“Right-Wing Activists” Marched on Washington and the Marxists Noticed

The great lengths to which the “mainstream” media have gone in order to downplay (or ignore altogether) last weekend's massive Washington, DC protest against President Barack Obama's hard-left agendas, should surprise no one.

Nor should it be a surprise that the extreme-far-left media, as personified by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, have largely followed suit. Where the far-leftists differ from their center-left colleagues, however, is in their portrayal of the people in attendance, in terms of both number and make-up.

In a vitriolic piece titled “Right-Wing Activists Gather in Washington Against Obama,” Goodman delivered a negative portrayal of a small contingent of protest attendees who chanted: “You lie! You lie! You lie!…” -- a reference to Republican Congressman Joe Wilson’s unfortunate outburst during the President’s address before Congress last week.

“...Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.

If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!...” —P. Henry

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

— Patrick Henry (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 5 June 1778)

The media still doesn’t understand they are insulting the vast majority of Americans when they attack the protest rally. One million or more might have showed up at the rally but they represent tens of millions who couldn’t attend. This movement is the game changer we’ve been waiting for. Joe and Jane America finally had enough and they are motivated to do something about it. Too bad the republicans haven’t been willing or able to tap into this movement.

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