In the Wall Street Journal, film writer Anthony Kaufman did a fairly straight-forward interview with “The Undefeated” writer/director Steve Bannon. Fine. Good. Proper. Afterwards, though, Kaufman then took to his usual perch at indieWIRE to let his true feelings be known. Mostly, his indieWIRE piece reflects the usual nonsense-complaints coming from the Left over why a documentary specifically produced to tell the story of Governor Palin the MSM refused to tell doesn’t rehash everything the MSM has already rehashed ad nauseum for the last three years.

Blah-blah-blah. Whine-whine-whine. Boo-hoo-hoo. Heaven forbid the public learns the full truth and context about a potential presidential candidate minus everything they’ve already had tattooed on their brain. Then, however, Kaufman gets to this unbelievably offensive and revealing sentence:

For me, the most shocking moment in “The Undefeated,” however, comes with the appearance of a black person about two-thirds of the way through.

No matter how many times I read this (and there’s more), I’m left almost speechless.

Almost.

This “black person” Kaufman references does have a name … and it’s Sonnie Johnson. She’s a person, not a symbol, and she has a mind of her own.  A very good mind.

Before I let Ms. Johnson speak for herself, I’m going to go ahead and call Anthony Kaufman an elitist bigot. You see, the reason the arrival of a black face likely shocked him is probably due to the fact that he’s never bothered to attend a real Tea Party … or maybe Kaufman simply can’t bring himself to recognize Thomas Sowell, Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Lloyd Marcus, Sonja Schmidt, Herman Cain, JC Watts, Alan Keyes, Michael Steele, Frances Rice, Jennifer Carroll, Allen West, Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, Tim Scott (need I go on…?) as “real black people” due to their awful, sell-out, Uncle Tomming Republican-ness.

Maybe if Mr. Kaufman would take a cue from Ms. Johnson and start to think for himself, he wouldn’t find the onscreen arrival of a black face in support of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party so gosh-darned ”shocking.” Obviously, all Kaufman saw in Ms. Johnson was the color of her skin, which betrays something about him, no?

Kaufman’s issues with non-white conservatives truly rears its ugly head in his next sentence:

I’m not sure if it’s what Bannon had in mind when he wanted to seize the audience’s attention, but the arrival of black conservative female activist Sonnie Johnson made me realize just how white everyone appears to be, in both Palin’s Alaska and Bannon’s Tea Party.

He’s “not sure what Bannon had in mind when he wanted to seize the audience’s attention”?

Wow.

Next time, Kaufman should save himself all that typing and simply write: T-O-K-E-N.

And now — at the risk of further shocking Kaufman — I’ll let Sonnie Johnson speak for herself:

Anthony Kaufman published a little blog piece on IndieWire.  In it he takes shots at Stephen Bannon, Writer and Director of ”The Undefeated”.  Bannon is a grown man and he can speak for himself.  But I will tell you what I tell everyone else that asks how I got involved in the the film; Not only is Bannon a genius, he also has good taste.  In case you didn’t check your facts, Bannon also included two blacks in “Fire from the Heartland”.  And after that interview he gave me the best advice I’ve received. “They will try to change you.  People will tell you what you could be, what you should be, or what they can make you.  Don’t let them take away that which makes you great.”

And I haven’t. …

I was able to meet Gov. Palin in Pella, IA for the premiere of “The Undefeated”.  One of the first things she said to me was, “are you ready for all the hate that will come your way for being associated with me”.  I told her, “I’ve got Palin in my blood”.  I wish you would’ve known that little fact before you would downgrade me to the token black in your limited view of the Tea Party.  I am no one’s token.  Nor am I a punchline of what you think is a bad joke.  If seeing me in the film was such a shock to your cerebral, then why didn’t you grow a sack and interview me yourself?  Or is Breitbart right and your lack of a set is shown in your need to hide behind a blogpost. Are you a Enuch? …

If you want to know how Black I am, I dare you interview me yourself.  Just tell me when and where.   I’ll come to you.  It would be my pleasure.  Until then be grateful that, temporarily, you still have Obamacare.  If my appearance was a shock to you, then just wait until our voices are really heard. 

