FauxNews: "Move Over, MoveOn: Tea Parties Spark Conservative Insurgency Online"

[jefferson_dem]

More "fair and balanced" reporting on these totally uncoordinated teabagging parties...

Move Over, MoveOn: Tea Parties Spark Conservative Insurgency Online
Tea parties have sparked an online insurgency, with independent media sites driving coverage of the protests, suggesting that conservatives may be catching up with their liberal counterparts in building a Web-driven, grassroots campaign to push their agenda.

FOXNews.com

Monday, April 13, 2009

Conservatives may be catching up with their liberal counterparts in building a Web-driven, grassroots campaign to push their agenda.

The online insurgency-in-the-making revolves around the so-called tea parties, the anti-tax protests popping up around the country that they expect to culminate Wednesday -- tax day -- with hundreds of rallies nationwide.

The movement, which expanded over the last two months via the Web, is now relying heavily on independent media Web sites to track and cover the campaign.

The digital evolution of conservative activists comes too late to help John McCain, whose new media arm was left in the dust by President Obama's campaign. But organizers are holding out hope that this movement has juice.

"It's thoroughly viral," said Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit.com blogger who hosts an online news show for the Web site Pajamas TV.

Pajamas TV is on the frontlines of new media coverage for the tea parties. The Web site already has covered some protests and is pledging to recruit an army of citizen journalists, working without pay, to cover the hundreds of protests on April 15.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/13/pub-moveon/

[Christa]

1. My suggestion to them:

Anybody who thinks this tea party nonsense is anything close to what the real Boston Tea Party was about (taxation without representation), I strongly suggest that they run out and buy a copy of the John Adams series ASAP to put things into perspective.

[icnorth]

12. Sam Adams. They rely on

Sam Adams to put things into perspective. John Adams, not so much.

[YOY]

13. I doubt that. Try Old Milwaukee or Milwakee's Best

They don't need no fancy European looking beer with a wig wearing kweer on the front of it!

[marmar]

2. I don't know that I could roll my eyes enough to react to this load of bollocks.....

...... but I'll try.


:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[Ganja Ninja]

3. They're dreaming.

And when these malcontents get together before a camera they are going to reveal themselves as the same hateful morons that turned out for Shara Palin. The are the closet klan.

[BOSSHOG]

4. ONLINE TEA BAGGING - the latest conservative value

- I didn't know there was so many people who couldn't vote in 2008.

[rooboy]

5. a "grassroots movement" led by Rupert Murdoch's global empire? n/t

[high density]

7. No kidding; how dumb do they think we are?

This wouldn't be getting play anywhere if it weren't for Fox News pimping it for two weeks now. What are they protesting anyway? Bush's tax rates?! Give me a break.

[LynnTheDem]

6. ROTFL!!! They really do believe the rightwingers are too stupid!

Thing is, gotta admit that not all rightwingers are too stupid; the right is losing voters on a weekly basis.

Keep up the lying, Fox! Americans don't like being lied to, when they find out they are in fact being lied to!

[AndyA]

8. This coming from a group whose brightest new stars are

Sarah

Rush

Bobby

...and are the same folks who brought us

2 wars (neither necessary)

Biggest deficits in history

Record high gas prices

Deadly food (no FDA budget)

Toxic children's toys

Non-regulated financial markets (and subsequent crash)

Worst recession in generations

Yeah, they are still playing the diversion game. Find a false issue and make it a big concern. Don't deal with real issues, because we have no defense for our past actions.

Idiots. Every last one of them...idiots.

[rocktivity]

9. Too little, too late, Fox

It's been well established that you and the right-wing think thanks are bankrolling and promoting this trickle-down populism. That's the real reason why Glenn Beck pulled out of a scheduled appearance and Michael Steele was refused a speaking role--so the Tea Party would look more "grass roots."

:eyes:
rocktivity

[Wapsie B]

10. There are still untold fortunes waiting to be made appealing to the anger and fear

of the sort who would call themselves a "Teabagger". Timmy LaHaye did it with those godawful Left Behind books. Jimmy Dobson did it with FOF. These tea parties are just another way to feed off the righties. Nice work if you can get it. You'll be set for life.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Sure looks like they're having a ball

mmmph mmmmmph mmmph

[LynnTheDem]

14. Have they forgotten what America does to "insurgents"?

Have they forgotten what republicans think should be done to "insurgents"?

Are they the stupidest MFers on the planet?