RUSH: Clarice Feldman has one more thing that she wants to say in all of this at the American Thinker.
"Everyone in the political class, journalists, consultants, elected Democrats and Republicans alike, needs to know this: Those countless little-known people who established the local e-mail lists, organized first one, then two, then three or more chartered buses, held sign-making parties and packed box lunches, are not going to go away any time soon. Continue to enact legislation that we cannot afford" and deprives people of liberty "and they will be back, perhaps in even greater numbers," and that's exactly right. Now, the rally in Washington on Saturday had the right content and it was the right location. But I do want to posit an idea for the next series of public rallies -- and I do hope that these continue, and I hope that they grow. Now, I have often pointed out here that people don't fully react to stories and situations until they see pictures.
There's an illustration. I mean, we all know this but I'll illustrate it for you. Back when George H. W. Bush was president and we had all the starving going on in Somalia, it wasn't until the New York Times published a front page picture -- this is long before the Internet was a big deal. The Internet might have not been a big deal for the public back then. The New York Times published a picture of a starving young Somali boy with the insects obligatorily flying around the head and everybody had an outrage. "Do something! Do something!" So we were mobilized to put the military over there as Meals on Wheels. Something about the reality of the situation sinks in when it can be seen on TV -- and make no mistake about it -- the Obama people saw it. Axelrod saw it. Axelrod is out there saying, "Ah, these people are not mainstream Americans."
This White House continues to insult you. This White House continues to run and campaign and govern against you, which is going to keep all of you fired up. I do think -- even though I understand it, I do think -- one of the great and tragic issues of our time is the deliberate withholding of coverage and investigations of stories by the media that would hurt the left's agenda, such as this most recent ACORN stuff. The media is no longer reporters. They are repeaters. In fact, over the weekend on... What was it? It had to be Saturday because I was watching football all day yesterday. Saturday afternoon when they found the dead woman at Yale in the wall, you shoulda seen the press questioning the local authorities there as though they were lying through their teeth.
I mean, they weren't accepting anything. Now, in the old days, that used to kind of make me mad, but I started wondering: Where is that kind of skepticism of the Obama administration on health care? The media in Connecticut was going bonkers here questioning law enforcement as they were giving their theories on what happened finding the dead woman in the wall. I said, "Wow!" It's an illustration of what no longer takes place when leftists run the country. I understand it and I'm not lamenting it because I know reality. There have been hundreds and thousands of protests by conservative groups that haven't been covered, and tiny turnouts by the left that are covered. You know all this as well as I do. What about this? We're looking for a force multiplier. Yeah, the protest in Washington on Saturday was great, two million people.
But imagine what a force multiplier would be if the next one were held outside of local and national television networks and their headquarters where they can't miss it? Right there, on or next to the properties housing the TV networks! Dare them to cover what is right under their noses! Put the media in the spotlight and on the hot seat. Don't make them the protest. Continue to protest Obama. Protest health care. Protest the loss of liberty. Protest the coming tyranny. Just do it on their property or as close to it as you can get being law-abiding and all that. Link the press with the Democrats. Make them part of it, but not the focal point. I'm not talking boycotts. I don't like boycotts. Just show up where they can't miss it. Show up in numbers where they can't escape it.
Now, these protests would be twofold. The topics being protested today with the addition of protesting coverage and lack of coverage, leaders of the media rallies should have a list of grievances by individual stations. Make the challenges substantive and adult and challenge their journalistic ethics. In fact, we own the Internet web domain DriveByMedia.com, and I'm thinking maybe this DriveByMedia.com might be a way of organizing such a thing. But I really do think the next time -- and I'm not trying to create it, I want this all to happen spontaneously. But the next time something like this happens... We've done Washington, that's great. We got the truth out. The British press, the so-called alternative media is getting the word out.
Michelle Malkin even found a picture that the nutroots on the left posted and said, "This is a fake picture. This is not a picture of the rally in Washington on Saturday." It was teeming with people, gazillions of people out there. The nutroots were saying, "This is the Kennedy funeral procession 'cause the flags are at half staff," and Michelle Malkin points out, no, the flags were at half staff over the weekend for 9/11 and commemorating the community service. (gagging) No, the picture of genuine. They know. They know what they're up against. Olympia Snowe is out there today saying, "No public option in the Senate bill. It isn't going to happen. It will not be the case."
