Your FUCKED UP MEDIA hard at work: "Nearly" 600 'Delegates' (teabaggers) meeting is News?????

[FrenchieCat]

Why is that? :wtf:

Why are they being called "Delegates" by our news media? :wtf:

:wtf: is this shit about?

Tea Party Convenes, Attendees Assail President Obama, Big Government
Nearly 600 'Delegates' From Across the United States Come Together in Nashville
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/tea-party-convenes-nashville-speakers-assail-president-obama/story?id=9754751


It's about propaganda. It's about the media pushing a small group of people as an actual party.
It's about killing health care. It's about racism being treated as the new normal.
It's about inventing a movement led by corporate interest's hidden hand.

Please contact your media and let them know you aren't gonna take this kind of bullshit anymore!
600 people don't deserve the kind of coverage they will be getting for the next few days.
It would be laughable if it wasn't so fucking destructive to this country!

Sick of their shit? not taking it anymore?
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[jenmito]

1. Thanks for all the contact info. And MSNBC will be playing Palin's speech tomorrow night...

they cover more of HER than they do of our VP! She's not even a GOVERNOR anymore!

[iceman66]

18. Sometimes it seems like she gets more coverage than Obama himself!

If that idiot ends up getting elected president, it will be the end of this country, and the media will bear the lion's share of the responsibility.

[jenmito]

23. She does. She gets 100% of what she does covered-including her postings on Facebook.

Yet they don't ask her questions-they only cover what she puts out there. Meanwhile, they cut away from Obama at times or "monitor" things FOR us. :eyes:

[bigdarryl]

33. As Mike Molloy said the media want her PRESIDENT!!!!

[lxlxlxl]

78. Think about how easy and entertaining it would be for them to cover.

All the pre-written stuff you can imagine, none of that difficult ' thinking' or 'fact-checking' or statistics or anything if Palin is president. It's a present to the fourth estate.

[ericgtr]

20. The more people who see Palin and her hate the better

I don't see this as a bad thing at all, people are smart enough to make up their own minds and remember that every time she gets the spotlight her approvals tank.

[FrenchieCat]

22. I don't like the media making shit up, period.....

it ain't about what hurts and what doesn't...as they don't control all of what they do.

[jenmito]

24. I disagree that people are able to make up their own minds and her approvals tank...

The media mostly shows HER postings-HER side of the story, including calling for people in Obama's admin. to be fired. She doesn't get asked about her hypocrisy. The teabag rallies are shown, her book tour was covered non-stop, and now they're going to cover her on Saturday night (which they usually never do for others).

[lxlxlxl]

79. We have SERIOUS problems in the country, and instead of asking real questions we get Palinmaina

This is all diversionary stuff by a media obsessed with making its job 'sexy' entertaining and fun (for themselves) while budgets, taking care of people, and having a rational economic system means nothing.

[wisteria]

45. As long as there is an interest in her-good or bad, she will get air play.

I think it is time to ignore her and down play her importance. She is only a legend in her own mind.

[snappyturtle]

68. I listened to CNN a couple of hours this morning...grr!

CNN will ALSO be covering her speech. CNN also ran a story, after the lengthy Tea Party convention news, albout Alan Keyes and his conversative cruise! A good part of the time I watched was in one way or another dissing the Obama Administration and often singled out our President. Sickening.

[defendandprotect]

82. WHY are you watching this crap . . . CNN is long, long gone -- !!

[left coaster]

2. "Delegates" indeed!

In the same way that members of the KKK are..

Thanks for the contact info!

[FrenchieCat]

5. That's about the "size" of it.

The question becomes WHY would the media continue to promote
the modern KKK?

Just like why do we have to see more Republicans talking shit
on our Television than Democrats, when they are the minority?

and why do they Highlight Democrats who say anything against this administration
moreso than those who agree?

They want to ferment division and bullshit. Anything from keeping us focused
on what could help Americans.

I hate the corporate media, and after the SCOTUS decision, they are about to get
even worse; if that was even possible!

[FrenchieCat]

3. Yeah teabaggers that couldn't go to Tennessee.....go ahead and rec this down.

you too media moles!

[quiet.american]

4. "It's about racism being treated as the new normal." Amen.

