The mainstream media and much of Hollywood have more in common besides fierce loyalty to liberalism. They both rarely deviate from their scripts. The media, like actors and actresses, loyally follow their script to promote a liberal agenda. They filter content based on their political ideology, ignore news that conflicts with their key message and use code language to create heroes, villains and spark action among their loyal fans.
During the Obama campaign, the American media let the world know how they operate. They have not deviated from their script, and now try to marginalize the Tea Party Movement.
The template used by mainstream media describes the Tea Party Movement as a group of racist, intolerant, and violent white people is just more lies and propaganda. The left follows the old totalitarian prescription: “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.” So allow me to tell you a story the liberal media doesn’t want you to hear. I will compare and contrast Tea Party activists versus liberal activists.

I had the honor of speaking at the greater New Orleans Tea Party Tax Day rally last week with well over 1,000 other patriotic Americans. Each speaker spoke about love for country, our Constitution and liberty. There was no violence, rather passionate people who are critical of the decisions being made and want to exercise their constitutionally protected right to peacefully organize and voice their opinions. While walking through the crowd I met flight attendants, accountants, retirees, insurance salespeople and stay-at-home moms. These aren’t violent people seeking confrontation. Until recently, they hadn’t been politically engaged because they were busy going to church, working, paying taxes, obeying the law, raising families, volunteering and living their lives. However, the liberal massive power grab has given them the no choice but to get involved. The Tea Party Movement has provided a vehicle for them to voluntarily take time away from their lives to peacefully and passionately voice their concerns.
What about liberal activists?
Whenever a bunch of liberals get together to protest, you better bring as many cops as you can find because there is going to be trouble. Many times you’ll find that these “supporters” are being compensated. These “compassionate” people tend to get bloodthirsty when their numbers are favorable so if you happen to stumble upon one of their protests and you disagree with their position, you better either lie or run.
If you don’t, you will be a victim of their so-called “tolerance” like Kenneth Gladney, who was savagely beaten by racially motivated SEIU members. You could get beaten and your legs broken for wearing a Sarah Palin pin like Allee Bautsch, you could get your finger bitten off by Moveon.org, get caught in the middle of a violent standoff with cops and the list goes on.
If you are a liberal, you can expect your friends in the media and the Democratic Party to ignore your violence because they both benefit. In fact, liberal heroes like Nancy Pelosi will encourage your intimidation like she did to CodePink for disrupting a town hall meeting. Liberal leaders use code language like “Astroturf” to mobilize violent leftists to intimidate citizens into silence. Unfortunately for them, they can no longer scare us into silence.
Don’t believe the hype, the media is simply following their script in order to negatively portray the Tea Party Movement and perpetuate their lie of the “compassionate liberal.” Despite their best efforts, the Tea Party is growing, people are seeing the liberals as the party bent on controlling all aspects of our lives and the Americans who used to ignore politics are realizing that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.






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Beck has been sounding the clarion call about this…
And we, frankly, are amazed. Facts about the Progressive movement- and particularly the onerous, hateful Woodrow Wilson- that we have known about for years but is NEVER mentioned in any recent histories-wonder why- are coming out left and right.
Hate to steal NBC's dopey slogan, but it is 'must see tv'…
Well said Andre and I oft forget this excellent point – “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.”.
Blow, Rich, et al keep repeating the TPM are racists because they were mostly white. Yet not a word about the sea of white faces at the Obama rallies (I'd get more than my fingers bitten off if I voiced a disagreement at one of those) –
Obama Rally – ? Denver – http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/promos/politi...
Obama Rally – Portland – http://images.bimedia.net/images/080518_obama_fam...
Obama Rally – Portland Video – http://www.kval.com/news/local/19059349.html
Were the Obama Rallies racist?
Oh, and thank you for all you're doing for the TPM.
Related parody: White House Announces Massive Government Spending Bill "Created or Saved" Millions of Well-Educated Middle Class Protestershttp://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/04/white-house-a...
I talk to hundreds of people everyday in the line of work I do and ALL those elders who came to this country from communist countries ALL agree that this is what is happening here, many of these elders cry because they know what the future looks like under communism,they don't cry for themselves they cry for their children, because they know what life will be like here if we don't get a handle on it now,many tell me it's to late,I tell them it's not,and we freedom loving Americans will fight to the bitter end against this spirit of communism.
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Andre Harper is a great writer and a great American. Thank you Andre for your insight.
Video @ 2:42 depicts the eggs on the windshield at the drivers side of the Tea Party Express Bus – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uh3gFumAkE&fe...
