Last night, the BBC America World News presented a story entitled "US unemployment fuels anger." Part of the segment covered a Tea Party rally where a man and his young children were selling playing card decks that featured pictures of politicians with editorial comments. The two "Jokers" in the deck were President Obama and VP Joe Biden. The deck labeled both as "socialist/communists." Over the heading of "The Ultimate Race Card," the President's card said: "Trust me, I am not a Kenyan born, lying, arrogant, Muslim communist that hates America - really, I'm not." (You can see for yourself on http://www.bbcamerica.com/.) It's a pretty sickening spectacle indeed, but no more so than the collection of Tea Party rally signs preserved for posterity in the YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38VioxnBaI. (I won't bother to quote them here. You're welcome to go see them for yourself.)
My question is: why does the US news media not report these ugly facts? Does the American public not have the right to know how ignorant and bigoted the Tea Party can be? Why would the media soft-pedal the hard truth about a movement that seems to have so much influence in the upcoming elections? It's as if the media wants to "airbrush" this political movement, to make the Tea Partiers look much nicer and more reasonable than they actually are. I honestly don't know why this would be so. I guess it would be cynical of me to suggest that it's because our media is controlled by big corporations who believe that our President should be neutralized until 2012 and then dumped. I'd be interested to hear your ideas. . .
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