More than 400 progressive and civil rights groups gathered Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial in support of jobs, education and justice, in a poor, astroturfed attempt at imitating  the Tea Party movement.  An astroturfed event is one which is organized by the powers-that-be, is a desperate attempt to make it seem like a groundswell movement. 

Organizers, including the NAACP, La Raza and Code Pink, labelled it the most diverse march in history as they tried to rally their base around Democrats desperately trying  to keep their phony baloney jobs on Capitol Hill.

The Maytag Repairman of cable news, MSNBC host Ed Schultz, (nobody wants him around, either) said:

We are together. This march is about the power to the people.  It is about the people standing up to the corporations. Are you ready to fight back?

So says the guy who works for one of the largest corporations in the world, General Electric.

In a bombastic speech that opened the “One Nation Working Together” rally on the National Mall, Schultz blamed those wascally Wepublicans for shipping jobs overseas and curtailing freedoms. He borrowed lines from conservative Fox News host Glenn Beck and Conservative Americans everywhere and vowed to “take back our country.”

The Far Left/Progressives are a small minority in America.  It ain’t your country, Skippy. 

Schultz told the bussed-in crowd of thousands, who at times seemed like they would rather be at home on the couch with Pookie:

This is a defining moment in America. Are you American?  This is no time to back down. This is time to fight for America.

It’s pretty sad if you have to ask, Ed.

The NAACP’s Jamie Branch claimed that the march is not an alternative to the Tea Party but an antidote:

We’re all working for the same purpose, the same mission.  Everybody wants jobs. Everybody wants health care. It’s just a way of going about doing things and if we all come together like all these people are, it will benefit everybody.

No, ma’am.   Everybody wants Freedom.  You can keep your nanny-state government.  Americans want no part of it. 

With a month to go before a political re-enactment of Custer’s Last Stand , the Far-Left organizers of yesterday’s event hoped that the four-hour program of speeches and entertainment would energize activists who are crucial if Democrats are to retain their majorities in the House and Senate. The national mood is definately against Obama, the Progressives, and their policies, and if Republicans don’t blow it, they will ride voter anger to gain control of the House and possibly the Senate.

As a casual observer, it appeared to me that most of the crowd had that “forced to be here” look and were more interested in talking to each other than in paying attention to the speakers.

Organizers insisted that this rally was not partisan.

You lie!  Heh.

Organizers said Saturday their message is about job creation, quality education and (social) justice.  

I am sure that it is just a coincidence that the largest organizations, such as the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, always back Democratic candidates.

The speeches were hardly bi-partisan.

Schultz warned participants of Republicans:

They want to change this country.

More than 400 organizations, ranging from labor unions to faith, environmental and gay rights groups, co-ordinated the astroturfed event, which comes one month after Beck packed the same space with conservatives and tea party-style activists.

Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gathered near the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to urge a vast crowd to embrace traditional values.  The theme of the Rally was Restoring Honor.  It emphasized a return to America’s religious roots and honored Americans, including our military, who have made a difference .

One Nation organizers claimed that they began planning their event before learning about Beck’s rally, and said Saturday’s march is not in reaction to that.

Bwahahahahaha…I can’t breathe…hahahahahahahahaha…Sorry.

Obama didn’t make it.  He was spending the weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland.

I guess that was more important than energizing his Far-Left Base.

Allow me to summarize: 

 On 8/28, you had up to 750,000 Americans at an event of their own free will, praising their Creator and proud to be Americans.  They stayed there for the day-long event, enraptured by the powerful speakers and the beautiful music, including a stirring version of “Amazing Grace”, played on the bag pipes.  When the crowd left, they cleaned up after themselves, as if they had never been there.

On 10/2, you had a crowd of around 80,000, bussed-in, provided box lunches, and possibly paid union wages for their time.  Strident speakers attempted to convince the disinterested crowd that their publically-funded special interest group was more important than the previous speaker’s.  Lame musicians were backed up by a record-scratching DJ who would have seemed more appropriate at a Washington nightspot.  When they left, half of them leaving before the event was over, the sacred grounds of the Lincoln Memorial looked like a carnival had been there and the carnival gypsies pulled out in a hurry, with the law chasing them.

That’s the exact way that a lot of Democrat Candidates’ Campaign Headquarters will look like late in the evening of November 2nd.

Like a storm hit it.