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Tea Party Loves Looking For Libtards On Tax Day
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Jen Chung
Published Apr 16, 2010
Modified Apr 16, 2010
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Since yesterday was tax deadline day, the Tea Party broke out the china for demonstrations across the country. Lou Dobbs dropped by the rally near the James A. Farley Post Office in midtown and told the crowd, "You are scaring the hell out of them. You, my friends, are dangerous - and I love that about you." And a Russian immigrant who is involved with the cause told the Post, "I don't like big government, I don't like intrusive government. I actually had to fight it in Russia."
A Staten Island resident at the rally told the Advance, "There are so many people who think the way we do, but they don't know what to do about it. We're here to fight for liberty and the values our country was founded on," she said, including lower taxes and cutting spending."
And a history teacher complained, "I think the media is trying to push a certain image of this movement onto the public, that we're some sort of uneducated, angry mob. But I look around here and that's not what I see." The NY Times, bastion of liberal media, did happen to offer poll numbers showing Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated the the general public, but they only published that story yesterday. Guess video of the Tea Party supporters mocking a man with Parkinson's will have to do!
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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