The history of the Tea Parties is surreal. After a rant by CNBC's Santelli a serious of blogs were up in matter of hours, with surprisingly similar content. After years of berating and belittling protesters as silly, Fox News decides to jump in, cover the protests, give out half a million dollars in ads for them. Santelli says he's proud of creating them... The protest have nothing to do with taxes - pretty much everyone getting less than 250 000/year is getting a tax cut; there were no protests during Bush years; the protests are aimed at liberal muslim communists etc.
This pretty much sums it out:
http://exiledonline.com/exposing-the-familiar-rightwing-pr-machine-is-cnbcs-rick-santelli-sucking-koch/
Grassroots my ass.
There were many, many protests against Bush. This goes way beyond left or right, democrat or republican, as i mentioned earlier. A simple Google search brings up a lot (a very simple search would be this --
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=protests+against+bush&btnG=Google+zoeken&meta=&aq=f&oq= )
The thing is that the people behind bush, behind obama, are in charge for quite a while now, and are the ones making the rules; using the 2 - party system to their advantage.
Fox News is and stays a neo-conservative news channel, which i have no respect for at all, but since it's their turn to be critical about the administration, they attempt to hijack and take over these movements. Like how i felt Keith Olbermann was amazing against Bush, now he's soft and apologetic about Obama. I don't have respect for people, especially in the media, that only attack the 'other camp', and when 'their' camp is in power, they're happy.
As mentioned, it's divide and conquer. But both the people in the media and in politics that are on the 'left' and 'right', work for the same people, which have interest by this infight of left versus right, black versus white.
But that's not how things should be, i think. This way we can never fix things and improve our lives, our future.
- JC