Yesterday, I was disappointed in what appeared to be scare tactics in the media to keep people from going to tea parties. I received multiple emails and one phone call warning me that people would be asking hard questions and trying to make a fool out of me. People advised me not to speak because I was not sufficiently knowledgeable about why it is wrong for government to accelerate the spending of moneys it doesn’t have. ACORN people would be passing bogus petitions (to scare us from signing real petitions), and THEY would be making a list. Bloggers chastised us silly fools for not realizing Obama had cut taxes (and increased the federal deficit $2 trillion in thirty days). Oh, and by the way, anybody opposed to tyranny is necessarily a racist.
I went to the rally, and, well, the crowd made Bele Chere and Christmas at the mall look sparse. Conservatives said more than a thousand showed. The progressive media estimated 500 filled the steps of the courthouse, and took shots of onesies and twosies off in the corner. The local daily couldn’t even keep the story, with 93 reader replies, on the front page for twenty-four hours. They have a good photo gallery, though.
David Morgan, editor of the local Tribune papers, sent word that tea parties made front page news in what appeared to be over 90% of 764 newspapers thumbnailed here. The events were not front-page for the LA Times, the Washington Post, Chicago papers, NYC papers, the Times Picayune, and the Boston Globe.
