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Rally attendees 'most impressive

James Freeman was so impressed with Beck rally attendees that he wrote a Wall Street Journalop-ed about it today.

"Pundits will debate whether the crowd at Glenn Beck's Saturday rally in Washington was the largest in recent political history, but it was certainly among the most impressive," says James Freeman.

He continues:

Not only was the rally akin to a "huge church picnic" (in one Journal reporter's description), but one had to wonder if the over-achievers in this crowd actually left the area in better shape than they found it.

After the event, walking from the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool through Constitution Gardens, this reporter scanned 360 degrees and could not see a scrap of trash anywhere. Participants and volunteers had collected all their refuse and left it piled neatly in bags around the public garbage cans. Near Constitution Avenue, I did encounter one stray piece of paper—but too old and faded to have been left that day.

National Review Online posted a video of the cleanliness yesterday.

Glenn believes people shouldn't be so surprised:

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