Churchill coverage

To all of the Badger Blog Alliance's readers, I apologize. My coverage of the pre-speech events at UW Whitewater is over at Jiblog. The photo blogging was just too time consuming with my dial up connection. Head over there, and head over to The American Mind, where Sean has one post up already and will have even more up in a little while when he gets home.

Here's a brief summary. There were two distinct groups which formed at the end of the campus mall. The larger of the two groups was there for the candle light vigil for 9-11 victims. The smaller, older group was demonstrating on behalf of Ward Churchill. This smaller group was very vocal and did their best to disrupt the prayer vigil. Charlie Sykes and Steve Nass did a great job of keeping the vigil on task despite the fact that they were plagued with a poor sound system. A couple of vocal spats occurred between the two groups, but everyone did a good job of keeping it from escalating beyond that. Sean and I were going to try to live blog the cable broadcast of the speech, but it did not begin until 9:30.