The Tea Partiers are wrong – wrong about their rights being under siege, wrong about Obama, wrong about healthcare reform, wrong about the constitution, wrong about guns, and wrong about history.
The Tea Party Movement is nothing more than a joint venture of Freedomworks and Fox News – a show of force for the wealthy, who once again seek to manipulate the uninformed for personal gain. It’s a cynical maneuver, whipping people who have better things to do into a frenzy over nothing much, for ratings and advertising money on one hand, and for fundraising and lobbying power on the other. Who gains? The rich who want to pay less. Fox and Freedomworks. Politicians who care about reelection more than truth. Who loses? Everyone else.
The Tea Party is not so much a political movement as a group tantrum, embracing all who buy into Fox News Channel’s paranoid fear-mongering. No matter what your disaffection, or how absurd, you have a home here. Think Obama’s a foreigner? Stand over here. The specter of socialism keeping you up? Get on the bus. Want to yell “Nigger!” at congressmen…come on in. It’s about the numbers, not the truth.
The sad truths at the center of the tantrum is that so many Americans feel abandoned by our government and can be so easily manipulated by so many wealthy, cold, willing, greedy manipulators – these are the real stories.
Yet so many media outlets ignore the real, compelling Tea Party story in favor of the empty rhetoric and slanderous signs? Laziness? Budget cuts? No journalistic integrity? All of the above.
This is a classic haves vs. have-nots story. Start telling it. It’s the real story.
“there are particular moments in public affairs, when the people stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn.” James Madison, Federalist No. 63, 1788
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