Kenyan Embassy Mocks Tea Party Movement, Promotes Kenyan Tea With Capitol Tea Party

The Kenyan Embassy is set to promote one of its biggest exports and mock the tea party movement at the same time.

According to Talking Points Memo, the embassy has sent out invitations to a tea party next week, inviting attendees to "Find out what a real tea party is like."

The event, to be held at the U.S. Capitol, will feature tea tastings, food pairings and tea leaf readings, according to the invite. Kenya's deputy prime minister is also scheduled to attend.

One of Kenya's biggest exports is tea, and it bills itself on the invite as the world's top exporter. The crop is even included on its coat of arms.

The embassy's tea party comes less than a week after Tax Day tea party protesters descended on Washington, D.C.

A recent CBS/New York Times poll found that many self-described tea partiers are also "birthers," who doubt President Obama's birthplace. According to the poll, 30% of tea partiers and 20% of all Americans believe that Obama was not born in the U.S. and therefore cannot be the country's legitimate leader. Despite the release of the president's birth certificate, many believe that he was born in Kenya, where his father lived.

At last week's tax day protests, attendees held signs saying "Go Back To Kenya" and "A village in Kenya is missing its idiot."

Jon Chessoni, the Kenyan Embassy's first secretary, struck out at birthers in a 2009 Washington Independent article about a forged copy of a Kenyan birth certificate for President Obama. Chessoni told the Independent that "it's maddness" to continue to question Obama's birthplace and that birther claims are baseless.

Comments

[I told U so]

05:51 PM on 05/02/2010

What I would like to know is this: If the birthers have seen the birth certificate, just what proof DO they want? It means that no matter what you show them, unless it's a birth certificate with Mombasa General Hospital on it, they won't believe it - and if there appears a birth certificate from Mombasa General Hospital, even if it's faked, they will believe it. Sad. The whole thing boils down to the fact that they just can't accept a Black man in the White House.

[bytheC]

11:47 AM on 04/22/2010

Baggers manage to make worldwide laughing stock of themselves!!!! Looooove it.

[Autoboxx]

02:42 PM on 04/22/2010

Not as much as those tea party crashers.. Arent those clowns the biggest idiots you ever saw?? LOL!!

[miasmom]

06:37 PM on 04/22/2010

What tea party crashers?

[bamma]

02:24 PM on 04/28/2010

No..

[jimimosey]

11:43 AM on 04/22/2010

How many tea party members receive Social Security checks? How many receive Medicare benefits? How many use public parks, drive on public roads and had children in public schools? Where do they think these things come from? If you really believe that your taxes are not worth paying, please consider the alternative. To remove government involvment in your lives, you must also send back your Social Security checks, remove yourself from Medicare assistance, do not use the roads and bridges, public parks, public libraries or public schools. Or you may choose to continue with the hypocrisy. For the principled folks who populate this white wing movement, this should be an easy choice. Say no to the above "soclialist" elements of our American governmental system, or SDASU. What would make any rational person believe that a TP candidate, once elected, would actually do anything differently from those in power now? If you don't like government, are you really willing to do without government-funded benefits. The reason our founding fathers created a tax system was to ensure the public good but many TP members want it abolished. If you don't like taxes, please start by removing your presence from the above. Hey, its a start and would have an immediate effect on reducing costs. Maybe then the rest of us will buy into the fact that you actually walk the walk, not just rail and rant against a system from which you freely benefit.

[Vetinari]

12:30 PM on 04/22/2010

All of them.

[kimohavoc]

01:00 PM on 04/22/2010

Probably the ones that paid into social security their whole working lives and retired, you know that promise the Federal Gov't made to them when they took ss taxes and medicare out of their pay checks every week.

Why is it so many of you don't grasp the difference between the levels of gov't in this nation?

You do realize 95% of public roads are the responsibility of the state, county and citiy in which they exist; only interstates fall under the responsibility of the Federal Gov't.

Generally speaking, parks, libraries and public schools are also the responsibilty of the state, county and city in which they exist.

Which tax system is it you think the founding fathers created for the public good? Income tax? Social Security? Medicare?
I am really curios as to which taxes you believe they created.

[MlaChake]

11:09 AM on 04/22/2010

@CabinGuy Tea Bugger... Pictures of huts in Kenya
http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-51356.0.html

[Denni]

10:33 AM on 04/22/2010

The idiocy is that birthers HAVE to know that Kenyans love Obama, and they would proudly claim him if there was any remote legitimacy to their beliefs that he was born in Kenya. His father didn't even LIVE in Kenya when he born, did he? I thought he was still in the U.S. when Obama was born. Do they think that Obama's mother and grandparents traveled to Kenya while the Senior Obama stayed behind in the U.S.?

[Vetinari]

12:32 PM on 04/22/2010

Yes. Then they called Hawaii to forge BC and newspaper notices.

Its all part of a 50 year old liberal plan to overthrow America and instigate the communist revolution!

[Brandon Mendoza]

12:34 AM on 04/23/2010

shhh!! Don't tell them the plan! Now they'll be on to our communist socialism!

[notso sure]

10:01 PM on 04/24/2010

Get a clue!! He is not even co-herent alone inteligent!! He is not an american citizen because of his parents. They must be natural born citizens. Check the facts. He is a fraud & will be thrown out of office along with all his cronnies. They all know it. They are shaken in their boots. 20 million tea partiers say so.

[Denni]

08:22 PM on 04/26/2010

Satire, right? His mother was born in KANSAS for pity's sake. If it's not satire, it's scary, whatever it is. I don't think those are tea leaves the baggers are smokin'.

