TPM:
Tea Partiers Turn Tea Party Criticisms On Occupy Wall Street<...>
Judson Phillips of
Tea Party Nation had a similar take. “While the left wants to tear down and destroy all that is good in America, and replace it with an ideology if
evil, the Tea Party movement is based on love,” he wrote in a blog post Tuesday. “Real Americans love their country and their neighbors. The Tea Party is not motivated by hatred as the left is.”
Sean Hannity called Occupy Wall Street “destructive” and “incoherent” protests in a segment with Ann Coulter this week. “It is a classic mob uprising,” Coulter agreed. “It’s utterly incoherent. They’re always left wing and completely destructive.”
“There is no violence at tea parties,” she added. “They are reading the Constitution. They are reading the Federalist Papers. This is a mob.”
Peter Johnson Jr. called the protesters “deluded” with “absolutely no purpose or focus in life” on Fox & Friends, and host Steve Doocy dismissed them as getting “between me and a steak dinner.”
<...>Mother Jones:
No, the Tea Party Has Never Cared About Wall Street<...>
The tea partiers really do hate TARP, and they hate the auto bailout, and they hate the Fed and its money debasing ways. But the tea party's leaders have always been careful to give those things plenty of lip service while channeling all the movement's real energy into the issues that its big-dollar funders have always cared about most: lowering taxes on the wealthy, reducing regulations on corporations, and cutting spending on the poor.
After all, tea partiers
could have poured their energy into protesting the AIG bailout. They could have poured their energy into insisting that Dodd-Frank be tightened up. They could have poured their energy into demands that the Fed be reformed and made more transparent.
But those were never more than side issues. The real issues for the tea partiers have always been healthcare reform, tax cuts, deficit fever, and EPA bashing. And in the most obvious tell of all, they were actively
opposed to Dodd-Frank, a bizarre stand for an allegedly anti-bailout movement. The tea party, in the end, simply isn't anything new.
It's the same old right-wing fluorescence we see every couple of decades or so, with all the same hobbyhorses. The media really should have figured that out by now.
Eric Cantor is no different from a teabagger.
Think Progress:
Cantor Smears Occupy Wall Street As A ‘Mob’ Speaking at the social conservative Value Voters Summit today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) maligned the Occupy Wall Street protests and the wider 99 percent movement as a “mob” that is out to “divide Americans”:
CANTOR: I for one am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country. And believe it or not, some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans.
Watch it:
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Believe it or not, Cantor has — by his definiton — “condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans” when he
endorsed the
Tea Party movement.
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