A Man, A Plan, Teabagistan

Evan McMorris-Santoro's piece in TPM today on Jason Levin is fascinating, not only because Levin's plan is to bring down the Tea Party movement by providing the critical humor mass to cause the movement to collapse in on itself like a singularity of self-parody, but that the winger blogs on the right are actually helping him do it through their breathless overreaction.

The scheme reads like a sequel to "Being John Malkovich": Levin's group of protesters plan to get in the heads of tea partiers at the Tax Day Tea Parties nationwide Thursday and manipulate them right out of relevance. They'll dress like tea partiers, talk like tea partiers and carry signs like tea partiers. In fact, according to Levin they'll be completely indistinguishable from tea partiers, except for one thing -- they won't be out-crazied by anyone.


"Our goal is that whenever a tea partier says 'Barack Obama was not born in America,' we're going be right right there next to them saying, 'yeah, in fact he wasn't born on Earth! He's an alien!" Levin explained. He said that by making the tea parties sound like a gathering of crazy people -- his group's goal -- the movement will lose its power.

Levin said he got the idea from a counter-protest to the infamous Westboro Baptist Church group held outside Twitter headquarters in January. Levin said the Westboro group broke up after counter-protesters showed up holding signs "even crazier" than the ones held by the Westboro group. "They realized they couldn't get their message out, so they just left" Levin said.

On the Crash The Tea Party website, managed by Levin, he explains how the plan will work. "Whenever possible, we will act on behalf of the Tea Party to exaggerate their least appealing qualities (misspelled protest signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc.)"

The brilliant part is the wingers are piddling all over themselves in the effort to portray Levin as the Dark Lord of the Sith or something.  They're doing most of Levin's work for him, in a movement born of paranoia and hyperbole, Levin has become the ultimate mole.  Steve M. documents The Stupid:

Um, are you getting the idea that this is just an adult class clown having a good laugh at the teabaggers' expense?

The blogosphere fans of the teabaggers aren't. Their teeth are still clenched in self-righteous rage. They still think this guy is an existential threat to them. Gateway Pundit writes:

Beware- Leftist radicals are planning on attacking and smearing the tea party patriots this week.

Michelle Malkin posted a must-read report on the tactics and history of these leftist thugs who are out to destroy the tea party movement. Take a minute to get informed. These crazy thugs will stop at nothing to destroy those who stand in the way of their radical socialist agenda. Remember your camera. It may be your best weapon.

The Michelle Malkin post links to the very Free Republic thread and other pages that reveal that Jason Levin is a harmless joker. She knows he's having a good laugh. So does Mr. G. Pundit. And still these people are girding their loins.

Malkin, even as she links to the Twitter page on which Levin thanks her for the publicity (alongside evil socialist tweets such as "Student vs. Staff Volleyball (all day) + Payday + Springbreak = A day full of WIN!" and a link to a masturbation-themed clip from Weeds), refers to Levin as one of many "publicity-seeking malefactors" and "left-wing leeches." She invokes "saboteurs" and "smear merchants," clearly putting him in that category.

Bob "Confederate Yankee" Owens goes even further at Pajamas Media:

The crashtheteaparty.org website exists for one reason and one reason only: to stifle the voices of those with whom they disagree and to render mute a rising chorus of dissatisfaction with a government that is acting in ways that deeply distress a growing majority. It is a censorship plot. It is an attempt to stoke anger and distrust, and it is as insidious and distasteful to the hearts of free men as any book-burning or pogrom.

Eeek! Eeek! Levin's a dangerous menace! 

These clowns are literally falling all over themselves in a concerted effort that's resulting in making themselves look like idiots in order to try to stop a concerted effort to make them look like idiots.  Levin doesn't even have to show up on Thursday.  He's already won.  The snarkological damage has been enormous.

If it wasn't for the fact that these goofballs might actually end up in Congress, I'd be laughing my head off right now.  But Jason Levin gets all the credit in the world for this impressive social jujitsu.  Just the threat of him showing up making Tea Party crazies look like nutcases will practically guarantee the prophecies of unintentional comedy will come to pass.

Thursday's going to be amazing, folks.  Stay tuned.