Ron Paul Vs Obama

[The_vagabond7]

TheRealMafoo said:

I was listening to BBC radio on my way home the other day (I have XM), and they were interviewing three people from the tea party at the rally in DC.

All three of them had very good points they brought up, and every one of them had an issue to talk about. You would have never seen that interview on mainstream media here in the US. They would have found the few people out of the thousands with misspelled signs, or yelling crap at people, and put that on the news.

The reason the Tea Party is going to be a real force in my opinion, is it's a party of only issues. If you were to go to one, and ask everyone why they were there, you would hear about taxes, or healthcare, or spending, or the war, or any number of other issues.

Almost no one would mention Obama, or the democrats, or the republicans. It's not about hate for a man or a party. It's about the issues. And when your fighting against someone who just wants to talk about the issus, it's very hard to win, if your not right. A smile and a good speech writer is not going to do it.

Jon Stewart actually had a large bit about that on his show thursday. His usual long montage of media outlets all asking about if they've gotten violent yet, are the crazies coming out, and random video of whatever idiot they can find spouting gibberish. Then he had his "senior teaparty analyst" complaining that nobody has called him a nigger yet, and he doesn't have time to ask them about the issues because as soon as he does some other network will scoop him on a guy dressed as hitler shitting into his own hand.

 

Fox news of course has latched onto this, but only to create their own hypocritical narrative (which jon stewart also called them out on, he's really not a political satirist he's a media satirist). Fox news is sympathetic to the tea party movement but only because they want to paint it as the enemy of democrats and liberals, still obfuscating  the facts to create their own narrative failing to show how most of the movement also hates the republicans. The media doesn't cover stories, it manufactures them. It's alot more profitable that way.