tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post6501916927603148579..comments2023-10-07T05:29:20.923-07:00Comments on McClatchy Watch: No mention of the DC rally by the Bradenton HeraldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-32605856021106197722009-09-14T12:20:31.174-07:002009-09-14T12:20:31.174-07:00CNBC's Santelli Rips Media for Ignoring 9/12 D...CNBC's Santelli Rips Media for Ignoring 9/12 DC March <br /><br />Not everyone at the NBC Universal umbrella of networks got the gag order memo about the Sept. 12 march on Washington, D.C. <br /><br />Rick Santelli, who has been a target of the Obama White House and is credited with being the inspiration for the 2009 tea party movement, spoke out about how the media ignored the march. <br /><br />But, a year after the fall of Lehman Brothers, he was making the larger point that the government's intervention to thwart a financial crisis had been an ineffectual and potentially dangerous maneuver at the expense of taxpayers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-41351450636436622562009-09-14T11:43:27.443-07:002009-09-14T11:43:27.443-07:00NY Times Buries Massive Conservative D.C. Rally, H...NY Times Buries Massive Conservative D.C. Rally, Hails Smaller Liberal Protests<br />By Clay Waters <br /><br />There was a huge protest against Obama's big-government plans at the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, but one was hard-pressed to find evidence of it on the New York <br /><br />Times home page Sunday morning: A small headline tucked under the Political subhead. <br /><br />The print edition wasn't much more forthcoming. Although the Washington D.C. Fire Dept. estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people attended the 9/12 protest, and many estimates are higher, the Times made do with one medium-sized story buried on page A37 of the Sunday paper, "Thousands Attend Broad Protest of Government," teasing it on the front page in a below-the-fold photo from the march.<br /><br />Reporter Jeff Zeleny painted protesters as "angry" and "profane" and that the rally contained "no shortage of vitriol," as if there were never raised voices and obscene signage at left-wing anti-war rallies:<br /><br />A sea of protesters filled the west lawn of the Capitol and spilled onto the National Mall on Saturday in the largest rally against President Obama since he took office, a culmination of a summer-long season of protests that began with opposition to a health care overhaul and grew into a broader dissatisfaction with government.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com