The envelope back to the past is being pushed bit by bit by bit.

[ProSense]

6. The media is doing everything to amplify the lunatics' voices:

Focus on the Family to air a second ad during Super Bowl pre-game.

Reminds me of the extensive coverage they gave the Swift Liars while pretending that spreading lies (in this case lunacy) was just being fair and balanced.

[FrenchieCat]

11. and while many here sit and take a dump on this administration.....

they do nothing about this media....not a letter, not a phone call, nada.

[unapatriciated]

76. Assume much?

This is a great post with lots of info.
But why do you have to get a 'blame those who criticize' for the problem of the day in "many" of your post.


Many of us who are critical of the direction this administration took on several issues are very involved. We write "many" letters, make phone calls and yes attend protests.
Even when we are few in numbers, we show up and get involved.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=101262616565083&ref=mf

[defendandprotect]

83. So you say --

however, many of us have been trying to do something about "media" for the

past 20 years and more!!

[StClone]

14. Des Moines Register Web Front Page!

Why are these racist, misguided raging fools news?


http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100205/NEWS/100205003

[defendandprotect]

84. Because in the corporate-press the anti-war movement CANNOT be "news" . . .

nor can anything else which would bring positive change to the nation "news."

[Enthusiast]

65. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Just wait. Unlimited corporate money to further take the country in a fascist direction.

[livetohike]

7. Thanks for this FrenchieCat. I'm getting to work

:hi:

[lxlxlxl]

81. getting my coffee...will try to post any replies I get

[BanzaiBonnie]

8. National press for a meeting of 600 people?

When about hundreds of thousands protested Bush at the second inauguration parade, there was barely a mention and they didn't give numbers. I was there and I was a witness. The corporate news media is a propaganda machine; see nothing, hear nothing, speak nothing, but the party lie. Serving their corporate masters.

[Tesha]

36. Well, it's better than having to cover a half-million antiwar protesters. (NT)

[Monk06]

9. 600 ??? High School reunions get a bigger draw than that.

[hatrack]

10. Yeah, but NPR was reporting on "hundreds" of DC anti-war protesters in the fall of 2002 . . .

Oh, wait.

Never mind.

[StClone]

13. Bush debased NPR

They are not Free Speech TV. Many NPR positions, and much funding, was lessened or filled with Cons.

[hatrack]

19. Oh, I agree - their steady descent into suckage has been horrifying.

.

[lxlxlxl]

80. we filled the damn streets, without fox news promotion, and what happened.

this is all incredibly fucked up

[defendandprotect]

85. NY Times, as well, with a "few thousand," I think --

but they corrected it a few weeks later!!!

There is nothing left of the "free press" except right wing propaganda --

turn it off!

[Windy]

12. I will be contacting them Frenchie. Thank you!

In addition, I have watched some of the "festivities" online. These people are nothing more than rascists. They are akin to the rise of the German Worker's Party that was the prelude to the Nazi party albiet on a smaller scale and in a less receptive country, thank god!

[pamela]

15. The "average American" meme is pissing me off.

The talking heads keep saying the teabaggers are "average Americans." BULLSHIT! They are a far-right hate group. There is nothing statistically average about them. The average American is NOT a Republican. The average American voted for Obama and likes him. This group is a minority in terms of political ideology.

"Average" is a code word for "white."

[Jennicut]

16. LOL. That is one pathetic so called convention.

[FrenchieCat]

17. Probably more reporters there than actual attendees!

[secondwind]

21. can't wait to hear what Rachel Maddow says about all of this, she's reporting from Nashville tonight

[win_in_06]

120. Why is she in Nashville for this?

Part of the problem with Palin is taking her seriously. Apparently Madlow, just like others in the media circus, takes her seriously enough to broacast on location.

Sarah Palin will benefit from this exposure. Her fundraising is going to go through the roof.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

25. Is they entered the hall walking upright it sure as hell would be news. nt

[GrantDem]

30. +1

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

122. I meant to type "If". nt

[BeyondGeography]

26. Hmmm, let's see, @$549 a pop that's about $330K and he's paying Sarahbelle $115K

Factor in marketing, the facility rental, a/v, all the F&B for those ravenous angry people and Mr. Teabagger must be wondering what he's going to do next for a living.

