DING DING DING DING DING!!!!! -13.... How High can this go???
thanks, Mike. i did shoot an e:mail to cspan. i don't expect much fair treatment re: this event or any event from the media. but hey, i've stopping reading/buying their crap. more need to hit 'em where it hurts. capitalism still rules the anti-capitalists.
Unfortunately C-Span is a public monopoly.
All the more reason they should cover both sides equally.
Glad you emailed them lee. The more the merrier.
Let's hold their feet to the fire.
Great job today of tracking everything!!! I just home as I had another event to go to after the Eagles, so I'll do a wrap up post tomorrow as I need sleep now =)
*Groan*....I'm watching CNN. The host mentioned about giving equal time to a pro-war vet and a anti-war vet. He gave- I swear- about 30 seconds to the pro-war vet, who barely presented any kind of case; and then devoted the rest of the segment to inteviewing the anti-war vet, who they also featured in footage of him as a public speaker for answercoalition.org.
Just from a glance, the Washington Post appears rather balanced in mentioning both sides, unlike the Reuters photos that I told you about, Mike (where any pro-war demonstrators are described as being hecklers). Also, the Washington Post has some nice photos, which I posted.
Ok, scratch what I said about the Washington Post. I saw Freedom Eden's screen capture from the Post.
Thank you, all of you...
I am truly proud!!
I wasn't able to attend, but I was called to do an interview in our VERY leftist newspaper and they published it... now, I'm getting my own hate mail... geez!
It is linked at my site.
Thanks for all the coverage and support Mike. The rally was a wonderful experiance.
Monica and I brought our next door neighbor with us who came dressed in his desert cammies, it was wonderfull to see how many people came up to him just to shake his hand and say thank you for serving.
As for c-span I am outraged at there lack of coverage. I watched this morning to see their recap of events in the first half hour of wash journal. I couldn't get through on the phone but I did send an e-mail. The phone lines were full of lieing wackos saying they were attacked by the pro troop people and the usual idiots that call and say if you support the war you should join up or shut up.
If c-span had bothered to cover both sides they would have seen that the pro-troop side both outnumbered and was more peacefull than the so called peace activists
My post is up!
http://alwaysonwatch2.blogspot.c...ar-or-
lose.html
A hearty thank you for giving sus uch a great coverage, Mike. (I didn't comment, but I read!)
And a hearty thank you to Skye, Grizzly Mama, Troll, AOW and other bloggers who traveled to be among the Eagles. Thanks for going into the lion's den (so to speak), and letting them know they are not the cock of the roost.
God bless all of you fine Patriots!
here is my post on the event, (just pix)
http://thecitytroll.blogspot.com...n-
pictures.html
here's the link for hotair's flikr photo album. enjoy!
Mike..I heard it was a successful event..yay!..for once !! 
Okay, I finally read the Washinton Post articles, and as a whole, I think the coverage was fairly reasonable. And at least they gave quite a bit of mention of the counter-protestors.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...7031701280.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...7031700539.html
I thought the Post did a fairly balanced job covering the event.
Can't say the same for much of the rest of the media.
But who can blame them?
I checked out some of the major news photo sites and they all featured these highly staged images of the kookville parade as they walked across Memorial Bridge with the Lincoln Memorial in the background.
Looked like a HUGE crowd.
But you won't find ANY photos of the mass gaterhing of Eagles before they spread out to guard the War Memorials.
You'll only find a handful of small groups of Eagles.
These are the images that are available to newspapers and magazines all across the world.
We outnumbered the enemy and they failed to attack the Wall, which was the initial primary goal of the Gathering. It became more of an awakening than just a gathering from my point of view. The poster showing an Iraqi women with the purple marked finger, was in my opinion, the one that best displayed the Eagles' fears. The written message was, "Marked for death if we cut and run now."
I, a submarine force veteran from the Vietnam Era, was there with my Marine Corps Force Recon friend who fought in South Vietnam. As one speaker indicated, we have been quiet for 4 decades and now that congress is moving in the direction of abandoning Iraq as they did to South Vietnam, we will no longer remain silent. To me and others I talked with, this was a gathering that released the decades of disgust and personal anguish over our government’s abandonment of over 58,000 American men and women military personnel and those of our allies who died and the other hundreds of thousands who sacrificed to keep South Vietnam free from our mutual enemy. There was little talk of us not being held in high regard on our return, but open emotional displays of unity with those who shared our mission 40 years ago. Whether or not it was recorded, we took the physical and moral high ground today, adjacent to the Lincoln Memorial, overlooking the ANSWER mob and displayed our greater strength with just a portion of our patriot warrior contingent. To those that I talked with over a 5 hour period from all over the United States and from our many military service and organizations, the consensus was that this is just the first shot across the bow of the anti-war and anti-American ANSWER and congress.
"To those that I talked with over a 5 hour period from all over the United States and from our many military service and organizations, the consensus was that this is just the first shot across the bow of the anti-war and anti-American ANSWER and congress."
THANK YOU AMR! Exactly right. The Gaterhing showed the pent up frustration that millions of Americans share and to quote that old movie line "we're mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore."
It would be a monstrous shame if the success of the Gathering were not used as a foundation for more, bigger and better.
And your comment coincided with my lastest post along those same lines.
Thanks again AMR!
Thanks for covering the day Mike, My post is finally up, I got back home last night and finished up the post and slideshow of pics.
Enjoy, it was a great day for us.
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