Classic liberal elitest…
Nevermind there were close to a million protesters at over 1000 locations around the country on April 15th. I’m sure Obama thought it was just a bunch of red neck right wing extremists.
Politico reported:
Asked about fiscal discipline and entitlements reform, Obama seemed to be repressing a smile as he jabbed critics of his spending plans.
“Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I’m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, Obama said, “let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.”
“But,” Obama continued, “let’s not play games and pretend that the reason [for the deficit] is because of the Recovery Act.”
See my previous post about the Tea PArty I attended in Orange County:
Pics from the Santa Ana Tea Party *update* Valparaiso pics added
Also (via Say Anything Blog) Here are some links to sites working on the Tallys as they roll in.
1 million attend tea parties in 50 states
‘Obama has awakened a sleeping giant’An estimated 1 million Americans participated in at least 1,000 tea parties, according to reports by organizers tabulating the nationwide numbers, with documented protests held in 50 states.
Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform told WND, “The Obama administration has awakened a sleeping giant.”
Tax Day Tea Party national event coordinator Amy Kremer told WND she has confirmed that more than 850 parties took place. She has at least 100 more reports in her e-mail inbox that have not been posted.
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Asked how many people attended the events, she responded, “I would estimate it at over 1 million. I’m waiting on more numbers to come in from organizers right now. I can tell you it is absolutely over 750,000 right now.”
and
Tax Day party count nearing 2,000 U.S. cities
Mainstream media may run, but they can’t hide from protest tidal wave
and
We have not yet seen a credible or official guestimate regarding the number of protesters involved in tea parties nationwide. We think this is a shame because our back of the envelope math figures that the numbers could exceed a million participants… and we’ve seen informal reports of over 500,000 attendees tallied with hundreds of tea parties not yet counted. Not bad for workday events catering to taxpayers who typically have to work on workdays and may have been scrambling on that particular workday to deal with filing tax forms at the last minute.
and
Liveblogging the TEA Party
—Michelle Malkin, March 21, 2009
then of course, the non-coverage:
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