The number of people who attended the 9/12/09 tea parties march in Washington DC is still open to debate. Was it as high as 738,915? I ask because that's the current view count on this anti-Tea Party video. Now, certainly, many of those viewing that video already had their minds made up one way or another, but no doubt many others were undecided and some or most of those came away with a negative view of the "movement".
If I were a tea party organizer, I would have responded by pointing out how the two videomakers (Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll) were cherry-picking and the like. For instance, the former appears to have misstated the impacts of a bill. For an example of what I would have done, see the post about Max Blumenthal's tea party video. However, a search for Whiteside's and Stoll's names individually with tea party shows no contrary information in the first fifty or so results.
That shoudn't be that surprising: other than community organizing and cashing checks from their benefactors, the tea party leaders haven't shown much competence. I don't want them to become competent; I just want to point out to their followers that their leaders aren't competent in the hopes that the non-Randroids among those followers might decide to concentrate on more important matters such as immigration.
Wed, 09/30/2009 - 12:18 · Importance: 4
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