SLAVES TO THE PARTY LINE

The Tea Parties are over.

Their numbers are not final as of this writing, but they are a LOT larger than has been reported thus far by the always dependable MainStream Media.

Janeane Garofalo called Party-goers "a bunch of tea bagging rednecks," adding "this is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up."

Either she did not bother to go to or watch one of the tea parties, or she is just plain lying through her teeth.

I suspect the latter.

Not one TV report or video that I saw of ANY of the tea parties that even MENTIONED the race of the president, or of any body else for that matter, so that comment is just plain ignornant.

CNN's Anderson Cooper repeated the offensive sexual term “tea bagging,” on several occasions.

MSNBC used the term, too, as David Shuster remarked, "...while the parties are officially toothless, the tea baggers are full-throated about their goals." He also said, “…if you are planning simultaneous tea bagging all across the country, you’re going to need a Dick Armey.”

What a guy.

Are you smart enough to see a shared response here?

Of course, it was those brilliant liberals who used the vulgar phrase "tea bagging," not the organizers or attenders of the Tea Parties.

(They're the same bunch that call Pro-Lifers "Anti-Choice" or "Anti-Abortion.")

Dan Harris of ABC asserted: “But critics on the left say this is not a real grassroots phenomenon at all, that it's actually largely orchestrated by people fronting for corporate interests.”

Where did he get THAT idea?

He obviously did not research the origins of the Tea Parties...either that or he was deliberately lying...just like Garofalo.

CBS's Dean Reynolds maintained, “a fistful of rightward leaning Web sites and commentators helped promote the parties."

(I think he might have been referring to Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and others, but he didn't really say.)

Lee Cowan of NBC reported: “organizers insist today's 'tea parties' were organic uprisings of like-minded taxpayers from both parties,” but “some observers suggest not all of it was as home-grown as it may seem.”

Turns out that "some observers" were (was?) only one: NBC News White House reporter Chuck Todd, who said, “A lot of the sentiment is about organizing anti-Obama rallies, getting conservatives excited about the conservative movement again.”

CNN's Susan Roesgen called the Tea Party in Chicago "Obama bashing." She "interviewed" several people and did not let a single one of them finish their statements, interrupting and moving on to the next person.

Roesgen claimed the Tea Party was, “Anti-government, anti-CNN since this is highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox."

Fact is, Fox reported that the Tea Parties were in the works and what happened at them, while CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC treated them either as non-stories or as laughable events.

Seems the MSM treats liberal protests that involve the destruction of property and filthy language with more dignity and respect than they do peaceful protests that disagree with their agenda.

There were four Tea Parties in Southwest Florida that I know of, one in Fort Myers, one in Cape Coral, one in Lehigh Acres and one in Naples.

The Tea Party in Cape Coral was held in spite of the fact that the City Council had "outlawed" it as a security risk.

Fort Myers' Centenial Park holds events regularly, most with vendors using tents and kitchens for "Taste of the Town" parties. They have six or seven thousand at some of those events, even with the vendors' equipment in the way.

Wednesday there were no vendors and there was little room to move around at the Party, which means there were more than six or seven thousand there.

The media reported hundreds in attendance...true only if you mean several tens of hundreds.

Whether national or local, the MainStream Media has abdicated their roles as journalists and shown once again that they are ignorant, socially uneducated, biased SLAVES TO THE PARTY LINE, that of rank liberalism.

Too bad. We really need a watchdog press once again.

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