Apr

Honest Reporting, Someone?

It’s no secret that the mainstream media hate the Tea Party. After ignoring them for months, the MSM decided to depict the partiers as country rubes. Recent polls have exploded this line of attack, so the MSM has decided to take up a new trope – that they’re very dangerous.

It is this alleged aspect of the Tea Party the Christian Science Monitor reports on this morning:

In towns large and small on Thursday, which is tax day, tea partyers are planning to march against big government – and the rhetoric is getting heated as counterdemonstrators mobilize. Some agents provocateurs say they’ll crash the tea parties, and the threat of fisticuffs and worse is hanging in the air.

Both sides have been fueled by the Internet’s churning of partisan, even extreme, politics. One commenter, a tea-party supporter, recently warned of a looming “low-grade civil war.”

The entire story is paranoid and suggestive that the Tea Party is going to spread riotous anarchy.

Very large scale civil rights protests that involve millions of people have often been sprinkled with impolitic and violent acts (think the ’60′s). With this in mind, it is surprising how PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL the whole Tea Party has been. In spite of smear attempts and half truths from the MSM and select liberal politicians, the folks who are protesting out- of-control/out-of-touch gov’t have been remarkably civilized; as the CSM reports, “The only real incident of note at last year’s ‘tea party’ rallies on tax day, April 15, came when a passionate protester tossed a box of tea bags over the White House fence.”

But what goes unsaid here is deafening. The MSM does not do any in-depth reporting on the issues that spurred the Tea Party. They continue to cheerlead for Obama & Co., Pelosi, and Reid. The economy gets progressively worse due to the very spending that the Tea Partiers are protesting, and the media remain silent, other than the occaasional slander.

MSM: You completely failed to expose Obama during the campaign season. For this, you’re already distrusted by a growing number of Americans. Would you drop the attacks on the very people who are trying to save the country that you sold out when you ceased to be responsible observers of this free republic?

P.S. From the story:

In North Carolina, a new state regulation bans flags and signs from being carried on poles. This means that tax protesters can wave objects only as big as the flags handed out at a Fourth of July parade. According to state officials, the rule was put into place last September to prevent ralliers from inadvertently injuring one another.

Doe this not seem a little absurd? Banning protest signs on poles to “prevent injury” ??? You’d think a civil rights organization like the ACLU would be on this case, maybe?

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