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A new website sponsored by the NAACP and left-leaning media operations is seeking videographers and bloggers who will search out "racism" and "extremism" among Tea Partiers.
Teapartytracker.org will feature tweets, interviews with people at rallies, blog entries and a picture of a t-shirt they say someone spotted at a rally that reads "Blacks own slaves in Mauitania, Sudan, Niger & Haiti."
The site, sponsored by the NAACP, Think Progress, New Left Media and Media Matters for America, will monitor "racism and other forms of extremism within the Tea Party movement. We call on the Tea Party to repudiate extremists among their ranks and join in civil dialogue with all Americans."
The NAACP and other groups have accused the Tea Party of several instances of racism, including spitting on a black congressman, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., on Capitol Hill as he went to vote for the health care bill.
Whether the spitting incident, which was caught on tape, was intentional remains subject to debate. Nonetheless, the narrative has remained a continuing theme of Tea Party critics.
The site's logo is also an old aphorism, apparently meant to suggest that monitoring the Tea Party will prevent the group from becoming more effective. "A watched teapot never boils," it reads.
The site's success will likely be measured in the "gotcha" moments it can accumulate that aim to embarrass or undermine the Tea Party movement. The submissions will most often come from citizen journalists, who have grown in form and fashion since Sen. George Allen of Virginia was ousted from his Senate seat in 1996 after his "macaca" moment.
At that time, a videographer sent by his opponent's campaign caught Allen using what critics later explained was an obscure racial slur. Allen's campaign sank afterward, and his Democratic opponent, Jim Webb, won the seat.
The fear of gotcha moments most recently forced Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to try to close a Tea Party meeting to media in order to allow people to speak freely. But Tea Partiers who attended the 90-minute event Wednesday in North Charleston City Hall told the Charleston Press and Courier that they were fine with media coverage.
"This stuff does happen, and it's stupid," Kelly McBride, a senior faculty member with the Poynter Institute in Florida, reportedly said. "Who isn't a reporter these days?"
So instead of being concerned with serving the majority of Americans, the progressives are only concerned with trying to paint all tea party members with the brish of racisism.......Even if they have to create the information themselves and recent news show that some progressives are even going under cover, pretending to be members of the tea party movement and instead displaying the very negative signes and such themselves so they can later claim all the members of meetings are racists.
A great example is the teacher Jason Levin who admitted to doing things just like that, even trying to steal social security numbers and anything else he could use to attack tea party members.
This guy and his fellow progressives are so bad they even spread false stories that a radical Sarah Palin supporter was responsible for the times square attempted bombing and painted all tea party members as radical, government hating wackos.
Of course I do believe there are a few weirdos who want to tag along with the tea party movement, any large grouping of people for a cause will attract a couple fringe lunatics here and there. But the reality there will be a couple idiots involved does not mean "ALL" or even most of the people who are attending the functions must believe what the wacko in the group says.
I believe it is pure cowardice that drives these progressives to ignore the will of the people. Progressives lie, distort, and expand on insignificant isolated idiots for only one reason, to avoid facing the reality that almost all of these people speaking out are good Americans who are just concerned with the direction of our current political shifts. Most are concerned with this administration driving away private sector jobs and creating new costly entitlements we don't have the money to pay for. Most are concerned with a federal governemnt that sets aside contract laws to take over car companies then turn around and give part ownership of the companies to the same Union people who donated millions to Obama's campaign.
In what way was giving big Unions an exemption from the new taxes on "Cadillac health plans" helping all Americans? These Union members already make way more money then the National average and have things like healthcare so why is giving them a free pass on new taxes considered a needed part of healthcare reform? This is the kind of thing the average tea party member is concerned with.
But the progressives can't face that truth, if they were honest even they would find these kinds of deals repulsive, but they are not allowed to be honest, they must follow the party line and blindly support the progressive agenda, these little deals are just the necessary evils to get their socialist agenda put into place.....baby steps.
