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2007-03-18 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Shinetle Phaiting9877 2007-03-18 13:02|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Thanks Shinetle and God Bless you.

For giggles I checked out the Minneapolis, Saint Paul TV news stations. Not one mentioned your efforts. No suprise but here's why

From NewsBusters I almost fainted.

Gathering of Eagles' web site reports that they were told by the National Park Service that their GoE estimate is ..... is .....

30,000

GoE's site is also saying that the protester counts being reported elsewhere were 5,000 to 10,000 (the Times reported "thousands" and WaPo said "several thousand," but both papers acknowledged that the protester turnout was much lower than at a similar event in January).

Bottom line: GoErs outnumbered protesters at least three to one. Remember what you just read here and will read at the center-right blogs, because you probably won't see this "turnout rout," which as far as I can tell is unprecedented, reported in the Formerly Mainstream Media.

Way to go. Wish I could have joined you folks!
Videos here

Posted by Icerigger 2007-03-18 14:07|| 2007-03-18 14:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Heh, told you I was tired! That is actually my posting. I didn't realize my cookie wasn't set.

Posted by DanNY 2007-03-18 14:20|| 2007-03-18 14:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, DanNY, I got there a bit late, but did look for you, finding a Dan from Virginia!

Posted by Bobby 2007-03-18 15:28|| 2007-03-18 15:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks, Dan! Great to have an "on-site" report that will NEVER make it into the pages or script of the MSM. Our "mainstream media" is an enemy of a free people, and needs to be dealt with as such. Thank God for the Internet (screw algore and his piehole spewing).

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-03-18 15:35|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-18 15:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Didn't hear a word about this on NPR this morning... yesterday there had been a story about the protest, where the protesters interviewed were represented to be Christians. Not a word about a counter-protest, not a word about any other protesters.
Needless to say, I am very dissapointed in NPR this weekend. Talk about sending certain stories down the memory hole...

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-03-18 15:44|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-03-18 15:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Didn't hear a word about this on NPR this morning... yesterday there had been a story about the protest, where the protesters interviewed were represented to be Christians. Not a word about a counter-protest, not a word about any other protesters.
Needless to say, I am very dissapointed in NPR this weekend. Talk about sending certain stories down the memory hole...

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-03-18 15:45|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-03-18 15:45|| Front Page Top

#7 "Can you hear me now???!!!"

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-03-18 15:46|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-03-18 15:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks Dan, you sent me out on a journey through the Internet for all the reports. What a day! I had tears, just sitting in front of my computer reading and viewing!

I especially like this comment from a post I just read at Free Republic, in a post relaying a telephone conversation with one that was there:

MARINE ONE also flew overhead at one point!
There could be no way all those flags couldn't be seen.

And I loved the way our vets and others are referred to as "Eagles."

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2007-03-18 16:55|| 2007-03-18 16:55|| Front Page Top

#9 #5 & 6: "Needless to say, I am very dissapointed in NPR this weekend."

As opposed to their news "coverage" the rest of the time, Sgt. Mom?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-03-18 17:10|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-03-18 17:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Thank you, DanNY. Somehow the news and pictures will trickle back to the guys over there, and they aren't doing this alone. I wonder if the NY Post would be interested in running your well-written, eye-witness report? Seriously, you ought to submit it!

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-18 18:25|| 2007-03-18 18:25|| Front Page Top

#11 From Dallas, TX, good work East Coast Eagles!

Posted by Ho Chi Glager5496 2007-03-18 18:26|| 2007-03-18 18:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Dang it. I looked for the Don't Tread on Me flag, but the only person I saw said he had come alone, and not from New York.
I drove up from Columbia, SC. I didn't meet anybody famous (like Michelle Malkin or Smash) but I had a great time. Made me proud to be a veteran, and an American.
I did not get to actually visit the wall, because I had a backpack. I definitely plan to go back - I have two schoolmates on the wall.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-03-18 19:15|| 2007-03-18 19:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Toll bridge to Alexandria? I thought the only tolls around here are on the Dulles Toll Road/Greenway, and the Baltimore bridges and tunnels.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-03-18 21:04|| 2007-03-18 21:04|| Front Page Top

#14 Yeah, you found one of my typos. I meant to say drawbridge. Sorry for the confusion.

Posted by DanNY 2007-03-18 22:21|| 2007-03-18 22:21|| Front Page Top

#15 MARINE ONE also flew overhead at one point!
There could be no way all those flags couldn't be seen.

Yes, Marine One flew over early on, but more precisely it flew by following the Potomac westward. I have no idea if POTUS was on board, but yes, the flags in the Constitution Gardens and around the Lincoln Memorial should have been visible from the air.

Posted by DanNY 2007-03-18 22:24|| 2007-03-18 22:24|| Front Page Top

#16 Well done, Eagles!

Posted by Mike 2007-03-18 22:58|| 2007-03-18 22:58|| Front Page Top

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