CNN shovels the bullshit: Disgruntled Democrats join the Tea Party

[cali]

By Shannon Travis, CNN Political Producer
April 2, 2010 6:16 p.m. EDT

Grand Junction, Colorado (CNN) -- They are not typical Tea Party activists: A woman who voted for President Obama and believes he's a "phenomenal speaker." Another who said she was a "knee-jerk, bleeding heart liberal."

These two women are not alone.

Some Americans who say they have been sympathetic to Democratic causes in the past -- some even voted for Democratic candidates -- are angry with President Obama and his party. They say they are now supporting the Tea Party -- a movement that champions less government, lower taxes and the defeat of Democrats even though it's not formally aligned with the Republican Party.

To be sure, the number of Democrats in the Tea Party movement is small. A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows that while 96 percent of Tea Party activists identify themselves as either Republican or Independent, only 4 percent say they are Democrats.

Some of these disgruntled voters are taking part in the current Tea Party Express tour. The tour began in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's hometown of Searchlight, Nevada, on March 28 and is making 44 stops across the nation. It ends in Washington on tax day -- April 15.

Ann Ducket attended the Tea Party rally in Grand Junction, Colorado, on Wednesday.

A lawyer and lifelong Democrat, Ducket made her political leanings clear: She said she was a campus community organizer for Democratic Sen. George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, voted for Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, and previously ran for elective office in Colorado as a Democrat.

"I was a card-carrying member of the ACLU, and I probably did inhale in college," Ducket said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/02/democrats.tea.party/

[apples and oranges]

1. Sure...

Why did she feel the need to mention all the left wing stereotypes that she fit?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. To show that she was all liberal and stuff.

Unfortunately, being liberal means more than just doing pot. What she really seems to be is a libertarian.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Those are some dumb motherfuckers.

"RAPE!"

Ugh.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. You don't even need to call bullshit. The bullshit is so obvious it calls itself.

I'm a lifelong democrat but blah blah blah soshulist blah blah death panels blah blah...

Give me a fucking break. Is this what CNN is reduced to?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. Yes.

CNN has decided to aim for the Fox backwash.

[spanone]

6. i want some fucking numbers from the goddamn media....how many???? F A C T S/F U C K E R S

[Scurrilous]

7. "...I probably did inhale in college," Ducket said."

Paint thinner perhaps?

[XOKCowboy]

8. HEY LOOK WE FOUND ONE!!!

Hey I guess it's really about the only thing "newsworthy" in the TeaBagger circus. One former Democrat who's gone nuts. Leave it to CNN make it into "news".

Why is CNN the official network of the TeaBaggers? Don't they realize that 99% of those people consider them Left Wing? It's no wonder they're going in the tank.

[nc4bo]

9. Oh goodie, more PUMAS. CNN = fail. nt

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. So 13% of Americans consider themselves teabaggers and 4% of those are Democrats

What percentage of Democrats voted for Obama in the first place? Not 100%

[Robb]

11. Opensecrets.org has her donating $250 to state Democratic committee in 1993.

After that she's a ghost, money-wise. Ran for DA in Grand Junction at some point, it seems, presumably as a Democrat.

Dems are pretty lonely in GJ, by the way.

[chill_wind]

12. 4 percent, eh? I suppose they could squeese this for a lot more

if they could hunt each one down individually and do an hour long interview with each one between now and election day. That would help them drag it out a little longer.

*96 percent are Righties.* There's your story CNN. That's it. That's the story.

[county worker]

13. Hey I inhaled in college, I am a card carrying member of the ACLU,

I did campus organizing for Gene McCarthy and voted for Gore but not Carter. I guess next I'll become a teaparty idiot!

(BTW the college from which I graduated and worked for McCarthy at is the University of Dayton the 2010 NIT champions!)

[951-Riverside]

14. I think this was her about a year ago.

:sarcasm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KACQuZVAE3s

[greencharlie]

15. sure I believe it...

ever seen SOME of the Democrats from Texas, Alabama, Mississippi or Georgia?

[depakid]

17. +1

Though the point of the OP is well taken. CNN is every bit the propaganda outlet as Fox is- in some ways even more insidious, as they usually try to be less blatant and in your face with it.

[Political Heretic]

16. corner case news, its how M$M works - 24/7 news cycle means inventing stories when news is slow.

[rurallib]

18. Hasn't CNN learned yet that FUX lite is a losing proposition

the idiots that watch FUX are not going to watch you CNN. They are not. And being an imitation of a failure makes you a double failure.

[WinkyDink]

19. Liars lie. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

[glinda]

20. WH needs to wake up and take care of media imbalance and ownership.

[Arugula Latte]

21. Yes, this is obviously a huge demographic trend.

Oh, excuse me, I mean HUGH!1!11!

[Robeson]

22. This gives the media cover, so that they want have to say that the Teaklanners...

...are right-wing nut jobs. They'll be able to say "Democrats are in it, too".

[ThatPoetGuy]

23. These just AREN'T words a liberal would say....

So much of the quotes are right-wing mantras. "Knee-jerk, bleeding heart liberal." "Community organizer." "Card-carrying member of the ACLU."

Let's suppose I want to pretend to be a disgruntled Republican joining the Democrats. Let's remove any subtlety from my pretense. I say, "I used to be a Republican. I was such a teabagger, a fascist racist dittohead. I never had compassion for anybody. I was in the pocket of the corporations."

Do you think CNN would just assume I'm telling the truth and report my claims verbatim? Or would they not report such a thing at all?

[ThoughtCriminal]

24. And the PUMA freak show returns to Cable News!

Up next: "Chickens for Col. Sanders"

[Mike 03]

25. Cali, just so you know, I wrote a very long response in support of your post, but

it vanished because of the pathethic internet service I have.

But I love you.

[Fading Captain]

26. Don't kid yourself

Even here at DU, people act as if this is a two-party country.

So where do you think a real pissed of Dem is gonna go?