‘OWS vs. Tea Party’ – Is This A Reality TV Show You Would Watch?
- Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:07am by
Mike Opelka
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Would you watch a reality competition TV show featuring Occupiers facing off against Tea Party members?
Think of it as “The Apprentice” meets “Survivor” with a dash of “Big Brother” tossed in for good measure. That’s the elevator-ride pitch for a new TV show in search of funding and a home.
“Occupy VS. Tea Party” is the brainchild of producer/author/musician Gordon G.G. Gebert. Gordon hopes to fund the pilot for his show and get it on air (or the Internet) before the November election. He has chosen the web to raise funds to cover the initial production costs. Using Kickstarter, Gebert hopes to raise $10,000 via “crowd funding.” He has until Thursday, July 19th to reach his goal. (As of this writing, the project still needed around $4,200.) People who help fund the show will be listed in the credits and depending on how large their contribution may be, could even be seen on the show.
The Blaze spoke with Gordon Gebert while he was doing some of the initial casting for the pilot. While the show has garnered serious interest from different cable outlets, there was also an expressed intent in directing the outcome of the competition to suit the political leanings of the outlet. Gebert held back selling out the rights to his concept. It is his dream to allow the real debate between these two entities to be carried out on television, without the direction or nudging of someone who favors either side of the argument.
Last week, Mr. Gebert was a guest on “First Shift,” a liberal radio talk show hosted Tony Trupiano. In this interview, the program’s format is explained as well as the “crowd funding” process.
Pay close attention to the opening of the segment as Trupiano mentions that he would like to “kick Glenn Beck’s ass.” The host says that he wants to fight both Beck and Rush Limbaugh, but considers Beck to be a much more challenging opponent:
According to the show’s creator, some big names are interested in participating in it:
- Chuck Woolery has raised his hand and wants to host the show.
- Ted Nugent has allegedly expressed interest in being on the show if it’s on a network. (Obviously, Ted would be a member of the Tea Party team.)
- Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer has also told the producers that he wants to create the music for it.
Would you watch a TV program like this? Would you fund a TV show like this?
Take our Blaze poll.
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Comments (105)
Soul Leister
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:38amI was with the TEA party when we marched on the capital (surrounded it and demonstrated our outrage at the direction this country was headed)… I also attened Beck’s Lincoln Mounment extravaganza (not the same… too much religous pap… won’t attend another… don’t know anyone that will… the people I traveled with were likewise unimpressed… the TEA party was not a religious movement it was, and still is, a TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY group… NONDENOMINATIONAL… and certainly not religious)… I will not be going to any more SERMONS FROM BLEEDING HEART WANNA BE PREACHERS… there is church for that… stay our of my politics, pockets and the discussion all together.
There is no comparison between the TEA party and that unwashed band of rapists and murderers pretending to be a movement… the only movement they resemble is a bowel movement… the only thing going for “occupy vs TEA Party is, the TEA Party is listed as the “HOME TEAM”… that much is true…game set ad match.
Report Post »Soul Leister
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:38amI was with the TEA party when we marched on the capital (surrounded it and demonstrated our outrage at the direction this country was headed)… I also attened Beck’s Lincoln Mounment extravaganza (not the same… too much religous pap… won’t attend another… don’t know anyone that will… the people I traveled with were likewise unimpressed… the TEA party was not a religious movement it was, and still is, a TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY group… NONDENOMINATIONAL… and certainly not religious)… I will not be going to any more SERMONS FROM BLEEDING HEART WANNA BE PREACHERS… there is church for that… stay our of my politics, pockets and the discussion all together.
There is no comparison between the TEA party and that unwashed band of rapists and murderers pretending to be a movement… the only movement they resemble is a bowel movement… the only thing going for “occupy vs TEA Party is, the TEA Party is listed as the “HOME TEAM”… that much is true.
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 10:03amGosh, how many times did you march????? You sure told us enough times
Report Post »spirited
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 11:11amStill rotfl
Report Post »RedManBlueState
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:09pmYou must need new shoes by now. How many miles have been marching anyway?
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:32amThis just proves how effective the Tea Party Patriots , Rushbo and Glenn Beck are in preaching Constitutional living. The communists/OWs have no fear of the Republican, Rino establishment, progressives.What is the contest anyway, seeing who can lay the biggest pile of crap on a patrol car or smashing windows of hard working American businesses? This is all OW communists know anyway..
