Jamie Radtke of RTP had a guest column in the Richmond Times Dispatch in the Sunday Edition, April 25, 2010. We have received a significant amount of positive response. Here is the article: Questions and confusion abound in the media -- and among the political establishment in both parties -- about how the Tea Party [...]
The fact that the national media would even give a second of air time to the idea that the Tea Party movement is in anyway connected to domestic terrorism is not only offensive and completely out of line, but it is irresponsible and libelous. Recently President Clinton tried to draw a relationship between the Tea [...]
Here’s the beginning of a fair-minded Washington Post article by Robert McCartney (a man who doesn’t happen to agree with much of our movement, by the way): I went to the "tea party" rally at the Washington Monument on Thursday to check out just how reactionary and potentially violent the movement truly was. Answer: Not very. Based on what [...]
It is clearly a tactic of the Progressive Left to portray the mainstream Tea Party movement as racist and violent. President Clinton has made it his occuption to change public opinion of the Tea Party mvoement so that people perceive us as somehow dangerous and fringe. Anyone who has been to a Tea Party Rally, [...]
Retired editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Ross Mackenzie, writes a great piece at RealClearPolitics on the Tea Party movement. It is an absolute read for everyone. Protest is the essence of America. It formed the nation. To say people attending these rallies are loons is to say the same of those who dumped tea into Boston [...]
President Obama actually said this: Speaking at a Democratic fundraiser tonight, President Obama touted his administration’s tax cuts and said that the recent tea party rallies across the nation have "amused" him. "You would think they should be saying thank you," the president said to applause. Really? I suppose if 95% of us actually did [...]
Coverage of the fundraiser and Tax Day Rally from various local media outlets.
Today, the Richmond Tea Party joined with other like-minded Tea Parties across the United States to form the National Tea Party Federation (NTPF), whose singular purpose is to collaborate and strategize on media messaging. The NTPF will present a unified message and media response among Tea Party groups. This is NOT an attempt to centralize Tea [...]
When I first read this, I thought I was being set up for a joke. But it’s no joke—CNN reporter Shannon Travis is covering the Tea Party movement with honesty, fairness, and what seems to be some degree of admiration. Travis reports But here's what you don't often see in the coverage of Tea Party rallies: [...]
After a recent poll showing that Americans identify more with the Tea Party than with members of Congress, Rasmussen brings us this: On major issues, 48% of voters say that the average Tea Party member is closer to their views than President Barack Obama. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 44% hold [...]
The media continues to languish months to years behind the reality curve, reporting facts long after we in the Tea Party have known them. In the latest example, they’re just figuring out that we aren’t simply a bunch of angry, white males after all: Many of the tea party’s most influential grass-roots and national leaders [...]
Rasmussen just released a poll that shows Americans by large numbers believe 1) Tea Party members understand the issues facing America better than members of Congress, and 2) their positions on those issues align more closely with those of the Tea Party than with those of congressional members: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey [...]
