911 March in DC

[littlehawk]

Corporate media lies again:
http://www.infowars.com/corporate-media-seriously-under-reports-numbers-at-d-c-tea-party/

[Little Owl]

Something better than a wacko conspiracy laden article might be more persuasive.

[KBCraig]

New York Times: "Thousands rally"
Washington Post: "Tens of thousands"
Daily Mail (UK): "Up to two million"

[Lloyd Danforth]

Lota MSM stuff on this.

[MTPorcupine3]

Something better than a wacko conspiracy laden article might be more persuasive.

This is a reflection of the power elite's success in marginalising and ridiculing anyone who questions the 'official story'. Conspiracies have always been with us (the Bible is full of examples), and always will be with us.

[Little Owl]

KBCraig, I think you misunderstood my post.  I do in fact accept the central premise of the deliberate underreporting of the tea party numbers ("tens of thousands" my ass! - I saw the photos).  I also know that the Lamestream Media has replicated this fiction en masse.  All I was saying was, given that Littlehawk's assertion was in fact true, a more credible citation would have been helpful.  The article he chose (and its subsequent blog entries) was filled with paranoid conspiracy theories which seriously dampen its credibility.

This is a reflection of the power elite's success in marginalising and ridiculing anyone who questions the 'official story'. Conspiracies have always been with us (the Bible is full of examples), and always will be with us.

Not at all.  Nothing serves the "power elite" as you call them more than rendering us incapable of separating truth (Obama is pushing a socialist agenda on this nation) from fiction (aliens from the planet Xindathu conspired to destroy the twin towers in an evil plot to kidnap Kevin Bacon and by extension thus enslave all of humanity.)

In fact, your response is a classic example of the psychology behind poorly substantiated yet hard-to-falsify conspiracy theories: People push themselves into a belief system partly out of fear of being ridiculed as being "duped" by the Bilderbergs/Icke Aliens/Illuminati if they should reject the complicated explanation.  The Bible is a good example of this also - people accepting a complete yet implausible explanation rather than an incomplete and more accurate one.

[KBCraig]

KBCraig, I think you misunderstood my post.  I do in fact accept the central premise of the deliberate underreporting of the tea party numbers ("tens of thousands" my ass! - I saw the photos).  I also know that the Lamestream Media has replicated this fiction en masse.  All I was saying was, given that Littlehawk's assertion was in fact true, a more credible citation would have been helpful.

No, I did understand (and agree with) your concern with infowars as a source. That's why I provided three MSM sources illustrating that the U.S. media vastly under-reported the numbers.

[littlehawk]

Mister Owl,
I am glad there are "wacko" sources that present the truth. Many of infowars articles are taken from other "reliable?" sources. 

In regards to my link, I think the video speaks for itself. No matter where it came from or what site it's on. This was not about UFO's or Grandpappy Bush's adventures or JFK. Yet you were quick to roll the article into one big ball of "conspiracy." I bet you didn't even read the link and if you honestly had any REAL interest you could googled it out and found there were other sources that supported the article as fact. Yet you chose to mock and dismiss it because you saw "infowars."

Littlehawk

[Little Owl]

Not true Littlehawk.  I read the website but didn't watch the video as I have dial-up.  As I said earlier, I don't dispute the claim at all, I just think the site is wacky and shows it in both the article text and the subsequent blog posts.  Reading a website whose main article and blog posts cite numerous unsubstantiated conspiracy theories lessens its credibility.

[Tunga]

 "Reading a website whose main article and blog posts cite numerous unsubstantiated conspiracy theories lessens its credibility." - Little Owl

You mean like nhunderground?

[Fluff and Stuff]

Y'all continue to talk about nothing.  Some of us were actually at the DC Rally.  It wasn't anything I haven't seen before.  It was politicians talking about shrinking government and all of that crap.  Most of them didn't mean it.  Sure, some of them like Joel Winters really meant it.  Though, the rally won't change a thing.  However, handing out around 9000 FSP flyers may do something.  We shall see.

[lildog]

I love the spin the big government lefties are putting on it.  I posted photos taken from the air showing the true size of the crowd and they come back claiming the pictures had been photoshoped.  The more they down play and ignore the more upset and frustrated people will grow with them.

As Fluff and Stuff correctly pointed out though, without channeling people in the right direction all the frustration and anger will be wasted.

Heck, look at Cindy Sheen.  She worked hard at blasting Bush for Iraq and the left used her ever chance they had.  When they took power of the house and senate in 2006 she expected results, instead they tossed her aside and now she protests against the left but she's finding how in the bag the mainstream media is as they ignore her.

I don't want to see the tea protesters turned into the next Cindy.  I don't want us to toss out Obama and the Democrats to find we have big government republicans in their place.

That's why groups like the National Taxpayers Union and the NH Liberty Alliance are so important.  They help point out who is pro freedom and supports small government and shine light on those who aren't.

[Little Owl]

You mean like nhunderground?

Precisely.  The NH Underground certainly does contain its share of wacky conspiracy theories, but it doesn't masquerade as a new site either.

Though, the rally won't change a thing.

I'm not sure I agree with that.  The magnitude of these protests has taken the socialists by surprise.  If they didn't consider them a threat they would ignore them.  They do try to appear as such, but they're clearly worried.