Reply #9: Good Question - Why Not Cover The Heavy Role That GE and Other Corporate Types Played

[Median Democrat]

Jon Stewart on the The Daily Show did a great job of being funny AND exposing how Fox News and Rick Santelli played a prominent role in helping to organize and draw attention to this "grassroots" protest. Indeed, the anti-war movement had much bigger grass roots following, yet the media did not give such protests a fraction of the coverage being given to this corporate sponsored tea-bagging protest. John Stewart told the truth. Here's Thing Progress:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/lobbyists-planning-teaparties

Where's Rachel Maddow? Rather than just snickering like Beavis and Butthead about "teabagging," why not point out the role of the GOP and corporate media in promoting this so-called "grassroots" protest? Why not contrast this coverage with coverage of anti-war protests during the Bush years?