CNN Lowballs Nevada Tea Party Event: 'Hundreds of People, at Least Dozens of People'

Newsbuster ^ | Saturday March 27, 2010 | Jeff Poor

[Bigtigermike]

If the media outlets are going to report on tea party events, they're not likely to get any benefit of the doubt much of the time.

Case in point - at the Tea Party Express event on March 27 in Searchlight, Nev., which former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spoke, CNN's Fredericka Whitfield wasn't quite prepared to give the rally credit it was due as far as participation. She estimated that hundreds, but if not, "at least dozens of people" were in attendance.

"Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin there in Searchlight, Nev., was the backyard of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, but today it's the backdrop of this Tea Party Express - making a stop here," Whitfield said. "Hundreds of people, at least dozens of people - we haven't gotten a count of how many people turned out there. We heard Sarah Palin talk about everything about the campaign, to unseat Sen. Reid to what she calls ObamaCare, on the heels of that health care vote and even talking about her definition of her love of America."

Politico's Kenneth Vogel had a little higher number, saying "an estimated 20,000 tea partiers gathered for a rally in a windswept desert lot," in his March 27 report on the event.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/03/27/cnn-lowballs-nevada-tea-party-event-hundreds-people-least-dozens-people-p#ixzz0jRGpVBZz

[GeronL]

Someone had an aerial pic.

Anyone remember it?

[john in springfield]

I was talking today with someone about how the “MSM” does this.

[TexasGreg]

This isn’t even news ... it’s predictable.
They’ll keep lying about it until it overtakes them and they can no longer deny it. Even then, they’ll claim it’s a fraud.

[fatnotlazy]

Well, at least CNN mentioned the Searchlight event. I’d wager many news outlets will just ignore it altogether.

[FrankR]

I think I ran into a future CNN reporter at Chick Filet the other day, I asked for a "half-dozen chicken nuggets" and he promptly explained to me that "they come either in 6 or 12, we don't have a half-dozen size.".

The boy has a bright future ahead of him...an obama voter, no doubt.

[Jukeman]

Their ratings are in the dung heap and they keep doing this kind of dishonest reporting. Ted Turner must be sooo proud of them.

[francky]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 27, 2010CONTACT: at (509) or FrontLineStrat.com MEDIA UPDATE - 2:59 AM:

Crowds Arriving All Through the Night at “Showdown in Searchlight” Rally Location*Tea Party Express staff on scene throughout the night to guide supporters into event as hundreds of RV’s & Cars Stream in*Crowd Size Projections Rise to Well-Above 10,000+ Supporters throughout the night the staff of the Tea Party Express has been on-location at the site of today’s “Showdown in Searchlight” mega tea party rally.

The staff is dispatched in teams from the entrance point back through the giant 160-acre parcel of land the rally is being held on to guide supporters who have been arriving in RV’s and cars all throughout the night.With hundreds of RV’s and cars already arriving, organizers at the Tea Party Express are revising the projected crowd size for the rally higher - and expect more than 10,000 supporters to attend this historic event.Supporters are coming in from every county in Nevada and every state in the nation.

“This event is exceeding even our own expectations. We’ve said it time-and-again, this has become a ‘Conservative Woodstock’ and tonight, this piece of land in the middle of the Nevada desert has a temporary population that has already surpassed that of the entire town of Searchlight, NV” said Joe Wierzbicki, Coordinator for the Tea Party Express.*** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

***Media organizations wishing to embed a reporter on the Tea Party Express national tour, or those seeking more information about the “Tea Party Express” or to schedule an interview with a representative, should contact at or via email at: FrontLineStrat.com

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[lonestar]

http://americanpatrol.com/10-FEATURES/100327-FEATURE2/PHOTOS/100327-Photos.html

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT to find....holy COW, that’s quite a few dozen folk!

[GeronL]

That’s a lot more than dozens.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Mar 26, 2010 04:19 PM
25-54 demographic: (L +SD)

Total day: FNC: 418 | CNN: 161 | MSNBC: 150 | HLN: 143

http://www.mediabistro.com/TVNewser/Ratings/

[Jukeman]

There are a lot of them out there - I run into them almost every day. Truly a disaster for our nation. A product of some of the schools. Probably studying for a post-graduate degree in journalism.

[Tempest]

from the NY Times:

[Stosh]

I think you folks are confused - when she said “hundreds, at least dozens” I’m pretty sure she was talking about CNN viewership, not Tea Party participation.

[tophat9000]

CNN estimates Tea-party crowds about as well as they estimates the health care bill cost

[lonestar]

There you tea-baggers go again——exaggerating!

It really proves their pathetic inability to accurately report a Saturday afternoon event.

[tophat9000]

Teaparty tomorrow Sunday, March 28th at 2:00 pm
Rally Location:
State Capitol Grounds by the flagpole
1700 West Washington Street, Phoenix AZ

Be there...I will

[Kickass Conservative]

It’s not the News, it’s who reports the News.

Pravda lives. They just call it CNN.

[Oceander]

CNN is clearly nothing more than a pro-government propaganda mouthpiece. I just finished looking at some of the pics people on the ground there took - people not affiliated with CNN - and there were substantially more people than just a few hundred. Substantially more.