The Mainstreaming of the Protest MovementI knew it
wouldn't be long before the Left started this meme:
"The vigils were something we hadn't seen in quite some time. It was a turning point, I think," says Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, noting large turnouts in cities like Salt Lake City, not just Democratic strongholds. "Something was afoot in its mainstreamness."Sigh. This is a classic example of something I've commented about
in the past. How does the Left "mainstream" itself? By saying they're mainstream to an uncritical media. Getting a turnout at the vigil in Salt Lake City may sound impressive, but were there 135,000 people there? Because that's how many people in Salt Lake City voted for John Kerry. In fact, there were
a claimed 2,000 people at the protest vigil. So basically they got about 1.5% of the folks who voted for John Kerry to turn out. That's not mainstream, that's fringe.
