L.A. Times refused to report 15k Fullterton anti-tax protest, but features A.N.S.W.E.R.’s anti-AIG/anti-war events before they happen
This is why Old Media is dying. The Los Angeles Times today recycles press releases from left-wing A.N.S.W.E.R. announcing a protest of AIG this afternoon and an anti-war rally next weekend. The paper has no problem serving as advance publicity team for radical Left groups:
Demonstrators plan to rally outside the AIG building today in downtown Los Angeles to protest the giant insurer’s decision to pay $165 million in bonuses to key employees. American International Group Inc. recently received the first part of $180 billion in federal bailout funds.
“We’re going to be down there with whoever we can get,” said Ian Thompson of the Los Angeles chapter of the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.) coalition. “We’re going to be expressing anger and outrage about the new bonuses that were announced, that will be given to the very same folks who helped cause the financial meltdown.”
The protest is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. near the intersection of 8th and Figueroa streets. The group also will help lead an anti-war protest Saturday at noon to mark the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq. A march is set to start near Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street and continue to Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.
Not a single body has shown up for these events yet. But it’s newsworthy to the LA Times.
On the other hand, if 15,000 people turn out to lambaste tax-and-spend politicians in both parties in Fullerton, CA, it’s not news.
It’s a “stunt.”
What media bias? Yeah, that media bias.
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You mean the MSM is
BIASED????
Say it ain’t so Michelle…
Indefensible
Hey L.A. Times, the Labrea tar pits await!
LA Times… ACORN edition.
Neo-Marxist shock troops doing their thing. Speaking truth to power as usual. Sure.
“If I close my eyes hard enough, I can’t see it. Therefore, it didn’t happen.”
I wonder if China is watching. They’re been working on how to topple the US. Obama and the liberal media are doing it for them.
They’ve been…
The MSM is dying because it’s losing its advertising base, which mostly was classifieds, because of things like craigslist and ebay. Readers can and do get the content free on the web.
The MSM doesn’t cover Tea Parties because they’re puny. The ones that draw more than a dozen people, like the one in Cincinnati, do get reported.
Besides, the Tea Parties are explicitly unpatriotic — refusing to pay taxes and suggesting violent overthrow of the government. It’s like demanding the press cover KKK rallies (which probably draw more people on average).
They also managed to do a hit piece on conservative radio, John and Ken in general. Classic stuff.
The LA Times: More Tools than Home Depot ™
I do not think he knows what that word means!
Nothing – move along.
…except for all those pages and pages and pages of display ads…which they are losing because people don’t read the propoganda sheets anymore.
Is there anything punier than an event that hasn’t happened?
I think you’ll find the opposite is true… these are the people who DO pay their taxes, therein lies the complaint… if these people were refusing to pay legally owed taxes, they wouldn’t have anything to complain about. And they are advocating legal political actions (no on 1A) to reform the system…
Yes, by all means keep marginalizing common people with the “RAAAAACIIIIISTS” type comments. See how long they put up with it. Libs are shooting themselves in the foot doing everything they can to ensure that CA votes Red come 2010.
Yeah, well don’t liberals here tell us we’re just a bunch of paranoid losers for protesting their beloved Obama?
The media is merely giving them what they want.
Of course this, and comments like lgm’s, smack of a child sticking his fingers in his ears, yelling, “I CAN’T HEAR YOU!” at full throat in an attempt to deny the ever-shifting reality.
And then everything else you said made even less sense.
At first they were puny. A few dozen. Now a few weeks later, some are as big as 15,000. In 6 months?????
LGM denial is an ugly thing.
lgm 15,000 people is puny…you are an IDIOT…
Exactly.
It’s just Muffy leading a cheer:
Two bits
Four bits
Six bits
A dollar
Ev’ryone for ‘Bama
Stand up and holler
Yay-yay-yay…in a flurry of pom-poms….
