Tea Party

[purejuice]

The Tea Partiers are not, as I deduced from a previous NYT story, boomers out of work. There's a new NYT poll which explains who they are.

I am ready to consign them to the scrapheap of history I shall dub The Racist Backlash Against the 1965 Voting Rights Act That LBJ Said Would Last 50 Years. Five years to go. Buh-bye.

I must say, I think the blogosphere pundits' Gotcha, argue with every word uttered by every asshole on the planet, attitude, is counterproductive. Ignore them, deprive them of a venue, do not repeat or listen to what they say, and they will go away.

Comments

[purejuice.livejournal.com]

all of this is begging the question of how the blogosphere gotcha discourse sets agenda for news judgment....i think that while monitoring hits is one way of keeping tabs on trends and fads, it is also very much contributing to the feeding frenzy pack news coverage. this, i believe, helps create the radio soundbite political agendas fascists batten upon, helps create the NCPAC/terry dolan/single-issue voter turnout contests which are political agendas foreign to everyone and against the interests of all voters, which fatally limits the political agendas of both parties such that the plurality does not turn out to vote, and ignores the modest and progressive political goals of the vast majority of constituencies.

[the-sikh-geek.livejournal.com]

Part of this, beyond the attention-grabbing gawking sideshow appeal of people in costumes carrying signs (but yet, never for the leftist demos), is the awful tendency of TV news to go for the "two-sides" angle on everything. "While most people believe that they need to breath in order to stay alive, SOME people hold a different view..."