I’m waiting to see this headling so far from all of the media outlets who breathlessly reported how those of the tea party persuasion were “taking hostages,” “suicide bombers,” or “terrorists.” So far, I haven’t seen it which means either the MSM gave up on a losing narrative or are shamefully facing the fact that a bunch of other people in Iowa must be conservative “terrorists,” too.
From Big Journalism contributor Rusty Weiss earlier this month:
This past Friday Politico ran an op-ed titled, “The Tea Party’s Terrorist Tactics,” which featured an illustration of an individual with a dollar sign-shaped bomb strapped to their chest, and argued that the party had progressed from hostage-taking to “the intentional infliction of harm on innocent Americans to achieve a political objective – terrorism.”Joe Klein penned a piece for Time in which he accused Republicans of being beholden to ‘tea party robots,’ and worse, that their perceived unwillingness to compromise is something that would have made Osama bin Laden proud. The exact quote being that were he alive, bin Laden “could not have come up with a more clever strategy for strangling our nation.”
Bachmann received 28 percent of the nearly 17,000 votes cast. Texas Rep. Ron Paul was close behind her with 27 percent. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty came in a distant third with 13 percent of the vote, followed by former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum with 9 percent and businessman Herman Cain with 8 percent.
Does this mean that everyone who voted for them are “terrorists?”
I’m ignoring Paul’s second place spot because he busses his people in to flood the ballot box, just like he does at CPAC and as of such, it’s not an accurate measurement of national popularity. If he continues to skew polls like this it will greatly reduce the validity of said polls if not render them useless. That being said, it’s telling that he has such a large, roving group of supporters, or, shall we say “conservative ‘terrorists'” and that his positions on domestic policy are virtually indistinguishable from those of other GOP “terrorists.”
Does this mean conservative “terrorism” wins?
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