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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i appreciate your intelligent reply. i don't/haven't hitched my wagon to the tea party, but i certainly respect them for playing the game better than most. this is a republic, we send a message by protesting, sending correspondence to our political leaders and voicing ourselves in public demonstrations, they do that better and more than either the dems or repubs. and that's a fact. if you or me or anybody has any concerns about the tea party, you'e be better served by doing what they do, else we will end up under tea party rule, bank on it.
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If your respect (my word) for the Tea Party is based on their taking action then do you also respect the hundreds of thousands of people who marched on Washington to protest the wars in Iraq and elsewhere? This happened many times during Bush, but the propaganda we have in this country called "the media" rarely reported it. Fifty thousand tea baggers can show up somewhere and they're ALL OVER the news. Makes it seem like a bigger movement than it really is. But half a million show up in 2004 to protest the war and it got a total of 12 minutes of airtime on the 3 cable channels. Now come on!
I agree activism is the best thing, and I agree the tea partiers have 100% rights to protest. I, too, applaud their taking action, if only because the more they talk and protest the easier it is to see where they're really coming from. But don't assume other non-teabaggers do not protest or are activists, because they are. The real sadness here is the media in this country, who broadcast their own agendas and get people like Mo and Peabody upset for their own gains.
