Organizers claim a wide range of supporters, some of whom are already associated with liberal causes — like union workers, environmentalists, gay activists and student leaders. But “One Nation” also claims backing from less obvious quarters — like senior citizens, veterans and faith leaders.
As GatewayPundit reports, “despite the fact that thousands of supporters were given free rides by unions and the NAACP to the rally”, they couldn’t muster a very substantial crowd.
For the Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin rally in August, the crowds filled in both sides of the Reflecting Pool.
UPDATE: From a news source which leans left:
Organizers claimed they had as many participants as Beck’s rally. But Saturday’s crowds were less dense and didn’t reach as far to the edges as they did during Beck’s rally. The National Park Service stopped providing official crowd estimates in the 1990s.
I’m hearing that some unions also made attendance mandatory, but i’m unable to find a source.
How big would their crowd be if it were ‘volunteer only’?
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The WHOLE reflecting pool, all the way back, spilling past the trees on both sides. A real turnout.
Democrats couldn’t even pay people to come.
Dang, I forgot they were having this today. Unlike 8/28, when I was glued to the live FB stream.
Top down creations or ASTROTURF is hard to fill the enthusiasm gap when the union shills must be paid or mandatory; therefore, the sad group actually looks worse in reality. President Obama better come up with something else to create a better illusion for the midterms. He’s still flailing in the wind. Although the MSM will puff up the crowds by focusing in on them rather than do a far away shot. The MSM does these things when Obama speaks so we cannot see the ever-shrinking crowds.
Of course this is all the left could muster. Just look at the name of the rally: One Nation. ONE nation? From the folks who’re constantly promoting MULTIculturalism and diversity. Who would believe that? Nobody, hence no reflections in the Reflecting Pool.
Hey! Don’t knock it! It’s still the years largest gathering of losers, victims, and whiners.
We’ll see how much better Jon Liebowitz does with his “We Hate Glenn Beck” Rally at the end of the month.
I suspect that will be much larger with the celebrity draw.
There are reports that CSPAN had to make a quick edit of their site after ‘mistakenly’ having used a Glenn Beck rally photo to portray the crowd.
People began to question why such a large crowd of leftists had no signs.
For any given leftist demonstration, there is on average, one sign for every two people. The reason that the media hasn’t tried to twist the message of the signs at the tea party rally is because there really weren’t any signs there, aside from a few leftist disruptors.
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Where did you get that photo?
The Wall Street Journal story seems to convey a somewhat different image.
The photo from GP is linked to CNN.
BTW, with a terror threat out there, isn’t it about time for Chairman Obama to haul ass over to Hawaii?
#10 In the WSJ pics, how come there’s a different crowd behind Big Ed than “Rev.” Al?
The Wall Street Journal’s website has some pics of the One Nation rally. One of the pics is of buttons that were on sale at the rally. One of those buttons read: In Honor and Support of the US Military. You know the leftists are desperate when they start pretending to love our troops.
And the last picture looks like the Hitler salute.
The attendance may have been low, but I’ll wager the IQ level was 100 times higher than the trash at Glenn Beck’s rally.
And of course, the liberals trashed The Mall on their way out.
As they chanted, “Obama ain’t no socialist. We are! We are!”
In contrast, at the Glenn Beck rally, they sang “God Bless America.”
Spoken like a true social Darwinist. When you don’t abort them, they grow up to be trash. Eugenics is the answer. To assure the survival of the fittest, you simply have to keep the trash from breeding and kill the babies that slip by. Or, short of retroactive abortion, you can just sterilize them and try to reeducate them or send them off to citizen corps camps.
The Reeducation Czar can learn a lot from Pol Pot, Mussolini and Hitler about various “solutions” for the “trash” that goes to a Glen Beck rally.
Thanks Proud Liberal, you have never been more clearly understood.
#19: Spot on!
My point in #10 of linking to the WSJ photo was that it seems to show a much larger crowd that the GP photo. So the GP photo choice looks like an attempt to deceive by appearing to show a smaller crowd.
