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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/

07041826
05-14-2011, 08:40 AM
This seems to be a talking point because I heard Mark Levin say the same on his radio show (Saying Ron Paul has nothing to do with the Tea Party movement)

brandon
05-14-2011, 08:45 AM
Well considering he polls best against Obama, it sure is strange they are using him to "tar" the tea party. Wouldn't it make more sense to use someone who polls poorly, like Sarah Palin, to tar the tea party?

Liberty4life
05-14-2011, 08:46 AM
Not going to work the people already know.
Talking heads in the media are in some way or another someone's puppet, trying to divert your attention.

AGRP
05-14-2011, 09:53 AM
Breitbart is a raging neocon propagandist. Hes just as bad as MSNBC.

AuH20
05-14-2011, 10:00 AM
Breitbart is a raging neocon propagandist. Hes just as bad as MSNBC.

You may disagree with him, but he's not a neocon.

AGRP
05-14-2011, 10:06 AM
You may disagree with him, but he's not a neocon.

Is this a joke?

AuH20
05-14-2011, 10:13 AM
Is this a joke?

Have you ever read any Irving Kristol, the father of Neoconservative thought? Compare what he professes and go look what Breitbart advocates. Stark differences. Neocon has become the word of the ignorant around here.

AGRP
05-14-2011, 10:15 AM
Have you ever read any Irving Kristol, the father of Neoconservative thought? Compare what he professes and go look what Breibart advocates.

Someone must have mislead you about Breitbart.

angelatc
05-14-2011, 10:17 AM
Picking nits. The Tea Party was started over 200 years ago in Boston Harbor. Do we really need to fight about every little thing?

doodle
05-14-2011, 10:17 AM
Breitbart is a raging neocon propagandist. Hes just as bad as MSNBC.

He's worse than MSNBC. He used to be in bed with Matt Drudge and won't be surprised if he is in bed with anti American wing of Israeli lobbies.

No point in reading or responding to his crap.

Fredom101
05-14-2011, 10:50 AM
http://bigjournalism.com/files/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-12-at-4.52.33-PM.png

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:





http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2011/05/14/ap-tars-tea-party-movement-as-grandfathered-by-ron-paul/

Technically, 9/11 Truth started the whole idea of the modern tea party a year or two earlier than the RP tea parties.

FreedomProsperityPeace
05-14-2011, 06:37 PM
They should bitch at Fox News too, because they say the same thing.

Theocrat
05-14-2011, 08:10 PM
I'm simply amazed at how ignorant some people can be about political history and culture. From the article, it states:


Problem is, Ron Paul has precisely nothing to do with the tea party movement. His folks are a distinctly separate group from the general population of the tea party movement. Sure some Paulies attend tea party events, but they are not integral to that movement and never have been. Paulies are for Ron Paul and that is it. They don’t support anything or anyone outside Paul as a general rule.

And yet, we know for a fact that the "Tea Party Movement" was initiated from grassroots excitement in Congressman Paul's 2008 campaign:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKZmIzEMUN8

2young2vote
05-14-2011, 08:48 PM
Errrr :mad: I don't mind ignorant people, but when someone is both ignorant AND arrogant, like some of the people posting comments on that article, it just really pisses me off.

Anyways. I think we should try to get their votes, but not support what they say. The whole thing has turned into a giant dog turd political game.

Anti Federalist
05-14-2011, 08:57 PM
Technically, 9/11 Truth started the whole idea of the modern tea party a year or two earlier than the RP tea parties.

This is correct.

Outside of 9/11 activism the Tea Party political movement started in 2007.

Tea Party "leader" Rand Paul gave one his first political speeches in Boston that day.

Valli6
05-14-2011, 10:44 PM
Well, I just hit those fv<kers with a lo-o-o-ng list of youtube links covering '07 teaparties - across America and around the world.

Austin
05-14-2011, 10:59 PM
Have you ever read any Irving Kristol, the father of Neoconservative thought? Compare what he professes and go look what Breitbart advocates. Stark differences. Neocon has become the word of the ignorant around here.

+rep

parocks
05-15-2011, 12:59 AM
"has become?" Was there a time when this was not the case?

JoshLowry
05-15-2011, 01:06 AM
10,000 Tea Party posts in our Tea Party subforum from 2007: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?191-Tea-Party

And we're just a small percentage of the actual Ron Paul grassroots that was out there.

speciallyblend
05-15-2011, 01:14 AM
Well, I just hit those fv<kers with a lo-o-o-ng list of youtube links covering '07 teaparties - across America and around the world.

woot woot

AGRP
05-15-2011, 01:29 AM
May I Pour You Some Neocon Tea?
Posted by Lew Rockwell on January 21, 2010 03:45 PM

While there are many great people in the Tea Party rank and file, the leadership seems to be entirely militarist. Here, for example, are the only media they are allowing to cover their national convention: Fox News, Breitbart, Townhall, the Wall Street Journal, and World Net Daily. (Thanks to Rachel)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/48108.html

Tinnuhana
05-15-2011, 04:40 AM
Some people say the Tea Party movement started with Santelli's rant on the NYSE floor. He had an earlier "rant" voicing support for Ron Paul on the same floor. Where did Santelli get the idea? Probably from us.

FreedomProsperityPeace
05-15-2011, 04:09 PM
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