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More Creative Reporting About Tea Party Movement
In an effort to spread their own views about Tea Partiers, the Washington Post today creates a story today out of thin material (their own poll) about how the “movement is struggling to overcome accusations of racism.
In an effort to spread their own views about Tea Partiers, the Washington Post today creates a story today out of thin material (their own poll) about how the “movement is struggling to overcome accusations of racism”:
In a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, most Americans see the movement as motivated by distrust of government, opposition to the policies of Obama and the Democratic Party, and broad concern about the economy. But nearly three in 10 see racial prejudice as underlying the tea party.
Who knows what “underlying” means, but 30 percent see racial prejudice as a factor? You think that might equate with the percentage of strident, big-government-loving liberals among the population? Big surprise! And then this:
Supporters and opponents alike say the movement draws its strength from opposition to Obama’s policies, but they split deeply on the race question, according to the poll: About 61 percent of tea party opponents say racism has a lot to do with the movement, a view held by just 7 percent of tea party supporters.
What idiocy. It’s supposed to be news that those who disagree strongly with tea partiers believe the worst about them? We know that already from liberals’ liberal use of the “teabaggers” slur. Meanwhile only seven percent (who knows how the question was posed) who might have some agreement with the tea party movement think there are tinges of racism within the ranks? That’s not hard to imagine considering that’s the picture that media outlets like the Post want to paint. Unfortunately there are still just enough gullible consumers of the formerly mainstream media to buy into it.
martin j smith| 5.5.10 @ 11:02AM
1: I do not trust any MSM polls or anything from the anyway.
2: You know what, who the hell cares about what they think. But I would say They are the Racists.
3: Attack, attack and attack the libel,slander and smears. The point is they are liars.
So stop whining and call the mout.
24AheadDotCom | 5.5.10 @ 12:37PM
Well, if you don't trust anything from the MSM, that means that - despite millions trusting them - they have no impact on your life!
It's that mindset and more that's caused the 'partiers to be in the situation they are now. They aren't that bright, they have emotional issues, and their underlying philosophy (such as it is) doesn't give them any insight as to how to oppose those who call them "racist". In some cases, their leaders even make it worse by repeating the smear or by buying into far-left ideology (without knowing it).
The 'partiers have the same issues as the RonPaul campaign, right down to a proclivity to playing dress-up games. That shouldn't be surprising since they're basically just an extension of that campaign.
Eventually most people are going to wake up and realize that taking steps that in effect help BHO is not the smartest way to oppose him.
SoCon| 5.5.10 @ 2:37PM
What 'situation' is that exactly, DotCom? The Tea Party folks are a force to be reckoned with; their courage, patriotism and willingness to speak out have inspired millions of Americans to get involved, too.
I'm shocked it's only 30% who believe the Tea Party movement is racist, especially considering the prodigious quantity of lies and falsehoods the LameStream Media have told about them.
"They aren't that bright?" Really? According to the latest NYTimes/CBS poll, Tea Party supporters are "more well educated than the general public."
I think the only one with 'emotional issues' is you, troll.
24AheadDotCom | 5.5.10 @ 5:03PM
If you were brighter you could have found my extensive coverage and reviewed it first. You might have also found the literally thousands of posts about people who are basically on the other side from the partiers (whether they know it or not). Instead, you showed other tea partier traits: impulsiveness and a willingness to smear anyone who says anything negative about them.
And, it's provable that they're idiots: smart people don't think that playing dress-up games, throwing tantrums, or waving loopy signs are effective. That's about all the partiers can do.
For more information, see my comments on the WaPo article:
http://24ahead.com/n/9966
SoCon| 5.5.10 @ 6:11PM
Projection is a pillar of Leftist thought.
"...playing dress-up games, throwing tantrums, or waving loopy signs..." You've just described all of YOU morons on the Left--except you are violent; you throw rocks and bottles at riot-police and destroy private property.
You disagree with the polling results of NYT/CBS? You're so blinded by your hatred for your fellow Americans, you won't even take that Leftist rag's word for it.
Your smear of Tea Party supporters is obviously false--they're better educated than average Americans, and a hell of a lot kinder and more decent than you useless slugs on the Left.
Michael Kennedy | 5.6.10 @ 11:24AM
"If you were brighter you could have found my extensive coverage and reviewed it first. "
Why in the world would anyone want to do that ?
