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This morning David Gregory said, with a straight face, the Tax Day Tea Parties were a “grass roots” movement, and that the Republicans see this as an opportunity to try to return to power by returning to their core principles. He mentioned the Republicans wanted to tap into the “grass roots” anger regarding Obama’s federal spending and taxes. These “grass roots” tea parties are anything but, as Jane Hamsher of firedoglake.com articulates with an excellent article on the timeline of the Tea Parties. In it she clearly equates the Tea Parties to Michelle Malkin of Fox News, in addition to Rick Santelli of CNBC, and Dick Armey’s & Newt Gingrich’s FreedomWorks special interest group.

It is intellectually dishonest for David Gregory, who took the mantle of Meet the Press from the deceased Tim Russert, to provide a continuation of propaganda from a competitive network by ignoring or failing to disclose  who funded these supposedly “grass roots” Tax Day Tea Parties: rich special interest groups.

Let’s face it, Fox News is the mouthpiece of the very rich & the GOP. But when they influence other supposed ‘journalists’ of other networks, the agitprop spreads, and disinformation spreads as well. Unfortunately, working class Americans rely on NBC for information and they are clearly being ill-served.

That it would be difficult to equivocate the current economical crisis with the fiscal policies of the previous President, George W. Bush, or the budget that finally passed after being held up from the previous Session of Congress, which is not “Obama’s Budget” as the GOP would have you believe, is ethically bankrupt. To ignore Obama’s tax cut for anyone making less than $250,000, fully 95% of the American working class, is also a continuance of the propaganda espoused by Fox News. It is unacceptable. David Gregory should resign.

If taxes have been cut (they have), what exactly are people protesting during these supposed tax day tea parties? The truth is far more ominous, since what’s more troubling is the fringe element being brought out from dark corners of the radical right to protest the status quo finally losing power after eight years of Bush rule, and six of those years in a Republican-held Congress. There were so many signs expressing racism and hatred toward Obama during the Tea Parties, it is unconscionable for the media to not have covered this. Then again, after their deplorable track record of the last eight years under Bush, why would they?

Updated 4/17/09 2:46PM: It seems I am not the only one who has noticed, an article at Huffingtonpost.com has an article by Sam Stein called Tea Party Fallout: Independents Turned Off, Some GOPers Worried that has some of the more uglier protests from Tax Day, and its effect on Independents and the GOP.

Of course, this guy is a hero.