BTW - pro-spend-spend-spend-like-there's-no-tomorrow Republicans are no more safe from the tea party ire than dems with similar views...
He is being booed for his vote on TARP if you didn't catch it...
So I have a hard time buying the narrative being pushed that these people were by in large somehow OK with the fiscal stupidity under bush...or that they were somehow silent under bush...I think it is a whole hell of a lot more likely that they are just now finding their vioce as a movement and that they were outraged the whole damn time...it's easy to figure out with graphs like the one Kasz posted why people are just now getting upset enough to organize over it.
The biggest surprise to me from this whole affair hasn't been how the folks were treated...but rather how many on the left actually believe Olby, Gorofolo, etc... when they paint this group of ~400k people as "just a bunch of racist rednecks" based on a few cherry picked interviews that are supposed to represent all of them.
I wonder what narrative could have been written about the million man march had a similar effort been taken up there. Would we have seen headlines of "Million homeless people gather at capital to complain about black people."...it would certainly fit the "mischaracterize the people and their views" MO of this disinformation campaign (note I don't give fox a pass on their propaganda campaign either for the parties...but they also weren't resorting to childish insults which to me is far worse).
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