We have it on good authority that the turn out at the Asheville Tax Day Tea Party was a minimum of 1,800 strong. (Some claim the numbers were higher than that, but until I can get substantive proof, we’ll stick with 1,800.)
Take a look at these photos from area news outlets. They didn’t have a lot of glowing reports about us, but pictures don’t lie. And not a single counter-protester or rabble rouser in the lot!
Asheville Citizen Times article
Citizen Times photo gallery: Tax rally tea party
Hendersonville Times Photo Gallery: Asheville Tax Tea Party
Sweet Ashevegas Photo Gallery
Participant Tim Peck’s Photo Gallery
Unfortunately and predictably, the media still doesn’t get it. They don’t know what to do with us, so they are under-reporting our numbers and repeating the false charge that we are GOP operatives. We’re going to have to give them another object lesson in non-partisan activism on July 4th.
View these at your peril. Get your airsickness bag ready…
L.A. Times - Republicans Stage Tea Party Protests Against Obama
CNN Reporter Argues With Protesters
Asheville Citizen-Times - GOP Hopes To Build Momentum Behind Tea Parties
There is so much more… Suffice to say, there is a battle being waged. Be assured that you are doing something right when those who oppose you are become determined to destroy you.
Congratulations, Patriots! The day was yours. Looking forward to Independence Day.
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14 Comments
April 16, 2009 at 9:57 am
Here are my photos:
http://snipr.com/fzus0
April 16, 2009 at 11:23 am
The LAT was kind of funny. It was as if, instead of covering a news story, they were having an argument with a news story. And they will soon have gone broke. If the LAT cared about jobs they would put out a paper with balance and a wider representation of opinion. Instead they seem intent on biased, arguing coverage that appeals to only people they agree with. And thousands of people will end up unemployed because they just have to do things their way rather than professionally.
All of the attacks by the dinosaur media on the Tea Parties have reminded me of Pravda. Pravda’s coverage of anti-Soviet protesters was nonexistent. But the Russian people had many years earlier ceased expecting any truth from Pravda. Just as people in America have long since ceased expecting unbiased or fair coverage from the dinosaurs. The only people who take our dinosaur media serious are the witless and stubborn Democrats, but I repeat myself.
April 16, 2009 at 11:33 am
Your comparison to Pravda is apt and it gives me hope. I have long felt that our mainstream media outlets are somewhere between being irrelevant and being useful tools for the Left. The longer they continue their adamant refusal to engage in actual journalism, the faster we advance to a day when they are completely worthless to the people and hold the same status as Pravda. Thanks for the insight!
April 16, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Hi there Clowns,
With 95% of Americans getting a tax break this year–oh and remember the working class tax break that showed up in your paychecks a few weeks ago….
What exactly are you puppets protesting? And why weren’t you going crazy back when Bush pushed the 700 billion dollar bailout through???
You keep claiming to be non-partisan but come on…With the Texas governor saying Texas should secede..posters brimming with anti-obama rhetoric and:
Fox News aggressively promoted the protests prior to April 15, encouraging viewers to get involved across the country. The network also featured at least 20 segments on the protests and at least 73 in-show and commercial promotions for them from April 6 to April 13. Indeed, Fox News has repeatedly described the protests as “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties.”
This is hardly a bipartisan, grassroot effort.
This fake movement is just a bunch of unpatriotic puppets unhappy with losing an election.
April 16, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Oh, did you guys enjoy the paved roads, the clean air, the use of OUR police department, the public side walks, the public park and everything else your tax money supports in your effort for this silly little protest?
April 16, 2009 at 1:44 pm
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Many of did complain about Bush signing that bill. I even voted for a Democrat because my congressman voted for that bill.
Why do you find the personal attacks necessary? Why do you feel the need to call people you don’t even know clown and puppet? I have been thinking about how much lefties lower the tone of the discussion. I’ve considered recommending to Jane Q. that she ask commenters to maintain just a moderate level of civility and maybe even ban people who can’t control themselves when it comes to personal attacks.
Exactly what problem do you have with Texas succeeding? Lefties attack Texas for being backward and dumb until Hell won’t have it and then get all possessive when Texas considers independence. I’d think you’d be glad to see it go. Make up your mind.
And as for Fox News covering the Tea Parties making the Parties then by definition not grassroots or bipartisan, Does that mean that, since the major networks have shilled for the Democrat Party since at least 1990, that by definition nothing the Democrats have done since then could have been a grass root effort? And if not why single out Fox for the special attack?
April 16, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Thank you, “rush rocks” for your input.
However, you have sadly mis-characterized what is in fact a genuine grassroots, nonpartisan political awakening spurred on by reckless, greedy and unbridled government aggression against innocent sovereign citizens. You may wish to see it otherwise, but wishing won’t make it so.
I hope that, if not now then perhaps later, you can understand that referring to me as a “clown” does not further your argument. In fact, it roundly calls into question your own integrity, which I must necessarily assume is wanting.
You say that “95% of Americans getting a tax break.” I can’t find how the math works on that one. A greater number of Americans than 5% do not pay taxes. Perhaps you can explain how people who do not pay taxes can get a tax break.
