Staging a protest with just three days notice against a target that will be mostly vacant that day is hardly a recipe for success, but that’s the route the Media Research Center has chosen.
In an attempt to take its dishonest “Tell the Truth!” campaign to the next level, the MRC will team up with Tea Party 365 to mount a protest on Sunday outside the New York headquarters of the New York Times and NBC, which will involve “grassroots activists” who “will picket w/ ‘Don’t Believe the Liberal Media’ signs” and “Four giant billboard trucks circling the protest.”
But note the date on the MRC press release: Oct. 14. That’s just three days before the event. A three-day notice for a protest intended for national notice — it wasn’t even promoted on the MRC’s own NewsBusters blog until late afternoon on Oct. 15 — doesn’t exactly bode well for attendance, and it suggests the apparently improvisational nature of the protest, seemingly designed to ride the coattails of the tea party movement.
And the idea that the MRC is “grassroots” is utterly laughable.An organization that has taken millions of dollars from the likes of Richard Mellon Scaife and other prominent right-wing funders is hardly “grassroots.”