HA HA HA, WTF? They are starting to become more and more like Fox. Are things getting that bad over there at CNN?

This is kind of a different report for CNN, not like their usual tea party bashing routine. Much better than Susan Roesgyn’s reporting, but then again, her bias got her fired.

“You’re racist” is old and stale and untrue.

Offensive signs? So what? I note the media didn’t seem to be bothered by all the offensive signs during the eight years of the Bush Presidency. Typical double standard.

So, according to mediaite “an unbiased view” is “naive”? Interesting take.

If you love the tea party, if you hope it to be a vibrant and ongoing movement of change, then you should seek to weed out the racist and violent. Otherwise, they will taint your organization and it will not have the effect you intend. Why? Most people do not condone racism or violence. Pointing the finger at those stupid people that went after Bush in an inappropriate way, does not help you. There are a couple hundred million people watching the tea party phenomenon as it unfolds on TV. If you tolerate the rabid, the violent, the gut toters or the racist, they will form a negative opinion of it.

Cable News Target Markets:
MSNBC- Limousine liberals (Boston/New York) and Homosexual Agenda
CNN- Pro-Minority / Anti-White Agenda
FNC- Conservative

Val – there is no proof whatsoever of the “racial epithets” being thrown around. Sorry, but innocent until proven guilty. MSNBC, CNN, et al, claimed “racism” from day one of the tea party movement, without a lick of proof. It was slander at its worst.

Gosh, have you seen the video that only fox is reporting on the anti-american, flag burning folks who were in DC the same day as the tea partiers? Interesting how the media simply ignore those “violent, rabid, anti-americant” protesters.

Media needs to use a single standard when discussing protesters, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

When the media ignored all the anti-Bush stuff and now focus on the anti-Obama stuff it makes them look the fools they are. The only people tainting the tea partiers are the lying left wing media and the so-called “professionals” like Cooper and Maddow who call them “teabaggers”.

Just Wait – until they get “organized “! I do hope that they can accomplish this – BEFORE November!
There are Many, within, who have changed their shirt and CLAIM to have changed their STRIPE(s)!
“Time”, of all printers/publishers had an “interesting” article on the Tea Party..

Valkyrie:

How exactly do you “weed out the racist and the violent” at an open air protest? 99.9% of the crowd doesn’t have the ability to force the other 0.1% to leave. Please explain yourself.

OK, TFT, so your view is that the tea party has nothing to clean up? There is no racism going on, no threats of violence, no gun toters, etc.? Well, if that is the essence of the tea party, so be it..

Again, where is the outrage about protests like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msc34EwzyAA&feature=player_embedded

Finch,
The tea party leaders, and the Republican leaders that seek to use the tea party, must speak out strongly against racism and violence, and the tea party members must call out those that do not represent it’s spirit. But to turn a blind eye, to deflect all criticism by claiming that the media, or the images that are shown are false, or bias, that will do nothing. A perfect example is that video of the rabid man who was shouting at the congressman. If that is the tea party approach, most people will not embrace the tea party. But instead of just saying, we do not approve of such behavior, the tea party faithful just say, oh, nothing bad happened. By doing that, the tea party is essentially saying, that man represents who we are.

Finch,
That video you posted makes me appalled. However, I wonder how many libertarians were at that rally, since most libertarians are opposed to the wars in the middle east. Moreover, it has nothing to do with the tea party, and it does not improve the tea party’s chances of connecting with the millions of moderate people watching the behavior of the tea party on TV, and grimacing when they see placards that threatens violence, or videos of rabid people seeming to spit on black congressman. The number of threats against our politicians, seeming to flow out of the anti-government and often violent rhetoric coming from FOX and the tea party movement speaks for itself. You can just continue to go along with that if you want, but ultimately the movement will not fly. Which is too bad, because I continue to believe that the essence of the tea party is legitimate.

“you do see some of the signs that are racist, that are offensive to African-Americans,”

Such as? Where was the documentation for this statement?