[tosh]

64. LOL! That's what makes it newsworthy to me -

it is IN THE RED!!!

[defendandprotect]

116. I'm probably wrong, but I find it hard to believe that any average American today would...

be spending $549 on a political event -- PLUS TRAVELING EXPENSES???

:eyes:

[NYC Liberal]

27. There are conventions EVERY single day that attract THOUSANDS of people

Medical conventions, insurance conventions, Star Trek fan conventions...

So why is this one making so much news? 600 people? Who cares! Why doesn't the media report on all those other conventions?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

28. Delegates?

How were they chosen? I don't recall there being a primary.

And 600 people? Six hundred people showing up in the room at the same time constitutes national news? There were more than 600 people for my kid's band concert just before the holidays. Where's our fifteen minutes?

[old mark]

29. MSNBC reported nearly 900, showed a "crowd" of about 50 or so,

all looking irritated. Think it's all a rip, with stupid media coverage. Big news storied today:
1. Why is Clinton in Haiti!!!!! (Oh, he is coordinating for the UN)
2. Female ski person poses for magazine cover and outrages 30 people.
3. Snow in the East.
4. 600 to 900 Baggers begin taking over USA!
5. Charlie Sheen is stupid yet again.

Thanks to today's news, I have spent much of the day reading and actually doing enjoyable things at home.

TV has been off most of the day.

mark

[jenmito]

31. Chris Matthews said if she talks about Rahm tomorrow night, it'll prove she's "swinging for the

fences" and playing major league ball (or something like that). He went on to say if she gets an article written about her the next day on the front page of the papers, it'll show she's a heavyweight. (Of COURSE she'll continue to milk the Rahm thing and get coverage.) Then he went on to say the scandals about the tanning bed, trying to hide expenses, etc., are "small potatoes" and totally dismissed it.

[FrenchieCat]

32. Meanwhile, 1,400 show up in Tulsa for free Dental Care......

but all of the reporters are too busy in Tennessee reporting on a non event,
that they so desperately want to become something that it's not!

Here's the story in Tulsa!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7649195&mesg_id=7649195

[jenmito]

34. Thanks for that...

because I NEVER would've known about it from the "liberal" media. It goes against their narrative. :eyes:

[defendandprotect]

86. The corporate press is there to represent corporate/CIA/Pentagon interests . . . not the public's!!

[wisteria]

44. It appears Tweety has decided his bread is going to be buttered on the Republican side

later this year, so he is already doing his best to promote the idea that Dems are done for and Republicans are rising.

[jenmito]

47. I think he's more interested in manufacturing a competition so he has

"exciting" politics to cover. I think he'd be happy to see Palin, or Scott Brown for that matter, officially run against Obama. He'd LOVE covering that. And if Brown, say, got too far ahead, he'd probably start talking about ways Obama could come back. It's "just politics" to him. But politics is his life.

[mitchum]

96. You are correct; he is fundamentally just a drama queen

[defendandprotect]

87. This has long been true of Matthews --

why are you watching him?

[defendandprotect]

117. Matthews is an idiot -- this is our corporate press . . .!!!

Why are you watching it?

[certainot]

35. teabaggers are a RW talk radio product and picketing the major limbaugh stations

will get attention DIRECTLY to the problem.

the stupidity and lies and talking points they repeat were learned from talk radio repetition. by protesting the local stations that spread the BS and lobbyist talking points through limbaugh and sons the media and politicians that rely on that smorgasbord of prechewed talking points will have to be more careful about repeating them, as was the case for weeks after obama called out GOP senators for taking orders from limbaugh. this crap will end when the left finally recognizes the GOP and their propaganda start at the local RW radio stations. most of this 20 yrs disaster would have been avoided if the left had not completely ignored RW talk radio.

[Turborama]

37. AC360 are doing a "special 2 part investigation" into the teabaggers

I saw last night's one and it was extremely sympathetic towards them. No mention of Faux news or other 'special interests' involvement. I thought Anderson Cooper was better than that, seems like I'm wrong. It's on again tonight and I'm sure we can expect more of them same. :banghead:

Thanks for all the contact details. :hi:

:kick: & R

[Bjorn Against]

38. I think it sounds like we need to demand coverage of our gatherings

My problem is not that they give coverage to the teabaggers, my problem is that they don't give equal time to progressive activists. I recommend using that argument when you contact the media as well, if you tell them not to cover someone it is easy for them to take try to take the high ground and insist they will broadcast the news without bowing to political pressure. If your argument is aimed at insisting on equal coverage however it suddenly becomes much harder for them to justify broadcasting one side but not the other.

