Posted on 10/21/2013 6:30:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"............................Broadly speaking, tea-party hysteria seems to be originated and peddled by three factions. The first, and most cynical, is made up of perfidious progressives who, because they oppose the Tea Party’s economic agenda and fear its electoral and political clout, have set out with malice aforethought to destroy the group’s reputation. Into this bloc we can reliably throw almost everybody at MSNBC, the Democratic National Committee, the Obama administration, and the parade of political operatives who work around the clock to make politics intolerable for everyone. Given that these people are more committed than they are creative, you will notice that their preferred epithets for the Tea Party are the ones that they throw at everybody. Hence “racist,” “greedy,” and “stupid.”
The second faction consists of the genuinely dangerous Americans who do not grasp the nature, legitimacy, and vital role of vehement political opposition in a free republic. These are the people who, willfully or not, orchestrated and cheered on the IRS’s disgusting singling out of tea-party groups. Evidently, a number of people in America have managed to convince themselves that citizens who rail against taxes and debt and wish to see a reduction in regulation are more likely than most to break the laws they disdain — even though there is precisely no evidence for this. To propose that members of the Tea Party should be more closely monitored by the IRS because they advance an anti-tax message is akin to proposing that the advocates of drug legalization should be singled out for visits by the DEA or that opponents of wiretapping should be targeted for NSA surveillance. In other words, it is to say that there should be tangible consequences for speaking up against the status quo.
The third group is perhaps the most interesting,....
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The leftist media has been able to paint the Tea Party to suit their needs, mainly because the Tea Party is in reality a grassroots movement of people who are fed up and want THEIR Country back. Therefore there really is no organized platform or spokesperson (though some claim to be) to stand up, defend it and set the record straight.
The Tea Party is “misunderstood” because of years of public education teaching the joys of fascism and collectivism. We are a communist mentality at this point. Only time and actual experience will change these dumbass Americans.
Whining about mischaracterizations isn’t going grab headlines or help get support.
Attack the leftists by telling the truth in big headlines. Use strong words as the left does about the powergrabs, the graft, the kickbacks, the lies.
whiners never win.
Nothing the left says is ever true.
Yes, no whining. Attack back! Never let the suckers get you down! Never bother to defend yourself! The lefties are scared to death of: Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, the Tea Party, white people, conservatives. Hence their focused attacks on these very things.
Let’s use their fear and attacks to spotlight their weaknesses, and then get to work destroying them. The call is nothing less, for they seek to destroy the country as we know it and remake it in their own image.
Nothing!
The Tea Party is maligned because the GOP doesn’t stand up and call these accusations LIES and the the accusers LIARS!
The party that controls the media controls the message.
Many fall for the propaganda of the communist left. Whenever I get into an argument with a leftist, normally started by some idiotic remark about the Tea Party or Ted Cruz, I start asking them for specific examples of exactly what they do or want that is so bad... with hilarious consequences. Because when the soundbyte propaganda is exposed and refuted, they cannot bring up a single fact, much to the amusement of whatever audience is witnessing the conversation.
“Attack the leftists by telling the truth in big headlines.”
The left ensures those headlines never go further than blogs & forums; they will never see the light of day in a newspaper.
People need to counterattack the MSM, by adding adjectives to their names. By doing so consistently, there is far more chance the labels will stick.
“The radical leftist MS-NBC/NYT/WAPO.”
“Liberal-leftist CNN/CBS/ABC.”
“Liberal-moderate FOX News.”
Somebody ping Jonah Goldberg. This is what it looks like to have a pair.
The progressive left, Dems and 'Pubbies both, are scared to death of the Tea Party and the office holders who support it and are supported by it.
Why.....because they know they are actually a minority opinion limited to a VERY small portion of the country (deep blue megacities), and that the Tea Party reflects the true majority opinion in the USA.
But the left is united and well organized, and has been for decades. The true majority is (currently) divided. And the leftists are scared shirtless (drop the "r" for the true phrase) that the Tea Party will unite the disparate consevative groups into a cohesive political front.
The left ensures those headlines never go further than blogs & forums; they will never see the light of day in a newspaper.
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YOu don’t get it, ads, and newspapers. Start and buy. Conservatives need to get the word out, over and over and over.
Nothing the left says is ever true.
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so get the word out
The lefties are scared to death of: Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, the Tea Party, white people, conservatives. Hence their focused attacks on these very things.
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Glad someone here gets it.
The radical leftist MS-NBC/NYT/WAPO.”
“Liberal-leftist CNN/CBS/ABC.”
“Liberal-moderate FOX News.”
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You have it absolutely correct. name it freeze it malign it
The Tea Party is maligned because the GOP doesn’t stand up and call these accusations LIES and the the accusers LIARS!
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The mainstream republicans are sissies.
Name it call it freeze it and malign it.
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