on me. I would have taken that one all the way up the food chain.

[Ian David]

8. There were about 5,000 people at King Richard's Faire a couple weeks ago.

Out of those 5,000 there were six African-Americans (not including the three who worked there as performers).

At Glenn Beck's rally of 87,000 Teabaggers, there were four African-Americans.

Beckapalooza-goers' racism barely out of view -- kinda like the paranoiac bulletproof vest just under Beck's shirt
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/beckapalooza-goers-racism-barely-out

[dawg]

12. Whiter than a ren fair.

That's pretty damn white.

[leveymg]

9. Is that a state of mind or a place?

[unblock]

11. common theme? given that they also feature a black couple, i give up.

i have no doubt at all that the teabagger, as a "party" is racist and wildly disproportionately white, but of all the media attention, this seems like an odd choice of links with which to make this point. those crowd shots showing few if any non-whites would work better.

or maybe i've misintepreted your o.p., the common denominator being that their faces are all fugly. :evilgrin:

[LynneSin]

13. well I'll give them credit - at least they refuse to take government subsidies

most of these tea-party idiots want to protest their government but first give me my government check.

[BootinUp]

28. I wonder if that is really accurate

The government props up agriculture in this country in ways not immediately visible. If they are supplying corn for ethanol, they are more than likely benefiting from government policy that subsidizes ethanol production and raises the price of corn.

[olegramps]

50. They benefit directly from government stabilization of prices.

[Zoeisright]

54. They benefit directly from government in many, many ways.

Where did they get that land? If it was inherited, there's a good chance the government gave it to one of their ancestors. Did any of them ever go to school? Do they listen to the radio, get information from the National Weather Service, ever visit a doctor, ever drive on a public road? Do they buy any food from anyone else? Those were all provided FOR THEM BY the government.

What a bunch of whiny assholes.

[Contrary1]

14. They all have bad haircuts...

I'll excuse the baby, she has no choice in the matter.

[upi402]

15. "Stop taxing my Cheez Whiz and Wonderbread!"

Patriots => duped
The chickens love them some Colonel Sanders.

[Erose999]

27. Fact: Sarah Palin loves Cheez Wiz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2TGqk18-eg

Fun begins at 0:32

Palin herself is much like Cheez Wiz. An imitation of a better thing, full of poisons and fillers, offering little of beneficial substance.

[dionysus]

38. whiz goes great on cheesesteaks

[Erose999]

44. I prefer provalone or gouda myself. But I guess Wiz is probably how they do it in Philly nt

[dionysus]

49. i like provolone too, but i guess in philly they use american cheese or whiz...

[aquart]

16. How fortunate none of them is disabled or chronically ill.

Talk to me when Sam is over fifty and global warming has reached their land.

[bullwinkle428]

18. "White County Tea Party Patriots"? This is like an SCTV sketch!

:rofl:

John Candy totally could have played the guy on the far right!

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. (big grin)

:hi:

[Erose999]

19. "For the first time in her life, at age 50, she voted and exercised her conservative leanings."

Definitely the "something for nothing" crowd as KO calls them.

Bitch never voted in the 32 years she was eligible and now she wants to talk about how we're "going down a dangerous path", and "heading into a socialistic system here".

The article goes on to say what got her interested in politics was

< article >
the rant by CNBC's Rick Santelli in February 2009 expressing outrage over an Obama administration policy to help distressed homeowners, even if they had bought more house than they could actually afford. The rant went viral on the Internet, where it was embraced by conservatives and derided by liberals as political theater. < / article >

I am thinking it was probably an e-mail forward that put that meme of the "overspending poor" into a racist context.

Because you know all the problems in America are caused by the poor who only have 1% of the wealth and not the top 2% who have the rest :sarcasm:

[butterfly77]

34. +10

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

21. I'm sure they are all voting for Mike Pence though

Another scumbag who asked "How much" anytime Bush wanted to spend.

[HughBeaumont]

22. "GUBMBMINT SPENDIN'S BAID!!!"

" . . . except'n fer . . . stuff WE support . . .

[Nordmadr]

23. I see disgusted self righteousness. N/T

[krabigirl]

25. Too much food?

[iamtechus]

26. Wow, a farm! I wonder when they got their forty acres and a mule?

[spanone]

29. have they all sworn to forego their social security and medicare in the future?

[11 Bravo]

30. Wow, what a cross-section of America! They run the gamut from pale to pasty!

[LongTomH]

33. "So White They Glow in the Dark?"

:rofl:

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[Kalyke]

43. Why would you say that?

There's nothing wrong with white people. I'm white. I'm betting a goodly number of people on this board are white.

The people who need to go away are the mindless numskulls who have been so brainwashed by all the conservative media that they absolutely refuse to believe the truth if it smacked them upside their heads with their (government-run) Social Security check.

I will concede, however, that most of the people in the numskulls category seem to be white, insofar as the Tea Party is concerned.

[JamesA1102]

32. I don't remember them doing "Faces of the anti-war movement" nt

[butterfly77]

35. Exactly..

What I was thinking,saw this earlier on msnbc website and couldn't even read through I was so angry I don't want to hear their bulls***!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

36. And if they did it would've been all blue mohawks and anarchist types.... Not that there's anything

wrong with that.

[dionysus]

37. pasty rednecks...

[RainDog]

40. Did anyone in the media bother to ask them if they knew Bush/Paulson did the bail out?

or were they encouraged to lie to themselves and pretend the economic mess in this nation is about anything other than Republican economic policies?

[704wipes]

41. They certainly are outstanding in their field !

nt :-)

[yellowwood]

45. Big Farm Subsidies? Check it out

Just coincidentally, a Cosgray family in Monticello has received $ 316,104.96 in farm subsides in the last five years?

http://farm.ewg.org/addrsearch.php?s=yup&stab=US&zip=&last=cosgray&first=&stab=IN&i=Search+Recipients&fullname=&stab2=AL

Look up Cosgray on farm subsidies for Indiana on this site. I suspect they're all connected.

But, hey, they don't want anybody getting any gvernment handouts!

[Mika]

47. These over fed "patriots" remind me of the opposition to Chavez in Venezuela.

Confused and helping the domestic AND foreign forces bent on destroying the very freedoms they espouse protecting.

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[ThatsMyBarack]

48. Another cookie-cutter reality show on TLC?

This pic kinda reminds me of that sort of thing....

:yoiks:

[BarryMeNot]

51. Christine O'Donnell wannabes.

Watch for some of the kids running for senate in the next few years.

[yellowwood]

52. Please

Someone with investigative skills:
See how much they get in federal subsidies.

[Zoeisright]

53. Stupid breeds.

That's what I see.