Tea Party Movement In Iowa: Less Popular Than Pot, Aliens, Socialism

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Unsurprisingly, the media covered Sarah Palin's address at the Tea Party convention in Nashville with unprecedented levels of enthusiasm for a fringe political movement. To be sure, if hundreds of radical leftists gathered for a meet n' greet, CNN would not show up to document the event.

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Comments

[LittleMittens]

01:52 PM on 02/11/2010

Uh, because Iowan's are actually highly educated free thinkers? No traction from the astro turfing teabaggers

[LMPE]

01:44 PM on 02/11/2010

Why give the lunatic fringe any more attention?

[bluntobject]

01:10 PM on 02/11/2010

You just want to take all these misinformed and downtrodden wittle sheeple by their wittle sheeple hands, and lead them back to their house trailers. Order a few hundred pizzas to be delivered and get um a whole truck load of beer. They'll be fine.

Nuthin' to see here folks.

[reddog55]

10:45 AM on 02/11/2010

One of the biggest stories of this convention should have been:
“The TeaParty had a National Convention/party and nobody showed up.”

I mean 600 people for a huge (at least as represented by some media outlets) national movement/political party? I saw little bit of the coverage on Palin’s speech and there was not one mention of how few people actually attended this national event. The media plays this group up as a huge grass-roots movement when the reality is it is thankfully a very small group of people spurred on by professional astroturffers.

I agree with the author, if this was a national convention of radical left wingers what would have the media coverage looked like? . . .

[pissedmichael]

11:59 AM on 02/11/2010

You're right. I am so weary of the media's lack of challenge to the tea party 'movement.' I want to see more point by point refutations of their outrageous and unsupported claims, instead of merely taking the high road and letting them continue unchallenged.

[jerryatthebeach]

07:17 AM on 02/11/2010

TEA PARTY, Lets win these upcoming 2010 elections with civility and reaching out to our neighbors and friends. In 2011, we'll do more...

[Grunty1]

02:28 PM on 02/11/2010

[with civility ]

LOL. That train left the station LONG ago.

[pointyheadprodigy]

06:20 AM on 02/11/2010

Not surprising because taking care of friends and family and wheezing on the dank ganj are GOOD things and encouraging "literacy" tests and such are not!

[ariveria]

09:56 PM on 02/10/2010

i found it very interesting.

last year we had the first teaparty protest on april 15.

then a little over a month later we had the 4 20 rallies. guess which one drew the most people.

thats right the 420 rallies

guess which one got the most press.

thats right the teabaggers.

how can patriotic americans like those who rallied on 4 20 compete with those who are trying to destroy the good ole us of a like the teabagers.

"a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth"
glenn beck
information czar fox news
the view 5/20/09

"when the truth is found to be lies"
jefferson airplane

[AnnfromCA]

09:07 PM on 02/10/2010

Interesting, since a recent poll in Iowa shows high support for the teaparty movement.

But then, that would be inconvenient to report.

[EmmaJ76]

07:48 AM on 02/11/2010

Why don;t you post that poll Ann?

Anyway, what does this tell us about polls? Dime a dozen....

[FlamingLibrul]

09:26 AM on 02/11/2010

Still waiting for that poll, eh Emma- snort! It ain't coming... Anyhoo, as someone posted the other day, polls are for strippers- yuk yuk.

[PWM]

09:36 AM on 02/11/2010

Prove it.

[JoannainPA]

07:07 PM on 02/10/2010

Seriously, how can the US be the global leader when we elect people not on merit, accomplishments or depth of knowledge on issue, but rather if they drive a pick up and are folksy and can wink? What is happening to our country?

[FlamingLibrul]

07:40 PM on 02/10/2010

It can't- for much longer. The European Union is overtaking us. 500 million largely educated and bilingual people are gonna be stepping up on the global stage. The EU has put in place several education programs with quota systems to produce more engineers, scientists and doctors. And that's only one example.

[termgirl]

10:49 PM on 02/10/2010

To quote Bill Maher: "Why do we always have to be the du mb country?"

[jan4insight]

08:21 PM on 02/10/2010

Excellent point. I always some voter's criteria for elected officials - who you'd drink a beer with, whether or not they know the name of some sports figure - to be slightly bizarre.

And the fact that they'd actually want to drink beer with those they voted for under these criteria is even more bizarre!

[whatthel]

06:48 PM on 02/10/2010

Tancredo's specch, at the TKK convention, showed them for the overt racists they are.

[JoannainPA]

06:21 PM on 02/10/2010

Why are these Tea baggers so scared of a dark skinned leader? They want to keep there power they have over people they view as less then? They only want white people to make laws, only whites are "real Americans"? and only through white action can anyone else have any rights. The TEA KLUX KLAN.

[Dr knowitall]

08:26 PM on 02/10/2010

"Why are these Tea baggers so scared of a dark skinned leader?"

There not. Its not about race for them.

I haven't "tea bagged" (other then like Halo) but If you do a little research you will find race is more of a anti tea bag cop out then reality.

[PWM]

09:38 AM on 02/11/2010

I disagree. I know several teabaggers and they are all racists. The rallies are full of people carrying racist signs and waving confederate flags. The only thing they are not doing is wearing sheets and burning crosses.

[Patriotallday]

05:18 PM on 02/10/2010

****Anti-Tea Party Movement website revealed to have been set up by 2 Democratic strategists, and funded by the SEIU and other unions !!! This proves how afraid libs are of the TPM.......

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/antitea_party_website_linked_t.html

[Center-of-the-Bird]

05:28 PM on 02/10/2010

You guys have enough fear for everyone, me not so much.

[BBinMT]

05:58 PM on 02/10/2010

Afraid? You need to leave middle earth and shave the tops of your feet...try to keep up here.

[FlamingLibrul]

07:31 PM on 02/10/2010

Refuting the lies of the teabaggers is a commie/pinko plot now is it? I thought it was part of the democratic process. Now that corporations are allowed to fund elections, who cares if 10 democratic strategists and unions funded anything? Remember, you righties were jumping for joy at the Supreme Court decision under the guise of "Freedom of Speech." Well, that freedom extends to everybody- like it or not.

[irishred]

04:34 PM on 02/10/2010

KO's quote - they are the TEA KLUX KLAN of the 21st Century

[Kiabell04]

04:26 PM on 02/10/2010

MSM is so slanted to the right that it isn't funny. I didn't watch those idiotic tea party events on TV last week thankfully.

[BigDogMom]

04:31 PM on 02/10/2010

You think this is bad now, just wait until the Corporations start their political ads, it's going to be a free for all in right wing propaganda on the MSM.

[rascalcat]

04:31 PM on 02/10/2010

the MSM are all corporations hence the slant.

[rascalcat]

04:24 PM on 02/10/2010

Terrific article! Liberal media my tired aching butt.

[PWM]

09:39 AM on 02/11/2010

Liberals gave us this country. The conservatives were on the side of the British.