Massive: Tax Day Tea Party USA; Updated
I just have one word: Wow. More than 800 tea parties across the country. Here’s your first photo/vid round-up from the events across the country, large and small, every corner of this great nation (hit your refresh button often…I’ll keep updating…11:20pm…just added tons more crowd pix and vid…trying to keep ‘em all in one post to give you the full breadth and scope of the protests — not just the size, but the reach, a true sense of which is missing from the MSM coverage. More coming…):
Mandeville LA:
Raleigh NC sent via iphone by reader Wendy:
Cincinnati via Alex Jamieson h/t Justin Binik-Thomas:
Dallas:
Young Citadel Cadets spoke at the Charleston SC tea party – via Cadet Steven Munoz:
Grand Rapids MI via L.D. at RightMichigan:
Eau Claire WI via reader Dan:
Snowy in Bozeman MT from reader Cara V.:
Vid from Phoenix:
More from Phoenix from KFYI.
Vid from Carson City NV:
Kansas City MO at the WWI memorial:
Pleasanton CA from reader Kell:
White Plains NY via Tom Faranda:
Lafayette IN near Purdue University via CCAV:
Bend OR via Jim F.
NYC via Urban Infidel:
Sacramento via Vern:
Sioux Falls SD tea dumping reenactment:
Kentucky:
Greensburg PA:
Lansing MI via Doug Powers:
Toledo:
Denver:
Washington DC via Ed Frank…
Chicago via Founding Bloggers:
Nashville:
Oklahoma City:
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By the way, if you conservatively estimate an average turnout of 1000 people per tea party and multiply that by 2000 tea parties, you get 2 MILLION participants! …on a week day during the afternoon.
The Boston Tea Party only had a few dozen participants and look at what it accomplished.
There were anywhere between 150-200 people at the corner of the Woodinville-Redmond Road and 124th St in Kirkland, Washington. For such an unlikely location (all four corners of a busy intersection), and in such a liberal part of the country, I was pleased at the turnout.
Lots and lots and LOTS of cars honked and waved and thumbs-upped. The guys driving big rigs (garbage trucks, 18 wheelers, UPS-sized vans and so forth) seemed to be uniformly glad to honk their approval. Even one public bus driver did! Every time they honked and called out to us, our folks would whoop and holler. I came home hoarse! Some even took pictures of us from their cars while they waited for the light to change. One woman had a flag in her car (!!) and waved it out the window when she saw us. Who carries a flag in their car??
A lot of people tried to pretend we weren’t there. The people in hybrids and SmartCars seemed especially likely to try to make believe we didn’t exist. One woman stopped at the corner (when she had a green light to turn, making people jerk to stops behind her) to yell at a man near me, saying that if none of us make over $250K, what do we have to complain about? But hers was the only negative voice I heard.
There were people there with professional cameras, so I’ll let them post their pictures (whoever they are). My pictures didn’t turn out well! (boo)
Same at the tea party I attended. I bet that was common almost everywhere.
My family is already planning for the July 4th Tea Party in Denver. We all promised to bring at least one more person with us.
Having it on a holiday will make it much easier, not everyone can take off in the middle of the day.
Our plan is to take everyone to the protest/rally, then head back for a July 4th BBQ.
What a great way to celebrate our nation’s birth!
Congratulations to you and Mrs. CyberCipher on the new tax deduction!
OK, Marxists, Now It’s Your Turn…
On May 1st (May Day), show us how many people you can get to come out in a massive grassroots show of support for your Socialist agenda.
Show us grassroots support in 2,049 cities around the USA,
many with multiple thousands of people in attendance.
Here are the pictures from Denver
My favorite so far: Tea party today–tar and feathers tomorrow.
Thank you all and good job and God bless!
CNN and Maddow derided the days events by calling it teabagging.
I hope this movement will continue to grow. I’d liek to beleive that the people won’t stand for wholesale restructuring of the American political and economic system.
Can anyone think of any historical precedent for what happened today?
2049 locations across the USA, in all 50 states plus D.C, with what had to be well over a million people turn out.
Has there ever been anything like that on anything other than an election day?
When the MSM talks about “historical”, it seems that all they want to talk about is the color of Obama’s skin.
What happened today was truly historical.
God Bless You all!
