{"id":7173,"date":"2010-09-23T20:15:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T00:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2010-09-23T20:15:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T00:15:55","slug":"e-j-dionne-thinks-tea-party-is-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7173\/e-j-dionne-thinks-tea-party-is-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"E.J. Dionne Thinks Tea Party is a Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling out a scribble of notes from his tickler file, columnist E.J. Dionne thinks the Tea Party is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/09\/23\/the_tea_party_movement_is_a_scam.html \" target=\"_blank\">one of the most successful scams in American political history<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because the \u201cso-called\u201d liberal media is giving an obscure, ideologically-driven set of voices a microphone big enough to capture the nation\u2019s attention.\u00a0 To Dionne\u2019s dismay, few of his fellow gatekeepers \u201crecognize that the tea party (note the intentional lower case lettering) constitutes a sliver of opinion on the extreme end of politics receiving attention out of all proportion with its members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think Hillary Clinton could give a better summary of the media\u2019s unyielding adulation for Barack Obama.\u00a0 Like Clinton, Obama was a one-term senator with nary a public achievement to his credit, but somehow his lack of a record was billed as \u201cfresh\u201d and \u201cexciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>News flash to Dionne: the media likes a good story, and the TEA PARTY is the most compelling political drama this year.\u00a0 Hate it if you must, but don\u2019t call it a scam.\u00a0 That\u2019s a project for bloated institutions and the candidates who support them; not sporadically organizing coalitions of free people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling out a scribble of notes from his tickler file, columnist E.J. Dionne thinks the Tea Party is \u201cone of the most successful scams in American political history\u201d.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because the \u201cso-called\u201d liberal media is giving an obscure, ideologically-driven set of voices a microphone big enough to capture the nation\u2019s attention.\u00a0 To Dionne\u2019s dismay, few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,517,118,1017,28],"class_list":["post-7173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-e-j-dionne","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-msm","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7180,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions\/7180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}