The audience was caught up in a song yesterday during the Women of Faith conference at TD Banknorth Garden. (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)
Ron Paul's folks didn't!
Case closed on the selectivity of the MSM's coverage off mass movements, readers!
"Thousands of women gather to share fears, faith" by Maddie Hanna, Globe Correspondent | July 27, 2008
The women spoke of failed diets, failed marriages, failed medical treatments - and faith.
The storytellers stood onstage in TD Banknorth Garden during yesterday's Women of Faith conference and encouraged the crowd of thousands sitting in the stands and on folding chairs to share their fears with one another.
"Fifteen years ago, I was a perfect Christian mother, wife, artist," said Sandi Patty, a singer who performed, then spoke at yesterday's conference about her bitter divorce and experience in therapy. "Behind the mask and under those layers, I was dying."
Patty, who was wearing a silk floral-print dress, put on a parka, scarf, hat, sunglasses, and gloves, then took them off as she described barriers she said she had built between herself and the world.
"I am learning that God wants to be the one to come and peel these layers away one by one," she said. "He wants me to hold my head high and . . . to know I am forgiven."
Women of Faith is a nondenominational organization that hosts about 30 conferences a year across the country. This is the second year the event has been held in Boston. Organizers say the event started in 1996 and is one of the largest women's conferences in North America. The goal is to provide moral and spiritual support to women, according to conference spokeswoman Anne Wiman, who said 8,000 tickets to the event had been sold.
What makes it work, said Louise DuArt, a comedic impressionist who graduated from Quincy High School in 1968, is that the speakers tell their stories with humor and honesty.
"The women on the stage are not holier than thou," said DuArt, who hosts a talk show, "Living the Life," on ABC Family. "They have spinach on their teeth. They have bad hair days. . . . They bare their souls."
Wiman said tickets to the two-day conference cost between $59 and $169, but the organization has a scholarship program. Price, however, didn't deter the thousands who came yesterday.
"You want to know how badly I wanted to come?" said Amy Hoyt, 71. "Three weeks ago I was in the hospital with a stroke, bleeding from the back of my head, and I said, 'Lord, if you'll let me come' - and he did."
Hoyt spent more than 10 hours on a bus from New Brunswick along with 47 other women from Canada. She said she came to the conference in Boston last year and found that she could connect with the speakers.
"It was like I was up there talking," she said."
Oh, about that other rally I mentioned:
As if my commentaries on the AmeriKan MSM's obfuscations and ignorance needed further evidence, here is another news story they missed.
How can they "miss" so many people?
"Media Ignores Ron Paul March For Liberty; Thousands shut down streets of Washington D.C. in peaceful rally
by Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, July 14, 2008
The goal of the event was to organize a peaceful, non-violent march on the streets of Washington D.C. followed by a rally outside the Capitol building in support of restoring constitutional government as the founding fathers set forth.
In light of this, the event was a resounding success, as it went off without a hitch and also saw thousands of dollars raised towards the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty.
In addition to Ron Paul's keynote speech, audiences were addressed by Pastor Chuck Baldwin, author Naomi Klein, banking expert Edward G. Griffin, former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit Michael Scheuer and Iraq Veterans Against The War spokesman Adam Kokesh, amongst others.
It is estimated that around 2500 people attended the rally. Some have expressed disappointment that there were not 15,000 plus at the event, given that number had pledged to attend on the campaign for liberty website.
However, the day was extremely hot and many were seen camping out on the outskirts of the rally area in the shade. Some bloggers have suggested that as many as 8000 people in total attended the event.
These numbers were seemingly not significant enough for the corporate controlled media to pay any attention to the event. A loan blog entry from the Chicago Tribune is about the sum of the written coverage the freedom rally attracted.
Meanwhile, in what was clearly a gross distortion of the truth, CNN ran a short report which stated that Ron Paul addressed only 500 to 800 people.
Here is Ron Paul's keynote speech from the rally:
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Once again, this whole event and its NON-COVERAGE in the AmeriKan MSM simply validates what I have been saying about their SELECTIVE coverage of protests.
