“The Growing ‘Buzz’ Of A Revolution”

By: Corey Thompson, “The Thirsty Quill”

Even after the crowds dispersed…even after the signs and flags had all disappeared from the city streets…even after the chants of “U-S-A…U-S-A” reverberated no longer…the echoes of the rallies were still there, buzzing like a nest of hornets hard at work.

It is quite obvious, even to those who stray from political discussion, that the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Americans who took to the streets last Wednesday powerfully got their point across.  What is more obvious is how the liberal media chose to cover the ‘Tea Party’ protests with disrespect and tasteless disdain.

These patriotic rallies, which coincidentally took place in every major U.S. city and in hundreds of smaller communities, were powerful and poignant exercises of our most basic American liberties. People of all ages, backgrounds, races, political ideologies, and beliefs converged in unison to lift up their voices (or signs and flags) to tell our elected officials (from BOTH parties) that ‘enough is enough.’

As was to be expected, the cold-blooded vermin of the liberal media front worked feverishly to downplay the significance of the glorious spectacle of the 1^st Amendment on parade. At first, local and national media outlets (minus FoxNews and other conservative publications, of course) tried their best to ignore the movement. CNN and MSNBC, along with their minions along the local circuits, planned very minimal coverage. However, realizing the full scope and magnitude of ignoring a nationwide movement, these outlets resorted to “Plan B.”

Maybe you saw CNN’s Susan Roesgen and her unprofessional interview of a concerned father who had brought his child to the rally. In the middle of the father’s response to her leading question, she interrupted him mid-sentence and began to berate him for his beliefs and opinions. Moving away from the interview, she began referring to the crowd as “anti-government” and “anti-CNN,” and that the protest was clearly the byproduct of FoxNews, rather than a genuine homegrown, grassroots movement.

Maybe you watched Wednesday night and all day Thursday, as CNN and MSNBC had to resort to name calling, sexual references, inappropriate off-color remarks, and even stooped so low as to play “the race card” when commenting on their fellow Americans. Those who attended the rallies were referred to (and portrayed) as ignorant, un-American, rednecks, participating in perverted sex acts (“tea bagging”), and as racists.

Even our local news here in Charlotte (specifically Channel 36, WCNC), chose to disrespect the event and those who attended. Only camera shots of small “pockets” of protesters were shown, obviously in an effort to downplay the entire scope of the nearly 3,000 people in attendance at our local rally. No coverage was given to the nearly half-dozen speakers, many of whom are heavily involved and highly educated in local/state policy, that gave excellent speeches and delivered many positive approaches for how best to deal with our current problems. Then, sinking to a new ‘low’ that has not typically been the practice of this station in the past, the report aired three interviews that portrayed participants as uninformed, and not quite sure of why they were even protesting in the first place.

Yet, at the end of the day, the true fools are in fact the leftist media outlets. They are the true losers.

In life, it’s obvious when you’ve struck a cord and ruffled a few feathers. In my opinion, the rallies last Wednesday really bothered the left. In fact, I believe they may have actually scared them. But then again, I guess that should have been expected considering that most of the folks who attended the rallies were the very people that the Department of Homeland Security warned about just prior to the Tea Parties. You know who they were talking about: those wacko nuts; those religious, gun rights advocates, anti-abortion crusaders, and the veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, spelled out in a DHS report last Tuesday. (Before I blow a fuse at my keyboard this evening, I’ll steer clear of that topic for now and save it for another post later this week).

If the Tea Parties really weren’t that big of a deal, as CNN and MSNBC tried their best to convey, then they wouldn’t have felt so strongly about trying to dismiss them, their popularity, and the thousands in attendance. They would have merely reported on them, made a few comments, and moved on to something more important to their agenda such as Madonna falling off of a horse or Ashton Kutcher’s “Twitter War” against CNN. Obviously those are newsworthy items that cannot be ignored in a society dedicated to “hope and change.”

Instead, the left-wingers did what they do best. They resorted to middle school level ‘bully tactics’ to promote their smear campaign against conservatives. They tried their damnedest to overlook the growing tide of the Tea Parties, yet when they proved too big to ignore by any respectable media outlet, they turned on the protesters in an effort to promote their own leftwing mentality, to protect the tarnishing image of their ‘chosen one,’ and to keep the blinders firmly in place over the eyes of the rest of society.

Yet they failed at their mission. What they succeeded at, in the end, was to stoke the fires of a swelling grassroots revolution by conservatives, and they shook up a hornet’s nest that is growing louder by the day…and one that doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon.