Obama Blasts Tea Parties — or Fox News?
I’m not sure Alex Burns is right when he reports that President Barack Obama took direct aim at the anti-tax ’tea party’ demonstrations in Missouri. Those
Jul 31, 202056.1K Shares1.4M Views
I’m not sure Alex Burns is rightwhen he reports that “President Barack Obama took direct aim at the anti-tax ‘tea party’ demonstrations” in Missouri.
“„Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I am not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to… [list of Obama priorities].
This struck me not as an attack on protesters (which would be a strange thing for a community organizer to do) but an attack on Fox News, its pundits, and its Republican guests. When I think of “folks waving tea bags” I think of Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) literally waving tea bags and saying “I’ve got my tea bags here! Pick your brand!”
This seems like classic presidential media-bashing more than mockery of the protests themselves. But it doesn’t really matter, because the protesters are taking offense (and relishing the attention) anyway.
Paula M. Graham
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