Notice how fast the Tea Party was legitimized?

Looking back over the past about year and a half, I am amazed at how fast the Tea Party was legitimized and integrated into the lexicon of the news cycle.

As far as I know there is not a real Tea Party as a recognized political party; you can’t register as a member of the Tea Party nor will Tea Party candidates appear as such on a ballot.

But, you can turn on the TV and see Tea Party spokespeople; there are Tea Party representatives and Tea Party leaders.

Wonder what the chances might be of the media conferring the same level of blessing on a Worker’s Party...probably about the same as the rapture actually happening tomorrow.

that they're a mixture of both democrats and republicans. It's all bullshit of course, has been since the beginning. What legitimized them was the media....don't expect a worker's party would get the same media coverage.

they'll use one old guy who registered as a Democrat in 1947 as an example of it being a bipartisan movement. However, that one old guy has voted Republic since Reagan and has never bothered to change his party affiliation.

From RW friends/family. Raving rants trying desperately to sound neutral, exhorting me to "vote the bums out" and how "...I don't care if they're Democrat or Republican..." and "...we need to send a message that..." but curiously enough the ones they wanted to replace them with were all corporatist GOP-ers.

As to their supposed non racist stance, who is that black guy in 1770's "patriot" garb they always trot out to add legitimacy to their claim?

stood for, racism and states' rights. (FWIW, Thurmond ran for President in 1948 as a States Rights Democratic Party candidate, aka 'Dixiecrat').

I doubt there are many Democratics who would be swayed by their rhetoric.

and acting like butter couldn't ever melt in their mouths.

Then, they didn't have ryan's medicare culling bill hanging over their heads and they hadn't taken the vote to pander to the wealthy at the expense of the middle/working class.

This time out, all of that has taken place. This time out, the monkeys are scrambling up the polls on their side with their stupidity, trying to oust Obama and turn back everything he's put into action in the past 3 years. They are most certainly going to split the votes on their side now because there is no leader on their side. Just a bunch of uneducated fools following a bunch of equally ignorant and rapacious fools.

Guess again. They want to turn back everything since Lincoln. They want to nullify every amendment after the 10th. They want to do away with the income tax, have senators appointed by governors, throw out the equal-protections, dis-band the United Nations, the National Labor Relations Board, NEA, EPA, AFL-CIO, USDA, TSA, etc. They probably want to restore prohibition and make it legal to kill gays on the spot. When they call themselves the party of Lincoln, they mean it. They want to go back to pre-reconstruction.

about 1500 self-identified "Tea Party" members across the country. They are the most overpublicized bunch EVER on a per-capita basis.

Yeah, the fucking mainstream media... then they wonder why people dismiss them. They're nothing but the big megaphone mechanism for lies, lies, and more lies.

I think if you are willing to put a Tea Party bumper sticker on your vehicle, it can be safely stated that you are self-identifieing as a Tea Party follower. I live in a pretty Blue area (NE Ohio), and I see plenty of Tea Partiers here. I can only imagine what it's like in a heavy Red area!

--even adopting teabags as their symbol, the MSM now censors the term (as was done on Letterman earlier last month with Bill Maher). Yet, when do they call conservatives on their silly damned reference to the Democratic Party as the "Democrat" Party.

Virtually no coverage over 8 years for progressive movements, including anti-war protests involving hundreds of thousands of people... I am beyond fed up.

i need to send a letter to NPR. i already know what i want to say. if i relied on NPR for my news i wouldn't even know there was a left in this country, or a politician who isn't a republic.

i have to slam in the CD half the time because i can't stand listening to it. you'd really think there were nothing but republicans throughout the entire political landscape.
i'll cut them a little bit of slack: they ran a good interview with nancy pelosi yesterday. but the subject wasn't politics, it was sexism.

Sherrod Brown Last Night.

http://www.wksu.org/news/story/28402

Stop listening to the MSM.

You have the internet.

and likely have plans to do just that. Maybe one day soon we will have two allowable social media networks -Twitter and Facebook. I see that day coming.

I like to choose what I eat and drink. And I want to choose what I take into my mind, into my thoughts. I do not want to be controlled by the corporate masters.

the sheeple let the rulers run rip-shod over and country and barely say a word. In a way, we need to restore the draft. People oppose the act of war when their own skin is on the line. As long as the war is "over there" and people that they do not know are getting killed, no one complains.

I don't see any other way to counter the congressional-military-industrial complex's constant lust for more and more war.

Me too.

when they are at best a few screwballs

Dangerous!

The MSM treats them as a separate entity, even though everyone knows they're Republicans, so they can load up their 'balanced' Sunday pro elites political propaganda shows with two conservatives to one moderate.

(Liberals arent allowed.)

That's how they roll. Like Juan Williams was the liberal.

it is a name and a bunch of front companies but the people suckered into the movement during the healthcare scare seem to have left. It's a movement with no support outside the radio and TV media, yet to cross them according to the MSM is something the Republicans can't do?