The advertising base is disappearing because it’s driven by circulation, which is falling through the floor.
I have to admit, for a long time you had me fooled with this over-the-top parody of a street liberal, but I’m afraid you’ve jumped the shark once too often. No lib could be this stupid. Well, hardly any.
http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_job.htm#Graphic
LGM, look at the direction the lines are going.
Not good for your messiah.
You don’t think who knows what that word means? lgm?
And they still don’t understand why they are going out of business….!
Agreed.
And the bad news is…?
Sure they do, its bushes fault.
Hysterical. Absolutely hysterical.
Read up on your history. This country was founded by people doing the exact same thing.
And how many liberals threatened not to pay taxes because of Bush and “his” war? Lots.
Oh, but they were “unpatriotic”, too, right? Guess lgm would have fought with the Red Coats back in 1776…
By the way, what about this part of the First Amendment is unclear to you:
This is the classic First Amendment being played out.
Nothing that happens here isn’t Obama’s fault. If he (aided by the media) didn’t lie about being the “moderate” then come out and be nothing short of a socialist and attempt to enact policies reflecting that, then people wouldn’t be engaging in protest and backlash.
I said it before and I’ll say it again: liberals are just sore that The One is being criticized, since they live in a fantasy world where he’s the second coming and above all question and reproach.
Reality bites, don’t it?
Just a line from a great movie. The actual word is:
Inconceivable!
Close enough. Come to think of it, both words describe lgm well.
I do not think that word means what you think it means…
Great post – one fix:
pj (#10) Off-topic, but don’t feel too sorry for John and Ken. They’re CINOs at best, regardless of any good they’ve done (Westerberg, Scott Peterson, etc.)
My lot is cast with John Ziegler on this issue.
The LA Times is still not even good enough for birdcage liner, though.
ROFL – I blew it I know. Need sleep!
Most people read news on the web for free. Most of this news was gathered by MSM reporters and comes from MSM outlets like NYTimes.com. Most of the stories on MM are sourced to the MSM, including this one. Classified ad revenue is down because of craigslist.
Refusing to pay taxes is like refusing the draft. You have a right to stand up and say it, but it isn’t good for the country.
Your punk sized tea parties will be dwarfed by real rallies by real Americans looking out for the American worker.
This is nothing new. The Seattle Tea Party hardly was mentioned in the local media. One station mentioned it beforehand in a sort-of ‘lets go see how many show up…’ kind of way….
As I recall, soon after the Iraq invasion there was a protest in Iraq – organized and held by Iraqi’s in several cities. Not for the US but more against terrorism. Reports were that there were 100K to 3M (as in MILLION) Iraqi’s present.
The MSM didn’t even mention it. Yet if some self-described spokesman for AL-Q farts the MSM is all over it like cats on cream.
As the LA Times, NY Times, and Washington Post sink quietly into the abyss never to return.
Adios.
LOL. Another TPM link? Must be a lazy day for you, eh?
Are you here to tell us that you support the EFCA?
So this bunch of uninformed liberal street protesters have a problem with contracts and the rule of law? While AIG is at fault for their lousy investment vehicles and short-term money making devices while putting too much faith in an overly inflated housing market (the 7th in American history), they made a contract with their employees and will be sued if they do not fulfill the terms of that contract.
It’s curious that the LA Times is hyping up this group in particular. They’re casting a light on a group who’s protesting a war (the Iraq War) that Obummer still supports. This group is protesting a private business (okay not so private since the American taxpayers own 80% of it now) that has nothing to do with their specific mission statement. Finally, what does war and capitalism have to do with one another?
Or could it be that this is ANSWER’s version of War on Capitalism? Can’t wait for the geers of Obummer Lied, Capitalism Died. Film at 11:00.
Sorry lgm-
The comparison of the Tea Parties to the KKK is weak at best.