They threw eggs at the side of the bus which is destruction of private property but not a deliberate attempt to cause an accident. The eggs on the windshield is a whole other story. The occupants were lucky they had a good driver.
Does anyone else get a little tired of being portrayed as an old, rich, white man? Don't worry about it though, let the lame stream media think that they are kicking us to the curb.
I'm sure there were were people in Hitler's time (when the minister of propaganda said "If you shout a lie loud enough and long enough, people will BEGIN to believe it.") who were that stupid but I have a BIT more confidence in today's much better educated and informed people.
If the left thought the Sept. 12th (9-12) Tea Party in Washington was big. I would suggest that they have no idea how truly huge this movement is. For every single ONE of those who show up at these events, there may be as many as a hundred more who agree with or sympathize with (probably both) the sentiments expressed by the Tea Partiers. Bless every single one of them………..and remember, November is coming!! It will be time to pull Obama's vampire fangs with which he has been sucking us dry and make him impotent in the Congress!!
In my lifetime I’ve seen a lot happen in this country, a clear pattern has emerged.
There has been up till recently a slow steady decline of our liberties in this country. Lately that decline has been moving faster and faster……
The events in this past decade have seemed almost unreal at times…something just doesn’t feel right.. Now we have an administration a congress and a press who mock us. In spite of over a million strong who peacefully assemble in DC on 9/12, and numerous nation wide polls telling this administration, this congress to put the brakes on their double time march to fundamentally transform our American way of life, the radicalization of America continues…..
The MSM….is quite clearly now a blatant arm of the White House Propaganda Ministry…. The Press stands fully ready, willing, and able to …smear Grandmothers, Soccer Moms, Military Veterans, our countries fathers and mothers…..Look the other way when a conservative gets mugged, beaten, shot at….what happens when someone gets killed?
Then I saw this link from a fellow blogger Mr. Lincoln…This is a link from the Milwaukee Examiner about American troops training for possible deployment against American citizens this coming October….
http://www.examiner.com/x-37620-Conservative-Exam... http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/03/army.unit/ http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9869
Recently the Obama Administration has been shifting the focus of Homeland Security away from Muslim terrorists and toward American terrorists (can't be blaming his bros, can we?).
The pillar of honesty, Bill (I did not have sex with that woman) Clinton, blames Americans who advocate smaller government for the actions of Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh. At the time of the bombing, President Clinton blamed radio talk shows (sound familiar?).
Who are these "American terrorists?" A bunch of militia groups exercising their Constitutional rights, running around in the woods playing soldier? Who have they attacked? Who have they hurt?
Perhaps we should take a closer look, how about our own government?
American Terrorists http://usataxpayer.org/?0032219510
Islam – The Religion of Peace… http://usataxpayer.org/?0088070911
Mr. Harper, thank you for this. I would like to see a more detailed and expanded version of this Compare and Contrast post. We all know the executive summary of the differences between the groups, but has it been laid out in depth?
The MSM seems to have ignored totally ACORN CEO (soon-to-be-ex, I hope) Bertha Lewis as she spoke to her fellow self-proclaimed Democratic Socialists. She talked about living in a time that will dwarf the McCarthy era, I knew what she meant, but my first thought was, "Yeah, but it will be coming our way, towards the Tea Partiers and all conservatives/libertarians that dare to speak out against the Obama/Chicago/leftist machine". Then I thought, "Maybe it is time to bring back the HUAC". They were correct then and they would be correct even more now.
Glad to see another 'platypus' from Oregon commenting on this website, there are so few of us here in the People's Republic of Oregon that take the time to come here and make their voices heard!
Were you in Tigard or Clackamas last week…?
I couldn't get there it looked like it went pretty well except for the local media portrayal of the events around the state…
You are exactly right about that! I have a neighbor who came from Russia in 1989 with his whole family, as soon as they were able to get out of that country. Before the presidential election in 2008, he walked across the street while my husband was working outside, and in his thick Russian accent said, in effect, you crazy Americans, what are you doing electing this guy Obama? He's a Socialist, and he is going to bring Socialism to America! He said that is why he and all his family left the Soviet Union, and now it is coming over here! A few months later, I heard Glenn Beck say on his radio show almost the exact same sentiments that a Russian lady told him! I couldn't believe my ears! I wish more people would wake up to what this Administration is doing to our country before it is too late!
