By GottaLaff
UPDATE: Video added, title reflects.
This comes from the Canadian Vancouver Sun web site. Once again, the Rushpublic Tea Pitiers have embarrassed themselves in front of the whole wide world:
A reportedly corporate-financed grassroots" anti-tax movement, paid for, planned and promoted by right wing think tanks, corporate lobbyists and Fox News Channel, has failed to bring about the "popular uprising" against the Obama administration its creators had hoped for.
The day of "tea parties" pushed by Republican operatives and partisan advocacy groups such as FreedomWorks, that sought to protest the Obama government's tax and stimulus policies by encouraging people to 'wave tea bags' brought about only a few hundred "tea-baggers" in most parts of the U.S., despite relentless promotion by Fox News TV hosts. [...]
[T]he turn-out was far from what was hoped for, with most rallies looking decidedly ont he small side, especially compared to the 2006 immigrants rights rallies or the 2004 pro-choice march on Washington, both of which attracted millions.
Did they just say that rallies by communist, fascist, socialist liberal progressives were way more successful than the highly-Fox-promoted Rushpublic Tea Tantrums? Did they? Huh? Did they? Oh, say it again, say it again!
4,000 people are reported to have shown up in Cincinnati, Ohio, while Chicago drew an estimated 5,000 protesters and Des Moines, Iowa drew 3,000. Farmingville, New York, drew 50 hardy souls.
Thank you.
According to reports, organizers of the D.C. event were told by National Park Service officials that the "million tea bags" they had hauled in on the back of a pickup would have to be taken away, rather than be dumped as planned. They reportedly complied with the request after realizing they didn't have the correct protest permit. [Laffy Note: I posted about that here, with glee]But if there's one thing we can say about the Rushpublics, it's that they are a group that consists of highly disciplined individuals who rarely slip up. Oh, please, I couldn't even type that with a straight face:
A 68-year-old woman at the Sunbury Pennsylvania protest had to be rescued by police from the Susquehanna River when she inadvertently fell in while trying to dump tea bags in it.
Okay, okay, but at least there were no famous broadcaster gaffes, you know, like an open mic mishap or something. Now, that would have been really humiliating, especially in light of the low turnout and such:
In yet another tea-bag day controversy, Fox anchor Neil Cavuto was captured on an open mic discussing the crowd numbers with an on-location producer, estimating the turnout at 5,000 people, but minutes later Cavuto told viewers that "They were expecting 5,000 here, it's got to be easily double, if not triple that."
H/t: LieparDestin
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