For the record, I think they're leeches, and potentially dangerous ones at that. But I keep reading here that if you turned on C-SPAN, what you saw were the ANSWER signs. The political-junkie qualities of this community have never been more abundantly on display. Trust me, most Americans were not sitting at home watching the march on C-SPAN.
The Associated Press story, which ran in most Sunday newspapers, did not mention ANSWER at all.
It mentioned in one paragraph, way down, that speeches came from a list of groups critical of Bush on other issues, but the thrust of the article was the diversity of the crowd. A good deal of space was given to an interviewee who voted for Bush and said he still supports him, but thought we should have pulled out of Iraq once it became clear that the WMD charges were bogus. There was more talk of those treasured grandparents than there was of ANSWER.
Heard some radio news that gave me the same impression; ditto for network television news. I didn't see the CNN or Fox coverage and would be interested to hear from those who did--if even Fox, they who jump at any chance to present Al Sharpton as the face of the left, couldn't tar the march with ANSWER, then this is definitely a tempest in a teapot.