IN CASE YOU DIDN'T GET ENOUGH PICS OF THAT TINY FRINGE GROUP...
...of 750-000 to 2 million that marched on the capitol, here's some links to more pics of the event the MSM has virtually ignored. Nothing happened. Nothing to see here. March along....the Brave New World awaits you!
Conservative Woodstock
Right Wing News
A good report at Reason.
Here's time-lapse footage of the crowd:
How do you think being dismissed as irrelevant and blown off by a president that left town to have an astroturf rally with a tiny fringe group will set with all of these people?
Mark Hemingway describes the crowd:
the three takeaways I had from the event comport with Welch's from yesterday's post: First, the crowd was truly huge. Second, the crowd was from all over the place (both geographically and ideologically). And third, the crowd, well-behaved and stunningly normal in the main, was genuinely pissed off at out of control spending and government policies. "Stop spending," was the basic answer to any questions about what Congress and the president should do come tomorrow. Throw the bums of either party out come next fall was the second most-common answer.Everything Nick writes completely jibes with my experience. I've been covering marches in D.C. for nearly a decade and I will eat my hat if the march wasn't well into six figures. Secondly, if you see a few crazy signs at the march on some left-wing blog and decide that it was a bunch of kooks on the mall, you're dead wrong. (I'm looking at you, Rod Dreher.) I covered the March for over five hours, walking from Freedom Plaza to the front of the Capitol, back down to the reflecting pool and from one side of the mall to the other. During that time I saw only two birther signs, and yes, a few swastikas — but, ahem, those were also exceedingly rare. I spoke to dozens of people, and yes, they were all "stunningly normal." Bottom line: If elected officials — GOP included — want to ignore what's going on here on the basis that it's a bunch of fringe crazies, they do so at their own peril.
UPDATE: Rand Simberg has the best discussion of the crowd size I've seen, with a low-end estimate of 240k and a high-end estimate of half a million. (Via Moe Lane.) (NRO)
The lefty New Republic even said:
But for an angry, anti-government fit, the march was remarkably civil.
But then of course went on to vilify them.
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