Remember last spring?
When leftybloggers and the local and national media were scouring behind every dandelion for “racist tea partiers? When the standard of “proof” was “suspicious ambiguity?”
As most of us who actually attended Tea Party rallies knew, it was all crap.
And now we have proof:
A new analysis of political signs displayed at a tea party rally in Washington last month reveals that the vast majority of activists expressed narrow concerns about the government’s economic and spending policies and steered clear of the racially charged anti-Obama messages that have helped define some media coverage of such events.
And there’s your thesis – the media has used whatever “racist” signs they did find to paint their entire coverage of the conservative revolution. The gullible and/or depraved lefty “alternative” media has run with that meme, naturally.
Ekins’s conclusion is not that the racially charged messages are unimportant but that media coverage of tea party rallies over the past year have focused so heavily on the more controversial signs that it has contributed to the perception that such content dominates the tea party movement more than it actually does.
“Really this is an issue of salience,” Ekins said. “Just because a couple of percentage points of signs have those messages doesn’t mean the other people don’t share those views, but it doesn’t mean they do, either. But when 25 percent of the coverage is devoted to those signs, it suggests that this is the issue that 25 percent of people think is so important that they’re going to put it on a sign, when it’s actually only a couple of people.”
Conservatives can expect the media to slander us. But it’s good to fight it.
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