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The Tea Party movement which has come under heavy criticism from the liberal media and politicians finally received some positive press from none other than CNN.
From CNN.com
Here’s what you often see in the coverage of Tea Party rallies: offensive posters blasting President Obama and Democratic leaders; racist rhetoric spewed from what seems to be a largely white, male audience; and angry protesters rallying around the Constitution.
Case in point: During the health care debate last month, opponents shouted racial slurs at civil rights icon Georgia Rep. John Lewis and one person spit on Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. The incidents made national headlines, and they provided Tea Party opponents with fodder to question the movement.
But here’s what you don’t often see in the coverage of Tea Party rallies: Patriotic signs professing a love for country; mothers and fathers with their children; African-Americans proudly participating; and senior citizens bopping to a hip-hop rapper.
Last week, I saw all of this during a five-city Western swing as the Tea Party Express national tour made its way across the country. CNN was along for the ride, and I was charged with planning CNN’s coverage for five stops in two states: St. George, Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah; and Grand Junction and Denver, Colorado.
This latest Tea Party caravan kicked off on March 27 in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nevada. It is scheduled to make 45 stops before rolling into Washington on April 15, not so coincidentally on “Tax Day.”
CNN was the only national news outlet on this Western leg of the tour. We had a full team on the ground: myself, correspondent Ed Lavandera, producers Tracy Sabo and Jim Spellman and the crew of the CNN Express bus. For Spellman, it was his third Tea Party Express tour.
Together, we beamed out images of the anger and the optimism, profiled African-Americans who are proud to be in the Tea Party’s minority and showed activists stirred by “God Bless America” or amused by a young rapper who strung together rhymes against the president and Democrats.
Later in the article;
It is important to show the colorful anger Americans might have against elected leaders and Washington. But people should also see the orange-vested Tea Party hospitality handlers who welcome you with colorful smiles.
There were a few signs that could be seen as offensive to African-Americans. But by and large, no one I spoke with or I heard from on stage said anything that was approaching racist.
Almost everyone I met was welcoming to this African-American television news producer.
And though speakers railed against the “lame-stream media,” activists and their leaders praised CNN, especially for being the only national media outlet riding along for the post-weekend stops. Some of them e-mailed me after my trip, thanking our crew for fairly giving them a voice.
I have little doubt that CNN sent Travis on this assignment because he was black hoping to come back with some proof that the racism the media had accused the movement of only a month ago was true. So it must have been quite a shock for them to find out that the movement was actually more like what Tea Party organizers had said they were all along, average Joe’s.
CNN deserves credit for not only taking on this story but on honestly reporting on it even if it goes against the grain of their liberal mentality.
Now if only the rest of the liberal media would wake up and take their cue from CNN.
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27 Comments for CNN Shocks Conservatives with Tea Party Report
Did someone hack into CNN.com and plant that story? A few other descriptors to try on for size:
o Trojan horse
o Munich Agreement
o “Et tu, Brute?”
Another deception of Time Warner. No doubt trying to get into Dr. Gupta’s conditioning (read mind-control since Gupta is a Board-certified neurosurgeon in the state of Georgia) chambers.
Could this have something to do with CNN losing so much of its viewership? You bet! They are starting to realize that the people are with the Tea Partiers and not with CNN’s views. You think the sponsors have noticed? You bet!
the teabaggers are being duped to fight against their own best interests.
but it gives them an outlet for their racism, so they get too frothed up to even notice.
MOST of the people in this country find them to be fringe lunatics, racists, unstable, incredibly gullible and uninformed, and VERY unappealing.
it will be great to watch them split off votes from republicans this fall.
AFTER THEY GET THE BULLSHIT BILL PASSED THEY DECIDE
TO GIVE GOOD COVERAGE.I DONT BUY THERE COVERAGE WATCH AND SEE HOW THEY COVER THE NOV ELECTION THEY WILL SHOW THERE TRUE COLORS AGAIN.BUNCH OF PUNKS!!!
teabagger vance, will see about that!!!!!!!!!!
Vance, if you would be so considerate as to do so, could you please provide some evidence to support all those negative claims you make about people at the TEA Party rallies and in the movement? Or, are you just repeating the same tired line that the leftmedia puts out, because they said so? Everything you claim has been either disproved, never proved or proved to be the product of left-wing plants at the rallies. Therefore, your arguments hold no water, and you seem to be a little late with your patented slurs. It gets really old after a while, if not downright comical and irrelevant.
Are you that naive to think that the representatives walked through the crowd that day NOT as part of a stunt to get some plant to yell something? Your mischaracterization of the TEA Party people is childish and ridiculous, frankly. That is only compounded when you offer no specific evidence, and we all know it.
Hey “Tea Bagger” get with it you’re all dried up!
Try joining the Coffee Party.
The leftists are paying people to come onto boards like this and slander anything and anyone that exposes their agenda. Often it is the Nonprofits 501(C)3, that are paying them people to come on these boards. The nonprofits are getting grant money to promote Obama’s agenda yet funneling the money through them claiming it is for something else. Kind of what ACORN was doing. There’s one organization here in California called CAUSE, a nonprofit, that is paying for people to man the phones to overturn Prop. 13 which was voted in to keep our property taxes low. Now the left wants more money so the want to raise property taxes and overturn Prop. 13.