WOW!!!! Congrats!!!! And such a beautiful wife too. How lucky and blessed you are to have such a beautiful family. Good luck to the 4 of you…even though the collie is jealous. Don’t worry, just rub her belly a little extra the next few days and the collie will be fine.
Prayers for all of you.
But…but…but…according to the Queen of Trolls, lgm, there was only 100,000 people. He claims that you get more people showing up for a high school play.
Don’t tell me that lgm doesn’t have a clue about what he is talking about. Please don’t tell me that he is the biggest moron and Liberal parrot in the blogosphere. I trust EVERYTHING he says to be the goddess honest truth. After all…someone of his stature surely knows what he is talking about and would NEVER lie to us…would he?
Rockwall, TX (east of Dallas) was expecting 400-500. We had 2000+. Also plenty of supportive honks and waves from the road. Working on posting stuff now. It only lasted about an hour and a half, though. Wayyyy too short. Got home then crashed around 9 (big lack o’ sleep lately).
great job all who participated in expressing their anger and frustration while CELEBRATING our beloved Country yesterday.
for those of you who continue to try to make this a GOP bashing event screw you and the horse you would tax me for to ride in on.
I apologize for the paraphrase, but that was the gist of what is being said, correct? Well, let’s just clear some of this Liberal website rhetoric up, shall we?
The Government is not supposed to have surpluses. When the Government has a surplus, that is not a greenlight to go ahead and create new beurocracies and to expand the entitlements that layabouts get. No!
What it means when the Government has a surplus is one thing and one thing only…that they are OVER TAXING THE POPULACE! What Bush did was not give away the Government’s money, what he did was return AMERICAN’S money. He returned the surplus back to the very people that had been over-taxed in the first place. Where he screwed up was in doing both…correctly returning the over-taxed money, and then creating the Liberals favorite thing…new beurocracies and entitlements. On top of it all, he finally answered the terrorists and acknowledged the war that was declared on us by Bin Laden under the Clinton Administration which they had ignored. He tried to do too much while not increasing taxes. He should not have played Democrat. He should have stuck to the “American’s are over-taxed”. We were all not happy with him, and for you and anyone else to claim that Conservatives and Republicans did not complain is to be disingenuous and incredibly dishonest.
So why are people hitting the streets? Because Der Fuhrer ran his campaign under the promise of “change”. Well, the people that voted for him from anywhere other than the Uber-Liberal side did not intend for this “change” to mean more of the same spending, only making it bigger and more expensive. They did not think that “change” meant to tax them back into the stone age. They did not intend his “change” to mean making this country the latest in a long line of failed Socialist experiments, regardless of how loud us Conservatives were in warning that it was going to happen were he to be elected. They thought “change” meant a return to fiscal responsibility. They thought when he claimed to be fiscally conservative that he was actually serious and that his idea of fiscal conservative was the accepted definition, and not just some made up nonsense just to get elected because someone wrote it on his teleprompter.
They are mad because there has been no change for the better. There has only been a change towards Socialism/Marxism, record inflation, record unemployment and total destruction to the way of life that made America what it became over 230 years.
And for you and anyone else to think and state anything different is a straght out lie, straight out dishonesty and typical Liberal hypocrisy.
Bush did not run his campaigns or Presidency on “change”. Your false god did.
the Carson City rally was great idea that they lined the streets vs just gathering in one spot will have to use that concept going forward very clever gang. While I love to chant USA USA etc and listen to speakers yammer on stretch out and spread the word,
BRILLIANT !
Ret,
needless to say people said um NO we dont want jobs from gov lolo
one guy at our rally in Harriburg PA was doing the say X and crowd yells no or yes thing and he made mistake of trying to get people to chant yes to give us jobs not taxes…….
am happy to report that went over very poorly
I notice Fox and CBS has reports about it on their homepage, but CNN and ABC makes no mention of the hundreds of thousands who protested yesterday.
pressto,
hell obambi claimed he knew nothing of the the parties. it is too pitiful for words and funny
bot line: they fear REAL Americans it is like they are holding their breath with fingers in their hmm ears ( dont want to be blocked ) and saying na na na I cant see you just go away.
and this my child is why they are called the blue ( in the face ) party.
