Do you believe recent polls or reports saying the Tea Party is dwindling? The media has swayed public opinion on this, but conservatives must be reminded to stay the course.
Occupy Wall Street was promoted effusively by the mainstream media; yet on the one year anniversary of OWS last September, New York City could only muster 1,000 demonstrators. Where are they now? A common catalyst leading to the breakout of the Tea Party in 2009 and Occupy in 2011 was the policies of Barack Obama.
It’s been proven that OWS was about as spontaneous as the attack at Benghazi. The movement was a planned uprising organized by socialists, unions, and left-wing activists. We now know many protestors had jobs, good incomes, or college degrees while hypocritically demanding economic justice in the hopes of overthrowing America’s systems.
In contrast, I recently spoke at a Tea Party meeting. Though the movement has branched off into many organized groups, there are hundreds of weekly and monthly meetings continuing to take place across America. The TP has not gone away and continues to be a thorn in the side of the Obama White House and the moderate Republican establishment.
These were two of the biggest public movements affecting America in years, but there was a stark difference in how the media reported on them. For example, Occupy Wall Street drew 24 broadcast network stories in the first nine days of coverage while the Tea Party drew only 19 in the first nine months! This isn’t journalism, folks. The media practically became OWS’s public relations department.
The Tea Party is a conservative grassroots entity. Occupy Wall Street is [was] a well-organized creation supported in part by the leftist Tides Foundation (a major recipient of George Soros’s funding), MoveOn.org, and international interests. Massive government spending and the passage of Obamacare were two major factors that galvanized the TP while Vancouver, Canada-based AdBusters, an anti-consumerist publication, sounded the initial call for OWS.
The TP endorses cutting both spending and taxes, reducing the national debt, and adherence to the US Constitution. They also aim to call awareness to issues challenging the security or sovereignty of the United States. OWS protested the disparity of wealth in America, capitalism, corporations, and big business. The primary OWS goals are equal distribution of wealth by government through taxation, financial aid for students/more jobs for college graduates, corporate regulation, and bank reform.
ABC, CBS, and NBC flooded their morning and evening newscasts in October 2011 with 33 full stories on OWS. In contrast, the Tea Party was initially ignored.
The story ratio was nineteen favorable to only one critical of OWS (190 to 10.) When confrontations erupted between the police and protestors, networks, being sympathetic to the OWS cause, were much more likely to pin the blame on police. Overall, American media continued to overlook arrests, property damage, public health concerns, assaults, and anti-Semitism.
What did OWS produce? Over 7,719 arrests in 122 different cities as of December 2012 (over two thousand in New York City alone.) Charges included civil disobedience, disturbing the peace, trespassing, drug use, and vandalism. Police rap sheets showed dozens of incidents of sexual assault, violence, and extortion.
There were at least nine deaths. The media also failed to report on the OWS money trail leading to big unions such as SEIU. The Nancy Pelosi-endorsed, White House-approved (President Obama said “We are on their side”) protests included American flags hung upside down, desecrated, or burned. Some protesters openly admitted to being Socialists, Communists, and Marxists; but the media was virtually silent on these associations.
Groups openly supporting OWS include the Communist Party USA, Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam, CAIR, the American Nazi Party, the Marxist Student Union, and the Socialist Party of America.
Conversely, the Tea Party produced the mobilization of tens of millions of American patriots, many of whom have never before been involved in politics. They fly their flags at peaceful rallies, and they’re proud of America’s founders and Constitution. They love this country and are willing to stand up to big government.
The DNC called the Tea Party “rabid right-wing extremists.” ABC said they were a “mob.” CNN accused them of “rabble rousing.” Harry Reid called them “evil mongers.” Nancy Pelosi said they were “un-American.” Anderson Cooper and other liberals simply insult them.
President Obama has unleashed a tidal wave of bills, executive orders, and policies in efforts to make good on his promise to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” The result has been monstrous debt, relentless regulation, increasing taxes, and social policies that go against our Christian values.
Remember when this administration caused such a massive voter backlash in the 2010 Midterm elections that the media had no idea how to spin the landslide? The GOP gained a record 65 seats in the House; Republicans also gained 680 seats in state legislatures and picked up ten state governorships. It was the largest margin of victory since the 1930’s. People of America woke up, spoke up, and voted. However, this is now about changing culture.
Our freedoms are under attack. We missed an opportunity in 2012 by failing to keep the momentum going. A friend recently reminded me, “Elections are not the leading edge of change. Elections are the lagging indicators of what’s already changed.”
Some now suggest our strategy needs to be: re-brand, retool, recruit, and re-engage. OWS may be plotting from underground, but the Tea Party is publicly active. We know what side the media is on. Let’s keep exposing hypocrisy and sharing the truth.
