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Scenes from the DC Tea Party
These were all taken at Lafayette Park, across from the White House, around noon. Several thousand people* came out, as the rain poured down.
*UPDATE: I see there's a debate over crowd estimates. Unfortunately, there's no way to know for sure, as there is no entity making an official estimate and people came and went over a several-hour period. I estimated several thousand based on comparable crowd sizes at events I attended during the presidential campaign season, but if somebody makes a compelling argument for why I'm wrong, then I'd be happy to note that. My intention wasn't to purposely exaggerate the turnout. The photos above aren't very indicative of the size of the crowd, because they were taken in the portions of the park that were less densely populated, thus allowing me to easily roam around. That would not have been possible closer to the stage, where people were tightly packed together. Also, people were spread out all over the park, in all directions around the stage. I tried to get an overhead photo that would have conveyed a better sense of the crowd size, but I was unable to get to a high enough vantage point.
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RJ| 4.15.09 @ 2:33PM
Thousands???? Maybe a hundred at best....
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WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 2:41PM
The pictures, I am sure, do not reflect the numbers. And it was raining, so God bless 'em for showing up.
Interesting that the same five or six skanky broads from Code Pinko show up at all kinds of events, and the press doesn't scoff at them.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 2:50PM
I'll just leave this here...if it works :D
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 2:51PM
Well, THAT didn't work:
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/5052/gopteabagger.jpg
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WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 2:59PM
>>>What would reflect the true numbers?
An photo taken from above, or an official head count perhaps. Those pictures are close-ups. Very possible thousands came out.
What do you lefties fear so much about GOPers/Conservatives protesting? Is it only Code Pinko types that are allowed to protest? ONE stupid woman, Cindy Sheehan, was obsessively reported on by the media.
Get over it. We are protesting. That is our right as Americans.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 3:12PM
* Get over it. We are protesting. That is our right as Americans. *
Great. Where the heck were you last year?
enter name| 4.15.09 @ 3:20PM
If there's one thing Modern Liberals fear more than anything else is a conservative protesting.
frjossmep| 4.15.09 @ 3:23PM
You do realize you are protesting George Bush and the Republican Congress' tax rates right? Oh yes, lets not forget a TRILLION dollar war that Bush and Cheney ran "off the books" - that's what your children will be paying for, a drunken neoconservative spending spree.
Have fun tea bagging Rush, Sean, and Billy boy - I'm sure they'll get a real thrill out of it. After all this little astroturf event is on their dime.
stina| 4.15.09 @ 3:24PM
"Get over it. We are protesting. That is our right as Americans. "
And it's my right to seriously doubt your numbers. Especially since "several thousand people" in Lafayette Park would have resulted in every shot looking crowded. The pics above show entirely too much wiggle room for the numbers being claimed.
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 3:28PM
The lefties are apoplectic over this!
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/04/lefties_to_try_and_discredit_t.html
1) From Code Pink Website:
Santa Monica Tea Party Wednesday, April 15th 2009 4:00-5:00 PM Santa Monica, CA
The Santa Monica Tea Party of 2009 and Tea Parties all across America are being organized by friends of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, all about getting less funding for government. Let's show up with a better message: STOP funding wars and Wall Street, and start funding the needs of the people- health care, education, and a green economy. Join us as we crash their party.
Location: Santa Monica Pier 100 Colorado Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90401
2) From DKos:
Tomorrow, my husband and I will be venturing into the wilds disguised as a news crew to do some in person interviewers with teabaggers here in Rhode Island (if we can find any). We've got some questions lined up to ask, but I'd love to get suggestions!
The great thing about owning professional video equipment is that armed with it, you can pass yourself off as being a professional news crew pretty easily.
So tomorrow, "WSFR" is going to send a cameraman and on air news personality out into the field to cover this "teabagging" phenomenon.
*******
So a couple of Kossacks aren't above passing themselves off as reporters. Lie much? Grow up lefties!
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 3:30PM
* So a couple of Kossacks aren't above passing themselves off as reporters. *
Jeff Gannon approves.
Brandon| 4.15.09 @ 3:32PM
There weren't several thousand. I'd say several hundred at the DC one... Considering DC is very liberal, it was an impressive turnout. Most of the people I talked to were from VA or MD.
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 3:33PM
And BTW - the numbers are not the story.
ONE protestor in Tiananmen Square in 1989 rocked the world.
