Posted on 10/04/2010 3:18:17 PM PDT by kristinn
National Park Service spokesman Bill Line has lashed out at conservative critics of the trashing of the National Mall by attendees of the leftist One Nation Working Together rally held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.
The Park Service is part of the Interior Department which is headed up by Obama appointee, former U.S. Senator Ken Salazar (Dem.-CO).
Line spoke to the Daily Caller, in an unprecedented protest of coverage by the Caller and other conservative news sites and blogs that criticized the One Nation Rally for the large amounts of trash left at the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial and Memorial Bridge near Arlington Cemetery.
Line's statements are contradicted by a Park Ranger filmed at the Lincoln Memorial after the rally ended who said the trash was the worst he had seen. The Ranger noted the conservative Restoring Honor Rally held on August 28 by Glenn Beck was cleaned up by its participants who left the trash bagged and piled for pick up.
Line's comments from the Caller:
“I consider [The Daily Caller’s article] to be highly inaccurate,” said a very forceful NPS spokesman, Bill Line.
“To imply that this past weekend’s event is more dirty, contains more trash or is filthier than any other demonstration is not grounded in reality.”
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“This trash you have on [TheDC’s] front page could be found at any other large rally that has happened previously at the Mall and could happen in the future,” said Line.
Line said the garbage at the “One Nation” rally was no different than any other rally. Trash, it seems, is apolitical.
“It is common, typical, regular ordinary, commonplace. You get the idea?” said Line. “It’s very commonplace with ANY rally, march demonstration, anywhere on the Mall where you have large numbers of people.”
The Caller also spoke with a spokeman for the One Nation Rally, Flo McAfee who said the group wanted to leave the Mall as they found it.
“In putting all this together we very much worked hand in hand with the park service because we wanted to follow the guidelines and respect the grounds also,” said McAfee. “You know, those moments are our moments just like it’s everyone in the nation so we wanted to make sure it was left as we found it.”
Conservatives have been holding rallies on a regular basis on the National Mall since Free Republic's October 31, 1998 rally to impeach Bill Clinton, called the March for Justice. I was a part of the rally and subsequent ones by the Second Amendment Sisters, the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com, Support Our Troops and Their Mission Weekend, and the Gathering of Eagles. We always left the rally sites cleaner than we found them. The tea party rallies and Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally have also left their rally sites pristine.
The same cannot be said for liberals when they hold their rallies.
I cannot remember the Park Service lashing out at critics of a rally like they have with the One Nation Rally.
Isn’t the Park Service unionized?
What would make this fellow ^publicly DEFEND^ excessive garbage?
I don’t make excuses to the garbageman when my roll-away is full.
give kudos to the author at YT.......get that viewership soaring.
As Rush mentions, human debris !
He just can’t get that brown stuff off his nose, can he?
The title of this article is a bit of a stretch.
and diapers...
The amount of money spent to pick up trash at both events should be public information. As well as the man hours spent picking up the trash.
If someone knows how to access this information it would put the issue to rest.
It would be a simple calculation to compare the two events.
They are trashy people."
Right on - I have some great memories of how the Clinton bunch of goons left the White House trashed. That's including his own personal body secretions - that he himself left behind!!!
I wish there were some pictures to remind everyone!!
And now they are calling him the most popular politician in America.
What is this? Some sort of attempt at a Jedi mind trick? Pretty weak if you ask me. It might work on the feeble minded like Stormtroopers and Jon Stewart viewers but....
That is odd. Never thought about the connection before. A man I know who is obese lives in one of the most filthy, trash filled dumps you could imagine. However, the place is filled with some of the rarest coins and antiques. every surface filled with such items, rooms filled with boxes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. But no running water, no phone, electricity rarely paid for so its usually off and forget about heat.
It got so bad that he started sleeping at his office. This guy is a mess but he is a conservative.
It’s about respect. If you respect your country or state and it’s institutions and monuments, you don’t leave your trash all over it. Conversely, if you leave trash, you reveal your inner attitude.
What is this? Some sort of attempt at a Jedi mind trick? Pretty weak if you ask me. It might work on the feeble minded like Stormtroopers and Jon Stewart viewers but....
"The Force" is weak with this one, with an equally weak sauce, but "The Fail" is epic...
the infowarrior
Those who talk most about the environment yet!
They may have cleaned up the Mall, but there’s still plenty of trash left in DC.
If they'd left healthcare, wars and jobs "as they'd found it", we'd probably be better off, too!
jmho, of course..."first, do no harm"...!
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