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.

MSNBC's Hall Moderated CBC Event Where Rep. Carson Blasted Tea Party

◼ On Tuesday, The Washington Post's Felicia Sonmez noted how MSNBC's Tamron Hall moderated the recent Congressional Black Caucus town hall where Rep. Andre Carson smeared the Tea Party by accusing them of wanting to bring back Jim Crow laws and endorsing the lynching of blacks. Former Obama aide turned NBC employee Joy-Ann Reid also attended the CBC event, but omitted Rep. Carson's attack from her report. - Newsbusters

Democrats need a spine to stand up to tea party

◼ Democrats have been their usual hapless, communicatively-challenged selves, the congressional equivalent of the kid in school who walks around all day with “Kick Me” taped to his back, then wonders why people keep kicking him. - Leonard Pitts Jr./Miami Herald

I am pleased to report the sighting of an artifact so rarely seen among Democrats that it has become the stuff of legend and conjecture, like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. It is called a spine.

Said spine was briefly glimpsed a little over a week ago at a “jobs summit” in Inglewood, Calif. in the person of Rep. Maxine Waters. “I’m not afraid of anybody,” the California Democrat said. “. . . And as far as I’m concerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to Hell.”

There does seem something very circular about CNN, CBS and NY Times polling showing an increase in negative views of the Tea Party

◼ Report – CNN, CBS and NY Times polls show CNN, CBS and NY Times anti-Tea Party strategy working - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion The mainstream media spends two years calling the Tea Party movement racist, extremist, sexist, terrorist, and hostage takers, and then acts as if negative polling results reflect something wrong with the Tea Party movement rather than their own biased reporting.