The better analogy would be ACORN/SPLC/NAACP/Neo-Nazis/New Black Panther Party/La Raza to the KKK. Their methods are very simuliar in creating racial hatred and discord-both openly (smear by association) and covertly (refuse to hire people based on white male sounding names).
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
Wonder how much a full page ad in the LA Times cost?
More specifically, reality for LGM is an ugly thing.
Liberal intelligence is really an oxymoron.
LGM is sounding more and more nervous.
I wonder why…
http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_job.htm#Graphic
The Times moderates it’s comments. If anyone thinks they are going to allow any comment that speaks poorly of that fishwrap, they are only fooling themselves. If my comment gets posted, I might have to call an ambulance to take me to the ED for a heart attack.
lgm reminds me of good old Dr. Smith on the otherwise forgetable 60’s TV show Lost in Space.
He was stuck on the same planet as the others, but did everything in his power to sabotage their existence.
In real life dr smith would have been executed or expelled very quickly.
Or elected.
LGM, never letting an opportunity to demonstrate his unbelievable stupidity and ignorance, once again spews forth his normal blather.
I guess he thinks all those “peace” rallies were pro-American, peaceful and never had anything said during them concerning President Bush and how long he should remain in office.
Never mind all the groups backed by SOcialist and Communist organizations. Never mind all the signs and speakers who called for the assasination of President Bush, never mind all the riots and damage to both public and private property or the number of people injured by those “peaceful, nonviolent” protesters.
Like I have asked before, I wonder what the air is like on his planet. Obviously it is very dense, because to read his drivel, you see that he is showing all the classic signs of hypoxia.
Geez what an idiot. See folks…this is what happens when you can’t handle pixie sticks.
Lgm, if you think that rallies run by unions is meant to “look out for the American worker” you’re even crazier than your post implies. These rallies and this bailout are to insure that unions will never enjoy the inevitable demise that all anochronistic social/labor movements eventually see happen.
Most Americans no longer belong to unions. Only about 12% of the American workforce now can claim that. Many of the labor movement’s contributions to labor reform have become law. Why do we need fat cat labor unions and bosses to intimidate businesses and employees?
Labor unions had their heyday and now it’s time to move on. Liberals and labor tycoons use unions to stunt innovation and growth as well as to financially help themselves. They certainly only look out for themselves… not the American worker.
lgm: rallies born out of the grassroots vs. rallies populated by union members who are coerced, strong-armed or straight-up threatened with violence for not attending are two completely different things.
Of course, since most union members who I’ve had the (dis)pleasure of working alongside are some of the laziest people I know, it doesn’t surprise me in the least that they would jump at the chance to come out from behind their “shame on ” banner and attend a rally where they get to stretch their legs and their larynx.
The SEIU…haven for lazy bed-changers and toilet scrubbers. What a crock.
lgm: a thought for you. There are an awful lot of people around the country, and here on this website, who are saying loudly and clearly, “I am John Galt.” I suggest you go and read Atlas Shrugged before you start dumping on “puny” demonstrations. Then do something strange for you – THINK about it and what it means.
Of course, for the rest of you, I realize you think I am expecting some kind of a miracle here. Sorry. I’m not. lgm is a hopelessly lost cause.
Lookie there…Der Fuhrer is making even more history. He is rapidly becoming less popular than any other President at the same point in their Presidency.
He already has a higher disapproval rating than Bush did at this point…hats off to him.
I can’t wait to hear all the excuses and apologies for him once he has approval ratings at or below Bush’s…and without a war to blame it on, and way WAY sooner.
“Hope and Change”…hee hee hee hee
Disgusting, but the LA Times is a far left propaganda rag and they’re behaving as expected.
On this part, lgm, you are right. But advertising will always chase the audience. This is why we have subcription numbers and ratings in TV/radio. Many of the old school (such as myself) love to read the news regardless of its source unless the source proves over and over again that it is biased. By not revealing all the story to allow the reader/listener to draw their own conclusions, many such as myself will just terminate our subscriptions or never tune in the offending stations. Thus, lose your audience, lose your advertising.
