The items in brackets were added to clarify this government propaganda masquerading as an AP news story that ran earlier today:
[Dwindling] Iraq Supporters to Rebut [Huge] Anti-War Rallies
By The Associated Press
September 25, 2005 | WASHINGTON --Military families and other defenders of the war in Iraq [, at least a few of them,] were claiming their turn to demonstrate, responding to a huge war protest with a [sparsely attended] rally of their own on the National Mall. [Which wouldn't be newsworthy but for our need to give false balance to a story that embarrasses the government.]
Organizers hoped to draw several thousand people to their noontime event near the National Air and Space Museum. They acknowledged the rally would be much smaller than Saturday's anti-war protest in Washington but said their message would not be overshadowed. [How many actually showed we're not saying.]
"People have been fired up over the past month, especially military family members, and they want to be heard," said Kristinn Taylor, a leader of FreeRepublic.com [a right wing website that regularly gives vent to extremist and racist views], one of the sponsors of Sunday's event.
The pro-military rally was billed by organizers as a time to honor the troops fighting "the war on terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world."
On Saturday, crowds opposed to the war in Iraq surged past the White House in the largest anti-war protest in the nation's capital since the U.S. invasion. The rally stretched through the day and night, a marathon of music, speechmaking and dissent on the National Mall.
Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, noting that organizers had hoped to draw 100,000 people, said, "I think they probably hit that." [In other words, police confirm turnout figures organizers estimate to be even higher. The Washington Post quotes Ramsay as saying "that's as good a guess as any" to a 150,000 estimate. He's just a ball of ambivalence, isn't he?]
In the crowd were young activists, nuns whose anti-war activism dates to Vietnam, parents mourning their children in uniform lost in Iraq, and uncountable families motivated for the first time to protest. [Change the order of these examples from descending to ascending based on their proportion in the crowd? Nah.]
From the stage, speakers attacked President Bush's policies head on, but he was not at the White House to hear it -- he was in Colorado and Texas, [ostensibly] monitoring hurricane recovery.
A few hundred people [whose pro-war activism dates to Vietnam] in a counter demonstration in support of Bush's Iraq policy lined the protest route near the FBI building. The two groups shouted, separated by a police line.
War supporters said the scale of the anti-war march didn't take away from their cause.
"It's the silent majority," said 22-year-old Stephanie Grgurich of Leesburg, Va., who has a brother serving in Iraq. [Grgurich's statement is flatly contradicted by most national polls showing war supporters now in the minority.]
UPDATE: Salon's "The Wire," where I found this, currently has three pro-war rally headlines in its top 40 stories. They really want us to know about this non-event! According to the most recent story, only about 400 people showed up to support the war. Another thing about this AP story: it referred to the pro-war rally as "pro-military," thus adopting the implied spin that the much larger peace march was attended by people who hate the troops. I felt like I already had too many bracketed corrections to note that above.
D and I were at the march in SF yesterday. Pictures sometime in the next few days. The "Protest Warriors" numbered about 5, while the anti-war numbered about 10k. I suggested to the prowar "crowd" that they should enlist.
It's crazy... the Dallas Morning News portrayed the events as "Deuling Protests", and the Pro-War people got the first part of the story, and it was only after a while into the story that it was mentioned that the Pro-War crowd numbered "100 or less" and that the Peace crowd was probably about 150,000 people! How the hell is 100 vs 150,000 any kind of deul????
They so much want to be even-handed that they aren't ... "Jews Fire on German Troops in Warsaw Ghetto" ... "Educated Elites Undermine Cultural Revolution" ... "Dirty Hippies Subvert Dear Leader's Democratization of Iraq"
Even Fox News admitted that the pro-war rally was kinda pathetic. The original tagline said it was "dwarfed" by the anti-war rally.
It's not even worth looking at crap like the DMN.
One of my cousins used to call it the Dallas Morning Nazi.
It sucks but it's the only paper that they sell at my corner store...
It sucks but it's the only paper that they sell at my corner store...
Sorry, I don't know why it posted twice...
But I should clarify my previous post:
The DMN is the only paper in English that is sold at the corner store near my house.
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The items in brackets were added to clarify this government propaganda masquerading as an AP news story that ran earlier today:
[Dwindling] Iraq Supporters to Rebut [Huge] Anti-War Rallies
By The Associated Press
September 25, 2005 | WASHINGTON --Military families and other defenders of the war in Iraq [, at least a few of them,] were claiming their turn to demonstrate, responding to a huge war protest with a [sparsely attended] rally of their own on the National Mall. [Which wouldn't be newsworthy but for our need to give false balance to a story that embarrasses the government.]
