ARE YOU LISTENING MR. OBAMA..

[peternap]

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ARE YOU LISTENING MR. OBAMA..Virginia is talking in a LOUD CLEAR VOICE

ARE YOU LISTENING OBAMA? ARE YOU LISTENING CONGRESS? ARE YOU LISTENING GENERAL ASSEMBLY?

I have not seen this country come together in mass anger like this since the early 70's. Tax day in Richmond brought out thousands, in the rain and on a workday.

The event didn't start until 6:00PM but Jane and I arrived in the pouring rain, at 3:00.

Then they came... The very young and the very old.. middle age, middle class, working men and women and housewives and retired persons....Vet's and professionals. People with infants and young children, wives, husbands...people from every walk of life...AND...they were all ANGRY!

Not Violent, but angry.

I normally pick and choose pictures and touch them up but today, the pictures are the story. Look at them. The good ones, the out of focus ones and the bad ones. My wife helped today and all of her photos are there also.

WE ARE VIRGINIA  and I am damned proud to be a Virginian!

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[NM_Shooter]

Tea party coverage lasted all of 15 seconds on chan 7 tonight.

[StinkerBell]

15 whole seconds of news time, seems twice as long as we got here in Seattle. From my understanding these meetings had a lot of people too!
I am not surprised because imo it is the media who really runs this country.

[desimulacra]

Here in Tennessee we had many Tea Parties NBC and CBS did a 15 second thing that said a few hundred showed up. Fox did a better coverage of the main Party in Nashville, and said ten thousand showed up. FOX also interviewed several people, some in the smaller parties/towns.

[ScottA]

The tea parties where planned and promoted by people in high places as a distraction. In order to divert attention from the real bad guys and to allow the people to vent their anger towards something they allowed the tea parties to take place. Had this been a real grassroots effort there would have been no news coverage at all. Do you feel better that you got to protest against a government you can't see? The government doesn't care if you're angry at it because people are always angry at the government. Meanwhile they continue to loot the nation behind the curtain. Think I'm nuts? Try an experiment and have a real protest and see what happens.

[pagan]

Scott,

1984.

[glenn kangiser]

I agree, Scott --- no doubt.

[Pox Eclipse]

Here in Tennessee we had many Tea Parties NBC and CBS did a 15 second thing that said a few hundred showed up. Fox did a better coverage of the main Party in Nashville, and said ten thousand showed up. FOX also interviewed several people, some in the smaller parties/towns.

Fox was caught in the act inflating crowd estimates by a factor three times an already generous guess.  Check out the video of Fox News host Neil Cavuto at a Tea Party in Sacramento.  The live feed before the broadcast caught him talking to his producer:

CAVUTO: Any estimates on how many people are here?

PRODUCER: No, we're trying to get...

CAVUTO: There's gotta' be 5,000.

PRODUCER: Oh, at least. You know, I mean the cops aren't going to tell us, and we've been trying to get ahold of the PR person to give us their number, but I think 5,000. You can say it's starting at 5,000 [unintelligble, but sounds like "and maybe it's more."].

Then, less than ten minutes later in his live, on-air segment, he tripled that estimate:

CAVUTO: I know you cover a lot of these things Shep, so you're probably better at estimating crowd sizes than I am. They were expecting 5,000 here, it's got to be easily double, if not triple that.

So I would take Fox News estimates with a very large grain of salt.  Myself, I take everything Fox says with a shaker of salt.

[apaknad]

ok pox,

where do you get your info from. nbc, cnbc, cnn?

[Pox Eclipse]

My primary news sources are online aggregators like Google News and Yahoo News.  That way, I get a diversity of sources, pulled together in one place.  I can easily read the same story from several sources, and compare and contrast their reporting.  When I watch TV, I prefer MSNBC.  I know conservatives think they are as lefty as I think Fox is righty, but they don't get caught in documented fabrication as often as Fox does.  And I don't use them as my sole source of news, so I see all sides, and I demand that all news outlets support what they say with unambiguous evidence, not idle speculation and gossip.

[SpoonyG]

It really doesn't matter where you get your news.  Today's journalists do not simply report the news, but put a spin on it.  In addition to the who, what, when, where, why, they now include opinion, impact, fallout, blame, emotion.  It's all crap.

[Sassy]

It really doesn't matter where you get your news.  Today's journalists do not simply report the news, but put a spin on it.  In addition to the who, what, when, where, why, they now include opinion, impact, fallout, blame, emotion.  It's all crap.

AMEN!!!

BTW,  , Spoony!  Just noticed you are fairly new here?  I was out of town for a few days but noticed you had some "astute" postings