Legion of Doom Begins Distorting Tea Parties

It was just a matter of time.  As we have predicted, the Legion of Doom has begun mis-characterizing the Tea Party movement.  As we have stated, opposition to the messiah SPENDULUS MAXIMUS and his “Change” will be marginalized and portrayed as extremists.

Here is some of the coverage from Newsbusters.  As usual, we will be firing up the CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE Translation Matrix.

Even before a single bag of tea has been dumped as a form of protest over government economic policies, the gang at MSNBC is in full-attack mode over the notion these protests merit any recognition.

On MSNBC’s April 10 “Countdown,” fill-in host David Shuster imitated his MSNBC colleague Rachel Maddow’s juvenile and overdone description of the tea party protest to disparage the upcoming nationwide event.

“Now to the so-called ‘teabagging parties’ you may have heard about,” Shuster said. “They have been fluffed repeatedly by Fox News. Citizen protests over the government’s collection of taxpayer money, specifically that the wealthiest taxpayers in our nation will see their rates go up 3 percent two years from now.”

CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE TRANSLATION: First, we will insult the protesters by referring to them as “tea bagging.”  Additionally, we will say the Fox News is directing them.  After all, Fox News actually had the nerve to COVER these events.  Man, do they ever have to get shut down.  Not only do they cover stories we refuse to touch, they regularly kill us in the ratings.  How are we supposed to control the flow of information to the sheeple when they cover these things?  Lastly, we have to portray the protesters as the “evil” rich, or the minions thereof.

But wait, there’s more!

Instead, Shuster trotted out Newsweek Senior Editor Daniel Gross, author of “Dumb Money,” who has been vehemently anti-tax cut in the past for his analysis of the anti-tax protests.

Gross blasted the tea party movement as one that came from the top down, the usual MoveOn.org style organization of protests that Fox News host Glenn Beck explained the tea parties weren’t. He called the tea parties “astroturf” since he believed they were a top-down movement (versus grassroots) despite not naming a particular organization behind the movement.

He also expressed his confusion over the protest – saying that since some these policies were enacted during the previous administration, it didn’t make sense.

“We know they’re against the bailout, which were passed last year by the prior administration,” Gross said. “They’re against the TARP, which was passed last year by the prior administration. The bailout of AIG – passed last year by the last administration. The initial loans to the automakers, again – a product of the last administration, and the last year. They seem to be against the stimulus package, which includes several hundred billion dollars in tax cuts for people like themselves.”

CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE TRANSLATION: “They must be doing what we do.  Have top-down controlled and managed protests.  We do it by carefully manipulating our useful idiots.  They we have our regional soviets manage the local demonstrations.  It doesn’t matter that there isn’t a central control for the tea parties, we can’t identify one, because there isn’t one.  We’ll just claim that there is, and the sheeple will bleat right along.

Next, we’ll blame it all on dubya, and create the misconception that the protesters are somehow stupid.  After all, they are getting a whole $13 dollars per pay more in the tax cut (which really isn’t a tax cut).”

“They must be doing what we do…”  This is classic lib tactics.  We do something, and in the spirit of CALLING IT SOMETHING ELSE, they accuse anyone who disagrees with them of doing what they themselves do!

“And they seem to be against large deficits, they don’t like these massive deficits. Who does?” Gross continued. “By the same token, when there are measures proposed to do something about those huge deficits, i.e., letting taxes to back to where they were in 2001, they’re against it too. So, I have a hard time what it is they’re for, other than buying large quantities of leaves of tea and dumping them into tepid water.”

CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE TRANSLATION: “We’ll portray them as confused fools that have been manipulated by the “evil” rich and Fox News.  Also, we’ll pose a false argument by suggesting that the Bush Tax cuts caused the problems.  We’ll ignore the fact that when taxes are low, revenues increase.  After all, can’t let facts interfere with our agenda, can we?”

And there is still more useful idiocy.

Shuster, still perplexed over the symbolism of the tea party and apparently not a student of history and the Boston Tea Party, asked Gross if President Barack Obama should take notice.

“And then, to the extent that there is opposition to some of Mr. Obama’s policies, whether it’s mouth by Fox News or anybody else, should President Obama ignore it, speak past it, or counter it? I mean, we see the video of them holding up the tea bags and — I suppose the symbolism of that can be read a lot of different ways — but what do you think the president ought to do?” Shuster asked.

Gross advised the president to ignore the pleas of his constituents on how their tax money and future generations’ tax money is being spent – to dismiss them as a “fringe group,” and focus on just the news of the day.

“I think, when it comes to teabagging, the president should probably just ignore this,” Gross suggested. “He’s got 10 other things on his plate, you know, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, the banking crisis, the overall economic situation, health care. To get bogged down with a — you know, what seems to be a fringe group of people throwing consumer products into the lakes and rivers of this nation doesn’t seem to be worthy of his attention. And in fact, you know, there is a possibility that this is a brilliant, kind of viral PR move by Lipton.”

CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE TRANSLATION: “So what if we’re arrogantly dismissing thousands of citizens as a fringe movement?  We’re soooo much smarter than them.  After all, they resist “change” and insist on that old “freedom” idea.  Don’t they know that they’re too dumb to mange their own lives?  Sheesh, we in the Liberal Zone knows what’s best.  Ignoring the tea parties is what we’ve been trying to do for the last month or so.  Now we have to cover it since Fox has opened their big mouths.  If we’re going to cover it, you better believe we’re going to trash them.  Can’t have the sheeple having indepedent thoughts, can we?”

Let’s compare Fox News to the Legion of Doom.  When you watch Sean Hannity’s show, or Glenn Beck’s, or, for that matter, you voluntarily tune into Rush Limbaugh, you know that you’re getting the OPINION of the host(s).  They are advertised that way.  Only a useful idiot would assume that they are even attempting to be impartial.  Now, the Legion of Doom does it a bit differently.  Remember dubya’s falsified National Guard records?  Remember how they were released close to an election and that they were passed off as true by Dan Blather?  He POSED as a person giving an impartial and “balanced” view of the facts.  In the end, he lost his job.  What about the recent admission from the New York Slimes that they spiked stories about ACORN allegedly comitting  crimes so as to not impact the messiah’s campaign?  The difference is simple.  When you tune into an opinion show, you expect opinion.  When you tune into a news broadcast, you expect fair coverage of the news.  The Legion of Doom wraps themselves up in being impartial, but that is the big deception.  They’re just as biased and Sean Hannity.  At least Hannity let’s you know that his show is an opinion show.