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TEA PARTY SIGNS OF THE TIMES, from Sissy Willis. Here?s one. I also like ?Barney Lied, Our Equity ?

By Glenn Reynolds

TEA PARTY SIGNS OF THE TIMES, from Sissy Willis. Here’s one. I also like “Barney Lied, Our Equity Died.”

UPDATE: Wizbang:

Naturally liberals are branding the turnout of half a million Tea Party supporters on Wednesday as a “failure.” But so far, the nascent Tea Party movement has either matched or exceeded the turnouts reported for the first liberal “meet-ups” that were the precursors to the Netroots phenomenon of 2004 - 2008.

Of course those meetings garnered massive nationwide press coverage by a news media desperate to report anything that might damage the Bush Administration. The April 16 New York Times, by contrast, failed to publish a single word about the Tea Parties.

It’s all about the narrative.

ANOTHER UPDATE: “Obama’s rhetoric convinces me that tea parties have legs.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 17, 2009 (boomark / email).