I think Fox is losing even more credibility from this. They're not reporting on the movement, but endorsing it, and co-branding it. They're calling some of them FNC Tea Parties. Saying "Hey guys here are locations and times of our parties that we're putting on and hosting" is not reporting news.

They are latching on to a fake grassroots movement that is actually funded by corporations and conservative billionnaires. The fact that Fox was in on this and trying to make it news when it wasn't is just icing on the cake.


I think the best piece on the tea parties is this one by MSNBC.

It points out that we've only had tax cuts for 16 years, and the last tax hike was Clinton in 1993, and only for the top bracket, and that the only tax hike wanted now by Obama is a tax hike on the richest bracket to 10% under Reagan levels. It also catches Fox lying, saying they report on all protest, and they were at the Million Man March, even though they DIDN'T EXIST YET.

But more importantly, it has the most teabagging jokes I've ever heard. See if you can catch all the zingers.

I disagree.

I DO support Obama in most of his endevours, however there are some of his taxes in effect right now.

Ask anybody who smokes loose tobacco about new taxes.

And yeah, that CNN piece in the OP was really unprofessional. It was just painfully obvious that she was going out of her way to stir up some controversy and sneak in a Fox dis. That aside, the guy she interviewed never mentioned taxes.

Tax cuts are one of the main reasons why we are in such dire financial straits. The same people who are the biggest advocates of tax cuts are the same ones who complain the most about the national debt. I guess they forgot that we saw the largest spikes in the national debt occur during Republican Administrations.

America needs to shut the fuck up about tax cuts. If you want the country to be fiscally solvent, we will have to cut government spending AND raise taxes. Any reputable estimate of how to solve our national debt problem will tell you the same thing. A person who is truly fiscally conservative is not afraid to raise taxes.

I hope that was like a political comedy show or something. Its funny, but it sounds like something that should have been picked up by the Daily Show or something.

I'm pretty sure it was congress that passed that new tax raise to fund the SCHIP.  I don't really know if he had anything to do with the tax being increased. Ah but everyone loves obama. He's got that big smile that you can't help but like :D

^ Andthese people don't seem to mind about the whole smoking fiasco. I think they honestly believe the stuff Rush and Foxies tell them. <_< they is gonna have their guns taken away and taxes raised to 99.9%.

Interesting, from what I heard, the tax hike on tobacco was Obama's.

This will take some research.

Are those nationwide and/or did Obama have anything to do with them?

I haven't been paying attention to tobacco taxes, since I don't touch the stuff.

Either way, this has nothing to do with the Boston Tea Party, since those taxes were put into place by elected officials.  If we don't like those taxes, we should vote them out of office at our next opportunity.  That's how the system works, and that's the system that the actual Boston Tea Party fought for.

http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/michigan/Loose_tobacco_taxes_jump_April_1


President Barack Obama's administration is increasing taxes on tobacco products -- everything from chew, to cigars, to cigarettes.

The President can only sign legislation. He can't make it. Now he may have a lot of influence over Congress, but they have to approve the bill before he can do anything.