Since anytime a half dozen blue hairs with American flags and Palin 2012 patches sewn onto their fanny packs gather together in one place to scream about keeping government out of Medicare, we have wall-to-wall coverage on the news channels, I’m betting that there will be tons of media coverage of Netroots Nation in Vegas. Hell, I bet CNN will broadcast live!
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CalD
…or at least MSNBC.
atlliberal
Yes even C-span has wall to wall coverage of CPAC I’m sure they’ll have cameras at NN right?
stevie314159
Have you thought about carrying a sign around comparing Sarah Palin to Evita Peron?
Church Lady
No one cares about a group of DFHs, including the politicians they support. I thought you already knew that.
Kryptik
We’ll be lucky if they bother with a cheap webcam stream in there.
Tom Hilton
Has anyone pointed out that the Netroots Nation folks are apparently able to cope with the Las Vegas heat that was just too much for the Tea Party?
Bob L
You’re funny John.
Repeat after me;
1,000 conservatives with badly spelled signs = major game changing political movement
100,000 liberal net activist at annual convention = isolated, out of the mainstream extremists and crazies.
ruemara
DFHs, even less visible than elves shagging bigfoot on a unicorn.
Kryptik
@Tom Hilton:
But that just means most of them are probably swarthy brown people here illegally from other countries where it’s hotter. The fact that the Tea Partiers couldn’t stand the heat means they’re REAL ‘Mericans!
Bobby Thomson
In defense of not televising NN, I would not wish panel discussions on my worst enemy.
Don’t know why they bother televising random crazy people, though.
Omnes Omnibus
@stevie314159: That would be unfair to Eva Peron who was at least interested in women’s suffrage.
danimal
The disparity in coverage really is a shame and a crystal clear indicator of actual media bias.
Bobby Thomson
On the other hand, you can be damn sure there will be coverage of the
TeabaggerRepublicanConfederate convention in October.stevie314159
Don’t forget to exercise your 21st Amendment remedies.
Cap'n Phealy
Nothing will ever be foolproof until we stop building better fools.
Cat Lady
The teabagger signs are way more entertaining, make the idiot cable reporters feel superior, and fit easily into the predigested 2010 horse race narrative – win win win. The discussions at NN would require a reporter to understand policy, feel inferior and not have a one minute analysis ready for their idiotic audiences – lose lose lose.
Sir Nose'D
@Cat Lady: Word.
El Cid
From what I have seen, typically the billion dollar media only cover liberal and left activities in detail when they’re useful to portray them attacking other liberals or Democrats in general.
Otherwise, why care about them? Who cares if 100 million gather to protest a fraudulently justified war, instead of putting on the TV box images of 3 freaktards begging to blow Hussein up and saying ‘support the troops’?
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Kryptik:
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the teapot, I say.
Kryptik
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
But Iced Tea is what real ‘Mericans drink, don’t you know, not that silly stuff with the bags and the leaves. That’s why God ‘n Jesus Christ invented coffee!
NonyNony
@Bobby Thomson:
Have you not noticed that “televising random crazy people” is pretty much the plan for network television these days? Especially when the random crazy people say and do horrible things?
We’re talking about a nation where enough people enjoy watching “Wife Swap” that it keeps getting picked up for renewal. The fact that the plan has migrated from the entertainment side and into the news side should pretty much tell you what the television people think news is for.
Bob L
@Cat Lady: Also the spectacle of a bunch of liberals sitting down and having boring policy discussions would under mine the media mem that both sides are the just the same and net roots = tea baggers. That would turn the news narrative into a bunch of policy wonks and concerned citizens verses a mob of howling monkeys with dyed hair and that just doesn’t sell infotament air time.
Southern Beale
I actually did the math on this one. If the corporate media were to cover Netroots Nation to the same degree they covered the 600 who showed up in Nashville for the first Tea Bag convention, there would be 650 media registered to cover 2,000 progressives at NN.
Don’t think that’s happening. Don’t think we will be getting front page stories in the New York Times and WaPo. Don’t think the national narrative of “a progressive uprising” will come out of this.
But hey, that’s just me. I could be wrong.
Southern Beale
Don’t know why they bother televising random crazy people, though.
Clearly written by someone who has never watched a reality TV program in their lives.
Cat Lady
@Bob L:
The irony being that both the teabaggers and the netroots hold the media in utter contempt. You’re right – since the teabaggers are incoherent racist nutjobs, and the netroots are educated thoughtful policy wonks, tee vee demands heat over light every. single. time.
El Tiburon
Liberals do not represent the Real America.
Liberals smell and look funny, i.e: Markos Moulitsas. He even has a funny name, kind of like a fererner.
Now, if a DFH were to throw a rock through a Starbucks window, now we are talking some prime-time coverage.
KG
@Bobby Thomson: I was going to comment on the “why do they televise crazy people” question, but looks like I’ve been beaten to it. It’s really about what makes for good television, and the truth is now, always has been, and likely always shall be that crazy people doing stupid shit makes for good television.
the farmer
@ #3 stevie314159
I think you’re looking for Isabel Peron in this case.
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Jay in Oregon
@Tom Hilton:
This was brought up several times during the actual thread about the TeaBagger convention being scrubbed.
Jay in Oregon
@Southern Beale:
Or seen coverage of any sci-fi/comic convention where they have to wade through hundreds of normal people to find the hot chick in the Nav’i costume (or the overweight guy in the Klingon costume).
ruemara
@Jay in Oregon:
to be fair, 1. the effort in body paint is laudatory and 2. she is hotter than an overweight sweaty fanboy (or girl, I don’t judge).
Mnemosyne
@NonyNony:
I had no idea “Wife Swap” was still on the air. Those must be the same people that made “Two and a Half Men” the number one primetime comedy or whatever the fuck it is.
Michael
@NonyNony:
It would be a lot more watchable if the swap was truly the real deal for two weeks.
Michael
Upon review of your link, I’m happy to announce that I would hit that like the fist of an angry god….
Jay in Oregon
@ruemara:
Yes, but my point is, freaks and geeks sell. :)
Supergirl and Wonder Woman is another good example — I saw this picture many, many times on the internets.