I had CNN on for some reason, and I noticed they were covering a Tea Bagger rally in DC. I was blissfully unaware of it until I looked up and saw the shots of the CNN reporter in front of a crowd filled with people in bizarre costumes and embarrassing hats.

Okay, I said, I’ll bite, what message are they sending today? So I glanced up again, and lo and behold, I caught sight of a single African American face at the Big Do!

It was the CNN reporter’s.

However, behind him was the usual sea of white faces (and a couple of not white faces on stage, but waiting for that took some patience) and several signs. My eye went to the most prominent one that read– among the smaller, childish scrawl that was undecipherable– “Insane … Hussein”.  I can’t imagine why they referred to our president solely by his middle name.

I was away from my computer, so I couldn’t grab a screen shot of the crowd or the signs. I did, however, get the one below from CNN’s online steaming. Notice who is funding the rally (hint: FreedomWorks).  Oddly, the online live feed isn’t showing the audience at all, which means no screen grab for you.

I Googled the event, and oddly, there is very little there. Most of the entries link to articles leading up to it (coming soon!), but there is next to nothing linking to news of the rally itself. That may change, but as of now, I had trouble finding much.

Here’s all I could get (I intentionally avoided grabbing a shot of Andrew Breitbart. I have no idea who the man I did catch is), a typical camera angle of the event. Just speakers and singers, no view of the Tea Baggers who attended:

If any crowd shots come my way, I’ll add them.

Sidebar: The musical performers are abysmal.

How can these people sit through cacophony like that?  Oh, and the bands were bad, too. See, that was a joke about the noise coming from the Tea Bagger speakers themselves, see. But I digress…

CNN spent some time reporting on this shindig. They then expanded the conversation to include Sharron Angle, including video, giving her some serious air time, too. If you are wondering if CNN felt it was equally important to spotlight Harry Reid and any appearances he might have made recently, the answer is no.

The overall theme of the rally is, “We will remember in November.” After witnessing some of the entertainment and speeches, my feeling is they may very well be better off if they forget.

UPDATE: CNN’s Shannon Travis now calling this the Tea Baggers’ self-proclaimed “hostile takeover” to purge the Republican party from moderate Republicans.

I got screen shots this time, including the Hussein sign:

PLEASE NOTE SPELLING OF THE WORD “INELIGIBLE”.