Posted on 04/17/2010 8:27:33 AM PDT by mdittmar
A Navy Chief once told me that close only counts in three things: horseshoes, hand grenades and area-effect weapons. Now, when it comes down to how the mainstream media tried to portray members of the Tea Party they did not come “close.”
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past year, America has witnessed a popular uprising of people who have grown concerned by the massive power grab by President Obama and his allies in Congress, who have tried to cram “activist government” down our throats, while leaving the bills to our kids, grandkids and their children’s children.
When the grassroots efforts of the Tea Party Movement first took hold in the early days of the Obama regime, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the movement as “Astroturf,” disheartened Republicans and racists, who could not accept a bi-racial man as President. The mainstream media and Democrat activists, taking their orders right from the Speaker’s office, tried to portray the political debate as being solely based on President Obama’s race and not the policies of an overreaching government.
During the Health Care debate this same media, along with the Democrat leaders, tried and failed in their attempt to use civil rights icon John Lewis and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus as foils to induce a racial incident to smear the Tea Party Movement — the citizen-reporter was there to bring you the real story and foil their plans.
The blogsphere was able to expose Democrat activists who sought to infiltrate the Tea Party Movement to incite incidents of violence, but once again these plans were foiled by blog sites such as Freerepublic.com, which exposed Oregon public school teacher Jason Levin the man behind “Crashtheparty.org.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bigjournalism.com ...
Working ok here via IE.
I have had quite lively and stimulating discussions that were PAINFULLY polite, and anything BUT boring. I have also given up on loudmouths who think that the louder you get, the more likely you are to win a “debate”.
It's become obvious to me that I made my point about politeness rather poorly. I do not believe that politeness is a bad thing by any means, and I didn't really mean to say that.
The point I was trying to make (clumsily) is that politeness leads to mediocrity when it prevents any criticism or correction from happening - in other words, when politeness gets in the way of the truth.
It is definitely possible to speak the truth politely; in fact, it's often the best way to speak the truth.
I leave the tone of any further discussion to you.
Man, all this just because I said "Free Republic is not a blog" and trueblackman thought it had something to do with my "feelings."
Oregon Ping!
Lars Larson has been on this clown like stink on a monkey, so the regional affiliates have to cover the story. Heard Rush mention him by name, also. He may soon join the ranks of Oregon’s unemployed, if allegations of using State time to create his website pan out.
Did he say ‘crack heads’ ?
Or ‘crack-heads’?
Ut oh. Your Chrome was ahead of the curve—getting same message here. Another libtard attack.
I went to the site anyways since I use Linux. No problems.I wonder if this was a liberal censorship attempt?
I found it it’s a belated google reaction to a previous liberal attack.
Let’s see how eager they are to review it and take the warnings off . . .
The site itself is fine.
Thanks for the ping and great article, Kevin!
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