March on Washington: Video

[eagleseven]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VMXz6xGeqc&feature=channel_page]YouTube - 9/12 Taxpayer Tea Party March on Washington, DC[/ame]

Looks like fun...and quite a crowd!

 

[ScreamingEagle]

March on D.C. draws 2 million!

D.C. police estimates the crowd at 1.2 million. ABC News, however, reported this afternoon that the crowd was estimated at 2 million.

No matter which way you cut it, the size and scope of today's citizen march on Washington is an historic, groundbreaking event. Ordinary citizens who have been called 'the great silent majority' normally do not protest...at least not in public. That day is long gone.

The outrage expressed by normal, everyday citizens from across the nation at the town hall meetings in August is a case in point. Never before in recent history or memory have citizens been so clearly, visibly--and audibly--enraged by the actions of their government.

These are the people who go to work everyday, pay the bulk of the taxes of the country, raise families, and do their best to provide a safe environment for themselves in their local communities. They don't have time for 'political activism' as the hippies who protested the Viet Nam war.

Yet these dedicated men and women, at great personal expense, took the time to travel to Washington to make their voices heard in a tsunami of collective rage, mainly because they have become convinced that their elected leaders are not listening to them any longer.

And you bet they want 'change.' They want to replace most if not all of the Representatives and Senators in Congress for being hopelessly out of touch with the citizenry. They want a President who loves liberty, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and who reflects that love in the policies that are proposed. They don't want leftwing, radical extremists who espouse everything from forced abortions, healthcare rationing for the elderly, limiting free speech on radio, and other social and political engineering from bureaucrats who sit comfortably in their Washington offices while demanding that ordinary citizens in the heartland adhere to edicts that the politicians have no intention of following.

Further, these patriotic 'peasants with pitchforks and torches' clearly do not want the trillion-dollar proposals that add mind-boggling burdens to the national debt and budget deficit for generations to come. And they don't want their taxes raised to pay for the Washington elitists' insistence on unheard-of government spending that is sending the nation into debtor's quicksand to the tune of 400 billion dollars per month since Obama took office.

The question is, will Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Steny Hoyer, Charles Rangle, and Barack Obama get the message and alter the present course? Don't count on it.

But one thing is for sure. The sleeping giant of the 'great silent majority' has been awakened, and they aren't going anywhere.

http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m9d12-March-on-DC-draws-2-million

 

[Xenophon]

Page not found.

 

[eagleseven]

ScreamingEagle's link was broken. Here's the correct Examiner link...

[url=http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m9d12-March-on-DC-draws-2-million]March on D.C. draws 2 million![/URL]

Is a million-man protest still astro-turf?

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Page not found.

...link now corrected...thks

 

[Xenophon]

I have a similar thread to this going in the politics section.

Like those numbers, 1.2-2 million people.

 

[Modbert]

"Grassroots" my ass.

Think Progress » Pressed On FreedomWorks’ Connections To Tea Parties, Dick Armey Lashes Out At TP As ‘Juvenile Delinquents’

The Washington Independent » DeMint Blames Lack of Tea Party Crowd Diversity on Timing, Media

I loved this line:

I agreed that it was a geographically and economically diverse crowd, but I mentioned that the protesters were at least 99 percent white — in fact, in my four-plus hours at the event, I’d only seen three African-American protesters.

DeMint had a simple explanation. “It’s probably just the time and organization and the media that promoted it,” he said.

Right, cross-section *wink wink*.

 

[elvis]

"Grassroots" my ass.

Think Progress » Pressed On FreedomWorks’ Connections To Tea Parties, Dick Armey Lashes Out At TP As ‘Juvenile Delinquents’

The Washington Independent » DeMint Blames Lack of Tea Party Crowd Diversity on Timing, Media

I loved this line:

I agreed that it was a geographically and economically diverse crowd, but I mentioned that the protesters were at least 99 percent white — in fact, in my four-plus hours at the event, I’d only seen three African-American protesters.

DeMint had a simple explanation. “It’s probably just the time and organization and the media that promoted it,” he said.

Right, cross-section *wink wink*.

In other words, anyone who protests the Ossiah is a white racist. got it.

 

[Xenophon]

In other words, anyone who protests the Ossiah is a white racist. got it.

Don't let the kid derail the topic, he always tries to with red herrings and pointless minutia.

We all know this is grass roots as many of the posters here, including me are involved in it.

A LOT of people showed up, more then I expected.

 

[eagleseven]

In other words, anyone who protests the Ossiah is a white racist. got it.

The fact that 95% of blacks support Obama because he is black has not occurred to Robert, sadly.

Here are a few of the brave 5%...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1byTDgu7iA]YouTube - American Tea Party Anthem (with words) by Lloyd Marcus[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpUlFM2304U&feature=channel]YouTube - In Pursuit of Happiness: Beating Back Socialism[/ame]

 

[eagleseven]

 

[WillowTree]

Fox reports that Mr. Gibbs came on TV and gave a statement. "I don't know who these people are." and the Fox guys says. "They are Americans Mr. Gibbs.






now ain't it sad that Fox news has to tell the WH secretary who these people are?

 

[WillowTree]

and then

Tea Party Rally Sparks Dispute Over Potential Turnout


A House leadership aide warned fellow Democrats in a memo obtained by FOXNews.com that up to 2 million people may attend.But conservatives believe Democrats are playing an expectations game to claim the event was a failure.

but mr. gibbs he don't know who these people are.



Tea Party Rally Sparks Dispute Over Potential Turnout - Political News - FOXNews.com

 

[paperview]

ha Ha.

From Mediamatters:

12:34pm Eastern: Police estimate 1.2 million in attendance. ABC News reporting crowd at 2 million.
Teeny, tiny fringe, huh?
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Yep, Malkin claims ABC is reporting 2 million, but Malkin can't find the link to the ABC report. Funny, neither can anybody else.



What I did find at ABCnews.com was an AP report which claimed "tens of thousands" of protesters are marching today. I don't know, in the right-wing blogosphere does "tens of thousands" now translate into "2 million"?



Also, love Malkin's unsubstantiated claim that D.C. police estimated the crowd at 1.2 million. Again, no link or specific sourcing. It's weird, it's almost like Malkin is trying to deceive people. (Psst, I heard from a-friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend that ABC News is reporting crowd at 9 million. Think Malkin will post it?)



UPDATED: if you poke around the GOP sections of the Internet you'll discover that that nifty 1.2 million number is "unconfirmed." Shocking, I know.

 

[Modbert]

If Michelle Malkin is reporting it, it's probably bullshit.

 

[Modbert]

So you posted a picture? Did you count every head up close?

 

[elvis]

If Michelle Malkin is reporting it, it's probably bullshit.

Yeah she doesn't work for thinkprogress, which is completely unbiased.

 

[paperview]

You know the funniest part of that bad music video the OP posted?

It's done by Frank Strategies. That's right. The grassrooters are promoting a video to tell us they are not Astroturfers that was made by


Wait for it






(too funny)



A high paid DC lobbyist Astroturfer!

 

[Xenophon]

ha Ha.

From Mediamatters:

'Mediamatters'

HA HA HA HA HA HA

 

[paperview]

ha Ha.

From Mediamatters:

'Mediamatters'

HA HA HA HA HA HA

Michell Malkin

Ha Ha hA.

Anything more than each side pointing and saying your side isn't credible?