TeaBaggers: What’s in a name?

Huey Newton was identified as leader of the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, was identified as leader of the Civil Rights Movement, Min. Louis Farrakhan is identified as leader of the Million Man March and Cesar Chavez of the Immigration Migration Movement. Now we have a social movement called TeaBaggers with no name of a person or responsible spokesperson to which it is associated.

The name Philip Glass I’ve just learned is with the National Precinct Alliance. He is new to me. I have never before heard his name referenced nor have I seen reporters flock around him for his words of wisdom as to what the TeaBaggers are doing, going to do or have done.

Nor have I heard anyone person identified with the TeaBaggers as the names referenced above are to their movements.

Is it the objective of the media to portray the group known as TeaBaggers as a leaderless mob? Is the media awaiting a National Alliance of TeaBaggers to emerge? Is there no single voice? No biographies? No “OJ” or Tiger Wood inquiries? Has the media successfully made TeaBaggers our new nameless, scary and forbidden boggeyman from whom we all have to run and hide under the bed?

It is my contention the media can and does say anything they want with subliminal references to “nameless sources”.

-“The Teabaggers marched on the Capital…”
-“The TeaBaggers are angry with Pres. Obama…”
-“Teabagger groups are opposed to one another….”

Tea Party Convention Implodes and Collapses
by Pluto
Excerpt:
Philip Glass, the national director of the National Precinct Alliance, announced late Sunday that "amid growing controversy" around the convention, his organization would no longer participate. His group seeks to take over the Republican Party from the bottom by filling the ranks of local and state parties with grass-roots conservatives, and Mr. Glass had been scheduled to lead workshops on its strategy.

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Mr. Glass also griped about the Tea Party Express group, which has held rallies across the country through bus tours, and FreedomWorks, a Tea Party umbrella. "He called them 'Republican National Committee-related groups,' and added, 'At best, it creates the appearance of an R.N.C. hijacking; at worst, it is one.'"

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Erick Erickson, the editor of the influential conservative blog RedState.com, wrote this month that something seemed "scammy" about the convention. And the American Liberty Alliance withdrew as a sponsor after its members expressed concerns about the convention’s finances being channeled through private bank accounts and its organizer being "for profit."
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/26/830367/-Tea-Party-Convention-Implodes-and-Collapses

And

Common Ground With Tea Partiers? A Search for Understanding.
by Catzmaw
Excerpt:
Quite a few of them are basically nice people, many of them military veterans, and hardworking blue collar types who are often also deeply religious.  In short, quite a few are what could be called rednecks.  

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TEA PARTIERS ARE AFRAID THAT THE COUNTRY IS ON THE WRONG PATH.  Well, duh, we knew that already, didn't we?  But did we know WHY they think this?  I'm no psychologist, but here's a stab at it.  They like their certitudes.  Most are religious and they like the certitude offered by literal understanding of the Bible or adherence to all the rules and regulations of the more patriarchical aspects of Christianity.  From their point of view there are rules, dammit, and everyone should know those rules and it's beyond comprehension why anyone would even disagree with those rules.
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/26/830480/-Common-Ground-With-Tea-PartiersA-Search-for-Understanding.

As always,
BB
P.S. Did Beau Biden, son of VP Joe Biden, drop out of the Senate race due to the fact he could not get confirmed commitments to what he considered adequate financial backing from the Democratic Party? I was always told to follow the money…or lack thereof. I am mindful Ms. Coakly of Massachusetts confessing she did not have resources to adequately campaign for the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy.