National Tea Party: Media Calls for a Protest Showdown But Only 4 People Show
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, February 6, 2010, 4:50 PM
It was almost a dream come true.
The media reported that a group of a National Tea Party Convention counter-protesters were going to flock to the Opryland Hotel for a showdown.
But only 4 people showed up.
The mainstream media, of course, swarmed them.
The protesters belonged to the Tennessee Tea Party Coalition. They told the media they represent 35 of 44 tea party groups in Tennessee and they were upset with the event this weekend.
Right Wing News posted the group’s press release.
They stayed for a while and spoke with the media. They said they didn’t hold a grudge against those who attended this weekend’s event but they were upset that the convention cost so much. They wanted to hold the rally in a larger venue so more people could come.
It wasn’t much of a counter protest. It will be interesting to read how the media spins this.
Founding Bloggers has more photos from the convention.
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Opus #6 commented:
Protest means you oppose the event. These people wanted to ATTEND the event. That is not opposition, but simply a grievance.
richwill commented:
Key word in regards to the MSM’s coverage of four protesters, hyperbole.
bill-tb commented:
Sounds like they wanted to attend not protest.
But who is going to pay for the building rental?
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ogee commented:
Well yeah. It’s all Republicans now when it was not started by Republicans but Hillary Dems. It was supposed to be NON Partisan..it’s pissing people off. We warned you all to call yourselves Patriots and keep it non partisan. BUT NO! All you hear at the Tea Party’s anymore is “Republicans this and Republicans that”. 50% of the people who belong to the Tea Party Movement are not Republicans. Voting Republican is just a short term strategy to gain checks and balances. We could sit home ya know. so stop it. It’s a Patriot Tea Party and not a Republican Tea Party. PLEASE. Don’t forget or you will be back to where you were being all sterile after the primaries.
Ladue Pundit commented:
“…they were upset that the convention cost so much. They wanted to hold the rally in a larger venue so more people could come.”
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Huh? Costs too much, and should have gotten a bigger place?
This is nonsense. Who do they want to pay for a bigger place when they believed the current cost was too high?
Have it outside. In February. The first Tea Party I attended was in February under the Gateway Arch.
These people need to air their grievances within the family and stop giving the MSM ammo. This was counterproductive.
ogee commented:
Oh and these are ACORN and SEIU plants. Don’t give it any attention.
Barb_NC commented:
Come ON “ogee”. Get a GRIP! WE who ARE the TEA Party movement KNOW who WE are. We don’t LET the LSM define WHO we are!
As for 4 protestors being described as “massive” is typical LSM so it’s not a surprise to me or anyone else in the movement. WE are AWAKE! lol
WE have made a CHOICE to CREATE our OWN news with “citizen journalists” so it’s a non-issue what they say anymore. Besides they only have about 20 viewers left now. ROFLMAO!
just sayin………
TxTenther commented:
LOL@Politico. They are nothing but a bunch of old WaPo hacks. Did you expect anything less?
Jack commented:
The liberals are running scared cause Nov is ass whipping time
gus commented:
Let me repeat myself.
The MEDIA themselves are LIBERALS. They were raised liberals, they hang with liberals, they went to LIBERAL JOURNALISM SCHOOLS had liberal professors, they read liberal stuff, their friends and colleagues are liberals. How can they report on anything that is counter to LIBTARDISM without being biased?
Their tiny LIBTARD minds cannot wrap themselves around anything that doesn’t echo in their private lives. Ask a reporter who he voted for. HE/SHE won’t answer. It’s comical.
It’s not different than college professors or “Social workers”. The problem is that these LIBTARDS are not honest about their biased. It’s easy to test. Have a TEA PARTY, give out credentials only after a questionaire is answered.
Dack Thrombosis commented:
It would’ve been better if the protestors showed up wearing kilts. Or togas. Or KKK outfits. Maybe the MSM can use CGI to outfit these rebels?
Why is anyone even talking to these hacks? Any questions from the media at this event should receive the same answer…stfu.
Paul N. Marston commented:
I have to agree with Ogee on #5. The tea party movement has twice as many supporters as the GOP does. He is also correct in saying that the voters are not voting for Republicans but against the Democrats. If we turn the tea party movement into a Republican thing we will alienate half of our supporters. Do you honestly think the voters of Massachusetts were voting for Scott Brown because he was a Republican? No, they were voting against Martha Coakley because she is a total party line Democrat.
gus commented:
I have never called myself a Republican.
I once called myself a Democrat. The Democrat party is dishonest and filled with losers and failures. I will NEVER vote for a Democrat again. There are some well meaning young people who are NAIVE and don’t know what the LIBTARD party truly is yet. Most of them grow out of it, unless they are failures with their hands out.
Warof2010 commented:
When Drunk Driving Lawyer Judson Phillips (TeaParty Nation.org), with a far less than sterling reputation, and Mark Skoda, a bloviate opportunist, organize a for profit convention, what else should anyone expect.
Better first do an extended background check before allowing oneself to follow.
Ensuring Liberty Corp…anyone who contributes anything for self-aggrandizement of a few individuals, deserves to be taken.
this convention, replete with persons looking to capitalize on the movement, flies in the face of the meaning of the movement; there isn’t any room for groups such as this, except to demean the very purpose of movement.
