Community radio stations promoting a community event … which is one way to define the immigrant rights rallies … is a whole other thing, isn't it? These were organized by rights advocates without the assistance of news media companies … and, of course, didn't get the coverage they warranted by same.

And to my knowledge, FOX (and CNN and NBC and CBS et al) have never in *any* way promoted a progressive rally … nor should they. They *should* give them the attention they merit as expressions of popular support for peace and justice and all that good stuff, shouldn't they?

(And our gummint should abide by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights … which it's assiduously ignored for six decades.

Good luck on both counts.)

That's a bit misleading. MOST of the rallies, and there were hundreds, did not feature Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity etc. They WERE, to be sure, promoted by FOX in a way that no antiwar or other progressive rally ever has been.

In May, 2006, there were HUGE immigrant rights rallies on May Day – 100,000+ in San Jose, for example. Those rallies were HEAVILY promoted by Spanish-language radio stations, but no one denigrated them because of that.

The plain fact of the matter is that a lot of people came out to demonstrate. Just because you (or I) don't agree with their cause is no reason to denigrate them.