Posted on 06/16/2014 2:22:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Kirsten Powers, a Democrat who served in Bill Clinton's administration, said the mainstream media want to portray the Tea Party as bigots and racists and are not capable of understanding what the movement is about. She also said that the Republican establishment plays into these biases and deliberately pushes unfavorable memes about the Tea Party to gullible -- and biased -- reporters.
While discussing Dave Brat's shocking upset over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Fox News' Media Buzz this weekend with host Howard Kurtz, Powers said the elites in the media and the permanent political class "who can't relate" to regular Americans are the ones demeaning the Tea Party.
"I don't think the mainstream media is capable of understanding the Tea Party, based on what I have watched," Powers said. "They want them to be a bunch of bigots who hate Barack Obama and are driven by their racist hatred of Barack Obama."
Powers said she was told she was crazy for pushing back against the media narrative that proclaimed the Tea Party was all but done.
"I actually never bought it, and I was treated like I was crazy," Powers said, acknowledging that it never made sense to her because the two potential GOP 2016 presidential candidates who are getting the most buzz are Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), who have been buoyed by the Tea Party movement....
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80% of journalist are liberal democrats, even if they did have comprehension of Conservative values like Freedom as Defined by being free of Large Government demands & restrictions, they aren’t incline to think theses things important.
The only way to get past theses people is to make them think its important in some other way that is of value to them. That is no easier for conservatives to do then it is for liberals to do.
I’d hit it twice with Laz’s and Vendome’s...
but only when they aren’t there to watch.
I think Powers is gradually becoming more conservative
I had read somewhere she was born-again a few years ago. Above all, religious conversion changes one’s perspective more than anything else. I imagine it has opened her eyes to a different political reality as well - and she will reflect that change more an more.
someone keeps sending in the yahoo with the Confederate flag or offesive Tee-Shit and signs to all rallies—The media just takes their picture (and no one elses) as “proof” the movement is about race and the KKK mentality.
ACORN did that at an early Tea Party. Maybe we need to take their pictures and check them out. This could be a job for James O’Keefe.
I'm afraid the only chance I have of hitting that is if I got close enough for the knockout game. How big a girl is she, anyway?
‘She does this every month or so then goes right back to drooling sycophancy. Dont get your hopes up. Its a ploy.’
I have noticed cracks in her ideological wall for a couple of years now. Besides she looks good.
Go to any random beach or dance club. All the eye candy, none of the liberal preaching. Save your sanity ;)
So, you idiots who have so intelligently commented on how you would ‘hit it’ - you’re in 5th grade or what?
Pathetic.
New here?
bfl
I believe the Tea Party has the potential to grab a lot of democrats as well as Republicans.
That is what is at work.
The democrats are out to lunch. However the GOP is equally out to lunch. Everyone is selling out America.
This could be changing.
If the democrats and the Republicans both cannot move from their current policies, and the Tea Party does, then the Tea Party will win over a lot of people from both of the existing parties.
I believe that is what we are seeing.
Encourage democrats. Encourage Republicans.
People, there is a new direction. The Tea Party may very well be the solution.
Not to overdue this, but I believe this could be ... well huge.
She walks the line between pissing off liberals and making them think about how wrong they are more adroitly than anyone else on her side.
+++++
I agree. Just think how much more interesting The Hannity & Powers Show would be than the current boring Hannity Daily Rant Show.
Wake up Fox Management, you have a potential winner right in front your eyes. Go for it.
Powers overcame the lies and deceit to begin again with common sense and reality.
The reality is not to lie for anybody politically and to be intellectually honest.
Intellectual honesty must be thrown out to back up this administration,
and to claim to be a Christian while voting for Democrats.
A true Christian may not in heart or mind be willing to sacrifice their soul
to promote or support any group, political or not, that pushes Homosexuality.
Or any politic, group, organization which thrives on lies and deceit.
They will all go to Hell for their willingness to allow sin for earthly gain.
According to my doctors, saving my sanity may be out of the question. Best I can hope for is delaying the inevitable.
Went to a bar once in Louisville and a group from the local dance studio came in. They cranked up some old WWII vintage music and those kids were flat amazing. I almost decided to take lessons but a couple of beers later I figured I was past it.
Now that I am almost down to my fighting weight, I may well do it. Bought a kayak at a yard sale the other day, it was on my bucket list, the paddle is going to cost more than the kayak. Soon as I figure out how to get in the thing I am putting in below Cumberland Falls, only crazy people put in above the Falls and I aint there yet, and see how it works out. I rafted it a few years ago and think the kayak will be more fun or I will end up drowning. I am getting a little long in the tooth but I aint dead yet. I still have hang gliding and scuba diving to do yet, maybe skydiving one more time. What is the attraction folks feel for sanity, bores the hell out of me, the few times I have had the misfortune to be involved with it.:)
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Bigger than the Commie, because they never go away.
>> Dont get your hopes up. Its a ploy.
She’s not on the payroll as a conservative. Neither is Juan Williams. Same goes for Bob Beckel.
Each of the three occasionally let their guard down to speak some sense, but they’re not getting paid to make sense.
Has Karl Rove been found yet? He seems to have be missing since last Tuesdays Cantor defeat.
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That is so true. I haven’t heard a peep out of him. Wonder if anyone else has.
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