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Attended the rally today. Perfect weather. What the clips don't show are the thousands of people around and inside the World War II memorial, beyond the reflecting pool. It was a revolving crowd throughout the day. I arrived at Noon and there were already thousands of people who were leaving. The speakers were pretty boilerplate, but they represented a real slice of America. It was probably the most diverse rally I've witnessed. Very nice vibe overall. The National Park Police no longer provides crowd estimates, but my guess, being a local and a veteran of these things (mostly at gay rights rallies going back to the mid-80's, and several 4th of July celebrations on the Mall), I'd venture to guess that there were 100,000 people at any given time, and probably twice that many throughout the day.
"...The One Nation rally was in part a response to Fox News on air personality and conservative commentator Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally. However, rather than the ugly and hateful rhetoric of the Tea Party, Saturday's rally offered images of hope and change for America. Along with the themes of jobs, justice and education, issues concerning immigration, civil and human rights, racial profiling and single-payer health care were all prominent topics of discussion...."
"...The One Nation rally was in part a response to Fox News on air personality and conservative commentator Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally. However, rather than the ugly and hateful rhetoric of the Tea Party, Saturday's rally offered images of hope and change for America. Along with the themes of jobs, justice and education, issues concerning immigration, civil and human rights, racial profiling and single-payer health care were all prominent topics of discussion...."
So, what's your point? Socialist groups crash gay rallies and anti-war rallies too. Kinda like when militia groups and virulent racist groups crash the Tea Party rallies. It's called freedom of assembly.
So, what's your point? Socialist groups crash gay rallies and anti-war rallies too. Kinda like when militia groups and virulent racist groups crash the Tea Party rallies. It's called freedom of assembly.
They did not crash it, they were part of the official endorsers. Check the website.
Attended the rally today. Perfect weather. What the clips don't show are the thousands of people around and inside the World War II memorial, beyond the reflecting pool. It was a revolving crowd throughout the day. I arrived at Noon and there were already thousands of people who were leaving. The speakers were pretty boilerplate, but they represented a real slice of America. It was probably the most diverse rally I've witnessed. Very nice vibe overall. The National Park Police no longer provides crowd estimates, but my guess, being a local and a veteran of these things (mostly at gay rights rallies going back to the mid-80's, and several 4th of July celebrations on the Mall), I'd venture to guess that there were 100,000 people at any given time, and probably twice that many throughout the day.
At no point in the day was there anywhere near 100K people there, unless you had 85K people revolving to the other side of the city at any given time there wasn't 100K people there. The left claims that Beck had 87K people at his rally and it's clear that there were 10X as many people at Beck's rally than there was today.
This is gonna have better turnout than that awful Glenn Back rally last month with the tea baggers, can't wait to attend this, and the Jon Stewart rally later next month.
Check these out, looks like tens of thousands less then Beck's rally
The above is the One Nation Rally, as posted at Huffington Post
So, what's your point? Socialist groups crash gay rallies and anti-war rallies too. Kinda like when militia groups and virulent racist groups crash the Tea Party rallies. It's called freedom of assembly.
They sponsored the rally, they didn't crash anything.
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Great Video of the One (Socialist) Nation Rally
