Open Thread: 9/12 Tea Parties
posted at 12:00 pm on September 12, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
By popular demand — feel free to comment, network, and check out the traffic cam in Washington DC, live. Don’t forget to keep up on Twitter to the #912DC thread, too.
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Man, only an hour north of where I live and I can’t make it there today.
flipflop on September 12, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Hot damn!
profitsbeard on September 12, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Go TEA PARTY!!!!!
catlady on September 12, 2009 at 12:02 PM
I wish I could have gone, but coming from San Antonio was just too much cost…
catlady on September 12, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Thanks, Ed.
TXUS on September 12, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Looking strong so far. Is there going to be any tv coverage? Did someone say CSPAN
catlady on September 12, 2009 at 12:03 PM
For everyone one person actually there, there are probably thousands wishing they could be but can’t.
Loved the sign that said,
“You didn’t hear us. Can you see us NOW?”
Jvette on September 12, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Lyin’ gibbs said they don’t know anything about this. They are about to find out.
VegasRick on September 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM
CSPAN coverage at 1:00 PM
Fox coverage now, I believe.
massrighty on September 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM
I was at Promise Keepers “Stand in the Gap” in October 1997 which drew approximately 1,500,000 Christian men to Washington D.C. to pray for America.
Break that record!!
Amendment X on September 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM
CNN is covering this live on the internet – and it’s a good stream with audio.
I think we should support CNN today – give them a taste of what real ratings look like when they do the right thing.
HondaV65 on September 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Thanks, Ed. Brian Wilson is hosting this hour on Fox and then Beck takes over for three hours! This will be a truly historic day.
kingsjester on September 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM
I would have loved to there, but with a senior in college and now a freshman, there just isn’t money in the budget for it.
I am there in spirit though and figure, I’ll be working so in a way, I’m holding down the fort.
Jvette on September 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM
I’m one of those people who SO wishes she were there!
:)
Talk about giving me HOPE again! I’m loving this turnout!
Thank You All who are there!!!!!!
bridgetown on September 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM
FROM THE #TEAPARTY: Crowds HUGE, happy, packed in tight, a tiny few anti-protestors yelling. On the move to the Captl #912 @julielaughridge
————————————————————kcole: OK, just told over the loudspeakers that despite what CNN is reporting (thousands) the DC police report 1.2MILLION people at #teaparty #tcot
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Johnny_Doggs: Wow the Libs r really mad. They can’t gather 1.5 mil ppl. So they just sit, cry and snipe on twitter. Ha! Ha! #dc912 #teaparty #tcot #mob
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joegallant: RT @LibertyPatriot: Reports put crowd for #912dc bigger than inauguration crowd — CONGRATULATIONS Patriots! #glenbeck, #liberty, #teaparty
1 minute ago from TweetDeck
lovingmyUSA on September 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM
lovingmyUSA on September 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Well, that’s a nice thought, but they are late to the ‘party’ and I’m sure their coverage will turn negative..
bridgetown on September 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM
There are somewhere north of 500k people outside your office.
They’ve been coming by bus, car, and train for at least 10 days.
Your paid astroturfers have been aware of this for months.
You claim no knowledge of the event, or the groups that have been promoting it?
massrighty on September 12, 2009 at 12:07 PM
That’s scary. If Gibbs and this White House didn’t know about all these teaparty folks marching on D.C. – when it’s been broadcasted all over and the “chatter level” has been through the roof …
Then how can we feel safe they’ll know about a pending terrorist attack which is much less publicized?
Freaks.
HondaV65 on September 12, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Have to work today, but I’m there in spirit.
Show the quislings the heartland!
profitsbeard on September 12, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Florida here wishing I were there…The beginning of the end of socialism/communism in America…The Founders would be proud……..
adamsmith on September 12, 2009 at 12:07 PM
cjn315: RT @smbnova: RT @midlifechick: Talked to many police officers. Thanked them. Such an orderly crowd. Proud to be Americans. #912DC
half a minute ago from TweetDeck
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ang76h: RT @LizBlaine: @roosterpisces: Shouldn’t this be called the Million Patriot March? #DC912 #teaparty #iamthemob #majority #tcot #ocra
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Not_Evil: LOL! RT @FedUpUSA: RT @cjn315: Hey #912DC – anyone seen Nancy Pelosi circling the Capitol on he broom? #iamthemob #tcot #tlot
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CNN saying had to start early because there were so many people!! The MSM doesn’t KNOW what to say ! #DC912 #teaparty #tcot #tlot #ocra
lovingmyUSA on September 12, 2009 at 12:08 PM
“It doesn’t matter what this sign says, you’ll call it racism anyway” Gold!
redrock on September 12, 2009 at 12:08 PM
JiangxiDad on September 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM
On my way to the Fort Worth, Texas March today. Wish I was in DC, but as long as my voice is heard somewhere. Go 9-12!
