Tax Day Tea Parties.

[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?

Link.

This, link.

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This link.

And...

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