Community | April 15, 2009 | 8 comments

T-Baggers Unite

source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/15/tea.parties/index.html

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Today's the day millions, thousands - many turn out in protest of the current administrations tax hikes and economic plan. The right wing has been organizing and promoting this as an historic event of epic proportion just short of a revolution. In typical far right fashion, a good number of the people participating have no idea what they are actually protesting against. The tax rates in effect they are protesting now are from the previous administration. The new rates that will take effect will actually lower the majority of their taxes. Are they really pushing for higher taxes?

Taking a page out of the Obama campaign handbook, the Republicans used the net, text messaging and Twitter to get the word out to their disciples. But their biggest promoter was of course Fox News as always. And the so called "grass-roots" effort is more of an Astroturf affair coming from corporate sponsors, Dick Army and Phil Gram to name a few. The fun part will be to see how the event is covered. The stark contrast between how it is shown on Fox and how it actually turned out should be nothing short of hilarious comedy.
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