Media Coverage: Tea Party v. #OccupyWallStreet


Some Tea Partiers Note Slight Disparity In Media's Attitude Towards Themselves, Occupy Wall Street - Ace of Spades
"Seen on Facebook" HolyCoast.com via Networked Blogs
Tea party groups criticize media coverage of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ - Daily Caller
TheDC’s Jamie Weinstein: Unlike the tea party, ‘Occupy Wall TheDC’s Jamie Weinstein: Unlike the tea party, ‘Occupy Wall Street Will Fail - Daily Caller

There are many differences between the tea party and the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, but perhaps the most significant is this: on Election Day, tea partiers will make it to the polls to vote while many of the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters will be to busy smoking weed to remember to cast a ballot.

I know that may sound juvenile, but it is hardly off base.

Having visited with Washington, D.C.’s version of the “Occupy Wall Street” protests on multiple occasions, it is abundantly clear we are not dealing with a new phenomenon. We are dealing with a usual left-wing protest composed of a smorgasbord of focuses.