There are Gov. jobs that we do need. They are police, fire, military. Anything else is bureaucracy that can be done better in the private industry. Then again, pretty much all the Gov. is supposed to provide is police, fire, military.
Here’s Rockwall, Texas
We had around 2000, despite planning for 400-500 and despite the number of other protests in the DFW metroplex.
A couple of videos to come after they upload to youtube…
I had a great time at the Phoenix Tea Party …
I felt a great sense of pride seeing thousands (I would estimate 7500 or more) of my fellow Americans taking part in what I hope was a “Rite of Passage” from being the “Silent Majority” to a “We Will Never Silent Again Majority” …
The “Sleeping Giant” has finally been awakened and is on the prowl …
There are those in the current administration that have said they should “Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste” …
Well … that works both ways …
The “real” crisis that affects our economy has been grossly mishandled by this administration and made worse with the excessive and non-stimulative spending …
This has spurred the people to action and has galvanized them ino a force that we can only hope has finally seen the error of its ways and will never again return to sitting on the sidelines and being passive …
This must be “The Beginning” and we must stay active in defending our rights and opposing any efforts to take those rights away from us …
“The squeaky wheel gets the grease” … we must join together and become a never ending squeak …
Semper Fidelis and God Bless the USA
Now it’s correct !!!
I have to laugh – I went to the tea party here and looking at the signs that so many people had made themselves that stated their feelings was just plain insipring. When I think of the LibTard lines of Hope, Change, and Yes We Can – simple slogans for simple sheep looking for free hand outs – I just laugh.
Congratulations!
Roads, sewage, infrstructure…all of it can and has been done by the private sector, and usually far cheaper with great results.
Take as a prime example the reconstruction of the overpasses on I-5 following the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. It went out to bid between the private sector and the state. The private sector was given the bid, and the contract contained a clause that stated should the contractor finish sooner than the quoted time, he would be given a bonus based on how many days ahead of plan he finished. The contractor threw as many men as he could at the project, working twenty-four hour shifts and finished the bridges/overpasses about two months ahead of schedule. They were not only completed ahead of time, but were far superior to the ones the state had planned.
As a result, the state, which never believed that the contractor could ever finish ahead of time in the first place and thus had never any intention of honoring the deal, refused to pay. Of course the contractor took the state to court and won.
The reason that he was able to finish ahead of schedule was not just based on throwing money and manpower at the project, however. Since he was a private contractor, he was not tied up with the common beaurocratic crap that always goes along with any government run operation. He had full reign over the project and could deal with it as he saw fit.
The state, however, based their belief that he would be unable to complete it ahead of time and in fact, was counting on it going far beyond the quoted time, on the way they are made to work. They are not only used to being tied down with the beaurocracy that follows any job they do, they actually figure it into their bids.
So in the end, it was a better product finished months ahead and the contractor now is famous in California for his work and is repeatedly called on to deliver what he promises in the time he quotes or sooner. He still puts the bonus into each of his bids as well.
So, infrastructure can and should be done by the private sector. It creates jobs, helps the economy far more than Government jobs do and is not strapped by beaurocratic BS.
We had a great turnout and very successful TDTP in Lansing. Beautiful warm, sunny day with 4000+ strong. A Detroit NBC affiliate reported 7000 strong. Wow–just an amazing day when folks, who never protested anything in their lives, came out to make a statement. All of our speakers, which included Joe the Plumber, were fantastic and we truly thank him for supporting those of us in MI who want to rid ourselves of a clueless governor and legislature….hard to do in a state that is owned and corrupted by the unions. Congratulations to all of us across our great country for making 4/15 a huge successful event……let’s continue this in D.C.
just watched the MM and an NC vid over at hotair and am bummeed they both called the RALLIES revolts.
With all due respect to the two of them what happened yesterday was a celebration by Americans and for America. you aint seen the revolts yet.
floam,
GREAT what a super day indeed, someone and 4give don’t recall who or where am all over net reading and watching reports said these are people who march in parades not protest types.
What Blessed Country we live in
OT:
why hasn’t the kidnapped captain of food ship been allowed to go home yet?
what is this debriefing crap about???
You will never be silent, not as long as there is Fox news and Limbaugh trash radio. You will never be the majority because Americans are smarter than you. Obama is very popular. People understand that there have to be taxes.
