From the AP:

WASHINGTON Sep 25, 2005 — Support for U.S. troops fighting abroad mixed with anger toward anti-war demonstrators at home as hundreds of people, far fewer than organizers had expected, rallied Sunday on the National Mall just a day after a massive protest against the war in Iraq…

About 400 people gathered near a stage on an eastern segment of the mall, a large photo of an American flag serving as a backdrop…

…Saturday’s rally near the Washington Monument on the western part of the mall, an event that attracted an estimated 100,000 people…

… “The group who spoke here the other day did not represent the American ideals of freedom, liberty and spreading that around the world,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, told the crowd. “I frankly don’t know what they represent, other than blaming America first.”

You might be tempted to draw some conclusions based on the so-called difference between the numbers”100,000″ and “400.” Don’t make that mistake.

For one, as Senator Sessions pointed out, the pro-war rally had a clear, focussed message. The so-called “anti-war” rally was all over the map, some protesting the war in Iraq, others criticizing President Bush’s foreign policy, and still others demanding that the troops be brought home. Well sure, if you’re going to make a “protest” a big grab-bag of issues llike that, of course you can get the numbers. Why, if they’d added “I like kitty cats” to their nebulous agenda, I bet they could’ve gotten twenty thousand more.

Also, you have to watch the liberal media here and the adjectives they chose to use to describe Saturday’s rally. “Huge,” “massive,” “gigantic.” What have they been saying about today’s rally? “Tiny,” “miniscule,” “smaller than had been planned or expected.” See the difference there? They’re just spinning the story the way they want it to read! How many exactly is “huge,” Mr. Scoop McCommiepants? Could I get an exact count on what you consider “tiny,” Ms. Pressy von Liarstein? No? Oh, I see, they’re just adjectives.

And don’t get me started on the issue of how they get those numbers in the first place. The media finds some liberal stooge (in this case Washington’s “chief” of “police”) to estimate the number of people who showed up. Estimate! Oh, thanks - as though I couldn’t pull a number out of my ass all by myself. And what about ordinary foot-traffic? Did it occur to anybody that Saturday is a HUGE day for tourism in Washington? That there might have been 80,000 - 95,000 passers-by who found themselves accidentally included in the estimate when all they wanted to do was snap a photo of our President’s house on their way to a late lunch? How many of those “protestors” had anything to do with the rally, and how many of them even spoke English? Does a sign reading “Stop the War” mean the same thing in Japanese as it does in English, or might it mean something like “Where can I find reasonably-priced lodging?” Did anybody bother to look into that? No.

Finally, there’s the numbers game. At what point did the lefty media decide that 100,000 was “more than” 400? Or that dozens was “less than” thousands? See, it’s all word tricks again. The pro-war rally was a “disappointment” because “400″ is somehow “less” than the expected “20,000.” Oh, really? Well excuse me, I must be some simple backwoods dumbass just because I’m not convinced that your liberal fuzzy math tells the whole story! I guess loving America automatically makes me “dumb,” and “ridiculous,” and “lacking in even the most rudimentary math skills!” Well, fine - If supporting my country means that I’m somehow “ignorant” of the way leftist numbers work, then maybe I don’t want to be “informed.”

There’s more, but I don’t have room for all the pictures, documents, and scientific charts that I have that tell the real story. But take my word for it - this weekend proved that Americans overwhelmingly support our President and the war, now more than ever. Let’s see how the big media liars spin that.