I thought this was an amusing headline and lede from The Politico.
GOP tries to recapture town hall anger
Republicans are looking to resurrect the angry town halls of August in the last few weeks of November.
That’s very nice and all that, but you can’t recapture something you never had. What Ranu Maju has missed, probably because he wasn’t paying much attention, is that the town hall protests were not GOP constructs at all. Yes, they tended to target Democrats more than Republicans, but that’s only becasue more Democrats than Republicans were likely to favor Obamacare in its various Congressional incarnations. Indeed, the town hall protesters have taken great pains to point out to all and sundry that they are speaking as ordinary Americans and not as members of any specific political party and that what they actually oppose is runaway government spending, no matter who proposes it.
Of course, the reporter would needed listen to what the protesters are saying to get any of that. Alternately, he could have called RNC Chair Michael Steele and asked him how warmly he was embraced by the tea party movement.
These are the kinds of articles that result when journalists write out of their own preconceptions and biases rather than bothering to do any actual research. The charitable conclusion that can be drawn is that they are merely lazy and/or stupid but I am rarely feeling quite that charitable.
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