Right-wingers are being encouraged to descend upon “liberal” media outlets in their hometowns on October 17, and protest all the unfair coverage. It's part of Operation: Can You Hear us Now, and it's a continuation of the Tea Party and heath care mini-mob madness, as activists follow the lead of their “American heroes” Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

Reading about the plans, this part made me chuckle [emphasis added]:

Be peaceful, respectful, but let them HEAR you and SEE you. Remember, they are hard of hearing and their eyesight isn't what it used to be the last 8 years prior. They accidentally missed 2 million people protesting in D.C. in one of the biggest protests in US History.

And this:

Maybe we cannot repeat an assembly of 2 million mad-as-hell taxpaying patriots in one place, but surely those who longed to go and couldn't would love to be a part of Operation “Can You Hear Us Now?”

Boy, irony doesn't get much thicker than this, does it? Right-wingers are going to protest “liberal” media outlets for being unfair and unprofessional. For being blind to the truth! And how do `wingers know the news orgs aren't fair? Because they “missed” the anti-Obama rally where “2 million” people were protesting in D.C.

Laugh along as I highlight the press didn't miss that story...because 2 million people never showed up in D.C. According to best official counts, there were actually 1.9 million fewer people than that; about 70,000. But choosing to inhabit their own parallel universe, tea bag protesters continue to cling to the fabricated 2 million number to show how the other guys aren't playing fair.

Honestly, I don't think `wingers hate the press just because it's supposedly so “liberal.” They hate the press because journalists won't accept the concocted version of reality that conservatives are constructing for themselves under Obama.

UPDATED: You know trouble is brewing when protest organizers have to urge activists not to show up with posters that feature a “racial epithet.”

Can't wait.