{"id":9243,"date":"2013-03-06T12:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2013-03-06T12:23:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:23:58","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-night-of-the-living-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9243","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Night Of The Living Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These right-wing dead-enders will simply never learn. After having deluded themselves into believing that President Obama’s reelection was dead in the water, that Mitt Romney was a shoe-in to take up residency in the White House, and that all the polls were the work of corrupt partisans bent on deceiving the electorate, you would think that they would have joined the rest of America in the real world. You would be wholly and hysterically wrong.<\/p>\n

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An article posted on Fox Nation declares wildly, and without rational support, that “The Tea Party Still Lives.”<\/em> In one respect it is an encouraging development in that they must at least recognize that the far-right fringe of the GOP has been on life support for quite some time. However, this new diagnosis is based on the same sort of pathological denial<\/a> as the claims that Obama’s presidency was terminal. The poll cited by the Fox Nationalists was commissioned by the Tea Party itself and the depth of the survey’s inquiry was astonishingly shallow.<\/p>\n

For instance, the primary claim by the Tea Party pollsters is that “A plurality of Americans support ‘Tea Party principles.'”<\/em> The principles they are boasting about include \u201cfree markets,\u201d<\/em> and \u201cpersonal responsibility.\u201d<\/em> That’s a pretty vague set of principles that are held by most Americans regardless of party. Having established absolutely nothing with that inquiry, they proceed to juxtapose those results with what they consider to be the principles of everyone else: \u201chigher taxes,\u201d<\/em> and \u201cmore spending.\u201d<\/em> At this point it should be fairly obvious that there is no credibility whatsoever in this poll.<\/p>\n

It is interesting to note that, despite the dramatically biased construction of this poll, it could not even deliver a majority in favor of the skewed choices presented to the respondents. Only 48% said they agree with the “Tea Party principles”<\/em> as described. What’s more, the actual poll results were not published on either Fox Nation or the site of their source, the ultra-conservative Washington Free Beacon. What do you suppose are they afraid of?<\/p>\n

When credible pollsters have asked people whether they support the President’s positions on specific issues such as the budget, immigration, climate change, and gun safety, the results invariably favor Obama<\/a>. And when pollsters inquire as to the level of support for the Tea Party, the results are pitifully low<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the Tea Party continues to wallow in denial with fabricated polling and delusions of grandeur that defy reason. And even after being made fools of by partisan media that led them into the pits of pipe-dream propaganda, they continue to put their faith in media con artists like Fox News. Which, by the way, is all the better for Democrats and progressives who still live in the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get your copy of the ebookFox Nation vs. Realitytoday. Only $2.99 at Amazon. These right-wing dead-enders will simply never learn. After having deluded themselves into believing that President Obama’s reelection was dead in the water, that Mitt Romney was a shoe-in to take up residency in the White House, and that all the polls were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[527,534],"class_list":["post-9243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-nation","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2p5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9430,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9430","url_meta":{"origin":9243,"position":0},"title":"Shameless Self-Promotion: Get My Book, Damn It: Fox Nation vs. Reality","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/7\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you haven't bought my book yet, what the heck are you waiting for? 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