XWing5 on September 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Awesome! That is Gold! LOVE it!
bridgetown on September 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM
I had to choose between this and my nephew’s graduation from Boot Camp in October. Boot won out.
thomasaur on September 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM
About time. Go Patriots!!!
Fletch54 on September 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM
I’ll be there in spirit. I can only go to a provo event…
But if I could be there, I’d be there.
Chaz706 on September 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM
My heart (and head) is there… that’s for sure. Going to local rally later today.
itsacookbook on September 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM
One of the tweets was saying MSNBC claimed only 1000 protesters! They wish!
VanPalin on September 12, 2009 at 12:10 PM
JiangxiDad on September 12, 2009 at 12:10 PM
I will NOT watch CNN. FOX is the ONLY network that has reported fairly and consistently on this and they have my loyalty. To the extent I can watch, since I’ll be working soon, I will watch FOX.
Jvette on September 12, 2009 at 12:10 PM
There are somewhere north of 500k people outside your office.
I so wish that I could have been there!
VegasRick on September 12, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Beck is supposed to be checking in with the other Tea Parties across the country, also. Hey Beltway Elite: Time to face The Sleeping Giant.
kingsjester on September 12, 2009 at 12:12 PM
djcnorwich: 100000 equals a 60 block walk with 4 hours between the first people ending the 60 block and the last entering the 60 blocks. #teaparty #tcot
less than 20 seconds ago from web
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ConservativeGen: RT @pat_ess CNN reporter at march says looks like numbers more than expected. Look on her face says waaayyy more. #912 #teaparty #912dc
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Rt @mkhammer Posting this pic of the crowd again (streaming onto Cap lawn for an hr) & still coming pretty steadily http://mypict.me/C6KU
http://mypict.me/show.php?id=C6KU
lovingmyUSA on September 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Super!!! Thanks, Ed!
Party like it’s 1776.
From last thread:
petefrt on September 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM
I just wonder how many protesters that will gather at all the locations nationwide? Over a million in DC! Wow! The MSM will ignore us at the own peril!
d1carter on September 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Thank you for this post, Ed! Much appreciated.
Missy on September 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM
They’re having a 9/12 rally in Spokane today at noon. I might go…not feeling too good right now. :)
For sure would have gone if I could be in D.C.!
Emily M. on September 12, 2009 at 12:14 PM
1.5 MILLION AT TODAY’S RALLY.
500,000 MORE THAN CAME TO O’S INAUGURATION!
A friend called me after the announcement was made. Details are HERE.
Mutnodjmet on September 12, 2009 at 12:14 PM
I’m annoyed at Fox (and CNN) who are billing this as a march “against health care reform”. We’re not against reform, we’re against the Democrats craptastic proposals!
Buy Danish on September 12, 2009 at 12:14 PM
artist on September 12, 2009 at 10:33 AM
A really good man, Mike Brasovan ( http://www.mikebrasovan.com ) will be speaking at the rally today. He is running for the House, District 12. I’ve known the man since grade school and he is the real deal. See if you can meet him. If I still lived in Texas I would be there handing out his flyers.
truetexan on September 12, 2009 at 12:15 PM
wish i f*Cking went
FCK
FCK
blatantblue on September 12, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Everyone that can’t party be sure and watch Glenn at noon central time.
Of course, tivo dvr at least one hundred times. Let’s bring him to 4 million viewers…It was cool of Fox to give Glenn this two hours at the tea party.
What a week…..van”hate whitey”jones, The National Endowment of the Arts Scandal, the pimp and the ho and ACORN scandal…..starting the Czar investigations…….and now thousands of patriots on the streets of d.c.
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nondhimmie on September 12, 2009 at 12:15 PM
i noticed that on the treadmill this morning
i was like wtf fox?
blatantblue on September 12, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Obama wanted a day of community service… and now he got it.
profitsbeard on September 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Wish I could have been there! Some of the tweets said the crowd is estimated at 1.5 million and growing. Awesome! Godspeed to all the HA and C4P posters in attendance.
