Newsweek Calls For All-Out Assault on Tea Party Movement
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 5:55 AM
Newsweek called for an all-out assault on the Tea Party Movement yesterday.
Ben Adler wants more attacks and more scrutiny on the “racist” tea party protesters. Adler believes it is time for the “free pass” the movement has received from the corrupt press to end. What a crock. Like the media has been fair to tea party protesters? That’s a real laugher.
BK added this:
Holy Crap.
Sorry. I’m just flabbergasted by this Newsweek “we need to bash Tea Partiers more because, well because…” story.I’ve followed this movement since its beginning. It’s a diverse, loose knit, grassroots movement sick of government intervention, spending, and the current Administration’s “grab all it can get while the grabbing is good” mentality. Some respected conservative pundits are a bit wary of it, but I’m not. Opinions can vary. Fine.
But now, Newsweek is rallying the “news” hounds to hunt this movement down and kill it. That tells me, right there, that the Tea Party is something the left is desperate to destroy … which means it’s something all right thinking conservatives should do their best to preserve, regardless of misgivings. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
But this is what gets me. Really gets me…. Their story makes a statement that 54% of all government spending is military and for veterans … so who do these Tea Partier think they are being against raising taxes? Not raising taxes and only supporting cuts in government spending means killing off the military and denying veterans their due. Straw horse argument if I’ve ever seen one. The gasp-oh-my-G-d I can’t believe-this moment came when I clicked on the link they provided to back up their assertion that 54% of all government spending goes to military and support of veterans. In case you didn’t click on the link in the previous sentence … they linked to this group…
The “leading radical voice in the anti-war movement” according to their home page.
Un-Frickin’-Believable. I don’t give a dang if the 54 percent figure is correct or not. You damn well don’t use a self-confessed “radical” organization as your source reference!!
What used to be a powerhouse news organization (like, maybe a couple decades ago) is now using an ultra-fringe leftist web site to back up their data points.
Kill Newsweek. Now. It doesn’t deserve to continue to exist.
Agreed.
The actual percentage of the US budget that goes toward defense and security is 20% according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. 41% goes towards Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP. But, why should facts matter to the far left cranks at Newsweek? They have a mission. They need to destroy the tea party movement.
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crosspatch commented:
Good thing nobody reads Newsweek anymore. That article probably got more exposure on this site than it did on theirs.
Kevin P commented:
I think Newsqueak should give the same level of scrutiny to the TPM as they did to candidate Oilbama.
Eddie Kovacs commented:
Isn’t Newsweek up for sale now because it’s losing money? Sounds like a good opportunity to buy their sorry rag and fire their sorry hides once and for all.
cal rifkin commented:
…that’s a shocker!
down with dems commented:
Newsweek is currently the equivalent of a lame duck Congress. Newsweek is crashing meteorically and is dead set on going out in a blaze of fiery liberal “glory”. The end is nigh for Newsweek… they’re pretty desperate, knowing that NEWSMAX put a bid in to buy them!
Mark commented:
Bring it, bitches.
No Man commented:
That’s because Newsqueak and most lefty-libs believe that anyone that refuses to commit economic and political suicide is Hitler.
No wait! Christianist!
No wait! Violent Extremist!
No wait! Fundamentalist!
No wait! Hitler!
Dell commented:
I say “bring it on”. If newsweak is spearheading the effort, victory is assured. Their days are down to a precious few and I heard that one of their two readers is having second thoughts.
Hedgehog commented:
This is a sign of desperation. The lickspittles in the media must have a feeling that, unless the Communists save them with taxpayer subsidies, they are toast.
Chip Bennett commented:
“Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!”
Rejoice, my friends; rejoice. Liberalism has been reduced to nothing more than screaming charges of racism, in lieu of substantive arguments against conservatism.
We’ve won. They just don’t know it yet.
wanumba commented:
NEWSWEEK links to radical Left, but the talking heads will reference NEWSWEEK as their “source.”
Still working the illusion of legitimacy, which is all that remains of NEWSWEEK.
Gimmicks, “source laundering.”
kato commented:
Why would any intelligent person read Newsweek?
Why would any intelligent blogger worry about what is published in Newsweek?
Newsweek has been a joke for years, and in its desperation to stay alive, it opted for left-wing propaganda. At this point, even Rolling Stone would appear to have better credentials as a source of information and opinion. Which tells you how bad Newsweek has become.
Newsweek is the print equivalent of Chris Matthews.
ColinCody commented:
It is time for the Tea Party Movement to launch an all-out assault on what is left of Newsweek by buying it for a dollar-fifty. I will personally supply the capital for that investment if they will allow me to write conservative commentary.
mike191 commented:
To openly declare war on citizens who practice the first amendment and believe,”dissent is Patriotic..” Hillary not withstanding, is insane.
