Atlas is Shrugging: A Tea Party Roundup

Well, I'm travelling today to Fresno to spend the weekend with family, so here's more Tea Party blogging to tide things over until this evening.

This is one of my favorite signs from the "Orange County Tax Day Tea Party":

The Los Angeles Times finally did a big story on the protests. But notice how the paper continues the media's leftist framing of the events by spinning the rallies as a right-wing fringe movement, starting with the title of the report: "Republicans Stage Tea Party' Protests Against Obama."

So, let's check out some of the bloggers covering the story. Doug Ross covers the CNN/Susan Roesgen controversy, in "Tea Parties, Code Pink and the sickness of the MSM":

Nearly 200,000 Americans showed up to protest high taxes in hundreds of cities around the country today.The New York Times and The Boston Globe ignored "Tea Parties" altogether. ABC and CBS reporters were nowhere to be found. NBC, on the other hand, simply made obscene references - using a tea-related colloquialism - to express its corporate disgust with America's founding principles.

Doug has the transcribed Susan Roesgen's totally unprofessional "interview" with a Tea Party dad at the Chicago rally (see also, "CNN Correspondent Claims Tea Parties 'Anti-Government,' 'Anti-CNN'").

Truly unreal...

More from around the nation:

* Infidels Are Cool, "Pics from the Santa Ana Tea Party."

* Michelle Malkin, "Massive: Tax Day Tea Party USA; Updated."

* Midnight Blue Says, "April 15th - Tea Party Day."

* Moe Lane, "Back from the DC Tax Day Tea Party."

* Nice Deb, "Kansas City Tax Day Tea Party."

* Paco Enterprises, "Tea Party, Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C."

* Pat's Daily Rants, "Anti Tax Tea Day Wrap Up/I'm a Right Wing Terrorist?"

* Point of a Gun, "From The Party."

* Pundit & Pundette, "DC Tea Party pic's *updated and expanded*."

* Robert Stacy McCain, "'Bama Tea: How Big Is Huge?"

* Samantha Speaks, "The Tea Party."

* SWAC Girl, "Silent Majority No More! Staunton's tea party in Gypsy Hill Park."

I wish I could post more!

But I'll be back online later tonight.