March on Washington

The silence on this event was deafening. NBC this am said "tens of thousands" and identified it as something sponsored by Glenn Beck and Dick Armey.

I know several people who attended. Admittedly some were local Republican Party regulars. What I found more interesting were the number of first timers locally who got involved and participated.

The most interesting quote of all was from the White House. When asked about the protest, the Press Secretary replied "We don't know anything about it and don't know who these people are." Given that somewhere between 500k and 1.2m people were marching on Washington at the time, if the White House was indeed unaware then the rift with the CIA may be deeper than I thought.
 
You might be watching the wrong news. Fox has been all over this story for weeks. The left wing media have been doing all they can to ignore the story...What I find interesting is the fact that no official numbers have been released . I spend time on a corvette website and the numbers are 1.5 to 2.0 million people turned out....LOts of people to make believe its not a serious movement..... !988 sundowner 268 7.4L having fun in texas..:thumbsup:
 
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Completely agree...Fox has been all over it. I should have restricted my observation to the MSM.
 
I've been watching for it on the local and national news media. Fox has been all over it, the majors last nite made a quick note of it. Our local flea bag paper (remember, this is in the most liberal state in the union) had a quick mention of it buried on page 8A of the paper. Front page was covering Osama's bin Lyin's quick news-unworthy trip to Minn as well as a continuation and discussion of this useless trip and his interview on 60 minutes on page 4A.

-VtSeaRay
 
There is no shortage of truth suppression. Nor has there been for quite some time.
 
sfergson727 said:
Figures....the million man march several years ago, which encompassed what, about 100,000 people at most, got front page coverage for about a week. Fargin Liberals and their suppresion of the truth. I wish that we could send them all to some distant land, like Australia.
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They stopped sending criminals to this island a while ago... though it is a wonderful thought. We shouldn't send them to any place nice like Australia for sure. Maybe the island of misfits, or Antarctica.
 
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JediJD said:
The most interesting quote of all was from the White House. When asked about the protest, the Press Secretary replied "We don't know anything about it and don't know who these people are." Given that somewhere between 500k and 1.2m people were marching on Washington at the time, if the White House was indeed unaware then the rift with the CIA may be deeper than I thought.
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We all know that Robert Gibbs is clueless about anything. It is interesting that while the media plays this down attendence continues to grow at these events. I bet the Congressmen and women noted what was going on. Thank God for Fox and talk rasio because without them we would not know what is going on.
 
sfergson727 said:
Figures....the million man march several years ago, which encompassed what, about 100,000 people at most, got front page coverage for about a week. Fargin Liberals and their suppresion of the truth. I wish that we could send them all to some distant land, like Australia.
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Hey Scott -

Heck - don't send them there - it's on our list of places to relocate! Along with Panama and New Zealand!

To avoid thread creep - how 'bout an update on your recovery on a separate thread?
 
Anybody notice how the media has taken to calling those participaing in these demonstrations "tea baggers"?:smt009 My Mom was talking about how great it was that all these "tea baggers" were marching on Washington. I told her that term was a bit insulting, she asked "why, what does it mean?" How do you explain that one to your Mom?:huh:

I didn't.:lol::smt043:lol:
 
Why would that be insulting? The participants of the Boston Tea Party were true patriots. It was one of the very first great American protests. It was one of the key events that helped sway public opinion in favor of the revolution.

I believe that the event in Washington last Saturday marks the beginning of the new revolution. The circumstances are very similar. The people are upset not at a king taxing tea, but with their own goverment taxing them.

There is an unspoken order of magnitude with this march. Quite frankly, conservatives do not generally protest. They don't do it often, and they don't do it well. We are just too damn busy working and taking care of our families to get out and do it. The liberals own the field when it comes to protesting. If there were between 75 and 100 thousand people there on Saturday, then you can bet your bippy that there are many, many, many more who feel just as strongly that didn't make it to DC.

The final point to consider is that those people were not members of a "special interest" group, they are a "general interest" group. The current administration may dismiss them for now, but what is not being understood is that this is much larger than just opposition to health care. These people (myself included) are just done with all of it. Taxes, handouts, law suits, treating races and sexes differently in the eyes of the law, failure to punish criminals and keep us safe, waste, fraud, abuse, unreasonable limits on our freedom, promoting illegal and/or immoral behavior, God out of schools, teaching homosexuality in schools, taxes upon taxes upon user fees upon more fees. We're done with it, and the word is getting out. This thing was just the beginning.

Tell your mom that a "tea bagger" is the new breed of modern patriot taking a stand against liberal socialism before it completely destroys the country. They are patriotic Americans and regular folks who just ain't gonna take it anymore... Hey... we should get Dee Snider to be the mascot...
 
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%^$$#@*&^^& For the life of me I cannot understand why if someone in today's would like to have some fiscal responsibility in "THEIR" Gov_Mint, they are to be considered as something lower then a snake's belly.

When did the USA become such a bunch of fat a33, lard butted, whiny cry babies whose mantra is "It's all about me?" :smt013

I fully believe the majority of today's parents for the most part perpetuate this, "Ignorance begets ignorance." :smt013
 
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Jack F said:
Because when the media uses that term they are referring to this...... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=t-bag

You’re correct on everything else though.:thumbsup:
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:smt043:smt043:smt043 Now THAT'S funny.

Who knew :huh:

You know... when I was a lad... putting my T bag on another lad's face was the last thing I ever wanted to do... Things are worse in the USA than I thought they were...

Oh well... I wouldn't tell your mom that one, Tim. Stick with the Boston Tea Party explanation... :thumbsup:
 
Mr Salt said:
We all know that Robert Gibbs is clueless about anything. It is interesting that while the media plays this down attendence continues to grow at these events. I bet the Congressmen and women noted what was going on. Thank God for Fox and talk rasio because without them we would not know what is going on.
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Robert gibbs is making bagdad bob look like walter cronkite:grin:
 
popeye said:
Robert gibbs is making bagdad bob look like walter cronkite:grin:
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He was the best:smt043:smt043

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s27Oq5ot0ZI[/youtube]
 
Robert gibbs's carrer path seems to be parallel to that of Bagdad Bobs. Looking forward to a similar ending....
 
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