Tea. With Two Sugars. [more!]
The Czar has often said that the press is pretty much a fourteen-year-old girl. They bop around from crush to crush, think they know everything, go straight to hysterical tears when someone turns on them, and especially see the world as whether you’re in or you’re out at the moment.
The latter has a case in point: tea parties.
Seems like only a couple months ago, even the press was using the vulgar term “tea baggers” anytime average Americans got together to talk politics at the expense of President Obama. They are so tough to figure out, those tea baggers. Are they a right-wing extremist group, or racists who carry guns, those tea baggers? What is their problem, anyway?
Then Scott Brown trounced Martha “Marcia” Coakley.
Now, there is a growing interest in the Tea Party movement, with reporters taking the time out to talk, listen, and learn. More interestingly, the MSM is starting to discover that the Tea Party is not an actual political party like the Green or Libertarian fringers…but a reaction to current politics. Better still, that the Tea Party is composed of liberals, independents, and conservatives from all walks of life who are fed up with what post-Reagan politics have become.
Et tu quoque, CNN?* Behold—CNN is actually reporting on an actual Tea Party convention rather than making a snide ex post facto commentary. Soak that in: CNN is actually talking about the Tea Party as it happens, in a respectful, educational way, and pointing out the many differences and variability within the groups that gather.
Because once you win (or, if you are an Obamaite, lose) CNN, the situation is quite serious.
Additional Item!: Holy crap! Now The New York Times is getting in on it!
* Or if you are a Suetonius fan, καὶ σὺ τέκνον.
Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.