Andrea Mitchell named the tea party movement as her pick for “person” of the year:
They’ve changed the debate on deficit reduction. They’ve got, you’ve got Ron Paul now in charge of monetary policy from the House. They have changed politics for now in Washington.
David Ignatius of the Washington Post and Helene Cooper of the New York Times chose Assange:
It’s painful to say this but I would say Julian Assange the head of WikiLeaks.
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Not even in terms of being a lightning rod does Assange match the tea party. Assange hasn’t changed anything within this country except, perhaps, to remind this administration that loose lips sink ships.
It’s interesting how the media spend the first year trying to disown the significance of the tea party from the annals of history; they then spent the first half of the second year screeching on about how this “fringe” group has taken over the GOP and they, the media are truly concerned about the GOP. I think the only reason many reporters even began covering the tea party is because they watched their job security slip away as more and more Americans turned to outlets, both on air and online, that actually reported on the movement. Are some of them now going back to the first tactic?
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