The tea parties were tiny.
bansharia …
Capt Phillips was supposed to already be home however before the USS Bainbridge was able to get to a port to put him on a plane they had to turn around and go back and help another USA flagged cargo ship (Liberty Sun) …
Another stupid thing.
Hundreds of thousands lgm. That is tiny? I guess compared to the numbers for deficit spending, it’s pretty small. But people that dont even know each other? On a work day? In several cases in terrible weather?
Might want to do a little brushing up on those numbers young man.
Oh look, the Queen of Trolls is still believing all that his overlords tell him.
He has not been paying attention in the real world where the number of people who have woken up and have stated that his false god is doing a horribly job is now at least equal to the number that thinks he is doing at least an OK job.
Maybe he should actually read something other than Kos, DU and HuffPoo, where he likes to write lies and fiction, as well as where he believes anything they say.
But being the Queen of Trolls, it is doubtful that lgm will ever live in reality. It is just too easy for that wasted, withered, putrid organ that resembles a human brain, but merely separates his ears to throw off reality for the childlike world of his Liberal overlords.
What a tool.
The one thing I cannot understand is WHY are the events held when most people have to be at work? Did organizers really think that just because it was April 15th someones boss would just go “Sure, take the day off, see ya tomorrow.”? While the 15th is a news noting tax filing day, it is NOT a holiday. Locally here there was a rally on April 1st, a Wednesday followed by an event yesterday. Attendence was lower across the country than it should have been because it was Wednesday. Geez, next time plan to have it on a Saturday. Be critical of this if you like, but I will stand by it. A Wednesday is always a bad choice.
Thanks lgm …
I expected nothing less from you than another liberal denial because you can’t believe your own eyes … (that is if you actually watched any of the coverage) … because it doesn’t fit with your predisposition that only you and your socialist leaning liberal cohorts demonstrations are worth acknowledging as valid and therefore you are the only ones right in your views …
Fortunately this country was not founded based on your beliefs … so the rest of us have every bit as much of a right to demonstrate and voice our opinions on what is going on as you and your fellow liberals … I and many others here fought to preserve that right for all Americans … including you …
Since you like to play with numbers let’s look at some …
There were over 2300 tea parties held yesterday all across the country … in all 50 states … some small and some large …
If you simply accept that there were at least 100 at each event that would be at least 230,000 attendees … that would be just shy of 1/4 million Americans that came out …
Many of the larger ones, such as here in Phoenix, gathered multiple thousands of attendees … so I wouldn’t be surprised if the actual total attendance is somewhere between 350,000 and 400,000 nationwide …
As for that “he’s so popular” mantra you like to throw around … if the pollsters ever actually asked someone that works for a living instead of all the freeloaders sitting at home on the public dime that can answer the phone every time it rings they would have a totally different set of numbers to report …
I have a neighbor that has not worked in years and lives off welfare and makes no attempt to get a job and better her life … yet she is always bragging about the number of times she gets “polled” …
I have never been “polled” a single time in my entire life … So why am I supposed to believe “polls” as being a reflection of public opinion …
Voters Remorse” sucks … and it is coming … whether you like it or not
Get the tar, get the feathers and get the pole! I won’t be happy until these theives are thrown out of our Congress and Senate! Oh yeah, stop by the white house on the way and throw out that facist and his little dog bo too!
Bogtrotter …
Agreed … I think the selection of the day was based on the hope it would generate more media coverage … but alas we all know how that works out …
I took a 1/2 day vacation to go … but I know many did not have that option …
The next one is supposed to be July 4th … which should be a much larger turnout … so long as they plan them so they are not in conflict with parades and fireworks …
On April 16th, 2009 at 9:18 am, RetFireman said:
My impression of our buffoon-relief troll is that his posts, besides being simply foolish, are lately not uncommonly also angry, and sometimes actually approach being a bit nasty.
This suggests to me that the buffoon either:
is no longer actually authoring “his” posts, but rather has employed a “ghost poster”; or someone else has usurped the use of the buffoon’s computer;
or,
is in the middle at an attempt at a personality makeover, and is trying to sound cool, even a bit edgy, mean, and tough, to go along with lame, wrong, dangerous, and pathetic…instead of sounding simply lame, wrong, dangerous, and pathetic.
