The formula for a protest is simple:
You hold a sign adorned with an angry political message.
People who disagree with your message feel mad inside.
Sometimes, they argue with you.
Sometimes, they argue with you.
People who agree with your message feel happy inside.
Sometimes, they give you high-fives.
If there are enough people holding signs with you, a TV crew arrives.
A 30 second clip of angry sign-wavers appears on the six o' clock news.
The tea party protests didn't deviate from the formula. But it seems that some people were unfamiliar with the whole protest thing.
An indignant Huffington Post featured a slideshow of the "ten most offensive" signs from the tea party protests. A couple of them -- gasp! -- compared Obama to Hitler!
Can you imagine? Comparing an American president to Hitler! At a protest!
Oh, the horror of it all.
After CNN reporter Susan Roesgen failed at sharing the stimulus gospel with a protestor, she noted the "anti-government" tone of the protest, and announced that it wasn't appropriate for "family viewing."
Indeed. Keep airing that garbage, and babies will start opposing redistributionary tax policies.
Were there some ignorant, angry people at the tea party protests? Yes. But nobody should come to a protest expecting a university lecture on political philosophy. A protest is a magical time when a bunch of people get mad at something together. Ugliness happens.
Sometimes, they give you high-fives.
If there are enough people holding signs with you, a TV crew arrives.
A 30 second clip of angry sign-wavers appears on the six o' clock news.
The tea party protests didn't deviate from the formula. But it seems that some people were unfamiliar with the whole protest thing.
An indignant Huffington Post featured a slideshow of the "ten most offensive" signs from the tea party protests. A couple of them -- gasp! -- compared Obama to Hitler!
Can you imagine? Comparing an American president to Hitler! At a protest!
Oh, the horror of it all.
After CNN reporter Susan Roesgen failed at sharing the stimulus gospel with a protestor, she noted the "anti-government" tone of the protest, and announced that it wasn't appropriate for "family viewing."
Indeed. Keep airing that garbage, and babies will start opposing redistributionary tax policies.
Were there some ignorant, angry people at the tea party protests? Yes. But nobody should come to a protest expecting a university lecture on political philosophy. A protest is a magical time when a bunch of people get mad at something together. Ugliness happens.
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