The Crowds!! WOW WOW..The CROWDS!!!

[DemocracyInaction]

Ha..ha..ha.. The Teaparty thing in Nevada was billed as 30,000 or at least 10,000 would be coming. For christ sakes we have more people than that show up for a Little League baseball game in my community!! In fact, look at the McCain/Palin pathetic events over two days.

At the first one, they had to rope an area to draw the crowd closer to the stage to make it look like they had anybody there. And, today's McCain rally was about the capacity of a gym floor with folding chairs! Here's what really pisses me off:

Palin IS NOT drawing the crowds the media wants us to believe NOR is the Teaparty. In fact in DC, the crowd in front of the Capitol during HCR vote was pathetic. Not one of the goddamn media will admit to how lame this has all become. They want us to believe that at least as many people as saw Obama take the oath of office are swarming to these events. So, if you can get 100 ignorant morAns to stop on a street corner and listen to you, please call Fox or CNN, etc. and you, too, can become known as "a great political force". What a farce!

[DCBob]

1. Probably more media personnel than Teapartiers.

Pathetic.

[BlueIdaho]

2. I'd love to have an accurate crowd count.

If its a thousand or less - then these baggers have had their day.

[Walk away]

3. Most of their "crowds" are sitting around the TV in the Day Room,

waiting for Bingo.

G-14.....

[glinda]

8. They arrive in "Bingo Buses".

[Walk away]

10. Afterwards they go out for the Early Birds Special and a walk around the mall. nt

[unblock]

4. this is why we need a liberal in charge of a major media outlet.

this is FAR more important than winning any intellectual argument.


sadly, the time for debate has passed. it takes two parties agreeing to play by the rules for that to work.


we need a bigger microphone.

[whathehell]

19. +1000 n/t

[cynatnite]

5. I heard crowd estimates of about 8000...

not a bad size, but still nothing that I would call great. I've seen protests of thousands upon thousands converging on DC. No way in hell the teabagging crowd can even come close to that.

[NavyDavy]

13. thats a stretch at best.....the pix I've seen not even close!!!

[sfwriter]

18. I heard 7k...In the middle of nowhere. That's impressive to me.

[Caretha]

20. It impresses me too

How many stupid people showed up in the desert without any water or porta potties. All of the 798 people who live in Searchlight are laughing their asses off tonight.

[Brickbat]

22. I was just thinking the same thing. AP said 9K, and if 9K descended on my little town,

it would make a major impact.

[sfwriter]

26. Selling chocolate chunk cookies... made of Ex Lax.... Ooop... gotta go...

[Bitwit1234]

6. The thing is the media keeps building this bunch of trash up

they want to cause trouble. They must want someone to be assassinated. It makes good stories. wouldn't it be nice if the media was sent running around not know when they would be spit on and cursed at.

[marmar]

7. And CNN and the other media whores tried their hardest to build up this hot mess.....

nt

[Sheepshank]

9. Palin was charging $500 a ticket to hear her speak just a month ago

Now they got it for free and 8000 showed up? Sometimes even a 'sale' is not worth the effort.

[theothersnippywshrub]

11. Her appearance was just marketing by the Shadow Con Dude. He will get money down the road

out of nearly everyone there today.

[NavyDavy]

14. Failin Palin and Michele Barkman were at an event charging

10000 dollars a photo

[The Midway Rebel]

12. Yup, it is the Jerry Springer Show on a slighltly larger scale.

I sometimes wonder which party will be the first to get a stripper pole. So far, the Repugs are way out front on that one.

It is what sells.

And, that undefinable "It" is what drives elections in America these days, for better or for worse.

[FrenchieCat]

15. Yep. It's all manufactured and trumped.

Basically they threw some shit up against a wall, hoping something would stick!
So far, not much, considering how much was thrown.

[CTyankee]

16. Aww, Frenchie, who is that adorable child? nt

[FrenchieCat]

21. That's my nephew....who now will be able to get Insurance Coverage,

when he couldn't before...because he was diagnosed with Cancer at age 18 months.
He is now free and clear of it for the past 5 years, but was uninsurable up
to this point.

[CTyankee]

25. What a story! Glad he is doing well. My grandson was rejected for

private insurance a while back because he wore glasses! He was only 3 years old...then I saw that Bush vetoed S-Chip, which my grandson could have used. You can imagine my outrage...it was PERSONAL and visceral with me, as you can imagine...

[gulliver]

17. They are like Deadheads...

...a sort of portable studio audience that Fox News uses to televise the Palin show "before a live audience." Palin gets up, forms her lips into an "O" and makes that mommy face that makes babies smile. And they all do. Over and over and over and over...they never tire of it.

[Mojeoux]

24. No They Are Not Like Dead Heads

Dead Heads are way too mellow!!!!

For Instance:

If Dead Heads came upon the poor guy with MS that the tea baggers were mocking so viciously, the Dead Heads would have sat on the ground with the guy and smoked him out.

[Danascot]

23. Reminds me of the great McCain Excitement of 2008