They weren’t gunshots but the pops were startling nonetheless. As the eggs hit the windshield, visibility immediately became a problem.
Jerry Ragle was pretty shaken as he pulled the Tea Party Express bus to a stop. He had just prevented 40,000 lbs. of tour bus from crashing into 15 or 20 people.
I was on that Tea Party Express bus conducting some interviews for Right Network’s new show: “RUNNING”.
Throwing eggs may be funny when you are in high school, but none of us were laughing then.
We were just coming into Searchlight, Nevada for the Tea Party Express’s “Showdown in Searchlight.” They had picked Searchlight, Nevada as the kick-off location for their “Just Vote Them Out Tour” because it happens to be Harry Reid’s hometown.
We were just passing the Nugget Casino when the “drive by egging” occurred. Jerry got his bearings back, reported the incident to a female police officer and then took us the rest of the way in to the event.
Sarah Palin, Joe Wurzelbacher, Andrew Breitbart, Victoria Jackson, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons and others were scheduled to speak.
Cars were parked on the side of the highway for miles before the event location. After the event, traffic to Las Vegas was so backed up that it took us over an hour and a half to go five miles.
I don’t know the total number of people that were in attendance. I do know that the valley floor was packed full of people. The surrounding hilIs were packed full of people. The ridges above the hills were lined with people, and vehicles. People had camped out in RVs, trailers, motor homes, tents and cars. It would have taken a pretty big football stadium to hold all of those folks. The fact that this was a dusty bowl in the middle of nowhere made it all seem pretty surreal.
I may have missed Woodstock but I can say that I was at Searchlight.
It wasn’t till the MSM news reports started to come in that the sinking feeling of Déjà vu hit me….
CNN and Veronica Whitfield were among the first to report:
“Hundreds of people, at least dozens of people – we haven’t gotten a count of how many people turned out there…”
In 2005 and 2006, while Brown Berets and La Raza activists angrily intimidated, racially insulted and verbally abused people at border security protests, Janet Murgia and the MSM were going after Lou Dobbs and others for promoting hate speech.
In 2009, when 70,000 people were in the streets of Honduras supporting their Constitution the MSM led the world to believe that the streets of Tegucigalpa were literally on fire for the Left.
Now while tens of thousands gather in the desert and Harry Reid supporters launch their embryonic missiles at passenger buses…the MSM goes after Sarah Palin for verbiage.
What about the truth?
When does journalistic irresponsibility cross the line to bias? How heavy does bias have to become until it turns into propaganda?
The journalistic Rubicon hasn’t just been crossed, it has been erased.
Was there anger and the potential for violence in Searchlight, NV?
You betcha, smack dab in the core of Harry Reid’s supporters.
Will you read about it in the Times? Heck no.
What if Jerry Ragle hadn’t been an experienced, professional driver? What if that bus would have killed 15 or 20 people?
Would CNN and their journalistic brethren have gotten the numbers right then?
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