07-21-2010, 08:21 PM
(07-21-2010, 01:01 PM)kandrathe Wrote: How can you attribute this to the any Tea Party? It was outed by Breitbart on BigGovernment.com, I believe. Which, as far as I know, is a conservative 'Reagan Republican' blogger. He is as bad as Micheal Moore, and one of the worst in the cesspool of media distortion, and I would put him in the same category of propagandist. In reading his bio, it is not a surprise to me that he helped put together "The Huffingtion Post" as well. Then, I think Hannity had it on his show (another Reagan Republican). Currently, the Republican party is attempting to assimilate the "tea party", since their entire platform is anti-progressive (power to the people, small government, lower taxes). Bush Jr. (and even Reagan) represented a version of progressive Republican, which is what most of the Tea party (many of which are former Republicans) find distasteful. So, yes, you have people like Hannity, Breitbart, etc. who may speak at rallies, or defend the Tea Party movement, but it is doubtful that they (or FOX) represent the goals of the Tea Party. Of all the FOC talking heads, Beck probably (through the 912 project) inspired the Tea Party movement. 912 is essentially a mechanism for people with similar conservative interests to meet up at a local grass roots level. I've been meaning to make it to one of these meetings some day.
The association of this to the Tea Party is that this manipulated video was posted as a direct response to the NAACP's resolution condemning rascist elements within the Tea Party. People that support the Tea Party tend to define it by abstract standards so that it represents their exact beliefs when in reality it as a movement is fairly ethereal and as far as I can tell can only accurately be defined as: Libertarians on the right that are pissed off. And even then I'm not sure if the Libertarian label is very accurate.
The issue of rascism has permeated a lot of factions within the Tea Party from the birthers to the signs people carry at their rallies to Glenn Beck saying Obama hates white people. Calling Obama or the NAACP rascist is a way of alleviating and obfuscating the rascist elements within the Tea Party as well as attempting to make opponents less likely to call them out for these issues.