This evening, Mark Levin spoke with several everyday patriots, regular Americans, who attended the 11/5 rally in D.C. They are worth another listen:
Mark took calls from those who attended the 11/5 rally in D.C.
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Here’s the Milbank Q&A item cited by a caller in the latter part of Friday’s show: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/11/05/DI2009110503550.html
Read it for yourself, but it sounds like Milbank is encouraging violence:
Alexandria, Va.: 5,000 Tea-party regulars and antiabortion activists – really?
You know, this burns me up. I used to work for the Washington Post. And I generally like your columns, Mr. Milbank. But this piece is just a joke.
I went to this event yesterday. Yeah, the holocaust banner was over the top. (I think there were two, actually.) But seriously. There were somewhere between 5,000 and 20,000 people there, depending on who did the counting. And 99.99 percent of them had positive, run-of-the-mill, well-intentioned political protest banners and signs. And yet you choose to paint ALL of them with the same, denigrating, dismissive brush?
Are you being intentionally dishonest, or are just too lazy to have really dug into this story at all? People from all over the country – like you (maybe?), like me, like all of our neighbors, walked and drove and flew to this event to work for change – change that a whole big part of the country can believe in. Maybe it’s not the same change as what the party in power wants, but our views, our reasonable and peaceful efforts to share our views and change the course of government ought to be respected just as much as those of any party, interest group, or other organization. And ALL Americans deserve to have the media — I’m looking at you, Mr. Milbank — treat all of our efforts equally and honestly. Which you have absolutely and totally failed to do here, sir.
For the record, I’ve NEVER been to a political protest before. Ever. I’m not a tea party attendee. I’m not an antiabortion activist. I’m just a guy who thinks the Constitution — means — something, has meant something for all these years, and that it should be respected by the people and by our leaders.
But apparently in your eyes that makes me some kind of non-thinking, hateful jerk, is that what I’m supposed to take away from your piece?
Dana Milbank: Sounds like you’re in the 90 percent of decent folks who were there. Too bad one of you didn’t slug the guys with the Dachau banner and send them off to the Capitol physician.
Milbank found what he was looking for at Thursday’s rally, just as the Washington Post found the village idiot they were looking to hire in him.
There is no surprise here because it was what we expected. Milbank is a member of the Compost media which consistently negatively editorializes and opinionates when attempting to report about rallies and tea bag events concerned with constitutional issues. I think most people who attended the rally were wondering just what small, inconsequential and atypical part would be used by the media to specifically characterize the entire event in the most polarizing fashion possible. Fortunately in your case, and for many others, it backfired and it is Milbank’s behavior and not just the rally members that further emphasize the serious problems Americans have with this Congress and their media allies that deliberately misrepresent what they actually witness.
BTW even the Washington Compost can’t outdo the NY Slimes:
Check it out: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09krugman.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Task – I read that link…talk about slandering the fine people that were there at the rally! Where the heck was this guy standing that he saw those signs? I saw a wide variety of ages there, and people in business attire to patriotic t-shirts and sweat shirts. Is the Slimes reporter so arrogant that he looks down on people because of their clothing selection or their age? I thought the left was the party of inclusiveness. I guess you’re only welcome if you think like the elite, dress like the elite, and fall into that sweet age range of 21 – 55.
Anna, don’t take it so hard. Criticism by any of the NY Slimes squadrons of Op-Ed columnists such as Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, David Brooks and Bob Herbert is why the paper is losing money and firing staff. This is one paper that would not change its opinion even if they were nationalized by the Administration because they already are the epicenter of liberal media bias and editorializing. If you are republican or conservative and they like you it is the kiss of death and the fact that McCain got their endorsement should have been sufficient, in itself, for disqualification as a republican presidential candidate. Even ACORN has better instincts.
I feel like I’m going to have to go visit my senators…and make sure I’m dressed professionally so they can’t malign me.
Anna, It is not how you dress. It is how you vote. Tell them you are an independent, who often votes for democrats, but this Administration has convinced you to examine each candidate’s voting record and not their party affiliation and from what you are seeing and hearing you will vote to get them out and convince your many friends and neighbors, to do the same thing, using the same intelligent, convincing, persuasive logic and reasoning that they are hearing from you when you say it.
I left my home from southwestern virginia early on Nov. 4 to be at the rally. Unfortunately by the time my son and I arrived everyone was gone. I was extremely disappointed that I missed the chance to be there with all the great Americans gathered but have watched all the videos that could be found. You have inspired and given me hope again. Thanks for sharing yourself with all of America.
Regarding Healthcare which was the purpose of the rally:
Even using the States as laboratories denies freedom for individuals. In fact Romney’s idea that States should be the breeding and testing ground for plans that, if they work, could be adopted by our Federal masters is still not reasonable. Where in the U.S. Constitution is Congress permitted to provide insurance, mandate it, run it and hurt you if you fail to comply? Nowhere! In fact under these concepts people (me, my family, my friends, neighbors and fellow countryman) are prevented from helping themselves and their families in the ways they deem best. In other words they are being denied the natural right to defend themselves. Somehow a modification of the right to take care of myself is about to be confiscated by government under a banner of compassion for some and at the expense of so many. This is a form of tyaranny the likes of which we have never before seen in this County.
Well stated Task!