The Democrats are doing everything they can to create a mental image in the masses of what the Tea Party crowd is really like. For starters, there is the Congressional Black Caucus’ obvious attempt to bait the crowd into what they must have been sure would be a verbal avalanche of racial slurs. When that didn’t happen, they made it up.
When they were caught in an obvious lie, they blamed poor recording equipment.
Yeah, the reason that none of the recording equipment there, including the cameras from the major networks, were of high enough quality to record the “chanting” of racial slurs heard by Rep. Andre Carson, (D-eceptive).
Right.
Now, the New York Times has gone ahead and compared the Tea Party members to a group of domestic terrorists, The Weather Underground.
Stacy McCain writes:
To suggest that Tea Party activists are fundamentally like SDS and the anti-war movement of the 1960s simply because both engage in public protest rallies is to say that Barry Manilow and Metallica are fundamentally alike because both engage in concert tours.
The main thing illustrated by this New York Times article is the editorial mindset at 620 Eighth Avenue. Guarantee you what happened is that an editor got this cute idea for a feature story and assigned it to a staff writer who dutifully rounded up “expert” sources — professors at Northwestern, Bryn Mawr and Pitt — who obliged by offering their responses to the reporter’s question: “Hey, uh, these Tea Party people — they’re kind of scary and dangerous, right?”
The Weather Underground thought what Charles Manson and his “family” did was righteous. Can you imagine anyone at a Tea Party doing anything as radical as that? If your a liberal, I’m sure you can. That’s why Dana Loesch has to defend the Tea Party against the main stream media’s attempt to associate them with domestic terrorists:
Well, here’s an eye-opener for you folks who think the Tea Party protestors are nothing but a bunch of right-wing racists who just hate Obama because he’s black.
They are about 40 percent Democrats:
First, the tea parties aren’t astroturfing and the tea party attendees aren’t right-wing fanatics and/or racists though that remains a convenient narrative for those on the left who want to neutralize the movement.
Second, though much of the coverage of the tea parties has focused on the issues of the movement (health care, government spending, etc.), it’s worth noting that there’s a lot of ideological diversity within the movement itself. And that in a lot of ways it’s as much about the way we’re being governed as the policies.
Third, given the aforementioned ideological diversity in the movement, liberal efforts (perpetuated by their friends in the mainstream movement) to paint the movement as racist, violent, etc. are likely to backfire. Though, given this poll’s results, I think I understand those tactics more than I have before.
The left keeps hitting away at the Tea Party movement, when the fact is very simple. The people who are protesting are the mainstream. They are protesting the far left.
And they are tired of being mocked, they are tired of being maligned and they are tired of being branded racists and radicals.
