This comes as a surprise to whom?
No offense, but isn’t this a “water is wet” headline?
I tuned into CNN and they were pushing the Coffee Party that Obama’s minions started. LOL
Personally I don’t care if they low-ball Tea Party activism. I prefer a stealth campaign where the opposition is led to underestimate (or is that misunderestimate?) the movement. Let the Dems get over-confident and let November hit them like the proverbial bus.
Someone in the Lame Stream Media lowballed the crowd size at a Conservative Gathering?
CNN devout followers of Joseph Goebbels????
And this was at 9AM local time.
The CNN “headcount” at this event is far less troubling than the selective coverage. Crowd counting is based on statistical analysis and can be easily manipulated. As with any group, the Tea Party movement includes a wide swath of participants — mainstream media only seems to focus on those with misspelled, inaccurate, and/or hateful or offensive signage. This was not the case with coverage of the Obama campaign.
Islam is, at its core, a peaceful religion, it is those at the extreme (Al Qaida, the Taliban) that garner the attention and are responsible for the heinous acts. Yet this is the Islam the world “sees” through the media. Similarly, as a movement of the PEOPLE, WE must be careful to distance ourselves from the radical extremists. If someone shows up at a Tea Party event in a KKK robe, ask them to leave. If the “Birthers” are making noise and holding signs, politely ask them to focus on the real, important issues and keep the “Birther” issue separate.
Mainstream media will continue to vilify and downplay the Tea Party movement; while we can adamantly defend the rights of ANY American to hold whatever views they chose, we must be careful to NOT allow the media to define us by the extremist element. Hate, Racism, “Birthers”, Hitler moustaches on ANY democratically elected President, etc have no place in America and no place in the Tea Party movement. If we allow these extremist views to define the Tea Party movement, we will lose the center – our core – and we will lose the battle.
