He went to a Tea Party rally.
And you know what he discovered?
He found out that these folks aren't misogynist, homophobic, rabid racists who eat small children and want to kill the President (unlike what Matthews and Olberdouche say). Here is what Robert McCartney had to say about his foray into the wilds of the Tea Party movement (courtesy of Newbusters):
I went to the "tea party" rally at the Washington Monument on Thursday to check out just how reactionary and potentially violent the movement truly was.
Answer: Not very.
Based on what I saw and heard, tea party members are not seething, ready-to-explode racists, as some liberal commentators have caricatured them.
So did McCartney suddenly become a conservative? Not really but he came away from the experience with some very positive observations about the tea party people:
...I differ strenuously with the protesters on about 95 percent of the issues.
Nevertheless, on the whole, they struck me as passionate conservatives dedicated to working within the system rather than dangerous militia types or a revival of the Ku Klux Klan.
Although shrinking government is their primary goal, many conceded that the country should keep Medicare and even Social Security. None was clamoring for civil disobedience, much less armed revolt.
...The rally, estimated in the tens of thousands, also displayed a wacky, irreverent spirit that I found endearing. I can't help but smile when paunchy small-business owners aged 50 and older don three-cornered hats and hoist rattlesnake flags in exercising their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble.
McCartney should be congratulated on the open minded spirit with which he interviewed the participants in order to find out about their attitudes instead of attempting to be confrontational:
At the protest, I mostly ignored the speakers so I could probe what the participants wanted and how they viewed the world. I interviewed 19, picked at random, in three hours.
I found that I agreed heartily with the tea partiers on what is perhaps their single biggest concern: that America's swelling government debt seriously threatens our long-term prosperity.
As to those in the mainstream media, particularly MSNBC, McCartney has this comment:
Commentators on MSNBC and elsewhere have called the movement racist and likened it to the Klan.
...I didn't see evidence of racism at Thursday's rally. A sign read: "Not prejudiced. Not racist. Not violent. Not disenfranchised. Not silent anymore."
I can not impress enough upon you to open your own eyes and realize just how dangerous the words of these creeps at MSNBC, or even what former President Clinton said the other day, when he compared the Tea Party folks with Timothy McVeigh.
Unlike at many leftist rallies - see here and here - when conservatives protest, they do it honorably and lawfully. There are always unhinged kooks at any gathering. But at these Tea Party gatherings, these freaks are unwelcome, and often escorted out. At leftists rallies, they are just the accepted norm. While the Tea Party crowd will not stand for racism (again, regardless of what MSNBC wants you to believe), antisemitism or any other immoral agenda, the leftist rallies are filled with members of International A.N.S.W.E.R. (antisemitic), the Communist Party of America and a whole host of other fringe organizations.
In a recent survey taken by CNN, it was discovered that the Tea Party participants were very similar to the rest of the country, as far as demographics go. While MSNBC complains "where are the black guys?" - something that network should clear ask itself - the number of "people of color" at these rallies pretty much match up with the percentages of the country in general (again, unlike MSNBC).
That reminded me of something Chris Matthews said, following President Obama's State of the Union address:
"I forgot he was black for an hour."
Seriously, is every thing about race to these idiots? How in hell are we ever going to be a post-racial society, when so many on the left see only the color of one's skin? Isn't that what Martin Luther King, Jr. was all about?
Oh yeah, he was a Republican.
Listen, the Tea Party is not the boogeyman - regardless of what Matthews and anyone else whose up Obama's butt believe. In fact, their telling you to be afraid is simply their way of deflecting from the failures of their policies.
Meaning, as the economy continues to decline, as unemployment contnues to hover around 10% (which does not include the people who have given up looking for work), as the health care fiasco begins to be understood, as Iran gets closer to nukes (while the Obama people admit they have no plan), as Israel gets scapegoated and as amnesty for illegal aliens becomes a closer reality, the Obama people have no other recourse but to say that anyone who disagrees with him is a racist.
In that view, no one can ever disagree and that is exactly the way Statists/liberals work. One, because "feelings" override logic, they can not see what disasters their policies will bring long-term (think DDT), and two, they often make a huge mess, and when they decide it's unimportant any longer, they leave it for others to clean after.
Anyway, my ex-wife's parent's went to the Tea Party rally in Providence, Rhode Island, this past week and snapped these shots. If you look closely on the bottom poster, you can see my kids' pictures (along with their cousin's) on the poster. In the top poster, held by Renee's father, the picture on the poster he's holding is of himself, when he was in the Navy as a young man.
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