The establishment media is quietly having an apoplexy as it either tries to downplay this huge event, or to dismiss it as a handful of ‘astroturf’ racists. It’s always difficult to estimate the numbers of people in such a large gathering, but the range seems to be anywhere from 350,000 to over a million at its peak. People from all across the country traveled to protest in solidarity against not just the alarming expansion of government, but also the arrogance of the leaders in Washington who look down their noses and scoff at Middle America.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) believed the gathering represented a realignment of politics in America: “Anybody that doesn’t recognize this is mainstream America is going to miss the boat. I hope my party, the Republicans, realize that this is not a right-wing group,” DeMint told CNSNews.com. “This is moms and dads and grandpas and grandmas. This is Democrats and independents. They just are alarmed at growth of government and debt and takeovers and the health care was just a tipping point.”

How many reporters from ABC, CBS, CNBC, MSNBC, and CNN covered the event in a positive light, the way they did the anti-war protests? Or even covered the protest in a neutral manner, as they once did in the past when they still had a degree of journalistic integrity? Even the British press covered this event with the headline A million march to US Capitol to protest against ‘Obama the socialist’.

More photos from this massive rally can be found here by Mark Hemingway, who “personally spoke to people from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Idaho, Alaska, Delaware, Tennessee, Nevada, California, Montana, as well as Virginia and Maryland.”