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By Roy Edroso, Friday, Mar. 13 2009 @ 10:55AM
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Categories: In the Streets, Politics, Protest, The Money Trail, Wall Street
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We just ran down to Bowling Green, home of the Bull, to attend today's Tea Party protest. You may remember these are a big thing in conservative circles, and one in City Hall Park two Saturdays ago drew 200-250 people. This one drew a dozen brave souls, though there were a couple people who wandered in and out, so in the interest of fairness we won't make that a firm number.

Nationwide tea parties are publicized by the queen bee of such events, Michelle Malkin, and this one was promoted on various internet sites; many of today's protesters held signs bearing the name of fedupusa.org.

We talked to a few of these folks, and will share their thoughts and feelings later. We will say now that they were less violently anti-government than the group that gathered at the previous New York TP; in fact, we'd say the City Hall Park crowd might find them downright accommodationist. But first we have to bite some wire stories and trawl some celebrity nudes.

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Comments (12)

Doug says:

I'm surprised to read the sheeple Voiced their comtempt against irresponsible, unbridled spending/taxing/wealth redistribution. Could be a movement. Funny, the Voice covering a conservative movement and MSM will not. How things have changed!

Posted On: Saturday, Mar. 14 2009 @ 8:14AM
Binney says:

I was one of the organizers of this rally. This was a non-patisan event and as such the main stream media had no incentive to cover it...this was and will remain a grassroots attempt to educate the general public about the crises that affect us all.

This was not partisan because the truth is both side of the aisle are to blame for this mess. The good news: the mish-mosh of folks we got were from across party lines - which goes to show the attraction to abandon the red vs blue and to get things done!

By the way, thanks for covering this!

Posted On: Saturday, Mar. 14 2009 @ 2:00PM
roy edroso says:

It's our pleasure to cover such Tea Parties as time and budget allow. You might be interested in our follow-up, in which we talked to two eloquent protesters.

Posted On: Saturday, Mar. 14 2009 @ 4:00PM
Jeff says:

Hey VV,

Just wait for Ohios tea party - as you know grass roots efforts grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and grow - just like the trillions are great grandchildren will still be paying on

Posted On: Saturday, Mar. 14 2009 @ 7:48PM
Nancy says:

The hilarious thing is that similar tea parties have gone on with thousands--see cincinnati--and the voice decides to cover this one? That's hilarious.

Posted On: Sunday, Mar. 15 2009 @ 9:33PM
Mary says:

As the mask comes off and OBAMASHOCK puts the American economy in the ICU, angry patriots will hit the streets. Then comes the GREAT WHITE HOUSE DELUSION.

DID YOU KNOW THEY'RE TRYING TO PASS A LAW THAT TRACKS ALL PURCHASED AMMUNITION? They want to know their opposition, what they own and where they live. Welcome to socialism.
SOCIALISM IS ALWAYS OPPRESSIVE, ALWAYS.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 16 2009 @ 10:00AM
scecil says:

If there is another tea party in NYC -- make it known -- I'd love to be there.

I am infuriated by this Fabian push over the edge! I'm awake -- I'm shocked out of my zombie-like state of apathy and ready to become part of reversing this destruction -- that is if we can reverse it!

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 16 2009 @ 10:35AM
Debra says:

As a National Guard Soldier, I am not able to participate in the protests. I support the tea parties and although I can not be in one, I support all who are out there telling the government that "enough is enough".

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 16 2009 @ 11:10AM
Ed says:

Very sad that more people in NY aren't outraged at all the ridiculous spending going on....but then again, most of the people who live here in NY are mindless liberal sheep anyway. If this were 225 years ago, we'd all be speaking with a british accent and bowing the the queen.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 16 2009 @ 1:53PM
USA Akbar says:

Newspeak: The new definition for the word stimulus is to steal money from our grandchildren in order to hand it out to special interests and to put in place programs that will reduce their opportunities.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 16 2009 @ 2:44PM
Jettie says:

How many turned out in Cincinnati on Sunday? 5-6,000? And many more tea parties were staged across the country. Funny that, the only media covering it is FOX, besides this little smirky tidbit in the VV about the 12 folks who showed up in NY. I see it this way: folks who work hard for a living have too much pride to join a protest rally (not like the union lackeys). But I bet the movement will grow, when they see their hard-earned pay going to support losers.
Open your eyes, Libbies, Obama is trying to socialize the US.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 16 2009 @ 11:51PM
Joe - Horror Writer says:

I'm not a conservative (nor a liberal), but I totally support these Tea Parties and think their message deserves to be heard. Power to the People, right?

It's very odd how the mainstream media ignores this grassroots effort yet can't get enough of it when there's a similar effort to protest the war...

And just because someone happens to disagree with President Obama's policies doesn't automatically qualify him/her as a conservative.

I respect the president, but I also respect those who don't want billions of their tax dollars going to political earmarks and pork.

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 17 2009 @ 11:33AM

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