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The most pivotal scene in our nation's recent civil rights history was not as some would assume, electing the more qualified, younger and dynamic presidential candidate (of a different party than George W. Bush) who also happened to be half African, - but it was, in fact, the self-proclaimed Tea Party protesters hurling racial epithets at members of Congress.The most pivotal scene in our nation's recent civil rights history was not as... more
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"It surprised me that people are so mean and we can't engage in a civil dialogue and debate," Lewis said."It surprised me that people are so mean and we can't engage in a civil... more
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Tea Partiers Rally on Capitol Hill in Opposition to Health Care Bill
FOXNews.com
Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected to rally outside Democratic congressional offices in Washington on Tuesday to protest the $875 billion health care bill and demand meetings with their respective members of Congress.
“CODE RED” Anti-Health Care Rally…Kill The Bill!!! “Must Be Racists”…VIDEO…PHOTOS...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/code-red-anti-health-care-rally-kill-the-bill-must-be-racists-video-photos/
Tea Party activists from across the country rallied outside Democratic congressional offices in Washington on Tuesday to protest the $875 billion health care bill and demand meetings with their respective members of Congress.
And by all appearances, their arrival is not being taken lightly.Tea Partiers Rally on Capitol Hill in Opposition to Health Care Bill
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Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man. Sadly, this muscle bound hero that took on the whole Nazi army during WWII seems to be afraid of those American people who’ve joined the Tea Party movement. Not only is Cappy quaking in his little red booties, but he’s sure that the Tea Party folks are dangerous racists, too.
Marvel Comics making patriotic Americans into your newest super villains...Full Story here .... Dont Miss !!! http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/marvel-comics-captain-america-says-tea-parties-are-dangerous-and-racist-wtf/
Isn’t it wonderful that a decades old American comic book hero is now being used to turn readers against our very political system, being used to slander folks that are standing up for real American principles in real life — and one called “Captain America” at that?Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful... more
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Sarah Palin might just be the new face of The Tea Party...
This is—no joke—how Sarah Palin began her speech to the tea partiers: “I am so proud to be an American. Thank you so much for being here tonight. Do you love your freedom?” She then thanked the troops for her freedom, repeated that she was proud to be an American and said “Happy birthday, Ronald Reagan!”
Sarah Palin Speech to The American Tea Party
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/sarah_palin_speaks_at_the_goofball_convention_raw_video_20100207/Sarah Palin might just be the new face of The Tea Party...
This is—no... more
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Three months ago, we set to work to find the funniest (whether intentionally so or not) protest signs of the year. Because of all your help and constant additions we have a gallery that is sure to make you laugh and possibly cry for the future of our country.Three months ago, we set to work to find the funniest (whether intentionally so or... more
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Poor Michelle Bachmann can't seem to catch a break lately.
Less than a week after Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, of all people, poked holes in a Fox report on her November 5th tea party healthcare protest which utilized falsified footage to inflate the attendance, a Washington D.C. based watchdog is calling for a House probe of the Republican congresswoman from Minnesota.
"CREW contends that Rep. Bachmann misused her official congressional website by urging people to come to the Capitol to protest the legislation despite House rules restricting members from using their websites to engage in 'grassroots lobbying or solicit support for a Member’s position," states a press release on the website for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "Rep. Bachmann’s website urged people to come to the Capitol rally 'and tell their Representatives to vote no' on the health care reform bill."
CREW excutive director Melanie Sloan adds, "Taxpayers fund members’ websites and because of that those sites may not be used to organize a public rally for or against any particular legislation."
"CREW also asked OCE to determine if Rep. Bachmann and other members violated House rules by failing to acquire a permit for the Nov. 5 rally and by falsely calling the event a “press conference,” though no questions were asked by the media. Politico quoted from a Republican Study Committee email directing staff members to “please make sure your boss does not term this event a rally.” A Capitol Police spokeswoman confirmed the lawmakers had no permit for a demonstration. In a TV interview, however, Rep. Bachmann urged opponents of the bill “to come to Washington, D.C. by the car load.”