Tammy commented:
They’ve made such a huge fuss about the “cost” of this gathering.
It cost something like $549 dollars, right?
Two years ago I went to a conference that cost me $1800 and I didn’t bitch one minute!
$549 is a STEAL. Who the hell do they think pays for everything: The room, the set, the lighting, the sound, and all of the other rooms used for discussion sessions?
Those four people are probably plants. I wouldn’t doubt it for a second.
retire05 commented:
OK, so four people show up, claim to represent 36 of the 44 Tennessee Tea Party groups, and they are complaining because the convention was too expensive so it should have been held at a bigger venue?
It will be interesting to see if these four give out this information:
Who are they?
What are their names?
Who sent them?
What position do they hold within another TP group?
Did they have the approval of the 44 TN TP groups they claim to represent?
Did any of those groups support their showing up to do nothing but complain?
I am sure these are questions the inquiring minds of the lamestream media will ask.
Andreas K. commented:
So four people represent 35 of 44 tea party groups in Tennessee.
Yep, that totally adds up.
It will, once I’ve told myself that it does a few million times.
ogee commented:
This is the Tea Party Nation and it’s for leaders of the Tea Party Movement is what I read from the top down. It’s not the usual Tea Party Movement backed by we so called peasants. So these 4 are prolly posers for the current administration. They are famous for doing the Alinsky two step. “Infiltrate and create infighting in your opponent” and is one of the rules
averagemelon commented:
I love the bloggers on this site.
Nobody is EVER going to pull the wool over the PATRIOT’S eyes again.
Militant Conservative commented:
ogee, #5
WE tea party patriots are CONSERVATIVES.
What party most closely defines itself as conservative.
hmmmmmmm leme think.
NOT DEMOCRATS.
WE are going to clear the republican house of RINOS while voting out Democrats. General America is conservative not Liberal. This is normal condition of humanity.
“If you are not liberal by the age of 20 you have no heart, if your not conservative by the age of 30 you have no brain” Winston Churchill
Jayne on the left coast commented:
This is the same stunt the media pulled when Cindy Sheehan would have a so called protest. There was a handful of “protesters” and scores of media and they would shoot it so it seemed like a lot of fools showed up. Same old crud, when will the lousy media learn we know all their tricks.
retire05 commented:
Just went to the Tennesse Tea Party Coalition website. Seems to be a bunch of scragglers. You have to join to read the comments, and they are announcing a meeting at a library. A DAMN LIBRARY. How many people do they estimate the Brentwood Library will hold? 20? 40?
Also there was nothing on the site that complained about the Tea Party Convention and infact, they were advertising it (have to join to read the announcement).
Seems to me these are people who want to play top dog that got run over by the car they were chasing.
Solaratov commented:
ogee
February 6th, 2010 | 3:29 pm | #5
The people calling it a “Republican Tea Party” are the media and the leftists; because they are unable to philosophically seperate or tell the difference between Republicans and Conservatives. The people in the Tea Party Movement do NOT refer to it as “Republican” or as a “party”. It’s a movement.
And, where did you ever get the absurd idea that the Tea Party Movement was started by “Hillary dems”? That’s the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard said about us – and a complete falsehood. Whoever told you that was really yankin’ your chain.
And another thing, cherry – sit home if you want to because you don’t like a name or some other reason. That’s what got us where we are right now; and you know it. Threats like that will only get you laughed at. Anybody who calls themselves a Conservative and sits the next election out will be considered to be just another obot – no matter what flimsy excuse or petulant whine they have.
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Funny, now that the Tea Party Movement has gained real traction, it seems that everybody wants to claim it for themselves and turn it into a “third party”. Larouch wackos, ronpaulista crazies, unhappy hillaryites. Everybody. It must be true: “success has a thousand fathers; failure, none.”
KR commented:
It is somewhat amusing to me to hear the msm or others defining the Tea Parties.
I attended the first round of Tea Parties in Feb. 2009 after Santelli made his call for tea parties due to Pelosi and gang trying to pass the Stimulus Bill.
It was a spontaneous response to insane gov. spending. Anyone who was paying attention got out there with a sign to send a message to our deaf politicians.
wanumba commented:
Amazing that the journalists stand around recording people with tape recorders and cameras and we never see or hear any of it, and when we finally do get a packaged blurb, it’s wrong.
mrt commented:
I guess with nothing else to do since he doesn’t have a show on weekends,
looks like Keef Olbermann’s entire audience
traveled to Nashville.
All 4 of ‘em.
silent_rage commented:
Oh, the media will report this. They just won’t
show any wide shots. They’ll have to get in
close with their photos.
bear commented:
Hey, ogee, you are dead wrong. President Reagan was a Conservative, who espoused the same principles the Tea Party Movement seeks to emulate. My family changed our registration to something other than republican so the rinos who run that party can’t claim us. We shall vote for actual Conservatives, regardless of party. The reality is, there are never going to be Conservatives in the anti-American dem party. McLame didn’t lose because rinos stayed home. He lost because Conservatives stayed home. There are far more folks identifying themselves as Conservative than in either party, hence the term Tea Party Movement. Keep your eye on the founding principles, not the media. Vote for the Constitution, not marxist dogma from the lefties. Vote for the return of God given rights, not those created (only to be taken away) by man.