Posted by
Ronald Lanham Jr. on Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:39:42 AM
Yesterday
across the nation ordinary citizens showed just how fed up they are
with the reckless behavior of the U.S. Government. The main thrust of
yesterday's TEA parties was that like in the days of the original
Boston Tea Party we are being taxed without representation. What's
more, our government is spending us into oblivion.
As I
mentioned above these were ordinary citizens. However, you would not
know that if you listened to the Mainstream Media. Initially they
refused to even cover the TEA parties. Then when the story got to big
to ignore they began treating the entire idea as laughable. They
sneered and smirked and talked about these protesters as if they were
some fringe element. And networks such as MSNBC called the participants
derogatory names like “teabaggers”. For those of you that don't know it
this is a reference to the male scrotum. Lovely isn't it?
A
commentator on the aforementioned MSNBC treated protesters as idiots.
She would make sarcastic statements about how the taxes paid by them
were supporting the parks where the protests were held, and paid for
the police and emergency services that oversaw the safety of the
crowds. She deliberately missed the point. We are not just protesting
high taxes, and we are certainly not protesting the use of those taxes
on vital services. We are protesting runaway, insane spending of those
tax dollars. And not only spending of the revenue the government
already brings in, but spending of money we don't even have, so that
our national debt is exploding and we in the thrall of nations like
communist China. They even intimated that the parents that brought
their children to the rallies to protest the fact that they would
paying for this debt long after the parents are dead, were somehow
abusing those children. It never bothered liberal anti-war protestors
that would stick signs on their children with phrases like “Mr. Bush
Please Don't Kill Me”.
But the most enlightening moment of all
was during a CNN on-the-street interview where the reporter completely
lost her professionalism and exposed something that Conservatives have
said for decades: the news media is liberal. Props go to Libertarian Republican for showing the vid.
If
the MSM is going to treat ordinary citizens with disdain and contempt,
perhaps it's time for us to completely abandon all viewing of their
product altogether.