Yellow Flag

11:16 pm EST April 19th, 2009 | Media | 6 Comments

In a Christian Scientist Monitor story about the Fox News Tea Parties and how many people turned out, there is this:

A protest in Washington included about 1,500 people in a heavy rain.

Um, look, I was there. There were not 1,500 people there. I would estimate that the crowd topped out at 800, but I’d even be willing to say 1,000. But no way in heck were 1,500 people there.

Crowd size is a political weapon, Lord knows liberal protesters were pissed when the media undercounted their protests. But let’s try to be a little realistic here.

By the time this is over, the right will be claiming that 300 million people protested. No doubt if they protest on the 4th of July they’ll claim everybody on the mall for fireworks is there for teabagging. God help them if one of their “Obama Is A Fascist” signs gets in the way of someone’s view of the fireworks after they’ve sat there for 8 hours in the broiling sun.

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6 Responses to “Yellow Flag”

  1. Jaim says:
    April 19, 2009 at 11:58 pm

    When tens of thousands of Americans protested the Iraq occupation, wing-nuts scoffed.

    When over 100,000 Americans showed up in St. Louis to cheer on Obama, they said it didn’t matter.

    So even if they got 1,500, by their very own metric, they fail hard. Even if they got ten times that number, the Tea Parties were a catastrophe.

  2. jr says:
    April 20, 2009 at 12:26 am

    “militia job fairs are awesome”-CSM

  3. Ian Aleksander Adams says:
    April 20, 2009 at 2:46 am

    I could have sworn that millions worldwide protested the iraq war, with at least one HUGE march in dc, and no one has mentioned how it was hardly reported on in the msm and how they are reporting so much on this bs

  4. Southern Quaker says:
    April 20, 2009 at 10:20 am

    For some reasons the tea-baggers always put me in mind of MacBeth: “It is a tale … full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.”

  5. michael says:
    April 20, 2009 at 11:06 am

    Maybe doing it on a weekday, when taxpayers (i.e. the employed) were at their jobs, wasn’t the brightest idea.

  6. Repack Rider says:
    April 20, 2009 at 6:14 pm

    Maybe doing it on a weekday, when taxpayers (i.e. the employed) were at their jobs, wasn’t the brightest idea.

    One of many bad ideas, starting with the event itself. I didn’t see too many “employable” people holding signs.