Editor's Note: On Tax Day Thursday, many of American Morning viewers were aghast at the Tea Party protests, remarking that Tea Party leaders were interested only in “lining their pockets” and ignoring global importance of such issues as universal health care. Some were frustrated that this group continued to garner so much media attention, noting that organizations with opposing viewpoints were ignored by the mainstream media.

• Jerry; Tea Party: I just have one thing to add to the Tea Party and that is to say that I feel that to some of their leaders are only using the followers to line their pockets. All they want is to make all the money they can and the election dose not make any difference to them. Just look at Sarah Palin, she could not run her state, she quit and now she is telling people how to run our country. She even has trouble running her family. Wake up people.
• Chris: I have hard time to keep up my job let alone to go to town to town to do my demonstration to have a limited government and fiscal responsibility. In the mean time have government to protect social security, Medicare, Medicaid and $690 b defense budget. USA is the biggest, used to be the richest country in the whole world and it doesn't have universal health care. It tells me that the GOP likes to kill people not to cure or heal people. It is a narrow minded if you don't think global any more. How luck you have Obama to step in the crisis to save USA.
• Charlotte: Is the media so corporate-driven that they insist on focusing on the Tea-Baggers? To the same degree or rather, please focus on Progressive Democrats of America and their programs, e.g. “Healthcare not Warfare.” One reason they are not as viable an election choice is that the media has, for the most part, shelved them. Also, please focus on ANSWER, CODE PINK and Tikkun, and so many more progressive organizations to the degree that “Tea Party” is presented. If only the media really knew that most of America believes in the tenets of the Progressive Democrats of America; however, the media is occupied in telling us what a conservative country we are – which is a lot of hogwash. If any poll reflects this “conservatism,” one main reason is that the public has not been educated by the media about the viable options, such as the organizations stated in the message. We are looking to the media to elevate and expand our knowledge of our many political choices. Please try a greater degree to fulfill the responsibility of the Fourth Estate. Thomas Jefferson and our other great patriots (who were once called insurgents by the colonial power of the time, i.e. the British Empire) are depending on you.

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