perhaps a competitor could emerge and steal their thunder? you may say they don't exist now but that isn't necessarily true looking out into the future...
how do you know those "journalists" weren't committing a crime? were you there standing beside them? they were arrested for felony rioting, thank Obama for that rule
even if it is which it's still not completely clear since there is no timestamp on that, it doesn't take into account many factors such as the widespread claim that security into the event was excessive and many people couldn't get in on time, nor the fact that for Obama there was a much larger local turn out, nor the fact that MANY people stayed home out of fear of violence from the left etc. The point is, the media making a story about attendance numbers was nothing more than a swipe at his legitimacy and THAT is the problem.
What about Republicans? Libertarians? Why do you assume that Democrats are the majority or that their opinion has any more weight than anyone else? As the darling President of the Democrats, Obama has increased the surveillance state more than anyone before him.