Raven Brooks

The much hyped Tea Party Nation Unity Convention in Las Vegas is no more. They “rescheduled” it in June, but no one called it what it really was. A cancellation. Now it has quietly gone away, yet the media narrative is still one that portrays the Tea Party as a strong grassroots force to be reckoned with.

A small piece hit CNN’s blog today stating that the National Tea Party Unity convention was moving from its set date of July 15-17 to October 2010.

This should be a juicy media story about the staying power of the Tea Party movement. Are they going to keep it going or does the excitement fizzle out at some point? That’s pretty much the first question I’d be asking if I were a reporter covering the Tea Party and this crossed my desk. But that’s not what you get in this CNN piece.

To make the point bluntly their stated reasons for moving the convention are bullshit, and CNN buried the real reason this is happening in the story which was “moving back the date allows other Tea Party groups to attend the convention.” In other words they’re two weeks from their event and they’ve got no attendees and no interest in it.

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The go-to narrative for far too many beltway pundits has been that Democrats are in serious danger of massive losses this November in both the House and Senate. Most recently we saw that play out in PA-12 where pundits claimed it was the bellwether, then the Democrat won and they were silent. It’s a near [...]