There was a throng of great speakers – but I didn’t get to do much listening.\u00a0 I was a zone captain, leading a group of marshals that were watching out for ringers and troublemakers in the area in front of the stage.\u00a0 It was packed, of course – I logged 10,000 steps in the 2.5 hours I was going back and forth across the area.\u00a0 \u00a0The only “trouble”…well, we’ll come back to that.<\/p>\n
The event was a huge success – and needs to be even bigger, if we’re going to show the legislature, the media, and Big Left who is boss.\u00a0 But the human rights crew were the big winners.<\/p>\n
The biggest losers?\u00a0 The media – who largely beclowned themselves:<\/p>\n
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- Channels 4 and 5 spent more time interviewing the four criminal-safety advocates who held a “picnic” 100 hards away from the group than they spent interviewing actual attendees.<\/li>\n
- Channel 9’s coverage focused on the one, single, solitary Confederate flag that showed up, as well as interviewing the least well-spoken people they could find.\u00a0 Their slant was nauseating, and their reporter\u00a0 – who was visibly upset by being around gun owners – was unforgiveable.\u00a0 Channel 9 may be an even bigger DFL PR firm than Channel 11.<\/li>\n
- Minnesota Public Radio’s coverage was relatively fair on the surface – but word surfaced that they’re working on a story trying to tie gun rights groups to “racism”.\u00a0 And I’m sure you could find racists there – heck, they’re everywhere, including among the public radio audience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
One (?) anti-gunner tweeted out a predictable “It looks like a lot of old white men”.\u00a0 \u00a0Which was an intetersting non-observation observation; two of the speakers were black, two were women, one was a Hawaiian native.\u00a0 The crows was as white as, well, Minnesota at large (and as the critic) – but I saw black, Latino, native, Pacific islander, and many Asian attendees; the rally was vastly more racially diverse than any “Protect” MN or Moms Want Action meeting.<\/p>\n
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