Compare his posts of the past week or so with posts of a few weeks ago and before that.
Just the other day, the buffoon left the “g” off an -ing ending, and wrote it as “…in’”.
First time I, at least, had ever seen that in one of his posts.
To paraphrase the saying…What the hell was up with that?!
Anyone else notice this?
P.S.
Michelle:
Having a hard time getting onto your blog.
An instant after I see the articles, I get switched to a screen with just the main heading, “Michelle Malkin”; it takes perfectly timed, deft clicking back and forth, and clicking quickly on the title of the article, to be able to keep the article on the screen.
Anyone else experiencing this difficulty?
And remember, LGM is a math teacher. Real numbers mean nothing to him. He makes it up as it goes. His mantra: Dumb ‘em down and they’ll vote for the Clown.
Columbus OH had about 3,000 yesterday.
The Poughkeepsie Journal has a video of the local protest with one protester characterizing Obama’s stimulus package as “financial child abuse” and a young boy asking who will bail him out in ten years when he will be paying for the debt Obama put us into.
Yeah, those interviews of Obama voters that you find all over the place…they sure reflect “smarter” voters. Their intelligence is an open question, but they are as ignorant and programed as a pack of North Koreans.
Obama isn’t popular. He’s no more popular at this stage in office than was GW. He’s very likely less popular than the polls indicate.
Nobody I’ve read here advocates that we pay no taxes. That is, of course, a liberal lie.
I’d go further: conservatives have a PROVEN track record of paying taxes…AND contributing to charity AFTER their earnings are confiscated MUCH BETTER THAN THE MILLIONAIRE MEMBERS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
See “Joe Biden–tax return”.
LGM throws a bomb and then runs off to his real job as a Sex Doll inspector.
stillonthe road …
Is lgm the inspector or the inspectee?
Atlanta had 15,000. I just heard it was the largest in the nation.
I wasn’t planning on going as I had to work – but managed to make it to my county’s tea party. Thanks to all of the volunteers who put the Sugar Land/Fort Bend County party together.
You guys rock!!!
Don’t worry, you’re a good little parasite, you can find another host to leech off of once your public edu-ma-cayshin johb is privatized.
Everyone …
Here is a great link if you would like to check out the front pages of newspapers all across the country …
See for yourself what they are saying …
Newseum.org
I still don’t understand why they allow the inmates at the asylum to use computers. I mean, don’t they drool all over the keyboards and make a big mess?
Additional pix from Poughkeepsie Journal (Hudson Valley, NY)
“I Believe in Small Government, I’m a Right Wing Extremist”
“We worked for it, We earned it! STOP TAKING OUR MONEY!”
“STOP TAXING MY KIDS”
and more including “Atlas Will Shrug”, “Jail Barney Frank”, and “Give me Liberty – Not Debt”.
So, you actually watch FOC “24/7″?
Never mind; don’t answer. If you did watch it, you’d be smarter.
So, you actually watch FOX “24/7″?
Never mind; don’t answer. If you did watch it, you’d be smarter.
oopsy
coming soon …
bailout for malls!
Lgm is caught up in the “mine is bigger than yours” syndrome…
Well, ours pays more taxes than yours, so there!
You know…the footnote that smeared veterans, and held them out as targets for observation, fearing that they may be terrorists.
And thus we know where the “Eye Of Napolitano” is trained. We know that members of her staff, that resources of her department, were taken OFF the threats that exist, and turned TO political opponents of her administration.
She owes an apology to vets?!?!?! Hell, YES she does!!!!
She owes an apology to the American people for malfeasance in office, and she owes them her resignation.
BTW, ponder what would have happened to John Ashcroft if he had done something like this.
My favorite sign from the protest in Denver, “We work hard so you don’t have to!”
Just a quick report from Everett, WA – we had between 1 and 2K, depending on the time of day. Impassioned speeches, a march on city hall, good food, beautiful weather, great people.
It’s only the beginning, but it was a very good beginning.
Oh yeah, you mean the footnote that said anyone who believes in abortion is a rightwing extremist…that one? So, my next question is, why didn’t she “rewrite it?”
Earlier in this thread I estimated I saw 2-3000 at the Denver party, but I dont see very well,sorry – the Post said 5000 and the state police say 7000.
