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Marked in Pgh on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:15:07 PM
The News Media continues to ignore 9/12, its scope and nature. The event was only announced under the fold on the front page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, with the article appearing on page A-9. The article itself was a reprint of one from the Scarlet Harlot, the New York Times and was written by Jeff Zeleny. Its title was "Obama, Congress targeted", with the subtitle "Tens of thousands attend broad protest of government in nation's capital".
If it was a broad protest of government, how could there only be "tens of thousands" of protesters? And how could Zeleny than state in the article and I quote "but the magnitude of the rally took the authorities by surprise, with throngs of people streaming from the White House to Capital Hill for more than three hours". How can that be the result of merely "tens of thousands" of protesters being at the rally? The distance from the White House to Congress is a mile, and the protesters were streaming from one end to the other for three hours and filled Pennsylvania Ave.. But the Times ran with an earlier estimate of the protest made well before the rally occurred by the authorities. These are the same authorities who are used to policing rallies by the Left and the Obama Coronation. Yet they were surprised by the magnitude and compostition of the attendees at the march. The Scarlet Harlot simply ignored the facts and did not update the estimate to fit with the reality of the turnout; and since the rest of the Gobblist Press merely parrots what the New York Times says, the misinformation was broadcast again while the Press ignored the facts; as it usually does, and did not do their job. The Post-Gazette merely reprinted the article.
On the same day, Sunday September 13, 2009, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the other hyphenated but conservative local paper ran an article above the fold titled "Protesters take D.C. by storm" but with the subtitle of "Tens of thousands march in opposition to Obama's agenda". The aritcle was a reprint of an article written by Mark Z. Barabar of the Los Angeles Times. The times are changing and the New York and L.A. Times are both suffering from, dare we say, declining circulation. Perhaps the lack of blood is effecting their perception of the world and the truth.
As an example, Barabar also makes the contradictory observation "....the demonstrators filled Pennsylvania Avenue and swarmed the Capitol grounds with a sea of bobbing palcards and hand-lettered signs that spelled out a catalog of dissent". Yes, that's right, dissent, peaceful, widespread and active dissent by well over, dare we even mention, a million, perhaps two million people? If the attendees at the rally swarmed the Capitol grounds while filling Pennsylvania Ave., then could there could have been as many as two million American citizens at the rally? It's very probable, even with the misinformation of the fourth estate.
By ignoring the magnitude and scope of the rally, minimizing its size and its significance of exemplifying the free exercise of public speech and then emphasizing the misleading number of protesters, the News Media are in fact ignoring 9/12.