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   Simon_Jester said, 9 months ago

   Carlson, along with a lot of other folks, is missing a very important point.

   The question that needs to be addressed is not what sorts of folks attended the tea parties, but HOW MANY.

   Because numbers are something you cannot spin; either you had a big turnout or you didn’t.

   And in report after report, I’ve seen attendance numbers for these events ranging from hundreds of people to the thousands of peope.

   Not hundreds of thousands…

   Not tens of thousands…

   Just plain thousands.

   Compare that with the number of people who participated in the immigration protests of a few years ago.

   The tea-parties were a flop….end of story.

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   Simon_Jester said, 9 months ago

   You either had a big turnout…or you didn’t.

   And a few thousand is not a big turnout. ( Unless you live in Wasilla, AK. )

   Period.

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   HOWGOZIT said, 9 months ago

   Only a couple thousand considered a huge turnout when protesting against Bush–according to news on MSNBC CNN CBS ABC during the 2000’s

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   RussellNash said, 9 months ago

   During the Bush Years a pro-choice rally in DC that got more than 500,000 people was almost entirely ignored. The counter-protest with less than 2,000 was highly covered. On Fox they only covered the counter-protest.

   D@mn Liberal Media.

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   Corosive Frog said, 9 months ago

   According to ANandy, even when the righties protest they are lame.

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   Simon_Jester said, 9 months ago

   No HOWGOZIT…only according to YOU!

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   dtroutma said, 9 months ago

   What really gets me about the mix in “protest” signs, and brethren on the blogs is, none of them seem to know the real differences between fascism, socialism, Communism(Marx/Engles), communism(practiced in small agrarian societies for millennia-successfully- don’t forget the Grange), feudalism, OR “capitalism”. They also fail to see the parallel between radical Islam and radical Christianity, OR radical Judaism-all based on the same old testament laws, and (mis)interpreted by following generations of nuts.

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   HOWGOZIT said, 9 months ago

   Thanks again for proving my point Simon–you are probably the type that reads a headline and knows all about the article without even perusing.

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   Simon_Jester said, 9 months ago

   Okay Howdy…why don’t you explain to everyone just HOW I proved your point.

   let’s hear it.

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    LLeRay said, 9 months ago

    I see much the same things, dtroutma, but Americans are what they are, and I don’t see much change until they’re forced to change.

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    Jethan said, 9 months ago

    I take it the first panel is implying the Tea Parties aren’t grassroots but Republican party.
    Well that’s not true, the Republicans just latched onto it after it got started.
    As for the second panel…I attended a Tea Party, everyone was peaceful and smiling. Then whenever there was a sudden expanse of cars and trucks honking everyone cheered. Frankly the Tea Parties were not filled with a bunch of crazies.

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    Simon_Jester said, 9 months ago

    Not so Jethan…the tea parties were organized by FOX News and also a pair of lobbyist-run conservative think tanks – FreedomWorks, and Americans For Prosperity.

    They were astroturf events.

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    Michigander said, 9 months ago

    Make Neptune the 51st state? That is interesting since it was considered to no longer be a planet in recent years. At least it would be respected that way.

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    churchillwasright said, 9 months ago

    michigander: I beieve that was Pluto.