March 18, 2007

Gathering of Eagles : A Soaring Success

A message from Kit at Gathering of Eagles:

…ANSWER had a year to plan their well-publicized event and were hoping for around 100,000. They actually drew about 5,000-10,000, according to various news reports today. The Gathering of Eagles, on the other hand, had about six weeks to plan an unprecedented response - and with no advertising, no publicity, no celebrity or political endorsement, no news coverage, and no big money, we had about 30,000 boots on the ground!

The volunteers poured themselves into this historic event, and all of you who attended gave so much to be there. I’ll stop here and let your words speak for themselves.

Michelle reports on a massive decrepancy between the National Park Service estimates of the size of the Gathering of Eagles rally and the reporting by the New York Times. The National Park Service, estimates that there were 30,000. The Times says this:
[T]he protesters met what several veterans of the antiwar movement described as an unusually large contingent of several hundred counterdemonstrators.
I dunno about you, but given the well-publicized anti-American bias of the NYT, I'm willing to go with the Park Service on this one.

I understand that the GoE site is putting together a gallery of photos from the event. It's down right now, but I'll post the link when it's back up.


By Ragnar Danneskjold, R.I.N.O. Hunter at March 18, 2007 12:56 PM | | l digg this