You’ll want to read the whole thing.

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According to the show’s tagline, “Politics and Poker” will give viewers the opportunity to “get inside the minds of some of today’s most relevant actors, comedians, politicians, and pundits as each week we invite guests to play cards and talk shop. The poker winnings may go to charity, but the banter is a battle for the hearts and minds of America.” 

Each show focuses on a five-man card game, where each player gets to pick the type of poker and the topic of discussion for the round they deal. And it supports charities. The winner of each game wins a thousand dollars for the charity of their choice. See who won when you watch the first episode for yourself. 

The pilot episode stars singer/songwriter Lloyd Marcus, commentator Bill Whittle, actor Nick Searcy and writer Joe Reinkemeyer as guests. Actor/entertainer Tom Wilson hosts the show, keeping things light but moving, and with a new slew of cultural commentators each week (and a ditsy TV wife to help with commercial transitions) it’s a solid addition to political debate. 

“We talk politics, we play poker,” Wilson says, introducing the episode. “If you don’t like either of those things get out now.” 

Now, these are not the politically established, so the show feels more like a coffee shop conversation than to your typical CNN or FOX News talk show. Today, voices for and against reason are abundant, and generally not very profound. This show stands out by delivering straight-forward talk presented in an inoffensive, unobtrusive, open and honest atmosphere, that gives five uniquely positioned commentators from the entertainment and political worlds the opportunity to open up and share their thoughts in a clean public forum. 

Shows need a few episodes to find themselves, and I think after a few more this one will settle into a good rhythm. Right now it’s a few good (if occasionally nervous) laughs with some good insight. The show has a lot of potential. 

Aside from that, my only thought is that I hope they bring Adam Baldwin on the show as soon as possible.

…there’s a real possibility that for the first time since the 73rd Oscars 10 years ago, there will be no black nominees in any of the acting categories at the February ceremony. In fact, there are virtually no minorities in any of the major categories among the early lists of awards hopefuls.

What the liberal media might call a “predominantly white” crowd…

I mean, we have the likes of Cher wondering why anyone who isn’t white, rich and Christian would want to be a Republican. Brilliant political mind John Cusack supports the idea of a “Satanic death cult center” outside of Fox News headquarters. Actor John Hamm agreed the Tea Party is a racist institution – on the show hosted by a guy who is upset that President Obama doesn’t act like a “real black president” with a “gun in his pants.” And white comedienne (?) Joy Behar says that only the majority (read: white people) can be racist. Well, I guess as a white chick, she should know. Plus, she studied sociology in college and everything!

Yes, these are the people who believe they set the social narrative in America. And yet…and yet…they don’t seem to live up to their own hype! I mean, here we have what might be the first Oscar night in 10 years with no ethnic minority actors/actresses nominated for an acting award. My goodness, what will George “Smug” Clooney have to say about it?

Actually, considering the high amount of tripe coming out of Hollywood lately, I should think that those excluded from the nominee list would be thrilled by their narrow escape.

Now there may be some of you out there who say that it’s the quality of the performance, not the color of the actor’s skin, that should count. In a rational world, this would be true. But leftists, many of them residents of LaLaLand, are constantly telling those of us who don’t agree with them politically that we are a bunch of bigoted, racist hacks who are destroying the social fabric of America. Just ask Megan Fox! Therefore, it’s quite satisfying to point out their particularly smarmy brand of hypocrisy whenever it pops up. 

John Cusack thinking: Don’t try this at home!

No matter where they live and work, leftists usually live by – and die by – the Balkanist sword. Rather than seeing us all as just plain old Americans, they like to sort us into different groups: black, white, brown, gay, straight, man, woman, handicapped, Christian, Jew, whatever. Divide and conquer is the game. Like the Greek goddess Eris, sow that golden apple of discord and resentment among different groups and then promise to cure all of their ills if they just vote for liberals and trust the powers that be in a centralist government to do right by them. After all, the people can’t be trusted to do right by themselves.

