SATURDAY OCTOBER 2ND RALLY
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people rallied near the Lincoln Memorial in the U.S. capital on Saturday as liberal groups attempted to energize their base a month before pivotal congressional elections.
The rally, held under sunny skies, was billed as "One Nation Working Together" and followed a large rally by conservatives at the same site just over a month earlier.
The rally was sponsored by unions, civil rights groups and liberal activists who have been struggling to get their messages heard during an election campaign in which media coverage has focused on voter anger over unemployment, a weak economy and government deficits.
Denise Gray-Felder, a spokeswoman for the organizers of the rally, estimated that 175,000 to 200,000 people attended.
My impression on this rally is that it was as big as and as important as Glenn Beck’s tirade a couple of weeks back. The difference being that even though the crowds were about the same in numbers, the Progressives/Liberals will not exaggerate and say they were a million people there. We still have to hear from the media…any coverage of this event has been greatly neglected…because the media only seems to care what the Tea Baggers are doing. Never mind the Progressives and Liberals…they don’t count.
As a matter of fact I was hard pressed to find any news on yesterday’s march. I think back about all the publicity and coverage that Glenn Beck’s event got and I say to myself “no wonder the Fucking Tea Party has gotten so big… it is being publicized to death”
What we can readily see is a lot of criticism and rants in right-wing blogs and little if any coverage in the media. Here is one of many of the criticisms: Wishing to counter smears against Tea Partiers as well as paint liberals as irresponsible hypocrites, conservative blogs and websites have been merciless in their documentation, ridicule and condemnation of trash left by attendees of the “One Nation” rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday.
And of course they have focused their attention on anything that said SOCIALISM or even hinted or made reference to the word…yes, that odious, insulting word…it is so dirty I feel like I have to use a mouthwash after saying it…is what the right-wing assholes keep hammering about.
One of the more memorable speeches was given by Ed Schultz
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