MSDNC has to minimize the Tea Parties to protect their masters from the peons.
Pray for America, Our Troops and the Tea Parties
From "Arugmentation and Debate" --Published 1917 (MacMillan):
THE NATURE OF DEBATE 385 3. Sarcasm and ridicule.Good humor is even more necessary if one is to use sarcasm or ridicule. The line must not be drawn so strictly against these weapons as against personalities pure and simple. Sarcasm in a skillful hand is a formidable weapon, and ridicule can often win a point where nothing else would avail. But it must always be remembered that these are light arms. They are fine- wrought, flexible foils, and they must be wielded with a light hand. They are not suited for the slashing and cutting of broad-sword play. To fence with them a man must be quick, light of hand, and, above all, cool and self-controlled. Some men cannot use sarcasm and ridicule at all, and no man can afford to use them carelessly. Ill temper in the use of these weapons is both careless and clumsy. It always results in a wild aim and looks like foul play. Sarcasm and ridicule are most effective when directed against conceit and affectation. A speaker who allows his conceit to rise to the surface, or who assumes a tone of grandiloquence or bombast, has ex- posed a weak spot in his armor. And there is no weapon that will so readily find the spot and strike through it as one of these light side-arms of forensic combat. The following is one of the best illustrations of the use of ridicule that can be found in American oratory. It is so interesting and so worthy of study with respect to its general tone, its vivid rhetoric, and its telling choice of figures of speech as to justify the giving of the passage nearly in full. A certain General Crary, on February 14, 1840, in the debate in the House on the Cumberland Road Bill, attacked General William Henry Harrison for alleged deficiencies as a military commander, severely criticising his conduct of the battle of Tippecanoe and of various other campaigns. Thomas Corwin of Ohio replied in a speech of which the following is a part. Mr. Crary was so overwhelmed that John Quincy Adams, a few days after, referred to him as "the late Mr. Crary." ...."With respect to all three of the methods mentioned above, viz., personalities, sarcasm, and ridicule, it is to be remarked that they are only occasional weapons. They are not sub- stitutes for proof or for the substance of argument. They are merely auxiliaries. It is often easier to malign or laugh at an opponent than to answer him, but it does not accom- plish the same end...."
This is all bound up in agenda. Their agenda is for the destruction of the USA, not for its fortification nor the protection of the Constitution. Accordingly, you would NEVER see them ridicule the big rallies they had in favor of Open Borders all Illegal Aliens--the pumped it in every best possible light, showing personal "touching" stories of individual illegal aliens to make Americans feel guilt about going after them...there will be no such close up, human interest, personal stories on Wednesday in the liberal American MSM focusing in one person for example, whose backs are literally broken by taxes or have to give up their small businesses or have to work two jobs to make ends meet due to a big gouge out of their salaries; and yet here is another movement (Tea Parties), and they will ignore, and if they cannot ignore, they will ridicule and slander. Their reaction to this Tea Party Rebellion phenomenon itself is so instructive, but not a surprise.