Keep an eye on the nonprofits and where the money is coming from and where it’s being used. Remember, Obama used these organizations to get where he is, and he’s using them to get what ever else he wants using our tax dollars funneled through these nonprofits, where it’s hard to track it.
I still am not going to watch CNN. Too much water under that bridge. You advertise with CNN and lots of us are not using your products.
To ALL of the good people who read AIM, I saw on Fox News on Tue.4/13 after 4 PM , a Website,whose name I did NOT write down,sorry, stated that they were INFILTRATING the Tea Party rallys with misspelled signs,with racist & hateful speech on the signs & into the mikes & cameras to make it appear that the Tea Party IS racist & hateful & ignorant. PLEASE BEWARE OF THEM AT RALLYS,OK??
CNN must be hurting since Lou Dobbs left.There is a BIG difference ‘tween the Tea Party & teabaggers
In my opinion, If the Tea Party does NOT become a 3rd party,,then PLEASE VOTE OUT the Progressive left wing ‘nanny’ staters & we know who they are.
REMEMBER,,Primary Day,,,THEN,,,Election Day,,OK??
Major, these people are being paid to do that. If you go onto Craigslist and look at the jobs being offered, then go to the nonprofit section, you will often find these nonprofits offering jobs to attack the conservative agenda. I’m in California and I’ve found many offers to do just that on Craigslist. They are getting the money from this administration and funneling it through the nonprofits 501(C)3’s but it takes a lot of research to follow who is doing what and where they’re getting their funding. You can often find the board members on more than one nonprofit, and then find the funding going from one to the other. It’s not some conspiracy or made up story. It just take a lot of work to track things down, and some they hid so well you can’t prove where the money came from. But Soros has a lot to do with the funding also.
Well, guys, I was AT the Syracuse, NY Tea Party Express stop yesterday afternoon and NOTHING even remotely racist was going on!! Go to their meetings (I have 2xs to see what they’re about) and you will see EXACTLY the same thing! NO RACISM, JUST WORRIED PEOPLE WHO SEE THEIR RIGHTS BEING STRIPPED AWAY BEFORE THEIR EYES!!
And the majority of people in Syracuse were just regular Joe’s wearing caps that said “God Bless America” or “American Patriot”; and their signs read stuff like “I am NOT your ATM” or “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty” by Thomas Jefferson or something similar.
Yeah, I would not DOUBT that there are plenty of plants trying to discredit the Tea Partiers, because they are showing their POWER!!! It’s all about manipulation of the truth, just like it was pre-election. Just LOOK at the promises that Obama has already broken!!! Is everybody ready for the $150-$250/month tax on your paycheck to pay for Home Health Care for the Elderly? THAT on top of all of the other taxes already headed our way.
I don’t think Obama intends for us to actually afford all of that. I think his agenda is to bankrupt every one of us so that he can claim ultimate and complete power. No, I am not paranoid, either. Read up on Marxist agendas, and you will see where he is headed. That is EXACTLY why he wants to discredit the Tea Partiers and 9-12ers…because they STAND IN HIS WAY… i.e.,this administration will lie, cheat, misread, bride, cajole and plaster lies all over the news so that no one will listen to the truth anymore. Oh, yeah, well, he is a politician from CHICAGO, isn’t he???
Well, America, don’t say I didn’t try to tell a LOT of you before the election that this man is not to be trusted!! (Let alone he’s not even FROM the USA, but rather Kenya.)
Oh, well, enough ranting for tonight. See you in D.C. on Thursday!! And don’t believe the lies and garbage about the Tea Partiers unless you meet the people YOURSELF!!!
To Joyce #14, Please add to the Tea Party’s credit
that when they show up at a rally such as The Mall in DC,,THEY PICKED UP THEIR OWN GARBAGE.The mall in an hour was almost immaculate after they left. NOT SO when the Left shows up. Things get destroyed & burned,tsk,tsk.Only Fox News show the garbage picked up by one & left behind by the other.
To Jean fF #13 WOW, Craigslist,,,&I could get paid?? Whooda thunkit!! seriously,,WOW. Ya see, I in my honest naivete’,I would have never thought of actually LOOKING for a JOB screwing up
some poor slobs rally & GET PAID for it. Maybe I should read Alinsky or some other Radical activist
You have opened my eyes a litle more today,thanks.
I guess as Diane says,I am tragically “Un-Hip” ha!
I do know that in the 60’s,there were “Pro”testers
at all of the anti-war rallys, ‘cause 1 would see the samr faces in the news reels while we were off
defending someone else. the more things change….
Major….Tell it right now. I didnt say that you were “un-hip”. I might have agreed with you that you and I were both unhip to the tweeting crowd, but that was all ! (lol)
Thanks Jeanfromfillmore and to Joyce for your posts ! So many people that I have met are having serious buyers remorse now, after voting for Mr Hope and Change ! And it’s such a damned crying shame that so many people did not do their research and homework …long before the Marxist was selected !