MSNBC liberal commentator last night — former failed radio host, some woman: “just a few 100, less than a basketball game”
Minimize, lie, slander, but no Truth.
5000 showed up in Oceanside, CA. I heard over 9000 showed up in Escondido, about 20 miles away. No visible counter-protests, except for members of the MSM.
Go ahead and make fun of, marginalize, and dismiss it if you like, but something’s going on.
And you are now more insignificant than ever.
Desert Lover
July 4th would be better. As to coordination I would say mid-afternoon till dusk. Parades are usually morning or early afternoon and fireworks are, naturally after dark, about 9 p.m. or later.
lgm, quit bashing. Really, you can move to a country that taxes people out of their shirts under the mask of “helping the people”, all the while taking away the freedoms that America was founded to protect. But those of us that want a country such as what our Founding Fathers created have no other options but the USA. So, quit Limbaugh bashing, quit Fox News bashing, and buy a ticket. I bet a bunch of us would pitch in to get you to France.
On April 16th, 2009 at 10:51 am, Bogtrotter said:
Not to sound like a broken record, but the July 4th parties need to be held in the “4th Estate’s” parking lots.
T.V. stations, newspapers, etc. – surround their buildings. Shut them down. FORCE them to cover the tea parties.
Yahoo and Google – where ever their corporate buildings are – hit them too, since they now control Internet news feeds.
You guys in New York – start your Tea Parties in the morning in Rockefeller Center.
Get so loud that they can hear you inside on the set of Good Morning America. Make Matt Lauwwwwer have to raise his voice to spew his propaganda!
July 4th = shut down the 4th estate!
Well I see Karl Rove sent you his talking early today.
Nice – but very tiresome and predictable as you’ve said literally the same same things, more or less, for the past the three months.
It’s old. It’s boring. And it offers no alternatives or solutions, only pointless accusations meant to taunt us into defining our positions.
I’ve noticed; however, I cannot explain it. I just figured he was flustered and couldn’t
thinktype straight.Yes. I had the same thing happen both yesterday and today. I just keep playing around with the site and eventually it works.
I need an opinion. I was just checking out DU to see what is being said about yesterdays rallies. I came across a thread entitled “It gets better: Freeloading Illegals are Raping U.S. Taxpayers.” There are only two comments. But what got me is the photos being used. I am not familiar with photoshop or anything like that….but the signs in these photos do not look “real”. I think the lack of comments may mean that even the DUmmies are leary of the photos validity. I do not like to use links to them so I would suggest going there and using there search function at the top of the page. I would just hate to see the photos showing up elsewhere.
I attended Sugarland, Tx. Tea Party, it was great. I don’t know how many they expected to attend but they ran out of everything so there were more than they counted on. I’d guess close to a thousand. We sent tea bags to D.C., signed the Constitution and registered for accurate count, or close to accurate. Crowd was mixed, lots of children, lots of older folks. Our newly elected Representative was there, Pete Olson, and he did speak. Railroad Commissioner also there, could have done without her. Also a state rep. was there and spoke a little. No lefties. My grandaughter did get her picture on local TV station. She waved American flag the whole time, 2 hours. Great learning experience for them, they thanked me for taking them.
Great day for our country.
I say, let the MSM mis-report the numbers of those attending. All the more shock and awe when the masses vote the liberal turds out of office in 2010. They will be so surprised to hear that the majority in the country actually have some sense. Who would have thought? That kind of revenge will be sweet.
NYPD estimates 12,500 at the NYC TeaParty. It was absolutely amazing. People were excited and upbeat in a way I really didn’t expect.
People in NYC feel like they’re alone in deviating from the msm party line since it’s such a blue city. We were elated to see each other out there. It brought the media bias THAT much more starkly to light.
Amazing.
Makes you wonder what his superiors…at his school, not the DNC or the Kos Kidlets…would feel about his writing all his stuff and nonsense during school hours, doesn’t it? And it’s OK lgm…we all know you are a good little minion. You need not continue to show how upset you are over constantly being proven wrong, or show how scared you are the closer it looks that your false god is not going to be in a second term…if he even makes it through his first one without being tossed out on his butt, thrown out by his enormous, cartoonish ears.
