Two Links; one question, one answer

While not phrasing this as a question, Noemie Emery in the Washington Examiner writes:

Media still clueless about Tea Parties.

To hear the media tell it, the Tea Party movement is one of the most mysterious forces ever to surface in national life. Since February 2009, when CNBC's Rick Santelli urged his listeners to dump unfunded derivatives into Lake Michigan to protest the developing culture of bailouts, they have been nothing but open about their fears of insolvency, their discomfort with increasing size of the government and their terror of deficits.

The media listen closely to all these objections, and decide they must mean something else. They say they fear debt, and the media insist that they must fear Hispanics (why they hate Marco Rubio), that they fear blacks (why they hate Thomas Sowell), that they fear strong women (why they want Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin to be sent back to the kitchen in chains). Read the rest of her article here.So in further reading online today I find in Jewish World Review a post by Arnold Ahlert with a hopeful take on the Arizona law on the illegal immingrant's.  I take is as one of the answers to the question "What do the Tea Partiers Want?"  We want a nation of law. We honor the constitution.  Ahlert's post:

Arizona: Progressivism's Waterloo?

"For any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency…where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person…" — the essential clause in Arizona's new immigration law

There are many reasons to be thankful that Arizona has passed a sensible law to combat illegal immigration, but one of the most important ones is this: the bankruptcy of the progressive worldview and the utter abdication of anything resembling journalistic integrity by their media enablers is strutting itself across the national stage.

And absolutely nothing is better than both entities revealing their true colors to the American public.

It is impossible to measure the hypocrisy. The same media which has strained itself looking for any shred of negativity they could hang around the necks of the Tea Party movement, is apparently deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to the unruliness, overt racism and uncontrolled anger of the pro-illegal demonstrators who have branded ordinary Arizonans Nazis and racists for daring to defend themselves against an onslaught of illegal interlopers.

Now, of course he is talking about a specific and I am speaking in generalities but it answers and demonstrates the question of what the tea partiers want.  We want an unbiased news account of what is happening.  We want the constitution to be followed in every way.  We want the government to be held accountable.  We want less intrusion, not more.   Read all of both posts. Ahlert's and Emery's.