Wallace asks of "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties" "What are the chances ... this grows into a grassroots movement"; Hume responds "the spark for this ... was really a spontaneous thing"

If this "movement" started as a grassroots movement, then how could it "become" a grassroots movement? The turnout was pathetically low for something that has been hyped for weeks on end by FoxNews, talk radio, and other media outlets in the days running up to the actual event. Some say, about 400,000-500,000 showed up for the protests, but that was over the entire country. That's, umm, not so good. And it's far from the populist movement that these folks would like to think that it was or is.

The spark was the election of Barack Obama.  Plain and simple.  Seven million more Americans voted for Obama than their guy.  Less than a million people showed up at these rallies and none voted for Obama in Nov.  Give us a break Fox.   

This fake and pretended appearance of a "grassroots movement", which involves lots of publicity of course, but also involves getting small groups together (or taking advantage of ones already formed, like people gathered in public places during their lunch breaks), and then filming those gatherings, and running the tape endlessly and accompanied by giving the false impression that what you're seeing is happening everywhere...

This kind of manipulative and fake "grassroots movement" needs a special name all it's own, like AstroTurf maybe, or any other kind of artificial turf:

"It looks like real grassroots, but that's about as close to being a real grassroots movement as it'll ever get... it's just the appearance of grassroots, it's really just plastic, it's artificial... it's AstroTurf." 

...and how much money does this hack frat boy chris wallace make at Fux News Channel?

The question isn't asked out of nosiness, or out of envy either, but in the sense of realizing that whatever he's paid by those Fux (probably in excess of a million dollars per year), he could never make that much money, not even a fraction of it, doing anything else anywhere else...

It's an important point to consider, if you ever find yourself wondering why these frat boy hacks and other Fux, do what they do: it pays an amount of money many times more than they could ever make, doing otherwise honest or hard work.

Another example of right wing hypocrisy is how when they control the government we hear all about how we are a republic not a democracy while when they don't we hear that representatives should do what protesters want.