Tea Party Patriotism

(Blog Post) I wouldn’t want to tell you that the majority of the people I saw at this morning’s tea party were such hard-core patriots that they felt the need to walk around waving flags of treason and slavery: Still it did strike me as noteworthy that your basic tea party crowd isn’t the sort of crowd in [...] Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Memeorandum
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Sep 13, 2009 - 4:16 AM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Sep 13, 2009 - 9:30 AM PDT

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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Sep. 13, 2009

Taking photos of two people and with repugnant views then claiming they are representative of an entire crowd doesn't add up to quality journalism. The claim that nobody in the crowd carried signs making legitimate points regarding health care would be relevant if the author hadn't already lost credibility.

I might be inclined to agree with the author's observations but that would be because of my prejudice rather than any fact he presents.

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Kaizar Campwala
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