This morning I posted on this embarrassingly biased story from NBC News's website on the D.C. Tea Party. The article was accompanied by a YouTube video mockingly called “Scenes From The Most Important Protest In Political History.”
What made me very curious were the statements and chants in this video clip, including:
[Unintelligible] “community organizers!” [unintelligible] (0:15)
“We could read Saul Alinsky too!” (0:20)
“Feed the rich! Feed the rich!” (0:29)
“Lower the minimum wage! Lower the minimum wage! (0:35)
One spectator is filmed saying to another, “This is a very small protest, isn’t it?” (1:08)
“Tax work, not wealth! Tax work, not wealth!” (1:10)
None of these inane comments was made at the rally I attended in Flemington, NJ. So I suspected the protest might even have been staged.
My suspicions were confirmed when later today I caught photos of what seemed to be a real tea party protest in D.C. at Amy Ridenour's National Center for Policy Research site.
So I emailed Ms. Ridenour inquiring about her photos and wondering if it could possibly have been the same protest as the one at NBC on-line. Both took place at Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House.
Ms. Ridenour responded saying, after checking into it, she has it on good authority that the NBC video was not capturing a genuine tea party protest, but rather a fake, staged protest by a left-wing group called "Billionaires for Bush."
It this is in fact true, then does NBC News on-line know that they are providing video of a fake tea party on their news site?
Or were they quite aware of the staged footage, but didn't want you to know?
Thanks for your help, Amy!
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