NY Slimes called it "Thousands...
WaPo called it Tens of Thousands...
... but it took a respected British paper to call it what it was: Millions!
This quote was typical:Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
People were chanting "enough, enough" and "We the People." Others yelled "You lie, you lie!" and "Pelosi has to go," referring to California congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.
Like countless others at the rally, Joan Wright, 78, of Ocean Pines, Md., sounded angry. "I'm not taking this crap anymore," said Wright, who came by bus to Washington with 150 like-minded residents of Maryland's Eastern Shore.
"I don't like the health-care [plan]. I don't like the czars. And I don't like the elitists telling us what we should do or eat."(Source: Daily Mail)
Matt Welch, Editor in Chief of Reason Magazine was there and gives us his libertarian impressions:
Big crowd. Do not believe any description that says "thousands." If there weren't at least a healthy six figures there, I will permanently revoke my head-counting license.How do we know everybody behaved themselves? Because if there had been one swastika or racist comment, it would be plastered wall-to-wall, 24/7 by Obama's state-run media lapdogs at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC...
Of the people I ended up talking to, the general vibe was that they were conservative, and then either Republican, formerly Republican, or independent.
Every single one had unkind words to say about George W. Bush's spending and governing record, though none had protested him. None expressed trust in Republicans, and most preferred a "throw-all-the-bums-out" strategy.
All but one did not care about Obama's birth certificate controversy, and those I asked thought it was foolish to bring guns to political gatherings.
What a fun loving crowd! Unlike the angry, drug addled rabble on the left that protests anything their agitation leaders with bullhorns tell them to.
Notice how the US state-controlled media has really played this down? I guess protest is not authentic when done by people with jobs who pay their own way, bathe regularly and don't throw feces or burn flags.
Here's a CNN report I found on Breitbart TV. The reporter lady can barely be heard over the crowd shouting "Tell the truth!" and "Glenn Beck!"
4 comments:
Well...the state-run media is being more irrelevant by the day, so they need to underreport to make sure they remain eligible for the next stimulus package.
I personally believe that far more people do care about the birth certificate issue then care to admit it. Most people I have spoken to want to know the truth.
You may be right, Reverend, but the left has used the media, which they own lock, stock and barrel to make it look like a kook issue.
I think there are more productive things to go after him on, like his communist czars, spending, big government...
The greater oddity is why the media treats "birthers" as kookier than the "truthers". As if a vast secret conspiracy of government workers and officials is more plausible than a politician lying about his birthplace.
While I lend little credence to either conspiracy theory, the lying politician is certainly more reasonable than keeping a vast secret conspiracy secret.
~Finntann~
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