Organizers hoped to draw several thousand people to their noontime event near the National Air and Space Museum. They acknowledged the rally would be much smaller than Saturday's anti-war protest in Washington but said their message would not be overshadowed. [How many actually showed we're not saying.]
"People have been fired up over the past month, especially military family members, and they want to be heard," said Kristinn Taylor, a leader of FreeRepublic.com [a right wing website that regularly gives vent to extremist and racist views], one of the sponsors of Sunday's event.
The pro-military rally was billed by organizers as a time to honor the troops fighting "the war on terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world."
On Saturday, crowds opposed to the war in Iraq surged past the White House in the largest anti-war protest in the nation's capital since the U.S. invasion. The rally stretched through the day and night, a marathon of music, speechmaking and dissent on the National Mall.
Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, noting that organizers had hoped to draw 100,000 people, said, "I think they probably hit that." [In other words, police confirm turnout figures organizers estimate to be even higher. The Washington Post quotes Ramsay as saying "that's as good a guess as any" to a 150,000 estimate. He's just a ball of ambivalence, isn't he?]
In the crowd were young activists, nuns whose anti-war activism dates to Vietnam, parents mourning their children in uniform lost in Iraq, and uncountable families motivated for the first time to protest. [Change the order of these examples from descending to ascending based on their proportion in the crowd? Nah.]
From the stage, speakers attacked President Bush's policies head on, but he was not at the White House to hear it -- he was in Colorado and Texas, [ostensibly] monitoring hurricane recovery.
A few hundred people [whose pro-war activism dates to Vietnam] in a counter demonstration in support of Bush's Iraq policy lined the protest route near the FBI building. The two groups shouted, separated by a police line.
War supporters said the scale of the anti-war march didn't take away from their cause.
"It's the silent majority," said 22-year-old Stephanie Grgurich of Leesburg, Va., who has a brother serving in Iraq. [Grgurich's statement is flatly contradicted by most national polls showing war supporters now in the minority.]
UPDATE: Salon's "The Wire," where I found this, currently has three pro-war rally headlines in its top 40 stories. They really want us to know about this non-event! According to the most recent story, only about 400 people showed up to support the war. Another thing about this AP story: it referred to the pro-war rally as "pro-military," thus adopting the implied spin that the much larger peace march was attended by people who hate the troops. I felt like I already had too many bracketed corrections to note that above.
- tom moody 9-25-2005 6:12 pm
D and I were at the march in SF yesterday. Pictures sometime in the next few days. The "Protest Warriors" numbered about 5, while the anti-war numbered about 10k. I suggested to the prowar "crowd" that they should enlist.
- mark 9-25-2005 10:45 pm
It's crazy... the Dallas Morning News portrayed the events as "Deuling Protests", and the Pro-War people got the first part of the story, and it was only after a while into the story that it was mentioned that the Pro-War crowd numbered "100 or less" and that the Peace crowd was probably about 150,000 people! How the hell is 100 vs 150,000 any kind of deul????
- Abraham Kalashnikov (guest) 9-26-2005 5:51 pm
They so much want to be even-handed that they aren't ... "Jews Fire on German Troops in Warsaw Ghetto" ... "Educated Elites Undermine Cultural Revolution" ... "Dirty Hippies Subvert Dear Leader's Democratization of Iraq"
- mark 9-26-2005 7:54 pm
Even Fox News admitted that the pro-war rally was kinda pathetic. The original tagline said it was "dwarfed" by the anti-war rally.
It's not even worth looking at crap like the DMN.
- paul (guest) 9-26-2005 9:54 pm
One of my cousins used to call it the Dallas Morning Nazi.
- tom moody 9-26-2005 10:22 pm
It sucks but it's the only paper that they sell at my corner store...
- Abraham Kalashnikov (guest) 9-27-2005 1:33 am
It sucks but it's the only paper that they sell at my corner store...
- Abraham Kalashnikov (guest) 9-27-2005 1:33 am
Sorry, I don't know why it posted twice...
But I should clarify my previous post:
The DMN is the only paper in English that is sold at the corner store near my house.
- Abraham Kalashnikov (guest) 9-27-2005 1:34 am