More bad news for Hannity and the Tea baggers in Atlanta

[npk]

The protest that coincide with Hannity's television show that he is producing live from the capital building in downtown Atlanta will be going on and finishing at the exact same time that more than 40,000 people will be heading to watch the Atlanta Braves and Florida Marlins play at Turner Field, which is less than 5 miles from the capital. The GA DOT has already said that traffic could be a nightmare and that many people traveling to the anti-tax rally at the capital may not have anywhere to park and may not even be able to get there at all.

Also as anyone that is familiar with Atlanta knows very well that traffic bottlenecks on the downtown connector on nights that the Braves are playing. In fact it is not unusual to wait over two hours in traffic to just get to Fulton Street to make it to the stadium. On top of all that 10th and 14th street exits are still closed as they have been for the last year and half forcing commuters to get off at 17th street and cross over to spring street to make it to the capital. Except there is only one problem with this solution. Spring street is the main road that people who work in Midtown, near the Arts Center, Corporate Towers, AT&T, Coca Cola HQ building, and GA TECH campus travel to get home. Some public officials are already saying that this could be one of the worst traffic days ever in Atlanta.

Poor Hannity. What protesters he may have will be stuck in more than 2 hours traffic delays trying to get to his stupid anti-tax rally.

[Ganja Ninja]

1. No problem for Hannity and FOX.

They'll just take pictures of the baseball crowd and claim they're protesters.

[spanone]

2. dickhead hannity will claim all 40,000 are teabaggers.....i'll bet

[jdlh8894]

3. worst traffic days ever in Atlanta

Guess you weren't here in '96 eom

[npk]

8. No moved to Atlanta in 2000

But I have heard the stories on 1996 and the Olympics. I do feel for you.

[Iris]

26. actually, most stories about traffic during the Olympics were positive.

It was actually a time when some planning and coordination worked.

[RebelOne]

29. That's because many people who were able

to used public transportation then. I remember that the traffic was very good during the Olympics.

[Iris]

32. yeah. It was an amazing time.

[PRETZEL]

4. Hannity will

have a cameraman go over to Turner Field, take about 10 seconds of video of the people walking into the stadium, then show it on his show and claim that there were tens of thousands at his rally.

Hannity never lets a good pr stunt go awry.

[sarge43]

5. And the Braves home game schedule was announced only last night?

And the Atlanta tea baggers were unaware of the potential traffic nightmare?

Some grass roots organization there -- youbetcha.

I'll say it again: They bring the stupid.

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Yeah, Either Last Night Or Last Year

Good point. They planned this protest at a place where 100 times the number of people would be part of the traffic.

What geniuses.
GAC

[Doremus]

34. Event planned last August, much longer than the normal 5 minute brain capacity for poor wingnuts.

Thinking farther ahead than tonight's corned beef and beer is too much for wingnuts.

[sarge43]

40. 5 minutes? That's a much too generous estimate.

Jeebus on a moped, these are people protesting a tax cut!!

[NJmaverick]

6. I suspect Hannity was counting on this

he will problem count the fans as part of his official protest numbers.

[ladywnch]

12. yeah, he will tout that people trying to get to the protest

created the worst traffice jam in Atlanta's history....everyone on the streets is someone trying to get to the protest....not a baseball game. typical Faux lie.

[Iris]

7. You know what's really funny? These people were on local radio stations urging tb'ers to take MARTA!

can you believe?

[npk]

9. LOL. They are afraid of MARTA

Too many poor people on MARTA is what they would say. They detest those people. I ride MARTA as much as I can.

[Iris]

13. lol! Well, they think so much of themselves that they were saying it would be the safest trip on

MARTA anyone could ever take!

[RubyDuby in GA]

15. I know. They don't want to pony up a penny for MARTA, but they want everyone to be able to use it

for their crap! What a bunch of flaming assholes!

[Iris]

19. if I didn't laugh, I'd be crying

[KamaAina]

24. Did they tell 'em to pack heat?

yup, you can actually carry guns on MARTA, 'cause the repuke legislature said so.

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/20/guns-ride-free-on-marta-starting-july-1

Guns ride free on MARTA starting July 1
June 20, 2008 at 3:35 pm by Thomas Wheatley in News

Polish your Glocks, licensed firearm carriers. On July 1, your lifelong dream to legally carry a pistol on the city's public-transit system will be realized. In uneasy anticipation of the event, MARTA's trying to get the word out.

So we're looking at, what, several dozen teabaggers riding the trains armed to the teeth. :scared:

[Iris]

25. which is probably why they think it'd be the safest MARTA ride EVAH. Not b/c they are good people,

or brave even with out weapons or anything like that.

[Dappleganger]

36. If there were hundreds of freepers around me...

I'd want to be packing too!

[arcadian]

10. Obama did it.

:rofl:

[underpants]

11. How close is it the stadium? Sounds like he is using the Braves fan as backdrop

illusion of size and all that Sun-Tzu stuff

[npk]

14. About five miles, maybe less

If there was no traffic on the roads you could drive from the capital to the stadium and vice versa in about five minutes or less. The problem is that Turner Field charges a good chunk of change to park in their lots. So many people park in free or much less expensive public lots near and around the Capital building and then take MARTA to the stadium. I am telling you this is going to be a mess.

[rurallib]

23. MARTA - would that be a municipally subsidized system?

No proud tea bagger would be caught dead on there

[RubyDuby in GA]

16. At most, it's maybe a mile away.

It's literally just across a bridge.

It's going to be a nightmare for all those idiots who don't know their way around the city and are only coming here because their Faux overlords told them to.

Something tells me its going to suck trying to leave from work today! I think I'll aim for any idiot I see with a sign on my way out of town.

[underpants]

17. If you don't know already-the reason Hannity is in Atlanta

is that he was a house painter whose business failed because he spent so much time calling into talk radio to defend Ollie North. A producer liked what he heard and gave him a timeslot (weekend I think) he got hired from there. Went to San Diego got fired for anti-gay remarks. Ended up somewhere and Roger Ailes hired him out of the blue to be on TV.

[npk]

20. LOL. Underpants

:rofl:


Maybe we can expect a trip down memory lane.

[Iris]

21. he's such a loser.

[RebelOne]

30. Unfortunately, a loser who is crying all the way to the bank. n/t

[Iris]

33. well, no kidding. And he has the nerve to suggest this country punishes success?

He's a living, breathing example of a rewarded failure.

[RubyDuby in GA]

22. Well. That explains a lot.

I know I wouldn't hire him to paint my house (unless of course it could be guaranteed that I could knock him off a ladder).

[hay rick]

38. House painters: Hitler, Hannity...

Must be something in the fumes.

[alfredo]

18. If they had paid their taxes, the traffic problems could have been solved.

[hughee99]

27. 40,000 at a Braves game? I don't think so.

Last night's game was only 16K and other than their home opener, they have't come close to that.

[npk]

28. There was supposed to be some kind of promotion tonight

That was what I heard. I don't know if in fact that is true. But you are right 40,000 would be a stretch. Still it is going to be a mad house down there even if only 20,000 show up.

[and-justice-for-all]

35. You know damn well Hannity will lie his ass off, it is all Faux Noise does.

LIE LIE LIE..nt

[JeanGrey]

37. Hon, let me explain something. Traffic is ALWAYS

A Nightmare in Atlanta. Always. This won't deter anyone!

[UTUSN]

39. K&R #1, NOW give FOUR more K&Rs, o.KAY????????11 n/t