MSNBC.com Story on DC Protest

[jane_pippin]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9463993/

It's just an overview, but it's something and it's linked on the main msn.com page.

[justiceischeap]

1. Make sure to rate it so it moves up the page. (eom)

[AlamoDemoc]

3. Done! good idea

[we can do it]

4. Done....n/t

[OhioChick]

7. Done n/t

[WA98296]

13. Rated: DONE -- thanks for the head's up

[Mr_Spock]

16. I rated it up. For some reason RW murderer traitors rate it down

I guess those mother fucking murderers hate their freedoms.

THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOMS!!

[Helga Scow Stern]

27. Rated. At 3 stars it must be getting freeped by stay at homes.

[lakeguy]

2. rated! notice they only said 10s of thousands. f'in liars!

[justiceischeap]

5. They say that for any type of march (eom)

[spooky3]

23. they must have revised it--now they say > 100000

[RevCheesehead]

6. Done. Any other links to stories?

I feel so helpless.

[jane_pippin]

14. From the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/politics/25protest.html?hp&ex=1127620800&en=6675a08558727f8b&ei=5094&partner=homepage

It's on the front page of the website.

I know how you feel. If it wasn't for DUer's who are there I feel like we'd never know what was going on.

[RevCheesehead]

17. Thanks ... I clicked on it, hoping it would somehow rate it higher.

I'm having trouble getting on Yahoo (some password bullshit).
But I'll rate up every story I can.

[jane_pippin]

21. I always email the NY times stuff even if it's just to myself

in the feeble hope it will become one of the "most emailed" stories.

[Flying Dream Blues]

8. Recommended...and rated! nt

[justiceischeap]

9. Needs one more recommendation.

We need to rate this story so it moves above the fold (top of the page).

[northamericancitizen]

11. Done . nt

[MADem]

10. Ha!!! Did you see the story following it? PRICELESS!!!!

Bush struggles to regain pre-hurricane swagger
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9458693/ (Now THERE's an UNFLATTERING HEADLINE!!!)

....A president who roamed across the national and world stages with an unshakable self-assurance that comforted Republicans and confounded critics since 2001 suddenly finds himself struggling to find his swagger. Bush's standing with the public — and within the Republican Party — has been battered by a failed Social Security campaign, violence in Iraq, and most recently Hurricane Katrina. His approval ratings, 42 percent in the most recent Washington Post-ABC poll, have never been lower.

[bear425]

12. snip from end of story

Supporters of Bush’s policy in Iraq assembled in smaller numbers to get their voice heard in the day’s anti-war din. About 150 of them rallied at the U.S. Navy Memorial.

(150) morans

[jane_pippin]

18. 150?

:rofl: Good work guys. Sounds like a mandate to me.

[despairing optimist]

30. That's being generous. I used the Metro station there both ways,

and it seemed there were only a couple dozen freepers at the Navy Memorial. In fact, crowds of people coming out of the station were antiwar and ignoring the freepers. The antiwar crowds from one Metro train far outnumbered them.

[HughBeaumont]

31. SEVENTY FIVE at best.

RimJob and his band of jokers had by far the most pathetic of turnouts. Parked in front of the J Edna Hoover building (which I spit on every time I'm downtown), these morans had bullhorns and spouted "Freedom isn't free" and other such inane garbage. Fucking crybabies. "WAAAAAHHHHH! Everything is going RIGHT for us!! WAAAAAHHH!! Our stupid party runs everything, yet our struggle TRULY remains eternal! WAAAAHH!" Fuggin morans.

Seriously, I was in front of them most of the time . . . they didn't take up even a quarter of the space alloted. I'd say they had seventy-five people AT BEST. They all went to the front of their police-protected fence. I swear, those assholes got more coverage than the hundreds of thousands that kept swarming past them.

To sum it up, in the words of another guy who passed them . . . "nothing to see here, move along". Damned if he wasn't right.

Once I get my pix developed, you all can laugh at the patheticness.

[jhain]

15. you HAVE to read this part!!:

Supporters of Bush’s policy in Iraq assembled in smaller numbers to get their voice heard in the day’s anti-war din. About 150 of them rallied at the U.S. Navy Memorial.


Go, Freepers, Go.
Rah rah

[Joe Chi Minh]

33. An article in MSNBC, quoted on the home page,

begins:

"Military families and other defenders of the war in Iraq were claiming their turn to demonstrate, responding to a huge war protest with a rally of their own on the National Mall".

Why did the columnist not acknowledge the military families in the immense protest camp - quite possibly many, more than in the war supporters' camp? This is just one of the myriad insidious ways in which the MSM seek to perpetuate the neocon myths about the sympathies of the military. It goes way beyond 'spin'.

[DemReadingDU]

19. article on CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/24/antiwar.ap/index.html

[Agnomen]

20. CNN & MSNBC are both running same AP story

[roseBudd]

22. voted it up n/t

[Rose Siding]

24. VERY favorable coverage. "countless families", great pix AND

the reporter takes great care to note that there were "surprisingly diverse political views even as they spoke with one loud voice in wanting U.S. troops home". They even cite an official who agrees with a count of 100,000



This is, imo, the very best kind of coverage.

[Frederik]

32. Gotta love

the ragin' grannies! And "make levees not war" is brilliant.

[Nikki Stone 1]

25. Interesting interview with Republican anti-war people

recommended

[tandot]

26. A few hundred people in a counter demonstration. BWAHAHAHA

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050924/ap_on_re_us/war_protest;_ylt=AkHDr2FVYn8lxyQ8FGHTC9is0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-

"Crowds opposed to the war in Iraq surged past the White House on Saturday, shouting "Peace now" in the largest anti-war protest in the nation's capital since the U.S. invasion" ... "Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, noting that organizers had hoped to draw 100,000 people, said, "I think they probably hit that."

Several paragraphs later:

"A few hundred people in a counter demonstration in support of Bush's Iraq policy lined the protest route near the FBI building. The two groups shouted at each other, a police line keeping them apart. Organizers of a pro-military rally Sunday hoped for 10,000 people"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Those pro-Bush Nazis really thought they could round up 10,000 people for their anti-American cause? They are as delusional as their president.

[malaise]

29. 150 out of 10,000

what a mandate:rofl: :rofl:
The base is disappearing quicker than its leader.

[Kurovski]

28. Be sure to read the second page, I 'm not sure that your rating

registers until you click on the second page.