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While New York Times editorialists have been going crazy attacking the Tea Party movement, the news story on the nationwide protests was put well inside the paper.
Here's what I want to find out. How did the Boston media cover it? That's where we had the original Tea Party, after all. Certainly between them, VermontGuy and New England Guy should know.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:34 AM
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Treated as a non-event (which it seemed to be) except for interesting digressions on the sexual meanings of the word, "teabagging"
Perhaps it wasn't an event in Boston, but we're talking about hundreds of cities across the nation and hundreds of thousands of people, the kind who don't usually protest, taking it to the street. That's not an event in medialand, perhaps, but by any other standard it is. BTW, if people who opposed the event can call it teabagging, does that mean people who oppose leftist marches can make up pointless innuendoes against them?
The Globe appears to think it took place in Kentucky.
Which might explain why they're going out of business.
Hundreds of thousands of people, anon? I call wishful thinking, unless you've got a reliable cite.
QG, I call that moderate ignorance. We had 7,000 in Columbus, I think 3000 or 4000 or so in Cincinnati, and tp's throughout the state. That's 10K for sure, wouldn't surprise me if it were 20K for Ohio. I'm told the ones with the celebrities had 20K and 30K. I think 100K is quite likely.
But hey, don't tell anyone.
SWMBCg, etc.
Sounds like media-enforced ignorance from Queens Guy. FiveThirtyEight, a "non-partisan" website that leans to the left, guesses the number is around a quarter of a million. Sounds low to me, but let's take it is a floor. It sure was easier to find out how many people showed up at anti-war protests, and it sure was harder to find politicians or media figures make light of them.
I wouldn't call fivethirtyeight left leaning just because they keep correctly predicting democratic victories (zing!). If Nate says a quarter million, I'd take that as a good rough estimate, and stand corrected. I'm pretty impressed at being able to pull together that many folks to protest anything.
The Boston Herald whose editorial line would be expected to support the Tea Party folks seemed hard put to play and showed a picture illustrating the event of a woman with an Obama mask and a tan body stocking wearing BVDs. Odd. I once saw a Taxpayers Party event (before it was taken over by Leonora Fulani) and it had similar wackos
There is a great deal of anger in Boston right now over a proposed giant gas tax hike and stunts by the gov (turnpike not hiring overtime toll takers on Easter causing 3 hour back ups) and its interesting that the anti-tax crowd couldn't tap into that for their event. Perhaps because it seems too orchestrated by the people who lost last November
NEG (with sign-on problems)
"Perhaps because it seems too orchestrated by the people who lost last November."
It may seem that way but it's not. To bad that NEG, who apparently gets his news from headlines, believed this spin. There might have been people from above who supported the protests, but the protestors came from the ground up. There were a lot of claim that these events were astroturfed, which is funny coming from the protest-on-a-dime-rent-a-crowd Left.
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