Memo to the media: The Tea Party movement has collapsed.

[BurtWorm]

From Eric Boehlert:





http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008050003

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And its collapse means it’s time for the press to rethink the way it covers the political equivalent of the Pet Rock, a fad that appears to be in its waning days of popularity.

I’d suggest that for more than a year the Beltway press has spent far too many man-hours obsessively chronicling the conservative Tea Partiers. Part of that overindulgence has been fueled by the bullying GOP Noise Machine, which has demanded around-the-clock Tea Party coverage as proof that journalists aren’t liberally biased. And part of it has simply been the media’s attraction to a political story that was new and rather unorthodox.

But it’s time to pull the plug, or at least it’s time for the press to tell the truth about the Tea Party’s rather sad state of affairs.

I don’t know why Tea Party events, like the one in Philadelphia, are now failures. Maybe people are turned off by the obvious and odious racial element that permeates parts of the movement. Or maybe people are disappointed at how little the Tea Party has been able to accomplish. Of course, it failed in stopping Obama's health care reform, a legislative initiative that Tea Party leaders and supporters rallied against.

The Tea Party also failed in stopping Obama's stimulus package, as well as the White House's push to bail out Detroit automakers and to reform financial institutions. So maybe that’s why people now stay home instead of creating Obama-hating posters and marching around.

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[EnlightenedOne]

1. It was nothing more than a media creation

to begin with - can they take Sarah Paycheck down with them too?

[thereismore]

2. The lawnchair movement. nt

[joeybee12]

3. The "movemnet" was created by the RNC and Fox...enabled by the TOTALLY WORTHLESS

MSM.

[spanone]

4. the media loves the teabaggers. sarah is their hero.

[FrenchieCat]

5. The media created this "Movement"......and in reality it was nothing more than a figment

of what they wished for.

[SpiralHawk]

6. Gigadittoes - precisely that - TeaBaggers a media creation

[ConservativeDemocrat]

7. Oh please, I hope not

The teabaggers are to the GOP what Greens are to the Democratic party: ideological purity trolls who are splitting their ranks, showing such a disassociation with reality that they turn average voters off, and, in general, harming the GOP's ability to get people into office.

So.... Gooooo teabaggers! :woohoo:

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[Scurrilous]

8. K & R

:thumbsup:

[LawnKorn]

9. My observance of the Tea Party indicates it is a 'One trick pony'

One year ago the MSM headline was:

Tea Party Outraged over the Government Status-Quo

One week ago the MSM headline was:

Tea Party Outraged over the Government Status-Quo

Yesterday the MSM headline was:

Tea Party Outraged over the Government Status-Quo

Today the MSM headline is:

Tea Party Outraged over the Government Status-Quo

No wonder the Tea Party is dead. They have bored everyone to death.

[lonestarnot]

10. From the looks of dat it shoulda.

:evilgrin: