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A TEA PARTY WALKBACK — OF SORTS
Right Wing Nut House — C’mon, what’d you expect? A full fledged mea culpa complete with sackcloth, ashes, and my kneewalking to the shrine of  tea party activism? Not hardly. However, I was mostly wrong when I wrote this after the first round of tea parties in February: I will say this as gently as my curmudgeonly soul will allow; not a chance. It is delusional to believe that these tea parties are the beginning of anything except a round of raucous Bronx cheers from the left, calling conservatives out for their inexplicable, over the top reaction and unrealistic expectations for these 40 or so tea parties that went off today. If this really was the beginnings of something profound ...

AN FAQ ON THE TEA PARTIES
Right Wing Nut House — With the tea party protests now a part of history, I thought it might be helpful to try a little FAQ about them. Consider this a handy reference for what transpired and what might happen in the future. 1. How many tea parties were held across the country? No one knows for sure. PJTV had 850 reports from citizen reporters across the country but some of those reports are duplicate efforts from the same venue. ...

PJTV’s Crowd Estimates for Tea Parties Still Climbing
Pajamas Media — The numbers continue to grow as more and more reports come in from citizen journalists who covered the events. [image] As of noon Pacific time, the estimated number of participants in yesterday’s tea parties — sent in by citizen journalists who signed up to the site to enter attendance data from the event they participated in — stands at more than 281,000. This number represents only about 25% of the total reporting coming from the hundreds of tea party venues across the country where more than 850 ordinary Americans signed up to report on their community’s protest. The number ...

Half a Million Americans Attend Tax Day Tea Parties
Gateway Pundit — A view of the St. Louis Tax Day Tea Party-- Pajamas Media reported, via Instapundit: The estimated number of participants in yesterday’s tea parties — sent in by citizen journalists who signed up to the site to enter attendance data from the event they participated in — currently stands at more than 551,000. ...

Who We Are
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — The Washington Times reported that bitter sad person and political activist Janeane Garofalo, said that those that attended the tea parties are "racists with dysfunctional brains" She went on to say "Let's be very honest about what this is ...