“Whoever heard of a press conference without questions?” asked Sloan. “Calling a rally a press conference to circumvent congressional rules is like calling a Hummer a Prius to meet fuel efficiency standards.” Sloan continued, “The OCE needs to make clear that members must abide by all rules, even those they find politically inconvenient.”
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/watchdog-demands-probe-rep-bachmanns-antihealth-bill-care-rally/Poor Michelle Bachmann can't seem to catch a break lately.
Less than a week... more
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This was a video I made to contrast the coverage Fox News gave the 2009 Tea Party Protests to the coverage they gave to various other protests over the last decade.
A few notes of disclosure: While I'm a registered Independent voter, my views will often tend to lean left of center, so take this with a grain of salt if need be. That being said, it was NOT difficult to allocate this footage and I personally feel it's fairly representative of Fox's coverage as I've seen it.
I'm using this footage under the clause of Fair Use. If anyone would like links/sources for each of the clips used in this video, feel free to email me and I can provide them.This was a video I made to contrast the coverage Fox News gave the 2009 Tea Party... more
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A day after Daily Show host Jon Stewart accused Sean Hannity of swapping protest footage to make a Nov. 5 anti-health reform rally look larger, Hannity conceded that his program used an "incorrect video" during the segment. "It pains me to say it: Jon Stewart was right," Hannity said, according to the New York Times' Media Decoder blog. Hannity called the incident an "inadvertent mistake" and did not explain how it had happened.
On Tuesday night, Stewart joined a number of media watchdog organizations in claiming that Hannity had dramatically exaggerated the numbers of last week's protest. Stewart said footage shown on Hannity's program while he was interviewing the rally's organizer, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), looked markedly different than footage that had been seen earlier in the program. A closer comparison revealed that the majority of the footage rolling during the segment with Bachmann was from September's "9/12" protest, which had been a much larger event. A small notation on the screen said "earlier," but Hannity referred to the visuals as "Thursday," implying that the footage was of the Nov. 5 rally.
Hannity is not the only Fox News host to be accused of using misleading video footage recently. While criticizing White House communications director Anita Dunn for her alleged love of Mao Zedong, Glenn Beck chopped off a clip of Dunn's speech that altered the context of her statement, according to the Web site Media Matters for America. The "doctored" clip was used on several Fox programs.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/12/sean-hannity-jon-stewart-was-right-about-swapped-video/A day after Daily Show host Jon Stewart accused Sean Hannity of swapping protest... more
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How many protesters were in attendance at Republican congresswoman Michelle Bachmann's tea party healthcare protest?
"I climbed the Capitol steps just before the event started so that I could get a good view of the whole crowd," the Washington Post's onetime White House reporter and columnist Dana Milbank wrote Friday. "I divided it into sections and counted. That's where I came up with 5,000. It's possible more came after I did my count, but nothing near 10,000."
A few dozen Republican House members attended, aimed at stirring up a crowd against Democrats' healthcare reform bill. Fox News' Sean Hannity interviewed Bachmann following the event.
"20,000+ people showed up," Hannity said. "Were you as surprised as I was?"
Bachmann smiled and replied.
After showing the clip, Stewart said: "Anywhere between 20 and 40,000 people. Or, as the Washington Post put it, 10,000."
Stewart then showed two clips Fox News employed to underscore the size of the event. He pointed out that the clips appeared to have been from two entirely different protests.
"I'm sorry, can we get back again," Stewart remarked. "That was weird. Because when that clip started, it was a clear fall day in Washington, D.C. Not a cloud in the sky, the leaves have changed.
"All of a sudden, the trees turn green again, and it's cloudy, and it looks like thousands and thousands of more people arrived," he continued. "If I didn't know any better, I would think they just put two different days together and acted like they didn't."
The bogus footage, Stewart found, actually came from a Sept. 12 protest two months ago, and was used on Fox News' Glenn Beck program two months ago.
This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast Nov. 10, 2009.
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/hannity-falsifies-footage-gop-protest-bigger/How many protesters were in attendance at Republican congresswoman Michelle... more
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HILARIOUS!!!! And yet absolutely true.
