Posted on 09/12/2009 4:46:48 AM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 09/12/2009 4:47:41 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Please post your updates from D.C. and from news reports here as well as your photos of the day.
Our Walter Reed salute to the troops last night was very well attended. Upwards of 800 people were there over the three-plus hours of the demonstration.
Photos and video taken by This Ain'tHell taken in daylight before the bulk of the crowd showed can be viewed here.
Free Republic 9/11 Candlelight Vigil from Washington DC
“{ Fox is calling the crowd “tens of thousands” “
DeMint just told Fox Anchor - ‘forget tens of thousands - there are *hundreds of thousands* behind me’...
Priceless!!
That isn’t the Mall.
Jim DeMint (Sen from SC) is setting Fox straight re: crowd size. “Hundreds of thousands, not tens of thousands”
If you put a link on a separate line on FR, like this
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream2
it links for you
Sayeed is edumacated L0L
CNN.com has a live feed of the speakers—oops! I think it just crashed! “Live stream not available at this time”, LOL!
I can’t get through to Fox either!! Ahhh, there it is, finally got through...lots of vids!
Let me go see what’s going on at tinglyland MSDNC—they’ve
got a story up, biased as usual—”OMG, Republican leaders are wary of these people because OH NO they’re carrying swastika signs!!!” kind of stuff, LOL...
it is amazingly well organized.
I am so proud of the TeaParty Express people.
and proud of all who went
and proud of all of us here in FR
Learn some html! :p
but anyways watching DeMint on Fox, and listening to CNN on the internets.
Looks like alot of people on the Fox broadcast.
Fox has DeMint on and he just corrected Brian who has been saying 10’s of thousands that it is more like 100s of thousands. Go Tea Parties, wish I could have been there!
[Hi, this is 4Godsoloved’s daughter at home posting on behalf of my family, who all made it to DC this week]
Wow, this is beyond all my expectations, bigger and better than I could have hoped. Constant flow of 2-wide people traffic over a mile long, pouring into the Capitol nonstop for over an hour and a half.
Taking lots of pictures, will post later.
MLK’s March on Washington had 250,000+. I hope you guys top that or get close.
I’ll bet that for each person that was able to attend, there are 100 that couldn’t but stand with them in spirit.
I love when you draw a picture in my mind Mad Dawgg!
Wow- that is simply, utterly, PERFECT!
RE: “Since we can’t be there, we’re having a Tea Party in Lakeland, Fl. Raining like crazy here now and it doesn’t look like it’s gonna quit any time soon.
Good luck to the PATRIOTS in D.C! We’ll be with you in spirit.”
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YES! Those of us unable to be in D.C. are having our own TEA PARTIES around the nation —
Reminder to those in Los Angeles and surrounding communities: big event at Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. Adjacent to 405 freeway; parking on site or surrounding streets
Time: 3 - 5 p.m. but come earlier if possible and especially if you want to sign up to speak. Various celebs and dignitaries will be present and this is a great location for a ‘tea party.’
Bring flags and signs, water and snacks (maybe some tea?)
Sponsored by “912 West” — see site: 912west.org for more info.
PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND TODAY!!!
Jeff Martin of Atlanta gets up to speak.
Poor guy couldn’t find his TELEPROMPTER. LOL
Count me in. I made to Sacramento for the tea party express kickoff but couldn’t make it to DC.
Jim DeMint, of all people, just corrected FOX and said there are hundreds of thousound there, not tens of thousands. That’s what I thought when I saw CNNs excellent aerial shots. FOX is a failure!
By the way, don’t forget to credit Rick Santelli for getting this started!
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