Friday, April 16, 2010
Nice photo essay from El Marco: TAX DAY REVOLT- Washington DC 2010
Related: White NBC Reporter Confronts Black Man at Tea Party Rally: 'Have You Ever Felt Uncomfortable?'
Also: Infiltrator or simply unwanted? DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?
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» Video: Black Tea Party Protesters vs. Keith Olbermann at the blog Solomonia
More here, from Reason TV. I wish the media had had this level of interest and cynicism during all those anti-Bush protests with signage and leadership provided by International ANSWER. Update: And an update to the video link in... Read More
Additional photos, from an AZ tea party rally.
A particularly apt post from the same site, titled Anti-Tea Party Bias in the New York Times, excerpt:
"... the movement is not fairly described as "antigovernment." To be opposed to an ever-expanding government, one that recognizes few or no limits, constitutional or otherwise, to the extension of its powers, is not to be opposed to government as such. To put it in simple terms that even a liberal can understand: to oppose BIG government is not to oppose government. ..."
"Second, it is not "sentiments," feelings, emotion, anger, that are at the source of the Tea Party protests but legitimate concerns based in fact and reason. ..."
"The piece [in the NYT] is not on the OP-Ed page. It is supposed to be a piece of reportage."