First off, I have to admit I never though Bush had a brain and I have never voted for a Republican in my 55 years, but the vilifying of Americans that voice their "opinion" is beyond the pale and frankly the most Un-American thing I have ever seen or heard. The left has become the Poster Child of "Intolerance" and closed minded Dogma and I am ashamed of ever claiming I was a Liberal, I guess I am a Centrist now because I see the current trend of bold face lies being reported a "news" (small n) regarding the Tea Party and the wild speculation of potential "Violence" as if it was an every day event is sickening, Bill Clinton et al.
That's what people seem to forget – those that lived under such government know better than we do how it comes about and how it looks. We should pause and listen to them.
But everybody has been silenced into not talking about things like Communism and Socialism because that's so yesterday. That's so McCarthy. That's so 1950s. And I realize that is what has happened to this country. We have been brainwashed to believe the lies, to believe the downplaying of certain events, to believe the twisting of the facts. So many of us – and I was one – are suffering from this. Totally brainwashed. Many of our fellow Americans are unable to even think that our President and his administration and Pelosi, and Reid, etc. are actually socialists. It seems so "impolite" to think so. They use our goodness against us, or tendency to think well of others. That is what the terrorists do as well -they plant bombs in dead animals and even dead bodies because they know our soldiers will see someone lying there and want to help them and then BOOM!
Cont'd
Same mentality. I don't consider it hyperbole either. It really is the same mentality. Prey on our politeness. That's what they do. All to gain the upper hand.
And now many of us are awakening and this scares them. It scares them because we are impervious to their lies, their twists, their rhetoric. So they beat the racist drum, the homophobic drum, the sexist drum, hoping to lull everyone back into compliance.
But I don't think it's going to work. We have to work on the moderates, the independents and the apolitical. Those are our allies. If we win most of them over, we will win the fight and stop the socialism.
I'm on your side, man, but it seems this program was started in the Fall of 2008 before Obama was every elected. So that was under Bush.
Just like that Posse Comitas thing. I don't know why. Maybe Bush was afraid that the Left would erupt during the elections, especially if Obama lost.
Granted, if the program is still ongoing, it seems suspicious.
But I am always wary of such things – the FEMA coffins turned out to be bogus (Thank God!)
Not saying we shouldn't be vigilant, of course.
You should hear what the WWII and Korean war vets have to say about whats going on,most of these guys don't have the internet so they rely on the MSM and are able to see right through the lies and propaganda.One guy told me in very straight terms that the only good communist is a dead communist,we youngsters cannot take what freedom we have left for granted.
1948??? How the times have changed,this was what was taught here in the good ol U.S.A. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6H63CD7uQA
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of all men." — J.M.Keynes
Good to see one more American wiping the sleet from their eyes.
Sounds like a good quote for our dear leaders too Shawn…………. bet you didn't think of that did ya Shawn?
ladykrystyna you are oh so right about the start of this being under Bush…..
Former president Bush gave us NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51. I advise you to check this out, kind of looks like Bush left Obama with a shotgun behind the door… http://www.ask.com/wiki/National_Security_and_Hom... http://www.concordbridge.net/NSPD-51.htm
President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law. It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President’s ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, undid those prohibitions. http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/91... http://www.bordc.org/threats/hr5122.php http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h10...
I agree-, this is no reason to panic…but it doesn't hurt to be prepared….
I have read a few books on crisis management, they all say about the same thing, there is an eighty, ten, and ten rule during a crisis…
Eighty percent of the people will do nothing, and wait for someone of authority to tell us what to do….
Ten percent of us will do the wrong or the worst thing possible….
Ten percent will take charge immediately and take necessary steps….
I know what category I fit in….
Beck has been instrumental in starting the process of waking up this country…we still have work to do…
God Bless Glenn. I think he is the MOST instrumental person of all, in laying the foundation. upon which everything else has been built. – I think the 9/12 Groups started even before the Tea Parties.
He showed people they were not alone and showed the way for people of like minds to join together. From there everything took on a life its own. He was the spark…
Couldn't agree more…
"Whenever a bunch of liberals get together to protest, you better bring as many cops as you can find because there is going to be trouble."
As a liberal I have to agree with you on the above quote. Very nicely written article.
Shawn, Shawn…you are living proof it takes one to know one…..
LOL
Oh, wow. The inventor of the disastrous Keynsian theory of fiscal crisis management uttered some ridiculous nonsense to try and justify his wrongheaded ideas. I guess that means you're right and were wrong Shawn, so we better just take our ball and go home…
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Next time just quote Obama. He has as much credibity as Keynes. (that would be none)
"…the price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
It can't be said often enough.
Tex…you got it right…They are poking and poking and poking us….they want, they need us to allow them to provoke us,,,we can't let it happen….
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Thank you for your article. Please keep tracking the scripts & narratives.
