{"id":1243,"date":"2009-04-15T16:43:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T23:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2009-04-15T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:02:08","slug":"some-tea-party-tidbits-you-may-have-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"Some Tea Party Tidbits You May Have Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tea Baggers must be proud of their little parties. Even though attendance has fallen far short of their expectations, they were able to get their message out thanks to their media sponsor, Fox News. Media Matters has compiled a nice little montage of videos from various Tea Vee sources:<\/p>\n

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But there was so much more. For instance, Joe the (fake) Plumber had this to say<\/a> at a Michigan TP:<\/p>\n

“Let me give you another extremist view, ‘In God We Trust.’ Say that too loud in some parts of America and you will be shot. It’s terrible.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joey the P didn’t bother to specify what part of the country that would be. I can’t think of any place where militant atheists are knocking off folks who quote from currency. However, I can think of whole regions (I’m looking at you southerners) where fanatical gun enthusiasts revel in making violent threats directed at liberals, minorities, or anyone they view as different. Amongst those southerners is Texas governor Rick Perry, whose tea party address<\/a> sounded more like a call for a new Confederacy:<\/p>\n

“We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Texas wants out of America, I say let them go – and take the rest of the south with them. I’m sure they’ll be very happy in their theocratic utopia, railing against imagined threats of Socialism – or worse, as Cody Willard from Fox Business News demonstrates by urging us to fight the Fascism that’s permeating the country:<\/p>\n

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Glenn Beck’s Acute Paranoia Revue took to the road to host the Alamo’s tea fest. The entire hour featured musical accompaniment from the Motor City Jackass, Ted Nugent, who famously taunted<\/a> Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, and Barack Obama to “suck on”<\/em> the end of his assault rifle.<\/p>\n

Neil Cavuto attended a lame rally in Sacramento, CA, where he interviewed a girl who appeared to be about nine years old. He tried valiantly to put words in her mouth to the effect that she was there as a committed protester, not because her parents made her be there. But she defiantly refused and, at the end of the segment, she shouted at him that she was really there because she got to cut school. Nice try, Neil.<\/p>\n

Cavuto and Beck devoted two full hours of live programming to the Tea Bagging. That’s a huge chunk of broadcast real estate. And it isn’t over. Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Greta Van Susteren have yet to air. Hannity and Van Susteren previously announced that their programs would be live with the TPers.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there are going to be an untold bounty of both comical and disturbing episodes erupting in the hours and days to come. But these were a few that I didn’t want to let get away. Fox News will begin spinning the days events into a fantastical misrepresentation of reality this evening. At least the truth about Fox’s role as the PR agency for the Republican Party (and the Tea Party) is becoming better understood by more people. Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has summoned the courage to honestly portray<\/a> today’s events:<\/p>\n

“[W]e call call it astroturf, it’s not really a grassroots movement. It’s astroturf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s it in a wingnut shell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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