Everybody was teabag dum-pin’
It was really sum-thin’

Demonstrating proper tea bagging technique.

America’s Lil’ Ray of Rageshine, Michelle Malkin , reports that there were "Tea Parties" all over this great land of ours…but you’d never know it because the MSM is keeping the truth from us. The truth being small gatherings of disaffected middle-class white people with poorly made signs milling about and looking like they’re waiting for the fried dough stand to open before they go to the livestock exhibition.

Not exactly "if it bleeds, it leads", MSMy speaking.

But don’t take my word for it, let Michelle and her minions tell the story:

Liveblogging the Lexington KY Tea Party; Ridgefield CT Tea Party protesters say “DUMP DODD;” 3k in Orlando; Raleigh NC represents

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 21, 2009 02:20 PM

Scroll for updates…3,000 in Orlando…no national wire coverage of these thousands of protesters across the country, but AP covers measly anti-war protest turnout in Washington…

There are between 300-500 peaceful, grass-roots activists protesting out-of-control government spending in Lexington KY. *Update: Organizer Leland Conway e-mails that final tally on attendance at Lexington is 1,200-1500.*

Reader Eric is liveblogging.

For those who are not "down" with today’s "hip" "lingo", when Michelle says "Raleigh NC represents", she’s being all "gangsta" and shit, yo.

But never mind that, the important part of the story is these "grass-roots activists" are simple people just like you and me; farmers, shopkeepers, truck drivers, clerical workers,  bikini waxers, and housewives, many of whom could use a good waxing. All of them brought together by shared concerns and word of mouth and …what? Oh, this?

That would be Angry Old Man Who Shouts At Clouds speaking from a stage set up by Newsradio 630 WLAP, local Lexington wingnut radio which helped promote the people’s uprising or tea-bagging or reach-arounding or whatever this was, which makes the whole demonstration a little less grassrooty and a little more station promotey.

This is not to say that there weren’t actual patriots and Going Galters in the audience and that people only showed up to score promotional WLAP t-shirts, Taylor Swift tickets, or two-for-one de-chiggering coupons good at Dub’s Chigger-B-Gon. And, by Gawd, we salute you tea baggers…