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Posted on 10/14/2011 4:17:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For a two-and- a-half-year-old movement, the tea party has already left a massive imprint on American politics. No Republican contender for the presidency can afford to betray its positions against taxation, against liberalizing immigration policies, against a loose interpretation of the Constitution. Tea party backers in 2010 helped vault a number of Republican candidates into the House of Representatives, which now boasts a thriving Tea Party Caucus. Need more evidence of its mainstream emergence? Just weeks ago, CNN teamed up with Tea Party Express to sponsor a GOP presidential debate.
These milestones notwithstanding, the movement remains a pipsqueak on the copy desks of newspapers in the land of the free and the home of the brave. The challenge is one of elementary-school grammar: The tea party movement can’t get itself a pair of capital letters.
A recent Associated Press story illustrates the typographical discrimination against the movement: “About half of self-described tea party supporters are 50 or older and can remember listening to AM radio that spun 45s of liberal protest music like Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger. ‘They’re the modern hippies,’ Florence County GOP Chairman Bill Pickle, 60, said. ‘But they’re called “tea party” and they’ve moved to the right.’ ”(continued)
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“Why do news media capitalize ‘Occupy Wall Street’ but not ‘tea party’?”
Because they’re lying leftist scum?
Members of media mostly support goals of OWS and oppose Tea Party.
They sought to ignore or marginalized Tea Party. ONE sign with offensive content was presented as typical. Now they make excuses.
Goal is to motivate the apathetic base for Dems and set up an atmosphere of chaos and violence. Hitler in te bunker time for the ‘Rat party.
It's not the presence or lack of a president, silly. That's just on the outside. The real rationale for lowercase versus caps, is lowercase for lack of public president AND lack of behind-the-scenes president. Contrast this with the OWS movement - while it lacks a public president, behind the scenes it has many: President of the DNC, president of the USA, president of the CPUSA, president of NOW, president of pubic broadcasting, president of the senate, president of MSLSD, president of SeeBS, president of abc, president of...
Republicans pay lip service to the principles espoused by conservatives. I fail to see how any real victory has been won, unless we count “R”’s in office and ink split about various tea party groups. Closest we got was when a few conservatives stopped Boehner a few months ago in that debt limit but then a couple guys caved and sold out the rest and it passed. we’ve won nothing.
Oh, why do they not capitalize? because the tea parties were not meant to stand under one banner like a traditional interest group or party. they were loosely connected to one another. People wanted it that way back then.
If the commie slime in the Occupy and Defecate in Downtown Parks and Streets movement had their druthers the free press (and our God-given freedoms in general) would be trampled upon with impunity. Meanwhile, the MSM is oblivious to that fact.
“Why do news media capitalize ‘Occupy Wall Street’ but not ‘tea party’?”
ABCBSNBCNN, NYTimes, WaPOSt , etc., hates your Traditional American guts! Add AP!
I was never a hippy or anything close to it, either, but let me tell you, since I too was around and college age in the late 60s, that there was a VERY wide spectrum of people who were opposed to the Vietnam War, for more reasons than what has filtered down through the ensuing decades and still holds sway in the popular mind as what the anti-war movement was all about. It was unfortunate for our politics
that it took exactly as long for a Republican President to end the war as it did for a leftist FDR Democrat to institutionalize it.Also unfortunate for our politics was the fact the Barry Goldwater did not get elected-—Goldwater would’ve ended that war within a year if it continued to look as unwise as it did to him before going into the WH. Instead LBJ wound up
fulfilling the function of warmonger they always attributed to Goldwater. Those now engaged in the OCCUPY this and that movement are about the stupidest and most unsophisticated people I’ve ever witnessed on the political stage in this country. They are all of a piece with the protestors in Greece and the rabid dogs of Madison trying to overthrow the Governor. This motley crue has served as a magnet to attract anti-Semites,spoiled college students, graduates who expected a well-paying job immediately on graduation, and all manner of discontents just looking to feel righteous at being part of a Big Cause.The New Left of the late 60s carried the seeds of its own destruction, and they were hardly any more SPECIFIC about their grievances than these dunderheads in the OCCUPY movement-—yet just as they never quite appreciated politically that the war they opposed was created by LBJ, a Liberal, so too is the OCCUPY movement blind to the fact that Obama is more to blame for their grievances than anyone else.
They need to capitalize the entire alternate name: THE FLEA PARTY.
Folks, it’s TEA Party.
Taxed
Enough
Already
Because "Occupy Wall Street" is simply a re-deployment of the Obama 2008 campaign with an edge.
In other words, it was orchestrated from on high and is proceeding, apparently, according to a clear script which includes nonstop media coverage and the complicity, even the praise, of local politicians.
If ever there were a "corrupt organization," it was that which is promoting this pitiful spectacle.
The media didn't make us, so the media can't break us.
Sympatico
This is MSM logic. First they refer to conservatives as teabaggers (one who sucks a scrotum), liars, racists, and other hateful things. Then they say, “You see, this ‘Occupy’ thing is just like the Tea Party”. Changing the language, lies, and euphemisems are favorite tools of the left. Never forget who they really are.
“Sorry, I was never a hippy or anything close to it!”
I got close to a hippy once and told it to move or else...
You know it.
The media is reliving the days in which they were becoming a potent power and then at the same time, as students becoming an important voting bloc. This to the press is like reliving the student protests, the student marches, the thrill of making history, that sort of thing.
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