Tea pot shots

A few words on the new “Slander a fellow patriot today” movement.

by Sibyl West

Any fool can criticize and most fools do. Is there anything easier than standing on the sidelines, watching someone else try to do something and then taking pot shots at their efforts?

And is there anything more difficult than taking personal responsibility and doing something individually creative and original?

“Contrariness is creativity for the untalented,” sez Dennis Miller. That sounds about right. Behold two items in the onslaught of mainstream media propaganda masquerading as news today.

Hundreds of conservative activists converge for the start of National Tea Party Convention

And this one is full to the brim with bias and half truth:

Judson Phillips Threw a Tea Party, and Trouble Came

Folks, don’t let anybody – friend or foe – try to turn you against the others who are trying to make a difference. Don’t fall for the “they’re wrong but we’re right so join us” meme. In my view, what we are doing is a think-nationally-act-locally endeavor. That’s not to say don’t choose your friends wisely but if you don’t like what one group is doing, go somewhere else and keep working. Stay focused on the goal.

Here is a little reminder of what to expect as you try to ‘take back America’.

The Paradoxical Commandments

by Dr. Kent M. Keith

1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
   Love them anyway.
   
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
   Do good anyway.
   
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
   Succeed anyway.
   
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
   Do good anyway.
   
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
   Be honest and frank anyway.
   
6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
   Think big anyway.
   
7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
   Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
   
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
   Build anyway.
   
9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
   Help people anyway.
   
10. Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.

© 1968, 2001 Kent M. Keith

“The Paradoxical Commandments” were written by Kent M. Keith in 1968 as part of a booklet for student leaders.

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I just saw two fantastic speakers on the Tea Party Convention live stream on PJTV.com. (Register. It’s free.)

“It’s because we’re effective that we’re being attacked.”

Amy Kremer, Director of the Tea Party Express talked about the evolution of the tea party movement since last February. She has been one of the drivers and organizers. Her demeanor is confident, decent, cooperative, appreciative and humble. She said to the audience regarding Scott Brown’s election, “We did that. And next we’re coming for Harry Reid.” The crowd went wild in the auditorium, and I can only guess what happened in homes across America where people were watching it live.

She talked about educating people to empower them, and that we don’t need the media at all. That we need unity within the movement and must “come together, stop bickering, backbiting and divisiveness. Go find the group where you fit in. Stop pointing the gun inside the boat and start pointing it at the enemy.”  And she quoted the great Ronald Reagan:

“There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.”

Next, Andrew Breitbart took the stage. He who refers to himself as “a C student” brought the house to its feet during his delivery. He took aim at the mainstream media and declared, “Their capacity to continue doing what they’re doing is officially over.”

He described the entire ACORN expose from the time O’Keefe brought the tapes into Andrew’s basement, where watching them he considered them “weird, weirder, weirdest”. He referred to the narrative of the leftist media: that the left is helping people. This was the main reason the leftist dominated media ignored the story and why it ignores the tea party movement.

Breitbart pointed out that the MSM has only two templates against the New Media – the racism card and Watergate – and neither of these are working anymore. And he hinted that this election cycle in 2010 will be the worst the MSM has ever known because of what Breitbart has up his sleeve.

I for one cannot wait.