{"id":3589,"date":"2009-09-13T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T14:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:41:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:41:58","slug":"according-to-the-british-press-up-to-two-million-people-were-at-the-tea-party-in-washington-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3589","title":{"rendered":"According to the British press “up to two million” people were at the “Tea Party” in Washington Saturday, protesting Obama policies; the NY Times covered the event on page A37"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahhh yes, there is no bias in the media.<\/p>\n

Here's the Daily Mail (UK) giving complete coverage: <\/p>\n

Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama's spending in 'tea-party' demonstration | Mail Online<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Here's the NY Times, on PAGE 37<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span> of their first section, with <\/p>\n

In Washington, Thousands Stage Protest of Big Government – NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

I get the NY Times<\/strong> daily email of the top stories every morning – here's what was in the POLITICS section this morning:<\/p>\n

\n

NEWS ANALYSIS
<\/font><\/strong><\/span>The Fading Public Option<\/font><\/a> <\/span><\/font>
By ROBERT PEAR
Hopes for a public insurance program falter in the face of opposition from the insurance and health care industries and conflicting signals from the White House. <\/p>\n

Thousands Rally in Minnesota Behind Obama\u2019s Call for Health Care Overhaul<\/font><\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/font>
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
While protesters assembled in Washington to oppose President Obama, an estimated 15,000 people gave him a thunderous ovation at the Target Center. <\/p>\n

<\/font>Thousands Rally in Capital to Protest Big Government<\/font><\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/font>
By JEFF ZELENY
Protesters demonstrated against the White House and Congress for what they say is an intrusion of government. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rush Limbaugh uses the term "government controlled media" when referring to the NY Times, CBS, NBC, etc.. How appropriate.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/span><\/strong> Lots of pictures here, as well as a good MSNBC report (oddly enough…)<\/em><\/p>\n

Michelle Malkin \u00bb Yes, the picture is real, nutroots<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahhh yes, there is no bias in the media. Here's the Daily Mail (UK) giving complete coverage: Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama's spending in 'tea-party' demonstration | Mail Online Here's the NY Times, on PAGE 37 of their first section, with In Washington, Thousands Stage Protest of Big Government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5389,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/5389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}