JohnEngland
05-14-2011, 07:43 AM
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I suggest we inform the people at Big Journalism that this article is nonsense. The Tea Party WAS started by the Ron Paul movement.
Check out some of the nonsense by the author of this article:
In a story by Jay Root for the Associated Press, the news wire service tries to tar the entire tea party movement with guilt by association claiming that it was somehow fathered or “grandfathered” by Texas Representative Ron Paul, the cranky uncle of the GOP. The fact is Ron Paul had nothing at all to do with the tea party movement. The claim that he did is a calumny, one that the AP hopes will discredit the tea party movement.
In the Story, the AP claims that Ron Paul is “both a spiritual father and actual father in the tea party movement.” It mentions that his son, Rand, is a “tea party darling” (that one is true, at least) and claims that since Paul had a 2007 event he called a “‘Tea Party Fundraiser’ aboard a shrimp boat near Galveston,” that must make him the father of the tea party movement.
So, why is the AP trying to push the meme that Ron Paul created the tea party movement, or was at the least instrumental therein? Because Ron Paul is viewed by most people as a crank and if the AP can drape such an albatross around the necks of the tea party movement, well that will help the left discredit the movement that helped bring a Republican revolution to Washington the likes of which hasn’t been seen in over 60 years.
Ultimately, that is the AP’s goal. The wire service wishes to torpedo any legitimacy the tea partiers have gained and what better way to do it than get people to imagine that a guy with out-there views is a tea party progenitor? Paul is a man that wouldn’t have killed our worst enemy, a guy that is unbothered by the idea of legalizing all drugs, a guy that thinks that prostitution is a great idea, a guy whose past included close association with all sorts of unsavory racists, if he is part of the tea party movement then that movement must be an off-the-wall, wacky gathering. It’s all guilt by association that AP practices.
The fact is Ron Paul had nothing whatever to do with the tea party movement. Period.
http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2011/05/14/ap-tars-tea-party-movement-as-grandfathered-by-ron-paul/
I suggest we inform the people at Big Journalism that this article is nonsense. The Tea Party WAS started by the Ron Paul movement.
Check out some of the nonsense by the author of this article:
In a story by Jay Root for the Associated Press, the news wire service tries to tar the entire tea party movement with guilt by association claiming that it was somehow fathered or “grandfathered” by Texas Representative Ron Paul, the cranky uncle of the GOP. The fact is Ron Paul had nothing at all to do with the tea party movement. The claim that he did is a calumny, one that the AP hopes will discredit the tea party movement.
In the Story, the AP claims that Ron Paul is “both a spiritual father and actual father in the tea party movement.” It mentions that his son, Rand, is a “tea party darling” (that one is true, at least) and claims that since Paul had a 2007 event he called a “‘Tea Party Fundraiser’ aboard a shrimp boat near Galveston,” that must make him the father of the tea party movement.
So, why is the AP trying to push the meme that Ron Paul created the tea party movement, or was at the least instrumental therein? Because Ron Paul is viewed by most people as a crank and if the AP can drape such an albatross around the necks of the tea party movement, well that will help the left discredit the movement that helped bring a Republican revolution to Washington the likes of which hasn’t been seen in over 60 years.
Ultimately, that is the AP’s goal. The wire service wishes to torpedo any legitimacy the tea partiers have gained and what better way to do it than get people to imagine that a guy with out-there views is a tea party progenitor? Paul is a man that wouldn’t have killed our worst enemy, a guy that is unbothered by the idea of legalizing all drugs, a guy that thinks that prostitution is a great idea, a guy whose past included close association with all sorts of unsavory racists, if he is part of the tea party movement then that movement must be an off-the-wall, wacky gathering. It’s all guilt by association that AP practices.
The fact is Ron Paul had nothing whatever to do with the tea party movement. Period.
http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2011/05/14/ap-tars-tea-party-movement-as-grandfathered-by-ron-paul/