A Movement

Reuters reports that the 55,000 people attended the protest rally against the governor's attempt to destroy the public employee unions Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin and that of those 55,000 attendees, only 5000 were tea partiers, who were brought in on 10 buses to protest the protesters.  (Bussed in, hmmm . . . kind of reminds me of November 2000 Bush Gore election when protesters were being boarded onto buses in Atlanta, bound for Florida to intimidate election officials down there.)  On Friday, 30,000 people were present in Madison to protest the governor’s plan.  I recall all the media attention that the tea partiers received  in their early days when only 17, 25, 60, but never more than 100 people, would show up at tea party rallies.  Despite the small crowds, the media dubbed it a movement, and became so obsessed with it that their coverage actually created a movement.  Without the obsessive media coverage, none of those people would have bothered to attend those rallies.

So, why hasn’t the media declared this a revolution, revolt or populist uprising?