SoCon| 5.6.10 @ 1:57PM
Yeah, that's the ticket--make an effort to read more drivel from this moron.
voted against carter| 5.5.10 @ 11:36AM
It's ALL PART OF THE PLAN.
Can we say "Cloward-Piven Strategy,"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.....grpid=6967
End game reveled:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded
And If you disagree with me, you must be a homophobic, BABY EATING CANNIBAL, NUT JOB RACIST!" So there.
JohnD| 5.5.10 @ 11:46AM
John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, when asked about whether she thinks the Tea Party movement is scary:
"It's not a scary thing," Ono said. "Each person has something to say, and if they want to say something like that, that's fine."
Ono said she thought it was important for people to have different opinions, and that her opinion differed from the Tea Party protesters.
"They probably thought [protesting] was a nice tactic, an effective thing to do," she said. "I think the idea has the power, if their idea has the power then it will stick; the form is not what creates reality ... it's the substance.
http://www.washingtonexaminer......17959.html
Libby| 5.5.10 @ 11:48AM
What a worthless poll. This is like, say, running 30+ front page articles about VA senate candidate Allen using the term "maccaca", then running a reader poll on whether people believe him to be a racist. Does the poll measure that he's a racist, or does it measure how effectively the Post branded him a racist? If you believe that the 4/15 DC tea partiers chanted the n-word, as heavily reported by the MSM without verification, then of course you believe they're racists.
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 5.5.10 @ 12:10PM
Libby: They didn't chant anything like that in D.C last year, I was there with my niece and nephew, and I don't recall even hearing one curse that day. Except for my own of course, but I curse a lot, but that's just a character flaw that I'm working on, and would have nothing to do with the Tea Party. The MSM is getting very pathetic, isn't it?
Libby| 5.5.10 @ 12:47PM
I never believed the n-word chant story - it was just too perfect, wasn't it?
SoCon| 5.5.10 @ 2:19PM
LLL--LOL! Do your niece and nephew wear ear-plugs when they're visiting their uncle?
Andrew Breitbart offered a $100,000 reward for any proof that tea-partiers chanted racist or anti-gay slurs at that rally. There hasn't been ONE taker.
It never happened; it was a democrat setup from the beginning. No wonder we can't stand them.
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Jeff Perren | 5.5.10 @ 12:02PM
"Unfortunately there are still just enough gullible consumers of the formerly mainstream media to buy into it. "
And that - along with the educational institutions who have made them gullible (and educated those who like it that way) - is the ultimate source of the problems in this country in a nutshell.
Tim*| 5.5.10 @ 12:05PM
The Slandering & Un-Presidential Obama has been exposed calling Us "Teabaggers ".
We Tea Party Rebels don't allow agendists ,such as Obama , to " Define " Us.
The Tea Party Rebellion escalates.
Remember In November !
tommy mc donnell| 5.5.10 @ 12:24PM
the party of al sharpton, jesse jackson , charles barron, maxine waters, ect calls other people racist. the party that has practiced the selective oppression of white people(affirmative action) calls other people racist. the party that instutited a racist colonizatio program after its defeat in 1980 calls other people racist. i'd more than 3 people in 10 think the democratic party is racist.
Mimi| 5.5.10 @ 1:01PM
The presidential comment on the Teaparty Just goes to show his loathing of the AMERICAN PATRIOT! Well all I can say is: " We got your message,and feel your utter contempt and GOD help you in November"!!!
Conservative Reader| 5.5.10 @ 2:09PM
The people who think the worst about the tea partiers are the same people who think Janeane Garofooflop is a deep thinker and that Butch Maddow is a real journalist.
Nate| 5.5.10 @ 2:27PM
The demonstrations against the recent law in AZ last weekend were bigger than many of the tea bagger demonstrations in recent months. Baggers make entertaining news stories and get way, way too much coverage.
A very small percentage of Republican voters identify themselves as part of the tea bag movement, and while they have managed to hold some very successful, very large rallies, as a whole -- in light of the fact that there are 320 million Americans and maybe 10 million baggers -- they are a creation of the media, including the jaundiced coverage they receive on moronic talk shows on MSNBC and the demented adulation and celebration of the movement on Fox.
