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NPR Tea Party feature - 12/9/2009 4:55:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		A twelve and a half minute feature, largely on the Dallas Tea Party, on All Things Considered.
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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/9/2009 5:24:19 PM   
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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/9/2009 5:30:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		I meant a major significant party, not accounting small parties like the Green Party and so on. Many Republicans, Democrats and Independents are looking for something that better represents their views and interests.

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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/9/2009 5:47:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Tea Party isn't technically a political party, however--it doesn't run any candidates. They are instead hoping to influence the existing parties' choices, particularly (despite their claims of political independence) the Republican choices.


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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/9/2009 5:54:35 PM   
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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/9/2009 7:39:19 PM   
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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/9/2009 8:02:25 PM   
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Oh. I thought that was a few conservative Democrats.


Actually, it was a combination of a lot of republican lies, a whole bunch of money spent by the insurance companies (I think half a billion was the last I heard) and the gullibility of the public that combined with the conservative democrats (who at least we accept are democrats) to produce something almost unrecognizable as a viable solution.

Kudos to all involved.


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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 3:12:52 AM   
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I think that the 'tea parties' might have been a huge success. They stopped the public option in the Senate...Go teabaggers..


Wait.

I thought teabaggers was just a pejorative made up by those evil liberals.

But thanks for proving my point that they, and you, accept that term despite its negative connotations.

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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 7:59:16 AM   
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I think that the 'tea parties' might have been a huge success. They stopped the public option in the Senate...Go teabaggers..


Wait.

I thought teabaggers was just a pejorative made up by those evil liberals.

But thanks for proving my point that they, and you, accept that term despite its negative connotations.




Of course you realize that for 80+% of the country it has no negative connotations?

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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 8:20:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		He's talking about dawg harping on it to Panda as "evidence" of "bias" from Rather.

For what it's worth, the NPR report only uses "Tea Party."

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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 10:26:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		No, as usuall, MM is not telling the truth. On CNN the term was used along with snickering. Which is indeed absolute evidence of bias.

Which also caused MM to change the terms of his challenge, in order to pretend he won.....

Rathers bias is blatant and plain for all to see...

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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 10:33:55 AM   
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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 10:45:20 AM   
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people lying,

making arguments based on strawmen,

And people with no intellectuall integrity (for example offering a challenge, and then changing the terms in the middle, in order to pretend they won).


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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 2:46:02 PM   
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So...if Dan Rather said "Tea Party" with a snear, then THAT would be derogatory?

Anyway, here's an idea....

Anybody got thoughts on, gee, how about the content of the feature?

That would be great. It was the reason for starting the thread.


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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 2:48:34 PM   
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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 2:51:30 PM   
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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 4:04:36 PM   
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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy


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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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I think that the 'tea parties' might have been a huge success. They stopped the public option in the Senate...Go teabaggers..


Wait.

I thought teabaggers was just a pejorative made up by those evil liberals.

But thanks for proving my point that they, and you, accept that term despite its negative connotations.




Of course you realize that for 80+% of the country it has no negative connotations?

There's never 20% of America who are gay.

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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 4:08:57 PM   
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This wasn't exactly a secret gay shorthand thing....like with their secret handshake.

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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 4:13:22 PM   
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RE: NPR Tea Party feature - 12/10/2009 4:16:05 PM   
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True enough. The hanky code is pretty widely known as well.


Maybe in the circles you travel.

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