Gov. Rendell: Media blow Tea Parties out of proportion

[RamboLiberal]

Tea Parties dominated the news on tax day but Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell says the protest movement is given too much credit by the media.

"What's the Tea Party itself? If you say it's the anger that people feel about the economy, et cetera, that's giving the Tea Party too much credit," Rendell told NBC's David Gregory Sunday.

"We had two recent Tea Party demonstrations in Washington. One a week before the health care vote, drew about 1,000 people. The tax day rally by the organizers' own estimate was 1,500 people," explained the governor.

"If I organized a rally for stronger laws to protect puppies, I would get 100,000 people to Washington. So, I think the media has blown the Tea Party themselves out of proportion," said Rendell.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0418/rendell-media-blows-tea-parties-proportion/

[Jade Fox]

1. "...stronger laws to protect puppies....."

Good one.

The media fawning over the Teabaggers is shameless.

[madokie]

3. Gotta love Gov Rendell

I like to watch him when he's on with Rachel. Dr Maddow is one fine person to have on our side, smart calm cool and collected.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. The Teabaggers and the majority of the media are one entity....

[guitar man]

4. I saw that this morning

Almost spit my coffe out laughing. David Gregory looked like Rendell had just shot his dog!

:rofl:

[Jade Fox]

5. Gregory seemed furious at the idea......

that the Teabaggers are a small, insignificant group of people.

At least he did bring up the racist rhetoric.

[guitar man]

8. He knows Ed is right

Whether he will ever admit it or not. The press has been giving them artificial signifigance to create a spectale. In the news biz, spectacle=$$$. If one of them pulls a McVeigh, that spectacle will equal $$$$$$$$ . They are a bunch of lowlifes.

[butterfly77]

6. Yes,David Gregory didn't like the fact..

that Rendell was giving out the real numbers at these demonstrations. David Gregory: Oh well,its time for a break...

[Hansel]

7. The hispanic man on the panel should have used this opportunity

to talk about the march for immigration reforms that was taking place in Washington, D.C. at the same time the press was fawning over the 1,500 Tea Baggers. Weren't there about 200,000 people at the immigration march that got no coverage whatsoever? Now that would have put an exclamation mark on Rendell's point.

[Grand Taurean]

9. And the same media gave minimal attention to

the tens of millions across the globe who took to the streets to protest the Iraq war.

[Saturday]

10. The same media that tells us Palin is relevant. nt