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It was recently announced that Sarah Palin, during her debut interview on Fox News Channel as Fox News’ latest political analyst, would be a guest speaker at a ‘Tea Party’ in February.
No longer are tea parties a game little girls play with their dolls, or a high tea in the upper crust of English society. Today across America, a ‘tea party’ is a protest coordinated at grassroots levels, speaking against President Obama, the federal budget and the stimulus package and in protest of ‘big government.
The April tea parties were the biggest so far, with demonstrations being recorded in over 750 cities. The Christian Science Monitor said that over half a million Americans participated in the protests. However, local authorities, organizers and attendees often came up with widely varying numbers. President for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, estimated that only around 286,000 attended in over 200 cities.
While in Atlanta, Georgia the tea parties drew an estimated 7,000 attendees, some gatherings only attracted less than a dozen people. The demonstration outside the White House was shifted when a box of tea bags were thrown across the White House lawn, causing the bomb-detecting robot to be used to determine if the package was safe.
The New York Times reported that the Tea Party Patriots website urged those who attended meetings about health care, should be deliberately disruptive. The Independence Day protests were more focused on local issues than on national ones.
Tea is an acronym for ‘Taxed Enough Already’. Based on the Boston Tea Party, the images are deliberately taken from the American Revolution.
Fox News Channel, owned by Rupert Murdoch, backed the tea parties in a big way. Media Matters said that Fox News showed 107 commercial promotions for their coverage of the tea party protests, in the ten days prior to April 15th.
Currently the tea party movement appears to have no dominant leader, though Grammy Award winning singer Ray Stevens, has released a new, tea party song that is going viral.
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