Re: Tales of the Tea Party
"Mike Findlay" <[email protected]>
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Yaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn. From: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Tales of the Tea Party >A month ago, a U.C.L.A. graduate student named Emily Ekins spent hours roaming a >Tea Party rally on the Washington Mall, photographing every sign she saw. Wow. She based her research on a WHOLE one rally? Well, that settles it I guess. >Ekins, a former CATO Institute intern, was examining the liberal conceit that Tea Party marches are rife with racism and conspiracy theorizing. Last week, The >Washington Post reported on her findings: just 5 percent of the 250 signs referenced Barack Obama’s race or religion, and 1 percent brought up his birth >certificate. The majority focused on bailouts, deficits and spending — exactly the issues the Tea Partiers claim inspired their movement in the first place. That totally explains tea part support for folks like Sharon Angle, Christine O'Donnell and Carl Paladino. >The easy thing would be to take them at their word. Of course, the easy path rarely results in finding the truth. Test everything and all that. Thom http://thomwade.wordpress.com/ http://www.cafepress.com/Thomwade http://www.in-one-ear.com _______________________________________ "I have seen the future brother: It is murder."~Leonard Cohen "We live as though the world were as it should be. To show it what it can be."~Angel, Deep Down -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot