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Fri Sep 12, 2014, 02:29 PM Sep 2014

Just like I said about this group...

"2 million?"
More like less than a hundred.

Two Million Bikers Fall 99.9% Short

Submitted by Peter Montgomery on Friday, 9/12/2014 2:18 pm

The group Two Million Bikers to DC organized its second annual rally on the National Mall yesterday, which, like its predecessor, fell far short of the goal expressed in the group’s name. Organizers said the event was meant to honor people killed in the 9/11 attacks as well as first responders and veterans – presumably that’s how they sold it to corporate sponsor Budweiser – but rally speakers also used the event to rail against President Barack Obama, Congress, and an array of right-wing targets, including gun control, Common Core educational standards, the EPA, regulation of small businesses, the destruction of free enterprise, the Bundy Ranch standoff between the BLM and armed protestors, and Obama’s purportedly fraudulent re-election. Although organizers got pre-event press promising “thousands” of bikers – not 2 million – descending on the nation’s capital, I didn’t see more than a couple hundred at the event’s peak. Fewer than 50 were left to hear the final speakers. More than one speaker took note of the dispiritingly small crowd.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/two-million-bikers-fall-999-short#sthash.B6SPeUFp.dpuf

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