@theprof
I don't think you're understanding what I'm saying ...
I never once heard anyone question the motives of the AIG protest or the news media that covered it even though all of the protestors were paid to be there by a highly political organization, or the fact that there were dozens of far larger grass-roots "Tea-Party" protests going on the same day that received no coverage. At the same time, you don't question the protests that happened at the G20 meeting even though most of them are organized by heavily political organizations and quite a few of the protestors were paid to be there.
If you look at the popularity of books like Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny, Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism, Ronald Pestritto's American Progressivism and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged as well as the growing popularity of talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck it should be clear that there has been a massive growth in interest in conservative though recently due to the actions of the government (starting with the last year of the Bush Administration). As many people are outraged and willing to protest as any political movement in the past 20 years and the fact that conservative commentators were able to motivate these people to protest does not change this fact ...
