Why Don’t Tea Parties Care About Wall Street? Because Fox Didn’t Tell Them To

Cenk Uyger has a very good point about the lack of…er, anything coming out of the tea parties in the wake of Wall Street's excesses:

If you remember, the Tea Parties were originally formed to protest the bailouts. They were so mad at the Wall Street bankers who destroyed the economy and then took our hard earned money for their efforts.

So, they will take this opportunity, of course, to launch their own protest of Wall Street. They will protest the TARP money, the easy credit, the lack of regulation, the wild risk taking and the excessive bonuses paid with taxpayer money. They're really going to take the fight to them.

Just kidding. They're not going to do anything. They're going to sit out this fight on financial reform and put absolutely no pressure on Wall Street at all. Because they are tools easily manipulated by right-wing organizations funded by corporate America.

Cenk chalks it up to the fact that Americans for Prosperity and Freedomworks didn't arrange any corporate-sponsored bus rides against Goldman Sachs. Which is probably true — tea partiers tend to "demonstrate on command."

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