What’s the Deal With the Tea-baggers?

What’s the Deal With the Tea-baggers?

What’s the Deal With the Tea-baggers?

Jon Stewart draws the distinction between sponsoring and covering the tax day tea parties for Fox News, since they can’t do it themselves.

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Although a general feeling of dissatisfaction with the current administration drove the organization for the tax day tea parties, the day brought out a confusing set of grievances. Jon Stewart alluded to that confusion, the implicit support of the demonstrations by Fox News and the fact that the parties mostly seemed like a protest on irony.

Gabriela Resto-Montero

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