Unfortunately, when color and creed is all you think about, you often get caught in your own web of destruction. Take  Helen Thomas and Rick Sanchez as recent examples. These so-called journalists both made public comments about Jews that were definitely offensive: Thomas said Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go back home” to Europe – where they had nearly been exterminated during World War II by Hitler and his minions. Sanchez, who has been mocked frequently on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, complained that the Comedy Central star  (a Jew) is a bigot and that those who run CNN are “a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah.”

Thomas, a White House press room regular since the Cretaceous period, resigned under the onslaught. Sanchez, a CNN anchor with pathetic ratings, was outright fired. That’s what you get for biting the proverbial hand.

Anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide and Western media may be complicit in demonizing Israel. However, to come out and say such things outright is still considered taboo in the world of media. (Thank goodness for small favors.) Both Thomas and Sanchez rightly paid for their diarrhea of the mouth. “Journalists” claim to be unbiased (which is a load of baloney, IMHO). But as long as they’re making that bogus claim, they should at least attempt to live up to it.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, the Tea Party welcomes anyone who believes in smaller government and greater personal responsibility – no matter what color your skin may be.

But don’t tell Hollywood and the rest of the media. They’re still too busy promoting the myth of their own greatness and holier-than-thou stature to notice. Meanwhile, minorities in the entertainment world continue to bear the brunt of this self-serving lip service.

Who are the real bigots? You decide.

Happy mayhem surrounds Sarah Palin.  Pushing, snapping, hugging.  I couldn’t get near her if I tried, so I just stood in the back watching the circus.  At one point, I couldn’t resist, while she was signing Ron Rivoli’s guitar, I reached out my arm through the crowd and touched her red jacket with my finger!

I spent one week on the Tea Party Express’s three week bus tour across the country.  In each city from Searchlight to Sioux St. Marie to Washington D.C., this great group of patriots and I were received by throngs of loving, passionate Americans who share our concern about the TYRANNY that has hijacked our government.  It’s amazing how many different creative, original ways that FREEDOM can be expressed.  The signs were hilarious and righteous.  Lots of smiling, singing, and photographs.

There were a few protesters on the outskirts of our rallies, but I only saw one up close.  In Albany, NY standing next to a statue of George Washington was an angry black woman holding a sign that said, “Yes, We Can.”  She looked very angry.  The media was on her like flies.  They got shots of our Tea Party crowd with her in the foreground.  I was asked to pose next to her for a group shot.  I kept glancing at her face.  It takes a lot of energy to keep a frown that long.  Finally, I asked her, “Why are you so angry?”  She whipped her head around,  her eyes on fire with hate, and snarled, “Don’t talk to me, Whitey.”  I walked away slowly, wondering why she was so mad at me.

I suspect she doesn’t like white people.

I used to think that black people didn’t like me because of the slavery thing a hundred years ago.  But, I just learned from Lloyd Marcus’ book “Confessions of a Black Conservative” that blacks are taught since the day they are born that “Whitey is keeping them down.”  No wonder why she hates me.  She doesn’t know it is a Liberal lie.

In Lloyd Marcus’ book he talks about growing up in the “projects.”  He says that his family moved into a brand new building that within two years was filthy and dangerous.  Lloyd says, “All I kept hearing from the majority of adults was that everything was the ‘white man’s fault.’  Even at the tender age of nine, I sarcastically thought to myself, ‘How can we stop these evil white people from sneaking in here at night, peeing in the stairwell, leaving broken wine bottles on the ground, smashing the light bulbs, and attacking people.’”

He explains that the “liberal cradle-to-grave government dependency programs kill incentive and ultimately hurt people.  Meanwhile, Conservatism is branded as mean and heartless.  What is ultimately heartless is an ideology that enslaves people in a system that rewards sloth and discourages achievement.”

Lloyd continues to explain that he has “witnessed the devastating effect of liberalism in his own family.”  He writes, “My forty-something drug addicted cousin is a serial ‘impregnator’ with several out of wedlock children.  And yet, he enjoys a new townhouse, food stamps, free health care, and methadone all funded by working taxpayers.  In essence, the government is enabling and funding my cousin’s irresponsible life-style.”

