"Thousands"? LOL

[underpants]

Thousands of Indian Muslim protesters wave religious and black flags during a protest against the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush to India, in Bombay, India, Thursday, March 2, 2006. Bush's three-day visit is focused on strengthening the emerging strategic partnership between India and the United States, but some Indians believe the government has become far too close to Washington. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

[Skidmore]

1. We needs a crowd around the WH like that.

Or congress, perhaps.

[acmejack]

14. H1B visas for protestors?

Jobs Americans apparently don't want?

[MadHound]

40. We've had crowds around the WH like that

Sadly though, the MSM doesn't see fit to acknowledge the events.

[iconoclastNYC]

45. We had one recently. I was there with my mom and sister.

But Hurricane RITA was more important so you barely got any reporting of it.

[BR_Parkway]

59. And every M$M 'news' channel - that way they have to broadcast

it before the crowd disperses enough for them to be able to leave their buildings and go home.

[leeroysphitz]

61. This whole nightmare ENDS the day we can field numbers

like that outside the white house and that's the truth. I'd LOVE to be a part of that.

[tsuki]

2. Is that the same couple of thousand that showed up in DC last

September? :evilgrin:

[babylonsister]

3. Worthy of a nom! Feel the love, dimson? nt

[gatorboy]

4. Hell while they're at it why not report "hundreds"?

Jesus, that's alot of people in that shot!

[underpants]

8. Yeah I was taken aback by it

On Yahoo news photos. What is this...holy crap!! that's a lot of people.

[tanyev]

5. Fox News would put the estimate around 200-300.

[Wetzelbill]

9. and they are never wrong!!!!

:)

[anarch]

54. haha, yeah..."a few dozen protesters" n/t

[underpants]

6. 58% of Indians say Bush is "bad for the world"

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1435063.cms

A total of 58 per cent agreed that although Bush had been bad for the world, he had been good to India.

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[Wetzelbill]

oh the librul media has it wrong, they are EMBRACING our great leader

Don't you know Bush is the second coming of Christ? They are cheering for him, not protesting. Psh....
:)

[Jensen]

7. This is great but....I could only wish it was happening in America!

Where is the outrage here against this monster called *Bush?

[underpants]

11. Maybe not on this scale but it did happen

as noted here on DU several times in both the run up to the war on Iraq and MASSIVE Kerry rallies all were reported as "Thousands" as well.

[bobbieinok]

47. fabulous line

"I refuse to subscribe to the culture of victimization that plagues white males in this country. I don't believe that the poor and the powerless have organized to screw me over."

[underpants]

48. Thanks

It pretty much sums up my attitude about our current state of political discourse.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

18. It has. The liberal news didn't tell us about it...

[dogday]

28. It has happened several times as I recall

The protest at the RNC was over 700,000 people.. The pro-choice march was counted around 1,300,000 people... It does not get the news coverage it should.

[JuniperLea]

10. We should protest his coming back to the US

n/t

[peacetalksforall]

19. LOL. Yeah. Let him get stuck and spend some time visiting one of

our torture chambers. But ya know what his handlers would do, dontcha? They would screen the prisoners and brainwash some to form crowds with big excited smiles on their faces. Clapping. Holding signs. Waving flags.

[Wickerman]

13. same gang doing crowd estimates in India as in 2003 lead up to Iraq

I see. :eyes:

Great shot!

[HughBeaumont]

15. "Eh, 'bout a couple 'a' thousand bad apples!"

"They should be GRATEFUL towards Great Leader! After all, it's HIS economic policies that are enabling our corporations to give India thousands of American jo . . . whoops, I think I said too much . . . 'CUT!" hee hee hee."

:blush:

[chelsea0011]

16. A few show up for the most hated man in the world today

LOL

[WinkyDink]

17. Scores of people.

Tens, even!

[SoCalDem]

21. A few disgruntled people showed up, had a picnic, played a little frisbee

and went home for a nap:).. We'd show you a picture, but the batteries died:)

[underpants]

24. Too funny Winky and SoCal

sad but funny

[deminks]

20. Yeah, a few thousand.

At least they had to aknowledge something.

No one even knew about this one:



http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.now.org/nnt/spring-2004/march.html&h=307&w=236&sz=34&tbnid=GjTw34I6IStK-M:&tbnh=112&tbnw=86&hl=en&start=36&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmillion%2Bwomen%2Bmarch%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

A view of the March for Women's Lives crowd from atop the Washington Monument. More than one million people filled the mile-long stretch. Photo by AP/Wide World Photos.

April 25, 2004

[raccoon]

23. Thank you and Viva La Revolution for posting those pix. nt

[underpants]

27. WOW

Oh yeah I remember that now. Wow I never saw that shot anywhere. Gee I wonder why.

[jhain]

22. about the same number of people

who showed up in Philly for John Kerry and Bill Clinton- the same number that CNN reported as 'a few hundred'.

PUH.