[Turbineguy]

39. OK.

600 people stage a mass escape from a mental institution. National news? Yes, I think so.

[MadBadger]

40. Its Okay, let everybody see the Kook Convention

[Yavin4]

41. I Think About All The Groups That Protested and Marched Against Bush

and none of them got the kind of coverage that these nut jobs are getting.

[FrenchieCat]

43. Yep. That's the sad part!

And without coverage, it's like one doesn't exist.....
which is why the media being fixated on this group is an
American travesty!

[defendandprotect]

88. If you look at the civil rights era or the VN era, you understand how DANGEROUS . . .

they understand reality to be to their propaganda --

You are NOT going to see reality covered in either the anti-war movement or

any other fight for justice here in America -- it's against corporate interests!!

It's against CIA/Pentagon interests -- and that's who's running the country!!

Turn off the TV!

[BlueIdaho]

42. More than 600 showed up at our local Walmart

To stand in line at o-dark thirty on Black Friday.

BFD.

[Raine]

46. Even 600 is too many

I listened to some of it and they are totally NUTZ!!!!! :crazy:

[Blue_Tires]

48. thanks for this

[lunasun]

49. Google News Top Story!!

Top story changes every few hours as they change the source but all teabagger. I said to my husband Didn't our friend Gloria have a fundraiser last yr for foster kids leaving the system with 350 people???
Seems she should have gotten something if 600 is front page news!!!???$^&$&!! FYI -yahoo not so bad

[madmax]

50. Frenchie is majorly pissed off!!

Ok, let's saddle up and prime those fingers.

k&r

[rufus dog]

51. Give em hell

I think some people are missing the whole point of your post. Not only is it the small number, but is how they are being portrayed by the media... Angry Americans upset at the Government for the current economic situation.

They are racist friggen fools and the coverage should be similar to a KKK or Nazi rally, a couple minutes tops, at the bottom of the hour, with a warning to kids watching.

[mdmc]

52. A radical splinter group is trying to kill off the moderate wing of a corporate party

more power to them..

They are like the DLC - slowly tryin to destroy the democratic wing of the democratic party.

Perhaps we could have a liberal splinter group that can take on the DLC..

[veganlush]

53. how much did they charge those teabaggers to get in?

..if my math is right, they needed to charge $191.00+ just to cover Palin's speaking fee!

[veganlush]

54. the real sad part, though...

it's not the teabaggers that are stopping our agenda, and it's not the repugnants-it's the Democratic majority that is afraid to enact it's own agenda and is pointing fingers -until 2010 when it will be relieved of the "burden" of majority status....

[FrenchieCat]

55. I give more credit to the corporate media on who's stopping an agenda.....

The media has its foot so far up Democratic congressional ass till it ain't even funny...
and they have proven more than once that in the end, the public will do as the media
decides; see Iraq War for one. Health care was declared DOA by the media before Obama
announced that he'd be working on it....so.

[veganlush]

121. I wish the progressives in government and out of government

..could better figure out how to use the tool that is the media.We should be demanding a venue wherein some repugnants have to face questions and actually supply answers. I would simply like to ask them: how much socialism to you think is the right amount in the budget?

Should we cap socialism spending? then when some idiot like Bachmann replies "ZERO SOCIALISM!!" we can follow up by saying which do want to cut first, the socialized military, the socialized retirement system, police and fire, the coast guard, public universities, NASA, Centers for disease control..roads and bridges...etc...once the ignorant tea-baggers hear that the radical right-wingers like Bachmann, Boner, Cantor, any of 'em-would keep most socialism in place, the man behind the curtain would be exposed and we'd have a prayer in 2010...

[steve2470]

56. CNN's loyalty is to the American dollar, the rest be damned

If their ratings suffer from this travesty of journalism, they will change their ways. Otherwise, they will justify it as "presenting a timely news story", which we all know is utter BS.