It's about building a movement. And showing the lefties and the liberal press that they do not have a monopoly on American thought.
Andrew| 4.15.09 @ 3:34PM
That kid in the yellow raincoat looks hella embarrassed to be apart of that foolishness.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 3:36PM
* And BTW - the numbers are not the story. *
No, they're just the entertainment.
*ONE protestor in Tiananmen Square in 1989 rocked the world*
Of course, in this case, it was you guys driving the tank.
* It's about building a movement. *
This message sponsored by Fox News, Newt Gingrich, etc etc...
stina| 4.15.09 @ 3:38PM
Hey Wendy G -- we aren't "apoplectic" -- we're actually quite amused.
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 3:38PM
>>>That kid in the yellow raincoat looks hella embarrassed to be apart of that foolishness.
Wow. We have mindreader here today.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 3:39PM
Believe me...a mindreader's talents would be wasted on that crowd.
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 3:42PM
>>Hey Wendy G -- we aren't "apoplectic" -- we're actually quite amused.
If the lefties didn't care or were merely amused, they wouldn't spend time here posting about it. Generally people spend time on matters of interest to them.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 3:43PM
* Generally people spend time on matters of interest to them. *
Which can only mean you've been perfectly happy with the way the country's been tanking these past eight years, by the size of the protests we've seen.
stina| 4.15.09 @ 3:49PM
*If the lefties didn't care or were merely amused, they wouldn't spend time here posting about it. *
Oh, but watching you all lose it over our comments is precisely what is so amusing.
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 3:50PM
You can call it a failure all you want. Doesn't make it so. :)
It's all over the news, so it's a success. And YOU all are obsessed with it, so it's having an impact.
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 3:51PM
>>> Oh, but watching you all lose it over our comments is precisely what is so amusing.
Project much? :)
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 3:52PM
* It's all over the news, so it's a success. And YOU all are obsessed with it, so it's having an impact. *
Congratulations. You knocked the Octomom off the front page.
Brandon| 4.15.09 @ 3:53PM
What I find even more amusing is most lefties don't own guns. Fail!
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 3:54PM
Good piece from Greg Gutfeld (Red Eye on Fox host) on the Tea Bag events, and the MSM reaction to them.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/04/15/daily-gut-teabagging/
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 3:58PM
>>>>You knocked the Octomom off the front page.
No, we knocked BO, Obama's new dog off the front page. That "news story" really had the MSM squealing with delight.
BO, the WATER dog, gift from Ted Kennedy, whose own WATER dog is named SPLASH.
Odd that the press doesn't see the irony of Chappaquidick Ted having WATER dogs. No story there, move right along please.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 3:58PM
Good ol Breitbart...getting it wrong as usual.
http://moderateleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/teabag.jpg
Jim ixi Jim| 4.15.09 @ 3:59PM
ixi jim ixi
Oh ixi jim ixi got to love someone that cant stand people that are actually protesting for something that matters. What's wrong someone going to take your government hand out. WAHHHHHH!!!!
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 3:59PM
* Odd that the press doesn't see the irony of Chappaquidick Ted having WATER dogs. No story there, move right along please. *
No more than the irony of Newt Gingrich saying he's for family values.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 4:00PM
* Oh ixi jim ixi got to love someone that cant stand people that are actually protesting for something that matters. What's wrong someone going to take your government hand out. WAHHHHHH!!!! *
Odd how this all started on January 20th. Good thing Bush didn't allow any handouts...
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 4:03PM
(to normal people, anyway. Big Business, they were right up at the feed bag)
stina| 4.15.09 @ 4:17PM
You're right, I'm totally projecting. I'm all crazed and you're the one who's amused. Sure. Which is why you are going to such lengths to defend your position.
But more importantly, if you're such a fan of the tea party idea -- why aren't you at one right now? Cause like you said, "Generally people spend time on matters of interest to them."
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 4:18PM
Because even teabaggers apparently have standards.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 4:24PM
* "people were spread out all over the park" except around the stage where it was too crowded. *
LOL! What will they come out with next?
"There were a lot of protesters, but you wouldn't know them. They were from Canada"
patricia Chakeris| 4.15.09 @ 4:24PM
Look, the only ones at home today are the lib trolls. Figures. BTW, already been to the tea party in my town, and love how much it bugs you!