[Bertalein]

02:43 PM on 04/28/2010

What a coincidence, you are not coherent either.

[SchmataHari]

08:51 AM on 04/22/2010

The tea party movement is a world-wide laughing stock. I'm thrilled that Kenya has the forsight to utilize them for profit to help their country. Hey, does that mean the tea party is actually doing some good? hmmmmmmmmmmmm

[emma richmond]

01:56 AM on 04/22/2010

The Tea Party say's the Government is to Big, well it's time to give everything you getting from the Government Back, Stay off the Parks that paid for by the Federal Government, the Trains and the Buses for Senior Citizens. Almost all these haters are Over weight feeding of the Federal Government. All these Protesters should next month send the Social Security Checks back to the Federal Government, don't use your Medicare Cards this is paid for by the Federal Government, these Senior Citizen need to cancel the bus service that the Federal Government pays for, other need to stay of Public Parks all of these things are paid for by the Federal Government and this Fat Pig that told people to throw Bricks through Windows, this Pig get's money every month from the Federal Government, they should look at they Envelopes and see the word Federal Government, they want him to keep his hand of they check, he can by not sending them they checks that's the only way he can he keep his hands off, be careful of what you ask for. You need to Repsect the President.

[CabinGuy]

11:57 PM on 04/21/2010

Third world country with people living in huts telling us what to think about dissent and the tea party people.

[mawrm]

12:40 AM on 04/22/2010

Wait, I missed the party where they're telling us anything. They're just trying to sell some tea! It's a huge income earner for them. That's what Americans call "capitalism", not so?

[ThirdSection]

01:42 AM on 04/22/2010

Huts? Do they also dance around camp fires and boil missionaries in big kettles? I didn't see any of that in this picture of Kenya:

http://endangerededen.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/nairobi-cbd-area.jpg

[mike lagos]

11:00 PM on 04/21/2010

Drinking Kenyan tea is so easy even the Tea bagging Cavemen can do it.

Love it Kenyan Embassy!!!!.
Kenyan Embassy should open the invitation to all, so that we can all come to DC and drink that sweet Real Kenyan Tea.

[Burudika]

02:28 AM on 04/22/2010

Asante! funniest quote of the day

[quindy]

10:14 AM on 04/22/2010

LOL. This is the funniest post. Fanned.

[mawrm]

10:47 PM on 04/21/2010

This is epic funny!! Kenyan tea is one of the best varieties out there so this is an excellent opportunity to promote it.

[Rational-1]

10:08 PM on 04/21/2010

Maybe those liberals atttending can discuss Kenya's AIDS epidemic, outbreak of teenage prostitution, female widows becoming posessions, and why so many young mother are dying during child birth.

[ThirdSection]

01:30 AM on 04/22/2010

And while we're discussing that, we could also buy some of their tea, and discuss the witty marketing move they took in order to raise revenue with which to solve those problems.

[Ibackobama]

11:12 AM on 04/22/2010

Snap!! Fanned!

[robphilnz]

05:52 AM on 04/22/2010

And they can discuss America's extremely high teenage birth rate, 38th place in quality of health care, high mortality rates for children under 5 (20% higher than much-maligned Cuba), high gun homicide and suicide rates, . . . . . . . .

[isis]

10:02 PM on 04/21/2010

The only things getting too big are banks, corporations and media consolidation.

[mike lagos]

08:47 PM on 04/21/2010

Yes, unfortunately lil tea bagger we do have computers in our huts. Wannabe my face book friend?

It's a small world nowadays buddy.

From
Kenyan Tea Village
say hi to Obama

[quindy]

10:18 AM on 04/22/2010

Teabaggers don't have computers.

[1will]

08:37 PM on 04/21/2010

Wow....it's great that they can take a break from cutting the clits off of little girls to make fun of others.

[JustAThought56]

09:12 PM on 04/21/2010

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a tradition in many part of Africa, driven largely by superstition and ignorance.

But FGM is decreasing in Kenya, where it is illegal, and there is an entire government ministry working towards its eradication. And the church there is also actively working to change the tradition. So give credit where credit is due.

[tavote08]

10:01 PM on 04/21/2010

Do some research my friend, if you have any customs or traditions I'm sure you would not want them mocked, especially out of ignorance.

[CabinGuy]

11:59 PM on 04/21/2010

Great example of moral relevance. Disfiguring women is a custom we need to respect?

[1will]

08:35 PM on 04/21/2010

Kenyans have computers and TV's in their huts?

[ywcachieve]

09:44 PM on 04/21/2010

Yeah, but teabaggers don't have them in their trailers.

[sheaintsayin]

09:50 PM on 04/21/2010

Touche! And fanned for flagrantly fragrancing the stench of that premise!

[tavote08]

10:03 PM on 04/21/2010

GOTTA LOVE THE IRONY and the ignorance!!!

[ThirdSection]

01:39 AM on 04/22/2010

There seems to be a certain segment of commentators here who have this notion that Kenyans all live in huts. Anyway, for those of you who only know Kenya through depictions made of it in old Warner Brothers cartoons, here's a photograph of modern Nairobi to contrast that view. You'll notice a multitude of paved streets, automobiles, and buildings made of concrete, glass and steel, but no huts:

http://endangerededen.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/nairobi-cbd-area.jpg

[1will]

05:40 AM on 04/22/2010

Sorry....I read Obama's autobiography. Many of the relatives he visited did in fact live in huts.

[pindiva]

11:09 AM on 04/22/2010

I'm sort of disappointed that Nairobi looks a lot like Phoenix. I pictured more romance.