The WSJ photo isn’t very impressive, either. There are still huge empty spaces on either side of the reflecting pool. There were probably more people watching Michigan wallop Indiana today.
Attention American voters,
We the Communist Party sincerely apologize for the 100+ million people we murdered in the 20th century, in the name of ‘Progress’, and we are proud to announce that we Communists have finally figured out what went wrong. Please, give us another chance. Listen to our new and improved ‘Progressive’ message, and decide for yourselves if we really mean what we say.
The past 150 years of failure was just a practice session. This time it’s gonna work!!!!
‘The Communists are throwing a party, and everyone is invited!’ (unlike those racist teabaggers)
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From The Examiner :
The MSM is already breathlessly reporting that “thousands” attended this silliness. The spin will undoubtedly be puke-inducing for days to come.
Most of my Lefty friends seem not to have even heard of it.
They won all the power they wanted, and then some. And all they succeeded in doing was pissing off the majority of the country — including many of their staunchest supporters.
It will, I think, be quite a while before we hear from many of these people again. Except, of course, to cry and throw tantrums at trumped-up events like this one.
Glenn Beck’s rally had a very Orwellian feel to it, while the One Nation rally reminded me of the love and peace movements of the 1960’s, but on a much higher level. It is clear to me that more big names supported the One Nation rally, and every speech was incredible. For example, HARRY BELAFONTE: Oh, what he had to say was magnificient. It’s a speech that no American should miss. Glenn Beck? Go back to your day job: DRINKING.
I hope they cleaned up after themselves.
Of course they didn’t, Ben. I forget where I saw the pics, but they left a huge mess as always. Gateway Pundit maybe.
Funny that Ed Schultz was there. Didn’t he brag recently that he could draw a bigger crowd than Glen Beck.
So how come he didn’t?
I wish they would have astroturf’d me. I would have gladly went there and stood around for an hour or two for minimum wage.
If the SEIU can create 23,000 Harris Countians out of thin air, I have no doubt they can create a crowd here. You know the huge throng watching Washington’s inauguration in John Adams was actually six people. Same principal.
“GLENN BECK? Go back to your day job: DRINKING.”
Ah, more compassion and enlightenment from one of Those Who Know Better.
It is amazing but I saw large patches of green grass on both sides of the pool, no so for the other rallies.
I’m sorry, but this is just bizarre! Co-hosting an event like this with the Communist Party, is sorta like double-dating with Charlie Manson.
The phrase ‘I Am A Communist’ is a declaration of intent. It means that a person is willing to lie, cheat, steal, and even kill, if only to momentarily satisfy their unquenchable lust for political power.
The formula is unchanged from that used by Mao, Stalin, and Hitler. It’s the tried and true ‘Victim/Oppressor’ technique.
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My favorite Harry Belefonte quote:
“Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Riech”
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Glenn Beck? Go back to your day job: DRINKING.
Liberals are nasty and unpleasant people.
Yeah, the liberals trashed the place. Liberals always trash the place.
“the liberals trashed the place”
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‘One Nation’ is already creating jobs! (someone has to pick up all that shit)
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Byron York has a great piece out on it. Apparently, not only did the unions rent the buses, but they also paid for meals and hotels. It was basically a union paid mini-vacation for the union members enabling them to trash the mall and let someone else clean up their filth.
That’s what they think the Undocumented Democrats are for.
Of course the caring Progressives left the Mall totally entrashed! THEY care about the SEIU groundskeepers, whose job it will be to clean it up.
The selfish conservatives and Tea Party supporters clean up their own trash, risking more SEIU job losses. They obviously don’t care about the working people.
Wow! I just read my own posts. I must have changed my mind multiple times in the middle of a sentence. Although it’s my native language, English was never my strong point.
I gotta learn to either type faster, or to think slower.
I officially apologize for my dyslexic display. (but i stand by the content of my posts)
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