Mark Steyn has an amusing article on the coverage of the tea parties held on Tax Day (April 15, the Democrats' favorite day) entitled, Live Tea Or Die!
It reads in part:
Asked about the tea parties, President Obama responded that he was not aware of them. As Marie Antoinette said, “Let them drink Lapsang Souchong.” His Imperial Majesty at Barackingham Palace having declined to acknowledge the tea parties, his courtiers at the Globe and elsewhere fell into line. Talk-show host Michael Graham spoke to one attendee at the 2009 Boston Tea Party who remarked of the press embargo: “If Obama had been the King of England, the Globe wouldn’t have covered the American revolution.”
The American media, having run their own business into the ground, are certainly qualified to run everybody else’s into the same abyss. Which is why they’ve decided that hundreds of thousands of citizens protesting taxes and out-of-control spending and government vaporization of Americans’ wealth and their children’s future is no story. Nothing to see here. As Nancy Pelosi says, it’s AstroTurf — fake grassroots, not the real thing.
To read Steyn's full article, go here.
2 comments:
Let's check the facts. The tea parties were sponsored by Fox News & organizations tied to Newt Gingrich & other GOP fund raisers. Hardly grass roots. Go here for actual tv Fox screens.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200904080025
Go here for tea party attendance #'s:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/04/tea-party-nonpartisan-attendance.html
Washington DC drew 1000. Hardly grass roots. Iraq war protests in 2003 drew a million in the US (40-50,000 alone in DC.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17636-2003Oct25.html
Lastly for some hard truth, watch this video where a guy schools a tea party about taxes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-gixeO1nk
No insults. Just check out the facts yourself.
No, the tea parties were not sponsored by Fox News. They were already formulating before they got involved. They may have promoted them, but they didn't sponsor them.
Gingrich attended one that I know of as did Sean Hannity and other talk show hosts.
The fact is, the tea parties were started by people who are fed up with the excessive spending and rising debt the government has piled on since January 20.
It doesn't matter who "sponsored" them or even supported them. There were an estimated 2,000 tea parties across the country. They were attended by people of all political parties and persuasions. If the political elites ignore the prairie fire that just got started (see Prop. 13 in California as an example of a prairie fire that fed up people ignited), it will be at their own peril.
Washington, D.C., hardly a bastion of conservative principles.
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