THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

MEDIA'S STORY ON THE MILLION MOM MARCH - - THEY DON'T EVEN PRETEND TO ACCURACY ANY MORE | 2000-06-09

James Duclos -- who says he's a "New England Yankee Copperhead" -- informs us of two very important web sites. These web sites expose the utter absurdity of the claims media are making about the "Million Mom March."

The media reported, vaguely, that "hundreds of thousands" of women were there. That was the vague lie they actually stated. Then they left it to other leftists to inflate the figures without contradiction.

The web sites on the "million Mom March" are

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a391f959078aa.htm

http://www.etherzone.com/mmm052300.html

I had wondered why the media had been so vague about the actual numbers of the "Million Mom March" for gun control. The reason is as I suspected: it was a dismal failure, so the media didn't report that fact.