If the liberal media ever "woke up", they just fell back asleep again.

Or skipping the fluffy metaphors, they've gone back to trashing conservatives:

  • THOUSANDS GATHER FOR 'ONE NATION' RALLY IN D.C.
    Event serves in part of as counter-rally to Glenn Beck's last month
    By PHILIP ELLIOTT
    The Associated Press
    updated 10/2/2010 2:39:17 PM ET

    WASHINGTON — Tapping into the same anger that fuels the tea party movement, a coalition of progressive and civil rights groups marched Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial and pledged to support Democrats struggling to keep power on Capitol Hill.

    "We are together. This march is about the power to the people," said MSNBC host Ed Schultz. "It is about the people standing up to the corporations. Are you ready to fight back?"

    In a fiery speech that opened the "One Nation Working Together" rally on the National Mall, Schultz blamed Republicans for shipping jobs overseas and curtailing freedoms. He borrowed some of conservative commentator Glenn Beck's rhetoric and vowed to "take back our country."

    "This is a defining moment in America. Are you American?" Schultz told the raucous crowd of thousands. "This is no time to back down. This is time to fight for America."

    With a month of campaigning to go and voter unhappiness high, the Democratic-leaning organizers hope the four-hour program of speeches and entertainment energizes activists who are crucial if Democrats are to retain their majorities in the House and Senate. The national mood suggests gains for the GOP, and Republicans are hoping to ride voter anger to gain control of the House and possibly the Senate.

    Organizers insist the rally is not partisan. They say the message is about job creation, quality education and justice. However, the largest organizations, such as the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, tend to back Democratic candidates.

    And the first speakers hardly shied from criticizing Republicans.

    "They want to change this country," Schultz warned participants of Republicans.

    More than 400 organizations — ranging from labor unions to faith, environmental and gay rights groups — partnered for the 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. Though also billed as nonpolitical, the rally was widely viewed as a protest against the policies of President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats.

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

    Obama was spending the weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland.


Tea Party protestors --rather than portrayed as sincere protestors of socialist policy because it is radically changing the nation and threatening us with loss of individual rights, encroaching on our lives with heavy taxes and authoritarian control-- are portrayed by the AP as "hoping to ride voter anger to gain control", with no more implied legitimate or worthy goal than fear and exploitation.

While the same article glows with praise of the opposing liberal rally.

I also love how the rally attempts to "join us together as a nation" by demonizing and blaming everything on the Republicans.
That would be the same Senate who could (until Scott Brown) ram through laws without a single Republican vote by a Democrat supermajority?
And an overhelming majority that still exists in the House?

Also rich is "Organizers insist the rally is not partisan. They say the message is about job creation, quality education and justice. However, the largest organizations, such as the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, tend to back Democratic candidates."

"Tend to back?" Puh-LEASE! AFL-CIO, and especially SEIU are the brownshirted footsoldiers in Obama's street army of intimidators of any dissent. And they have clearly received benefits and political favors for their work in gwetting Obama elected, and continuing to intimidate dissenters.
It is disingenuous to so vastly understate that these groups "tend to lean toward" the Democrats.
Quite obviously to anyone who is not an AP liberal media writer, that is a remarkably inadequate euphemism for the mercenary strong-arm thugs for Obama that they truly are, and the grants they have received from the Obama administration for their dirty work.

Dozens of youtube videos of SEIU members beating up and harassing town hall and Tea Party protestors are testament to this, often wearing SEIU tea shirts while unleashing their thug violence.

Likewise the federal funding and favors bestowed on ACORN for their part in getting Obama elected with every dirty trick in the book. Government funds that were only cut off due to the scandal unveiled by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles.