Expressed quiet disillusionment? How? Did they bring cardboard cutouts of Marcel Marceau?
Posted on 09/23/2010 2:07:17 PM PDT by mojito
WASHINGTON -- Is the tea party one of the most successful scams in American political history?
Before you dismiss the question, note that word "successful." Judge the tea party purely on the grounds of effectiveness and you have to admire how a very small group has shaken American political life and seized the microphone offered by the media, including the so-called liberal media.
But it's equally important to recognize that the tea party constitutes a sliver of opinion on the extreme end of politics receiving attention out of all proportion with its numbers.
Yes, there is a lot of discontent in America. But that discontent is better represented by the moderate voters who expressed quiet disillusionment to President Obama at the CNBC town hall meeting on Monday than by tea party ideologues who proclaim the unconstitutionality of the New Deal and everything since.
The tea party drowns out such voices because it has money -- some of it from un-populist corporate sources, as Jane Mayer documented last month in The New Yorker -- and has used modest numbers strategically in small states to magnify its impact.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
“Maybe it is a scam, EJ.”
Pssst. You weren’t supposed to tell him.
A sliver that 52% of Americans apparently agree with, according to recent polling. But it's not like 52% represents a majority or anything.
But you could take the words "tea party" out of the original quote and replace it with "socialist democrats" and I think it might be correct.
Expressed quiet disillusionment? How? Did they bring cardboard cutouts of Marcel Marceau?
Oh sure, Mr. Dionne. One or two people grumble at a stacked event outweigh millions of people in the Tea Party movement.
E. J. must get a volume discount on his Depends...he fills them up so often.
They are used to demonstrations that they control, fielded and populated by people from their various interlocking franchises and organizations.
They can’t understand a mass gathering of people that don’t belong to anything, who they don’t control, who don’t really have any obvious leader, who are united only by their love of country, and what this country was intended to be.
People who want to control you do not understand people who don’t have to be controlled and don’t want to be controlled.
Put this up on your mirror to motovate you every morning.
I’m considering bookmarking this article to throw back in his face 03Nov.
In other news I heard that the congressional republicans have invited their democrat counterparts to a unity breakfast on the morning of November 3rd to be held on the Deck of the Battleship Missouri.
AMEN.
“This person has not a clue about much of anything outside his liberal bubble does he?”
Enjoy it while you can find it amusing. That nuttyness, that divorcement from reality on the part of the leftist is what allows him (or forces him) to finally take matters into hand and CRUSH ‘the evil ones’ (that’s us). History shows how they always do it. November looms like doom now, the things that must be going thru the cornered rat’s mind may well be acted upon. A pretext is all that is needed.
In the article Dionne writes:
But something is haywire in our media and our politics. Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian whose new book is "The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History," observed in an interview that there is a "hall of mirrors" effect created by the rise of "niche" opinion media. They magnify small movements into powerhouses while old-fashioned journalism, which is supposed to put such movements in perspective, reacts to the same niche incentives.
Seems to me, and to many others, that a reverse "hall of mirrors effect" is being practiced by big (liberal) media. They do not want people to understand how large this ground swell is. They have been biased all along, and are actually so warped that they think they are putting things into perspective when they alter the truth to shape opinion - just like Dionne is doing here.
Read the article - the numbers games he plays in an effort to marginalize this movement are absurd.
Possibly.
But if it is, it's a distant second-place behind the most successful scam in American political history, which is the concept that Americans of African ancestry, generally descendents of slaves, should owe absolute allegiance to the Democrat party.
The Democrat party was the Party of Slavery at its founding two centuries ago, and remains the Party of Slavery today.
Two centuries ago, the Democrat party was home of those who used persons of African ancestry on Southern plantations to convert cotton seeds into cotton bales; today, the Democrat party is home of those who use persons of African ancestry on big-city urban plantations to convert dollars into votes.
Exactly. In November, the libtards will be wondering how the heck “an astroturf movement funded by wealthy conservatives and evil, capitalist corporations” managed to bring about election results of such magnitude. They won’t be able to explain it away with “typical midterm, anti-incumbency voter sentiment.”
I can’t wait.
There is going to be a deluge of this type of nonsense in the next six weeks. The Dems and RINOs have to try to scare people into continuing to vote for the status quo.
If most of the libtards believe as this one does, that the tea party movement is manufactured, perhaps they don't fear November. If they're really this delusional, the election results will come as a huge surprise to them.
You're right, Lucky - many millions of us wanted to be there... millions who weren't able to attend - - millions who vote...
bsmbi is the one running the scam
Thank heavens we have E.J. Dionne to enlighten us.
Truth hurts doesn't it? That damn ol' Constitution.
...give MoDo a call, she's as lonely as you are.
feh...
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