Wednesday, April 15, 2009

A successful day of protest (despite a lack of media coverage)

Happy tax day 2009! 4/15/09, forever to be known as a day of Tea Party protests across the country. I had the good fortune of being able to attend a local rally in Escondido, California, a smaller city in North East San Diego county. Despite an unforeseen family situation, I was able to do some live blogging from the event. San Diego had a total of 6 rallies that I was aware of , with some media coverage of all of the events.

I am usually at work during the day and as such, miss most of the ongoing news that is broadcast on cable and network television. However, I was at home today and caught some of Wolf Blitzer on CNN who actually gave an honest evaluation of the lack of media coverage. His analysis can be summed up as follows: Fox News paid a lot of attention, CNN paid some attention, MSNBC paid no attention, except to mock the protesters. It was also noted that most of the larger print media sources paid little attention.

Yet, here we are. Over 800 protests around the country. Some were small, events, some numbered in the thousands. The Escondido event had a few thousand attendees, despite the location being a bit out of the way, and 5 other protests around the county. And all of this was accomplished by grass roots organizing and without hardly any national media coverage. The only major news sources that reported on the planning and execution were various conservative talk radio personalities, some conservative blog sites, some newspaper publications and of course, the liberal media sources, that mocked the effort.

I have enjoyed seeing some of the responses on the sites I usually visit. I have yet to see a liberal protest that matched today's results in terms of size and number of coordinated events. Even with national media coverage, most protests of the liberal agenda are uncoordinated, result in some violence and poorly executed. I was only aware of one snafu with the protests today when the White House protest was cut short when someone tossed some tea bags onto the White House lawn. The rest of the protests were well executed and very well attended.

However, all we see from the liberal media is mockery and misunderstanding. These protests were not only about taxes. They were about protesting tax increases, overspending, and the waste found in big government. I find it incredibly interesting that the most common argument I see when it comes to the topic of the Tea Party protests, is that when the Bush administration spent and spent, liberals fell over each other to be the first to the microphone to denounce the spending. And here, we are, doubling, tripling, even quadrupling the spending under the Bush administration. The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

To all the conservatives and liberals who participated in today's events, thank you and God bless. To all the liberals out there who chose to mock and insult, be warned. We are organized and revitalized and are starting to bring back conservative principles to America.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Employer required to give extra breaks for religious worship . . .

. . . to Muslims . . .

When I read stories like this, the easiest way to put it into perspective is to ask this one, simple, question.

What would have happened if Christians had sued over the inability to pray or practice their faith?

We all know the answer.