Reply #9: The press was on our side this time [View All]

[Newsjock]

Even though, by most accounts, the crowd at Saturday's event was less than expected, we got almost universally favorable coverage in the print media -- including an excellent Washington Post article on how military families were so prominent at the event.

Moreover, many of the complaints that peppered DU yesterday -- too much Free Mumia, too many red headbands, etc. -- were either glossed over or completely ignored in most mainstream media reports.

And what did the "well-dressed" freepers get? At most, a passing reference at the end of the reports. And as for their supposed good behavior? AP moved this photo Saturday afternoon as their sample of the counterdemonstration:

Ruben Israel, left, of Los Angeles, and Stephen James, right, of Somerset, Penn., heckle anti-war demonstrators as they march in Washington to protest the U.S. troops presence in Iraq

We won this round. We don't need to change.