You ask “What exactly are you puppets protesting?” This has been answered in editorials, letters to the editor and weblog posts. Erika put it best in her comments to the Citizen-Times: “Our protest is against pork, high tax rates, massive national debt, devaluation of our currency and bailouts. Both parties have a share in the blame.”
http://snipr.com/g19vy
You mention a Texas governor and a cable news channel as evidence that the tea party here in Asheville is partisan. This is hardly sufficient to make your case. I support the great state of Texas in re-asserting their 10th Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution. And I would have liked to have seen more coverage of the tea parties from a wider set of news outlets.
You ask “And why weren’t you going crazy back when Bush pushed the 700 billion dollar bailout through?” The position I hold today is the same one I have held for the past eight years. And I am not a Republican, I am an unaffiliated libertarian. And I did bring a few smart Democrats with me to the rally.
If Democrats are under-represented at the nonpartisan Tea Party, it is not the fault of Republicans. Republican, Democrats, Libertarians and Greens should be concerned, even alarmed, about out-of-control, reckless, greedy and unbridled government driving our nation into the ground. I would ask you, where were the Democrats?
You claim that the tea party attendees are “unpatriotic puppets.“ Besides taking offense at your personal insults, I differ considerably with your assessment. Far from being unpatriotic, I would say that it is the epitome of patriotism to push back on an out-of-control, tyrannical and fascistic government that seeks dominion over its master: the sovereign individual.
You state that taxpayers should be grateful to the government for providing “paved roads, the clean air, the use of OUR police department, the public side walks, the public park.” First of all, the only proper purpose of government is to protect individual rights. Your point about clean air and police are well taken. These are legitimate functions of government. However, if the federal government were to only fulfill its explicitly declared constitutional functions, the federal budget would be reduced by more than 60%. I dare say that too much of what government presumes to be their business simply is not; such as taxing the poor to bail out the rich.
I’m afraid, Mr. Rocks, that you have stumbled into foreign territory and now find yourself out of your water. You have put forward fallacious ‘ad homimen’ arguments and under-researched and unsubstantiated assertions in what appears to be a mood of hostility. I hope you will consider my responses carefully in their intended spirit of civil discourse — perhaps when you’ve had a proper moment to reflect in thoughtful serenity.
April 16, 2009 at 2:09 pm
fascistic government?!?
I wish more Americans knew what a fascistic government looked like.
First, the Administration was Communist! Then Socialist! Now Fascistic! I am looking forward to May being Monarchy month.
I believe Mr. Rocks is referring to the fact that 95% of Americans have received tax breaks since last year–this in the form of paycheck reductions implemented by the current administration.
I am with Rock. These ‘tea parties’ while incongruent with the original purposes of the Tea Party –though when does history and facts really matter when you have some good gimmick.
Saying these events are bipartisan are like claiming that Michael Steele and Palin weren’t picked simply to pander to a base of voters….scan through coverage of these ‘tea parties’ and the slogans on posters and speeches are crazy, sad and unpatriotic.
So maybe these are just a few nutjobs in a crowd of protesters, but I sure don’t hear anyone coming out against these negative messages which negate and villify the supposed intent of these ‘parties!’
Just imagine if Democrats had started talking about secession and protesting taxes after the 2000 or 2004 election. I hardly think that Fox News and the right would be offering such support. In fact, when protesters were out against the War in Iraq or spoke out against the president–they were titled UnAmerican. Remember the Dixie Chicks????
What they did is far less malicious than what the Rightys are spouting out on Glen Beck and Hannity and on these posters showing up at these ‘parties!’
April 16, 2009 at 2:21 pm
“Saying these events are bipartisan…”
Who said that the tea party was bipartisan?
April 16, 2009 at 3:18 pm
HA! http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001168/
April 16, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Jane Q Republican under the comments of the Asheville Tas Day Tea Party……
The Asheville Tax Day Tea Party is free from the taint of partisanship, no matter how you try to paint it.
April 17, 2009 at 11:39 am
Total viewers Wednesday from 8:00 to 11:00 PM:
FOXNEWS 3,390,000
MSNBC 1,210,000
CNN 1,070,000
CNN HEADLINE 909,000
Viewership for specific shows:
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,980,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 3,239,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,947,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,740,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,401,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,185,000
COMEDY DAILY SHOW 1,777,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,499,000
COMEDY COLBERT 1,446,000
CNNHN GRACE 1,336,000
CNN KING 1,292,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,149,000
CNN COOPER 1,021,000
April 18, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Ha!
April 20, 2009 at 9:38 am
The trouble with the tea party movement and now Newt Gingrich proclaiming to be a leader in it:
http://templeofmut.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/so-not-the-face-the-tea-party-needs/
Taken from comments on the Christiantytoday blog:
8 years of increasing deficits (including $700 Billion bailout of banks near the end) did not solicit this response from conservatives. Suddenly within 2 months of a new administration, conservatives have discovered their fiscal restraint. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Christian Conservatives promoting Tea Parties….
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/04/christian_conse.html
Yup! This is a bipartisan event…Oh and how may republican congressman and politicians spoke at these nonpartisan events?????