This is a reason (but not the only reason) why newspapers are failing.
No kidding, here in utah they hire illegals to hold the signs for them. That sounds like a joke but I am dead serious.
Blaming the net would make more sense if they weren’t also on the net. Go ahead and look them up on line. All of them are there.
lgm said “Your punk sized tea parties will be dwarfed by real rallies by real Americans looking out for the American worker.”
I’m a real American worker living in the Bay Area and attended some of those “real rallies” you are alluding to and can state with conviction that there were very few “workers” attending those rallies. The reason being, real workers can’t attend rallies held at 9 in the morning on a weekend, but students and professional protesters can.
…nothing even remotely close to reality.
Big oops on my part. I meant to write during the week and not the weekend. Still, wouldn’t most real workers want to spend their weekends at the bbq?
Awe look…he even is trying to appear informed. However, to use that article as his evidence that “Real” Americans are those that run Unions and that the Union Executive boards are looking out for anything other than themselves…wow…that shows an ignorance to stun the gods.
And to use TPM and his “unbiased”, “non-partisan”, source of where he gets his information…OMG…my sides are KILLING me.
This guy is really a stand-up comedian somewhere, isn’t he? A failed one, for sure, but a stand-up none-the-less. Is he just trying out new material here? Come on…come clean. What’s the gag?
I figured you guys would think Republican demonstrators heroes and have other choice words for the much more numerous Democratic demonstrators.
But why are you pretending Obama is unpopular on the basis of polls that show his approval in the sixties and disapproval in the thirties, and this despite massive job losses and the full throated blast from the entire right wing noise machine.
jwm – if you were a teacher, you could take your entire class to the demonstration for extra credit – sort of like lgm
Why are you pretending that he is not losing points rapidly, when his numbers have been in steady decline since talking the oath? Where can you point to another Presidency that has had similar numbers within the first 60 days of their Presidency?
That’s OK..you can admit to being nervous. We all know you are, because you are actually doing nothing here but making excuses for him rather than just your standard inane comments.
Dance little monkey, dance.
What is the political breakdown of the people polled?
Polls are biased.
By the way, I wouldn’t boast about polling percentages in the 60s. On most grading scales, that’s D territory, if not full-blown F.
Didn’t look at the chart did you LGM??? I know it is painfull but a 21 point increase in the negatives and 7-8 point decrease in the positives in 2 months????
Thats historicaly bad.
These are not GOP rallies (is that the talking point now?) and they are just beginning.
Its going to get much worse. Plug your ears and close your eyes all you want, but it is coming. I pity you.
lgm nice red herring. My point was in response to you “real american workers” line. Tell you what, come out to San Francisco and we’ll watch a protest together so you can point out the real american workers for me. It’ll be worth a vacation day to see and hear this.
And allow me to point out the difference between Bush and Der Fuhrer:
Sure, people were out there whining and crying about the lie they were attempting to sell to everyone about how they were all “Disenfranchised” and how Bush allegedly stole the election etc., etc.,
But no one was saying ANYTHING about his policies, his plans etc. There was no one protesting what he was doing to the country or how he was tripling the spending of his predecessor’s eight years in office, in one month. No, it was merely them carrying on and attempting to have a lie begun by their candidate’s inability to admit defeat and attempt at throwing out the Constitution.
See, here, we have a rapidly growing portion of the country who are finally waking up to the horrible mistake they made by falling for what the MSM fed them and the lies they were told. They are waking up to the fact that they sold their country out for a stupid slogan that no one bothered to ask what it meant.
And that is not counting all the people who never were fooled to begin with.
They are upset that the people entrusted with the safety and security of this nation have sold us out. They are upset with the fact that the person they voted for has done more to destroy this country in one month than the Soviet Union tried to do in 60 years.