NoLeftTurn on September 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM
it was a commercial for geraldo
blatantblue on September 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM
A lib meme circulating is that these are a disparate group of people, not there for the same purpose, and that the large numbers do not represent cohesion.
JiangxiDad on September 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM
BB, I thought you were going!! Why didn’t you?
Emily M. on September 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM
There’s going to be a Tea Party at City Hall in an East County community near where I live in San Diego today at 2:00pm. I will be attending along with many of my friends and colleagues.
My 16-yr old son asked if he could go too. I said ‘Of course!’ He makes me proud :)
I so wish we could have gone to today’s event in D.C., right smack-dab on the steps of our nation’s capital… and just a stone’s throw from Congress and Barack Hussein Obama’s window.
SilverStar830 on September 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Priceless!
JiangxiDad on September 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM
How soon we forget! Please don’t support CNN today; they have been against us all the way. Tune to Fox-the real truth seekers. Don’t fall for this crap.
texanpride on September 12, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Also there in SPIRIT. In CA, and couldn’t make it. I’m very proud of my fellow patriots who are attending!!
kemg on September 12, 2009 at 12:17 PM
couldn’t swing it between work, school, and all that stuff. next time
blatantblue on September 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM
I wanted to go but have to work and was looking for coverage and guess where I found it…seriously…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32811199/ns/politics-more_politics/
scalleywag on September 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM
XWing5 on September 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM –
A really good man, Mike Brasovan ( http://www.mikebrasovan.com ) will be speaking at the rally today. He is running for the House, District 12. I’ve known the man since grade school and he is the real deal. See if you can meet him. If I still lived in Texas I would be there handing out his flyers.
truetexan on September 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM
A counter protester on #912dc just said, “Privileged white people are throwing a tantrum that there’s a black man in the White House” and I know it shouldn’t ever surprise me to read that tripe, yet, it always does.
It will always astonish me that there are actual individuals in this world that live lives so completely antithetical to reason. I guess a simpler way to explain it is insanity.
Diane on September 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Same here…and thank you so much Ed.
spacewife on September 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Well the community organizer has finally organized a community.
thomasaur on September 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM
RT@mkhammer These are folks still coming in from 14th; a stream all the way from the starting point. #912dc http://mypict.me/C6Fp
3 minutes ago from web
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ANOTHER PIC: http://twitpic.com/hg5mb
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House Dems leaked memo saying “hundreds of thousands to 2 million people” might show up at rally. Hoping to make us look small. HA! WE DON’T
lovingmyUSA on September 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Haha…love that sign: “Joe Wilson for Truth Czar!”
thewhippingpost on September 12, 2009 at 12:19 PM
I’ve been only half paying attention, but are these soundbites for Geraldo?
Buy Danish on September 12, 2009 at 12:19 PM
True, but I would hope GOP fiscal responsibility/leadership might also come in for some criticism. Equal opportunity broadside. I wish the party leadership hadn’t been allowed to speak.
a capella on September 12, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Fox reported earlier 10s of thousands. Sometimes I wonder whose side Fox is on, why don’t they report the truth? There appear to be a lot more than 10s of thousands, based only on the web cam. Unbelievable. I heard it again, 10s of thousands from Brian Wilson. Again, I heard it again. Un-freakinbelievable.
immigrantchick on September 12, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Me too! We could have met up, too. That would have been fun to meet with other HA commenters.
Diane on September 12, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Just about to head out. Will be interesting to see how much they fill up the mall.
I’m not buying the 1.5 million from what I have seen so far. The big antiwar march about three to four years drew about 3-400K and you couldn’t move anywhere. Obama’s inauguration was a massive sea of people that basically shut down the city. But I am not making any final decisions until I see for myself. See you later.
LevStrauss on September 12, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Oh, sh!t. Yeah. School.
Emily M. on September 12, 2009 at 12:20 PM
FNC- hundreds of thousands!!!
Damn, I wish I was there. But I’m definately there in spirit and I’m glued to FNC for the next 3 hours.
kareyk on September 12, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Darn… I was going until yesterday when the cold I have turned to a fever… Didn’t want to risk getting worse or sending it home with those who marched. I’m just getting up now myself feeling a bit better.
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Sad I ain’t there, and happy as hell that so many are. AWESOME on you guys!
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RalphyBoy on September 12, 2009 at 12:20 PM
This kinda reminds me of Yasgur’s farm…oops, that kinda dates me!
d1carter on September 12, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Some day, at CNN and elsewhere, you won’t be able to find anyone who supported Obama. These people will always be dangers to freedom, because they’re susceptible to anything, but that was always the case. We shouldn’t have forgotten that.
