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		<title>A Little Late on this One, But Why Not?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I&#8217;m about ten days late on this entry to the blog &#8211; my apologies. The topic of this entry is the tea party events that took place on April 15th as a sign of disgust with the increasing number of taxes that Americans are being asked to pay. I didn&#8217;t attend any of [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m about ten days late on this entry to the blog &#8211; my apologies.  The topic of this entry is the tea party events that took place on April 15th as a sign of disgust with the increasing number of taxes that Americans are being asked to pay.  I didn&#8217;t attend any of these tea parties (even though one was taking place literally one block away from my office), but I did watch the coverage on the news and I engaged in a lot of post-party reading on the internet.<br />
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<p>Of all the reports that struck me, the one that made me go wide-eyed the most was the one of the woman from CNN who claimed that she was being harassed at the tea party which was anti-tax and, &#8220;anti-CNN.&#8221;  Anti-CNN?  Really?  If you <strong>watch the video</strong>, you&#8217;ll notice that this woman was being rude and arrogant to the people in the crowd &#8211; not letting them finish answers to her questions and cutting them off.  Frankly, she was being an all-around asshole.  The term &#8220;self-important bitch&#8221; comes to mind when I watch the video.  And for those of you who suggest that she had every right to berate the guy with the anti-Obama sign remember two things.  First, she&#8217;s a journalist and what she believes is best saved for an op-ed, not a news report.  Second, this same woman attended a parade a few years ago held by those on the far left of the political spectrum and laughed and condoned an image of President George W. Bush as Adolf Hitler.</p>
<p>Fair and balanced?  Definitely not so on CNN.</p>
<p>As she was saying this I couldn&#8217;t help but think of that episode of Family Guy where Peter secedes from the union and founds the country of Petoria.  At one point during the episode, Tom Tucker is reporting live from the scene and starts saying how bad it was and how it was a full-out war between the United States and Petoria&#8230;then the camera pans towards him and you see him making the gunfire noises with plastic bubble paper and rocket noises with a slide whistle!  It seems that the fictional Tom Tucker and the real world &#8220;reporter&#8221; from CNN went to the same journalism school!</p>
<p>Anyway, the Constitution Party came out with an e-mail to those on its e-mail list saying the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>We suggest you now send your emails to CNN Executive Vice President Ken Jautz : ken.jautz@cnn.com and Philip Kent, the Chairman and CEO of CNN: phil.kent@turner.com</p>
<p>Let Susan&#8217;s boss know you&#8217;re not going to let off the hook a left-wing activist with a mic who was denouncing a legitimate and honest political movement by hard working Americans. Remind the CNN honchos that there were close to one million attendees at the tea parties. </p></blockquote>
<p>Now, I normally don&#8217;t go putting up these types of e-mails on this blog, but I think that this particular message has some resounding value.  It&#8217;s really ridiculous that CNN would put such a biased, arrogant report on the air.  I was one of the many people who moved away from FOX News&#8217; coverage of the Presidential campaign and over to CNN because they just had better coverage this year.  However, now that I see such blatant bias, I really can&#8217;t stick with CNN as my &#8220;flip to&#8221; channel.  It&#8217;s back to FOX News for me &#8211; where, believe it or not, they are much more &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; than the dummies at CNN.</p>
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		<title>Tax Day 2009 Cometh!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is tax day. Whoo hoo! Or not&#8230; I&#8217;m only putting up a brief post this morning because I want everyone out there to keep an eye on their local media to see if the &#8220;Tea Parties&#8221; are covered. Some of the major cable news channels have been talking for a while about how Americans [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is tax day.  Whoo hoo!  Or not&#8230;  I&#8217;m only putting up a brief post this morning because I want everyone out there to keep an eye on their local media to see if the &#8220;Tea Parties&#8221; are covered.  Some of the major cable news channels have been talking for a while about how Americans of all political parties will be taking part in &#8220;Tea Parties&#8221; today to protest the growing feeling of taxation without representation.</p>
<p>Granted, I don&#8217;t think that we are taxed without being represented, but we are definitely subjected to expenses (i.e. uses of our tax dollars) with which the majority of Americans would disagree.  For example, when there is poverty in America, I&#8217;m confident that a majority of Americans would support using tax dollars to alleviate American poverty before alleviating poverty in other countries.  That&#8217;s a random example, I know.</p>
<p>Anyway, keep an eye on the media to see if they have any coverage of these &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; events.</p>
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