The Main Stream Media and Coverage of the April 15th Tea Party
posted by pylornsApparently the mainstream media is calling the huge numbers of protests in all 50 states a group of nutcases, right wing terrorists, whom the government is suggesting be watched in the future. The only mention of it on MSNBC is the mockery of teabagging. But oh no, when Cindy Sheehan was out there protesting you know they were all over it like flies on poo.
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April 16th, 2009 at 2:17 am
Okay, Py? My man?
Uhm… not too many of us care about these peeps. I find their methods to be trite and somewhat foolish, and a pretty pathetic way to try and rally support for Conservatives and Republicans (and no, I don’t consider the two to be the same). Real change comes from efforts that aren’t cheap ways to get attention by the media and the commentators- and that goes for the likes of Sheehan and her ilk.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Real change comes from real effort and replacing the current political class with people who are not “of the system” agreed, but you have to start somewhere.
I heard an interesting comment a business owner who was attending a rally in Sacramento yesterday when asked by a reporter if he thought that a 3rd party candidate would come out of this stuff. The business owner said, that if we went the way of that – like some other countries its likely we’d have the same issues with multi-party systems. He said that our two-party system has served us well over the years and we mearly need to make change happen within the parties. I agree with this to a point. Both parties have let the radical sections take the helm instead of the base. Hence why the complaint that they are both off base.
April 18th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
As a history student, I feel like this is making of mockery of what was the true power of the Boston Tea Party. The event wasn’t about sending little tokens through the mail as if they were black spots on a bible page. A lipton pouch is not a symbol of fear or recourse. If these people want to protest taxes… then don’t pay them. Don’t file. Find a good lawyer and take it up with the Supreme Court. March on Capitol Hill. Rally the masses and do something about it. Risk getting arrested and hung up as an example, but if you think the representative government is doing something wrong then as a responsible citizen it is your privilege to do something dangerous and rowdy to change it.
I am not afraid of an envelope of darjeeling, and neither is your governor.
Allowing the media to make such a field day out of this has assured that next to no one can take them seriously.
April 18th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Marie, you said it perfectly. These tea parties are safe, packaged little “protests” that amount to as much effect as Code Pink’s famous “protests” where they pretty much didn’t do dick. They’re off-message and off-target, and are as effective as a stale flatus in the wind. They deserve my derision and my mockery, and they’ll do absolutely nothing except make the messengers look like fools.