Stewart nails it

[yendi]

Stewart skewers the hyprocrisy of the protesters and Fox, as well as the current state of Fox, CNN, and MSNBC:

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[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Gah.

I know quite a few people involved with the "Tea Party" planning, which is not at all new (this has been going on at the grass roots level since the 1980s, inspired by the California Prop. 13 protests). They have been mailing tea bags as protests much longer than I ever heard of the phrase "teabagging" as a sexual act.

I am not happy that the RNC or FOX News has latched onto this. I am also not happy that the recruiting message has been dumbed down to the point that it now gets large crowds of people who have no idea what they're talking about.

But I absolutely despise the smarmy media's countertake on this. I don't blame Comedy Central for making fun, because that's their job, but CNN, the New York Times, and Rachel Maddow should bloody well know better.

I blame Bush's GOP for totally ditching their principles and thus making anyone who favors fiscal responsibility in government sound like either a hypocrite or an ignoramus. As I am neither, and yet I still consider deficits larger than the entire Federal budget of eight years ago to be bad, I basically have no public voice.

Pretty sad when the sanest celebrity voice on the issue is Penn Gillette.

[mfree.livejournal.com]

"I am not happy that the RNC or FOX News has latched onto this."

Then feel better; the RNC tried to get Steele a speaking position at one of the bigger rallies.

He was refused. RNC and GOP are simply too "late to the party" and have shown over and over again that all they want is to co-opt the people who finally figured out that nobody's speaking for them at all.


To be honest, I respect the original ideas behind the tea party. I'm also a little angry that the message got co-opted. But then, I have nobody to speak for me, either... I'm one who believes that government performs necessary services, but they shouldn't perform the unnecessary ones if they can help it, ESPECIALLY not at a federal level. "get out of my wallet" but also "leave people alone to live their lives the way they want". Democrats break one, Republicans break the other, and big-L libertarians break the clause previous to both.

That does not excuse some of the things the media outlets are doing and saying, though. FOX can go to hell for trying to abduct partyers to the "right" and CNN and the rest can go to hell for trying to shove them there.

*pauses, stands back a bit*

Feste_sylvain... you're right on the money.

[amokk]

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