Saturday, April 18, 2009

MSNBC - Your turn Keith Olberman had Janine Garofolo on the other day and her rantings on what was really behind the "tea party' that took place all across the country on April 15, 2009. I am offended beyond belief.

She started with that those people did not even know what the First Boston Tea Party was about, well get ready to eat your words.

"The Boston Tea Party was a direct action protest by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and has often been referenced in other political protests.

The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act for a variety of reasons, especially because they believed that it violated their constitutional right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives. Protestors had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, embattled Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow the tea to be returned to Britain. He apparently did not expect that the protestors would choose to destroy the tea rather than concede the authority of a legislature in which they were not directly represented.

The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, which, among other provisions, closed Boston's commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea. Colonists in turn responded to the Coercive Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the First Continental Congress, which petitioned for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them. The crisis escalated, and the American Revolutionary War began near Boston in 1775."

Do you even know what it was about? Then she pulled out the Racist card, seriously? Did you even bother to watch the coverage? Oh, that is right you think FOX News was behind it, again your stupidity is running amok. All Fox News did was report the news, and bloggers got the word out. It was not against President Obama it was against all of government spending, and why are we 'tax payers' paying so much?

Also, who are you that you get air time and since your and actress you can "act" as if you know what you are saying is the truth and people believe it, if they are as ignorant as you are. Keith Olberman did a disservice to being and anchor person, he never interjected or gave another side to your agrument but again he is from MSNBC the sister ship to CNN..

This is again "Mainstream Media" trying to slant the story and make it out to be dumb people who are being lead by the bad, "FOX NEWS", instead of the fact the citizens of the US want change, as was promised and we are not getting what we need or want. The fact that she basically said all the demonstraters were dumb and racisit, I think she should go back and try to act and stay away from the real world and politics unless she is running for office all of a sudden. Keith Olberman is just a fool and does not really know what fair journalism is now does he?

1 comment:

U NO HOO said...

"unless she is running for office all of a sudden"

Franken/Garofalo '10