Frank Rich's Tea Party Lies

Frank Rich's column in the New York Times opinion section today was at the very least two things: Lies and the rehashed work of another writer. But it was also a third thing and that third thing was cover for his buddy in the Oval office and for the hard-core left-wing agenda he’s trying to force down our throats. Rich lent that cover by desperately trying to discredit "the Tea Party "as a funded-from-the-top, sham of a movement. The truth is, though, that "the Tea Party" is not funded by shadowy, rich right-wingers. It isn't funded at all in most cases.

First of all most of what Rich wrote was but rehashed words from Jane Mayer's slam against the Koch Brothers of New York. Three quarters of what Rich penned really came from Mayer’s New Yorker piece on the philanthropists. So, big demerits for Frank Rich for simply appropriating Mayer's piece.

But the real point of Rich's piece was to pile onto Mayer's slanted attack piece with some echoed slams against the Tea Party movement in order to discredit it all. Rich is desperate to make the movement seem like a marionette show with rich "sugar daddies" funding it and controlling it from the top.

"There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising," Rich says of the Tea Party events, "the sugar daddies who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well before the ‘death panel’ warm-up acts of last summer."

Rich then rehashes Mayer's examples of where the Koch brothers put their money in the form of Americans For Prosperity and Freedom Works, two nationwide, very active, and successful conservative advocacy groups...

The left is desperate to discredit the Tea Party. But you know what that means, folks? They are trying to say YOU are a danger to the country. They are saying that MILLIONS of Americans are a danger to the USA. Truth is, these millions are only a danger to leftism, not America.

1 posted on 08/30/2010 8:52:19 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus

There are lies, damned lies, and then there are columns by Frank Rich.

2 posted on 08/30/2010 8:58:09 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)

Some say that Frank Rich is a pedesterophile.

3 posted on 08/30/2010 9:18:51 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Islamic law upholds that children born to a Muslim father are automatically Muslim)

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