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Thank You Eagles
By John
I haven't been the best about covering the Gathering of Eagles, and that's my fault, my loss. SMASH did such a solid job covering the event on Michelle Malkin's blog during our guest blogging stint that I guess I felt like the message was already being effectively disseminated.
This week's Vent got me off my butt.
Not an unusual occurrence this week. Judging by the size of the Eagle crowd, their core message got alot of people off their butts.
With one notable exception, of course. The mainstream media.
The failure of media organizations to grasp the historical importance of this event is simply staggering. It goes beyond ideological slant, indicating a systemic breakdown in the mainstream media's ability to recognize what is and isn't newsworthy.
And the Gathering of Eagles was most certainly newsworthy.
Here a loose confederation of Americans, operating outside the organizational machine of professional protest organizations like A.N.S.W.E.R. and Code Pink, amassed an enormous presence, simply by appealing to the average citizen's inherent desire to support our troops and our veterans, to defend America's name, and to honor our brave fallen, memorialized on that wall.
Yet another run-of-the-mill protest from folks who bring the same tired, hateful message year after year dominated the headlines.
Juxtapose that against the Eagles. Who, in one short day, changed the political landscape in this country. Effectively negating a message of dissent with a message of inspiration. Of hope. Of support and of patriotism. The gathering all but destroyed the anti-war narrative of Iraq as another Vietnam, and of an America rising up in unison against "Bush's war."
And in one simple chant, they said it all..."U.S.A, U.S.A, U.S.A, U.S.A!"
USA, we love you. We believe in you. We'll fight for you. We'll die for you.
I've been pessimistic about Iraq for one, sole reason. That the only way we can lose over there is that America abandons its belief in itself and the ultimate justice of our mission. Watching that video, one thought kept running through my head.....
My God, we can win this thing.
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Hey, I represent me....I came down from Boston, meeting up with a bus of folks from Maine. I am just sick and tired of the mainstream media saying they speak for me. They do not. Airborne: All the Way....
This dovetails nicely with your post the other day about how we have forgotten history.
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Beautifully scribed, John. I worry about these "movements" though. It is difficult to understand how much of the population that they actually represent. That goes for the gathering of eagles and the anti-war people.