I tuned in to the live stream of the anti-health reform rally in Atlanta this afternoon. A couple of random observations:
Organizers of the event expected 25,000. As I watched, some guy announced from the stage a crowd of 12,000. So, less than half of what they expected, and that number is self reported (Edit: The ajc is reporting only 4,000 attended). To put that in perspective, I got more votes as a Democrat running for office in Forsyth County. Not exactly a huge gathering.
Holy Cow. What an infomercial. I hope people brought a pen and paper because in between the “Socialism!” attendees where showered with “please visit <insert your particular cause website here>” over and over again. They might as well have invited the ShamWow and SlapChop guy for all the self-interested peddling going on (we can’t sell this at this price all day!).
The expert panel was priceless. One of the guys, Robert Goldberg, is known as the guy who tried to draw analogies of the health care reform debate to the movie Bruno.
Some country singer named John Berry sang “Give Back My America”. I learned that I can’t “pray like my daddy did”. Did not know that. Berry did admit before starting that “I’m not a prolific songwriter”. I agree.
