Saturday, March 22: In the morning, ABC reporter Chris Cuomo (son of the former New York Governor Mario Cuomo) picked up where Jennings left off. Previewing new protests, he insisted that anti-war activists represented more than the tiny fraction of the country that shares their views: “In American history, protests like this have been prescient indicators of the national mood, so the government may do well to listen to what’s said today.”

With 7 out of 10 Americans supporting the war at this juncture, one wonders exactly how these are "prescient indicators of the national mood." In fact, if if Cuomo wants to find a historical reference, he will have to search deeper than the Vietnam war (to which he was undoubtedly referring). After so many well-documented protests of that conflict, after all, how did warmonger Richard Nixon manage to win the 1972 presidential election in a landslide?