If millions of us marching couldn't stop the Iraq War, why obsess whether Beck had 100k or 200k?

[newtothegame]

:shrug:

[seshers]

1. Because...

he had neither.

[newtothegame]

2. And that's worth wringing your hands about?

:shrug:

[movonne]

5. No is not... it's the media....we could have millions come out and

march and barely a memtion...a few thousand come out for beck and it is 24-7 news...

[anarch]

3. good point. No number of the "small people" are going to accomplish anything,

unless and until it's a large enough number of us together, with a unified agenda to effect real and fundamental change. I fear we've been irrevocably divided and conquered, though.

[DJ13]

4. Because you could have had 2m war protestors and still be ignored by the MSM

Yet Beck's stunt that drew fewer people than expected garnered wall to wall coverage.

The message of Beck's real failure to attract the numbers the right was hoping for needs to be the news from that event in order to lessen the attraction of the right wing.