Fox News; Tens of Thousands of Tea Party Activists expected in D.C. today

[Botany]

If you can stomach it watch Fox News and see what # they try to push tonight. They would
have made Pravada blush in the old Soviet Union.


CNN radio news 3:00 PM EDST ..... "About a thousand protesters rallied by the Capital today." rough quote

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/16/thousands-tea-partiers-expected-rally-capitol-hill/

Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected to rally outside Democratic congressional offices in Washington on Tuesday to protest the
$875 billion health care bill and demand meetings with their respective members of Congress.


Tea Party activists from across the country rallied outside Democratic congressional offices in Washington on Tuesday to protest the $875 billion
health care bill and demand meetings with their respective members of Congress.

snip

House Democrats received a formal memo from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, listing tips for how targeted representatives should handle
the crowds of activists.

"Tens of thousands of conservative and Tea Party activists will be on the Hill as part of what they are dubbing a 'Surge Against Obamacare,'" reads the
memo, which also includes a checklist of provisions in the current bill to counter the "caricature of the reform bill presented by right-wing media outlets."




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4:00 PMEDST
Fox News T.V. phone lines are jammed .... :rofl: ...... they will not even show any footage of the tens of thousands @ the capital ....... a static shot and
somebody calling in a report.

[SoCalNative]

1. I'll bet literally tens of them show up

don't these idiots have to work? or are MY tax dollars supporting them on the dole?

[HughBeaumont]

3. Yet when they yell to US "Get a Job!", they don't see the hypocrisy.

[Botany]

5. most are retired white people (who get social security and medicare)

[gratuitous]

9. You like the tight, low-level, short depth-of-field focus?

Compare and contrast with the high shots down the streets and boulevards for anti-war protests.

In the photo here, the folks up front we'll call "normal" size. Notice just a couple of rows back (the person in the power blue rain jacket in front of the dark blue umbrella, center left) how much smaller folks appear. The woman holding the RNC-issued "Taxed Enough Already" looks like she's standing in Philadelphia for her size.

If there's even a thousand people there today, I'll eat my hat.

[Botany]

15. that is an old shot not from today .... but you are right ..... tight shot

n/t

[wisteria]

10. Yes, and have been lied to by Republicans. n/t

[zbdent]

12. Glenn Beck says there's half a million people

in that picture alone ...

[spanone]

2. faux lies daily. they will inflate and falsify information to bolster their bias.

[Cleita]

4. If it's Fox claiming that maybe 100 will show up. n/t

[Grassy Knoll]

6. GOP.......

Groping
Old
People

[Initech]

7. If it's Fux then the actual crowd will be much smaller

[Touchdown]

8. BAGGERS! Teabaggers! Do not use their frames.

GAD! There was a tea party... in 1775. Never call these idiots "Tea Party Activists" They're Teabagers, and teabaggers only!:grr:

[LeftHander]

11. REALITY CHECK: A hundred D-Bags showed up.....nt

[Bobbieo]

14. Wish they were drinking radioactive water from the Colorado River.

[Contrary1]

13. I wish them the same level of success that we had with the antiwar protests.

[Chisox08]

16. Translation

100 teabaggers show up along with 10 onlookers and hundreds of people just walking by that we counted as teabaggers

[Botany]

17. CNN quoted a DNC staffer that the # was 300

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/16/how-big-were-tea-party-health-care-reform-protests/?fbid=-yh1-BsRtd-


NPR had it @ about 300 too.