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...hope Beck has a good turn out...the MSM are waiting with bated breath for a chance to slam him...OTOH, if the turnout is large they'll ignore the whole thing.
1 posted on 08/26/2010 5:57:23 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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Though the attendance figures for that anti-tax rally are disputed ...

In other words the MSM did their finest imitation of the Three Monkeys as combined with Sgt.Schultz and the Stooges to deprecate that assembly. The MSM said that the count was in the tens of thousands and left it dangling. From the pictures, it appeared to be more like hundreds of thousands but the MSM shut their reporting down as rapidly as they could. My most impressive factoid other than the count was that this massive crowd largely cleaned up after themselves, another fact ignored by MSM.

Now the MSM demonstrate completely how far they have moved to the left and their fear as this 08/28 event approaches. This WaPo article implicitly challenges Beck to exceed the prior year rally whilst hiding the goal line so that they have the latitude to claim FAILURE at their own whim!

FYI: Note that, like last year, the resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. will be out of sight by being out of town. Strategic thinking there, Mr President.

45 posted on 08/26/2010 6:57:00 AM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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I see they’re ignoring that Dr. King’s neice, Dr. Alveda King, will be a guest speaker.

Inconvenient fact?


51 posted on 08/26/2010 7:08:39 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (g)
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Regardless of turnout it won't be enough for the MSM to say that if the Tea Party was really a factor then it would have been higher.

I assume Fox will be covering it live?

53 posted on 08/26/2010 7:13:46 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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"Also unanswered is whether Beck can pull off the connection to King without creating offense ..."

Ummm, no. There will be offense ... there is always offense. Al Sharpton leads the church of the perpetually offended.

54 posted on 08/26/2010 7:15:35 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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We’ll be going ‘for the cause,’ not for Beck.

Last year Beck touted the 9/12 march (which we also attended) as if it were his own brainchild. The crowd was massive.

Alas, the MSM reported relatively small and disappointing turnout, which was not true. Neither Beck nor FNS ever challenged those numbers, faithfully repeating the low turnout. Beck backed off his earlier big talk. Very disappointing. Never really watched him again.

BUT showing up IS important and we will go nonetheless. It’s not about Beck or Palin, it’s about US; each of us who goes represents another dozen or more who can’t make it.


56 posted on 08/26/2010 7:18:23 AM PDT by EDINVA
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When Fox News and talk radio host Glenn Beck comes to Washington this weekend to headline a rally intended to "restore honor" to America, he will test the strength - and potentially expose the weaknesses - of a conservative grass-roots movement that remains an unpredictable force in the country's politics.

I have NEVER heard that Fox News was involved with this in any way, shape, or form...the 'media' is lying again...

On the other hand; 500,000 people gathering in Washington for ANY reason should be a news story worthy of coverage...

60 posted on 08/26/2010 7:26:41 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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Some "tea party" activists say the event, at which former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is also scheduled to speak, will have a greater impact than last September's "9/12" march along Pennsylvania Avenue. Though the attendance figures for that anti-tax rally are disputed, it was the first national gathering to demonstrate the size and influence of the tea party movement.

Lame Stream Media attempt to trivialize and minimize both Beck's 8/28 rally and the 9/12 rally last year, which was HUGE!!

61 posted on 08/26/2010 7:31:34 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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Well, we'll see what it's all about on Saturday, I guess... ;-)

62 posted on 08/26/2010 7:34:59 AM PDT by nutmeg (I can't wait 'til November...)
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The WaPo headline, as are many headlines these days, is only an opinion and not accurate. It’s evident from this article that neither Amy Gardner nor the headline writer know what the tea-party movement is. Or if they do, then they are lying.

How folks are going to vote this year and in the future cannot be measured by whether just a few or many, many people attend a rally such as Beck’s or any rally at all.


63 posted on 08/26/2010 7:39:19 AM PDT by Resettozero
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For all of you who are attending, I hope thaty Beck has rented the same portapotties that the Clintons got for Chelsea’s wedding..Those were nice..


68 posted on 08/26/2010 10:29:26 AM PDT by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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Leaving Indy tomorrow at 8 am for the long drive to DC.


69 posted on 08/26/2010 10:34:09 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: STONEWALLS; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; America_Right; ..

Maryland PING!


72 posted on 08/26/2010 7:52:36 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Michelle Obama: the woman who ended "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.")
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And I care about what the Compost (or any of the other MSM) think?


74 posted on 08/26/2010 7:58:21 PM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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