When Tea Parties Are Not Tea Parties
Posted on 18 January 2010 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Uncategorized
In her debut interview on Fox News Channel, it was announced that Sarah Palin, Fox News’ latest political analyst, would be a guest speaker at a ‘Tea Party’ in February.
There was a time when a tea party was either a high tea in the upper crust of English society, or a game little girls played with their dolls. Today, however a ‘tea party’ is a protest coordinated at grassroots levels, across America. The events are in protest of ‘big government’, President Obama, the federal budget and the stimulus package.
The April tea parties were the largest to date, with demonstrations being recorded in more than 750 cities. The Christian Science Monitor reported that over half a million Americans participated in the protests. However, local authorities, organizers and attendees often came up with widely varying numbers. President for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, estimated that at least 286,000 attended in over 200 cities.
While Atlanta, Georgia drew an estimated 7,000 attendees, some gatherings only attracted a few dozen people. The demonstration outside the White House was moved when a box of tea bags were thrown across the White House lawn, causing the bomb-detecting robot to be used to determine if the package was safe.
The Independence Day protests were more focused on local issues than on national ones. The New York Times reported that the Tea Party Patriots website urged those who attended meetings about health care, should be deliberately disruptive.
Based on the Boston Tea Party, the images are deliberately themed from the American Revolution. Tea being an acronym for ‘Taxed Enough Already’.
Fox News Channel, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was on board in a big way. Media Matters reported that Fox News aired 107 commercial promotions for their coverage of the tea party protests, in the ten days leading up to April 15th.
Currently the tea party movement appears to have no dominant leader, though Grammy Award winning singer Ray Stevens, has released a new, tea party song that is going viral.
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parties are of course very enjoyable, i would never miss a good party specially if it has some great program ,:,
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