Or is it that the mindset of people like those who wrote this newspaper article caused the report to be written?
If either one of these propositions is true, we are not paranoid, they really are coming after us.. Where did I put my tinfoil hat?
Posted on 04/15/2009 9:36:13 PM PDT by WayneLusvardi
"Crazy inbred hicks and right-wing religious nuts from a backwater in the South are behind the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party movement in West Covina, California." At least that is what the Pasadena Star News wants to insinuate with the TEA Party anti-tax rallies in California. Why doesn't the Star News just come right out and say it: the "Klu Klux Klan" is behind the rallies?
Read here how the Pasadena Star News spins the reporting on the TEA Party rally in West Covina as purportedly sponsored by the American Family Association, a "Mississippi-based Christian conservative organization" - http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_12148313
For the public record the American Family Association website says: "AFA is only one of many organizations planning TEA party rallies" across the United States - read here: http://media.afa.net/newdesign/ReleaseDetail.asp?id=3616
In other words, the American Family Association, headquartered in Mississippi, likely had nothing to do with the TEA Party rally in West Covina, California.
You would think the Pasadena Star News would be a little smarter than to run this sort of journalistic slur and blatant religious bias in its newspaper. This type of biased reporting may play well in upscale Pasadena, but I wonder if the Pasadena Star News reporter knows anything about the sociological and religious makeup of the Covina area? Evidently not.
There are many Christian Baptists in Pasadena with roots in the Southern U.S. Since the American Family Association is a self-described "conservative Christian" organization, this kind of yellow journalism might not sit well with all those Baptists in Pasadena, let alone all those conservative Christian churches in the Covina area.
And they wonder why newspapers are struggling? I wonder if corporate knows about this? The sister newspaper to the Pasadena Star News, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, is distributed in West Covina.
Note: Please don't try to pull some fast one and remove your post from the online edition of the newspaper as we have already downloaded it for posterity.
If anybody in West Covina, California attended the TEA Party there today, please tell us an estimate of about how many people were there. Was it more than the 100 people estimated by the Pasadena Star News in advance?
Or is it that the mindset of people like those who wrote this newspaper article caused the report to be written?
If either one of these propositions is true, we are not paranoid, they really are coming after us.. Where did I put my tinfoil hat?
Re: “Wing Nuts”
Good catch. Any other slurs like this - please post.
At tea party today as (I passed out flyers listing bills Congress has passed or is debating this year) a young Asian woman approached & we talked I showed her my flyers & discussed several issues: global warming (she didn’t belive it) N.A.I.S., etc. She looked around very carefully & pulled out a copy of the DHS report that’s been on the internet. She was very freightened about it but said that she thought it was important to come out and protest anyway. We agreed that we had to do it no matter what they threaten.
Keith whatshisname sounded like he referred to Rush as a “Proto-Nazi” on a segment on the DHS right-wing extremists panic. Would need to check transcript to confirm.
He did refer to the DHS warning about “neo-Nazis” and mentioned Sean Hannity in the same sentence, implying the latter thought himself referred to by the former. That seems a tad over the line? Blurring rather important distinctions.
Ku, not Klu
You can bet that they would not comment on the origin of the Klan- the Democrat party!
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