Glenn Beck: The Truth About the Tea Parties

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What the media does not understand is I didn't start this, FOX News didn't start this, the people started it and it began to grow because that is what the people wanted. They found their own voice and thousands of people held peaceful protests across the country.

Turns out they were misunderstood. The media just didn't get it. They blamed FOX News or the Republicans or me for the tea parties. Either because of their agenda or because they are just really blind to what happens off the island most of them work on.

I look at the people who attended the tea parties and I'm guessing that most of them would uncomfortable with being labeled "activists."

This is not ACORN. They are reluctant activists. And I understand that: What kind of normal person wants to go stand out in public shouting things?

Honestly, if I wasn't covering the tea parties I don't know if would have gone to the Alamo on April 15. I would talk to my friends and family and yell at the TV some more, but I don't take to the streets. I'm just not that person.

The only thing that could turn me into an "activist" is seeing my children's future being ruined. And that's exactly what's happening.

I bet that's why a lot of the people are involved now.

The majority of those at the tea parties were just regular Americans who love their country and don't need to wear a red, white and blue cape and chant "USA! USA!" to prove it.

That's not the view the media likes to show because it doesn't fit into their little box. But presenting those people as extremists does.

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[bigfilmhat]

Here's what is BS about the tea party. The much larger arguement that the budget deficit is a problem isn't wrong, it is a valid arguement, but it's an arguement that you could have had under Reagan, Clinton, either Bush and Obama too. Why wait till now??????? Were where the Tea Parties when Bush paid for two wars off the books, two upper class tax cuts and banking bailout and a pricy perscription drug program. They aren't completely wrong, they are very, very tardy. Call them the "tea tardy".

[Shigeru11298]

Glenn Beck is the Goebbels of the 21st century.

[vaslittlecrow]

@eckyboyo He was making fun of Bush and calling him a socialist.

[eckyboyo]

Where were you Beck when Bush was shafting the shit out of your country???

[RevolutionaryPinhead]

The US did stand for captitalism and its ideological preservations.

But if you look at the dirty history of America and the utilization and reification of capitalism, it is clear that it is a failing ideology, because of its incompatability with democracy.

So please stop glorifying the ideals of elitist, dellusional historical characters, because they are just not appropriate in our 21st century reallity. We are not slaveowners or savages. We should be able to function as a community.

[Benny750]

good lord man!!! a wolf in sheep's clothing!