[rufus dog]

57. ratings is part of it

The revenue dollars from Insurance and Pharma helps keep them in check also.

[defendandprotect]

89. Right ... and the right wing will keep the propaganda going even if they

have to pay for it themselves --


but don't help them -- turn the TV off!!

[Lorien]

58. Remind them that they are the same media that ignored the largest mobilization for a cause

in human history; the global march against the Iraq war in 2003.

[defendandprotect]

90. THEY know this, of course . . . WE are the ones who don't seem to "get it" . . .!!

Many of us have tried to sway the corporate-press over the past 20 years and more!

It's not going to happen -- only corporate/CIA/Pentagon interests will be focused upon.

It's not by accident -- it's the official agenda.

My best advice is -- turn the TV off!!

[Lorien]

111. Mine has been off for nearly a decade now

but trying to get others to do the same...that's a tall order.

[defendandprotect]

115. I guess they keep "hoping" . . .??? One of my PBS stations is playing old "Bonanza" reruns!!

[JoeyT]

59. K&R

I wonder if we could get a 1k+ person protest covered if we insisted we were protesting taxation with representation or something equally stupid like the teabaggers do, then have everyone whip out the real signs.

Single Payer Now!
No more war!
Equality for all!
Our signs are spelled correctly!

[tomp]

60. your signature line is just as disingenuous as what you complain about in the OP.

to be fair, instead of "president obama", it should read: "president goldman sachs, etc..."

[Robb]

66. How helpful of you.

[defendandprotect]

91. Unfortunately . . .

the past year has made clear that Obama is our new corporate president --!!

[Locrian]

61. one way to fight them

Fight the "media" by explaining to everyone you know that they are NOT news. I know a lot of older people get "news" that way - but make it very clear they are being duped. The TV media needs to be exposed at ENTERTAINMENT only. It is certainly not news, and you do yourself a disservice by thinking you can gain ANYTHING by watching. TURN IT OFF. All you do is get sucked into their web of lies and agenda.


My 80 yr old dad is finally coming around that he is being programmed, and that there is no real news on TV. Just endless political humping, disaster porn, etc. Get the word out.

[defendandprotect]

92. True . . .

and everyone needs to turn off their TV's . . .

[90-percent]

62. 600 people

That number is really laughable. I would think that a fucking TAG SALE in a good location probably has more than 600 in the course of a weekend!

A local one day computer show probably has 2,000 or 3,000 people in a day?

The auto swap meets I go to during the warm weather probably attract ten times as many people than this wretched non-affair.

I could go on. I bet my local Stop and Shop Supermarket serves 600 people in one or two hours!

The first War Protest of my life, and I was eligible for the draft in 1972, was in January 2003in DC put on by International Answer, during the era of the LARGEST COLLECTIVE WAR PROTESTS AROUND THE WORLD in the history of humanity! You would not know that from American MSM coverage, however!

At least America has it's national priorities straight!

-90% jimmy

[fascisthunter]

63. because Corporate America is trying to divide us all

and they choose to cover a tea party minority that suits their own interests of paying less taxes. The corporate media will NEVER cover a liberal movement, not like this anyways.

They are inflating the tea bag movement for a reason they are too much of cowards to ever admit to America.

[Selena Harris]

69. The teabaggers will be discarded by their "brewmeisters"

after they have steeped long enough in the media "hot water".

[fascisthunter]

70. sure, but at what point?

Right now these people are perfect for those who want to stir up an angry mob towards their own fellow citizens.

[Selena Harris]

107. They will pull out the teabags

when the specter of martial law looms-namely when all the troops who are deployed elsewhere come home to no jobs.

Then again, maybe this is the feature, and not the bug.

Perhaps this is the foundation being laid.

[Enthusiast]

67. This is a huge story!

It should be a huge story that the Tea Party movement is a failure because they only had 600 attendees. That is the huge story, the END of the Tea Party faux grass roots movement.

