{"id":1683,"date":"2009-04-17T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T17:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2009-04-17T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T17:07:31","slug":"media-to-tea-parties-oh-look-a-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"Media to Tea Parties: "Oh Look, a Squirrel!""},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Graham, writing in the Boston Herald, lays it out<\/a> for Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

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Janet Napolitano was right. There were hatemongers at the Tea Party rallies on Tax Day. They called themselves \u201creporters.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security released a pre-emptive \u201cassessment report\u201d on the dangers of \u201cright-wing extremists\u201d just a week before the tax protest rallies. According to DHS, these potentially include pro-lifers, supporters of border security and that notoriously unstable group – U.S. military veterans.<\/p>\n

And I can report that there were, in fact, quite a few vets at our Tea Party at Long Wharf. But other than their crazy notion that spending our kids into an $11 trillion hole is wrong, they didn\u2019t appear to be unhinged.<\/p>\n

The same cannot be said for the reporters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He hits the same highlights as many bloggers about CNN reporter Susan Roesgen who bad-mouthed and argued with protesters.  Unlike in this video<\/a>, when a Bush mask with a Hitler mustache and devil horns was simply termed a "likeness" of the President.  No outrage then, but today she specifically calls them out.  Fair and balanced?<\/p>\n

And in a case closer to (his) home, an example of willful blindness.<\/p>\n

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As hard as it is to believe, until yesterday The Boston Globe-Democrat had not run a story about the national Tea Party movement. As Howard Kurtz noted in The Washington Post, a newspaper in \u201cthe city famed for the original Tea Party\u201d had ignored the story entirely.<\/p>\n

Like President Barack Obama, who claimed on the morning of April 15 that he knew nothing about the Tea Party protests, the Globe-Democrat played dumb.<\/p>\n

But once 1,500 local citizens and I re-enacted the original Tea Party at Boston Harbor, the Globies couldn\u2019t avoid it any longer. They had to cover this breaking, local story, and so they did:<\/p>\n

From Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Yep. The Globe-Democrat\u2019s only story about the national Boston Tea Party movement was an AP story datelined Frankfort, Ky.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s like covering the Kentucky Derby from Suffolk Downs. Yet the Globe-Democrat did cover a story on anti-bottled-water activists recently dumping bottled water into the harbor.<\/p>\n

But as one Tea Partier quipped: \u201cIf Obama had been the king of England, the Globe wouldn\u2019t have covered the American Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In.  The.  Tank.  And drowning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Graham, writing in the Boston Herald, lays it out for Homeland Security. Janet Napolitano was right. There were hatemongers at the Tea Party rallies on Tax Day. They called themselves \u201creporters.\u201d The Department of Homeland Security released a pre-emptive \u201cassessment report\u201d on the dangers of \u201cright-wing extremists\u201d just a week before the tax protest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-liberal","category-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}