Ablogination

Another fine point that’s been made concerning the Tea Traitors, other than being scum, idiots, losers etc., is that they really don’t have the numbers or the support the main stream media would make us thing they have…

Sharon Cobb directed us to a very observant post by the great Southern Beale who correctly states, after collecting the facts, that the Tea Party movement is a media creation.

Much like the PUMA movement, which was basically a Tea Party/Birther/Republican group of sexually frustrated Right Wing feminists (all five of them), the media portrayed the Tea Party as some major event that drew losers from the four corners of the universe. Fact is there were tumbleweeds blowin’ through Nashville’s Opryland but you’d never know it by listening to the Corporate Media.
The MSM had some 200 correspondents on hand. basically a third of the entire attendance.

From Southern Beale:

For further perspective, note that in another part of the sprawling Opryland complex this weekend a group of 500 women bloggers, many of them “mommy bloggers,” gathered for their sold-out convention. To my knowledge no national news media covered the event. 500 women bloggers vs 600 right wing nutjobs in white wigs and tri-corner hats. Which one gets the national news media’s attention?

The New York Times did an awesome job of buying the spin that this is just a mainstream group of folks. Clearly they did not listen to any of the keynote speeches, in which we heard homophobic rants about morality, anti-immigrant bigotry from Tom Tancredo, and birther conspiracy theories.

So thanks, New York Times. Way to mainstream the Obama hate.

———————————-

So everyone says around 600 people showed up for Nasvhille’s Tea Party Convention, right?

For some perspective, the first Netroots Nation drew over twice that amount:

But even after acknowledging this relevant context, what we’re left with is an event with 600 participants and a grand total of zero current House members, senators, or governors. There were, by some estimates, 200 journalists on hand to cover this convention, creating a bizarre dynamic – one reporter for every three participants.

It’s all terribly odd. The first Netroots Nation gathering (the conference formally known as Yearly Kos) had 1,400 attendees. The Tea Party convention had less than half this total.

The media attention seems a little disproportionate to what, by all appearances, was an underwhelming get-together.

Indeed it does. But this is just another case where the “liberal media” lie is shown in all of its glory.

And let’s remember the national media’s coverage of the left’s anti-war protests was tepid, at best. It seems if a bunch of liberals get together, it’s not news. But some wacko anti-gay, anti-immigrant right wing nutballs gather for three days of hating on the President and 200 media representatives descend on the convention hall.

Weird.

Atrios is right, the right wing rules their world.

Beale is right. The media is Corporate. Through eight of the darkest years modern man has even known (2000-2008) the MSM, with an exception or two, seldom and in some cases never, reported on the crimes of the Bush Regime. Why should they? Corporate Fascism means great wealth. For Corporate Fascists anyway.

A solid example could be this tragic story that was first reported by British media. An American soldier waterboards his own 4yo daughter for not getting her ABCs right (he should be tapped and dumped in a sewer somewhere btw).

It’s difficult to surmise exactly what American media really stands for. But seeing what they don’t stand for is easy. Truth.