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Since I know that the media has no bias, I am sure that you all heard about the antiwar protest held this last weekend. What you did not here from them was this, The Gathering of Eagles. The media also "forgot" to mention that the antiwar group burned the American flag, out of the view of the Eagles of course.

Posted: 19 Mar 2007 09:00 AM CDT
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From: Gathering of Eagles <[email protected]

Excerpts from the story:

As those who were there know, the reporting by the mainstream media on the Gathering of Eagles has been mostly ficticious and at times downright laughable.
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> For the record, here are the leading print media outlets? reporting on our numbers.
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> The New York Times (registration may be required)
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> As they gathered before the march, the protesters met what several veterans of the antiwar movement described as an unusually large contingent of several hundred counterdemonstrators. Many were veterans in biker jackets who said they had come to protect the nearby Vietnam Memorial, citing rumors that had circulated among veterans groups that the demonstrators planned to deface it.
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> Crossing the bridge toward the Pentagon, the marchers met another group of about 50 counterdemonstrators by the Arlington Cemetery, one holding a sign that said: ?Go to hell traitors. You dishonor our dead on hallowed ground.?
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> Cox News Service quotes AP?s initial silly reporting:
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> While police in the nations capital no longer give official crowd estimates at public demonstrations, The Associated Press said a private count by police found perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 antiwar marchers and hundreds of counter-protesters.
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> AP?s later rewrite:
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> Police no longer give official estimates but said privately that perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 anti-war demonstrators marched, with a smaller but still sizable number of counterprotesters also out in force.
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> The Washington Post almost got it right :
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> Several thousand vets, some of whom came by bus from New Jersey, car caravans from California or flights from Seattle or Michigan, lined the route from the bridge and down 23rd Street, waving signs such as War There Or War Here. Their lines snaked around the corner and down several blocks of Constitution Avenue.
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> The Los Angeles Times:
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> The counterprotesters, fewer in number but no less vocal, gathered on the east side of the Vietnam Wall and shouted political taunts
> Note (from Heidi): Somehow, the media came up with their predictably skewed perspective without ever leaving the anti-war rally area. They did not come to the GOE rally, where thousands of veterans mingled, nor note the large groups of veterans on roaming patrols, the three-hour line in front of the Vietnam Wall, or the countless vets guarding all the other memorials in the area. Only a portion of the Eagles lined the road along which the protesters marched, and even there we clearly outnumbered them.
> At the anti-war rally, the leaders had to get all their people to line the fence between 23rd St. and Henry Bacon St. in order to make it look like more people were on the premises. I heard them make the announcements myself. [UPDATE: CJ has the audio.]
> The truth is that ANSWERs entire rally area was virtually empty. Kit walked through the entire area with CJ from A Soldiers Perspective and has numerous pictures of an almost empty rally. The mainstream media, in all its wisdom, steadfastly covered an empty field!
> As proof, here are two photos to start with from CJ (read his perspective and see more photos from behind enemy lines here and here), and Kit will post hers soon:
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> CJ says: And just so you dont think Im cheating by not showing it all, heres another look at the other side of the ANSWER bullpen (from the South Side facing north) :
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> What the press didnt see was this:
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> Fortunately, the truth is already getting out and the media is once again being exposed as woefully inept and shamefully unprofessional. The bloggers that were onsite are helping to get the word out, and in doing so are exhibiting far more journalistic integrity and professionalism. As you start uploading your own photos and video to the web, the medias reports will become increasingly irrelevant.
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