"Despite their best efforts, the Tea Party is growing, people are seeing the liberals as the party bent on controlling all aspects of our lives and the Americans who used to ignore politics are realizing that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance." This is true, but there seems to be sinister changes in the air.
Barry and his Maoist Minions seem to be upping the ante. The start of violence will only start from them. It would be like Kent State on steroids. Their only hope will be that we respond in kind. Non violence is our only hope.
Our power in our numbers, which grew with each new assault on the Constitution and Freedom. If they so much as raise a hand against us – unarmed, peaceful, law abiding, tax paying citizens of all ethnic groups – they lose EVERYTHING!! Any fence sitters, who are not far lefties, will join our ranks immediately. The MOTHER of all sit-ins will bring this country to a screeching halt. Cars & trucks stopped dead on all roads. And on and on…
The non rouge Police and military will never fire on us. We are them, patriotic Americans. And thank God for the "Oath Takers" who will further protect us. If anything ever starts, lay down – stay out of the way, so the police/military can spot the insurgents and take THEM down, without hindering their ability to do their jobs.
They will be the heroes who save this great country from evil that is even worse than any foreign enemy – TRAITORS.
And we will all live to see the trials for treason and begin rebuilding this precious God given land…
No offense, Andre, but no one is gonna pull a Gladney on me without me trying to dismember them. I don't encourage or go courting violence, but I'll be screwed if I'm gonna stand idly by and not defend myself in a mis-guided effort to seem "holier" than them. If these sumbitches try to pick a fight with me, I'll sure as hell oblige.
Report.
Santino "Sonny" Corleone
"Leftism is the astounding belief that stealing money from the people who earned and giving it to the people who don't deserve it, makes them noble and good." –Chuck Sampson
You have to wonder if the November elections will even be held this year, if things are going really badly for the Dems. How could they get away with cancelling the election, since such a thing has never been done before in our history? Simple – start a nuclear war with Iran. Iran probably does not have very many nukes, if they have any at all, but you can bet your bottom dollar that there are already hundreds of Iranian agents in the US with sealed glass vials of purified, super-deadly viruses stored in their freezers. Obama orders a strike on Iran, and Iran retailiates by releasing Ebola, Smallpox, Camelpox, Dengue Fever, Yellow Fever, and many other diseases into every train station, airport, stadium, and other populated places in the US. The only survivors will be those who stay home until the contagions burn out. No election is held, and the US is under martial law permanently. It could happen.
Can you put yourself inside the head of the people being terrorized in that bus? Knowing the past violent actions of Obama supporters, how did they know eggs were all that was in store for them?
I vow to never again buy anything or deal with any union in any way. They are thugs, out for themselves, willing to do violence if you don't bend over to them and pay their expenses.
All over the country they refuse to help in any way. They are willing, as they did to Eastern airlines, to destroy anyone or anything that stands in the way of their power.
"REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER"
Ron Reale
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"We gotta suspend the elections until the nasty Teabaggers are safely behind bars."
Count on it.
The problem is these assholes know better than to pick on a guy like you or a crazy Indian like me…it's always the weak and defenseless they go after ….
Compare and Contrast: when liberal activists hit the streets, their demands from gov't are more handouts at your and my expense. When conservative activists hit the streets, they make only one demand: for gov't to get out of their way.
Yahoo is firmly in the pocket of this regime.
I was at the March 20th protest, where I met a couple who immigrated here from Romania and a woman from China. The couple said, "We knew from what Obama was saying, what he would do. When he was elected, we told each other that it was over." The woman from China said, "I left China to escape socialism, but now I have come here to find it waiting for me? The whole reason China is doing better now is because they abandoned these ideas, but now America wants to become more like China?"
Huzzah, a sane Democrat. The more the merrier sir.
If you want to get a clue-in on conservative/libertarian thought, as well as some fresh historical and political perspectives, I would recommend Hayek's "Road to Serfdom," Freidman's "Capitalism and Freedom," and "Freedom to Choose," G.Edward Griffin's "The Creature from Jekyll Island" (about the Federal Reserve) and Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism." And yes, I have read all of these already. They're a big part of the reason I'm here.
If that seems like too much work though, here's a starter move you might want to make. Look up the Nazi party platform, and ask yourself just how much of it you'd think modern Liberals (not people like you, the people doing the slandering you're so disgusted with) would actually agree with. You might be surprised to learn just how "socialist" the supposedly right-wing Nazis actually were. If you agree with that assessment, then you can start reading "Liberal Fascism," which goes into more detail on the subject.
