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I just read the article in the Washington Post--(had a little trouble believing that the Post printed it--LOL!) The DC Chapter keeps this entire website in front of the news. The publicity ya'll provide for FR is awesome!

Keep up your hard work--and know that many of us across the country would love to be there for every one of your events.

Yeah, the Post actually had two people there: a hard news reporter and a columnist who I do suspect supports President Bush's policy here (the Post editorial page has come in support of "military disarmament" as a last resort, in fact). So we're going to get at least two articles.

When pigs fly! Frankly, I think it *is* newsworthy and deserves it. I'm not about bashing the press, it's not productive: I wonder if having a rally when the left wasn't having theirs actually HELPED us get better coverage rather than becoming a sidebar to their rally.

I also wonder if maybe, despite the cold and snow and all, if it didn't help with turnout: we had much more. It stands to reason that mainstream conservatives might be more interested in showing up if they didn't have to transgress a crowd of the unwashed left. I wonder, I'm just wondering, if there isn't some lesson to be drawn from this: sure, we have to counterprotest, but our leadership steered us in the right direction here by having a separate, what-we-support rally. It at least curbs the press' instinct to say we're negative and angry and spend our time just hating the left. (Gee, I hope Marc Fisher's reading this! :)