Why did the media downplay the biker turnout?

If they were black bikers there would undoubtedly have been active drug dealing, use, drinking, fighting, assaults, probably a murder to report on... probably not so much on the rape... well... unless it was night time. Ever been to black bike week in MB? I have. It's a show.

That isn't the point. These patriots were absolutely ignored by the MSM. Fox included. The OP asks a question I find complicated by Fox's silence.

 

The last time I went to school,1.2 million was a lot bigger number then 50 thousand.

 

What exactly was the big story? A bunch of bikers counter protesting a Muslim protest that barely even happened?

 

You don't think that 1.2 million Americans citizens,of all colors and creeds, joining together to remember those who lost their lives that day, and those who have lost their lives since fighting terrorism is worthy news?

 

12 code pink people show up to protest bush and it was on every nightly news show... 1.2 million bikers come from around the nation to protest the muslim protest, the presidents lack of leadership, and honor the victims of 9/11, our first responders and our warriors... and the media goes limp.

If you checked out their facebook page, they were there in defiance of this administration. THAT is newsworthy. A million politically motivated people gathering in one location IS (*)(*)(*)(*)ING NEWS. That is a LOT of (*)(*)(*)(*)ing people. They were respectful, and orderly, did not leave (*)(*)(*)(*) and (*)(*)(*)(*) and trash everywhere like OWS. They didn't squat for a month and trash the town. The media fawned over these jobless idiots.

 

Ok but I'm not really buying your narrative that it wasn't covered. A google search of "2 million biker march rally" bring up a ton of articles, videos and news stories... what kind of coverage were you expecting?

 

How much attention is "the media" - whether your ideological bias causes you to regard it as liberal, conservative, or centrist - supposed to give to symbolic traffic?

Amidst Americans' numerous and varied respectful commemorations of the horrors of 9/11/01, was there anything of substantive significance in folks riding around that made it especially newsworthy?

If so, what? Why are the pantywaists all aflutter?

If you search Google News today for "motorcycle rally 9/11 washington", you get over 43,000 links. Is that not sufficient?




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The kind you don't have to go searching for. Hell, when the Travyon Martin shiet happen.. hell, when the duke lacrosse incident happen. You didn't have to do any search, the liberals and progressives invited themselves into our homes via cable TV.. stalked us at the bus stop by having newspapers print awful and misleading headlines.... and filled our airwaves with racial hate and biases.

That's the type of coverage... not the type you have to actively search for using google..




So some single hispanic guy shoots a black man who allegedly is a thug, but yet day after day, we are drench with the hate from with the media. heck, you probably didn't even need a tv or computer to be told how "wrong" it was. It was so "in your face"...



But when a million bikers descend on washington to protest muslims, you have to "google it"????? something is wrong with this picture....

 

It always comes back to some black thing for you doesn't it? There was obviously plenty of coverage. Maybe just not as many people as you think give a (*)(*)(*)(*) about a bunch of bikers waving flags with no narrative other than some sort of anti-muslim rhetoric.

 

I's unfortunate that phobic hatemongers try to hijack a respectful and patriotic commemoration and pretend that it was some sort of ideological orgy.

Bigots on parade to exploit a national tragedy it was not.

Remember the victims, and stifle your seething prejudices for the occasion. It's the decent thing to do.

 

That eliminates every progressive in the country, then.

 

I think they deserved more attention than the dozen "Code Pink" protesters who were featured daily on every liberal media news channel back when Bush was President.

 

No... nbc4 IN DC posted a minute and a half you could not gather the size from and called it a few thousand.

Here is USNews. They covered it... sort of. Perhaps THIS provides some insight as to why it got almost 0 attention, and no tv time.

So... their story of the 2 million biker rally takes an interesting approach to covering a biker rally... by covering the muslim protest and lend their views legitimacy... and some heckler is associated somehow with people riding in a procession through DC. The bikers... were rolling.

 

Coming from a supporter of the failed Muslim protest that was scheduled on that day.

 

Let me be more specific for you: Not many white LIBERAL old men running msnbc, cnn, abc, chicago tribune, LA times, NPR, etc., etc., care about a " bunch of bikers..." who happen to number in the millions.. It doesn't fit their narrative.

Hell, I'm not black and I'm not white and I definitely can see when white old men who run liberal news rags, etc. are being biased.... good try though.

 

I'd love to see our resident progressive apologists take a crack at this one. Actually, that's not necessary, I know exactly what they will do — they'll try and pretend that they, Obama, Sharpton, MSNBC, and the rest of the progressive axis would have been just as upset, made just as much noise, if Marley Lion's black killer would have been released after being questioned by the police. They will actually pretend that they believe this!

 

The fact that you must be blatantly dishonest is revelatory. I never commented on the Muslim rally, although it obviously was not in support of terrorism as some might contrive to misrepresent it.

My understanding is that the motorcycle rally was to honour the victims of 9/11/01 regardless of their various ethnicities, religions, races, political or gender preferences.

If you like to imagine that some victims were excluded, who and why?

 

Educate yourself regarding the facts first.

What does spewing your prejudices have to do with honouring the victims of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks?




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If the media had covered it, you would probably be better informed.

 

You mean there weren't any photos or videos of an assembly of that size.

Plus that link provided had an NBC link, so your suggestion that it wasn't covered is false. But feel free to complain about something that didn't happen.

 

You dont say? That might be where the sentence in quotations come from? And this one article was pointed out to have negative spin by alerting the audience first thing that the '2 million bikers' didnt make 2 million. No mention they had over a million which might be the largest assembly of people for a common cause in a long long time.

Patriotism just eats at your insides it seems.

 

You accuse someone or some group of being phobic hate mongers and bigots then tell us quelling our seething prejudices is the decent thing to do.
I'm not the first, assuredly not the last, but from the middle of the pack let me tell you your an @$$hole

 

Maybe no one offered free beer and snacks.

 

Too many White folks gathered in one area........leftist a don't like that.....

 

I can see it now....we should make it an annual event.


THUNDER IN D.C. !!!!!