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It seems whenever 2 or 3 "tea baggers" get together, it has to be covered in the media. If not nationally, at least on a local level. Instead of the news coverage being representative of the event, the coverage actually becomes the event. In fact, the news coverage eclipses the actual event in many cases.
Perhaps 600 people gathering for a meeting is news to some, but for it to receive national news due to the fact that a disgraced former Governor who quit her job halfway through was a speaker, one has to wonder why it has earned the prominence it has.
It's not as if the woman is particularly adept at public speaking. She has a whiny, nasal tone to her voice, and she uses inflections improperly. Her timing is a bit off as well, although not as bad as the former Terrorist In Chief Bush's was.
This is another example of today's M$M creating news instead of covering it. And this news coverage just fuels the tea bagger's ideal of legitimacy. The tea baggers don't exist because they're unhappy with government. They don't exist because they hate paying taxes. They don't exist because they are in love with their health care insurance provider. They don't exist because they want to bring about change. Those are the reasons they may give, but in reality that's not why they exist.
The tea baggers exist because they are racists. We have a black family living in The White House for the first time ever. And the tea baggers can't stand it. Their hatred for black people goes above and beyond all else. They don't much care for gay people, Asian people, anyone from across our southern border, or anyone they can identify as a liberal, either.
So, they gather with their hand made (and misspelled) signs. Protesting how government is too big, spending too much, out of control, etc. But where were they 9 years ago, when the white man in The White House was running up the deficit like never before? Where were they when that same man was starting two wars based on lies? Where were they when that man and his party were doing away with their rights and liberties? (Crickets...)
You can be certain there would have been rioting in the streets at the time had that man been black instead of white. Or gay instead of straight.
While we may expect Faux News to cover the tea bagger events with excitement, since that network shares in the tea bagger ideals to some degree, the remainder of the M$M should be treating these events for what they are: a small group of people who are funded covertly by corporations to promote their agendas. We know that the health care reform meetings of last summer included large numbers of people bussed in by the health care insurers with the goal of disrupting the process. And the M$M covered that beautifully as well.
What was missing from their coverage was the fact that the people protesting at those meetings often didn't live in the area. In some instances, they were employees of the health care insurers brought in (and no doubt paid) to cause a disruption. And that was really the story...but where was the M$M on that? Mostly silent.
So now, in the absence of a missing blond college student, a wayward homemade balloon allegedly with a boy in it, or some other distraction that fills air time, the M$M programs the tea bagger events, and presents them as legitimate gatherings of concerned citizens who are unhappy with the direction our government is headed.
What is mostly absent from that coverage is the real reason for their existence: racism and hatred. What we really need is an undercover mission to expose the real purpose of the tea baggers, like the pimp and his ho that visited ACORN with camera at the ready.
The M$M can never disclose the true reasons for the tea baggers, as that would be a disgrace and an affront to society. So, they take them at face value and churn up news where there really should be none. When you consider the reasons given by the tea baggers, they don't add up. Who really loves their health care provider? With premiums going through the roof, chances are only the CEOs of those companies truly love them.
And people really know where the deficit came from. The fact that a black man is trying to fix the problems left behind by the white man before him--and help the very people protesting his actions--doesn't serve the purposes of the corporate-owned, self-serving media, so that isn't the story.
So forget about the facts, folks. Believe what you are told to believe and do not question things that don't make sense. It's all for the greater good. Corporate America must protect its profits, and it will use its media divisions to do so.
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