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 4:25PM
I'm a raging queen.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 4:27PM
* Look, the only ones at home today are the lib trolls. *
You might want to scroll up...
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 4:36PM
This event is a HUGE success.
Judging by how much it has gotten under the skin of the lefties and lib press.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 4:38PM
Yes, just like Iraq was a huge success, judging by how much it pissed off the Muslims.
Peter Berry| 4.15.09 @ 4:41PM
The estimate announced from the stage was 3,000 in attendance at the Lafayette Park rally. I was there from around 12:15 to 1:30 and I believe that estimate is accurate.
Peter Berry| 4.15.09 @ 4:41PM
The estimate announced from the stage was 3,000 in attendance at the Lafayette Park rally. I was there from around 12:15 to 1:30 and I believe that estimate is accurate.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 4:47PM
* Loving it! Monumental wingnut failure. They built a fake grassroots movement over fake issues. And embarrassed the few who were stupid enough to show up. *
Some people on Fark were suggesting the whole thing might have been a gag by 4chan. I doubt it, but it'd be funny
stina| 4.15.09 @ 4:49PM
Well said jharp. This is my most favorite tax day ever! A fake "grassroots" movement, backed by "real Americans" (aka GOP billionaires), fighting about what exactly? Too fun.
Almost makes me wish I were a vindictive person though -- just to call these people a bunch of traitors for disagreeing with the President, because wasn't that their definition of a traitor last year at this time?
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 4:56PM
Wow...some of the photos I'm seeing from these events are great. They're going full wackjob, like at the McCain rallies
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 4:59PM
* The cowards here will take the posts down. They believe in censorship of any opposing views. *
I dunno. According to someone a few posts back, I'm still a raging queen :-D
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 5:00PM
>>> A fake "grassroots" movement, backed by "real Americans" (aka GOP billionaires), fighting about what exactly?
More like a real protest - not the usual leftie rent-a-mob go-to-the-opening-of- an-envelope cabal - a protest that the MSM had no part in, except to scoff at it.
They scoff because they fear.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 5:05PM
*More like a real protest - not the usual leftie rent-a-mob go-to-the-opening-of- an-envelope cabal - a protest that the MSM had no part in, except to scoff at it. *
You're right. It's not a rent-a-m0b. You people are bought and paid for.
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 5:15PM
>>>>You people are bought and paid for.
Damn. My check must have gotten lost in the mail.
stina| 4.15.09 @ 5:22PM
*Damn. My check must have gotten lost in the mail.*
Now that was truly funny.
ixi jim ixi| 4.15.09 @ 5:26PM
* Now that was truly funny. *
LOL! Yep, that was one damn fine comeback.
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Jeremiah| 4.15.09 @ 6:29PM
Stinks like liberal fascist trolls. Always whining, always pissed off--losers, all.
lynnr| 4.15.09 @ 6:30PM
Wendy, you're right about code pinko--skanky looking old broads. Pathetic.
Smitty| 4.15.09 @ 6:32PM
Octomom is a liberal-- living on welfare and having illegitimate kids. Liberal paradigm.
Obama Drules| 4.15.09 @ 6:49PM
TRUTH TO POWER!!! TRUTH TO POWER!!! Wasn't that the constant liberal bleat we heard for 8 years? If you losers can't take it--don't dish it out. Snark.
Gene| 4.15.09 @ 7:20PM
To FRJOSSMEP, you had best be glad that Bush had the balls to go after the bad guys as his sworn duty requires him to do otherwise we might not have a free country for them to grow up in, think about that a little before you shoot off you mouth again,you don't need to think back to far "clinton" did nothing except destroy an aspirin factory,and you are still free to criticise Bush.
Gene| 4.15.09 @ 7:25PM
WAY TO GO Phil , you brought out the best of the far left loons , keep it up..
WendyG| 4.15.09 @ 7:42PM
Well, now it's official.
*Tens of thousands* of protesters, according to the AP.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gJunVTGE2bU6ihwPQ4AOF8KWmEmgD97J5EDO0
But, you will note, the protesters were (as described in the article)....
"Whipped up by conservative commentators and bloggers, tens of thousands of protesters staged "tea parties" around the country Wednesday to tap into the collective angst stirred up by a bad economy, government spending and bailouts."
Whipped up, as in a crazed bunch of easily-manipulated zombies. Not too biased, eh?
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