Not many AAs at the rally? What a shock, eh. 90% of AA’s voted for Obama!

Finch, valkyrie, as a reminder:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/03/025964.php

That is how it works, tyler, people vote for who they believe understands them and will stand up for them. Since Obama is AA, the AAs naturally feel an affinity for him. But not just because he is AA, but because he was also perceived to be intelligent, and of an appropriate temperment to be president. Ask Alan Keyes, or even Jesse Jackson about how that works. Likewise, when Kennedy was running, he got the overwhelming majority of Catholic votes, and Mitt Romney got most of the Mormon votes. One of the reasons Palin was put on the Republican ticket was to garner more woman votes. Of course, since she was also perceived as a dimwit by most woman, that did not work out.

Of course, since she was also perceived as a dimwit by most woman…”

No only by lib women who are hypocrites and please cite one other election where a minority group voted nearly 90% for the minority candidate in the race.

Here is the link his article about the Tea Party Movement. Gives a lot more in depth look at the Rally.

Seems legitimate that a group of people who have been in the U.S. since the sixteen hundreds, having spent over two hundred years as slaves, and having thereafter been dumped into property-less poverty just 150 years ago, should take pride in one of their own who has overcome the obsticles to be qualified to be president. And he was by far the best candidate.

I disagree with you that he was the best candidate, even though I was not and am not a fan of Senator McCain.

As for being dumped into property-less poverty just 150 years ago, they were ruled to be slaves in 1654. It was an interesting case. In Johnson vs Parker, Anthony Johnson was ruled to hold John Casor in perpetual slavery. Prior to this the blacks brought to Virginia was considered to be indentured servants. Indeed, Anthony Johnson was a black indentured servant who had earned his freedom some years before. This was the first case, to my knowledge, in which slavery was legally recognized, except as punishment for a crime. Were you making some sort of reference to the Civil War in your comment? That wasn’t 150 years ago either.

Richard,
I am not sure your point, but yes, the civil war was approximately 150 years ago, 149 to be exact.

African Americans, as a whole, are eight generations removed from slavery. 8.

My point is that voting for someone because they look like you is stupid. The first slave owned in what was to become the USA was a black man owned by another black man. The slaves in the United States were freed by a white man. There are still slaves in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. These slaves, for the most part, look like the people who own them. My Grandparents, on both sides, were serfs (slaves by another name) owned by fellow Slavs (they were Polish and Germans in what was then Russia). (I know, history books tell us that the Czar freed the serfs in 1862 but no one seems to have told the serfs). Most crime commited against black people is commited by black people. The MAFIA preyed on Italians, in spite of what The Godfather pretends. To repeat, voting for someone because they look like you is stupid.

By the way, at the time of the election it was 147 years since the Civil War. Since you didn’t say about, I was wondering what you meant. I just found it strange that you said they were dumped into poverty instead of saying they were freed. My Grandparents struggled to get to this country and, I hope this isn’t a suprise to you, had to work for someone at poverty wages to be allowed into this country. Are you saying that the freed slaves should have been financed? Who would have paid?

I am sorry that it bothered you that so many African Americans voted for Obama. Take heart, during the next election cycle when Mitt Romney is the Repub candidate he will likely get at least 90% of the Mormon vote.

Where did it say it bothered me? Its stupid. Do you think its smart to vote for someone because they look like you? Did you ignore everything I said to comment on what I didn’t say because of some stupid game you are playing?

By the way, while the Civil War started in 1861, the slaves weren’t freed until 1863 and then they were only freed in those states still in rebellion.

Why didn’t you refer to the slaves being freed, instead of saving what you did? You ignored that point of mine also. Do you only reply to those points you pretend I was making?

People often vote for candidates that they share a common experience with. That is why such a high percentage of Catholics voted for Kennedy.

Interesting idea to pretend that CNN just caught on late on the Tea Party movement, instead of what they really did: attempt to marginalize and ignore it.

