Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Tea Tantrums v. War Protests

By GottaLaff

I'm totally making Bob the Awesome's premise my own by using visuals. Call me crazy, but outrage over sending people to kill and be killed in a fraudulent war trumps that for cutting taxes for 95% of America while trying to fix an economic disaster:

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April, 2003 Washington, D.C. 100,000

The world says no to war
March 2003, New York 40,000-100,000

http://www.ccmep.org/2002_articles/Iraq/dc5.jpg
January 19, 2003 Washington, D.C. Tens of thousands

Bob Cesca:
[N]one of those protests received anywhere near the establishment media attention as these comparatively dinky tea bag groups. One thing is for sure: the anti-war protests certainly didn't have an entire cable news network dedicated to promoting and covering the events.
Typically fair and balanced, to use a terribly worn-out phrase.

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