About those tea parties…

“Let’s be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It’s not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don’t know their history at all. It’s about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that.” –Janeane Garofalo.

It makes me sad, but I now have to stop watching 24 (unless they rewrite the series and kill her character). I suppose that is no big loss since the current season is riddled with technological stupidity and has a plot that seems like it was written by someone with ADHD off their meds… but still… it gave me something to do on Monday nights.

It doesn’t matter what you actually think of the so called Tea Parties, viciously attacking the people who attended to try to have a voice and tell the government that many American neither like nor approve of Obama’s endless spending thinking he’s justified by the handful of excessively liberal economists saying its a good thing (since when is the worst thing you can do as a govenment in a recession to “stop spending” – Regan??? Hello, are you out there?) is deplorable. I wish this was the only attack… but FoxNews (who paraded the protests around like they were armies marching on capitol hill) was the only network that had anything positive to say (if at all… the NYT didn’t even report the million+ people across the country – but “5 people in pink outfits within 6 blocks of eachother and you bet they’d have an army of collumnists and reporters there with a full front page spread”). Even the fairly moderate CNN reporters played down and instulted the protests. Like I said, it doesn’t really matter that you agree or disagree with the purpose of the protest, but don’t their voices get to be heard at least as much, and with as much dignity, as the people who want to save polar bears or raise awareness about “sea kittens”?

You’ve all read my views on Obama’s policies… so I’ll stop here… Except to say… the history of the Boston Tea Party wasn’t exactly complex and I think even us simple minded conservities can get a grasp on that one.