OK. I was only making the point that African Americans, as a culture, started from scatch, “property-less”. And I could add, generally, without any education or skills. So they as a culture had a long way to come. Obama’s election represents a milestone in the ascension of the African American culture and there is nothing wrong with African Americans, who are mostly liberal, to vote for another African American who is liberal..

When someone knows they can count on your vote they also know they can ignore your real needs. Charles Wrangle has gotten rich “representing” those who voted for him because he looks like them and he has been stealing from them and from us. As I keep saying, and you keep ignoring, voting for someone who looks like you is stupid.

Here is your mistake, Richard. You think that African Americans when they voted for Obama was voting for someone who looks like them, but that is not the reason. The reason is that he has shared their experience, and therefore, they presume he understands their heart.

valkyrie,

Black people don’t have an “experience”, It’s pretending that we all go through the same “struggle” and internal and external pressure to conform that is destroying the black community and allowing them to be so easily manipulated. They assume that he shared their experience BECAUSE HE LOOKS LIKE THEM, and therefore, they presume he understands their heart. His life experience is so far away from that of the “typical” African American, that the only thing they can really relate with is the color of their skin.

You have no grasp of metaphor, do you valkyrie101. I was responding to what you said.

How is it that 90% of the black electorate believe that they have a common experience with someone who grew up in Asia and Hawaii and went to Law School? Please explain that too me. And explain why they feel they have a common experience with Charles Wrangle? Wrangle and the President have a common experience. Both have been able to become millionaires working as public servants. The 90% of the black electorate who voted for them don’t have that experience in common.

You really have stop using talking points and start thinking and speaking for yourself.

No so atreyue. Obama was not raised in a privledged situation. Far from it. Raised by his mother in modest circumstances. And the experience of being African American, facing some of the same resistence, the same looks, the same prejudices, is what makes him understand the African American heart. And he spent a significant amount of time working within the African American community as well.

Wasn’t it a little odd, valk, that when Rev. Wright and Father Pfleger were strutting across the stage, bragging about how a black candidate was really showing up that white woman, Hilary Clinton, that they totally seemed to forget that Obama’s black father left him, and he was raised by his white mother and grandparents?

valkyrie, how many African Americans grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia or even in “modest” circumstances? How many attended Harvard and are professors? There are (unfortunately) a lot of people who are not Black and are not from underprivileged areas that are now “working in” those communities and are unable to understand the real issues that plague the Black community in America. Instead focusing on what they’ve been taught (by both society at large and self-appointed mouthpieces of the Black community) are the issues. Coming into contact with racists and having to deal with stereotypes doesn’t give you insight into the hearts of those who come from a different background than you do, since the way that each person is affected by an action is determined through the lens of their own previous experiences. Any honest Black person will tell you that the belief within the community when no whites are around is that you should vote for the Black candidate simply because he’s Black. Or vote Democrat because that’s just what Black people are supposed to do. But Obama certainly does understand exactly how to exploit the African American “heart”. Even his supporters have to admit that his best talent is telling people what they want to hear, in the dialect they feel the most comfortable hearing it in.

Shannon Travis is an irresponsible racist who should not be “billed” as a real journalist. He has no integrity, just like the so called “news” organization CNN he works for. This crap he calls news is no different then “MTV News” which is all part of the liberal infomercial machine they sell as the news these days. He’s a sales person for the democratic party and if you have the ability to think… you will see it!! If you don’t have that ability and you can’t see his angle, then they call that being a liberal or now a “Progressive” and you’re DOOMED by a lifetime of stupidity.
These marketing correspondence pray on inexperienced, uneducated, young people that have never really had the responsibilities of a family or even a real job. (So sad that they pray on those ignorant people!!) Both Travis and CNN use their fo-journalism to promote or sell their radical – liberal ideas pushing their personal political agenda. (Can you say CRIME?) We all know that if his programming/reporting attacked the democratic party and exposed it and Obama for what they are really all about….. it would never make the so call “NEWS” on CNN!!!! (So sad!!)