mass protest at capital hill

[Sankari]

How very dare you!

 

[Deadbeat]

I'm thinking it's veered off-topic slightly...

 

[Sankari]

Hush. This is perfectly normal for GD.

 

[mattscold]

thats why i didnt want to put it down the fascist members who hate the dailymail

Is this guy for real? I'm pretty sure fascists would love the Daily Mail, after all it is written with decidedly low intellect and should appeal to that ilk quite well.

 

[Angilion]

Is this guy for real? I'm pretty sure fascists would love the Daily Mail, after all it is written with decidedly low intellect and should appeal to that ilk quite well.

He's for real, but the world he lives in is partially imaginary.

 

[Raikiri]

thats why i didnt want to put it down the fascist members who hate the dailymail

You're facist for disliking the Daily Mail? I don't think facism is what you think it is.

Now go make a cake ( http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18054122 ) and stop being a paranoid delusional.

 

[Vanilla]

Not only is the 'millions' figure inaccurate but certain anti-reform websites have been caught using pictures from other events to try and show that the protest was massive.

http://www.osborneink.com/2009/09/teabaggers-lie.html

 

[simpletom]

thats why i didnt want to put it down the fascist members who hate the dailymail

Quite ironic considering the Daily Mail has, historically, been a supporter of fascism and sang the praises of such luminaries such as Franco, Hitler, Mussolini and our own very fine Mosley.

 

[Kreeeee]

mat, your posts are always funny

Bread fat calculation errors, hilarious salary expectations and this have made my day

 

[Duke]

*looks at username* ohhhhhhhhhhhh.............

Yeah its handy having an built in news RSS feed generator in GD.

 

[kwerk]

The media pretty much blanked this event, I didn't even hear about it until I read on a forum from someone that went.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwoCJjH4gwQ

 

[Sankari]

The media pretty much blanked this event, I didn't even hear about it until I read on a forum from someone that went.

Blanked it?

Washington Post; Salon.com; BBC; ABC; Daily Mail; NY Daily News; Sky News. Examples could be multiplied.

I'll bet ITV, Channel 4 & Channel 5 didn't miss it either.

 

[muon]

If you want to know where this spurious 2m claim came from.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909120014

Worst of all, some American sites are using the dailymail to claim that 1m were at the march. You'd think they'd have sources closer to home.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...-Obamas-spending-tea-party-demonstration.html

Glen Beck of fox news (not on the fox news channel though) using the dailymail as a source

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909140013

The march itself he has promoted on his TV show for ages.

 

[Raikiri]

Blanked it?

Don't worry, he didn't happen to see it (probably didn't even look at the news sites) so it's a conspiracy.

 

[muon]

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[Sankari]

 

[Angilion]

I'm not convinced that Obama's policies undermine the USA constitution more than things such as the Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, etc.

Protestors do have a point though - Obama's policies do involve more government and more taxes.

 

[Sankari]

Found this photo taken by someone who was there:

She says:

This is a telephoto shot from Fourth Street looking back to the main body of the demonstration. It was not densely crowded, even near the stage. Most of the crowd was contained in the two blocks from the stage to Second Street.

(Source).

That's not 2 million. It's not remotely close to 1 million. Hell, it's not even 100,000. We're talking tens of thousands (~60,000?) at the very most. And that's being generous.

Protestors do have a point though - Obama's policies do involve more government and more taxes.

It involves no more government, and I expect that Obama would simply raise current taxes rather than imposing new ones.