"One Nation," Big Mess

Claudia Rosett

October 03, 2010 12:17 PM

As Charles Krauthammer noted last month, the Tea Party ralliers in Washington, D.C., on the National Mall, left the place nearly spotless — “the first revolution in recorded history that picked up its own trash.”

Not so the progressives of the “One Nation Working Together” rally held Saturday, Oct. 2 in Washington, also on the National Mall. Here’s a Washington Post story on the event. Here’s a blogosphere video of what you won’t find mentioned in the Post story: the trashing of the Mall.

Conclude what you like.

For media inquiries, please contact [email protected] Claudia Rosett is widely recognized as a ground-breaking reporter on corruption at the United Nations. Her investigative reporting skills, drawn from three decades as a journalist covering international affairs, led her to expose the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, the worst financial fraud in the history of humanitarian relief. Ms. Rosett worked from 1984-2002 as a staff editorialist, editor and reporter at The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared before six U.S. House and Senate Committees and Subcommittees to testify on subjects including U.N.-related corruption and the Iran-North Korea strategic alliance. Her work on Oil-for-Food earned Claudia the 2005 Eric Breindel Award and the Mightier Pen award, and for her on-site coverage of China's Tiananmen Square in 1989, she won an Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence. She is a Foreign Policy Fellow with the Independent Women's Forum, and writes a column on foreign affairs for Forbes.com.