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After years of angling to be the GOP's favorite broadcast outlet, one Fox News executive now thinks that it is "useful" to remind staff to avoid bias.
"At news events, we’re supposed to function as dispassionate observers, not active participants," writes Bill Sammon, Fox News Vice President of News and the network's Washington editor. "We are there to chronicle the news, not create it."
The letter, obtained by Mediaite, appears to be in response to a recent incident in which a Fox News producer was caught on video coaching a crowd of "tea party" protesters in D.C., signaling them to cheer when the cameras were rolling.
"We do not cheerlead for one cause or another," Sammon claimed. "We do not rile up a crowd. If a crowd happens to be boisterous when we show it on TV, so be it. If it happens to be quiet, that’s fine, too."
Just over four years ago, The New York Times published an article which carried the results of several media studies. It found:
~Fox's political orientation is clearly to the right of the rest of the media. Research has found, for example, that Fox News is much more likely than other news shows to cite conservative think tanks and less likely to cite liberal ones.
Fox surely injected a new partisan perspective into political coverage on television.~
However, the Times noted, none of that really mattered, as none of the studies showed any evidence that Fox's jilted political coverage had any affect on voter behavior.
"Again, we’re journalists, not participants — and certainly not performers," writes Sammon in his Monday memo.
Today, the Fox News network's lineup is almost entirely performers, from editorialists who obsessively dissect and fabricate details about the Obama presidency to the traditional talking heads like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. One host, Glenn Beck, even believes himself to have his own movement behind him and has been billed as a driving force behind the recent "tea party" protests.
*Full memo:
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 2:25 PM
To: 005 -Washington
Subject: standards
For those of us who have only been at Fox for a relatively short period of time, it’s useful to remind ourselves that, as journalists, we must always be careful to cover the story without becoming part of the story. At news events, we’re supposed to function as dispassionate observers, not active participants. We are there to chronicle the news, not create it.
That means we ask questions in a fair, impartial manner. When approaching interviewees, we identify ourselves, by both name and news organization, up front. We seek out a variety of voices and views. We take note of the scene in order to bring color and context to our viewers.
We do not cheerlead for one cause or another. We do not rile up a crowd. If a crowd happens to be boisterous when we show it on TV, so be it. If it happens to be quiet, that’s fine, too. It’s not our job to affect the crowd’s behavior one way or the other. Again, we’re journalists, not participants — and certainly not performers.
Indeed, any effort to affect the crowd’s behavior only serves to undermine our legitimate journalistic role as detached eyewitnesses. Remember, our viewers are counting on us to be honest brokers when it comes to reporting — not altering –the important events of the day. That is nothing less than a sacred trust. We must always take pains to preserve that trust.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this further, please stop by.After years of angling to be the GOP's favorite broadcast outlet, one Fox News... more
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A progressive atheist from the heartland hears word of a Tea Party gathering in Springfield, Missouri.
Here's what she found.
(Say no to the status quo!)
Heather Turner is currently studying journalism, and really, really, really, really loathes Glenn Beck, as well as any other right-wing pundits who were never angry about government over-stepping its boundaries (even during the Bush years) .... until Obama tried to give Americans access to healthcare.A progressive atheist from the heartland hears word of a Tea Party gathering in... more
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Reports from the Tea Party Protests. Hit play and be afraid.
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Cable television news network CNN has attempted to block a video on YouTube.com that shows "tea party" protesters in Chicago confronting the network's reporter Susan Roesgen over her allegedly biased and "not fair" coverage of the event.
Members of Founding Bloggers.com were on hand to videotape the crowd's response to Roesgen's report. The reporter is seen badgering protesters on air and describing the tea party as "anti-government, anti-CNN, since this is highly promoted by the right-wing, conservative network Fox."Cable television news network CNN has attempted to block a video on YouTube.com that... more
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As tea party tax protests were staged all over the country, assembly democrats in California staged a low-key counter event to bring to light what they believe is public misunderstanding. Keith Olbermann adds his voice explaining how the supposedly grass roots movement was actually financed by big money from GOP sources and the event actively promoted by Fox News.As tea party tax protests were staged all over the country, assembly democrats in... more
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