For your edification, here’s your media bias story of the day. The national media made a story out of a nonstory — a mini-rally of tiny proportions. Typical was NPR’s piece describing the rally as the “counterweight to the Tea Party” — a protest outside the White House. Backed by numerous heavyweight leftist groups such as the AFL-CIO, MoveOn.org, the National Organization for Women, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, and National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, the story got great media play, as all such political mega-rallies in DC deserve.
But there were only 100 people at this heavily sponsored rally. And that’s the “counterweight to the Tea Party”????
SUURRREEEEE.
BTW, the photo below is a TEA PARTY rally, tens of thousands strong — not the media-ballyhooed pathetic gathering of 100 — mostly paid staffers of the sponsoring left wing outfits.
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by David Boaz
We saw sort of the counterweight to the Tea Party on the right yesterday … protesting outside the White House.
Big rally against budget constraints, eh? Like the Tea Party rallies such as this one?
Well, not exactly like the Tea Party rallies. According to various news stories,the rally was supported by numerous groups, including the AFL-CIO, MoveOn.org, the National Organization for Women, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, and National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. Speakers included Sen. Bernie Sanders, liberal activist (and brother of former presidential candidate Howard Dean) Jim Dean, and at least two members of Congress.
And here’s how the AP reported the results:
Liberal lawmakers from Congress and a coalition of like-minded groups rallied outside the White House on Tuesday, voicing frustration at the Democratic president they say has let them down by proposing cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
“If they vote to cut Social Security, they may not be returning to Washington,” Sanders told about 100 people who gathered with signs that read “No Chained CPI” and “We earned our Social Security.”
I’m not sure the president should have too much confidence in this “counterweight to the Tea Party.”