Report Post »Morgue
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:29amIn theory, this sounds like an interesting show, but in reality it would be no different from the cable news channels. We can already see ignorant Liberals calling conservatives racists on TV, that need has already been filled.
Report Post »netmail
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 10:29amFOR SURE….I could never watch for the dialogue but a solid beat down in a cage fight might be cool.
Report Post »wethepeoplepress
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:04amlapdog, Do you mean like the way GB destroyed the Tea party movement by making it about religion instead of the Constitution which decided the independents and constitutional thinking conservatives? Because that is what happened and why the crowds are half of what they were at teaparties nationwide.
Skiz I would say OWS and the looney left have won by default and or fair and square. While conservatives hold hands and sing kumbayah the left have scared their voting base and elected officials into doing as they bid.
When the teaparty veered from the principles that made this country great to fight for religious rights instead, We lost the united beliefs we all hold dear, freedom and liberty.
As a grass roots conservative activist that has fought on both sides I am ashamed of my conservative brethren. They think cutting down old growth forest to replant with pines forest inert from life is good practice, Fracking is intelligent, solar is stupid, while they pump corn into there tanks. Countries are independent on fuel from others forms like sugar cane while we use corn? Drill baby drill even if it gets sold overseas as we dont have the refining capacity Stupid is as stupid does and they have hand picked a moron morman for you to choose election day, Is he better than O, of course sheeple, but you have fulfilled there wishes to the tee
All the while you pointed your fingers at the only Saviour you had who could have helped our children s future but he was to KO
Report Post »CHRIS260
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:19amThis is the dumbest dam idea I have ever hard. Cheapens a ral patriotic movement and gives credence to as bunch a whiney brats.
Oh and beck didn’t do anything the Tea Party movement, don’t be a moron. He started his own movement called the 9/12 movement and separated the wheat from the chaff.
Report Post »dsd13130
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 10:28amI agree Chris. I don’t believe Glenn Beck has any affect on the Tea Party. If the numbers have dwindled there, and I‘m not sure that’s true, it has nothing to do with Glenn. Loved the rally in DC!!
Report Post »kiwi1
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:59amNot interested in anymore Leftist/Communist Propaganda. Thanks Anyway.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:58amI would LOVE to watch a debate with OWS and the TEA PARTY a realty show NO but a debate would get the real facts into the people’s mind there should be 12 2 black 2 white and 2 hispanics representing each group
Report Post »Tankertony
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:57amThe best bet is to visit each of these groups live, in person. Then, types like archie, rookie, and enci wouldn’t be able to fool themselves. We already know the Truth.
Report Post »pdw
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:57amI have no use of “reality shows” anyway they are boring and most of them are way to stupid to waste anyone’s time viewing when there is so much that is worth while. Sounds like Obama is hurting for ways to slander again he knows hate is his best tool as he has nothing to offer but hate.
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:53amBesides the Tea Party patriots have real jobs and families. They are also busy fighting DUMBO and his little minions.
Report Post »dannyo
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:49ami would only watch if they showed actual footage of the tea parties, no interviews…the mainstream media is NO DOUBT behind this idea, it is their brainchild (no pun intended, as we know the lamestream media members have no brain) and would NO DOUBT portray the tea party in a conservative vast right wing nutjob light..not buying this for a second..
Report Post »GadsdenGurl
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:47amIt depends. Will they actually have a LEGITIMATE rep from the real tea party, the one startedi n 2007, or someone from the FAKE tea party started as PACS by GOP consultants in 2009 and hijacked by FW?
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:54amLOL, I think we both know the answer to that one. They’d pick the most drug addicted freak from the other side too.
Report Post »opb
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:46amI would be embarrassed to be associated with an OWS show. “When you fight with a pig you both get dirty – but the pig likes it”
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:44amThe biggest problem I see is that he needs to raise the $10,000 from individual contributors by this Thursday. Most OWS supporters don’t get their allowance from mom until Sunday.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:57amFunny. Of course didn’t the spoiled Harvard brats take part in the event?
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:43amdo i want to watch a bunch of dirty free loading college drop outs do mean things to educated employed people?
Report Post »nah, i don’t want to watch that
Silversmith
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:42amThe problem is that we are talking about television. I doubt that either group would be accurately represented or that a show like this would solve much. I also think that while he hasn’t sold the idea for a managed result YET, he will.
The problem between these groups is one of direction. The outrage they both feel is very real. But the only place to find an answer to the way our money is used today is in government. They set the rules and are charged with protecting the interests of the people. Wall Street is concerned with protecting the interests of the stock holders — as it should be.
