Now that tea bagging has failed what is next for the right wing?

[Dinner]

BTW virtually every news source is reporting "tens of thousands" not hundreds of thousands. Given all the money and air time the GOP dumped into this promoting it that is a very dismal showing. Thus my calling it a failure.

[Asher]

How much money did the GOP dump into this?

[Wezil]

It is; I was temporarily deranged.

However, I would note that the 1.8 million people on the Mall was not a media estimate, as Ben implies; it was the offical government estimate of a department that was still staffed by Bush administration folks when the estimate was released. It might be too high, but it's a stretch to suggest that ideological bias was involved, given who was doing the counting.

Late response...

Yeah, I wasn't trying to pick a fight or anything. Quite frankly I haven't a clue how many people could physically attend I just knew the TV number alone had to be huge.

[Dinner]

How much money did the GOP dump into this?

I'm not sure the exact amount but they did higher at least two lobbying firms to set up all the protests, get the permits, write media messages, set up websites, and Fox did spend thousands if not tens of thousands of hours promoting them nonstop for several months. That has to amount to a significant sum not just in cash but also in manpower and opportunity costs for Fox.

[Dinner]

Late response...

Yeah, I wasn't trying to pick a fight or anything. Quite frankly I haven't a clue how many people could physically attend I just knew the TV number alone had to be huge.

I grant you the TV numbers were large even if the actual number of people who attended tea baggings wasn't. Of course we don't know if the people watching were just curious or if they were supporters.

[TCO]

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/17/the-million-taxpayer-march/

If only the condescending cable TV anchors at CNN and MSNBC had paused from wallowing in gutter puns about tea bags, they might have reported an even more significant phenomenon: Tea Party protesters were as vocal in their criticism of Republicans as they were of Democrats. In Salt Lake City, Utah, a crowd of 2,000 repeatedly booed GOP Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, who both supported the $700 billion TARP bailout, and protested GOP Gov. Jon Huntsman’s decision to accept $1.6 billion in porky stimulus funds.

[KrazyHorse]

Are the GSEs the only Fed bailout activities?

I listed the biggest two, AFAIK (rather the biggest two which can be seen as giveaways to wall street).

[chequita guevara]

I'm an enima.

fixed

[chequita guevara]

I'm not sure the exact amount but they did higher at least two lobbying firms to set up all the protests, get the permits, write media messages, set up websites, and Fox did spend thousands if not tens of thousands of hours promoting them nonstop for several months. That has to amount to a significant sum not just in cash but also in manpower and opportunity costs for Fox.

What part of that was the GOP?

I grant you the TV numbers were large even if the actual number of people who attended tea baggings wasn't. Of course we don't know if the people watching were just curious or if they were supporters.

You only see what you want to see, don't you?

[Drake Tungsten]

Fox did spend thousands if not tens of thousands of hours promoting them nonstop for several months.

Given that there are only 8,760 hours in an entire year, I think you might be wrong on your math and also retarded.

[Asher]

Fox did spend thousands if not tens of thousands of hours promoting them nonstop for several months.

Given that there are only 8,760 hours in an entire year, I think you might be wrong on your math and also retarded.

[Darius871]

Fox did spend thousands if not tens of thousands of hours promoting them nonstop for several months.

Given that there are only 8,760 hours in an entire year, I think you might be wrong on your math and also retarded.

Damn, beat me to it!

[Imran Siddiqui]

[Dinner]

Fine, spent thousands of hours.

[Dinner]

What part of that was the GOP?

Fox is absolutely part of the GOP.