Glenn Beck’s Tea Party at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas with Ted Nugent and, “We the People”

June 29, 2009

Ted Nugent said, “the hadn’t quite gotten hot enough yet”, and he is right. But now it has and the people are as mad as , and they are not going to take it anymore. They have had enough, and the time to act is now. Obama is the straw that has broke the camels back, so the jig is up; it is time to pay the piper.

Americans are going to have to take sides. Do they want an ever growing government that will eventually control every aspect of their lives, but in return give them the security that they crave. Or do they want freedom and liberty which come at the cost of pain and suffering from time to time. Which will it be?

I choose freedom and liberty. I am willing to get hurt and lose everything that I have in order to remain a free man, are you? I do not want the government to rule over me and tell me what is best for me. I am quite able to make my own decisions; I do not need the government telling me how to live my life. If I make the wrong decisions and end up screwing my life up, then so be it, it was my life to screw up.
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National Media Dismiss, Disparage and Attack Tax Day Tea Parties

Three networks and CNN ignore populist storm until tax day; blast FOX and repeat left-wing claims of ‘AstroTurf’ in same-day coverage. MSNBC continues vulgar ‘teabagging’ jokes.

Silent no more, by tax day the networks, CNN and the major papers finally acknowledged the story of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. And while they covered them, they found many ways to discredit the movement by repeating the claims of the left.

In CNNs case, the network also became the story when one of its reporters showed contempt for people at the Chicago Tea Party, calling the protests anti-government and anti-CNN. One night earlier, Anderson Cooper repeated the offensive sexual term teabagging, which had been the favorite anti-tea party slur of liberal MSNBC since April 9.

National broadcast or print media used the term AstroTurf at least 12 times since April 10 to attack the idea that the protests were a grassroots movement of conservatives. Left-wing bloggers at BuzzFlash used that term to label the tea party movement as early as March 24.

A number of reports also accused Fox News of being too involved in the protests. ABCs Dan Harris repeated criticism from the left that the tea parties were a product of Fox News and lobbyist organizations. All three network newscasts tried to discredit the protests on April 15.

All of those themes Teabagging remarks, AstroTurf slams and claims that Fox News was organizing the protest were popularized on left-wing blogs and MSNBC before resounding in the mainstream medias echo chamber.

NBCs Chuck Todd wrote off the protests for Today viewers April 15 saying, Theres been some grassroots conservatives who have organized so called tea parties around the country. But I tell you, the idea hasnt really caught on.

Perhaps Todd should have been attending a tea party himself, like the one in Atlanta that was estimated to have 15,000 people. According to the San Francisco Chronicle a Sacramento rally drew about 5,000, and ociated Press reported that 1,000-2,000 attended a D.C. rally. According to CNN.com tens of thousands of people spent part of April 15 at tea party demonstrations.

CNN Chooses Sides

Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz told CNN viewers on April 15 that much of the media seems to have chosen sides for tea day. Kurtz also admitted it was a non-story for most major newspapers and that his paper ran its first story on page B4 of the Metro section today.

While he was exactly right, Kurtz went easy on CNN and MSNBC.

He criticized Fox News for promoting the tea parties, but chided CNN for ignoring the story before April 14. He also noted MSNBCs mockery of the protests, but did not condemn the vulgarities used repeatedly by David Shuster, Rachel Maddow and guests of the cable network.

FOX News sees this tax protest as a big story, CNN as a modest story and MSNBC as a great story – to make fun of. Kurtz said CNN had done occasional reports, but did not question correspondent Susan Roesgen for her disgraceful behavior at the Chicago Tea Party, even though during CNNs Situation Room. he showed a partial video clip of Roesgen being belligerent with one protester.(Two hours later when CNN ran Kurtz package again the video of Roesgen had been switched for a video with a calmer reporter.).
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