SoCon| 5.5.10 @ 2:50PM
Nate is your typical Liberal hater; suffused with rage and intolerance, Nate's a perfect symbol of the Progressive slugs in the White House.
Just think, Liberal slugs like 'Nate' will be running our health care system soon. Not much love and compassion there.
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 5.5.10 @ 6:03PM
SoCon: Nate up there, is a loser, and he knows it, that's why he doesn't have any friends!! Now Nate, think about this for a second, the reason that the "Tea Bagger" demonstration's (as you call us) weren't as big as the recent Anti Arizona demonstrations may have been, is most of the people who describe themselves as "Bagger's", have jobs, and commitments, and families, and can't just drop everything on a given notice, to go out and demonstrate. I think maybe only 10% of the people that support this movement, have ever been to a Tea Party event, they want to go to one, but they can't. I've only been to the one Tea Party event myself, and that was on 9/12 last year, in D.C. Since then I've been too busy doing what good Taxpaying, Freedom Loving, Law Abiding, Apple Friggin' Pie Eating Americans do, living my life the best I can. But my support for the movement is behind the scenes, like I'm sure the other 90% who support the movement but can't fit in attending a Tea Party Event are doing. We'll see in November, if there is "only" 10 million "Baggers". Is that a deal? I really don't care what your answer is, because I already know what the outcome is going to be, you're going to lose big time come November!!
Oh yeah SoCon, and about the Niece and Nephew, having to wear earplugs? I never thought of that, but it's probably too late now. I've taught them words that no Teenager should ever know, my bad.
SoCon| 5.5.10 @ 6:16PM
Don't worry about it, LLL, your niece and nephew knew those words a long time ago. Haha!
Besides, they're lucky that you take the time to be with them, very lucky indeed. :)
Nate| 5.5.10 @ 6:35PM
I don't see where you're getting the "hate" from. I didn't express hatred; I only expressed a skepticism that a relatively small political movement is what it's cracked up to be on Fox News. The Tea Baggers will have an influence, to be sure, and some of that influence may even be salutary. But I don't think it's such a big deal, and I'm not going to say otherwise just because you accuse me of "rage and intolerance," an accusation that is on its face ridiculous.
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.5.10 @ 7:15PM
You're just another piece of garbage liberal spewing your vicious lies and insults--it's what you do best.
You are ridiculous.
Crawl back under the slimy rock you call home.
GOplease| 5.5.10 @ 7:27PM
T baggers 90% of you are white, most are old, and now you say 7% of t party supporters believe that racism is involved with the movement. 90% white means 10% non-white, 7% believe racism involved. An overwhelming majority of non-white participants see racism involved, enough said. We know to be racist you have to have one of ya on video saying the n-word, and thats where you're foolish. If racists carrying racist signs feel comfortable around t baggers and not one t bagger makes people with those signs leave the rally, then yes you will be seen as racist. If you have an admitted racist with you and don't expect to be looked at as one who agrees, then remove them from your group. They seem to be at home at baggers rallies, says something about your rallies now doesn't it.
SoCon| 5.5.10 @ 9:59PM
Why don't you go throw some more rocks and bottles at riot-cops? Better yet, destroy more private property by throwing heavy objects through plate-glass windows. More Leftist violence and hate.
Liberals destroy, they do not create; Liberal/Progressives are Marxists.
You're obsessed with t-bagging--says more about you than it does about us, perverts.
jack| 5.6.10 @ 8:12AM
I didn't think it was a bad poll. Think about what we found out--
After a few months of articles about racism in the tea parties--
Less than 3 in ten people think the tea parties are fueled by racism.*
Almost 4 in 10 opponents of the Tea Party refuse to believe that the Tea Parties are motivated by racism.**
And their efforts are going so well that these are the best statistics they can find.***
Jack
*"But NEARLY three in 10 see racial prejudice as underlying the tea party. " "Nearly means LESS than three in ten.
**"About 61 percent of tea party opponents say racism has a lot to do with the movement," 61% means that 39% don't feel this way. And if we spin it EXACTLY as they did in their first statistic it becomes 'NEARLY 4 in 10 '.
***Really? this is all you've got? Crappy stats that can be unspun with no difficulty at all? No wonder you're all so scared.
SoCon| 5.6.10 @ 2:00PM
I agree! The Tea Party movement is powerful, that's why these nitwits try to denigrate it.