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

[the-macnab.livejournal.com]

Don't know why it is that Americans these days seem to feel that every fuckwit and assclown "deserves" discourse space.

Americans don't feel that every fuckwit and assclown deserves discourse space. I know that I'm preaching to the choir here, but we all know how hard it is to get a left-wing march, rally, cause et cetera covered in the media. It's the same phenomenon that we see in overseas coverage: you never heard anything out of Bolivia, say, until Morales was elected president, and then suddenly the NYT had relatively frequent stories about protests in the richer, whiter parts of the country.

My point is just that trying to explain the excessive coverage of the Tea Partiers through reference to the Interweb's "Gotcha" culture, without paying attention to the correspondence between the Tea Partiers' hatred of Obama and the people who own the country's hatred of Obama, misses much of the point.

[purejuice.livejournal.com]

correspondence between the Tea Partiers' hatred of Obama and the people who own the country's hatred of Obama

not getting this. who are the people owning the country's hatred of obama? what does owning hatred mean? and what is the correspondence between that and tp's hatred of obama? gnomic, i'd call you!

[the-macnab.livejournal.com]

I meant the hatred that people who own the country feel toward Obama. Rich people, not to put too fine a point on it. The other half of the Republican Party.

[purejuice.livejournal.com]

ah, thank you.