JKB commented:
The assault is starting. Last night I was watching Law & Order Criminal Intent new episode (ep. 195) on USA. About 45 minutes in a new DA character say “A Tea Party judge wouldn’t grant you a warrant…”
I’ll admit it was “Tea Party judge” that caught my ear. Kind of comes out of no where doesn’t it.
Darrell Bartz commented:
You keep misspelling their name… It is and has been “N e w s w e a k” for decades now.
Liberal Idiot commented:
This is bad news… if Newsweek goes out of business I’ll have no idea what my opinion is!
Susan commented:
Liberal Idiot…
This is bad news….if Newsweek goes out of business I’ll have to buy real toilet paper again. There…I fixed it for ya.
Reaganite Republican commented:
Too late for that… they’re only going to stiffen our resolve with such attacks- Palin shows us the way it’s done
xxx commented:
McChrystal , please take the military and make an assult on the enimy in the white house. This is the enemy serpent that occupies the white hosue.
aro5o75 commented:
Bring it on, Newsweak.
Trojan Horse commented:
I have no problem when I go to a doctors office or anywhere that has Newsweek or other liberal garbage available in the trash can where it belongs. Did I neglect to mention I don’t subscribe either?
republicanmother commented:
What’s Newsweek? Oh, yeah, I think I remember seeing one of those once – free trial subscription turned into bird cage liner.
AuntieMadder commented:
All three of Newsweek’s readers are all over this directive.
CT commented:
Ben Adler and the rest of the weak minded lefties at Newsweak need to rethink trying to hunt down the Tea Party movement to kill it. You see we know who they are but do they know even a fraction of who we are? There are a hell of a lot more of us than there are Newsweak goons.
Estragon commented:
Kill Newsweek? Why waste the effort? They’re doing a dandy of job of killing themselves.
As the true leftists they are, they always conclude their message failed to connect with the masses because it wasn’t radical enough.
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kato @ #13 ~ Newsweek’s turn to leftist propaganda occurred well before they starting bleeding red ink. They had always been a “moderate liberal” mag, with Time a bit to their left and US News & World Report to their right, closer to center. When Jon Meacham took the reins in the mid-’90s, the slant began to tilt further left, and “straight news” stories slowly disappeared in favor of “news analysis” pieces.
Longtime subscribers like my late father, who took all three news weeklies for years, found no reason to renew. These older readers were hard to replace, as younger people were discovering you could find out everything of consequence in a weekly news magazine on the internet for free several days earlier.
This affected them all, Newsweek’s abandoning of any real pretense at objectivity beyond Will and the infrequent conservative guest column made them lose faster.
In another brilliant stroke of marketing genius, Meacham and Thomas decided the solution to losing millions of subscribers to their leftist bias was to go all in as a leftist tout sheet, intentionally driving another couple million regulars out the door. Apparently they stole this strategy from the South Park Underwear Gnomes:
Step 1: Go batship crazy leftist and lose readers.
Step 2: ??????
Step 3: Profit!
It couldn’t happen to more deserving bunch. They won’t be missed.
Bill Mitchell commented:
There are forces at play here.
What few seem to be discussing is that, if Rasmussen is right and Republicans DO hold an 8 to 10 point advantage in the generic ballot, with Republican turnout (which is normally a +5 to democrats and this year possibly a +10 to +15), we could be looking at a blowout in November of truly epic proportions.
We are looking at the DESTRUCTION of the socialist dream. The political obliteration of the concept of the “moderate” Democrat. Democrats CANNOT tack to the middle because their financial base comes from the nutroots far left of their party.
They are soundly and profoundly screwed.
But will they go quietly into the night? No, I believe they plan to go all Hussein on the Constitution wrecking as much havoc on their way out the door as possible. Scorched earth. Set the oil fields on fire and hide in a hole.
It’s gonna be ugly folks.
Thank you Barack Obama for being such an incompetent neophyte that you have destroyed the socialist movement in America. Thank you.
Trish commented:
My husband had to defend being a part of the Tea Party movement, where people at his golf outing actually thought that there is a “Tea” Party on the ballots.
How does anyone get to be so insular and blindfolded to truth in today’s cypber world? Newsweek- which sits in every doctors office, quick lube waiting area, hospital waiting room, lawyers office etc.
No one buys the rags so much, but they somehow manage to get into these places which is where (I for one) most people come across them! I know better than to even pick one up, and will choose a sports mag or a home improvement mag over these liberally written, conservative hate fest magazines!
Spike commented:
Boycott Newsweek!!!!! any Conservative who buys newsweek is not a conservative