[LynneSin]

71. yes but when 200k do an anti-war protest we barely get a mention

go figure

[Nictuku]

72. I just heard on CSPAN that 20% were media themselves

20 Percent of the 600 ? Amazing.

[defendandprotect]

93. C-span evidently decided to cover this "event" -- putting C-span in question, IMO . . .

C-span has been out of it since the Gingrich "revolution" which knocked them

about and think it's pretty much over --

Same with coverage of House/Senate -- IMO, much of the "stuff" - the work has been

taken off the floor????

[Historic NY]

73. 600..wow MSM must never cover a volunteer firemans convention.

[AzNick]

74. I say it's good: it divides the GOP and will help us

Divide and conquer.

[L0oniX]

75. Corporate network news is not real news. FSTV is!

[defendandprotect]

94. What's "FSTV"???

[L0oniX]

98. Free Speech T V

http://www.freespeech.org/

on Dish and Direct sats

[lxlxlxl]

77. IT IS ACTIVELY PROMOTED ON FOX ALL DAY AND TALK RADIO...utterly bizzarre.

This whole thing is utterly bogus. We went to war illegally and flooded the streets and all they gave us were a few aerial shots. No anti-war people on TV to speak their side. Michael Moore did not speak for everyone.

This is bizzaro.

[defendandprotect]

95. Why are you watching it????

[lxlxlxl]

99. I don't. I don't even have a TV. You don't need to watch it to know whats going on.

?

[defendandprotect]

102. All of the right wing movement is fake . . .

from their election wins over three decades to their

"Christian right" religious movement which was financed by the GOP and

wealthy Repugs !!

We also created the VIOLENT Islamic religous Fundi movement --- writing and

printing textbooks with these violent concepts and shipping them into the ME!

All of their stuff fails, but is kept in play with right wing money --

TV may be somewhat more vulnerable, however, because corporations pay huge

sums for the ads -- and I believe some advertising has been lost as viewers

have given up on some "news."

Look at how many posting on this thread alone still seem to be watching corporate

news!?

I keep my TV on to watch C-span . . . which at this point I think is pretty much

finished, as well --

and old moviews when C-span gets boring!

I think most of the actual business of USHR/Senate has been taken off the floor and

into back room??!!

We are waist high in right wing "catapulting the propaganda" -- !!!



The only way the right wing has ever rise and the only way now is thru violence --

political violence, assassinations, deception, stolen elections.

Coincidentally, the computers began to come in during the mid-and-late-1960's ...

both the LARGE computers used by MSM and the individual voting computers.

This is just about the time America was passing The Voting Rights Act.

Further, before the LARGE computers used by MSM began to come in during the mid-1960's,

MSM could only report official vote tallies. After the LARGE computers they had new

powers to PREDICT and CALL elections for candidates -- and to PREDICT and CALL Electoral

College votes and to declare president winners by state!

We simply say them reversing this power in the 2000 election -- John Ellis/Fox News!

[Selena Harris]

109. Teabagger robocalls out of Ohio

About an hour ago,one of the speakers for Voices of America was speaking.

He made note of a company that could do robocalls for four cents per call.

Ohio has a history of dubious elections(remember Ken Blackwell),and Ohio was ground zero for Mike Connell, the GOP IT whiz that crashed the day before testimony about said election results.Connell had founded a GOP PR firm that was involved with robocalls and the Swiftboating of John Kerry.

How coincidental that in the disputed Ohio election results , it was alleged that a router was used to send vote to a location in Tennessee.

Just so happens that this TeaParty is being held in Memphis,Tennessee.

[defendandprotect]

114. I'm not sure what ...

"Voices of America" is vs "Voice of America" . . . ??

All propaganda?

And I vaguely remember Ken Blackwell -- but I do remember Mike Connell and yet another

convenient plane crash!

I do recall that Kerry folded very rapidly -- and evidently he was told that it was a

very powerful steal.

I hadn't heard about the rerouting to Tennessee -- but I think I've heard a lot about

Tennessee -- Rockefellers controlled it?

MLK, Jr. killed there --

[Whisp]

97. thanks Frenchie!

I am sick to my stomach how the media clasps on to anything that smacks of criticism towards Obama and blaming him for everything fromthe deficit to their hemoroids. WHERE WERE YOU FUCKERS WHEN BUSH RAMMED AN ILLEGAL WAR DOWN EVERYONES THROATS. YOU WERE CHEERLEADING THE CIC THEN, YOU LOUSY SHITSTAINED FUCKWAD CORP ARSE KISSING LOSERS. JORNALISTS------ HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

At least that is how I read CNN, the others are most liekly the same if you are listing them.

