At least the NY Times was better than most publications, as they reported ‘thousands’ had marched. The Times said “hundreds of thousands.”

In reality, if at least 100 cities were involved and each averaged 20,000 marchers, more than a million marched yesterday. And counting previous marches on this issue in the past two weeks, the fact is that ‘millions’ have marched and more than one million marched yesterday.

So why is the corporate press downplaying that?

The fact is that there’s a half dozen states where immigration is an issue that confronts citizens regularly. The GOP, bleeding from self-inflicted wounds of incompetence and corruption, was desperate for an election strategy for 2006 and chose to make immigration a national issue. Presenting it as a national security concern, they knew it’d be like their Southern Strategy, fanning the flames of intolerance and dividing people, and they hope to keep us divided through Election Day.

Why not? After all, those 11 million non-citizens can’t vote.

But they forgot how many immigrants have become citizens already. Not just Latinos, either. The millions who marched include many citizens. Despite the media’s deliberate downplaying of the numbers and ignoring how the GOP effort has produced a counteroffensive among people who can and will vote in November, we’ll see the results in November and in elections that follow.

To the racist ways the GOP has continued to divide Americans, I’m betting on my fellow citizens to see through the scam. White, brown, black, or whatever skin color and national origin describes us, we are united against illegal wars, illegal wiretapping of citizens, the dismantling of social security, the promotion of racism, $3/gallon war profiteering, the lack of port security, the continued freedom of Osama Bin Laden, the culture of corruption from Tom Delay, Kenneth Lay, Bob Ney, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and George Bush, just to name a few.

Because of the dishonesty, the propaganda, the promotion of fear, the false promotion of limited issues of morality above the deaths of hundreds of thousands in Iraq, Darfur, New Orleans and elsewhere, I fully expect this White House to sink to lower depths yet in deceiving us, as they struggle to hold power while there’s more federal monies they can still rip off.

I just wish more of the corporate media would quit acting as their henchmen in covering it all up. Instead of acting as champions of truth and transparency, too many remain accomplices to some of the worst governmental decisions in US history.