Amazing news flash: Tea Party candidate not getting enough attention

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Amazing news flash: Tea Party candidate not getting enough attention
by: Mike Lux
Wed Sep 29, 2010 at 17:00


The traditional media outlets can't get enough of the Tea Party story, even when it doesn't merit it. According to counts of people by independent sources at town hall meetings in August of last year, there were considerably less angry Tea Party folks than there were people generally supportive of the bill, or even people less sure who just came with questions, but the screaming Tea Partiers got all the press. When 200,000 pro-immigration reform activists marched on the Capitol earlier this year on the same day a few hundred tea partiers screamed "nigger" at John Lewis and "faggot" at Berney Frank, guess who got the front page stories? And when progressive forces have taken on establishment Democrats and won big primaries, like when Joe Sestak beat Arlen Specter or when Ann Kuster beat Katrina Swett, it hasn't gotten much attention, whereas the media just can't get them enough of tea party craziness and crazies.

Amazingly enough, though, there is one tea party candidate who, once he won his surprise victory, hasn't gotten much media play: Joe Miller in Alaska. Joe's surprise victory in Alaska stirred up a bit of dust, but then Christine O'Donnell and her masturbation/witchcraft videos came along, and that's the last we heard of poor old Joe. I decided, though, between now and the election, some spotlight ought to be shined on this guy- after all, unlike Christine, he might actually become a Senator.

I'm not going to write a lot about him today, but in the coming weeks there will be much to report, because this guy's past is a piece of work. For today, I will just note one thing, and this is about current times not the past: Mr. Outsider did drop by Washington, DC this week. As much as he rails against the establishment, guess what the first place he dropped by when he came to town. It wasn't a tea party demonstration. It was the offices of DLA Piper, one of the biggest corporate lobbying firms in the country, with a powerhouse corporate client roster second to none, for a fundraiser. And here's the kicker: they don't just lobby for big American corporations. One of their clients is United Arab Emirates in Dubai.

Welcome to Washington, Mr. Miller. Glad you are already getting comfortable with our culture here. Maybe on your next trip out of Alaska, you can take an all-expense paid junket to Dubai.