Media Spreads Tea Party Leaders as “Anti-Establishment” Myth (a must read)

[Botany]

Let’s call the Tea Party by its true name – The Republican Party.

.... the media – both corporate and independent – has unreflectively spread the manufactured myth that Tea Party
candidates are outside of the political establishment. In simply reporting the Tea Party as a separate entity from the
Republican Party, many media sources have helped perpetuate the false notion that its leaders represent a new political
movement.


In even using the brand “Tea Party” we perpetuate the idea that it is not the same old Republican party.

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And we can’t doubt that there are grassroots members of the Tea Party, the Republican establishment and major corporations,
deliberately hidden from scrutiny behind layers of non-profits and think-tanks, have provided it extensive support and sponsorship.
The April 2009 Tea Party protests were subsidized in part by FreedomWorks, which former Texas Republican Dick Armey chairs.
Of FreedomWorks, Former President George W. Bush said “they have been doing a great job all over the country of educating people”
about basic Republican philosophy: “Lower Taxes, Less Government, More Freedom.”

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As Contenetti shows us, the Tea Party, in its core values, is the Republican Party. It is like Coke in a new bottle, re-branded, re-packaged
with new logos and slogans, but with the same essential ingredients – small government and support of big business.

http://dailycensored.com/2010/09/16/media-spreads-tea-party-leaders-as-

[The Magistrate]

1. Hear Hear, Sir! Peasants for Plutocrats Indeed!

[Botany]

2. I have always said that most teabaggers who are at rallies ...

.... are just pissed off white people who are mad a black man is President
and that they have voted republican for years. The rich and powerful just
exploit that anger for their own purposes.

[The Magistrate]

4. My View As Well, Sir

Whenever these people open their mouths, what I hear is "This used to be a White Man's country --- now look at it...."

[Botany]

6. old white people ..... end of story

idiots too

tim geithner henry paulson ..... socialists :rofl:

BTW when I hear a bagger yapping about "the debt" I wonder if they
were in love w/ Bill Clinton? Because after all he left a surplus when he was done
w/ his time in the White House

[thereismore]

5. teabaggers do not know what either term means... nt

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Peasants for Plutocracy" - "Proles for Plutocracy."

At last, apt slogans for the TeaBagliCons...

[bleever]

7. K&R.