The Tea Party, right-wing media, and the dog that didn't bark | Philly | 09/27/2011
It wasn't in South Carolina, where a "smaller than expected" crowd came to see Michele Bachmann for a Tax Day Rally back in April (just as Sarah Palin and Donald Trump also drew small crowds on the same day), or at the "small" crowd of only 200 activists who showed up in March for a D.C. rally in favor of shutting down the government, or the less than 100 people who were rousted this summer to rally for the Tea Party's stance on the debt ceiling (pictured at top), even with supposed movement's superstars Sens. Rand Paul and Jim DeMint at the podium.
Where's the Tea Party?
It's not in Las Vegas, where the swanky Venetian Hotel has been suing the Tes Party Nation for more than $600,000, for canceling a planned convention last fall when it couldn't deliver nearly enough people for the more than 1,800 hotel rooms it had once reserved. (By the way, Tea Party nation's founder just endorsed Newt Gingrich for president...you think that's a game changer?) You could also fairly ask what happened to the nearly 100,000 people who showed up at the National Mall just 13 months ago for a rally organized by and starring the then-king of all right-wing media, Glenn Beck, but a better question would be simply -- what happened to Glenn Beck? Little more than a year removed from the cover of Time and the New York Times Magazine, Beck has lost his main platform on the Fox News Channel, been booting from the airwaves in Philadelphia and New York, and taken his shtick to the narrowcasting world of Internet TV.
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Tea party people rock, Truthmatters.
But it's so good to see you in a good mood for a change.
Fortunately, Solyndra, a scandal that is Watergate to the tenth power is getting no media attention whatever, so since the media is not an equal opportunity magnifying glass any more, the American voters will be.
We know right from wrong, and Obama giving away half a billion American dollars to a company that was mismanaging money when he rammed it through to the Treasurer's payout office in record time, a lot of Americans are wondering how he can look us straight in the eye any more. As a matter of fact, I've seen him looking down at the floor, not answering any questions that don't come from the DNC playbook, and in general, still blaming everybody else except himself and his close cronies for bad decisions that will take America out if we don't hand him a pink slip in November 2012.
Keep on smiling while Washington plays a dicey little shell game of "The Money, the Money, Solyndra, the Money; Lawyer Up then Take the Money and run with the bailout."