Is anyone really going to tell me, with a straight face, that there is nothing remotely racist about these signs? Could it be possible that Hannity's inability to find these easily locatable images is politically motivated? Of course it is. Fox News is an advocacy organization. They are currently in the business of unseating President Obama, and the Tea Party they clearly see as the best way to achieve this end. That is why they cannot say a word against it, even in the face of easily refutable claims like the one made by Hannity.
The Tea Party is bizarre in itself. It is an expression of anger. It claims to be against big government, federal spending and the deficit. Which is odd because there was none of this anger during the Bush administration; which took a surplus and turned it into a debt with massive tax cuts for the rich, deregulation and two wars. Where were all these people during the Bush years? In fact, I remember that these 'fiscally responsible' Tea Party members were the same people defending Bush from the liberal protests. Why is that? It seems odd that the national debt has suddenly become such an important issue for people. What has changed? The only thing I can identify is that there is now a black president. A coincidence, surely?
Although the more one looks at the Tea Party, the more this seems like a very suspicious coincidence. Go to any Tea Party rally and you will hear denouncements of high taxes that the Obama administration has levied on the working class. The only problem with that is that, on the federal level, taxes have either stayed the same or gone down for the majority of the US. So if their taxes are not being raised astronomically, maybe they have other policy objections to Obama. But when you look at what the Tea Party is proposing you will find a total vacuum outside of the very vague and not at all helpful slogans like "Tax cuts!", "No big government!" and "We want to take our country back!". They have no policy goals at all. This cartoon sums up the lack of policy behind the Tea Party in a brilliantly succinct way:
So they have no specific policy goals, they are protesting non-existent tax increases and the things they are most angry about they were silent on during the last administration. Suddenly it ceases to look like a coincidence that this anger has surfaced during the first African-American presidency. No examples of racism in the Tea Party, Mr. Hannity? The entire movement is soaked in it.
The Tea Party is bizarre in itself. It is an expression of anger. It claims to be against big government, federal spending and the deficit. Which is odd because there was none of this anger during the Bush administration; which took a surplus and turned it into a debt with massive tax cuts for the rich, deregulation and two wars. Where were all these people during the Bush years? In fact, I remember that these 'fiscally responsible' Tea Party members were the same people defending Bush from the liberal protests. Why is that? It seems odd that the national debt has suddenly become such an important issue for people. What has changed? The only thing I can identify is that there is now a black president. A coincidence, surely?
Although the more one looks at the Tea Party, the more this seems like a very suspicious coincidence. Go to any Tea Party rally and you will hear denouncements of high taxes that the Obama administration has levied on the working class. The only problem with that is that, on the federal level, taxes have either stayed the same or gone down for the majority of the US. So if their taxes are not being raised astronomically, maybe they have other policy objections to Obama. But when you look at what the Tea Party is proposing you will find a total vacuum outside of the very vague and not at all helpful slogans like "Tax cuts!", "No big government!" and "We want to take our country back!". They have no policy goals at all. This cartoon sums up the lack of policy behind the Tea Party in a brilliantly succinct way:
So they have no specific policy goals, they are protesting non-existent tax increases and the things they are most angry about they were silent on during the last administration. Suddenly it ceases to look like a coincidence that this anger has surfaced during the first African-American presidency. No examples of racism in the Tea Party, Mr. Hannity? The entire movement is soaked in it.
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