Ok, media and liberals. So I guess all of these, which never got the kind of dismissive treatment the current protests are receiving, are absolutely different:
Or this:
Somehow, what conservatives are doing right now seems pretty effing tame. The level of anger I feel right now towards the media...let's just say that it is good that this is a written blog.
Hat Tip: Various Commenters on As Maine Goes
To be Fair, you need to remember that when there were people protesting the war, they were Declared unpatriotic and were actually counted by some of the republican senators as helping the enemy by undermining American resolve. And Fox news was happy to play hours of criticism about how the "hippies" and crazy leftists were undermining America. It simply is that NO SIDE wants to hear someone bitch about something they feel is important, and thus tries to push those voices of protest to the fringe. And I am sure I could go through the pictures of the Conservative protesters to find some just as odd or crazy. Their are always nuts at protests
ReplyDeleteYes, there are, I agree. My point is the hypocrisy of what the Dems are doing now, by writing off ALL Republicans protesting. I agree that some of the Republicans are just as crazy.
ReplyDeleteBut mainstream Republicans never wrote off the regular, peaceful protestors and the media always talked about Code Pink (the infamous blood picture, which was a recurring thing) as if they were a very legitimate, mainstream protest.
Meanwhile, both the media and dems are trying to convince everyone that the Tea Party attendees and health care protests, which, with exceptions, are not as disrespectful as this, as right wing nuts.
So, I stand by calling hypocrisy.
There were Republican Senators that outright called anyone who protested the war as undermining national security and our dear former vice-president said something along the lines of people who were protesting the war were actually assisting the terrorists. I will agree with you that the
ReplyDelete(Though I still find that the Tea Party Protesters way of protesting wasteful spending is to buy thousands of dollars of tea and then destroying it to be in itself a form of wasteful spending, and thus seems silly. Yes, it is their money to spend and thus if they choose to spend it on tea that is wasted it is ok, but they still will have to pay the taxes on top of that anyway, so it just hits me as costing you more money that you do not want to lose in the first place...
The reason that the tea in the original tea party was destroyed was because it belonged to the East (or West, I can't Remember) Indy company who was backing the Tea Tax and thus was destroying their property was a statement that they would not allow their product to be sold as long as the Tax was in a effect (basically a boycott of the taxed good). What would have mad more sense was to boycott systems that actually funded public coffers if they wanted to protest the government spending... JUst my opinion though)
And yes, it is a hypocrisy...
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