Update: Placed at the top rather than the bottom because this report comes from PF, one of our staffers who was there last night:

The tv stations WAY inflated the number of protesters at the ayers thing. when i left the speech, there were two, TWO, protesters (and they seemed to be just MU students) with signs standing outside of the hall.

The “twelve” that the stations got obviously was inflated. A lot of people congregated around the Student Memorial Center, but they quickly left the minute the TV people packed up and left. The “twelve” protesters didn’t stay there for very long…if they were there at all. There were actually more people there to protest the protesters.

Even worse shape than we thought, multiplied. 

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So Ayers finally comes to Lancaster and I’m watching WGAL last night, where I was informed that dozens of people turned out to protest or cheer Ayers…

And I thought: Dozens?

That’s it?

You gotta be kidding me.

That’s pathetic.

All the screaming and all the outrage, OUTRAGE, OUTRAGE!!! from Lancaster County conservatives - and we get a few dozen?

All this sound and fury signified even less than I thought. When, in the heart of conservative Lancaster County, a few dozen people come out to protest the “unreptentant terrorist,” that doesn’t constitute a movement. In fact, it constitutes a fading movement, a movement that once trafficked in this cultural outrage but now can’t even work up a half-decent protest when the culture war comes to their own town.

Conservatism as we have known it is worse shape than we thought - even here.