Tea Party Activists Fund Sign Linking Obama To Hitler

[Minor Axis]

There is a huge difference between reporting on the tea party and actively promoting it which Fox news did.

And I won't watch MSNBC either. During the day I will listen to CNN headline news on XM while I'm driving around. It's about as close as I can find to news without the commentary (left or right). I don't give a rat's ass what people think or feel about the news, just tell me what is going on, I'll form my own opinions.

I too am a CNN fan. However, Morning Joe is a good show on MSNBC. Joe is conservative, his second is relatively liberal. They bring on a variety of political persuasions to express their opinions. What is not to like?

 

[retro]

I get my news from all angles... CNN, MSNBC, Fox (website, not TV), Drudge, Breitbart, Huffington, Google News... and the list goes on. I then make my own opinions based on all of the angles I have read.

 

[Accountable]

I gotta say I was disappointed. I turned it on to hear a Tea Party person named Lloyd but with a woman's voice, and an NAACP rep who was obviously a man but named Hillary, talking about the race issue. If it had been radio it would have been quite balanced. Both were rude and talking over each other and the host was completely ineffective. Unfortunately it was on TV, and CNN played nothing but footage of anti-Obama signs, effigies, etc. the entire time. So, no information gained from the people, but the producers got their point across in spades.

Back to CNBC. No spin, no apologetics, just straight news then discussions of how it effects the markets.

 

[Accountable]

After having watched CNN for awhile now, and since the Sherrod charade, I've decided to call them all PACs now - Political Action Committees. D'ya think I should call them by each channel (ABCPAC, CBSPAC, CNNPAC, FOXPAC, etc) or just generalize it with their holding companies (DisneyPAC, WestinghousePAC, GEPAC, TWPAC, MurdochPAC)?

 

[Minor Axis]

However, they (TTP) support a candidate Christine O'Donnel who dabbled in Witchcraft as a teen! Now just imagine if Obama has been involved with Witchcraft. Her response, "well I was not a member of a coven!". Oh, well, your average conservative Tea Party member thinks, no problemo or do they??. Lots of hypocrisy to go around. BTW, nothing against Wiccans, most of the really bad shit was attributed to them by the Church. No agenda there.

If you are wondering about the values aspect of the Tea Party, here is a run down on Ms O'Donnel's views. If you really want to get concerned, see the link and the long list of views. My favorite:

O’Donnell warned about mice with ‘fully functioning human brains.’ “Now we’re using this to start cloning humans. … They are — they are doing that here in the United States.American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.’ [O'Reilly Factor, 10/16/07]

 

[Peter Parka]

However, they (TTP) support a candidate Christine O'Donnel who dabbled in Witchcraft as a teen!

She dosen't strum her minge though so that's ok.:24:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHcqcXo_NA

 

[Tomoko]

That's politics..most of the time when people begin to choose sides that's when people begin to show how they really feel and most of the time it's anything but exchanging pleasantries. I'm from Japan and personally they lean far too left and they also have communist party that almost never wins in any election. I'm glad I chose to live in the US

But as for me..I'd rather drink the "TEA" than the "KOOL AID" if that says anything. Anyone who says the Tea Party is racist don't know what the hell they're talking about..there are black, hispanic, asian, arabic, people from all walks of life who support it..And if you have a problem with it, fine..but don't go spitting so-called facts unless you got credible sources to prove what you say and back it up.

 

[Minor Axis]

Tomoko, this article seems to disagree with you as far as the driving force behind the movement.. Welcome to the OTZ forums!

Here is a Newsweek Article- A Tea Party Taxonomy that slams both the Tea Party and Glen Beck... what's not to like?

So who are these people and what do they want from us? A series of polls, as well as be-ins like Glenn Beck’s Washington rally last month, have given us a picture of a movement predominated by middle-class, middle-aged, white men angry about the expansion of government and hostile to societal change. But that profile could accurately describe the past several right-wing insurgencies, from the California tax revolt of the late 1970s to the Contract with America of 1994, not to mention the very Republican establishment that the Tea Party positions itself against. What’s distinctive about the Tea Party is its anarchist streak—its antagonism toward any authority, its belligerent self-expression, and its lack of any coherent program or alternative to the policies it condemns.

Anti-elitism is hardly a fresh theme for Republicans. But here too, the Tea Partiers take it to a new level. The most radical statement of individualism is choosing your own reality, and to some in the Tea Party, the very fact that experts believe something is sufficient to disprove it. The media’s insistence that Barack Obama was born in the United States, or that he is a Christian rather than a Muslim, merely fuels their belief to the contrary. Other touchstones include the view that Obama has a secret plan to deprive Americans of their guns, that global warming is a leftist hoax, and that—according to Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell—there’s more evidence for creationism than for evolution.

Nostalgia, resentment, and reality denial are all expressions of the same underlying anxiety about losing one’s place in the country, or of losing control of it to someone else. When you look at the surveys, the Tea Partiers are not primarily the victims of economic transformation, but rather those whose position is threatened by social change. Because racial bias is unacceptable both in American political culture and in an individualist ideology, Tea Partiers don’t say directly what Pat Buchanan used to: that moving from a predominantly white Christian nation to a majority nonwhite one is bad and should be stopped. Instead, their resistance finds sublimated expression through the reality-distortion field: Beck’s claim that Obama “has a deep-seated hatred of white people” or Dinesh D’Souza’s Gingrich-endorsed theory that Obama is a Kenyan Mau Mau in mufti. Of no previous movement has Richard Hofstadter’s depiction of populism as driven by “status anxiety” been so apt.

 

[itsmeJonB]

Tea Party activists seem like cool guys. They exaggerate the truth and doesnt afraid of anything

 

[Accountable]

Ostracize .... ridicule .... exaggerate.