3/9/12, "The Day That Andrew Breitbart & Company Came To Tucson," TucsonCitizen.com, Don
"Last April, the Tucson Tea Party (TTP) gathered in Reid Park. 2011 had been a rough year for the TTP. Three months earlier, liberals and the media (yes, I repeat myself) made it sound as if Jared Loughner had been a fellow traveler with the Tea Party movement.
By April, though, it was clear that the TTP had been unfairly implicated in the tragic events of January 8th. (Meanwhile, as union thugs and liberal activists ran wild in Wisconsin, the left’s wintertime devotion to civility had melted away in the spring thaws.)
Thank conservative New Media for that.
Senator Alan Simpson once said that an allegation unchallenged is an allegation believed. The conservative blogosphere heeded his advice.
Conservative bloggers, such as Glenn Reynolds’ “Instapundit,” sprang into action on that horrible weekend, and quickly started dissecting and debunking the anti-Tea-Party insinuations and whispers. They pushed back against all the rumors and distortions, playing “whack-a-mole” as new accusors (David Fitzsimmons, Paul Krugman, etc…) mouthed off.
Prior to the rise of New Media, liberal reporters and opinion writers could ignore the rules of good statistics and show correlation (The Tucson Tea Party opposed Giffords; Jared Laughner is from Tucson, too) without bothering to prove causation. When you think about it—why wouldn’t they do that? Who was going to stop them? Virtually all of the other media voices who could challenge them were just as pro-liberal and conservative-loathing as they were. Liberal-dominated media had come to expect that they could smear conservatives in banner headlines on page 1 of Monday’s newspaper or telecast, watch the smear run wild (and unchallenged) through the media the rest of the week, then run some minor corrections and perhaps a mea-culpa or two at the bottom of page 48 on Saturday.
By last January, however, things had changed.
By Monday of that horrible weekend, the mainstream media (MSM) was on notice that any anti-Tea-Party insinuations they enabled would be challenged. The insinuations tapered off…what a coinky-dink!
That April, many of the conservative blogosphere’s brightest lights came to Tucson to meet with and talk to the Tea Partiers they’d defended all winter. The result was a victory celebration, of New Media over Old."...
Follow the links below to see clips of Breitbart on stage:
Tullie Noltin is a member of “Smart Girl Politics,” a social network of conservative women. She had a chance to meet Andrew at Reid Park.
What a memorable day. I asked Breitbart to sign my book and told him that I, too, had converted from a liberal Democrat mentality. It had been a long road of trial and error, introspection, and growth. His book went into great detail about his transformation and I told him how much I related to his story. We talked for a bit about how the Left hates people like us, who have abandoned their ranks and talk about it publicly. I thanked him for defending us (the Tea Party) against the attacks. I don’t remember exactly what he said, except that he felt like one of us. He identified with us.
What impressed me most about him was how warm and kindhearted he was. Just meeting for a few minutes, he instantly felt like an old friend. I saw him make that same effort with others that day. His ability to connect with so many people and give them his full respect and attention landed him right on the pulse of America."...(more pictures at link)
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Mass murder rhetoric by former Obama Car Czar Steve Rattner about Tea Party people via MSNBC. Even his friend Joe Klein says Rattner "is lucky he's not going to jail" for financial crimes against NY State pension funds. (para. 7)
7/29/11, MSNBC, Morning Joe
Rattner: "It's a form of economic terrorism,
“These Tea Party guys, they’re strapped with dynamite sitting in middle of Times Square at rush hour”…
- (Rattner clip begins after a :15 or :30 commercial on MSNBC video, via Fox Nation)
Time Magazine's Joe Klein says his friend Rattner is one reason why the Tea Party exists:
10/14/2010, "I am not saying that Steve Rattner is directly to blame for Christine O’Donnell. But he is part of a generation of financiers, the most respected figures in our society, who have been disgraced utterly by their greed and shenanigans–and who have made the world safe for Mama Grizzlies. This is how a great power wanes." (last paragraph)
via Instapundit, image of Breitbart speaking in Tucson from TucsonCitizen
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