JiangxiDad on September 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM
well i saw a commercial on fox
“blahb lah blah dc protests against healthcare reform
tonight, on geraldo at large”
and his smug face popped up
almost fell off the treadmill
in time
blatantblue on September 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Fox just said “10s of thousands” again.
Jim Demint is correcting them now.
Also pointed out it’s not just “anti-tax.”
DeMint is doing a good job of making the point that it’s about all of the over-reaching, lecturing, and gov’t not listening.
massrighty on September 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Hey Gibbs!
Look out the windoww you stupid f#ck!
katy the mean old lady on September 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM
DeMint just told Brian Wilson on Camera that there are hundreds of thosands there, not tens are thousands. He just said that he’s more comfortable with these people than he is with the ones in Congress.
kingsjester on September 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM
It doesn’t matter what the media says.
Look at the number of people there.
Imagine the numbers of us who Want to be there, but aren’t.
WE THE PEOPLE know what this is about…..WE THE PEOPLE still own this government.
This is awesome. Perfect after yesterday’s day of tears for 09/11
I love this country!
bridgetown on September 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Too too too….ah, grammar challenged today.
Diane on September 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Outstanding!
Wish I could be there angrily teabag mobbing with all the other angry racist teabagging mobsters. Know that some of us from Southern Cal are there in spirit. I will be practicing my own form of ‘political terrorism’ at the kids’ soccer game before working a 10-hour shift to pay taxes to help support ACORN and buy cars for people who can’t afford them who aren’t me.
Tom_OC on September 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM
“If Obama is the answer, then it was a stupid question”
redrock on September 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Is it over? I don’t see much happening on most of those cameras.
Midas on September 12, 2009 at 12:22 PM
more like the anti-Yasgur’s farm. Civil rights movement, liberalism, socialism, leftism–all have already reached their high point, and are descendant.
JiangxiDad on September 12, 2009 at 12:22 PM
for everyone who could not make it to C there are LOCAL 912 events across the country today also!
see here, (scroll to bottom of page for state by state listings) and go shake your money maker for freedom!!
ginaswo on September 12, 2009 at 12:22 PM
I suppose that since it’s DC no aerial shots from news-copters are allowed?
thomasaur on September 12, 2009 at 12:22 PM
/dc
ginaswo on September 12, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Go Katy!
massrighty on September 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM
So, the Prez is on his way to Minnesota. I guess this is one time Obama won’t be “present”.
Jvette on September 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Michelle the “O” can look out and see people that are really PROUD OR THEIR COUNTRY!
farright on September 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM
I wish I were in Washington DC right now, however, I live in the “OTHER” Washington and I am going to the “TP” in Redmond, WA in an hour.
bucko36 on September 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM
I’m in Arlington, VA, but stuck at work! Dang!
NavyMustang on September 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Beck is broadcasting from DC today. Is there a link up now or is he using his media outlets schedule.
sonnyspats1 on September 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM
For every protester there, I wonder how many people are at home, following along and wishing they could go.
This morning I thought maybe the MSM would blow it off completely. I don’t expect massive coverage, but if the libs are already sending out memes to counter the numbers, that is an excellent sign.
Missy on September 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Jvette on September 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Surely Air Force 1 had to fly over this racist mob!!!
bridgetown on September 12, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Just saw the CNN clip, crowd chanting in the background, TELL THE TRUTH, TELL THE TRUTH.. GOTTA LOVE IT
Pres is a chicken sh*t.
reshas1 on September 12, 2009 at 12:24 PM
We’ll let you know when it’s over!
massrighty on September 12, 2009 at 12:24 PM
+1.5 Million
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RalphyBoy on September 12, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Don’t get hung up on the numbers estimate- it is a very inexact science and everyone knows the MSM will cut the lowest estimate in half.
Just enjoy watching these wonderful people and rejoice that we are not alone!!
LASue on September 12, 2009 at 12:24 PM
My daughter in DC called me to say that this morning the Metro was chock full of 9/12er tea partiers. Said it was a merry, very large bunch of folks…with lots of great homemade signs!
Party on!
marybel on September 12, 2009 at 12:25 PM
it’s now being covered in Google and yahoo news. But most reports are calling it a demonstration of thousands. The NY Times says tens of thousands. Most do seem to get that this is not just about ObamaCare.
Loxodonta on September 12, 2009 at 12:25 PM
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