Misty Watercolor Memories Of The Tea Party Movement

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How quickly the so-called "paper of record" forgets.
By Steve M.

As far as I can tell, Jeremy Peters of The New York Times really believes this:

In the late summer of 2009, as the recession-ravaged economy bled half a million jobs a month, the country seemed to lose its mind....

Organizers convened mass gatherings across the country called “tea parties,” and they had a specific set of demands: Stop President Barack Obama’s health care law; tame the national deficit; and don’t let the government decide which parts of the economy are worth rescuing.

Ten years since that summer of rage, the ideas that animated the Tea Party movement have been largely abandoned by Republicans under President Trump. Trillion-dollar deficits are back and on track to keep growing. The Affordable Care Act has never been repealed, and Republicans concede it may never be....

But [the Tea Party] continues to define the country today. It ignited a revival of the politics of outrage and mistrust in government, breathing new life into the populist passions that continue to threaten the stability of both political parties. Even if the Tea Party’s ideas are dead, its attitude lives on.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/08/misty-watercolor-memories-tea-party

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1. The New York Times omits mention of race from its history of the tea party

New York Times today published a tea-party history that omitted a discussion of racism, as flagged by @jamilsmith I asked if any African-American staffers had reviewed the piece, and a NYT spox declined to "get into the process." A statement from politics editor Patrick Healy:

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The New York Times omits mention of race from its history of the tea party

By Erik Wemple, Media critic
August 28 at 8:49 PM

The New York Times story by Jeremy W. Peters on tea-party history is extensive and well-written. And it featured a hole, as identified on Twitter by Rolling Stone senior writer Jamil Smith:

This @jwpetersNYT retrospective on the Tea Party’s “summer of rage” ten years ago makes not a single, solitary reference to race or racism. Nor does it acknowledge the reality that a good deal of it involved opposing President Obama because he was black. https://t.co/W53ZrpylXr

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) August 28, 2019

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Uh-oh.
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Erik Wemple, The Washington Post's media critic, focuses on the cable-news industry. Before joining The Post, he ran a short-lived and much publicized local online news operation, and for eight years served as editor of Washington City Paper. Follow https://twitter.com/ErikWemple

[turbinetree]

2. He (Peters) must have had a brain fart when he was writing his version of there being no rasicim

in the "tea party".............