On the Tea Party Express Bus, there was an NBC reporter filming us for a Dateline Tea Party story.   We were weary and stinky from days on the road.  Richie, the young, handsome reporter asked us to discuss the racism charges brought against the Tea Party movement.  I mumbled that I wouldn’t waste my breath replying to that accusation.  The Progressives are just worried that the November election is going to be a Conservative Victory.  Racism… pretty lame if you ask me.  My teenage daughter is on the front of the bus flirting with David, a black teenager:

His black father William is sitting near me sleeping.  Reporter Richie keeps bringing up the race thing, for over an hour.  Finally, I explode, “The President is a Racist!  The “police acted stupidly” comment Obama made about the Crowley-Gates affair was the most racist thing I have heard in a long time.  And shame on the President for purposefully stirring up racial conflict!  It popped out of his mouth at the end of a health care speech when he was off Teleprompter!  Oops!  His Jeremiah Wright training leaking out!”  I immediately realized I’d given the NBC guy the fodder he was after.   I was caught in a tired moment and I didn’t even have my make-up on.  Well… Obama is a racist, but I don’t want to be involved in childish tit-for-tat whining.

I just want my country to be FREE.

When Richie the reporter switched buses, I went back to my meandering on the past days’ events.  After giving short speeches and singing my uke songs in each city, I was getting better at it.  Politics is all new to me, remember.  Boston and D.C. would be the final stops.  In Boston, after I had touched Sarah’s jacket with my finger, I had gone back to watching her talk to her fans when suddenly Sarah had turned around and our eyes met.  She did a double take and said, “Oh!  I love you!”  She hugged me and then she said, “Thanks for all you’re doing.  I want your autograph!”

For the rest of the day I was speechless with a dumb grin on my face…

…Except when I had to give my speech.  I channeled Sarah and it went well:

You should have heard the crowd!  (They weren’t miked.) They were awesome.  Wow.  And…

I met Sarah Palin.

Self-described Black American Conservative Lloyd Marcus was feted last Friday night before the Santa Barbara Tea Party by famed songwriter Tom Snow at Snow’s fabulous Montecito mansion overlooking the valley and Pacific Ocean beyond.

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In less than a month, Lloyd Marcus has appeared on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly, an Orlando Fox TV program, The Bcast with Liz Stephan and Scott Baker on Breitbart.TV, and too many radio shows to mention. 

Pajamas Media TV has discovered him and brought him on board to be the face of PJTV’s American Tea Party project.

He has signed a deal with the same people who handle Paul Shanklin, the talent behind the parodies on The Rush Limbaugh Show, to distribute his music through iTunes, Amazon and Wal-Mart Download.  Lloyd’s albums can also be obtained through his website at LloydMarcus.net

So what does Lloyd Marcus, son of a preacher man, say about all this? How is he keeping his head on straight amidst this whirlwind?

During an hour-long interview on my radio program The Andrea Shea King Show, Lloyd and his wife Mary shared their journey from then to now, and pointed to the influence of people like Rush Limbaugh along the way.

“After the Orlando Tea Party, I got phone calls and emails from all over the country asking me to perform at various Tea Parties,”cLloyd began. “So I signed up for one in Santa Barbara, California.

“Oh!  And I have to tell you!” he excitedly interrupts himself.  “This is a perfect example of the American spirit because the day before the Tea Party, the organizers were told that they could not have a singer!  And their venue got scared and backed out.  They had already flown me in from Florida.  That committee hung in there and fought and found another venue and pulled the whole thing off and 1200 patriots came out — so all these conservatives came out of hiding,” he laughed.

“It turned out great. I was kind of nervous for them because at the last moment they had to change the venue.  But over a thousand people found us, and they were pumped up!  They almost seemed to feel liberated, like they had been hiding in the shadows.  And so this was a breath of fresh air for them.  These people were psyched and fired up!”

