Tea Party protesters are civil, bathed and decent.
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Sunday, April 26, 2009 16:18
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
The Left has consistently shown nothing but vitriolic hatred for anyone opposed to their views,
*Chuckle*
Yea, the right's just been full of warm & fuzzies all this time. Very accepting group, them.
Thanks for the laugh, though.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
I missed the signs where anyone at the Tea Party's compared Obama to Satan, or dressed up and demonized anyone on the Left, as happened to Bush almost routinely at LEFT WING rallies.
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And for all the talk by the MSM that the tea parties were nothing more than propaganda organized by large corporations and folks with BIG, deep wallets, they expect folks to miss the irony of their bogus charges.
Yes, Fox News did COVER the story, as it was legit news. But for folks on the Left to complain that this wasn't a truly grass roots fueled event, is ridiculous.
This after 8 yrs of dissent of the most vulgar, course and even violent sort that we've seen since the late 60's. This from the folks who organize " protest " marches which are nothing more than cleverly disguised rallies for and put on by the Socialist Party and financed in large part by BILLIONAIRE George Soros.
Hypocrisy, they name is the Left Wing!
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
And for all the talk by the MSM that the tea parties were nothing more than propaganda organized by large corporations and folks with BIG, deep wallets, they expect folks to miss the irony of their bogus charges.
Yes, Fox News did COVER the story, as it was legit news. But for folks on the Left to complain that this wasn't a truly grass roots fueled event, is ridiculous.
This after 8 yrs of dissent of the most vulgar, course and even violent sort that we've seen since the late 60's. This from the folks who organize " protest " marches which are nothing more than cleverly disguised rallies for and put on by the Socialist Party and financed in large part by BILLIONAIRE George Soros.
Hypocrisy, they name is the Left Wing!
The stories I'm hearing are that Fox didn't just "cover" the tea parties, but rather that Fox was the de-facto SPONSOR of them, and their "coverage" started weeks in advance - in fact, was essentially PROMOTION of them, not "coverage" of them.
There are allegations that Fox News on-air personalities were doing recorded messages, that Fox was sending out mass e-mails, in short that Fox News was the corporation organizing and paying for the tea parties.
So for you to claim that they are anything LESS than propaganda organized by large corporations and folks with BIG, deep wallets might turn out to be TRULY ironic.
So all of this may be nothing more "grassroots" than a cleverly disguised rally for, put on by, and financed in large part by BILLIONAIRE Rupert Murdoch.
I'm still looking into this as time permits, but here's a couple quick links to some disturbing details:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200904080025
Note Glenn Beck's "FNC Tax Day Tea Party" tagline. Do news channels normally try to put their name on the stories they "cover"? I don't recall Katie Couric touting the "CBS Virginia Tech Shooting". It seems to me that Fox is trying to brand the parties as their own. Question is, did they climb on board AFTER the parties were organized, or did FNC actually cook up the whole idea? And it's a question YOU should want the answers to as much as me, 'Rap. If you think the Lefties are being duped and used as shills for corporations, shouldn't you decry being used in the same manner?
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/04/more_tea_party_symbiotics_fox_
news.php
Stay tuned,
Mike
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Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
And for all the talk by the MSM that the tea parties were nothing more than propaganda organized by large corporations and folks with BIG, deep wallets, they expect folks to miss the irony of their bogus charges.
Sadly, there more truth in this than I'd like to admit. While the tea parties started out as a grassroots movement, mostly by Ron Paul supporters and small government advocates, they WERE co-opted by mainstream Republican cheerleaders. That's particularly frustrating because, while we need all the help we can get, these are the very same bastards who were snickering at Ron Paul in the primary debates when he was warning us about the economy. The very same Bush bootlickers mocking us because we dared to point out the emperor's new GWOT wore no clothes.
So, to see them jumping on the bandwagon at this point (ie. too late) is not only annoying, it's also a bit suspicious. Glenn Beck basically called Ron Paul a terrorist during the primary campaign. The folks at Fox took every opportunity to mock us and promote their corporate approved candidates instead. But now as they sense the political winds changing, we see a convenient change of heart.
I'm not sure we need those kinds of allies. All I see them doing is shitting on the legitimacy of the genuine libertarian movement. I almost wonder if that isn't their real goal.
SergeantX
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I'm not sure what to make of this other than that I heard these tea parties were initiated by a couple of stay-at-home moms who were getting sick and tired of everything and, yes, probably talk radio and Fox picked up on it first for some reason (could be because it was NEWS? Hmmmmmm.... 
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What I do know, from listening to Beck and Hannity for a while now, is that they did support Bush in many areas, but one of the areas they did not support him on was his spending. Many times they blasted him on spending and on the subject of immigration. So to say they were bootlickers is a bit of an uninformed statement. I'll also mention that Hannity may have covered the Atlanta Tea Party on his FOX show, but he also promoted it on his radio show which is on an ABC-owned station out of NYC. Same thing goes for Beck, I think.
I've seen clips of newscasts saying these parties were anti-Obama, anti-government, anti-taxes. But I watched Glenn Beck's program broadcast from the Alamo that day. He said, flat out, it wasn't about party, it was about freedom. He said "Democrats SUCK" which got cheers, "but no more so than Republicans SUCK" which got even more cheers. AND he asked questions I didn't hear from any other reporter that I'd seen clips of (I did see something on CNN.com about this, however). The most important of which was, "Why now? Why didn't people react like this 4 or 6 years ago when Bush was in office?" The answer was simple. People got complacent, as Americans have a tendency to get. Yes, there was some acceptance, but then it got worse and worse and, unfortunately for Obama, the stimulous package and continued bailouts were the last straw.
That was MY take on it. My opinion alone.
But it's also my opinion that if some rich person DID finance this, it's really no different than George Soros giving millions upon millions of dollars to organizations like Moveon.org or ACORN. Same exact thing and one side should not blast the other (pointing out BOTH sides here, folks) for using the same tactics.
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Mal: "Yeah"
Zoe: "So not running now"
Mal: "Not so much"
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But it's also my opinion that if some rich person DID finance this, it's really no different than George Soros giving millions upon millions of dollars to organizations like Moveon.org or ACORN. Same exact thing and one side should not blast the other (pointing out BOTH sides here, folks) for using the same tactics.
How about blasting both sides for duplicity? Ours is a history of being suckers for one "side" or the other. Fact is, they're they same side and they're playing us.
SergeantX
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Quote:And Americans are so easy to play its scary. They think they're being anti-government? Talking about freedom? All they're doing is dancing to someone else's tune.
Fact is, they're they same side and they're playing us.
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And Americans are so easy to play its scary. They think they're being anti-government? Talking about freedom? All they're doing is dancing to someone else's tune.
The really frustrating thing is that seems a ubiquitous fact of politics. The rank and file of pretty much every "movement" consists of flag-waving morons. So it invariably reduces to an ugly game of demagoguery with unscrupulous "leaders" manipulating their respective mobs. I don't know how we get around that.
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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