Re: James Wolcott: 'I Don't Think the Tea Parties Are Going to Catch Fire'...

Shoot.

I can't even call this a badge of honor. This guy James Wolcott's just too damned stupid (Google link here):

Who is James Wolcott? Apart from being a wannabe intellectual with a sinecure at perhaps the East Coast's most liberal society magazine, he's one who probably shouldn't be commenting on politics. YOU. JUST. CAN'T. BE. MORE. TOTALLY. F**KING. WRONG.

Indeed, this is someone who should just STFU:

What a clown.

I'll have more on both of these jokers, SEK and Wolcott, but a word or two on the latter's cluelessness on the tea parties: The movement's become the dominant grassroots phenomonon of early 21st century. The White House is scared to death of them, and Wolcott's beloved Soros media-machine can't touch 'em. Recall that Media Matters, to discredit the event, claimed that last year's 9/12 tea party march on Washington reached "just" 70,000 activists. Of course, Charlie Martin's rigorously objective crowd estimate concluded that "probably well more than 850,000" were in the crowd.

And just today - roughly a year after Wolcott's lame bloviations above - thousands turned out for the Searchlight tea party, where Sarah Palin gave a barnburner. See Las Vegas Now, "Thousands Gather in Searchlight for Tea Party Rally," and Fox News, "Tea Party Targets Reid, Health Care Law in 'Showdown in Searchlight'."

And in my in-box, from Tea Party Express:

Crowd Estimates Range from 9,000 - 30,000 People for "Showdown in Searchlight"

Crowd estimates from 9,000 - 30,000+ people for today's Tea Party Express "Showdown in Searchlight" event featuring Governor Palin.

Members of the press corps estimated the crowd size between 9,000 - 14,000 but the security and crowd control firm working the event estimated 30,000+.

Lots of Searchlight pictures at Nice Deb.

I'll have more tomorrow.