After the rally, emcee and national talk radio host Tammy Bruce passed along a message to Lloyd that Mike Leahy of Top Conservatives on Twitter, or TCOT, wanted to talk to him.  Leahy is the publisher and editor of the TCOTreport.com, and has taken the lead in organizing most of the Tea Parties to date. He recently joined Pajamas Media TV where he hosts a regular online Tea Party update newscast.

“He asked me if I would stay in town because he was with Pajamas Television and wanted me stay a couple of days and do some television shows,” Lloyd explained.  “So he drove to Santa Barbara from Los Angeles, picked me up, and I’ve been here ever since.  They have so much stuff on the table, and now they want me to be at the Sacramento Tea Party on the 15th.  It’s just gotten huge.  It’s just been nuts!

“Do you know that as of yesterday, we had 500 Tea Parties around the country, and that number is growing daily?  They are almost expecting double that as of Tax Day.  No marketing firm in the world could pull that off.  This is being driven by the passion of the American people.  This thing is huge!”

Lloyd commented on the whirlwind in which he finds himself.

“You know, there’s something about this that’s a perfect storm,” he marveled. 

“This is bigger than me.  And that kind of overwhelms me.  Yes, a lot of really neat stuff is happening for me, but this is about our country. And it’s big.”

To appreciate that statement, you have to know where Lloyd’s coming from.  He and his wife Mary have been together for 30 years, through thick and sometimes very thin.  Theirs is a story of deep valleys amidst the highs.

First, they’re an interracial couple.

“You can imagine thirty years ago that wasn’t acceptable,” Lloyd began. “Her dad said ‘If I see that guy on my street, I’m gonna shoot him.’  But she told her parents ‘If he’s not welcome here, then I’m not welcome here’.  She was willing to give up that relationship.  But they have changed; her folks are absolutely wonderful now.  They love me and I love them.”

There were other hurdles.

“I was an alcoholic for 19 years and she put up with that,” Lloyd revealed.  “I wasn’t happy with my life and I chose to hide in a bottle.  And when you’re living with an alcoholic… she had to handle everything,” he said softly.  “I had to go into rehab and she had to hold down the fort.  And she did.  So, I’m just blessed.”

Lloyd and Mary Marcus

Lloyd has been sober for more than twenty years.  “When I look back, I was very arrogant in certain ways, my music career wasn’t going the way I wanted and I was smashing dishes and I was just acting like a spoiled brat.  I’ve gone through a lot of growth — we both have.”

Flash back to 1993 when Lloyd left his art director job at a television station to make the leap into singing full time.

“This whole thing is Rush Limbaugh’s fault,” Lloyd laughed, “because I was listening to Rush, and he was talking about people who had lost their jobs due to companies deciding to downsize.”

Inspired, Lloyd decided to downsize himself.

“My company hadn’t done that, but I had always done music on the side, but had never really given it a shot.  I wanted to pursue my music career.  I came home and said ‘I want to quit my job’.”

“Mary said ‘OK, let’s do it’.  I wish I would have had half a brain and a game plan,” he laughed.  “I just walked in and quit!  I didn’t have any money in the bank saved.  That was kind of the arrogance of youth. You could do anything!

“We wound up being broke for fifteen years and to make a long story short, four years ago we were homeless.”  His voice caught with emotion.  “And Mary never threw it up in my face about what I did.  She has just been absolutely fabulous.

“Mary has always supported me being who I am.  Some guys marry women who don’t like them being who they are.  When we were dating 30 years ago, I sat in with the band at this nightclub and when I got back to the table, Mary said ‘Why aren’t you singing for a living?’  So she captured the vision even then.”

Mary added, “I was very excited.  The first time I heard him sing I thought ‘Oh my goodness… this man needs to be out there’.”

Fast forward to Lloyd at the piano with songwriter Tom Snow.  In describing the evening, Lloyd breaks into song, singing the opening notes of “He’s So Shy”, a smash hit penned by Snow for the Pointer Sisters.