If these things are that difficult for you to understand, then maybe you should just stick to the comic book blogs and keep your arguments geared towards why Aquaman is still considered to be a superhero.
And let the adults talk.
Sweet fancy Moses this guy is a moron.
You can’t get more puny than -zero- attendees, which is what the rally they did report on has. That’s the whole point.
It’s not a march of people refusing to pay their taxes (if you want to see such a line just watch the front door of the White House). It’s people saying that our tax policy is unfair and the money collected is being spent wastefully. It is, in other words, the exact sort of thing the First Amendment refers to when it says people can seek redress from the government.
And unlike the signs your moronic and assinine idealogical bretheren carry, no one is advocating overthrow of the government. Which, by the way, if they were doing so should make it more newsworthy, not less.
We do demand press coverage of KKK rallies. As for such rallies drawing more people I tend to doubt it but I’ll take your word for it. As a supporter of the only party that has an actual klansman in congress I guess you’d know better than I would.
They are “Real American Workers”. Since they are professional protesters, and since they are paid for their services, that means they are working.
See…Der Fuhrer rides again…putting people to work, right before our eyes.
Don’t sell lgm and the rest of them short.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!
ECS
Same LATimes gloating over the folding of a couple of local (state) conservative talk radio shows. Like they’re making money hand over fist, right? Then they imply that nobody’s really checking Rush Limbaugh’s ratings very closely to see if he really has all those listeners. Riiight. Well, we know they aren’t buying copies of the Slimes, that’s for sure.
Once again, lgm has lived down to my expectations of him.
What an absolute fool.
Then why didn’t the rally of 15,000 people get covered by the L.A. Times?
Did you even read the topic before commenting?
I swear if you were any dumber, we’d have to water you.
Real American workers simply don’t have time to attend a protest at 9AM on a weekday (someone pointed this out earlier).
Professional Protesters, Students, and those on the public teat can.
And yes, there are professional protesters – what do you think that $2B for Acron is for?
lgm said:
So it’s OK to question people’s patriotism now? Kewl!
Oh, and you are historically ignorant. From wikipedia concerning the first tea party:
“The incident, which took place on December 16, 1773, was a major catalyst of the American Revolution and remains an iconic event of American history.”
Tea parties are the epitome of American patriotism.
We are patiently anticipating the day when the unemployed members of the dinosaur media utter that famous phrase “would you like fries with that?”
Excuse me if this has already been posted but i’m between getting mad and just shaking my head in disgust…
8,500 earmarks worth billions, ok.
bonuses worth 350 million, not ok.
naaaa, this is not a distraction, is it?
If Obama’s Government does not like what these corporations were planning on doing with the money, he should not have given it to them.
When you go in for a loan, or when someone gives you money, is it really that person’s or the bank’s business what you do with the money?
Are we really supposed to believe that Obama was taken totally by surprise?
Well, actually when you consider he has never held a real job, let alone managed or run a company of any sort, yeah…it is more than likely that he really had no clue as to what was going to happen.
He has never run a business, so the voters gave him the keys to the largest business in the world, and now they are all shacked that he has no idea how to run it. And Der Fuhrer has the gaul to talk about how these other corporations are running their business? Tis the Liberal way.
Note the missing L-word from the article’s descriptions of A.N.S.W.E.R.
AIG bonuses = $165M red herring.
Which distract you from seeing trillion deficit spending.
Notice that none, NONE, are railing against the foundational enablers of the current credit crisis: the rating agencies that slapped AAA grades on real sludge. Why they are not being burnt at the stake at politico’s evening campfires every day is simply amazing. NO ONE, not even the blogosphere, is going after them.
I am SO looking forward to the ‘10 midterms. Just think – in ‘94 the press didn’t see the Republican Revolution coming. Will history repeat? It all depends on whether the moderates get mad enough.
Boohoo – you people are such victims.
You folks remind me of Al Sharpton.
Thank you, Jeremiah Wright.