[jiggyboy]

By contrast, when word got out in March of a tent city in Sacramento, California, news media couldn't get enough of the story. Is it because that happened so soon after Inauguration Day that it could easily be blamed on George W. Bush, and that given the name given to this area that's no longer possible?

In fact, that was even more obvious gratuitous Bush-bashing than the question supposes. That "tent city" (of about 20 tents) in Sacramento had been there for at least thirty years. The MSM was careful to never take a picture from more than like 50 feet away to show how small it really was.

[jiggyboy]

Sacramento Tent City self-ping: A source no less than The Nation notes “As early as 1989, dozens of homeless were pitching tents on the precise site of this year’s Tent City in Sacramento.”

Odd that that was never mentioned in the thousands of articles about it this summer. I guess sometimes there just isn’t quite enough space for minor details like that.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090622/ehrenreich