NEW YORK – Ever since the first “Tea Party” convention was held last month in Nashville, Tennessee, with Sarah Palin as one of the keynote speakers, America’s political and media establishments have been reacting with a combination of apprehension and disdain. The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has called the Tea Party adherents Nazis, while the mainstream media tend to portray them as ignorant and provincial, a passive rabble with raw emotion but little analytical skill, stirred up and manipulated by demagogues to advance their own agendas.
发自纽约 —— 自上月 “ 茶党 ” 在美国田纳西州首府纳什维尔召开了首次党会，且由莎拉·佩林担任大会主要发言人以来，美国的政治和传媒机构就一直对他们既担忧，又藐视。美国众议院议长南希·佩洛西把茶党的追随者看作纳粹主义者，而主流媒体则倾向于把他们描述成一群无知迂腐，空有满腔热情却欠缺分析能力的乌合之众，被那些存心蛊惑民心的政客所煽动和操纵着，沦为实现政客个人目标的打手和炮灰。