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Originally Posted by pan6467
This is what baffles me, moderates can go to protests they believe in, sponsored by MoveOn, Center for American Progress, America Coming Together and so on and get all kinds of love from the networks and other press while they stroke those people's egos by telling them how wise and up to date and informed they are...... but have those same people go to these Tea Parties because they believe in them and all of a sudden these people are being duped and that they are sheep and have no idea what they are doing and are so out of touch with reality.
Seems to me the liberal press are trying very hard to make these appear as evil rallies for the sore losing Neo-Cons and so on. Much the same way the Right tries to keep people out of the protests and demonstrations the Left sponsors.
I think maybe the press and people on both sides need to shut the fuck up with veiled attacks on people's intelligence and how they feel and let a person wanting to attend a demonstration because that person believes in the demonstrations cause, attend. People can make up their own minds, people can decide what they want to believe in, they do not need egos stroked or bashed by outside forces (namely the media and extremists) for their beliefs. It's a pathetic grasp at control and keeping power when you have to resort to such ways so that an opposing view cannot be heard or taken seriously. Let the opposing view speak for itself, let the people decide.... FUCK THE MEDIA.
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pan....this is what baffles me.
You have often criticized people who voted for Obama as sheep or blindly following the "messiah" and now you bitch (again) that somehow you are being attacked (again) when folks point out factual information about the organizations funding and setting the agenda for these tea parties.
I suspect you will be among some who share your beliefs, some who are there to deride the current so-called "socialist" drift of the country and promote the conservative Republican tax and regulatory agenda, some who are there to scream for Obama's impeachment, and some out of curiosity.
I will watch the coverage of these events with interest. In the end, I think it will be like watching the Ron Paul "phenomenon" during the campaign. People of varying and diverse passions, often with little in common (ie for RP, it was the anti-war crowd on the left and the say NO to most govt taxes and spending crowd on the right ) and attempting andhoping to convince themselves and the country that they represent the vast majority of mainstream America...when in fact, they will turn out to represent no more than 5% of the populace.
Go forth and party your heart out!