Now that the national tea parties are over we see just how predictably dismissive and contemptuous the Big Media elites are.  Is there any doubt that if these protests were perceived as liberal or leftwing, that the mainstream media would have been covering it with glowing enthusiasm?

So what were some of the responses from the alphabet news outlets?

Dan Harris of ABC: “Cheered on by Fox News and talk radio, the hundreds of tea parties today were designed to protest the bailouts, the stimulus plan, and President Obama’s budget.” He continued with: “But critics on the left say this is not a real grassroots phenomenon at all, that it’s actually largely orchestrated by people fronting for corporate interests.”

The tea parties were a grassroots idea that started and spread across the internet. And this idea of linking conservatives or the rightwing to “corporate interests”, let’s set the record straight. Obama and the Democrats received far more money from corporate America than did McCain and Republicans. The Democratic Party is the new party of Wallstreet.

Dean Reynolds of CBS: “a fistful of rightward leaning Web sites and commentators embraced the cause.”

Notice how dismissive Reynolds is with his “fistful” description, minimizing the numbers which are much greater than a ‘fistful’.

Lee Cowan of NBC: “some observers suggest not all of it was as home-grown as it may seem”.

Again, a suggestion of deception on the part of the protestors; that perhaps the rightwing or corporations are behind it (the standard playbook response).

Anderson Cooper of CNN made an obscene sexual joke about the protestors. Imagine the outrage and calls for his firing if instead it was a code pink rally or some other liberal event. But because the protest is viewed as conservative, the insulting humor gets a free pass.

Susan Roesgen of CNN: (watch the video) “Anti-government, anti-CNN since this is highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox and since I can’t really hear much more and I think this is not really family viewing.”

Roesgen probably had the most appalling performance of any reporter covering the event. Her condescending tone, smug look on her face, and obvious contempt for the protestors proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that America simply cannot trust the bias Big Media.

The tea parties were a grassroots protest from people of all backgrounds. It wasn’t staged or orchestrated by FOX news or any rightwing groups. It was ordinary working tax-paying citizens who are fed up with the taxes, spending, corruption and lies from the politicians in Washington, particularly the Obama Administration.