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Does anyone believe the Corrupt and lying so called news media? I have not believe in the lying idiots in over 60 years. Just like Obama, anytime the media opens it mouth or prints something it is a lie or so blowing out of the truth it become a lie. Of course there people that can read, write or think and act like zombies and most of them are Liberal Progressive Democrats. Then I will throw in a number of Republicans also. The way I look at it, Politician, Petty Bureaucrats and the news media are totally corrupt and would sell their own children into Slavery just for a portion of the 30 pieces of blood stained silver. I live in a small village and the only printed news media is from the next city and I have never seen or read anything they print that got the story correct. I read stories and when check them out I found the New Media totally got it incorrect or just out right lied. So Comrades, be sure to swallow your poison Drugs that murder not cure and eat your toxin laced foods that make you and your children sick in mind and body. then bow low with heads down and backside up so Obama can give you his big stick, for put foot in mouth Biden state that Obama has a big stick.
I attended the Tea Party rally in Washington on 9/12 in 2009, it was a great experience many decent people coming together to protest business as usual. There was no pushing or shoving, no altercations, no arrests, no civil disobedience of any kind. The lawn and streets where filled with people, Obama said he didn’t notice us there, but we saw Marine One fly over head as he left Washington.
It was a orderly crowd and everyone talked to each other, the media downplayed our attendance numbers but we knew we had over a million people. When it was over the place wasn’t trashed like liberal rallies, all garbage was brought to where trash cans where placed, the cans where buried with the amount of spent posters and such but the lawn and surrounding streets where left as we found them.
If show the respect for society and each other by conservative people, we don’t leave our trash for someone to clean up after and we know how to behave in public. It was a memorable day in my life and will never be forgotten. The people who attended where diverse and came from all walks of life, many saved up to attend and what few vacation days they had, some travel from far parts of the country to have their voice heard. A great day in American history.
This is how true American protest peacefully, please, don’t anger us to the point of action because we can also be formidable.
Stop listening to the media! Reality check: Just for grins, let’s say 80% of any country is very sociable, vs 2-1/2% that are anti-social. The other 17-1/2% are robotic bureaucrats, law enforcement, military, and media, etc. Media is controlled by the anti-social 2-1/2%. These are the same people who cause 100% of the problems on our planet. There should be no mystery why we are hearing/seeing ‘demise of the Tea Party.’
A 2-1/2% minority, hell bent on suppressing a majority, always use media. These “fear merchants” can’t go head to head with 300 million people with as many guns. By minimizing the Tea Party with failure, hope, defeat, ad nauseum, they diminish our power without a shot being fired. Obama’s bible, “Rules For Radicals,” rule #1: “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”…Semper Fi
Whatever you hear about OWS being funded by Soros is deceptive – they are a collection of INDIVIDUALS – individuals can be reasoned with – mobs cannot. I have visited with Occupy Atlanta – while there are those extreme ELEMENTS the same could be said of the Tea Party. On the whole, I find that I listened to them – treated them with respect and they responded in kind.
A TeoCon once told me: “they are collectivists, we are individualists!” oh really, then why are you lumping them all together? [ooops!]
For a long time now I felt that government was broken. In office are people with scandals facing them or behind them, it was naive of me to grow up thinking that those elected where somehow more moral, more law abiding and where beyond reproach. But as eyes are opened we see the morass at the bottom of a cesspool.
It appears that when people get elected into office its for them selves. They are constantly finding new and creative ways to tax us through everything we touch and use during the course of our lives. They outright lie (look at Clinton arguing the definition of “it”), the abuse of power and influence is phenomenal and goes unchecked, we have foxes minding the hen house and will never see any real ramification of hearings or committees. If it wasn’t for the numbers of people in major cities, there would be less democrats in federal government, urban areas are the democrats base of votes. Those of use who don’t live in the large cities know what kind of miserable pukes live there and how they bring their attitude, crime and demoralized way of thinking when they move to more rural areas.
This is why I call my self Tea Party, I have no local chapter, no meetings, no local leaders. To me its a concept of enough is enough with the way we are governed and bullied. I believe that a woman has a choice up to a certain point and I am not religious, but I respect others religion. I am courteous, law abiding, productive and believe in the American way of life and would like to see us go back to the way we where when the majority ruled and not small special interests groups having laws changed to suit them.
I think that many in the Tea Party feels that they belong to no one, but are a part of a growing number of people who despise government and the intrusion they have in our lives. Those who think the Tea Party is a group that can be counted is sorely mistaken, I belong to no role call and therefore cannot be counted. But like at the 9/12 rally proved, when the time comes their are many of use, what showed up in Washington was just the tip of a much larger iceberg.
The liberal media will be surprised when the time comes when we show our numbers again, but this time when it happens it will be the mix the liberals fear. When the country is close to the edge we will come out in numbers and with purpose to defend our constitution because our politician fail to do so.