One of the realities of American politics is that the paid machine of distorting anti-science syndrome suffering haters of a livable economic system works the interpreters, HARD! When the Tea Party mobilizes 400 people in front of a scowling Abraham Lincoln at the Reflecting Pool at Faux News' Beck and call, America's real media shows up ... in force. To see one salaried journalist for every 10-20 Tea Party activists isn't an unusual ratio. Front page stories, CNN lead items, radio items galore will all result. And, media outlets will be deluged with complaints that they didn't give this "mass event" adequate coverage.
10,000 of America's most impassioned youth come to Washington, DC ... meet with the President ... have people being arrested at the Congress ... and reminds one of the question "if a tree fell in the forest and noone heard, did it make a noise".