Occupy is aimed at the wrong people. It‘s our elected officials who are charged with making the rules for Wall Street’s behaviour.
Who knows? Maybe they’ll get their “patriot” on someday.
Silversmith
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:37amI would only watch if ALL the ows freaks started their robotic zombie chant and set themselves ABLAZE,now that’s must see TV.
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:46amOnly problem with that thought is eventually the OWS will depopulate themselves by doing that. Technically that wouldn’t bother me, but it would mean a very limited time span for the show’s run.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:35amThis is just another opportunity for the Lap Dog Media to Alinsky the Tea Party. This guys’ comments already expose their intended goal . Some groups are best avoided. OWS , that Canadian anti-capitalist movement, is one of them. This also just trivializes the underlying issues. Media 24 / 7. Guess old George Soros knew where to place his big bucks : Media Matters. For brainwashing and propagandizing.
Report Post »menticide
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:32amProbably not. I rarely watch TV much anyway. I’m just waiting for the next season of Doctor Who…
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:32amI probably wouldn‘t watch it because they’d do what the media has done and chosen the “lowest common denominator” of both groups because drama is what gets the sponsors. I would, however, like to see the best of both groups get together and come up with some common goals. I mean if I have it right, both groups are tired of crony capitalism, banks getting bailouts, politicians being mere puppets to the lobbyists, and the police state.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:48amBoth groups agree on those issues you listed,it‘s that little part about wealth redistribution that ows loves that’s a non starter for the TEA party or anyone else that has a lick of common sense.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:54amThis was for justangry,don‘t know why it wasn’t put in order.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:34amAye, I agree about the redistribution of wealth. I just don‘t know if they’re full blown commies or want the wealth that was stolen from them through the Federal Reserve or stolen 401K’s back from the theives that took it. I admit I’m clueless about their desires though.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:55amClueless? Don’t think so. You are a walking, talking propaganda machine !
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:57amThat comment was for Just Angry.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:51amCurious why this comment was just given first place, Blaze ?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:58amGuess their time machine has gone “OWS ” – i.e., dysfunctional !
Report Post »GadsdenGurl
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:51amDo you think they would actually pick someone from the REAL tea party or some GOP PAC that is shilling for Romney?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:24amHow can this be a bad idea. The very worst of the Tea Party activity would still be no comparison to the most lame things that the OWS has done.
Report Post »Linden
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:44amRJJ, if a network picked up this show, they could do some creative editing and portray ANYBODY in a negative light, according to their agenda. A reality show is based in a reality but is ultimately entertainment.
Report Post »RedDirtTexas
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:15amNo I wouldn’t want to see the OWS side defecating on the couch!
Report Post »skiz
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:14amThis would not work because the OWS folk would cheat and the TEA folks would play by the rules, but still win.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:14amWhy would I want to watch the idiots of Occupy being devoured all so easily by the true patriots of the country?
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:12amsoon they will team up together to change the goverment and take back the country.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:29amSurely you jest . The OWS and the Tea Party unite ? Dear boy, you must be referring to the anarchist wolves in sheep’s clothing who are “occupying ” those phony Ron Paul comments. The hoodie ” Let’s Have A Revolution / We Hate Rules / Bring on the Drugs ” Crowd. These guys are NOT part of the Tea Party. They are drone OWS dudes created to Jason Levin the Tea Party. Grow up . Fess up. Stop the Smoke and Mirror Lefty baloney.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:45amBarber, Do you remember that interview, I think was on here, with the guy saying he loved covering lefty protests because you just go to the “lowest common denominator” and ask them why they’re protesting? I would think a wise man would go and find out what it was all about for themselves rather than letting the media do their thinking for them.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:49amHave seen enough of the OWS to not want to give these crazed, brainwashed , international, anti-capitalists any more attention. If one doesn’t know what they represent by now ….
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 8:58amFor yourself or from the perspective of what Fox wants you to see?
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:10amThe two groups want similar things, there money spent on them, limited goverment, lower taxes and stop endless wars. Which all in all lead to fairness.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:24am@Individualism, I think the co-opted tea party is fine with the wars. Hell, they’re fine with Mitt.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 9:54amLove the way you guys double team to propagandize. Talking to one another. Parrot style. No Ron Paul propaganda anymore ? Slam the Republican candidate now replaces divide the dumb conservatives ? Hiding in plain sight. Very transparent.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 10:37amBarber, I am trying to UNITE every American under the Constitution the way the founders intended.
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