{"id":1242,"date":"2009-04-15T01:24:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T08:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2009-04-15T17:51:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:51:53","slug":"fox-news-get-ready-to-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Fox News: Get Ready To Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

The astroturf-roots charades that Fox News has been reporting as “Tea Parties”<\/em> are almost here. Tomorrow is the big day and Fox has been ramping up their promotions. It has been well documented that these shams were conceived and executed by major players in the Republican Party and affiliated partisan advocacy groups like FreedomWorks. But now Keith Olbermann has put together a brilliant montage that shows just how hard Fox has been working to make these events successful.<\/p>\n

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The giddy elation these people project is reminiscent of a six year old being told that tomorrow the family is going to Disneyland. This has to be the high point of the year for these pathetic souls. The anticipation with which they are dripping seems to fill them with ecstasy. They apparently have gotten over their fear<\/a> that ACORN’s Soros-backed community organizers are lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce just as their festivities get under way.<\/p>\n

The White House is reacting<\/a> to the day of revolting right-wingers in a particularly appropriate way:<\/p>\n

QUESTION:<\/strong> Thanks, Robert. Tomorrow is tax day and a number of conservative groups are organizing these so called “tea parties”<\/em> across the country; there are going to be grassroots uprising revolts against the administration’s policies so far. Is the President aware that these are going on and do you have any reaction to this?<\/span><\/p>\n

ROBERT GIBBS:<\/strong> I don’t know if the President is aware of the events. I think the President will use tomorrow as a day to have an event here at the White House to signal the important steps in the economic recovery and reinvestment plan that cut taxes for 95 percent of working families in America, just as the President proposed doing; cuts in taxes and tax credits for the creation of clean energy jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ll use tomorrow to highlight individual and instances in families that have seen their taxes cut and I think America can be — Americans will see more money in their pockets as a direct result of the Making Work Pa<\/em>y tax cut that the President both campaigned on and passed through Congress.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, the reporter who asked the question needs to be schooled on what constitutes a “grassroots uprising revolt.”<\/em> When the organizing principals are political insiders like Dick Armey and Ari Fleischer, and the PR is run by Fox News, it is beyond absurd to describe it as grassroots. More to the point, though, it’s nice to see that President Obama is not devoting much attention to this. The Tea Baggers can throw their pity party in the vast wasteland of their imaginations.<\/p>\n

For those of you contemplating joining in on the Tea Bagging, I have this word of advice: Be careful out there. The crazy is extra thick.<\/p>\n

Update<\/a>: President Obama:<\/strong> For too long, we’ve seen taxes used as a wedge to scare people into supporting policies that actually increased the burden on working people instead of helping them live their dreams. That has to change, and that’s the work that we’ve begun.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The astroturf-roots charades that Fox News has been reporting as “Tea Parties” are almost here. Tomorrow is the big day and Fox has been ramping up their promotions. It has been well documented that these shams were conceived and executed by major players in the Republican Party and affiliated partisan advocacy groups like FreedomWorks. 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