The Tea Party Express rolled into Harry Reid's hometown on Saturday, with some unexpected results.
While conservatives knew it would attract a large number of supporters, what they didn't know was that it would expose the blatant hypocrisy and bias that is the liberal slanted mainstream media.
CNN, always an unquestionably objective reporter of the facts as they benefit liberal agendae, gave the following report:
Specifically, in that clip, CNN's Fredericka Whitfield estimated that "hundreds, if not, dozens of people" were in attendance.
CNN editors then matched her comments with closely cropped aerial footage, that never panned out to a full scene view.
The Oldtimer attended the Searchlight rally, and saw it with his own squinty eyeballs, and he's here to tell you that CNN is full of crap.
Like you needed to be told that, right?
Here's a photo taken by the American Border Patrol of US Route 95 an hour and a half after the rally started.
Two lanes of US freeway totally stopped as people tried to get to the rally.
In fact, the Nevada Highway Patrol closed US 95 at Boulder City for several hours because traffic was so snarled at the town of Searchlight, something almost never done for a few hundred people.
The Oldtimer got there early, and even as we were arriving, people were parking two cars deep on both sides of the freeway more than four miles from the event site, and then walking in.
Being a local, we knew enough to drive on past the event site and check out what was happening in the town of Searchlight proper.
It, too, had double rows of parked cars along both sides of the freeway for several miles, and that was in addition to the acres of parking allocated at the site itself.
Looking at the CNN footage might give people the wrong impresssion, so here's a few aerial shots, again courtesy of American Border Patrol, who had their own chopper in the air.
Obviously, a few dozen people showed up.
Or maybe a few hundred.
Either way, CNN was at it's usual best in objective coverage.
But, CNN wasn't alone.
Network news reports ranged from 1,000 to 7,000 attendance, with local left-leaning papers making minimal mention of the Searchlight event at all.
Nevada Highway Patrol officers on the scene, when asked by The Oldtimer, said they estimated between 15,000 and 20,000 ultimately attended, even though many were unable to arrive before keynoter Sarah Palin had departed for her next stop.
Other impressions:
First, this was among the most well-mannered crowds the Oldtimer has seen.
"Please", "thank you", and "after you" were the words of the day.
And when all those cars parked along the side of the freeway tried to leave?
People waved them into line ahead of them.
No incidents of any kind except two medical incidents brought on by pre-existing health conditions were reported.
(And I'm sure they were fully paid for by O-man's healthcare program.)
The demographics of the crowd were interesting, ranging from elderly folks in power scooters to young teens to young families.
Military, bikers, and even a busload of frustrated union construction workers were in attendance, the construction workers carrying signs saying that Whiney Harry had caused construction to stop in Las Vegas.
Whites, hispanics, and a good number of blacks were in attendance as well, contrary to what the mainstream media would hav eyou believe.
It seems that many minorities take offense of the trashing of the same Constitution that gave them equality.
One young couple with toddlers, when asked if they brought their children to witness history, said "No, we brought them because they're the ones who are going to have to pay for what's been done".
Interestingly, people at the tea party were more outraged about government corruption, backroom deals, and special treatment of lawmakers than about any single bill or other issue.
Whiney Harry spent the day in Las Vegas, opening our new self-supporting public gun range.
Palin quipped that Whiney Harry had "gone to the gun range because he knew he was going to be fired", which of course was met with a rousing ovation.
Based on first hand observation and interaction, there is a substantial movement in America to defeat all incumbents come November.
America's sense of fair play has been violated, and that is a great motivation.
Oh... and all that "tea party violence and hate" you hear about?
The only problem reported all day Saturday in Searchlight was when a few Harry Reid supporters pelted the tea party busses with eggs as they drove through town.
Yep, those tea party people are hateful and violent.... all three dozen of them!
Maybe CNN meant "dozens of eggs" ?
UPDATE!
Here's a photo that you probably won't see on CNN!
SECOND UPDATE!!
One of the egg throwers has been tentatively identified as Brian Dimarzio, the Field Director of the Nevada Democrat Party and a former AFL-CIO Union Leader. You can see the videos HERE
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"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate." ---- Isaiah Berlin
"The primary symptom of a controller is denial." ---- Keith Miller
