Kevin Price
The party that will not go away
By Kevin Price
It was not hardly mentioned on Google News. In fact, you had to work your way down the page to find it, but the Tea Party enjoyed a bash to remember in our nation's capital this weekend. It is the kind of event that the mainstream media has tried desperately to avoid. The numbers on how many that showed up are fuzzy, at best:
© Kevin Price
September 13, 2009
It was not hardly mentioned on Google News. In fact, you had to work your way down the page to find it, but the Tea Party enjoyed a bash to remember in our nation's capital this weekend. It is the kind of event that the mainstream media has tried desperately to avoid. The numbers on how many that showed up are fuzzy, at best:
- A reporter for the Examiner said around 30,000 showed up
- ABC news reported over 60,000
- NPR called it "tens of thousands"
- CNN is even more non-committal, merely describing the numbers in the thousands
- Ironically, the closest number came from a British newspaper, the Daily Mail, which put it at approximately 2 million (actually citing Capitol Hill police)
- The Kansas City Star notes "Angry Tea Party protesters flood D.C."
- The CNN, in its classically cynical fashion says "Health care reform critics converge on Capitol." I don't know anyone, including those in the tea party movement, who don't want to see health care reform. However, if you oppose the President's approach, you oppose reform according to the news. There is nothing like objective media.
- Another Examiner writer argues about "The Hypocrisy of Tea Party Conservatives."
- One writer finds one of the protests' more crude protesters with "Tea Party protest: 'Bury Obama Care with Kennedy.'"
© Kevin Price
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