I'll figure a way to make that make sense. Somehow...

that funded the Teabagger Movement and benefitted from Citizens United.

and their money. They are the ones that pay the lobbyists that work against us on legislation.

the ConservaDems so the distinction isn't as absolute as you suggest.

it's that old liberal media hard at work once again. :puke:

for the record the teabaggers do not constitute a legitimate political movement in my eyes. i resist the corporate media's definition of news.

More of a tea gathering than a party
By Vanessa Silverton-Peel
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Fri May 20, 2011 1:47 PM EDT

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And yes, that's South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley speaking in the picture.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/20/6684032-more-of-a-tea-gathering-than-a-party

:smoke:

They are the extreme right wing of the Rs and I refer to them by the name they chose, Teabaggers.

With ZERO mention of the Republican Party.

Are you saying that it's all crap?

teapparty and 'took over' their 'movement' to push their agenda under the guise of a grass roots movement. That in addition to the fact that mainstream corporate media 'picks' the news, and the narrative they want to push.

If a worker's party got bankrolled and taken over it might stand a chance of getting a media blessing but only if the taking over corrupted it enough to suit big business etc.

(about a mile from my home) is now closed. The "grassroots" of that group were billionaires and the media corporations that they own.

US Political Parties

America First Party
American 3rd Party
American Nazi Party
American Party
American Populist Party
American Reform Party
American Third Position Party
America's Independent Party
Boston Tea Party - (Not to be confused with Tea party movement)
Citizens Party of the United States
Constitution Party
Communist Party of the United States of America
Christian Liberty Party
Democratic Party
Florida Whig Party
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (freedomroad.org faction)
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (frso.org faction)
Freedom Socialist Party
Green Party of the United States
Independent American Party
Independence Party of America
Jefferson Republican Party
Labor Party
Libertarian National Socialist Green Party
Libertarian Party
Moderate Party
Modern Whig Party
National Socialist Movement
New Union Party
Objectivist Party
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Peace and Freedom Party
Populist Party of America
Progressive Labor Party
Prohibition Party
Raza Unida Party
Reform Party of the United States of America
Republican Party
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Socialist Action
Socialist Alternative
Socialist Equality Party
Socialist Labor Party of America
Socialist Party USA
Socialist Workers Party
U.S. Marxist–Leninist Organization
United States Marijuana Party
United States Pirate Party
Unity Party of America
Workers Party
Workers World Party
Working Families Party
World Socialist Party of the United States

yet for all that, we're remain a "two party" electoral system.

Though a right winger, he was sued on behalf of various actual teabagger groups. They were afraid he'd steal votes from the actual tea party candidate: Sharron Angle. This state is constantly at the top. Of the "dumbest state" rankings.

A Tea Party protest with 10 people gets more coverage than a peace protest with 100,000. There's a reason for this.

But that political capital is on loan. They will have to pay the piper. Don't expect any bailouts to not happen because of them.

. . . starting in the mainstream with this fascist fuck . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-Jw-5Kx8k

(special note . . . this rant took place on February 19th 2009 . . . a day short of a whopping one month anniversary of Obama's presidency, of course. So naturally, Obama, to right wing toolbox asshats like Kernen and Santelli, now OWNS Bewsh and Slick Deregulation Willie's mortgage messes. Oh yeah, as I was saying . . . look at the painfully LOW stock market averages at the start of the Obama admin, and look at them today. Seems for all their bitching and crybaby whining about what a commie marxist soshulist hander-outer Obama is, people who are making Koch's and even Santelli's level of bank are making out pretty well if you ask me. Things that DON'T make you go HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM)

. . . followed, of course, by lots of Freedumbworks appearances on CNBC and then Glenn Beck's 9-12 Footshooter Parade, promoted on Faux . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NwZeJ_coU&playnext=1&list=PL4DD3B7A7A93B0352

Curiouser and curiouser . . .

MSNBC did their best to ridicule and delegitimize the Tea Parties as did many other outlets. Newscorp muscled this into being legitimate.

or some might say National Propaganda for Republicans radio

We have mind control, corporate mind control. Poor sheeple!

Any group could be "legitimized" by an entity as pervasive as Fox.

corporate - media operation to convey legitimacy to the Tea Party. How many times have we heard it was a grass roots movement. I'm still hearing it on TV, and I don't mean on Fox News.

THeir Freedom Works and RW think-tanks work closely with the media especially FOx.

Reality is fungible.

into useless, archaic and parasitic institutions. Not worthy of an invite onto the esteemed Sunday morning Republican propanganda shows.

I don't mean that the tea party literally bleeds, only that the media is drawn to dramatic narratives, and red-faced, sign-waving people fit the bill. Never mind that the ultimate insiders (billionaires, wife of Supreme Court justice, former majority leader of the House) were openly associated with it. Never mind that it's not a grassroots movement. Never mind that it doesn't even represent the majority of the country.

Just call out the cameras, fire up the computers, give it up for the Big Dramatic Story. :eyes: