"The good news is that some in the media are starting to emerge from their comas."

The Phony Populism Of The Tea Party Crusade
Filed under: General, Media Bias, Propaganda — Mark @ 4:14 pm


It is beginning to set in amongst some members of the press that the Tea Party “movement” is a mirage that attracts far more attention than its paltry numbers deserve. I wrote about this a couple of months ago in The Tea Party Delusion. It is more true now than ever, and it would serve the media well to acknowledge it and report accurately.

Polls show that Americans are divided on their opinions about Tea Baggers. But the more interesting statistic is that more Americans have either no opinion or have never heard of them at all. This finding is consistent across most major surveys on the subject (all pdf files): NBC/Wall Street Journal: 48%; CNN/Opinion Research: 40%; CBS News: 69%; even Fox News/Opinion Dynamics: 44%.

Nevertheless, the media treats this ephemeral blur as if it were a political tsunami. They apparently aren’t reading their own polls. The Tea Baggers Ball last weekend brought about 600 registered attendees to the Opryland Hotel. The National Wild Turkey Conference next week is expecting 40,000 at the same venue. :spray: Yet there are no news networks camping outside the hotel salivating at the prospect of interviewing turkey aficionados in Revolutionary War garb.

The good news is that some in the media are starting to emerge from their comas. And it isn’t just a few predictable liberals at the Village Voice. Entrenched establishment pundits like Joe Klein and Mark Halperin have begun to recognize that the reality of the Tea Crusade doesn’t remotely resemble the mythology that has been dominating recent coverage. In a comparison of Sarah Palin to the Tea Partiers, Halperin notes that…



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and ask them why they aren't covering the Wild Turkey Conference.

increasing the number and extending the range of wild turkeys in the US. There are many more living in our country now than there have been since colonial times.
They are a mixed bag of conservationists and turkey hunters that have been inspirational to other similar groups. I doubt if many 'baggers have the stability to do this kind of thing.


I can only hope that the 'baggers meet with none of this success.


mark

but oh so small under the microscope.

designed only to divide and conquer the citizens of the USA, so that they will fail to recognize who the puppetmasters are who have been screwing them for years -- and advocating MORE TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY as the way to solve the nation's problems.

At some point, one hopes the kool-aid guzzing Teabagsters who have had their anger channeled into this Know Nothing arena, will wake up and smell the Royal RepubliconThink Rot.