Tea Party Movement Does Not Move Social Media

Obvious liberal shill is obvious.

Here's an interesting glimpse into the right-wing mindset:

"Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve"

A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".

As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.

All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".

Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.

"This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin.

One of the psychologists behind the study, Jack Glaser, said the aversion to shades of grey and the need for "closure" could explain the fact that the Bush administration ignored intelligence that contradicted its beliefs about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/13/usa.redbox

The study is available in PDF and it's a great read, google:

"Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition"

This idiot has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.

Bashing the opposite side is completely ignorant.

Maybe you should INVENT some intelligence for yourself and educate yourself. There is a HUGE tea party movement online. Learn how to use technology and not just SIMPLE search terms and you will find this out for yourself.

Hopefully you are not a journalist, because if you are...this is a piss poor article and you are a piss poor excuse for a journalist.

I don't even know what this site is, but with this poor excuse of writing, I'll never come to it again.

Who is in denial. Perchance did you catch the elections in 2008?? They were a tad more significant than the scattered ones since.

People vote local, largely, though the national scene has an influence. But why leave out New York??

Teabaggers are not a movement - it's a lot of corprate/political money ginning up a handful of people. Pull Fox News and it falls flat. Real movements do not depend on a news network to get them started.

I never got past: "...why hasn't this group chosen to be represented on social networks?" as our local Tea Party uses Facebook as our primary communications/meeting place.

The rest appears to be the usual silly socialist hokum.

So, Ron Callari, did this satisfy the requirement for sophomore creative writing and was your left handed professor impressed?

I might have to re-think my following every link on Google News...

Can't you folks see, this whole tea party business is a flash in the pan. Sturm und Drang. Sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The reason it's not more widespread on Facebook and Twitter is that these are old farts who don't know how to use them!

Reg Perrin

Whoa, ease up pal. Your rant points to a quote from above: "This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes,"

What happened to discourse? Take a deep breath.

Wow, accusations of bashing and name-calling from the folks who hold up signs calling Obama a Nazi and a Socialist. Hey Mr Kettle, phone call for you, it's Mr Pot, he says "You're black."

OK, sorry to all. I was responding to "ignorant post."

.... After Obama gets re-elected in 2012?

Its sad that the GOP, once strong with the leadership of Reagan is now a blathering, whining bunch of "I'm running for office to get rich and sell books" Palin what-to-bees.

Its as if they STOPPED following ANY republican values and are just parroting Rush Limbaugh. Problem is Limbaugh is an entertainer!.

Stages of GOP reality:
1) Denial. They deny they wiped-out the economy and lost the presidency.
2) "Not me, you!" Ah, yes. The game that 7 years play. One kid does something and gets laughed at, and says "Not me, you!"
3) Fraud. If you can grow a grass roots campaign, then pay Fox News to orchestrate one for you.
4) Parrot. Keep your entire GOP platform down to Rush Limbaugh sound bites. Don't discuss issues!
5) Find a new fake topic to hype every two weeks and scream, scream, scream about it. Because screaming like a lunatic always impresses voters.

The tea party "movement" is just a bunch of old, beer bellied, angry , white men, who
suffer from paranoia and ignorance. We are fortunate that most tea partiers are old and will pass in a few years and go the way of the original Archie Bunker.

"Whoa, ease up pal. Your rant points to a quote from above: "This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes,"

What happened to discourse? Take a deep breath."

Hi... not a rant, just quotes from a $1.2 million study done funded and completed under the Bush admin.

"Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/13/usa.redbox

More and more people are growing tired of the usual politics from both sides of the aisle. Where do they have to turn? There's a lack of leadership on the right and the arrogance and irresponsibility on the left. Lots of people do not approve of where the country is heading and are now speaking out.

Is it a united, cohesive and well organized movement? No... not yet. So that's reason to mock them? They aren't tweeting enough? They don't have a common page with millions of Facebook friends?

It's sad if that is the bar for validation or recognition.

I watched the Tea party coverage on CSPAN last night. The viewers' calls and comments were especially interesting...when asked if the Tea Party should form a 3rd national party, at least half the viewers replied in the negative. There were no follow-up questions by the host (which would have been interesting as to why the individuals did not believe in the creation of a 3rd national party). Instead, the host would ask the viewer to expand on his/her thinking only if the answer was positive. One listener, when asked if the Tea Party was a force in his area, replied that , "yeah, I know a couple of other people interested in it and I sent out an email today so I think it's going to start building".

Watching Americans make up their political mind is like seeing chicken flock to support for KFC. Their gut reaction when being angered, no matter who feeds that anger, is to lash out to anything, including their own shin-bones. It's kind of fubby in a sad and pathetic way.

I would hardly blame the GOP for Scott Brown's election! Massachussetts is a one party state!

So to get elected he had to get the votes of independents and YOUR party members!

The right-wingnuts think "An American Carol" with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of TWELVE PERCENT and Dennis Miller are a laugh riot.

And of course there was also Fox News/GOP TV attempt a humor "The 1/2 Hour News Hour"which lasted for about 13 shows, lol.

"MetaCritic's television division, which produces composite scores based on prominent reviewers' opinions of television pilots, other episodes, and/or DVD releases,[9] gave The Half Hour News Hour pilots a score of 12 out of 100, making it the lowest rated television production ever reviewed on the site."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1/2_Hour_News_Hour

The liberal troll author states that it could only find one "tea party" account on Twitter. I found so many that I got tired of clicking next (while looking through them)

I understand soclialist, liberal, and leftist, but left handed? This type of hokum is what causes unjust bias in the first place. Not to mention you've also attempted to discredit education in the same swipe.

Next time you look at anything at all in your abode, notice that someone with a higher education had to go to some length to invent it, from the chemical treating of the wood to the fabrication of polymers and plastics. Or don't.

It seems pretty common for those bashing socialism to ignore all of the potential benefits, such as roads, medicare, or airplanes (look it up). The only problem with socialized programs is that the public that is to gain from it fights the benefits tooth and nail because of corporate and mass media scare tactics. That and corruption.

There are a lot more folks disenfranchised with the federal government and the Obama regime than anyone knows. We'll see how devoted we are to oust those in all levels of government who spend our money as if there is a never ending supply. Watch the primaries. Watch the general elections. A change is coming that will restore hope, although the hope and change won't be that envisioned by the federal government troika of Obama, Reid and Pelosi.

One thing about conservatives is that they really stick together, unlike liberals. They take their marching orders and aren't allowed to come across an alternative opinion or realize facts. They will rather believe a lie than believe the truth. When Obama's out of office, liberals should learn from these teabaggers and just spread fear and lies to the American people. But we all know they don't have the stones like conservatives. It's funny how conservatives tried to discredit Ron Paul during the debates, but stole his Tea Party movement ideas and morphed it into loony uneducated people with no internet access to fact check what they repeat.

The 'tea party' is made up of many groups and individuals few of whom (comparatively) want to become the force behind some third party's PAC and political power. In the real events there is a ton of social media, live blogging, etc. You are right that that is one of the signs.

The group at the convention includes some real Tea Partiers, but also some opportunists. Whatever. No one has a copyright on the name.

On Facebook, one of the Tea Parties is under Hampton Roads Tea Party and they send out regular updates. They might be listed by cities.

Bet you voted for Bush.