GAY PATRIOT ON MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARDS:

After reading that anti-globalisation/anti-war protests in London drew “about 4,000 protesters,” I thought that number of protesters looked familiar, so I decided to check how many showed up at last month’s “Tea Party” protesting higher taxes and increased government spending in Cincinnati. Looks like I was onto something. According to the local paper, “about 4,000 protesters showed up.”

Crowds about the same size should generate about the same amount of coverage, right?

On the one hand, the Tea Party protesters would undoubtedly get more attention if they broke things and hurt people, the way the lefty anti-globo / “peace” protesters did. On the other hand, these protests at the G-20 meetings are a stale ritual now, while the Tea Party phenomeon is something new and, presumably, thus more newsworthy.

UPDATE: But there’s always the alternative media. Reader Pat Birmingham writes from Hilton Head, South Carolina: “About 300 people attended a tea party in Bluffton yesterday afternoon. The gathering was polite, and a half dozen folks carrying Obama signs were ignored for the most part. The only drawback is that this year’s crop of no see-ums are big enough that you can see um.” Here’s a pic. These things just keep happening across the country, in one Congressional district after another.