Now that would be a site, wouldn’t it? I can almost hear it now…”Capt. Big Ears to the rescuuuuuuuuueeeeee!!!!”
More of the Denton, Texas Tea Party, this person had a better vantage point. I was on the ground looks like he found higher ground, and got a crowd estimate of 3,000 at 7:00 P.M.
http://snarkybytes.com/?p=3291
RetFireman
First things First we toss Pelosi, what better motivation to take the House back? I bet we would get Democrats voting Republican 2010
I was at the event in San Jose CA yesterday. The Mercury News has a completely different slant on the thing (shocka) but I have pictures.
They say the crowd was over 1,000 – yes it was, try doubling that. I’ve been to this park many times for concerts, and can judge the size pretty well.
Of course, the tea party was made up of mostly angry old white guys.
During the speakers, a crowd of maybe two dozen students, illegals and one old guy “kaffiyeh/che open borders counter protesters” showed up at the back of the crowd. They were quickly surrounded. I’m not sure how the Mercury figures these guys surrounded us. As they chanted “Human Rights!” on their P.A., louder chants of “U.S.A.!” drowned them out. They should have picked a different chant! Of course, this was where the news crew was to be found.
It wasn’t until the speakers were finished and the crowd began to circumambulate the park that the morons made their way to a back corner of the stage that they were quickly surrounded by riot cops. The look on this cops face says it all.
And, in spite of being stuck in gridlock trying to get around the park, the traffic seemed to be at least 85% in favor of the protest. It was pretty neat to have SUV’s, cars, motorcycles, taxi cabs, trucks and even tour buses honking and waving!
Astroturf my ass!
Yes, that is a photoshop…and a particularly bad one at that. It will never stand up should one of these morons actually try it anywhere else, other than where they collect at their “Mutual Admiration Society” meetings.
That pig on the Montana sign is hilarious. Thanks for the pics, Michelle — and all the work you and others put into these events.
We did have one speaker from the audience (open mike) who identified himself as a “left-wing extremist.” He was fine until he started bashing the wars, then was booed off the podium.
I was at the Spokane Tea party. My sign read: “Hey, Janet! Profile THIS !”
There seemed like somewhere over 500 people, possibly many more. I gave up the turkey hunt to be at a protest for the first time.
By next year, I may not be able to turkey hunt…if the statists get their way and anti gun laws are passed.
I was at the event in San Jose yesterday. The Mercury News has a completely different slant on the thing (shocka) but I have pictures.
They say the crowd was over 1,000 – yes it was, try doubling that. I’ve been to this park many times for concerts, and can judge the size pretty well.
Of course, the tea party was made up of mostly angry old white guys.
During the speakers, a crowd of maybe two dozen students, illegals and one old guy “kaffiyeh/che counter protesters” showed up at the back of the crowd. They were quickly surrounded. I’m not sure how the Mercury figures these guys surrounded us. As they chanted “Human Rights!” on their P.A., louder chants of “U.S.A.!” drowned them out. They should have picked a different chant! Of course, this was where the news crew was to be found.
It wasn’t until the speakers were finished and the crowd began to circumambulate the park that the morons made their way to a back corner of the stage that they were quickly surrounded by riot cops. The look on this cops face says it all.
In spite of being stuck in gridlock traffic, the commuters seemed to be easily 85% in favor of the protest, not a single finger salute to be seen. It was pretty neat to have cars, motorcyles, taxi cabs, truckers and even a tour bus honk and wave!
Astroturf my ass!
Atlanta Tea Party: We arrived after 7pm and could only worm our way through part of a side street (MLK). So we couldn’t even see the capitol or any speakers. There was a large screen, but that was still hard to see through all the signs and people. It was fun anyway. Surrounded by tons of very nice (and diverse) people kept us warm on a chilly Atlanta night.
I posted some pics at PJTV
Oh, yeah… I had two signs. “DHS: We’re not RADICAL, but we ARE right” and “Stop buying votes with my money!”.
Another great Denver sign: Don’t spread my wealth, spread my work ethic!
I noticed as well. He is lashing out a bit more often than usual. Granted, many people here insult him regularly, but he seems to be more feisty as of late.
