Tea Party favorites challenge status quo - USA Today

[JohnWxy]

Here's an article in USA Today saying the Tea Partiers are going to change things in D.C.

Suggest DUers post a comment on the article (at link) drawing on numerous good posts on Tea-Partiers on DU.

Really, it would be GREAT if some of the very good stuff posted on DU started showing up on media sites... to counter the Big Lie that the Tea-Party stands for anything other than Good-Ol' boy Republican Politics of pandering to Ignorance (i.e. conning the ignorant suckers into thinking the GOP gives a damn about the "average" people).

What do you say? (I'm already doing this but there needs to be many more posts of reational comments to articles on media sites) (NOTE: on most media sites you cannot put in URLs or links. So what you do is tell people the search terms to GOOGLE. ) It would be great to see comments referring to facts and articles to counter commments consisting of derisive name calling and chanting of Big Lies.

Note also that USA Today allows you to set up your own blog on their site. You CAN put active links in your posts to your blog. Then you can refer people to your blog if they want live links to articles, studies, data. They also track your comments to articles for you.

Anybody feel sufficiently challenged? ... or sufficiently sick of Tea-party bullshit? Go for it! We really need to do more than just discuss these issues among the choir (with people who largely agree with you).

USA Today article link:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2010-10-19-tea-party_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

LOUISVILLE — They defined the election. Now, they hope to redefine the Senate.

Relying on an anti-Washington message of limited government and less spending, a growing number of Tea Party candidates are pulling even with their Democratic rivals or are frontrunners in some of the nation's most closely watched Senate races of this year's midterm election.
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[TygrBright]

1. It's TRUE, though. They ARE challenging the status quo. They want to restore the status ante. n/t

[emulatorloo]

2. Is USA Today a,) Naive b.) Stupid or C.) in on the Scam

All these lazy ass media types have to do is watch The Rachel Maddow show a couple of nights in a row. She's done lots of good research.

[Blue_Tires]

4. the answer of course is all three...

USA Today has been legitimizing the teabaggers almost from the start...

[sadbear]

5. Will it sell papers?

[JohnWxy]

6. 1,400 comments to this article. Many taking furious exception to title!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2010-10-19-tea-party_N.htm

here's an excerpt from one comment:

"Fewer people are falling for the title of this article. The Koch brothers, Murdoch, and Dick Armey are the furthest from being challengers of the status quo. The attack ads, corporate front groups (Iike the "Coalition to Protect Seniors" scam), and 'tea party' brownshirts are well-exposed. The tide is turning. They can't even buy the elections."

[Drunken Irishman]

3. They're not challenging the status quo. They're challenging rationality and sanity.