A Question About Tea Partiers

[jbeing]

Anyone have an idea about how many tea partiers there actually are? It seems like they get so much attention (especially from the MSM) if they are a small number. I know they may be armed and dangerous, but I've never heard an accurate number on them.

[MadMaddie]

1. You are right the MSM does give them waaaaaaaaaaaaaay

too much attention. Their numbers are always inflated by the MSM so they can make their story.

Let a gathering of 10,000 Liberals or other left group get together and you hear "crickets", the MSM acts as if the events never happpen.

[jbeing]

2. but is there

a number or estimate of how many of these tea people exist?

[MadMaddie]

4. Here is an article that discusses this very topic

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201003280003

Welcome to DU!:hi:

[jbeing]

20. Thanks, I'll read it.

I love how much good information is available on this site and the people who post.

[jbeing]

22. Still no total number

of teabaggers in the U. S. The article just talk about 8,000 people at the NV rally.

[MadMaddie]

28. Don't you find that curious though

there are no real numbers.....

I looked at several sites and found no hard numbers....I think that the reason we don't see them is "smoke and mirrors" the MSM is too lazy to actually fact check they simply go to blog sites and get their "facts" now.

[doc03]

3. deleted

[jbeing]

7. I doubt that

Someone is exaggerating.

[NanceGreggs]

5. At last count ...

... there are only twenty-three "known" teabaggers in the entire country.

The GOP, having perfected the art of photo-shopping attendees at Dubya events (don't look TOO closely at those "crowd scene" pics - especially when they include military attendees) are now text-shopping the number of "grassroots movement" participants.

DAMN that "librul media" for falling for the same tactic - time, after time, after time ...

[jbeing]

8. I think there are more than 23

Maybe 24. Actually, I think there are very few.

[NanceGreggs]

16. Okay, alright ...

... let's not get the lawyers involved.

I'll give you twenty-four - twenty-five, TOPS!

Anyone who says twenty-six will spend the rest of their lives in court.

[jbeing]

18. No litigation

without representation.

I shall cry "uncle."

[NanceGreggs]

23. Why not cry "aunt"?

Whadda you, a sexist now?

:hi:

[jbeing]

24. Okay

Aunt and Uncle. I give.

[NanceGreggs]

25. Welcome to DU, jbeing ...

:hi:

[jbeing]

26. Thanks

I remember you from a previous discussion. DU seems like a moveable feast of ideas. Some interesting. Some...not so much.

[NanceGreggs]

27. Think of it more in terms of ...

... a rotating buffet. Now you like it - and ten minutes later, what comes around may not be particularly appetizing.

Gives a whole new meaning to "fast or famine".

[doc03]

6. There were hundreds of thousands of them in Washington

for their march last fall. That is a fact an old high school friend sent me pictures of the crowd, no doubt about it the crowd was huge. He sent me time lapsed pictures as they marched down Pennsylvania Avenue according to him there were hundreds of thousands maybe a half million, the crowd was impressive no doubt about that.

[jbeing]

9. Actually

It was shown that the pictures of that march were from a different rally and in a different season. I'm looking for a reliable number of Tea Partiers in the entire country.

[doc03]

19. I am talking about the rally last summer not the one

last fall that Fox faked. There is no doubt the first march was huge and it takes a lot of anger to motivate that many people to travel to Washington to protest, I would say that crowd rivaled the ones during the Vietnam war protests. I wouldn't underestimate the anger that Fox and the wing-nuts
have stirred up.

[blogslut]

10. Do you mean this photo?

You do realize what that is a photo of, don't you?

EDIT for bigger pic

[jbeing]

11. Remember

how you felt on that day. I do. Near tears with joy.

[blogslut]

15. That is a photo of the 1997 Promise Keepers march

No, I did not cry tears of joy. I do not follow the woman-as-subservient philosophy of that organization,

[jbeing]

21. My error

I thought it was Obama's Inauguration. But the trees are green and it Was January. My bad.

[Webster Green]

12. Please try to refer to them as "teabaggers".

They really hate that name.

Thank you! }(

Welcome to DU :hi:

[jbeing]

14. Sorry...teabaggers

But how many are there?

Thanks for the welcome.

[scrabblequeen40]

13. Why do you think their number matters?

[jbeing]

17. I wonder why they get so much attention

when nearly 200,000 people demonstrated in Washington D. C. for Immigration Reform and the small number of teabaggers got all the news coverage. Also, it seems like their numbers don't deserve such constant coverage. Many more people are losing jobs and homes. That much larger number of people losing homes and jobs are hoping their government will get more involved - just the opposite of the teabaggers' wishes. I just want to know what those number are.