How many people are showing up for these tea bag parties?

[Hamlette]

All I've heard is that the media won't cover their protests and how outrageous that is (of course I'm hearing that in/on the media so it is being covered but they would rather play the victim by reporting on how there is no coverage than to actually cover the events. Typical.)

Are there thousands? Hundreds? Anyone know?

[Warren DeMontague]

1. I'm willing to bet there are more people talking about it on DU right now

than there are actually involved in the things.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Once we know how many porta-potties have been reserved,

we can assume that there'll be 1/4 as many attendees.

[enigmatic]

3. 69 people n/t

[Vanje]

4. snort nt

[zeos3]

5. Good one

:fistbump:

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Bad boy!

:spank:

[JI7]

7. i hope some non wingnuts go there and tape these events

i think they will be similar to the 2008 campaign rallies with Sarah Palin.

[DCKit]

8. Or the 2000 "stop the recount" mob in FL...

a bunch of Republic plants and a few morans who don't realize they're being duped/used by the RNC, the richest 1% and Big Bidness.

[SeattleGirl]

9. According to someone I heard on Ron Reagan's show today,

they are expecting between half a million and a million people to take part.

My reaction?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I think they like to talk the talk far more than they want to walk the walk.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. We had one that made a newspaper...

but hardly anyone showed up. That was kinda the point of the piece.

There was some speechifyin' to the crowd that didn't exist, but mostly there were cops, Coast Guard and various environmental police to make sure nothing nasty, like tea, was thrown into the bay.

They ended up tossing a couple of boxes wiht "TEA" written on the side on to the dock.

[Vinca]

11. Someone needs to go to one of these events and interview

the participants about the history of the "tea party." Expect lots of deer-in-headlights responses.