Red Guard, Indeed

I'm pretty sure than no anti-war protest since 1991 drew front page coverage in the Register Guard. I remember attending a large rally (my only one because I hate hippies and the hippies run the rallies in Eugene) that drew what I considered 1000 people or so to the Courthouse. The mayor spoke, DeFazio spoke, we were forced to sing "Give Peace a Chance" and were treated to 5+ minutes of a drum circle (I don't know how long it went, five minutes is all I can give a drum circle). I believe this drew City/Region coverage and I was pissed the crowd was estimated at 500.

Yesterday's tea parties were treated to front page coverage, extending to the inside, and a separate article on the inside about the national tea parties. From reading the R-G, I might be lead to believe that the average fine citizen of Springfield just happened to wake up that morning and - gosh darn it - express some frustration about what Obama is doing to this country.

Now, because we are pinko, leftist, commie-types, we'll remember that at least once 1 million people demonstrated in NYC against the war. I believe this rally got a mention in the "Across the Nation" blurb section of the R-G. Apparently Fox News' weeks-long campaign to get people out, resulting in tens of thousands across the nations, is worthy of an good-size story.

/standard rant about the so-called liberal media