[underpants]

26. as noted above

see #11 .

A friend of mine went to that. The pics were posted here on DU. The press played it down and said that it was Clinton just trying to do anything he could.

[EstimatedProphet]

25. Sure! 500,000 is still thousands!

[qanda]

29. Looks like tens to me

[twaddler01]

30. What a crowd!

We need this many people at the WH to impeach *!

[malaise]

42. Meanwhile W and Pickles

spit on Gandhi's memorial. Are these petals or Iraqi blood?? The symbolism is too good since he had options


US President George W Bush (left) offers flowers at the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, as his wife Laura Bush looks on, in New Delhi, on Thursday, March 2, 2006.
www.hindustantimes.com

[bobbieinok]

51. 6 years ago President Clinton visited Gandhi's memorial

[Maru Kitteh]

58. what a remarkable contrast

The thoughtful reverence of a REAL President and his daughter vs. the tacky grinning photo op monsters.

[oasis]

31. CNN "put it in perspective" by saying India is a nation of over a billion.

CNN newsfolk were "obliged" to inform the viewers of this each time they told the protest story.

[underpants]

32. Yes they were

You probably saw how they also mentioned that W has a 70% approval rating there. Of course 58% somehow also think he is "bad for the world...but good to India" hell I could see that if he had that kind of record on jobs HERE the guy could probably get elected.

[The Backlash Cometh]

33. I agree. The government of India has become far too close to Washington.

Those Washington insiders...

[Canuckistanian]

34. I'll bet George Soros paid all those people...

He's the one intigating this, right? :sarcasm:

[havocmom]

35. Think how many protesters there's be if he hadn't brought so many jobs!

His junta and corporate pals can't even buy friends for him.

Next up: NSA wiretaps India. Agents overwhelmed by deluge of useless information and calls to take out restaurants. Real investigations being ignored do to shortage of manpower.

[Cooley Hurd]

36. Why, that looks like a Brazillian people!

Someone had to say it... it might as well be me.

[underpants]

38. BaDum PppSSSSHHHH!

rimshot

[hvn_nbr_2]

37. That crowd is dwarfed by the crowd that held vigil outside ...

Teri Schiavo's hospice.
:sarcasm:

[Crankie Avalon]

39. According to FOX, that crowd there is nowhere near the size...

...of the legions who flooded the square in Baghdad to watch Saddam's statue get pulled down. :crazy:

[underpants]

41. Of course not

[malaise]

43. Poor Fox gets fugged again n/t

[bobbieinok]

53. colleagues + students watched in awe the continual replays of this on TV

[Wetzelbill]

44. oh lord

that wouldn't surprise anyone.

[dzika]

46. VIDEO - 'Tens of Thousands' Protest Bush's Arrival in India

broadcast on March 1, 2006

VIDEO - 'Tens of Thousands' Protest Bush's Arrival in India

Local police report that "over 100,000" people protested Bush's arrival in India. American corporate media reports say there were "tens of thousands" of protestors.

More protests are planned for the duration of Bush's visit.

http://www.ameratsu.com/media/vid/msnbc/msnbc_india_protests_bush_060301a_320x240.flv&width=320&height=240">
http://www.ameratsu.com/media/vid/msnbc/msnbc_india_protests_bush_060301a_320x240.flv&width=320&height=240">Video in Streaming Flash format...
Video in Windows Media format...

http://veredictum.com/node/113

[katinmn]

60. Great new blog,dzika!

Been seeing lots of hat tips to ya. :thumbsup:

[Lori Price CLG]

49. Faux News reported that 18 people showed up for the...

demonstration... and there was (of course) the obligatory (CIA-sponsored) counter-demonstration, consisting of 200 Bush supporters, <g>.

Cheers,
Lori Price
www.legitgov.org

[ContraBass Black]

50. "Thousands" is correct for up to 999,999 people.

:eyes:

[WildEyedLiberal]

52. OMG, on CNN headline today, the mediawhore made a point of saying

"The quarter million who protested Bush yesterday dwindled sharply today to a few thousand."

I hate our "news" media.

[Burried News]

55. Bush's Indian Problem - they speak English ...

better than he does.

How can they not want an American Raj?

[Maru Kitteh]

56. so ya caught that one too!

I dropped my fork when I saw that crowd. Hubby said, "sure wish we were in India today!!".

WTG George.

[underpants]

57. Yeah I saw the little picture on Yahoo and thought

What is THAT oh man that sure is a whole lot of people I wonder what (clicked on pic) could make that many people (opening I read the summary) oh...yeah Bush....he can move lots of people all right.

:eyes:

[Patiod]

62. This was described by Fox as "city workers told to go to rally"

From a Bill Clinton/John Kerry rally in Philadelphia, which Faux described as "hundreds".


Damn that liberal media!

[mtnester]

63. This photo was on the front page above the fold in the Columbus Dispatch

and I was shocked that it was. Seriously, stunned