“Now, everyone knows the Tea Partiers hardly represent mainstream American voters, or even mainstream conservatives.”
—Neil MacDonald, CBC reporter, in his latest smear-job in his far-left political opinion column (yes you read that right: reporter, AND hard-left-wing political opinion columnist), in which he regularly relieves himself of his immense dislike for all things conservative in America and Canada. On your dime.
I’d love to count the number of times I’ve written that liberals and leftists generally speak as though they assume every one in the room agrees with them. 
But apparently even Neil MacDonald must know he’s not going to sell this claptrap without a little goading. Whenever you hear them start a sentence with “Now, everyone knows…”, you know what you’re about to hear is utter BS and the truth is something resembling more the opposite of what they are about to say.
I guess MacDonald doesn’t read my blog, or, you know, anything except Daily Kos and Huffington Post and ACORN newsletters, and I can tell he only watches the CBC —and for that American perspective, MSNBC. Because he actually couldn’t be more wrong on just about everything he wrote about what he calls the “ultra-right Tea Partiers”. Here’s just one point in fact which also happens to counter his main smear:
Most Say Tea Party Has Better Understanding of Issues than Congress
Sunday, March 28, 2010
In official Washington, some consider the Tea Party movement a fringe element in society, but voters across the nation feel closer to the Tea Party movement than they do to Congress.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 52% of U.S. voters believe the average member of the Tea Party movement has a better understanding of the issues facing America today than the average member of Congress. Only 30% believe that those in Congress have a better understanding of the key issues facing the nation.
When it comes to those issues, 47% think that their own political views are closer to those of the average Tea Party member than to the views of the average member of Congress. On this point, 26% feel closer to Congress.
Finally, 46% of voters say that the average Tea Party member is more ethical than the average member of Congress. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say that the average member of Congress is more ethical. …
But, nonetheless, as he goes on with his anti-facts, he insists the “facts” “speak for themselves”. For example, he derisively lists these “facts” to describe the tea partiers writ large, which are really a coward’s way of calling those “ultra-right” tea partiers hateful, anti-women, anti-black, anti-“Jew”, anti-gay (as a general matter), anti-Muslim, and, in the same sentence, and therefore extremely disparagingly, Christian —from the dreadful American heartland (where they vote Republican —bleh!) and the American South, which apparently comes with some kind of self-evident geographic and typecast disdain, supposedly attached therein.
Neil Macdonald:
…They are, after all, mostly older, white, evangelicals from the heartland and the American South. And they just watched a bill they hated pushed through by a woman (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi), vocally supported by prominent Jews (Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Anthony Weiner), with the help of a powerful gay legislator (Barney Frank), and finally signed by a black president whose middle name is Hussein.
Those facts speak for themselves. …
Yeah, Mr. MacDonald, you just revealed some facts about yourself there. And they’re not complimentary.
Even from a reporter who is possibly the most arrogant reporter in North America, this is an especially sneering and dismissive, and moreover, an utterly bigoted appraisal of what most Americans — and even most conservatives in Canada — see as a positive movement for actual, principled, positive change in our society.
EXTRA:
Here’s another actual fact: “Health Care Law — One Week Later, 54% Favor Repeal of Health Care Bill”
EXTRA EXTRA:
Some other blog entries concerning the arrogant one:
• “CBC leftist, anti-conservative opinion columnist Neil Macdonald drips with anti-Christian sarcasm”
• “Antidotes to left-wing Obama-apologist stupidity at CBC —free at citizen-owned and paid-for PTBC!”
• “State-owned, socialism-reliant CBC “reporter”/opinion-writer Neil Macdonald: bigoted left-wing ass”
• “State-owned CBC reporter suggests to Canadian news audience that Americans start paying more taxes”
• “CBC’s “reporter” Neil Macdonald on Sarah Palin: Best at “talking about hunting moose””
• “State-run CBC official opinionator calls Fox News “right wing”; then channels their thinking!”
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