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For Tea Party Detractors and Mainstream Media, Thursday Was An Epic Fail [FR mentioned]
Big Journalism ^ | Apr 17th 2010 | Kevin L. Martin

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armyofdavids; citizenjournalism; infiltrators; jasonlevin; msm; newmedia; reichstaggers; setups; teaparties; teaparty
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1 posted on 04/17/2010 8:27:33 AM PDT by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

The short video clip in the story is priceless.


2 posted on 04/17/2010 8:31:15 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: mdittmar

What I learned this week is that democrat thugs can break a woman’s leg in four places and break her jaw as well, and the media will ignore it and at the same time ask are tea parties violent and racist.

This sh!t needs to come to a screeching halt, RFN.


3 posted on 04/17/2010 8:33:55 AM PDT by chris37
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To: chris37
The MSM report this? They urged it on.
They urged it on before people were assaulted and eaten.

"PRESIDENT OBAMA: And this week, .... we're going to be doing is bringing some of them into the White House and --
JIM LEHRER: To crack heads?"


"To crack heads?" Lehrer asks.
"Oh, I don't know about cracking heads," Obama said, "facilitating a discussion that solves these problems." "


"PBS's Lehrer Badgers Obama from the Left: What About Banks' 'Huge Profits?'
By Matthew Balan | July 21, 2009 - 11:56
"PBS's Jim Lehrer ... urged the executive to "crack heads"
to get his health care plan passed, and inquired if "taxing the wealthy" was an option to fund it.
Lehrer later pressed Mr. Obama on the "huge profits" being made by "big Wall Street banks.""


4 posted on 04/17/2010 8:44:52 AM PDT by Diogenesis (RN)
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To: chris37

“This sh!t needs to come to a screeching halt, RFN.”

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The communists in the QueerMedia are not going to stop their propagandizing.

Lies and the politics of personal destruction, are stock and trade for the domestic and international Left.

What we need is true conservative alternatives, and I don’t mean Fox News.


5 posted on 04/17/2010 8:45:21 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: chris37

Someone threw a molitov cocktail at the home of Jan Brewer’s top aide this week as well. That got minimal coverage even here at FR.


6 posted on 04/17/2010 8:47:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: mdittmar

As the eldest of six children I would like to thank the obama administration for being the BIG BROTHER I never had.
I think my younger siblings would also like to thank him for his generosity towards us. We don’t think that we could have made it through the past year without HIM.
ALL PRAISE obama.


7 posted on 04/17/2010 8:48:39 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (go to you tube @see screw the state of n.j.)
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To: thethirddegree

Enjoy this San Antonio Tea Party video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL5bPJFHRnA


8 posted on 04/17/2010 8:48:56 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: mdittmar

Alinsky is so embarassed:

http://joytiz.com/2010/tea-party-crashers-humiliate-alinsky/


9 posted on 04/17/2010 8:49:34 AM PDT by jazminerose
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To: chris37

I totally believe that it will come to a halt. Democrats have totally mis-read the American people and totally underestimated them when they see things going against everything we believe in. Either the media gets on board with the people or they will go out of business. I think that eventually, their stock holders will abandon the media, unless they want to loose everything. We see this happening with Democrat voters already. The voters are beginning to see what’s really going on.


10 posted on 04/17/2010 8:50:04 AM PDT by RC2
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To: EyeGuy
The communists in the QueerMedia are not going to stop their propagandizing.

This will get much more heated befor Nov 2010 rolls around. The MARXISTS are not going to just allow the GOP to take back control of the House and/or the Senate without a REAL FIGHT. They have billions left in their porkulus and tarp slush funds and never forget all the sugar daddies the RAT party depends on. ACORN (or whatever they call themselves today)? SEIU? NEA? HOLLYWIERD? State run media?
11 posted on 04/17/2010 8:51:06 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: mdittmar

Slick Willies’ Comment

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...But I think that all you have to do is to read the paper every day to see how many there are who are deeply, deeply troubled. We know, now, that there are people involved in groups — these ‘hatriot’ groups, the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters, the others — 99 percent of them will never do anything they shouldn’t do. But there are people who advocate violence and anticipate violence.

One of these guys the other day said that all politics is just a prelude to the ultimate and inevitable civil war. You know, I’m a southerner. I know what happened. We were still paying for that 100 years later when I was a kid growing up, in ways large and small. It doesn’t take many people to take something like that seriously. So I don’t want the whole story of this retrospective just to be about this, and to try to turn everything into politics...
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12 posted on 04/17/2010 8:51:13 AM PDT by bravotu (Have a Nice Day !)
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To: thethirddegree
The short video clip in the story is priceless.

You said it. Here's a shout out to Darryl Postell from your fellow Americans. Way to expose the racist libtard for what she was.

The author of the article also had a great quote at the end:

“Nowhere can the “Epic Fail” of the attempt to smear Americans can be seen more clearly than in the video above of Kelly O’Donnell, asking Darryl Postell whether “he felt comfortable among his fellow Americans.” I don’t know about Darryl, but I as a Black man feel more comfortable among Tea Party members than the whole nightly lineup at MSNBC.”

13 posted on 04/17/2010 8:54:41 AM PDT by skully (I'd rather be a Tea-bagger then a Fister)
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To: chris37

Battle lines have been drawn, by them. Its time for Americans to wake up and see this but too many people just want to look on the bright side. They will keep looking on the bright side until they are being marched toward an internment camp by these thugs. Alinsky understood human nature very well.


14 posted on 04/17/2010 8:56:10 AM PDT by culpeper (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people,)
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To: mdittmar
The kenyan and his minions like their slogan, "Yes We Can"; but I think we can defeat them with ours..."KEEP ON COMIN'".

As long as we march forward, in unison, to November 2nd, power up some power pellets of victory in the Congress, and "reload" and head for 2012.
15 posted on 04/17/2010 8:56:12 AM PDT by FrankR (Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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To: mdittmar

“These are my people - Americans.”

— Darryl Postell


16 posted on 04/17/2010 8:56:38 AM PDT by rwa265 (Christ my Cornerstone)
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To: FrankR

The democrats are desperately trying to stir us into foolish reaction but you’re absolutely correct about how we just have to keep moving forward.


17 posted on 04/17/2010 8:58:06 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

This is the first I have heard of this, and I read FR every day, as well as Drudge, but FOX not so much anymore.


18 posted on 04/17/2010 8:58:49 AM PDT by chris37
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To: chris37

Mafia owned democrat union thugs can’t stop we the people movement,they operate like it’s the 1930’s.


19 posted on 04/17/2010 9:02:33 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: bravotu
"...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct in its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern."
-- Philip K. Dick
20 posted on 04/17/2010 9:03:59 AM PDT by Rocko
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