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Naomi Wolf at the Ron Paul Revolution Rally

I’ve blogged some of my general impressions of the rally, which was yesterday, here. I heard a 6,000-attendee estimate from a couple of sources, though Kelley Vlahos may be right in thinking it was fewer. (I don’t really know what 6,000 or 2,500 people would look like.) In any case, it was a great event. Entirely grassroots organized, too, so not everything at the rally should be taken to reflect RP’s own views.

It was an ecumenical event, as Naomi Wolf’s talk might suggest. Video below, via Going Down Bitter in the Hinterlands. (Content warning: there was just one homemade sign during the whole event with a vulgarity scrawled on it, and unfortunately it pops up this this YouTube footage. Several people tried telling the guy with the “F— Your Government” sign to get rid of it, since this was a family event. Perhaps he was an agent provocateur.)

Naomi Wolf speaking to several thousand constitutionalists and libertarians. That’s not something you see every day. I’m charmed by the whole thing.

(Googling around a bit, I see that the video was shot by Charles Davis, whose blog about the event is here.)

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5 Comments on “Naomi Wolf at the Ron Paul Revolution Rally”

  1. Goesdownbitter Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    Thanks for link and the video was not taken by us, but uploaded from YouTube. All the same, it’s a potent message that more need to hear and more importantly, understand. America is no longer free.

  2. ARS Says:
    July 14th, 2008 at 4:38 am

    I like the “schoolteacher talking to 5th graders” ‘tude she’s got going on there, although I think part (just a part) of that looks like her standard demeanor, after I finally watched that Mansfield interview today.

  3. I Didn’t Notice Ron Paul Wearing An Inordinate Amount Of Earth Tones : Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee Says:
    July 14th, 2008 at 9:04 am

    [...] When did feminist author and Al Gore wardrobe adviser Naomi Wolf become a libertarian Ron Paul supporter? [...]

  4. xenos Says:
    July 14th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    Had it been Naomi Klein I would have been truly shocked.

  5. Tim Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 8:10 am

    Numbers at rally…

    Apparently it is well known amongst specialist researchers into these matters (most of whom work professionally with architects and builders, estimating things like airport passenger flows etc) that public crowds are generally much smaller than protest organisers, police and press all claim. All these groups have a vested interest in boosting the numbers of course, but humans are notoriously bad at estimating crowd sizes for psychological reasons.

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