Monday, March 19, 2007
The Silent Majority speaks
"Things didn't go as planned for the far Left this weekend here in the nation’s capital," the Campaign for Working Families reports. "An assortment of 'blame America first' groups expected tens of thousands of leftists to take to the streets to demand that the U.S. withdraw from Iraq in defeat. March organizers had originally expected 50,000 plus to flood into town, but most unofficial estimates put the crowd closer to 10,000 to 15,000."
It gets better:
"The defeatists and their allies didn't have the streets to themselves. Thousands of pro-troop, pro-victory, pro-American counter-demonstrators came from all over the country to take a stand. The big TV networks ignored what happened, but the liberal Washington Post could not without losing all credibility.
"On the front page they reported, 'Thousands of demonstrators … marched on the Pentagon yesterday, jeered along the way by large numbers of angry counter-protesters.' And this: 'Much of the passion yesterday was supplied by thousands of counter-demonstrators, many of them veterans who mobilized from across the country to gather around the Vietnam veteran’s memorial.'
"As the so-called anti-war crowd crossed the Memorial Bridge into Virginia toward Arlington Cemetery, they were again confronted by a large crowd of vets who unfurled a banner reading, 'You dishonor our dead on hallowed ground.'"
It gets better:
"The defeatists and their allies didn't have the streets to themselves. Thousands of pro-troop, pro-victory, pro-American counter-demonstrators came from all over the country to take a stand. The big TV networks ignored what happened, but the liberal Washington Post could not without losing all credibility.
"On the front page they reported, 'Thousands of demonstrators … marched on the Pentagon yesterday, jeered along the way by large numbers of angry counter-protesters.' And this: 'Much of the passion yesterday was supplied by thousands of counter-demonstrators, many of them veterans who mobilized from across the country to gather around the Vietnam veteran’s memorial.'
"As the so-called anti-war crowd crossed the Memorial Bridge into Virginia toward Arlington Cemetery, they were again confronted by a large crowd of vets who unfurled a banner reading, 'You dishonor our dead on hallowed ground.'"
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Monday, March 19, 2007 
