VIDEO: Thousands descend on Phoenix to protest immigration law. Where’s the coverage?

Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2010, 12:06 pm by GottaLaff
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Update: I finally found a photo. AP/Jakub Mosur

Gee, that’s funny. 50,000 people are protesting against the Papers Please racial profiling law, yet I’ve seen nary a frame of that on the Tee Vee Machine. On the National Day of Action Against 1070. Imagine that.

Could it be that one needs to be a Tea Potty crazy in order to get publicity? Or have big corporations and organizations like FreedomWorks backing you? Sure seems that way.

Protesters from several states swarmed the streets of Phoenix on Saturday to rally against Arizona’s controversial immigration law.

Sarahi Uribe, one of the organizers for the National Day of Action, estimated 50,000 people were expected to turn out for a five-mile march to the state Capitol.

Odd, no photos from CNN (where I linked) of the 50K people either, yet when the Tea Potty has a rally with a couple of hundred, bang! Images all over the Tee Vee Machine and on every website.

That’s a real head scratcher, isn’t it?

Kidding. It’s not. Not at all.

Hey look! An Arizona site has a video. They must be a real news resource:

By getting rid of Latinos, they get rid of (mostly) Democratic voters. Hey, that sounds familiar! What does that remind me of… ? Oh yeah. Union busting.

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  • guest

    No need for 50,000 – the last teabagger protest I remember there being wide and intense coverage of was one in which the press outnumbered the protesters.

  • thepoliticalcat

    I was just thinking that the TP rallies have had fewer people than our Gay Pride parades every year, even during the worst years of the AIDS crisis when so many in our community were dead or dying. And they get DAYS of bleating adoration. Fucking ridiculous.

  • Duke Brady

    They're mostly Spanish so by default they already have funny costumes and racist signs.

  • http://twitter.com/BoomerJack Jack M. Boardman

    Oh yeah! Lamestream media at work! #TCOT

  • http://www.bubbleidiots.blogspot.com H M Bascom

    I noticed the same incredible lack of coverage. Bet if 50,000 teabaggers managed to tear themselves away from Fox News and their Twitter accounts the media would be all over it.

  • waimeawitch

    I guess they need funny costumes and racist signs to get attention. I'll email CNN also!

  • Lii

    EMAIL CNN! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. GREAT POINT. GLAD TO SEE THIS COVERAGE OF THE PROTESTS.