Tea Party Crashers, What do They Want?

The above picture shows part of a website whose express purpose is to “Crash the Tea Party.” The url is www.crashtheteaparty.org.

It calls for people to discredit the tea party. Crash the Tea Party describes the Tea Party movement of consisting of “a loose affiliation of racists, homophobes, and morons; who constitute the fake grass roots movement which calls itself “The Tea Party.”

Their purpose is to exaggerate the most the least appealing qualities of the tea party.

Last night I was shocked to see  CBS Channel 2 of Chicago, apparently follow the lead of the “Crash the Tea Party Movement. ” This television station showed a story featuring one of their supposed journalists named Mike Parker. The so called news item was titled "Controversy Brews over NW Indiana Tea Party Group." You can read the full transcript at http://cbs2chicago.com/local/tea.party.northwest.2.1631028.html

Despite attempting to pass this off as a news story rather than an opinion piece there is no doubt of Parker’s Bias. The piece opened by Parker saying, “Critics of the so-called “Tea Party” movement….” It would seem by now the movement is pretty well established, and to refer to it as the “so-called Tea Party movement” was an obvious effort to dismiss its credibility.

I visited the  channel two news web site and  left the following comment, “Mike, Why did you have to go to NW Indiana to find a leader of the Tea Party Movement? Was it because you are a true journalist, or was it because you are following the instructions of certain liberals to discredit the tea party? I don't recall you seeking out the radical anti war protesters who carried "Assassinate Bush" signs.”

I looked up the url of Crash the Tea Party at whois.com. The site was registered fictitiously to Ben Franklin on Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. I say Ben it is a sad state of affairs when you have so little backbone you cannot register your web site under your own name.

It is ironic that this group who charges that members of the Tea Party Group have a “pre-existing propensity for paranoia and suspicion” seeks to infiltrate the Tea Party events and observe their meetings and rallies and then use every opportunity to “exaggerate their least appealing qualities.” Golly if I knew that someone like you was trying to do that to me I guess I could be paranoid and suspicious.

It would be too much to expect whoever the members of the Crash the Tea Party organization are to slither out from under their rocks and debate the issues . Of course you won’t come out of your hiding places. Instead you will continue to skirt the issues by accusing hardworking men and women who have the courage to be seen and heard of being racists, homophobes, and morons.

I for one will boycott any news outlet that I feel has been influenced by the move to crash the tea party, and urge anyone who believes objective reporting to do likewise.