More About the Teabag Fiction
Here are a few excerpts from an article from the Washington Post which provides some data to back up what I have been saying for months about the tea party movement:
" Supporters overwhelmingly identify themselves as Republicans or GOP-leaning independents...The new movement is also relatively small, with 8 percent of supporters claiming to be "active participants" -- about 2 percent of the total population."
Two percent. And this is the "movement" that our liberal press has blown up into a major player in our national political scene.
"The percentage of people who say the Democratic Party represents their personal values and is in tune with the problems of people like themselves hasn't changed since November. The percentage siding with the GOP, however, has dropped by almost precisely the numbers now siding with the tea party."
And it's the Democrats, we are told over and over again, who should be afraid of these petulant lunatics.
"A sizable share of those not already sympathetic to the tea party also say that the more they hear, the less they like the movement."
I wonder why that might be. Maybe the stupidity? Or the hate, or the racism? Or the ignorance? Take your pick.
I have been saying since last summer that it is my impression that the entire tea party movement was largely a gigantic, phony pantomime, in which the media willingly collaborate with the Republican party to manufacture the appearance of a huge movement out of almost nothing. I have shown picture after picture of tea party protests that have gotten national attention, but which seem to have attracted no more than a few dozen or a couple of hundred people. I have pointed out that practically every tea party event has fallen vastly short of predicted attendance, while left-leaning demonstrations ten times their size go totally ignored by the mainstream press.
Well, here is more solid evidence to back up my claim- the entire tea party movement is a colossal con job.
" Supporters overwhelmingly identify themselves as Republicans or GOP-leaning independents...The new movement is also relatively small, with 8 percent of supporters claiming to be "active participants" -- about 2 percent of the total population."
Two percent. And this is the "movement" that our liberal press has blown up into a major player in our national political scene.
"The percentage of people who say the Democratic Party represents their personal values and is in tune with the problems of people like themselves hasn't changed since November. The percentage siding with the GOP, however, has dropped by almost precisely the numbers now siding with the tea party."
And it's the Democrats, we are told over and over again, who should be afraid of these petulant lunatics.
"A sizable share of those not already sympathetic to the tea party also say that the more they hear, the less they like the movement."
I wonder why that might be. Maybe the stupidity? Or the hate, or the racism? Or the ignorance? Take your pick.
I have been saying since last summer that it is my impression that the entire tea party movement was largely a gigantic, phony pantomime, in which the media willingly collaborate with the Republican party to manufacture the appearance of a huge movement out of almost nothing. I have shown picture after picture of tea party protests that have gotten national attention, but which seem to have attracted no more than a few dozen or a couple of hundred people. I have pointed out that practically every tea party event has fallen vastly short of predicted attendance, while left-leaning demonstrations ten times their size go totally ignored by the mainstream press.
Well, here is more solid evidence to back up my claim- the entire tea party movement is a colossal con job.
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