CNN Leads Tea Party Special With Racism Charge; Castle a ‘Conservative’
CNN led their hour-long documentary “Boiling Point: Inside the Tea Party,” which aired on Saturday and Sunday, with the regular accusation from liberals that racism is ” running rampant ” in the Tea Party movement. Host Shannon Travis highlighted the NAACP's resolution, disgraced former Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams's self-described “foolish satire,” and played up two racially-charged signs. Before raising the racism charge, Travis raised another liberal stereotype perpetuated by the mainstream media: the angry Tea Party: “This is what you know about the Tea Party Movement: rallies like these, angry protesters demanding that lawmakers spend less of your money and spend more time adhering to the Constitution .” After stating that “rallies like these across the country, don't tell the full picture” and that “there's a lot you don't know about the Tea Party movement,” the CNN host stopped briefly to give some poll numbers on the partisan breakdown of the movement before proceeding to the race issue: TRAVIS: In order to get a sense of what this movement is really about, we have to take an accurate look at who these people actually are. I want to share with you some of our latest numbers from our CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. Forty-nine percent of Tea Party members and supporters are actually Republican, according to this poll; 43 percent of them are independent; and eight percent are Democrats. One thing that we have to talk about is, as the movement has grown in size, there's also been one sizable controversy, and that's this notion that Tea Party activists are racists. It actually came to a head this past July, when the NAACP, basically- they passed a resolution, saying that racism was running rampant, and that Tea Party leaders, figures, aren't doing enough to actually put a stop to it . read more
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CNN Leads Tea Party Special With Racism Charge; Castle a ‘Conservative’
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