Gloves Off: Left-wing Extremist Chris Matthews’ Anti-Tea Party Propaganda Misrepresents & Demonizes Patriotic Americans… National Tea Party Calling for Sponsors to Drop MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on June 18, 2010
Tax Day Chicago Tea Party protest, April 15, 2010 | Photo credit: Larry
The Obama-adoring, left-wing media has been slamming, mocking, maligning, and flat-out lying about America’s tea party movement and the growing number of participants in all 50 states for well over a year now. The attacks have not diminished the number of concerned people from all walks of life — those who have never before attended a political rally — joining in to protest the dismantling of our Constitution, the “tax-them-til-they-die” “cradle to grave” European mentality of the Democrat party, the spinelessness of most of the Republican party, and the blatant disregard of the president and Congress to listen to the voting public. This was most obvious when Congress forced through, using taxpayer money to bribe fence-sitters, the horrifically unpopular and misrepresented ObamaCare plan that no one in Congress had read. But would take control of one-sixth of the American economy.
Just last week, it was discovered that Obama lied — again — about his government-controlled health care plan. Despite his countless promises that Americans can keep their own plans and their doctors, the bill that was voted on and rammed through by Democrats in March states that most Americans will LOSE their current employer health care, even if they love it and don’t want to change it, within THREE years. More lies from the government to be piled on the lies about abortion funding, illegal alien coverage, penalties and fines, and huge tax increases.
Tea partiers have been attacked 24/7 by the mainstream media and Democrat politicians for daring to speak out against, for opposing this poorly written, progressive-socialist trillion-dollar health care power grab — being called racists, Nazis, murderers, terrorists — and Chris Matthews’ anti-tea party propaganda program, “Rise of the New Right”, is now the rancid icing on the pile of cow patties.
The statists’ vicious, unrelenting, radical Alinsky-style attacks are not going to be met with silence any longer, buckeroos. Tea partiers from across the country — registered Republicans, Democrats, Independents — have had enough of hateful hit pieces filled with outrageous lies and deliberate distortions that are meant to protect Barack Obama and his team of spendthrift, progressive-socialist weasels from the consequences of public criticism. Silence is acceptance.
We’re fighting back.
Gloves off. Silence no more.
Tea Party responds to MSNBC smear piece – Chris Matthews, “Rise of the New Right”
Press release via Before It’s News, Tea Party Groups Call on Sponsors to Drop Hardball, Matthews’ “Hit Piece” Disparages Tea Party Members:
June 17, 2010 – The National Tea Party Federation, a broad coalition of Tea Party groups, takes a stand and condemns the left-wing propaganda hit piece that aired on MSNBC June 16th.
The program, Rise of the New Right, was journalism at its worst, and its purpose was to demonize and misrepresent. Chris Matthews used his Hardball program to slander and mislead the American people by distorting facts about the Tea Party Movement. Hardball selectively portrayed groups and individuals in the program in a bad light.
David Webb, co-founder of New York City’s TeaParty365 said, “Chris Matthews is a far left commentator, not a journalist and therefore should not be held to or credited with the same standards.”
“I am an American who happens to be black, Republican, and that offends their warped vision. I would gladly face Matthews one-on-one anytime on policy and issues. This attack on Americans of all ethnicities, religious beliefs, age and political affiliations will ultimately fail because the truth wins. The desperation of a failing far left, and a dying network is apparent,” Webb concluded.
FreedomWorks Grassroots Director Brendan Steinhauser said, “The Tea Party movement I know looks nothing like the one portrayed on MSNBC. It is made up of good, hardworking, honest, smart people who love their country. It is a movement that reflects the best in America.”
Mark A. Skoda, Chairman of The Memphis TEA Party, stated, “The Tea Party movement has had a profound impact on election outcomes. The fact that MSNBC has taken it upon themselves to distort and disparage these Americans is unacceptable. Chris Matthews continued to promote the racism narrative, suggested the prospect of violent behavior by activists and promulgated the idea that the conservative movement is somehow un-American. We will encourage our coalition and Tea Party people everywhere to make their voices heard at MSNBC and to their sponsors.”
Jamie Radkte, Chairman of The Virginia Tea Party Patriot Federation, said, “What we witnessed tonight was an attempt by Chris Matthews to demonize Americans who believe in the Founding principles of limited government, fiscal restraint, and Constitutional adherence as violent, radical, extremists, who are threatening the very foundation of our nation. This type of commentary is divisive, shameful, and irresponsible.”
National Tea Party Coalition co-founder Michael Patrick Leahy, added, “Chris Matthews and MSNBC have just delivered one of the most dishonest pieces of propaganda posing as journalism in American broadcast and cable television history.”
We agree with Matthews who states in his conclusion, “What’s scary today is the language thrown about. Words have consequences.”
The National Tea Party Federation calls for all tea party supporters to contact the sponsors of Hardball and ask them to pull their commercials from this show. (Advertiser listing and contacts at NTPF website.) These commercial sponsors cannot continue their support of a program that seeks to demonize millions of Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement.
Furthermore, the Federation is calling on all Americans and local tea party groups to voice their objection to local media outlets on this dishonest attack on citizens who have legitimate policy concerns and are exercising their First Amendment rights.
For more information or to register and participate in the National Tea Party Federation, log on to www.nationalteapartyfederation.com.
Despite what Team Obama thinks, these tea party protests reach across party lines... these are concerned American voters you're ignoring
Black conservative from Texas, protesting the Obama regime's spendthrift mentality
7,000-plus attended the Phoenix Tax Day Tea Party, April 15, 2010
Aerial view of some of the tea party attendees in Searchlight, Nevada... CNN's left-wing media bias reported this turnout as 'dozens' - was over 30,000 | Photo credit: Border Patrol
Video encore… I love this song.
American Tea Party Anthem (with words) by Lloyd Marcus
I can see November from my house…
Tax Day Chicago Tea Party protest, April 15, 2010 | Photo credit: Larry
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Great post, Vicki, and not just because I recognize a few well-chosen photos. It is a hard-hitting response to the left’s lies about the tea parties.
Today, 0 did hit a new low on Rasmussen, 41.
These were great photos, Larry – I’ll use some others when appropriate. Thank you for permitting me to use them. Any time you’re comfortable with me including your last name in the photo credits, just let me know. Otherwise, for now, it’s just “Larry.”
Rasmussen is a godsend – one of the few highly respected, recognized non-partisan (and frighteningly accurate) pollsters in the nation. Liberals don’t want to acknowledge Scott Rasmussen or his findings because it hasn’t been flattering to the Democrat party nor The One in a very long time.
Well, the elections in November won’t be flattering, either.
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