“This guy has written songs for… Barry Manilow, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt, Peabo Bryson.  And we’re hanging out at the piano!” he says incredulously.  “Singing together!  That was like too much!  I’m in this incredible home with these fabulous people — Tom Snow– this world renowned songwriter is playing piano for me and he and I are singing songs together and I kept thinking the only thing that would make this totally perfect is if Mary were here.  Because Mary deserves this, you know?” he said, his voice catching again.  “She’s worked her butt off and sacrificed so much.  This is the life that she deserves.”  Momentarily overcome, Lloyd regained his composure and stated with certainty, “But, it’s gonna happen.”

When asked what she thought of the events of the last three weeks, Mary said without hesitation: “About time!  This is fabulous!”

Lloyd’s songwriting comes from the heart about things he has passion for, even if it isn’t considered hip-hop and cool. 

“Everybody said ‘Why are you doing all these political songs?  That’s not how you make it in the music world.  You have to hide your political point of view’.  But I was compelled to write “Celebrate America” because I love my country.  I was compelled to write “Welcome Home Brother” because I really love Vietnam vets.  I was compelled to write “United We Stand” because I loved the mood of the country after 9-11.”

The success of Lloyd’s American Tea Party Anthem validates his belief that it’s based on – as Rush Limbaugh puts it – “talent on loan from God”.

“That makes all this perfect too, because all of my songs’ topics are things I care about.  And so many people always ask me ‘Why are you writing about this topic and that topic and not separating your politics?’  Because that’s what I’m passionate about!

“And that’s why it’s so sweet.  That the very thing that was supposed to be my downfall has been my launching pad. That is so sweet and I thank God so much for that.”

Lloyd and I met several years ago when I hosted a Sunday night conservative talk show on WDBO in Orlando.

Lloyd recalled, “I met you riding home one night in my car and I thought ‘Who is this person?’  And I feel like you pooh-pooh me when I say this, but when I heard you I said ‘This woman is as compelling as Rush without guests‘ because not everybody can pull it off without guests, and you were so compelling alone.  I think I sent you an email or two.” 

Lloyd, who is also a painter, did email me about a civil liberties situation he was then embroiled in over some of his works.  He related the story to my current listeners. 

“I am the president of the Deltona Arts and Historical Center and they called me for some paintings for their Black History Month display,” he began. 

“The representative from the city came and selected three of my paintings — that was on Friday.  On Monday that same representative called and said ‘You have to pick up your paintings because the city manager said we can’t hang them’.  I asked why.  He said, ‘Because of religious themes’.  Now, the only religious themes – one of the paintings had a bible on a nightstand, the second painting somebody was wearing an ‘I heart Jesus’ on a baseball ball cap in the background.  And the third painting was a New Orleans-style funeral and someone was carrying a bible and wearing a collar.  That was the outrageous religious theme!  So I went and picked up the paintings on Monday, and I was talking to my Dad and my Dad said ‘This is totally wrong.  You need to go public.’ 

“Well, I wrote a letter to the editor and I sent the letter via email Monday night. By Tuesday morning, I’m getting phone calls and it just went gangbusters from there.  Papers from around the country were calling me.  Lawyers were calling me.  And these lawyers were acting like sharks with the smell of blood in the water. They were gonna make me rich and blah blah blah.  But I didn’t do it for that.  I did it for the principle, because I thought this was totally outrageous and they were trying to ban any symbol of God from the public square.  And plus, how can you separate religion and God from the Black history? 

“Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver called me and said they wanted to take my case and they would only sue for the city to re-hang the paintings.  Oddly enough, they called the City and the City still said no.  It took about a month of pounding from national media and according to Mat Staver, the story went around the world.  There were papers in several countries writing about it, but it took the City getting pounded from people from around the country and a federal lawsuit.  We had a press conference on the Orlando City Hall steps the day that we filed a federal lawsuit.  It took all that for the City to finally say OK, we can hang the paintings.” 

Lloyd had performed at several troop support rallies around the country, including a rally for 19,000 in Tampa hosted by Glenn Beck, and the Gathering of Eagles in Washington DC.  So it seemed natural to Lloyd and Mary to celebrate their civil victory with a rally and fundraiser for a local veterans’ effort at the DeLand Airport to restore a U.S. Navy PT boat.  That was where we all met:  Mat Staver, now Dean of Liberty University Law School, his wife Anita, also an attorney and now president of Liberty Counsel; and Bud Hedinger, Orlando talk show host who would later emcee the Orlando Tea Party. 

