Brian4Liberty
04-16-2009, 07:10 PM
I attended the San Jose, CA Tea Party event. A group of the most average people you can imagine out there. Young, old, and everything in between. You may have been able to find one sign out of hundreds that was mildly off-subject. What was interesting was the counter-protest and media coverage.
To boil it down, a group of La Raza Anarcho-Communists showed up to disrupt and attempt to start confrontations. The Police finally had to surround them with a few Officers in riot gear, but not until they had walked right up to where the speaker was, and chanted with bull-horns and beat on plastic buckets.
The only TV coverage was the local CBS affiliate, which reported that "Riot Police had to be called out to the Tea Party event in San Jose". On their late news, the had a "positive" segment about the new Janet Napolitano memo of right-wing radicals. Their guest was an SPLC official. They went immediately from that story to the "Tea Party Riot Police". I was standing right next to the CBS cameraman when he was filming the counter protesters and their Police "escorts". My friend asked him why he was only filming that, and that it would distort the story. The cameraman said "I got other footage earlier". The broadcasts that I saw only showed the riot police, with no mention of the real story.
We talked to some of the Leftists and said, hey we're not racist or against reasonable immigration. They said, "yeah, we know, but we heard that those people would be here."
Not that this should surprise anyone. This is how the media reports all stories. Sensationalize, and add their spin.
They left no evidence on their website of their coverage. Covering their asses.
Here are examples of a true story, and the type of lies told by the media and the leftist protesters.
The Truth:
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/scenes_from_the_san_jose_tax_day_tea_party_15_apri l_2009/
"In a noteworthy departure for Bay Area protests, an orderly and peaceful group of between 2,000 and 2,500 gathered today in down-town San Jose. The Tea Party, a protest of out of control federal spending and the taxes which will have to pay for it, started shortly before 5:00pm and started dispersing an hour later. "
Absolute Lies and Propaganda:
Note: Most of their pics were from an earlier, small group standing on the street. Not part of the larger, official Tea Party Event. Even with that, they didn't get any pictures to back up their wild exaggerations and lies. The official CBS coverage was not as blatant as this.
http://www.when.com/san-jose-ca/events/show/86761792-san-jose-tax-day-tea-party
"The FOX-News heavily promoted anti- tax "tea parties" meant party-time for some of the worst of the right wing in San Jose, California today. Their signs signaled everything from racism, to homophobia, to misogyny. From noon about 100 gathered in front of the IRS building in downtown San Jose. They were countered by a smaller contingent of anti-war/anti-racism seasoned activists. But the tea party participants weren't listening."
To boil it down, a group of La Raza Anarcho-Communists showed up to disrupt and attempt to start confrontations. The Police finally had to surround them with a few Officers in riot gear, but not until they had walked right up to where the speaker was, and chanted with bull-horns and beat on plastic buckets.
The only TV coverage was the local CBS affiliate, which reported that "Riot Police had to be called out to the Tea Party event in San Jose". On their late news, the had a "positive" segment about the new Janet Napolitano memo of right-wing radicals. Their guest was an SPLC official. They went immediately from that story to the "Tea Party Riot Police". I was standing right next to the CBS cameraman when he was filming the counter protesters and their Police "escorts". My friend asked him why he was only filming that, and that it would distort the story. The cameraman said "I got other footage earlier". The broadcasts that I saw only showed the riot police, with no mention of the real story.
We talked to some of the Leftists and said, hey we're not racist or against reasonable immigration. They said, "yeah, we know, but we heard that those people would be here."
Not that this should surprise anyone. This is how the media reports all stories. Sensationalize, and add their spin.
They left no evidence on their website of their coverage. Covering their asses.
Here are examples of a true story, and the type of lies told by the media and the leftist protesters.
The Truth:
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/scenes_from_the_san_jose_tax_day_tea_party_15_apri l_2009/
"In a noteworthy departure for Bay Area protests, an orderly and peaceful group of between 2,000 and 2,500 gathered today in down-town San Jose. The Tea Party, a protest of out of control federal spending and the taxes which will have to pay for it, started shortly before 5:00pm and started dispersing an hour later. "
Absolute Lies and Propaganda:
Note: Most of their pics were from an earlier, small group standing on the street. Not part of the larger, official Tea Party Event. Even with that, they didn't get any pictures to back up their wild exaggerations and lies. The official CBS coverage was not as blatant as this.
http://www.when.com/san-jose-ca/events/show/86761792-san-jose-tax-day-tea-party
"The FOX-News heavily promoted anti- tax "tea parties" meant party-time for some of the worst of the right wing in San Jose, California today. Their signs signaled everything from racism, to homophobia, to misogyny. From noon about 100 gathered in front of the IRS building in downtown San Jose. They were countered by a smaller contingent of anti-war/anti-racism seasoned activists. But the tea party participants weren't listening."