9/12 today, but I thought I'd post these in order. I had a chance to chat with a number of bloggers at the rally, and a couple of them pointed me to these two videos from the Skokie event, which I hadn't been able to find below.

The first one below was taken before the ugly confrontations started, when the area was crawling with SEIU grape-shirts and Tea Party folks were really just beginning to show up. Jobs, you know. Anyway, this guy took one look at me and apparently decided he had found himself a gen-yoo-wine wing-nut to YouTube. Thanks to StreetwisePundit for the tip!

By the way, if you click through to YouTube you'll see that the cameraman—who posted it—is pretty confident he won the exchange. You be the judge.

This next one was taken later, and is the only footage I've seen of the bit I described in my after-action post. If you watched the first one and paid attention to the cameraman's commentary, I think you'll feel a nice little sense of irony. Thanks to the Rogers Park Bench guy for getting this and for pointing it out to me!