Fox Nation now promoting "Tea Parties Marching on Media Outlets Oct. 17!"
September 30, 2009 9:17 am ET by Media Matters staff
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"What are you rebelling against, Johnny?"
"Whatta ya got?"
The very definition of simplemindedness.
The only thing that scares me is how lazy Americans are, and Obama saw a good boost last election, but if Americans get lazy, and Fox News angers enough right wingers to put down their guns and head to the polls, we may see a brief return of conservatives in the capital, and stall any worthwhile legislation.
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The Midnight Review
Mum Is The Word
Oh yeah and there goes that 2 million Tea Bagger at the 912 DC march again.
"There goes that 2 million Tea Bagger at the 912 Dc march LIE again"
:)
But that result in a much smaller rally.
No they can't!
No they can't!
So, with all of the things they can't put on their signs, what will it be? 70,000 people all holding signs that say "Um..." ??
That restriction alone will cut the crowd down to about 30.
The notion that there were 2 million people there is so patently absurd, they might as well have claimed 10 million.
FOX is correct about one other thing: their "Nation" is out of the main stream.
Of course, it's based upon a false premise - that media outlets didn't cover the events (hint-they did), and so they are going to take the tea parties directly to the tv stations and newspaper and cable offices so that the media can't ignore them (hint-they didn't ignore you before; they just didn't promote the events like FoxNews did).
Do you think they'd hesitate to go after media outlets?
"I'll bet for every one patriot who went to D.C. there are 10-20 more who wished they could have been there as well."
Now just follow the conservative logic. 10-20 is almost 30. What's 30 times 60,000? Why, it's almost 2,000,000. Case closed.
http://newsroom.dc.gov/show.aspx/agency/fems/section/2/release/18165
I was at the event and was told by the police it was one of the largest events they have ever worked. Also, the Park Police thought there were 1.5 Million people there. Where I was working at the event, the Park Police were assisting. The Capitol Police were the people near our group of volunteer and were amazed at the number of people. Before the march started the front of the Capitol was pretty much filled with those who came directly to the Capitol. (It holds 240,000 people and was standing room only almost as soon as the first of the marchers arrived.) They were lucky because the march was forced to start early because people were standing 3 blocks deep from Freedom Park and poured in to DC until 2:00PM. The event ended a little after 4pm, I believe.
There were hundreds of thousands of people - so many they weren't even standing on the mall - they had to stand up the avenues because that was the only place for them to fit in. The police demanded that a circle in one of the major streets be cleared for safety vehicles (there were two first aid calls, but thankfully no deaths, which we were told to expect.) The link above is to the D.C. Fire Department. There was a tweet from Lafayette Park, a small park just. N. of the White House, that said there were 60,000 to 70,000 people massed there. Some in the media picked it up and used that early A.M. estimate of the Lafayette Park group to state the size of the march. We all laughed at that, but the Fire Department isn’t laughing. They are pretty ticked off that the media mislead the public and used them to do it. The people were amassing there because they could not get any closer to Freedom Park, an overflow gathering spot.
Facts: There were hundreds of thousands of Metro Tickets sold on 9-12, far more than normal. Most people didn't even use the Metro that attended the march. There were no available hotel rooms within 125 miles of D.C. the night before the march; 450 buses were registered to drive into DC the day of the March, the city of D.C. was almost shut down as people tried to get to the event. The crowd was so large that as many of the elderly people left early, those who arrived late filled in the gaps so the size of the crowd was not static. And last, there was not a piece of paper that I could see on the ground anywhere after we left the mall. The police told us we where the nicest protestors they had ever worked with.
You should be very afraid, if you are hoping the Liberals and Progressives keep power next year. There were two of us from my hometown in D.C. and 195, people back home at a restaurant watching the event on T.V. That is far more than 10 or 15 to 1. You will see your head handed to you in 2010 and 2012 because we are far from angry at the socialist noises coming from President Obama's administration, we are outraged! We are Active! We are on the march for our beliefs and we will vote with our money in who we support across the nation and we will be at the polls early on Election Day. We are a force to be reckoned with.
Next year we will be twice the size as this year. We have been awakened. You have never known us, but you will.
For the person above who said they were there and we were 70,000, I am calling you out as a liar. If you were there you would have seen the greatest gathering of people, maybe in your entire life. I have been to a lot of 105,000 sized football games at U of M and the marchers could have filled that stadium at least 10 times, easy!