A new website sponsored by the NAACP and left-leaning media operations is seeking videographers and bloggers who will search out "racism" and "extremism" among Tea Partiers.
Teapartytracker.org will feature tweets, interviews with people at rallies, blog entries and a picture of a t-shirt they say someone spotted at a rally that reads "Blacks own slaves in Mauitania, Sudan, Niger & Haiti."
The site, sponsored by the NAACP, Think Progress, New Left Media and Media Matters for America, will monitor "racism and other forms of extremism within the Tea Party movement. We call on the Tea Party to repudiate extremists among their ranks and join in civil dialogue with all Americans."
The NAACP and other groups have accused the Tea Party of several instances of racism, including spitting on a black congressman, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., on Capitol Hill as he went to vote for the health care bill.
Whether the spitting incident, which was caught on tape, was intentional remains subject to debate. Nonetheless, the narrative has remained a continuing theme of Tea Party critics.
The site's logo is also an old aphorism, apparently meant to suggest that monitoring the Tea Party will prevent the group from becoming more effective. "A watched teapot never boils," it reads.
The site's success will likely be measured in the "gotcha" moments it can accumulate that aim to embarrass or undermine the Tea Party movement. The submissions will most often come from citizen journalists, who have grown in form and fashion since Sen. George Allen of Virginia was ousted from his Senate seat in 1996 after his "macaca" moment.
At that time, a videographer sent by his opponent's campaign caught Allen using what critics later explained was an obscure racial slur. Allen's campaign sank afterward, and his Democratic opponent, Jim Webb, won the seat.
The fear of gotcha moments most recently forced Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to try to close a Tea Party meeting to media in order to allow people to speak freely. But Tea Partiers who attended the 90-minute event Wednesday in North Charleston City Hall told the Charleston Press and Courier that they were fine with media coverage.
"This stuff does happen, and it's stupid," Kelly McBride, a senior faculty member with the Poynter Institute in Florida, reportedly said. "Who isn't a reporter these days?"
So instead of being concerned with serving the majority of Americans, the progressives are only concerned with trying to paint all tea party members with the brish of racisism.......Even if they have to create the information themselves and recent news show that some progressives are even going under cover, pretending to be members of the tea party movement and instead displaying the very negative signes and such themselves so they can later claim all the members of meetings are racists.
A great example is the teacher Jason Levin who admitted to doing things just like that, even trying to steal social security numbers and anything else he could use to attack tea party members.
This guy and his fellow progressives are so bad they even spread false stories that a radical Sarah Palin supporter was responsible for the times square attempted bombing and painted all tea party members as radical, government hating wackos.
Of course I do believe there are a few weirdos who want to tag along with the tea party movement, any large grouping of people for a cause will attract a couple fringe lunatics here and there. But the reality there will be a couple idiots involved does not mean "ALL" or even most of the people who are attending the functions must believe what the wacko in the group says.
I believe it is pure cowardice that drives these progressives to ignore the will of the people. Progressives lie, distort, and expand on insignificant isolated idiots for only one reason, to avoid facing the reality that almost all of these people speaking out are good Americans who are just concerned with the direction of our current political shifts. Most are concerned with this administration driving away private sector jobs and creating new costly entitlements we don't have the money to pay for. Most are concerned with a federal governemnt that sets aside contract laws to take over car companies then turn around and give part ownership of the companies to the same Union people who donated millions to Obama's campaign.
In what way was giving big Unions an exemption from the new taxes on "Cadillac health plans" helping all Americans? These Union members already make way more money then the National average and have things like healthcare so why is giving them a free pass on new taxes considered a needed part of healthcare reform? This is the kind of thing the average tea party member is concerned with.
But the progressives can't face that truth, if they were honest even they would find these kinds of deals repulsive, but they are not allowed to be honest, they must follow the party line and blindly support the progressive agenda, these little deals are just the necessary evils to get their socialist agenda put into place.....baby steps.
