Tax Day Tea Parties.

[cassiesmom]

There was one down in Springfield in front of the state capitol. It got a lot of media attention because Illinois has a lot of debt (thanks Blago) and the governor and legislators have been talking about different ways to fund state services with the available monies without making big cuts or huge tax increases. No easy answers there. I believe there was also one in downtown Chicago.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Some channels weren't giving it much coverage and a few of the ones that did were dismissive and some even rude. I don't get it. Aren't we supposed to speak out when we're unhappy w/the way things are? To my knowledge, no one was unruly or destructive, so why the media inattention?

Just to make sure my memory was correct...I googled...Cindy Sheehan and Fox News....dismissive and rude
would be nice compared to the way she was treated for speaking out when she was unhappy with the way things are....

She was called a traitor, nuts, bad mother, and many horrid names.

I am all for peaceful protest...have done it. If you want to protest taxes or war or a supreme court decision or whatever - go for.

Just show a protest with which you disagree the same respect as a protest with which you agree.

[Medusa]

Just to make sure my memory was correct...I googled...Cindy Sheehan and Fox News....dismissive and rude
would be nice compared to the way she was treated for speaking out when she was unhappy with the way things are....

She was called a traitor, nuts, bad mother, and many horrid names.

I am all for peaceful protest...have done it. If you want to protest taxes or war or a supreme court decision or whatever - go for.

Just show a protest with which you disagree the same respect as a protest with which you agree.

If Fox did that, it was wrong to do so, IMO, but for CNN to do it w/the tea parties doesn't make it right either. Quid Pro Quo should not apply. That's tantamount to school yard fights. "S/he started it!" Juvenile.

[Edwina's Secretary]

If Fox did that, it was wrong to do so, IMO, but for CNN to do it w/the tea parties doesn't make it right either. Quid Pro Quo should not apply. That's tantamount to school yard fights. "S/he started it!" Juvenile.

Just curious...when did CNN call one of the tax protesters ugly names?

[Medusa]

Just curious...when did CNN call one of the tax protesters ugly names?

I don't know. I didn't say that they did. I said that they were rude and dismissive.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Here's some example of rude and dismissive...all from Fox and all about anti-war demonstrators...

Fox News host and Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes also stated:

BARNES: You know, I was struck by how uninformed and morally empty these demonstrations were.

[...]

BARNES: These demonstrators are both morally vacuous, they're stupid, they're disingenuous.

[...]

BARNES: They just don't want a war and they hate the U.S., Mort's right about that.

On the February 17, 2003, edition of Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity stated of the protesters:
HANNITY: Had we listened to the appeasement movement, the pacifist movement, the same protesters back then as the ones today, the world wouldn't be a safer place. Why do they even have any credibility based on their failure after failure, historically speaking?

[...]

HANNITY: Steven, by the way, these are Marxist groups. They do organize this thing with very anti-American ideas. I don't believe every anti-war protester is anti-American. I'm not suggesting that.

I haven't seen this "rude and dismissive" behavior toward the tax protesters. It may well be there.

But it would be hard to top.....the fair and balanced quotes above.

Again...protest whatever you like...it is the martrydom I find a bit disingeneous.

[Medusa]

Ok, for the record, I wasn't one of the protestors and I certainly don't claim martyrdom. I'm not even sure whom you're talking about regarding martyrdom. The tea parties were protests against higher taxes and runaway spending, not against any one person including President Obama. That's the last I'm going to say on the subject. There is too much arguing in the Dog House as it is w/out my adding to it. I think by now everyone knows how you feel, ES, so to go back and forth about it is tedious. If the "we" in the slogan "Yes we can!" is all inclusive, then the back and forth finger pointing has to end before any progress can be made.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Well Medusa...I understand the protest....and I support the right of citizens to do it. I have no problem with it at all.

I haven't a clue why you see my politics as a part of the discussion. I just don't understand why you referred to the news coverage as "rude and dismissive." I could care less if the protest was about Obama or The King of Siam.

Truth is truth.

[blue]

I just don't understand why you referred to the news coverage as "rude and dismissive."

So you missed this in your searching?

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