Friday, March 20, 2009  Wingnuts cry "hoax!" over Westin video
The flap about Tea Party protesters staying at one of
Cincinnati's most expensive hotels has legs - or at least it
would if the pop-up media would pick it up (which of course it
won't). It's gotten quite a bit of play in the blogosphere.  I
was there filming it, and I caught the BTPers entering the
swanky Westin Hotel. From that alone, it's clear they either
stayed at the Westin or tromped through its lobby despite not
staying there. Others have pointed out that the Westin parking
garage is different from the Fountain Square garage (despite
what the BTPers have claimed), so if the latter was true, they
must have been using the Westin garage despite not staying
there.  When some of them posted nasty comments in which they
stopped not even an inch short of boasting about staying at the
Westin, all bets were off for those who claimed they were just
using the garage. Clearly, many of these so-called "grassroots"
protesters had lodged at this expensiv