Whereas Communism is the astounding belief that despite the stark evidence of 100 million dead in the 20th century, as well as thousands of years of human history to the contrary, handing a man absolute power will somehow fail to corrupt him absolutely.
You're forgetting his other quote: "In the long run, we'll all be dead."
Forgive my skepticism, but somehow I don't think that basing our economic theories on a man who thinks long-term planning is pointless will be beneficial to the futures of our children and grandchildren.
"If it were true that men could achieve their goodby means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and I were asked to immolate myself for the sake of creatures who wanted to survive at the price of my blood, if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from , above and against my own – I would refuse. I would reject it as the most contemptible evil, I would fight it with every power I possess, I would fight the whole of mankind, if one minute were all I could last before I were murdered, I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist. Let there be no misunderstanding about me. If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their mood requires victims, then I say: The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Who is John Galt?
No offense, Andre, but no one is gonna pull a Gladney on me without me trying to dismember them. I don't encourage or go courting violence, but I'll be screwed if I'm gonna stand idly by and not defend myself in a mis-guided effort to seem "better". If these sumbitches try to pick a fight with me, I'll sure as hell oblige.
the single worst idea in the history of mankind. if you need more than you have, you should have to make yourself worst off. oh how humane. isn't that better than working harder,or longer, or better to get more. to take from those who work to give to those who vote. this is exactly how life in the inner cities of america works thanks to the sarah silvermans of the world. i know, i grew up on welfare in the projects of newark,nj. if it was up to the sarah silvermans i'd still be living in those projects casting my vote for liberal america to get my welfare check. you can keep your communism sarah i take free enterprise anyday.
We are two people who love this country with a passion and attended the Tea Party meeting where you spoke and bought your book because we liked your message. The book was outstanding and as a one time substance abuse counselor, your words struck all of the right chords and very succinctly summed up the problems with the Liberal view of the world. They can only govern until they run out of other people's money….or until they print as much fake money as they can to give away to other countriesand bankrupt our great grandchildren because they think we are too spoiled. Did you know that Pelosi was taken to kindergarten in a limosine? Yep. And she has the nerve to claim that she has a deep understanding of the poor and what is best for them! I say plant your own garden and tend to it and don't steal my veggies because planting is hard work. If you are hungry, ask for a meal and we can share in the bounty….and I'll give you some seeds to plant and let you eat until your garden is full of veggies, too! Then you can share!
Your article today was most appreciated.
Good for you! Welcome to the cause of taking back what is ours. It's going to be a long uphill fight, and we will need all hands on deck to do it.
the history lessons being given are priceless…
For no other reason- these lessons in US history and the Progressive movement are not being told anywhere else…
Thank you, but I began to be a Democrat Dissident when I heard Al Gore giving all of those Pseudo-intellectual babbling cryptic orations when he ran against Bush and I switched to the Independent/Libertarian ticket. I was proven right about Gore when he decided to subvert "Science" with the Demonizing of the source of all Life on Earth "CO 2", what a Sin against Humanity and Science, all for personal profit, at least Bush (also wrong) had personal Convictions for standing in the way of Progress/Science and Stem Cell research, but Gore is simply a Bloated Pig Eyed Sack of #@*! willing to destroy the credibility of "Science" for personal Greed. No CO 2 = No Life ~ Heat = Energy & Energy = LIFE ~ Cold KILLS!
To Mr Harper, a patriot
Heard you speak in New Orleans.(April15 Teaparty) You were much better than when I saw you on FOX . I am now a fan. I'll buy your book now. I'm from N.O.,La. and I don't suck heads either, I use my little finger. I wish you great success in your future. I'll leave you with this quote.
" In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce and brave man, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds,
however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. "
~Mark Twain~
Your fan,
Peggy Kemp
Report? Ooohhh, I'm so-o-o scared. Dicknose.
You, Sir, are a clown and and idiot and I pity you. As a college educated (NYU. double maj B-cast Journ/Int'l Pol) African-American woman who's worked ALL my life and paid ALL my taxes (more than many neo-cons can say) I'm telling you honestly that your article is a travesty and you should be ASHAMED…to be this ignorant, but mostly to be so co-opted. I hope someday you have an opportunity to pull you head out of the sand and repent. You're doing so much damage to and disrespecting the sacrifices of so many that gave so much so that you could have the opportunity to have an opinion…to be an equal citizen. SHAME on you, sir.
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I have just read you for the first time. Your a good man, and you tell the truth, which is unheard of. If more journalists were like you I truly believe our country would be a much better place. The MSM is corrupt along the lines of South Africa propaganda.
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