The Tea Parties are not just a fringe movement, according to John Zogby, who’s no Republican. As he shows, they’re particularly vulnerable on the war.
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The Tea Parties are not just a fringe movement, according to John Zogby, who’s no Republican. As he shows, they’re particularly vulnerable on the war.
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You wouldn’t know it by the reporting in the MSM. They keep beating the fringe drum as hard as they can. It’s disgusting really.
Bill, it’s a defense mechanism by the MSM. If they recognized that the Tea Party spoke for half the country they would be forced to recognize their own partisan Leftism. They still need and want to believe they are the center of American politics.
Brock,
you underestimate the MSM. They see themselves as the center of the Universe. They think everything goes out from them. They don’t report the events, they ARE the events. Without them, no one would do anything, we’d all be eating mud and grunting without them to lead us to THE way.
Zogby may have the numbers on this one, but the numbers don’t show the attitude. The Tea Party people I’ve seen are PISSED off, and Zogby didn’t have a column for attitude. This is the kind of attitude that gets people into the streets to storm the Bastille.
I just received an email from ProgressNow (one of the tentacles of the infamous Colorado Model), breathlessly demonizing the Tea Parties as “xenophobic extremists”, “fringers”, etc.
Now, granted, over-the-top hyperbole against anyone to the right of Jimmy Carter in Colorado is their stock in trade. But what was priceless was their denunciation of Tea Partiers as radicals.
Really? So…now…”radical” is some sort of dirty word all of a sudden?
I wonder how ProgressNow would take to being referred to as “reactionary”.
T. L. James, this all makes me think that most of the political labels we have today have vastly exceeded their shelf-life. Tea party protests are pro-freedom (less taxes meaning directly more freedom), hence they are naturally liberal (by definition). Someone, who derogatorily describes such protests as “radical” when the protests have more than a two century tradition, is acting in a remarkably hidebound and conservative way, effectively appealing to authoritarianism from centuries ago.
Glenn nails it.
What’s is important is that in this generational Crisis era, there’s going to be a major political realignment of some kind.