[Odin2005]

100. The Corporatist-Fascist Media is all about manufacturing reality.

[JimboDem]

101. Thank You, Frenchie.

Just emailed CNN and explained that their Teabagger (600-120 media) coverage just forced me to block CNN on my cable. No more BS or sponsorship dollars for them or their enablers. Getting rid of my cable and will explain CNN/Fox as the reason.

[Martin Eden]

103. YES -- it IS news

It's news when only 600 people show up at a national convention for a political "party" this supposedly has a lot of support throughout the country.

The news reports are focusing on what a SHAM this allegedly grassroots movement is, right?

[Christa]

104. I wish I could give this a 100 rec's nt

[lollybaby]

105. These are 'Real Americans' expressing their sentiments...

... at what they see as the wrong direction 'their country' is headed. Until folks here and around the country also decide to get off their butts and the internet and publicly express your collective sentiments against the antics you decry here, NEWS FLASH - these 600 'delegates' will continue to represent the 'Real Americans'.
So quit complaining and let the world and the corporate media know there are more of you and less of them in this country! I am just saying...

[alp227]

106. Surprisingly, the Tea Party wasn't included in the teaser for the NBC Nightly News

I watched the evening newscasts last night to see how they'd cover the TPC, and surprisingly the lead stories were: the East Coast blizzard, the unemployment report, the Toyota recall, and the American missionaries in Haiti. All these stories they saw as more relevant than the TPC. I'm looking up the NBC website (nightly.msnbc.com) and find no sign of any convention coverage there.

Only ABC World News bothered to cover the TPC; Here's an analysis of it by Brent Baker (I can't find a video of it on ABCNews.com, but I did find a revised version on ABCNews.com from today's Good Morning America. Nothing on CBS Evening News either.

And Tom Brokaw isn't even hosting Meet the Press anymore! It's David Gregory, not "BrokeJaw"! :rofl:

However, if the Convention does continue this weekend (IIRC) then I can expect to hear more sympathetic BS from the media.

So do you object to the media merely covering the TPC, or do you expect them to be skeptical about their views (like how Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow would cover it?)

[moondust]

108. WaPo: "600 tea party LEADERS"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020501694.html

Caption under the picture:

Six hundred tea party leaders arrived Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, for the first-ever three-day National Tea Party Convention. Organizers announced the creation of a political action committee called Ensuring Liberty Corp.

They're all leaders, doncha know.

[FrenchieCat]

110. Or Grand Wizards. that's applicable as well!

[MaineDem]

112. I heard that 20% of attendees are press

CSPAN interviewed the guy sitting att he press check-in table. He said 200 media people were there.

[Cha]

113. delegates to hell.

[gauguin57]

118. Not to mention that Todd was apparently half-running the Alaska gov't ...

... if Hillary's emails from the Clinton White House years showed that she was recommending who should be appointed to judgeships and cabinet posts, etc., we'd have NEVER heard the end of it.

"WE DIDN'T ELECT HER!"

But apparently the First Dude can do no wrong. *sigh* *sheesh* *eyeroll*

[FrenchieCat]

119. He's scarier than she is!

[SanchoPanza]

123. It has nothing to do with political relevance.

All the strategy sessions you see at the Netroots Nation Convention (which are better funded and have a larger draw) or all the big name people that go there to talk policy will never get the same kind of media draw, because they run counter to the purpose that format.

600 crazy assholes standing around listening to other crazy assholes gets a gut reaction. Just like Palin. The country is divided between those who think she's some sort of American zeitgeist manifest in human form and those who think she's completely out of her element. You won't learn anything new by watching them, or her. Which fits modern big print and television "journalism" to a tee. They don't get paid to inform you. They get paid for emotional reactions, because thats the easiest and cheapest way to make sure you'll continue watch them, listen to them, and read them.

Turn off Cable News. Cancel your major newspaper subscriptions. Stop visiting sites that cater to those audiences. And stop thinking that these venues have any impact on American political life outside the D.C. bubble. They don't.

[Skittles]

124. AWESOME post

K&R