Posted on 04/15/2009 6:46:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Nearly 200,000 Americans showed up to protest high taxes in hundreds of cities around the country today.
The New York Times and The Boston Globe ignored “Tea Parties” altogether. ABC and CBS reporters were nowhere to be found. NBC, on the other hand, simply made obscene references — using a tea-related colloquialism — to express its corporate disgust with America’s founding principles.
And a CNN journalist, rather than reporting on one event, decided to debate the crowd! Here’s the transcript:
CNN: “Let’s see… drop taxes… drop socialism. Okay, let’s see. You’re here with your two-year old daughter and you’re already in debt. Why are you here today, sir?”
Man with child: “Because I hear a President say that he believed in what Lincoln stood for. Lincoln’s primary thing was, he believed that people had the right to liberty and the r –”
CNN: “What does this have to do with taxes?”
Man: “Are you going to let me speak?”
CNN: “What does this have to do with taxes? Do you realize that you’re elibible for a $400…”
Man: “Let me finish my point! Lincoln believed that people had the right to share in the fruits of their own labor and that government should not take it. And we have clearly gotten to that p–”
CNN: “Right, right, right — did you know that the state of Lincoln gets fifty billion dollars out of these stimulus — that’s fifty billion dollars for this state, sir!”
Man: “Ma’am, ma’am, ma’am, I’m… can you stop this, sir?”
CNN: “Alright, we’ll move on… (to audience) I think you get the general tenor of this, uh, it’s anti-government, anti-CNN, since this is highly promoted by the rightwing conservative network Fox and… since I can’t really hear much more, I think this…
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That is so embarrassing for CNN. Partisan hackery at its worst, under the thinnest veil of “journalism” I’ve ever seen.
200,000 seems like a really low number based on reports coming in.
I lolled at “the rightwing conservative network Fox.”
They left out the part about how Hurricane Katrina was caused by a Halliburton weather machine in Dick Cheney’s basement.
200,000? Try over a million.
July 4th
we do it again. BIGGER
What makes it even more pathetic is knowing that if two Code Pinko PETA loving lesbians had a protest, CNN would send 20 news vans and their top boot licking correspondents to cover it.
its at least 300,000 and might near a half million
I really don’t want to know, do I?
If only she had been Sons-Of-Liberty’d! Tar and feather that hate America MSM of a witch!
I found out what “tea bagging” means in barney frankfurter’s circle. I am still nauseated!
Amen.
But the left is not scared enough yet...
Was there a “veil of journalism” there at all? If so, I missed it. Whatever happened to simply reporting the news?
The Tea Party Total Head Count Thread here must be close to 200,000 by now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229982/posts
and I know it’s not including at least a couple more in our area.
Deep down, I think the Obama administration & the MSM are defecating in their pants. They didn’t think people would rise up like this. Look for Obama to do what Clinton did after Dems lost Congress in 1994. He’s going to try to moderate or “move to the middle” shortly.
“200,000? Try over a million.”
It will be several million when the numbers are finally added up!
You bet. Or if five white assholes protesting in support of the convicted cop killer Mumia.
Not only are the cities drawing nicely, but many small towns and cities are gathering 50, 100, 200, or more all over the US. In NE North Carolina Around the area where I live, I personally know of four counties where rallies were held in the county seat, and there were probably more. Multiply that all over the state and country, I believe the actual numbers will astound everyone.
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