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The media steps in it again

Posted: September 26, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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The main stream media continues to walk into the perfect storm.

First they miss the Van Jones stuff:

THEN they stall and miss the Acorn story.

And now we see the G20 protests.

After two weeks of the media and their new found friends attacking the 9/12 protesters as dangerous racists, ACTUAL dangerous protesters of the left attack police and close business in a US city.

Any of these things individually might not have made a difference but their combined effect over consecutive weeks have driven people to the coverage to see what is going on.

May Catherine Ham is all over this:

Via Caleb Howe, here’s how the HuffPo (as a symbol for left-leaning media and pundits, alike) treated the Tea Party protesters, who perpetrated barely three acts of documented violence in August and zero documented acts of violence, property damage, or arrests on 9/12, despite a gathering of hundreds of thousands of protesters in the capital.

Wherefore the wringing of hands and overwrought newscasts about the future of our very nation? Guess it’ll take more than a measly 66 arrests, some damaged businesses, barrels and rocks thrown at law enforcement, setting fire to posters, and parading around like anarchists before the media starts worrying. If only there had been someone there with a rude sign about Obama…

But the media is on it:

Pittsburgh heaved a sigh of relief Friday as thousands of people streamed through the streets of the city in a peaceful protest march against the leaders of the world’s top economies.

Waving banners and chanting slogans, the crowd stretched out of sight as people made their way down the city streets lined by black-clad riot police, still tense after the previous night’s violent anti-G20 protests.

The G20 represents the leaders of the world’s most powerful economies and the group’s summits attract a motley crowd of anti-globalisation activists and anarchists opposed to what they see as its inhumane free market policies.

According to security forces there were up to 4,500 marchers, but Peter Shell, president of the Thomas Merton Center which helped organize the march, estimated the number at twice that.

“When I was looking back at the bottom of Oakland, the crowd went back eight to 10 blocks, and you can get 1,000 people in every block,” Shell told AFP.

“It was the biggest protest march in Pittsburgh since the 1970s protests against Vietnam.”

As the marchers massed at the top of Fifth Avenue, a riot policeman rapped his baton hard against his shinguards, making a hollow thud with every tap.

“They’re itching for a fight,” said a bystander. “This is really an excessive show of police force. Pittsburgh is a welcoming place.”

How stupid do they think we are?

I can see the LGF headline now…

Posted: September 17, 2009 by datechguy in fun, opinion/news
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…Glenn Reynolds links false conspiracy theory suggesting 500k plus people at 9/12 march:

What can we take away from this exercise? Here are the main points:

* The estimate widely used in the legacy media is not from an authoritative source, and it isn’t even consistent with itself: “full back to 3rd Street” is around 250,000 by Park Sevice methods, not a quarter of that.
* Many estimates, using different assumptions and different methods, arrived at numbers well into the hundreds of thousands.
* This is clearly consistent with the panoramic photo that we can source reliably.
* With everything above, and with several more estimates, I don’t think there is a plausible argument for any total attendance figure much less that 500,000 to 600,000. That is, nearly ten times the reported attendance.

How much does this matter? It’s hard to say. It might be that a precise number isn’t needed, and at any rate it may not be possible to get a good one. What we can say is that the number being reported is wildly wrong. Wildly too small.In any case, the number that will really matter is the count at the polls in 2010 and 2012. Given this, I’d say that any politicians who hope to retain their jobs better look very carefully at that panoramic photo — and remember.

Sounds like a Glenn Beck fan to me, if only he based his posts on more credible sources, such as Press releases from Color of Change or Acorn.

Update fixed the block quote and added the fun catagory, I’m going to be laughing a lot today.

Update 2: I have it! He’s a 9/12 crowd truther!

If/Then My Charles Johnson Suggestion

Posted: September 15, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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There was some snark in comments concerning Charles Johnson, not to be unexpected. I answered with a comment that I think is worth repeating:

What I think is most important about him is that as a 9/11 conservative he is exactly the kind of person we want supporting the troops, opposing Radical Islam and backing Israel. It is the person who would normally be liberal on social issues that needed to be convinced.

30 Years ago he would be a “Scoop Jackson” democrat. Regardless of if you think he is right or wrong about Stacy McCain (I suspect he is wrong and it’s my nature to take a man’s word on a subject.) It is much more important to the country and the world to have as many liberals with us in the fight that matters.

“The fight that matters” of course being the fight against Radical Islam.

In terms of the Tea Party stuff as someone who has attended one I have a simple suggestion: Charles is like myself a Computer guy, computer guys are If/Then guys by nature.

As I’ve mentioned I don’t know Charles personally but I understand Stephen Green does. That being the case the solution is pretty easy.

Although the DC tea party was the largest it is certainly not going to be the last. I would suggest that Steven invite Charles as his guest to the next one he is attending. Let him meet the people there. If he see’s what I saw I think his mind might change, but he will have to actually see it.

I can’t see him refusing. After all it would for Charles be the change to personally affirm what he has stated.

Hey it’s worth a shot.

I really wanted to see what Morning Joe said about the march today…

Posted: September 14, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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…but I stayed up late since the wife took the youngest to the ER (turns out it wasn’t what she thought but no harm in being sure. Why does he always get the worst sick on Sunday nights?)

So I only caught the last 45 min of his show, no word on the march. So this morning I tuned in to the radio show for the first 20 min. Lots of stuff about what Repubicans should do, More Joe Wilson and Kanye West not a peep about the march, not even as something coming up later and I listened to see about what was coming up later.

The real question is this: Will the congress believe the Sgt. Schultz media or their own eyes?

The problem with the I know nuuuuthing plan is that all of those people have neighbors and co-workers. Protesting is not the way they earn their living so this will all become water cooler talk all over the country.

That more than anything else is going to kill the MSM, it’s one thing to hear stuff from the net and discount it, it’s another to hear it from a neighbor that was there.

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