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Tens of thousands attend broad protest of government in nation's capital
WASHINGTON -- A sea of protesters filled the west lawn of the Capitol and spilled onto the National Mall yesterday in the largest rally against President Barack Obama since he took office, a culmination of a summer-long season of protests that began with opposition to a health care overhaul and grew into a broader dissatisfaction with government.
On a cloudy and cool day, the demonstrators came from all corners of the country, waving American flags and handwritten signs explaining the root of their frustrations. Their anger stretched well beyond the health care legislation moving through Congress, with shouts of support for gun rights, lower taxes and a smaller government.
But as they sang verse after verse of patriotic hymns like "God Bless America," sharp words of profane and political criticism were aimed at Mr. Obama and Congress.
Read more: Tens of thousands attend broad protest of government in nation's capital
A million march to US Capitol to protest against 'Obama the socialist' per London's Daily Mail
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213056/Up-million-march-US-Capitol-protest-Obamas-spending-tea-party-demonstration.html#ixzz0R5pvhVgw
Easily the most intentionally underreported story of the weekend... and on a slow news weekend at that! Note that the London Daily Mail's online headline conjectured that the number of marchers was closer to a million than tens of thousands. I understand that similar comments were made by a Paris newspaper. Any thinking individual can see from the picture above that the number is easily in the hundreds of thousands. But, the only American TV reporting of this major protest was decent coverage by Fox, some coverage by CNN, demeaning coverage by ABC, and the sound of crickets by CBS, and Obama's sponsors, NBC and MSNBC! However, they didn't miss Obama's 100th edition of his healthcare lies in front of 15,000 Kool Aid drinkers!
Where has honest journalism gone in America?
I couldn't be there, but I'd like to thank my fellow patriots for their good work this weekend in Washington DC!
I don't think much about it at all really, other than regarding their agenda as being on the same level as the teabaggers. Both groups seem to have too many wingnuts involved in their activities to be taken seriously enough to actually have an impact on government policies.Seems this is a bit more than mere "Right wing fringe" groups.... What do you all think of this turnout
I don't think much about it at all really, other than regarding their agenda as being on the same level as the teabaggers. Both groups seem to have too many wingnuts involved in their activities to be taken seriously enough to actually have an impact on government policies.
From what I can see it makes for a good photo-op and extra work for the grounds crew, but I doubt it represents much more than a flock of sheep doing the bidding of organized special interest groups like ALL.
And yet those numbers surpassed war protests, the million man march, and the million mom march against the second amendment........hmm, interesting.Kind of a small turnout for what is supposed to represent a "Groundswell".
Oh well....maybe the next time.
I don't think much about it at all really, other than regarding their agenda as being on the same level as the teabaggers. Both groups seem to have too many wingnuts involved in their activities to be taken seriously enough to actually have an impact on government policies.
From what I can see it makes for a good photo-op and extra work for the grounds crew, but I doubt it represents much more than a flock of sheep doing the bidding of organized special interest groups like ALL.
Kind of a small turnout for what is supposed to represent a "Groundswell".
Oh well....maybe the next time.
If you read the teabagger and wingnut terminology I used I got the point across anyway.I find people who use the term "tea-baggers" in the same camp as "wingnuts" I stopped reading there.
Seems this is a bit more than mere "Right wing fringe" groups.... What do you all think of this turnout, to me, it indicates a possible out of touchness with this administration.
If you read the teabagger and wingnut terminology I used I got the point across anyway.
Lowball figures are 60K, for the one city.
Compare that to the common attendance of war/anti-Bush protests.
Or, just continue seeing what you want to see.
Lowball figures are 60K, for the one city.
Compare that to the common attendance of war/anti-Bush protests.
And yet those numbers surpassed war protests, the million man march, and the million mom march against the second amendment........hmm, interesting.
And yet those numbers surpassed war protests, the million man march, and the million mom march against the second amendment........hmm, interesting.
That you are no moderate and hold liberty minded Americans in contempt?
Yeah, I got that point. :roll:
Appeals to popularity don't mean a thing.
A million march to US Capitol to protest against 'Obama the socialist' per London's Daily Mail
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213056/Up-million-march-US-Capitol-protest-Obamas-spending-tea-party-demonstration.html#ixzz0R5pvhVgw
Easily the most intentionally underreported story of the weekend... and on a slow news weekend at that! Note that the London Daily Mail's online headline conjectured that the number of marchers was closer to a million than tens of thousands. I understand that similar comments were made by a Paris newspaper. Any thinking individual can see from the picture above that the number is easily in the hundreds of thousands. But, the only American TV reporting of this major protest was decent coverage by Fox, some coverage by CNN, demeaning coverage by ABC, and the sound of crickets by CBS, and Obama's sponsors, NBC and MSNBC! However, they didn't miss Obama's 100th edition of his healthcare lies in front of 15,000 Kool Aid drinkers!
Where has honest journalism gone in America?
I couldn't be there, but I'd like to thank my fellow patriots for their good work this weekend in Washington DC!
Hmm, didn't see a number of 60k anywhere in the estimates, and looking at the crowd it was probably bigger than that, but the million man march was never settled on numbers, and, it's goal was to meet 1+ million, but, like most of liberalism, the goals were bigger than the results. Care to address the rest of my point or do you want to just be a hyperpartisan in the traditional Disneydude way?Ahhh.....the conservative estimate for the Million Man March was 400K. Other estimates put the figure at over a million.
I don't know how you think 60k numbers surpass 400k-1 million+:doh
Hmm, didn't see a number of 60k anywhere in the estimates, and looking at the crowd it was probably bigger than that, but the million man march was never settled on numbers, and, it's goal was to meet 1+ million, but, like most of liberalism, the goals were bigger than the results. Care to address the rest of my point or do you want to just be a hyperpartisan in the traditional Disneydude way?
Estimated numbers are that, not relevant, the point now is that this indeed come closer to it's goal than the million man march, and the turnout was greater than those of the other examples surely, I seriously doubt there was a turnout of even 400k for the MMM since it was reported as a massive failure at the time, by the same press that did NOT report this gathering.The National Park Service always provides an estimate. The estimate for this march was 60k. That is a conservative estimate. The same conservative estimate by the National Park Service for the Million man march was 400k.
So that should put it into perspective.
There probably were more than 60k there, but it is still a rather disappointing turn-out for an event that was supposed to be much larger.
As far as addressing the "rest of your point".....I went back and re-read your post....there is no "rest of the point". Your entire point was based on the fallacy that this "crowd" exceeded other marches. There's nothing left to respond to.
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