Whatever Happened to the 9/13 March?

posted at 8:14 am on September 16, 2009 by Track-A-'Crat
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If you’re wondering what happened to any coverage of the 9/13 counter-counter-government march, then puzzle no more: there was none.

In a rare fit of lucidity, the spin merchants of the mainstream media realized that the amount of propaganda needed to magic what was an outright failure into a wonderful triumph threatened to break reality itself asunder.

Would that they would come to this conclusion more often.

So, whereas I joined our march, my (liberal) wife attended the one the next day.  Bearing in mind that we’ve decided that the only way not to argue about politics is, essentially, not to talk about it – or, at least, not to allow me to voice an opinion -, this worked out quite well.  His ‘n’ her marches on consecutive days, with equal custody rights to our shiny new SLR.  These are some of the shots she took during her brief rendez-vous with the other supporters (before realizing how dismal the whole affair was going to be and retreating to Dupont Circle for brunch, instead).

Let’s start with this pic:

A beautiful shot of a gorgeous afternoon in DC it may be, but you’d never know that it’s also the core of the counter-demonstration in favor of having the government take yet more rights and responsibilities away from us peons.  You could barely move in the same area, such was the crush of people the day before.

Exhibit B: the same area, shot from a little farther back, with equally few people milling around (and most of them were probably completely unaware of what was supposed to be happening around them):

Next, one brave soul captures Democratic emotional-logic, if there is such a thing, at its peak.  Well done, ma’am:

And, finally, the march gets underway:

Although it seems fair to say that it never really took off:

After which was left a lonely group of hard-core statists, who no doubt exchanged thrilling personal anecdotes about just how awesome infinite government is:

And that’s that.

You may recall that the opposition during the 9/12 march itself amounted to one rag-tag band of moonbats (bottom pic here), who couldn’t even comprehend the Grand Canyon-sized contradiction written all over their own signs, God bless ‘em.  In the three hours that I spent at the Tea Party, they were the only opponents that I saw there.

Not that the 9/13 turnout was much better.  Even President Obama has more spine than these lily-livered activists.

Is that the best they can do?

Democrats should be worried.  When even the bait of “free” services and increased handouts, not to mention the chance to spend a delightful afternoon screaming about imaginary right-wing racism with other Borg, isn’t enough to provoke their monolithic base into action, something has gone gravely awry.

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