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Tea Party vs. Flea Party Mainstream media reporters have tried comparing the “Occupy Wall Street” protest with the Tea Party. According to Tea Partiers, the two groups are opposite. Ann Counter’s Oct. 12 op-ed piece nailed it when she said the “OWS protesters really are: wingless, bloodsucking and parasitic. This is the flea party, not the tea party.” Coulter describes the flea party as “a mixture of adolescents looking for a cause, public sector union members, drug dealers, criminals, teenage runaways, people who have been at every protest since the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Andrea Dworkin look-alikes, people 95 percent of whose hair is concentrated in their ponytails and other average Democrats -- they can't even explain what they're protesting.” http://nation.foxnews.com/wall-street-protests/2011/10/12/coulter-op-ed-wingless-bloodsucking-and-parasitic-meet-flea-party#ixzz1avNoSD4W Patriot Post on Oct. 14 gave a similar assessment of the OWS protest: “Sounds like ‘Astroturf’ and not grassroots to us. Unfortunately, the stench of Zucotti Park that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg deems ‘not good for tourism’ is very real indeed. Maybe New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was right when he wrote, ‘[T]here has in fact been nothing so far to match the behavior of Tea Party crowds in the summer of 2009.’ No, Tea Party members don't violate or vandalize private property, expose themselves indecently, or get arrested for disorderly conduct -- and they clean up after themselves when they're finished, partly because they actually leave and go home.” |
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