Gay March Equally Attended As Fox's Tea Bag Protest, Why Didn't Fox Report It That Way?
Remember when Fox News was furious that other networks did not properly cover the Tea Bagger 9/12 circle jerk protest? Fox was so fed up with people not covering their self-promoted protests against the American government that it ran full-page ads
in newspapers crying about the other networks' lack of coverage. For
the record, other networks did cover the Tea Baggers but Fox wanted it
promoted as the largest protest in world history, that millions
attended, that Obama is unpopular and that Tea Baggers are Freedom
Fighting Warriors. Unless Fox and their loonies are portrayed that way,
they get really mad and throw hissy fits.
It's still debatable, but Fox's protest brought in about 60-80 thousand Tea Baggers to slap nut sacks with each other, talk about small government, balanced budgets, war without end and how Obama is a foreign-born enemy. You know, to reminisce about the good ol' days when George Bush and the Republicans reined in spending, shrunk government, fought evil doers, put women in their place and launched America into the forefront of the 21st century. To Fox News, this was the largest crowd ever assembled in one place equivalent to the Civil Rights marches in the 60s. Hemorrhoid Glenn Beck reported without hesitation that the crowd numbered 1.7 million. Of course none of that is true. Fox has yet to issue any sort of correction to its lies and has moved on to promoting their next Tea Bagger protest scheduled in November.
Incredibly, it takes a comedian to level the playing field with Fox News. When 75 thousand people showed up in DC last weekend to march for gay rights, Fox News did not even send a camera crew to cover the event. A march of people equally attended as their Tea Bag protest and Fox does not even bother to cover it. They did the exact same thing they accused the other networks of doing last month, except for the fact that other networks didn't ignore it like Fox just did.
According to Fox News' math, people marching for queers was the largest protest in history attended by millions. Networks that didn't cover this historical event should be ashamed. Fox News, how did you miss it?
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It's still debatable, but Fox's protest brought in about 60-80 thousand Tea Baggers to slap nut sacks with each other, talk about small government, balanced budgets, war without end and how Obama is a foreign-born enemy. You know, to reminisce about the good ol' days when George Bush and the Republicans reined in spending, shrunk government, fought evil doers, put women in their place and launched America into the forefront of the 21st century. To Fox News, this was the largest crowd ever assembled in one place equivalent to the Civil Rights marches in the 60s. Hemorrhoid Glenn Beck reported without hesitation that the crowd numbered 1.7 million. Of course none of that is true. Fox has yet to issue any sort of correction to its lies and has moved on to promoting their next Tea Bagger protest scheduled in November.
Incredibly, it takes a comedian to level the playing field with Fox News. When 75 thousand people showed up in DC last weekend to march for gay rights, Fox News did not even send a camera crew to cover the event. A march of people equally attended as their Tea Bag protest and Fox does not even bother to cover it. They did the exact same thing they accused the other networks of doing last month, except for the fact that other networks didn't ignore it like Fox just did.
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According to Fox News' math, people marching for queers was the largest protest in history attended by millions. Networks that didn't cover this historical event should be ashamed. Fox News, how did you miss it?
Visit The Fold Blog here.
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You are seriously misinformed if you believe the 60 to 80 thousand number for the tea party protest. Look at the videos available on youtube, it is clear that the crowd numbered closer to the levels reported by the UK press, 1 to 2 million. But of course you insist on childishly calling them teabaggers, so it's no surprise you would choose to lie about their numbers. It doesn't matter, the mid term election will tell the tale.
October 14, 2009 3:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
1-2 million. Yeah, it's hard to know whether the number doubles or not. I mean, when a foreign press says it's one million or two, give or take a million, I immediately say to myself, "Yeah! That's a reasonable estimate." I mean, since they are suggesting it could be 1 million, unless it's 2 million, I can see how they might be able to hide one million people and give the impression they were only one million instead of two million. I mean, it was either as big as San Antonio, Texas, in 1990, or Pheonix, AZ.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0027/twps0027.html#tabB
October 14, 2009 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
To be more concise, to simply suggest it was between 1-2 million is an absurd and does not require any further evaluation of a number. It's not even a SWAG [Scientific Wild Assed Guess) it's so ridiculous a proposition!
October 14, 2009 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
There were a number of estimates from different sources, most put the number somewhere between 1 and 2 million, as in 1.4 million, 1.6 million, 1.2 million, 1.8 million, etc. You are just being intentionally moronic as usual.
October 15, 2009 8:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Any links? Or you just going to use Glenn Beck/Fox News talking points all day?
October 15, 2009 9:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Suggest you read "The King who Rained" to get a handle on homonyms.
One doesn't "reign in spending". One "reins in spending". To "reign" is to rule.
October 14, 2009 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
What do you mean? I reign in spending. So much so that I'd like to hold a yard sale....
I think it sounds better to say that I rule at spending, but that's neither here nor there.
October 14, 2009 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rules are rules, after all...
October 14, 2009 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
matyra, of coarse ewe mean 'neither hear nor their'. If ewe knead, eye can let ewe use my twenty pound dictionary that eye bought at a yard sail. Otherwise, eye will continue to ewes it as a doorstop.
October 14, 2009 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
ack!
October 14, 2009 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, it has been changed.
October 15, 2009 9:19 AM | Reply | Permalink