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Why The Mainstream Media May Finally Cover The Tea Party
TalkingSides.com ^ | 04/13/10 | CaroleL

Posted on 04/13/2010 10:33:54 AM PDT by CaroleL

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are gearing up to participate in Tax Day Tea Parties around the country and there are signs that, finally, the mainstream media just may give these protests against big government and high taxes some fair coverage. Ironically it is the opponents of the movement who may be responsible for the change.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: andrecarson; protest; sarahpalin; teaparty

1 posted on 04/13/2010 10:33:54 AM PDT by CaroleL
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To: CaroleL
the mainstream media just may give these protests against big government and high taxes some fair coverage.

Doubtful, but I am cynical. More likely, the DNC's propoganda arm has figured out a way to report on us and still make us look bad without losing plausible deniability, not that have any, but they think they still do. I hear the media look away from mirrors more so than they did a few years back, too. . . . .

2 posted on 04/13/2010 10:38:38 AM PDT by jeffc (I now live in National Socialist America)
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To: CaroleL
And to paraphrase Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin's response to a heckler at a recent political rally: "Stick around, folks. You might learn something."

Gotta love Sarah!

3 posted on 04/13/2010 10:38:45 AM PDT by avacado
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To: CaroleL

The MSM is looking for a smear, that will be the ONLY reason they cover the tea parties. Hopefully in the course of looking for a smear and not finding one, the tea parties will give some significant coverage.


4 posted on 04/13/2010 10:40:57 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (END THE WAR ON LIBERTY!)
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To: CaroleL

I believe CNN’s latest ratings nosedive began with their snotty little reporter’s on-air attack of Tea Partiers. As the Tea Party movement has grown, CNN viewership has declined.


5 posted on 04/13/2010 10:41:38 AM PDT by csmusaret (Sarah Palin thinks everyday in America is the 4th of July. Obama thinks it is April 15th.)
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To: CaroleL
The more the MSM tries to make the Tea Party Movement look "racist, homophobic and moronic", the more galvanized and larger the movement becomes. Oh yeah, it also leads to the polarization of America.

MSM -- Bring it on!

6 posted on 04/13/2010 10:43:22 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: jeffc

The reporters will be there to count all those alleged racial slurs.


7 posted on 04/13/2010 10:45:04 AM PDT by fatnotlazy (Never forget!)
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To: fatnotlazy
Which are already planned by infiltrating leftists.
8 posted on 04/13/2010 10:50:49 AM PDT by dartuser ("Palin 2012 ... nothing else will do.")
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To: CaroleL

“Ironically it is the opponents of the movement who may be responsible for the change.”

Exactly. The msm will be looking for the “infiltrators” to interview while passing them off as regular Tea Party members. It will be a total set-up to disparage the Tea Party movement.


9 posted on 04/13/2010 10:55:27 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: dartuser

I wonder if the irony of their tactics ever actually dawns on these morons. There’s no story, so they make one up. There’s no hate, so they throw it around themselves. There’s no violence, so they start some. Talk about your projection; they’re really getting therapy for their own dark urges at our expense. Nauseating.


10 posted on 04/13/2010 11:07:38 AM PDT by ronnyquest (There's a communist living in the White House! Now, what are you going to do about it?)
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To: CaroleL

The MSM will be looking for leftist agitators to smear the Tea Party. The Tea Party should have security to arrest and remove these plants.


11 posted on 04/13/2010 11:55:02 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: CaroleL

If you’re going to a T.E.A. Party, be sure to carry a couple of signs that say:

NOT WITH US ==>>

and

<<== NOT WITH US

or something similar.


12 posted on 04/13/2010 12:16:25 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (SPEAK UP REPUBLICANS, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU YET! IMPEACH OBAMA!)
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