EvilMonkey Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (Cknolls @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 02:13 PM) Has anyone heard the term tea-bagging on ABC NBC CBS or FOX? Only CNN and MSDNC. Why is that? OLbermann Maddow Shuster and Anderson Cooper have all referenced the term on their respective shows. Pretty childish, IMO. Because they don't have an original thought in their bodies about how to say somethign negative about what the protests are for. They can only make fun of a name and call the participants names. No substance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 02:46 PM) No substance. Sort of like the tea bag rally itself. What was the message? I saw about 500 different messages from the protesters. Completely incoherency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 02:46 PM) Because they don't have an original thought in their bodies about how to say somethign negative about what the protests are for. They can only make fun of a name and call the participants names. No substance. What were these protests for? I don't think anyone can figure that one out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 02:49 PM) Sort of like the tea bag rally itself. What was the message? I saw about 500 different messages from the protesters. Completely incoherency. sounds like every political protest i've ever seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 12:50 PM) sounds like every political protest i've ever seen Didn't you just claim that these were different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 the truth is CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC aren't going to give any protest that is designed to criticize Obama positive coverage. expecting such is a losing battle; it would be the same as expecting the DNC to come out and give these protests a glowing review. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 02:50 PM) Didn't you just claim that these were different? no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostfan Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 03:51 PM) the truth is CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC aren't going to give any protest that is designed to criticize Obama positive coverage. expecting such is a losing battle; it would be the same as expecting the DNC to come out and give these protests a glowing review. I'm a little surprised it's taken you so many pages to post this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 02:52 PM) I'm a little surprised it's taken you so many pages to post this. been busy today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cknolls Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 01:42 PM) Cumulatively across the country? No. I was hearing we'd get 250K in Chicago alone. I was responding to your 10's of thousands in several cities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeNukeEm Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 1998? '99. They were pretty badass and really well organized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 02:42 PM) Cumulatively across the country? No. I was hearing we'd get 250K in Chicago alone. Where in the heck did you get those numbers from? Being downtown I can tell you that no one in charge anticpated anything close to that because there was zero crowd preparations done anywhere but at the post office. Anything approaching that number couldn't have taken place where it did. If there were going to be a quarter of a million people, it would have HAD to take place in Grant Park. The city couldn't have been expecting 10% of that number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 03:07 PM) Where in the heck did you get those numbers from? Being downtown I can tell you that no one in charge anticpated anything close to that because there was zero crowd preparations done anywhere but at the post office. Anything approaching that number couldn't have taken place where it did. If there were going to be a quarter of a million people, it would have HAD to take place in Grant Park. The city couldn't have been expecting 10% of that number. yea there's no way anyone was expecting 250,000 for this protest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 03:12 PM) yea there's no way anyone was expecting 250,000 for this protest If you haven't been in the Federal Plaza before, go back and look at the picture I posted earlier in this thread. If you filled the entire plaza, you might be able to get 10,000 to 15,000 people there. Let me put it this way. 250,000 is a slow day at Taste of Chicago, and that many people still cover about 4 city blocks using the streets and grassy areas of Grant Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (Cknolls @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 03:01 PM) I was responding to your 10's of thousands in several cities. 100k in one city vs a few hundred per city isn't even comparable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 MY PROTEST WAS BIGGER THAN YOURZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 (edited) QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 03:15 PM) If you haven't been in the Federal Plaza before, go back and look at the picture I posted earlier in this thread. If you filled the entire plaza, you might be able to get 10,000 to 15,000 people there. Let me put it this way. 250,000 is a slow day at Taste of Chicago, and that many people still cover about 4 city blocks using the streets and grassy areas of Grant Park. for sure. i'm from chicago and i know there is no way federal plaza is holding 250,000 people for a protest. that many people in that area would require streets to be shut down, have a big security presence, ect. Edited April 16, 2009 by mr_genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitesoxfan101 Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 08:31 AM) I don't think the protests were racist. I would assume most die hard Obama supporters want to paint his opposition as racist, but I think it's more misinformed than racist (although I can see why people are upset about government spending right now since I'm not particularly happy about it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 03:19 PM) MY PROTEST WAS BIGGER THAN YOURZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The reason I initially brought up crowd figures was the disparity in MSM coverage. The war protests saw tens of thousands of people gathering in cities across the country (about 100K in one city alone) while protests of a few hundred yesterday received a ridiculous amount of attention and news coverage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 03:34 PM) I don't think the protests were racist. I would assume most die hard Obama supporters want to paint his opposition as racist, but I think it's more misinformed than racist (although I can see why people are upset about government spending right now since I'm not particularly happy about it). it's usually some white guy calling everyone racist when there is actually no racism involved. that's the hilarious part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wise Master Buehrle Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 A lot of the Tea parties were affiliated with the Campaign for Liberty and also about how lame the Fed is. I am totally down with any rally against the Federal Reserve. Some may have misconstrued the points, but even if it was 250,000 nationwide... thats a LOT of people going out of their way to express their distaste with the way things are run. Originally I thought it was a bunch of Republicans complaining about Democrats, but this is the real deal. These are real people who are just sick of phony politics... cheers to them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapkomet Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 QUOTE (DanksFan @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 04:51 PM) A lot of the Tea parties were affiliated with the Campaign for Liberty and also about how lame the Fed is. I am totally down with any rally against the Federal Reserve. Some may have misconstrued the points, but even if it was 250,000 nationwide... thats a LOT of people going out of their way to express their distaste with the way things are run. Originally I thought it was a bunch of Republicans complaining about Democrats, but this is the real deal. These are real people who are just sick of phony politics... cheers to them! I appreciate your comments. It's so funny to see people want to disrespect this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Kickass Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 QUOTE (DanksFan @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 05:51 PM) A lot of the Tea parties were affiliated with the Campaign for Liberty and also about how lame the Fed is. I am totally down with any rally against the Federal Reserve. Some may have misconstrued the points, but even if it was 250,000 nationwide... thats a LOT of people going out of their way to express their distaste with the way things are run. Originally I thought it was a bunch of Republicans complaining about Democrats, but this is the real deal. These are real people who are just sick of phony politics... cheers to them! I'm sure that many of these people who have chosen to protest have valid reasons to do it. But to say it was full of phony politics when the organizers are talking about how decentralized it was and yet there seemed to be a prominent Fox News personality at every major one seems a bit disingenous to say that phony politics aren't in play. And the truth is, the organizers do matter for me. I wanted to go protest the war in Iraq in 2003. Til I found out who was behind the protests - and I couldn't get behind the extremists that are behind it. And given who was behind so many of these protests and the things they represent, its hard for me to take those views terribly seriously anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxbadger Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 (edited) I was at the Daley Center and at the Jackson Post office yesterday, I didnt even know about the protest until I read this thread. Not sure what time the protests were though so maybe it was after I was there. Edited April 17, 2009 by Soxbadger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 10:35 PM) I'm sure that many of these people who have chosen to protest have valid reasons to do it. But to say it was full of phony politics when the organizers are talking about how decentralized it was and yet there seemed to be a prominent Fox News personality at every major one seems a bit disingenous to say that phony politics aren't in play. Sounds exactly like the immigration rallies that were played up to be so noble and patriotic to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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