Tens of Thousands

Posted on 04/15/2009 at 5:34 pm by Bob Cesca

Just glancing at some news archives from early 2003.

Here’s an anti-war protest from April, 2003 in Washington, DC with an estimated attendance of around 100,000 people.

Here’s another anti-war protest in New York with numbers ranging from 40,000-100,000 people.

Here’s one at the U.S. Capitol from January, 2003 boasting tens of thousands of people.

I’m not a huge fan of protests as a means of delivering political messages (at least now in the intertubes age), but none of those protests received anywhere near the establishment media attention as these comparatively dinky tea bag groups. One thing is for sure: the anti-war protests certainly didn’t have an entire cable news network dedicated to promoting and covering the events.

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  • GItheJOE

    Or Ted Nugent. WTF is wrong with that man? Did he smoke some bad shit and feels the need to kill Mexicans with a fork?More..Neil Cavuto was in Sacramento CA and NOT ONE MINORITY in the crowd. Just saying.

  • incredulous72

    Op-Ed in the LA Times pretty much sums up this tea party crap.http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-cooper15-2009apr15,0,3158535.story

  • JG

    librul media, LOL

  • Matt McD.

    “There are dozens of us! Dozens!!!” – Dr. Tobias Funke, analrapist.

  • Terri

    This: none of those protests received anywhere near the establishment media attention as these comparatively dinky tea bag groups. One thing is for sure: the anti-war protests certainly didn’t have an entire cable news network dedicated to promoting and covering the events.________Totally true! I was one of those DC protesters in which it was reported that 300,000 attended. People came from all across the US — many by bus or car — to protest for just a few hours.I specifically recall meeting a man from Kentucky — who rode for 15 hours by bus from Kentucky to DC for a protest that went for a few hours — and then got back in the bus for the 15 hour ride back.It was a small blip on the evening news.

  • hielo

    Is it just my perception, or did Bo (the White house dog) get more attention from the media than this silly teabagging?

  • Francis Zuccarello

    Seen Us Envy.They got more attention than we ever did. I marched, along with about three million other Americans, at nearly every rally from 2003 through 2007. Don’t regret a thing, except sadly we neither stopped a war nor brought about peace.

  • R

    Nice statistics.However, when I clicked on the Fox News link about the anti-war protest in New York, I got a redirected to another site that Firefox warns is a malicious site.Fox News is malicious.

  • http://hugetinymistake.wordpress.com chris

    2+ million for a Phillies parade.200 (according to 538.com) for a teabagging protest.Yeah, Philly voted with their feet what they care about…and it ain’t this shit.

  • mmortal03

    To the viewing public, anti-war protests are so “been there, done that”, however legitimate they may be. People have been trained to tune them out, unfortunately. People act like anti-war protests aren’t relevant anymore. I guess the military industrial complex has done what it has needed.

  • http://www.webdunce.blogspot.com Web Dunce

    2/15/03 over half a million (conservatively) took to the streets of NYC to protest the escalation of the Iraq war. Barely a blip in the news cycle. If I hadn’t actually been there to see it I never would have believed the stories of just how big this protest was. The sheer size of the crowds was staggering.

  • http://jingokillah.com Jingo Killah

    Don’t forget the protests outside the RNC in NYC in 2004. Half a mil. Why so easy to ignore? That number should have served as a referendum, considering the Repub grandstanding about 9/11. A total repudiation of NYC’s confidence in the handling of the war on terror. Didn’t count a drop.