Editorial - 17 Apr 2010
Tea party scares the liberal media
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t's simply ridiculous for Jack Kinstlinger (Baltimore Sun Letter 4/17/10) to suggest that he was turned off to the Tea
Party movement after attending one event ("Tea party tries to sound reasonable," Readers respond, April 15).
We've read many of Mr. Kinstlinger's letters in the past; he is a devout tax and spend liberal, and it's
incomprehensible that he would go to a tea party rally with an open mind.
Also telling is the knee-jerk liberal reaction displayed by Mr. Kinstlinger when
he likens the tea party movement to the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan nation. As anyone in politics knows,
accusations of racism are the last refuge of those who are desperate, scared and unethical, and
almost exclusively levied by those on the political left.
We're not members of the tea party, and don't plan to be. But we do know that no other third
party ever got this much attention from the liberal media, including the Green Party or the Reform Party.
That tells us that in fact the tea party movement is real and is scaring the pants off some people.
Letter's like Mr. Kinstlinger's are not to be taken seriously, but the fact that after so
many years backwards-thinking, leftists are still trying to divide this nation across
ethnic lines is worrisome, as is the fact that for whatever reason liberals often
appear cognitively unequipped to engage in a battle of ideas and so quickly resort
to name-calling and false accusations.
An overwhelming majority of American's oppose Obamacare and large federal deficits.
Everyone knows somebody who opposes Obamacare and out of control spending. We would refer Mr.
Kinstlinger to the Gallup poll disseminated on April 5, titled "Tea partiers are fairly mainstream in
their demographics". The tea party movement clearly draws from across the political spectrum. If they
were really a fringe group, as some in the media like to pretend them to be, everyone would be ignoring
them, and Mr. Kinstlinger wouldn't be calling them names.
That's clearly not the case.
Americans who oppose Obamacare are not racist, nor are they similar to the KKK.
Americans who are against passing their bills along to their children are not
skinheads or Aryan Nation sympathizers. There is, however, about 25 percent of
Americans who see everything in terms of black and white, who inflame racial
tensions every chance they get, and who falsely accuse in the most horrible
way Americans who are doing nothing more than expressing their First Amendment
right to protest. And those 25 percent, Mr. Kinstlinger, are liberals like yourself
who need to learn to behave better.
Editor - bethesite.com
