Although the media’s coverage of the event was lackluster, the organizers still felt it was ________; what mattered, they said, was not the piddling number of talking heads who turned out to comment, but rather the mass of everyday people who came to register their disapproval of the proposed oil pipeline.

Two Answers
A. a blemish
B. an exception
C. a coup
D. a debacle
E. a miracle
F. an achievement