An interesting question was asked by the local talk radio Victoria Taft at the Portland, OR party. She asked everyone there who has been to a protest sometime in their life to raise their hand. A couple here and a couple there raised their hands, not many. She then asked those that had NEVER been to a protest to raise their hands. Holy smoke, You should have seen it. The vast majority (could this be the silent majority) raised their hands, screaming and hollering. It was very telling.
TEA Party in Rhode Island.
chap–is that you in the red ‘tea’ shirt at the Rhode Island tea party?
Back on topic, there are stark contrasts between right-wing protests and left-wing protests.
I was at the event in San Jose CA yesterday. The Mercury News has a completely different slant on the thing (shocka) but I have pictures.
They say the crowd was over 1,000 – yes it was, try doubling that. I’ve been to this park many times for concerts, and can judge the size pretty well.
During the speakers, a crowd of maybe two dozen unemployed students, illegal’s and the token old guy “the kaffiyeh/che counter protesters” showed up at the back of the crowd. They were quickly surrounded. I’m not sure how the Mercury figures this handful of clowns surrounded us. As they chanted “Human Rights!” on their P.A., louder chants of “U.S.A.!” drowned them out. They should have picked a different chant! Of course, this was where the news crew was to be found.
It wasn’t until the speakers were finished and the crowd began to circumambulate the park that the morons made their way to a back corner of the stage that they were quickly surrounded by riot cops. The look on one cop’s face says it all.
In spite of being stuck in gridlock traffic, the commuters seemed to be easily 85% of the protest, not a single finger salute to be seen. It was pretty neat to have cars, motorcyles, taxi cabs, truckers and even a tour bus honk and wave!
Astroturf My Ass!
lgm et al, if this was such a tiny, puny rediculous event, why are the left so bent on portraying it as a lunatic fringe? i never once heard rush limbaugh advocate the teaparties. i never once heard anyone of fox advocating the teaparties. they di say they would cover them, just as they covered the 12 nitwits outside bush’s house with cindy. but i was in new york yesterday, and there were thousands and thousands of people at that rally.
“You will never be silent, not as long as there is Fox news and Limbaugh trash radio. You will never be the majority because Americans are smarter than you. Obama is very popular. People understand that there have to be taxes.
The tea parties were tiny.”
Which begs the question, who are you trying to convince, us or yourself??
And last time I checked, most everyone here is an American you dolt.
Just imagine what the count would be if everyone who wanted to attend was able to. Undeniable millions for sure.
The numbers are right in front of you Mr. Math teacher- Jesus, how did you get that job? I would guess you are a big fan of the fuzzy math, yes?
On April 16th, 2009 at 12:30 pm, Salt said:
He’s worried that the slaves are getting a bit uppity on the plantation. Someone’s gotta work to keep his lazy parasitic butt working at public school, edu-ma-katin’ the chillrren.
lgm – mocking Karl Rove NEVER FED A HUNGRY CHILD!
These events look like white power rallies more than anything.
Wow! Was at the Denver Tea Party – there were over 4,000 people there and lots of others waving and honking from cars, trucks. One pic and a small article with no mention of attendance in the Denver Post (this is to be expected from that liberal rag). Rumor has it that the next “make your voice heard” rally is on the 4th of July–I’ll be there!
It’s always good to live in a city and not know that something significant might be happening.
Mitchell Park is within walking distance (3 miles) of my house. Serves me right for not having cable or listening to the local nutjobs on the radio. (SLO is probably the most radically liberal, in-your-face-hate-your-conservative-guts kinda place I’ve been outside of SF.
But the weather is nice, the garden is doing really well this year (strawberries are about peanut-size) and the house is almost paid off. And we *do* like our neighbors, even if they are liberals.
On April 16th, 2009 at 1:32 pm, Ilovemycountry said:
You’re disgusting.
We’ve already rebutted attempts to slander the Tea Parties as racist. Scroll back and read, you parasitic leech.
This is not Yugoslavia. You will not succeed.
Ilove my country has to go to and fro between the daily Kook and this site simply because, like college campuses these days, nothing to bring to the conversation except crap. Liberals are great at spewing and throwing crap because they have nothing to argue with.
They are impressed by colored beads and simple slogans. When it comes down to brass tacks – they have no intellect,just platitudes. You, Ilove mycountry, are seeing your base starting to be undermined and you are afraid,like all Liberal do nothings.