Wannabes: Teabaggers Draw Less Than Half of ‘08 Spice Girls Reunion Tour

After all the hype, how many Teabaggers showed up yesterday? Nate’s got the numbers, and it isn’t pretty.

Based on news accounts of 306 "Tea Party" protests in different cities across the country yesterday, I get a cumulative attendance of 262,025, with a fair number of (probably mostly smaller) events still unaccounted for.

That’s just embarrassing.

Even with all of that free broadcast media and all of those fatcat backers, the Teabaggers didn’t come close to matching the turnout of recent actual grassroots protests.

And as a point of reference, more than twice as many Americans wanted to see the Spice Girls in concert last year. Put another way, more Americans saw "Race to Witch Mountain" last weekend than all those white people who showed up at "Teabag: The Movie" yesterday.

Now that’s something kinda funny.

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