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Rand Paul, the Tea Party, and the Media

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While the mainstream media (networks such as NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and ABC, and publications such as Newsweek, Time, and the New York Times) are known for their belief that liberal opinion constitutes political orthodoxy, the Tea Party has robustly challenged these suppositions, especially with Senator Rand Paul’s (picture, left) emergence as the de facto head and most prominent media spokesman for the burgeoning political movement and its agenda of limited, constitutional government, free markets, individual liberty, and fiscal restraint.

While The Tea Party Goes to Washington has enjoyed broad media coverage, Paul’s own observations on the hostility of the mainstream media toward the Tea Party movement serve as a reminder of the biased treatment conservatives can expect: “There has been a concerted effort since the tea party began to rise, since my victory, to paint us as something we are not. Until we buy advertising, the message is controlled by the other side.”

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