{"id":4305,"date":"2013-06-25T09:01:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2013-06-25T09:01:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:01:23","slug":"quote-of-the-day-144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/quote-of-the-day-144\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When the Tea Party burst out on the scene in 2010, the co-opted techniques used by the left to show that they were The People. Popular revolt, demonstrations, rallies, all of it\u2014 all of it from the left\u2019s playbook.<\/p>\n<p>This wouldn&#8217;t do for the media for many reasons. They immediately attempted to claim the Tea Party was astroturf, artificial. Of course it must be! After all, the media is on The Side of the People, and if we have 30,000 people demonstrating here against the media\u2019s agenda, why, that would mean the media is not on the Side of the People, and that can\u2019t be! So this must be a corporate astroturf campaign paid for by the Koch brothers.<\/p>\n<p>The media continues to despise the Tea Party for putting a lie to the media\u2019s claim that they\u2019re Just on the Side of the People. And they doubly hate the Tea Party because the media are among the people to whom that lie has been exposed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/341056.php\">Ace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3544\">Keep in mind that\u00a0\u00a0the left\u2019s lies about the Tea Party being \u201cracist\u201d<\/a> are just that, lies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1727\">The Tea Party is a cross section of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When the Tea Party burst out on the scene in 2010, the co-opted techniques used by the left to show that they were The People. Popular revolt, demonstrations, rallies, all of it\u2014 all of it from the left\u2019s playbook. This wouldn&#8217;t do for the media for many reasons. They immediately attempted to claim the Tea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,19,29],"tags":[490,621,638,639,754],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-tea-party","tag-liberal-media-bias","tag-politics","tag-quote","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-17r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}