The March on Washington 09-12-2009

[SavageOrangeJug]

WASHINGTON — Tea Party Patriots are storming the Potomac.
The conservative activists who staged taxpayer tea parties last spring and packed town-hall-style meetings to rail against "Obama care" this summer plan to march here Saturday to protest what they call out-of-control government spending.

Encouraged by conservative commentators such as Fox's Glenn Beck and organized virtually on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites, the march will constitute "the largest gathering of fiscal conservatives ever," says Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks. The advocacy group led by former House majority leader Dick Armey is planning the event, although other organizers say theirs is an unprompted movement.

"There is no leader. This is so incredibly organic and grass-roots," says Mark Williams, a conservative talk show host who spoke from El Paso during a stop on the Tea Party Express, a 34-city, 7,000-mile bus tour that began in Sacramento Aug. 28 and ends here Saturday.

FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe says "tens of thousands" will march. "They are opposed to President Obama's multitrillion-dollar government takeover of health care, opposed to his massive tax on energy ... and opposed to spending money we don't have to bailing out homeowners and auto companies," he says. "Our motto is 'Government goes to those who show up.' "

USA Today: 'Tea party' movement takes protest to Washington

 

[RockyTopVol]

I wonder how much ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN will cover this?

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

How much have you heard about it on those "fair and balanced' media outlets?

Now if they hang Obama in effigy.....

 

[OrangeYankee]

And the mainstream media is going to get bit in the butt if they keep trying to label this movement as only ultra conservative... I hate to break it to these boneheads but the tea party movement resonates at least a little with pretty much everyone right of hippies.

 

[MG1968]

I wonder how much ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN will cover this?

they will probably say something like, "today, the KKK staged a small rally near the Capitol. Clayton Bigsby gave the keynote address to an eager crowd of hooded, limbic-brain impaired redneck teabaggers."

 

[Cartervol]

Taxation without representation. People are tired of the shove it down our throats mentality of the new POTUS and his cronies. One more year and hopefully they can stalemate him and this bunch of goons. Its exactly why they're trying to move so fast with it, they know they won't have control for much longer.

 

[T-TownVol]

It's just a big right wing "circle jerk", why would they cover it?

 

[kev20]

my dad will be there. I think he is boarding a bus today.

 

[T-TownVol]

Acorn is rallying the troops to be there in force. They will try to provoke people and give the media some good "angry right winger" footage.