We can only hope that more in the liberal media will wake up, but even if they do ….or already have, I fear that way too many have their “gag” orders.
I must also add that I am feeling so proud of so many of our very brave African American citizens for joining in the Tea Party movement and for standing strong against bigger govt. They really have taken some heat, and been called traitors and worse , and so thanks so much to them for doing what they know is right and joining in the fight to preserve all of our liberties and freedoms.
To Diane, #16 T O U C H E’ or is it OUCH ! lol
#17 1)YES, I agree,under threat of getting fired
2)YES, again, & of the Black conservatives.
as seen on shows like Glenn Beck etc.
GO SLEEPY
Major ..Just for the record, I think you are very “HIP” ! <smile> And hey, I have miles to go yet before I sleep. (lol) Still buring the midnight oil here after work, as usual; and reading and educating myself ; and am always learning something new. And thankful to so many people in AIM for helping to contribute to my learning.
To Diane #19, Thank you. I would be ‘hip’ if I could remember where I put it. Old age ain’t for sissies,I just can’t remember why?? lol
It s 4:55 am here,me go sleepy a 6am
I suprise my self when I learn something NEW every day. This old dog can still hunt, but can’t remember what for or why??? ha!
How do you get a nice old lady to cuss??
Get another nice old lady to yell ‘Bingo’
Sweet Dreams!!!
Notice how when Liberals are challenged, they resort to name-calling and screeching like a Howler monkey to drown out their opposition? And the cable “news” channels do the same for their ever-shrinking audience? (Except CNN, of course, as Don posted here: http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/cnns-klein-no-bias-no-agenda/.) Why shout when the group is so small to begin with?
I, for one, don’t mind being called a Teabagger. Been one for years. Earl Grey, English Breakfast, PG Tips. In the bedroom (as in the original meaning). As a Conservative, now I guess, as well. A proper descriptor for me all around. Not a problem.
So, my question is: Why get all upset if you’re called a Liberal? Or a Marxist? Or even a Communist? If you’ve got principles, why not properly put them on display? Why hide?
And WE’RE the ones with the problem?
I have to admit, the “teabagger” label does give me the creeps, considering its logical disconnect of affiliating a peaceful group of demonstrators with a particular sexual act.
I mean, if such sexual imagery is conjured up in the minds of those who simply disagree with the Tea Party’s political message, then what other sexual imagery would they conjure up in their collective minds in other situations?
For instance –
When watching a group of children in a playground….
When holding an infant in their arms….
When viewing a body in an open casket….
When watching a person walk their dog….
When visiting a grave site in a cemetery….
(Maybe this last example would involve some sort of subterranean orgy scene)
Weird
Neo-conned I just didn’t get your last post. But maybe you’re trying to say that those that tagged the name Teabaggers are sexual perverts or deranged. I think they were just trying to belittle the people who attended the rallies. The belittling can only go as far as one lets it. The left has tried to tag everyone who disagrees with them with so many derogatory names, that many don’t even pay much attention to their rants anymore. When you fail to give the name calling any power, it falls on deaf ears. Most of us have arrived at that point.
To Jean #23 I agree. I believe the Radical Left,especially the PRO lefties, are using the Rules of Alinsky,Ayers,& their ilk to STOP us in our tracks. The LOUDEST wheel gets the most grease
or money,,or both. Maybe they’re KINKY,,ha-ha
In reference to the sex inuendos,,,the Late Jack Benny once said on Johnny Carson,in reference to Wayne Newton’s fiddle playing, he said ” If the Politicians in DC did to their wives,what you are doing to that violin,there would be a lot more children running around DC”
PRIMARY DAY ,,,,,then,,,,,ELECTION DAY !!!
1. These Tea Party meetings are bringing certain much-needed education to the general public. That’s good!
2. I hope that they get 100% of themselves out to the polls. That will help too.
3. For goodness sake, don’t split the non-Democrat vote by going third-party!
4. One more thing. Run for local Republican committeemen, and decide which candidates will be seen on the local Republican lists of endorsed candidates that the voters take into the voting booth in the primaries.
Jeanfromfillmore –
I did consider your “belittling” theory, so here’s what I did. I wiped the ‘cyberdust’ off of my bookmarked copy of “Rules for Radicals”, and then zeroed in on Rule #5 in the book, which states –
[Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.]
Well, to me, the TEA Party movement doesn’t appear “infuriated”, and the only “reaction” I see from them is more planned demonstrations.
So I crossed that off.
Now on the other hand, Jean, Chris Matthews did feel “that thrill going up his leg” from listening to a politician speak…..
and Matthews is part of that fringe crowd that hates the TEA Party movement; the same crowd that uses the “teabagging” label….
and so….. (smile)
I heard this morning on a local talk radio station that Rachel Maddow (did I spell her name correctly?) was the first person in the left wing media who so crudely referred to The Tea Party members as “Tea-baggers”. And then the talk show host added that he heard that is a term which “gay” people like to use. Just thought that was interesting.
Way to go CNN!