Tax Day Was a Tragic Day for American Government and American Journalism

If there is one thing that yesterday’s nationwide Tea Parties proved is that our mainstream media is indubitably, unequivocably, inarguably the dutiful propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.

Merely months ago you’d be hard-pressed to find a mainstream news report covering an anti-war protest without exhilaration, an anti-Bush protest without barely hidden glee, a pro-embryonic-stem-cell research or pro-abortion rally without encouragement, or an illegal immigration rights rally without empathy. For eight years dissent was patriotic. Bush-bashing was patriotic. Troop-bashing was patriotic. America-bashing was patriotic. Captialism-bashing was patriotic. 

And the mainstream media, incessantly defending itself as objective and fair, never failed make it a point to tell us so.

So, when a Democrat is in the White House (with a barely 50-50 approval rate, mind you) and there’s a nationwide protest against his policies, here is our supposedly objective mainstream news at work:

ABC news parroted rumors originating from the left-wing blogs that the protests were really organized by people fronting for “corporate interests” and used the (undeniable) fact that Fox News and righty radio commentators as some smoking gun that the protests had sponsorship from these outlets.

CBS touted a Gallup Poll (that they just happened to have that day) that Americans think their income tax this year is fair 61% to 35%.

NBC made fun of D.C. protestors because they failed to get a permit from the district to dump a million teabags in the park across the street from the White House (see below).

CNN’s Anderson Cooper ridiculed the protests by making obscene jokes about “tea-bagging.” Then correspondent Susan Roesgen did her job at the Chicago Tea Party by interrupting and insulting attendees she was supposedly interviewing.

But CNN wasn’t done. On their website is an article about last week’s release of a DHS report warning about the rising of “right wing extremist” groups in the United States. The photo accompanying the article? A Getty file photo of parading neo-Nazis. Gee, wonder what they’re trying to say.

Speaking of that DHS report, which cites not a single group by name, Mike Sargent at NewsBusters notes that a couple months ago a DHS report came out warning of domestic terrorism fromleft-wing extremist groups. The report actually mentioned several groups by name, including the enviro-wacko group Earth Liberation Front. How many mainstream media outlets reported on this DHS report? ZERO.

During an interview with Howard Dean on MSNBC (home of ultra-lefties Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann), the DNC Chair also used the mocking “tea bag” reference. Indeed, if you go to any lefty blog or website, “tea bag party” is the diss of choice for the Tea Parties. I find it not coincidental in the least that the DNC Chair is liberally using the same terminology.

(See NewsBusters for details of the above instances. They are a treasure trove of liberal media bias)