Decay
By Mitch Berg
Since the left’s been jumping up and down about the low turnout at the Tea Party rally (on a windy, freezing day in an off year after an epic conservative victory) I figured it’d be fun to show a really dead movement.
This is the last “Million Mom March” event in Minneapolis a few years back:
More camera people than “Moms”.
Now that’s a dead movement.
April 28th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
The MSM and MPR would tightly frame the shot, break into programming, and call out a new alert for the “event”. I think that might be Heather wearing the flat cap.
April 28th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
They were all there in spirit.
April 28th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
All Million of them.
April 28th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
The rest of ’em were at the range having fun!
April 28th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
C’mon Mitch!
You know darn well that on that day, Target was giving out free samples of gummy worms!
April 29th, 2011 at 3:49 am
From my lame blog http://FifthEstate.net
http://fifthestatenet.blogspot.com/2011/03/03-08-11-international-womens-day-was.html
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011
The 03-08-11 International Women’s Day was a flop here.
Suppose lefties had an event and no one showed up? That happened locally yesterday, Tuesday 03-08-11. The Google banner for the day was customized and clicking on it linked to the 100th anniversary of “International Woman’s Day. They had what looked like a Java webpage that said that the location of local events. One was a “hands across rivers” events. Locally, it was the Twin Cities, MN at the LakeStreet/Marshall Av “peace Bride” which have admittedly peaceful demonstrations that started the day of the local Kathleen Ann Soliah/Sara Jane Olson arrest in June 1999.
Read the Star Tribune story on the event and the comment I posted below. (hint: If you are having an event, state the date, don’t assume people know this.)
http://www.startribune.com/nation/117615308.html
My posted comment:
Google had a banner today on the event and a link to a page on the gathering here and elsewhere. Nowhere on this page did it say what date these events were supposed to happen. I had to Google a bit to determine that it was for March 08, 2011. …… One site listed for a gathering on Tuesday afternoon was the Lake Street/Marshall “Peace Bridge”. …… At 4PM Tuesday two people with a homemade sign on the “event”. After shopping and seeing the “snow mountain” by the State Capital I headed across the bridge at five minutes to five PM. Two more people with a professionally made banner. Four people is not enough to form a “human chain” across the river. … (hint: It helps to list the date of an event on a webpage announce an event!)
April 29th, 2011 at 7:37 am
CSM is and was always an astroturf movement, trying hard to simulate being a grassroots one.
In the short run, appearances can be more important than reality; in the long run — as long as the other side is watching — it’s the other way around.
GOCRA, right now, is in a rebuilding stage, and if it once again becomes the nexus of a grassroots movement — that’s undecided, at the moment — come 2015, if the stars (trans: the lege and the Governor’s office) align themselves, the movement will, once again, leave the antis in the dust, wondering what it was that hit them.
We’ll see.