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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 10 years ago

Does Right Wing Mainstream Media mock Wall Street Protesters yet praise Tea Party for the same core issue?

This is a brilliant question that was asked by Jon Stewart on his show. Here's the clip. (There's a 25 second commercial before the clip starts).

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-5-20...

Within the clip, Sean Hannity is RIPPING on Wall Street Greed - then later - Stewart shows Hannity mocking the Occupy Wall Street crowd for protesting against Wall Street Greed.

Is there a double standard? Why does Right Wing Mainstream Media report dispassionately about Tea Party folks - even though a Notre Dame study revealed the core membership to be "Bigots", "Anti-Minority" (hispanic, catholic, jews, indians, europeans, and of course, blacks).

What do you think? Does Right Wing Mainstream Media reveal it's hypocrisy here?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
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    Absolutely. Right-wing and corporate media only like it when people are ignorant of what is really happening, which is why they adored the Tea Party protests.

    Republicans politicians and their wealthy masters want the people to be dumb, frightened, and ignorant, so they can easily direct them to what works best for Republican politicians and their wealthy masters. The Tea Party was just that.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    You take credibility away from your question when you call the TEA party members bigots. You put a link in to the Daily Show, why no link for the supposed Notre Dame study...could it be that it does not exist?

    The TEA party movement is "protesting" DC policies...the policies that create the environment that you do not seem to like. You are protesting at the wrong place, wrong people.

    How many TEA party members have been arrested in all of their rallies? How many of the "occupy" kooks have already been arrested?

    Compare also the violence between the two, and don't forget how long this is taking...how much trash is left for others to pick up, you guys really show a good example of how not to do a protest.

  • 5 years ago

    that's the element. each and all the main media is in the wallet of the rich and efficient. they do no longer rfile the information, they make the information. There are over 10,000 information worth memories on any given day. yet, each and all the main markets tell the comparable memories many times returned, all on the comparable time. They generally do no longer even cover the protests using fact of ways it impacts the banks. yet there's a answer.

  • 10 years ago

    The TEA Party is about taxes, big government, and spending, it has nothing to do with Wall Street and the TEA Party doesn't go after "Wall Street greed" like you mentioned. Sean Hannity's comment was directed at GOVERNMENT who gave bailouts to companies who were irresponsible, it wasn't directed at Wall Street. Are you really this confused?

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  • 10 years ago

    No, and that "study" was most likely something done by people who had never been to a TEA party rally and were depending on the media for their information. The rallies i attended had people of every ethic back round there. The difference is that the TEA party is composed of working tax paying people. The wall str occupiers are not.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    The right wing media makes a career of spouting their propaganda . Category 5 spin machine .

  • 10 years ago

    ROFL

    That's hilarious.. given that the entire "occupier" nonsense is based around THEIR greed and demands for every increasing amounts of government handouts.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    If this were true, then why doe the left(including Jon Stewart) rip the Tea Party.

    Damn, leftists are dumb.

    "even though a Notre Dame study revealed the core membership to be "Bigots", "Anti-Minority" (hispanic, catholic, jews, indians, europeans, and of course, blacks)."

    I would love to see that study and who conducted it.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    10 years ago

    Years of events, 10s of 1000s of Tea Partiers, ZERO arrests. TWO weeks of leftists in NY, and HUNDREDS of arrests, did the media skew this too?

    Source(s): They are too clueless to even realize the problem is in DC.
  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    Maybe when TEA Party members start crapping in McDonald's bags on the side of the road, we'll mock them too!

  • The Tea Paprty has virtually NOTHING in common with the socialists and communists occupying Wall Street.

    Occupy Wall Street Demands:

    http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-dem...

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