Lloyd continued.  “When Lisa (Feroli) had the Orlando Tea Party and it was going to be hosted by Bud, I contacted her and said “Well, you’ve got to have Andrea, cause she’s part of the team.” 

I then wrote about Lloyd’s Tea Party anthem in my weekly “Surfin Safari” column at World Net Daily and included a link to the You Tube version of it. 

“Oh my God!  When that song hit World Net Daily that’s when it really took off cause that’s when all the bloggers picked up the ball and ran — they’re the ones that made that song national and sparked me getting the call from Fox News!” Lloyd said exuberantly. 

Sacramento Tea Party 

The Tax Day Tea Party in Sacramento on April 15^th will be ground zero for Pajamas Media TV and Lloyd Marcus.  Fox Business News honcho Neal Cavuto will emcee.  Lloyd will warm up the crowd. 

“I know that they are having Neal and they want to broadcast live from there and I think they said they have eight jumbotrons in eight strategic markets, so this will be broadcast live around the country.  I saw something on Fox today that people are calling me the ‘face of the movement’, which is cool,” Lloyd said. 

“Fifteen minutes before, I step on stage and sing some songs to rally the crowd — that’s my job – to get the crowd ready for the speakers. Then halfway thru the program, I come back and sing my American Tea Party Anthem.  And then at the grand finale, I lead the crowd in God Bless America.” 

The Left wants to muscle in on Tea Party action. Leftwing bloggers have issued preemptive smears and plan their own anti-tea party demonstrations.  They’re expected to infiltrate and agitate to cause an eruption in an effort to quash this nascent and growing movement.  But Lloyd’s not convinced they’ll succeed. 

“We are hearing the same thing, but in terms of them having Tea Parties on April the 11th, no way in the world is this going to match what we’re doing on the 15th.  They’re just not going to have hundreds and hundreds of tea parties on the 11th.  Now, the media will probably cover them like they’re having hundreds, but what they’re doing is going to basically be a drop in the bucket.  And as far as them coming to our rallies, they’ll be so totally outnumbered… 

“This thing is rolling along like a steam roller.  And no one could have organized this and planned this.  This is about patriotism and love for this country.  That’s powerful and that is what’s driving this movement.” 

The Future 

“Everything is sort of up in the air,” Lloyd said about his new relationship with Pajamas Media TV.  “Bottom line is they know they want to use me…  and they have a whole lot of other ideas. They haven’t nailed it down. They’re saying ‘This guy has something’.  They’ve asked me if I would be willing to move there.  Mary told me to say ‘Yes.  To everything‘,” he laughed. 

I asked, “Are you prayerful?” Without hesitation, Mary blurted, “Oh my goodness yes!” 

Lloyd added,  “All the time.  I pray about everything.  I pray before every rally.  I haven’t gotten so good that I say ‘OK Lord, I got this one…’ 

“I pray before every event that God will tell me what to do, when to do, what to say, what not to say.” 

“And also to recognize that whatever you do say is perfect. You have to have that trust,” Mary chimed in. 

Lloyd agreed.  “But I’ll tell ya, when you go to homeless, you just learn to be grateful for everything, and that’s why  — somebody just said today “Wow Lloyd, is this stuff going to go to your head? 

“No-o-o-o!  Because I know that this is happening not because I’m smart, and not because I’m talented but… No, this is a God thing.  And I won’t be fooled into thinking anything else.  I could not have put myself here.  God did.  And I am humbled.”  

Author’s note:  To hear the interview, link to:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/HeadingRight/ASKShow/2009/04/10/Lloyd-and-Mary-Marcus-Repeat

LloydMarcus.net

Tea Party information at http://TaxDayTeaParty.com

TCOTReport.com

PJTV.com

Thanks to John McJunkin of AvalonPodcasting.com