Calling the D.C. anti-war rally
HUGE, Cnn.com puts the numbers at 100,000, though we've heard from Kossacks who attended that it ranged from 250,000 to 600,000. Well, the media usually halves or quarters the attendance numbers, and most people just read the headlines. <snark>
Best part is how Cnn.com is characterizing the people there:
"In the crowd: young activists, nuns whose anti-war activism dates to Vietnam, parents mourning their children in uniform lost in Iraq, and uncountable families motivated for the first time to protest."
There's a lot of argument on the "I'm just about to say screw the anti-war rally" thread (sorry, I don't know how to link) about the message being terminally diluted by the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition, with concurrent bitching about how the Left always shoots itself in the foot by muddying its rallies with "other issues." But the truth of the matter is, this is just a numbers game.
The idea is that you get a lot of bodies into the streets under a big umbrella idea: today's idea was "Out of Iraq." The more bodies, the more the MSM's oh-so-brief acknowledgement.
We need to remember that during the anti-Viet Nam protests, putting your body on the street meant you were willing to risk injury from the government, or at the very least, risk jail. It's likely that many people went to D.C. today with those thoughts in mind. They are to be celebrated.
Unable to attend, I'm grateful to the Americans who went on the line today.