We Resume Our Regularly Scheduled Program

Pictures courtesy of The Brad Blog.

Realizing that the anti-war march was a success with respect to the numbers, I found my depressive state of mind start to shift toward the positive state I am generally accustomed to.

M$M has been complicit with this administration from the beginning of this war, and they have always portrayed opposition to the war as both non-existent in mainstream America, and dominated by left-wing liberal commie psychopaths. However, I couldn’t help but feel that somehow, the anti-war movement would never be expressed as it was back in the late sixties and early seventies. And, then came Cindy Sheehan.

Reading the press coverage of the anti-war march yesterday was an exercise in futility, because, there was very little by way of coverage to be found. While right wing blogs and websites were all over this march prior to it happening, i.e., denigrating Sheehan and accusing her of being hijacked by the left wing fringe elements, I could not find one mention of the protest march yesterday. Not even a mention of their pathetic little counter protest of what, 200 people?

Likewise with television, which all downplayed the numbers and tried to focus mostly on hurricane Rita. Surprisingly, Rita didn’t play out in Texas the same as Katrina did in New Orleans, making Bush’s activities for the weekend all the more in the twilight zone.

We need demonstrations of this magnitude to be able to rise above the M$M and government censors that have been controlling the media, and what information is disseminated to the general populace. The fact that there was easily 100,000 anti war protesters present, and has actually been argued to be 20,000 on some news sites, is a perfect reason why. Sooner or later, just like with Katrina, the visuals, i.e., the numbers, become apparent. The media spin will never cease, because corporations are heavily invested in this administration. Now that the pro-war activists could only muster a few hundred to attend their counter-demonstration, the spin is, they are the "silent majority."