Charitini

Network For Good Rachel's Charities:
Apr 16 2009 ∞
“ Did Sean Hannity get out from behind a desk and attend the immigration amnesty rally in Los Angeles to which 500,000 people showed up last year? Did Fox News dedicate around-the-clock coverage and nearly unbearable homerism to the Iraq War protests which over a million Americans attended (150,000 in San Francisco alone) five years ago? Did Glenn Reynolds claim that government needs to Listen Up and Get the Message and Pay Attention and all this shit when 800,000 people (NYPD estimate; protesters claimed over a million, but such estimates are inevitably high) marched in New York City in 2004 to protest the RNC? Do any of these hacks wax patriotic about the millions upon millions of people who did something real and substantive in electing the new President - not standing around bitching, not listening to talk radio millionaires give speeches in a park amidst misspelled, homemade signs - last November? Of course not. Why? Because “those people” aren’t Real Americans. See, Real Americans means white people. Angry, middle-aged, rural or suburban white people.
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ginandtacos.com (via jgh)

Well done. I noticed that yesterday. This caught my eye:

“Nevertheless, Jenny Beth Martin, a former paid consultant for local Republican candidates, says the strength of the Tea Party movement is the emergence of people not known for street action.

‘It’s not your hippie protesters,’ she says. ‘It’s people who are working hard for their families and they don’t want their money taken away from them to be given to people who aren’t working hard.’”

See? People protesting the war = dirty hippies; people agitating for Joe the Plumber to waterboard Obama are just hardworking Americans.

(But - I will say - MSNBC’s coverage would have been much more palatable without the constant sophomoric teabagging jokes. This, by the way, was DAY THREE of constant sophomoric teabagging jokes. Enough already. Balls. We get it.)

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