MSNBC talking head Matt Lewis: MSNBC's "low-brow Teabag coverage" and juvenile criticism of Tea Party protesters was a definitive moment for the cable network, inasmuch as it marked the end of what once was, at least, an interesting network.What do you think? Did TV news deliberately minimize the nationwide protests as merely April 15 tax revolts orchestrated by conservatives and Fox News? Does this budding grass-roots movement (Democrats are billing it AstroTurf, as in fake) against out-of-control government spending bankrupting America got legs?
Do you envision this movement growing like the 1950s horror movie "The Blob"?
There was great rhetoric on Wednesday, but unless there are some concrete plans and well-defined goals this will go nowhere.
ReplyDelete2010 is a good year for "getting the crooks out of Washington", but so far I've seen nothing on the state and congressional district level which moves in that direction.
I don't think it's a flash in the pan at all. The people you witnessed yesterday were real people, with real jobs, (not paid picketers) and very real concerns, taking the time to voice their opinions. They aren't and weren't "freaking out". They have legitimate and cogent arguments. It's not so much about taxes TODAY, it's about the taxes required to cover the checks Barry has written in just 100 days that will take generations to pay off. My 13 year old daughter just inherited one hell of a debt load because republicans and democrats alike are frickin' morons.
ReplyDeleteAs a clear socialist hybrid government appears, a lot of us middle class people are getting very concerned.
I don't give a flying fuck what CNN, Cooper, Shuster, Todd, Pelosi, Matthews etal think or spew, they are petty petty people with only their own interests in mind.
They can mock us all they want, but eventually whay goes around comes around, and as much as they and Obama would like us all to be poor, I just don't see us letting that happen.
I sure as hell hope not anyway.
Deliberate or not, I don't know, but everybody but Fox minimized it. The movement has legs among true believers, but at the moment, that's not a majority.
ReplyDeleteI live in a conservative, Republican-leaning, upper middle class neighborhood in the DC suburbs and this tea party stuff isn't even a blip on the radar. The Botox babes are at Pilates and the husbands are on the golf course. To protest excessive government spending might suggest that they themselves are not doing well financially. You don't talk about money; you spend it in large quantities in obvious ways. And lest you think my community is an island, we are surrounded by similar neighborhoods. Political activism is channeled into fundraisers, because that means a new cocktail dress. It's sad, really.
ReplyDeleteIf there was ANY doubt whether there is an US and a THEM, it was cleared up yesterday. The most disgusting lack of journalistic responsibility in American History was on display. Now our school children are asking about tea bagging. Maybe they can start teaching that along with the abortion rights that deny the parents the right to know, but allow the state to recommend an abortionist.
ReplyDeleteMay it IS time for us disappear. I'm embarrassed for us.
I'm booking my one-way trip to Mars now...
ReplyDeleteNow THAT would be witness protection land!
ReplyDeleteNo shit. The angry red planet. I'm getting fed up with Earth...
ReplyDeleteEarth sucks, don't it?
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