So what do yesterday’s nationwide tea parties and a protest march in Afghanistan have in common? They’re both highlights of conservative victories, successes (unsurprisingly) mostly ignored in the pages of The New York Times. Tens of thousands of Americans rallied at tea parties on Wednesday to protest out-of-control federal spending. That’s probably news to the remaining handful of Americans who get their information solely from the “newspaper of record.” The print edition of the Times provided a tepid write up of the parties on page A-16. “Although organizers insisted they …
3,000 in Hartford, CT. 8,000 in Madison, WI. 2,000 in Jacksonville, FL. 2,500 in Boise, ID. 5,000 in Sacramento, CA. And many, many more. If turnout is your metric for success, then the nation wide Tea Party protests held yesterday were wildly successful. Establishment left organizations like the Center for American Progress and mainstream media CNN (like Susan Roesgen) tried their best to portray the protesting taxpayers as corporate shills, but a new Gallup poll released yesterday should give the left some pause before they start believing their own press releases. …
With Ted Nugent providing the sound track, Glenn Beck explains what the Tea Parties are all about, who gets it, who doesn’t and why. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbRr-wCH6Rc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Best sign out in the rain today:
The Secret Service may have canceled the Treasury Department Tea Party, but the Lafayette Square rally is still going strong: This guy has been reading DHS reports:
