Check this spin! Thousands arrive in Crawford for dueling rallies

[MelissaB]

Thousands arrive in Crawford for dueling rallies

08/27/2005

By ANGELA K. BROWN / Associated Press


Several thousand people descended on President Bush's adopted hometown Saturday, either attending a rally supporting him or arriving for the last leg of an anti-war demonstration near his ranch.

The pro-Bush rally by the school football stadium was the culmination of the "You don't speak for me, Cindy!" tour that started last week in California — referring to the protest that peace activist Cindy Sheehan started Aug. 6 near Bush's ranch.

Several times the crowd of about 1,500 chanted, "Cindy, go home!"

"You are giving hope and encouragement to the enemies of America," said former California Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian, a Republican who co-founded Move America Forward, the group that coordinated the rally.

Meanwhile, busloads of war protesters gathered several miles away at "Camp Casey," named for Sheehan's 24-year-old son who died in Iraq last year, for a Saturday bell-ringing ceremony to honor soldiers serving in Iraq. Organizers estimated the crowd at more than 2,000 but it appeared smaller.


More: http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8C8EGM00.html

[MelissaB]

1. Oh, the number grows...

An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people attended a pro-Bush rally in Crawford, waving flags and pledging their allegiance to U.S. troops. At times, they accused Cindy Sheehan of dishonoring the war death of her own son, Casey, who was in the Army.

Link: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/12494677.htm

[hippiechick]

2. 1,500 = 'several thousand' ??

wtf ? :wtf:

[Eric J in MN]

8. "either attending a rally supporting" Bush or the anti-war demonstration

nt

[madeline_con]

12. O.K. one and a half....

Though the pics looked more like 15, not 1500.

[unrepuke]

3. Ahah!

>> Move America Forward, the group that coordinated the rally. <<

Even funded with Republican money, this is their best shot?
:rofl:

[Desertrose]

4. lying liars

Organizers estimated the crowd at more than 2,000 but it appeared smaller.

[Al-CIAda]

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CNN has turned on their Bushco propaganda machine. Call them on their lies
They are reporting bullshit lowball numbers and showing week old footage of Casey Camp 1 and no photos/footage of Camp 2....

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[ThoughtCriminal]

6. CNN Needs to quit pandering to the RW

They hate CNN anyway - they even hate FOX when it doesn't give them their undivided loyalty an attention. It's like tossing milkbones to a pack of rabid wolves.

[Child_Of_Isis]

7. "You don't speak for me, Cindy!" tour

Put together by a republican PR firm, stupid!!! Don't these people research anything? They also forgot "bitch in the ditch".

[Trillo]

9. Corporatist Media is following General Meyers "Orders"

Bolding in excerpt below added by me

""The most important thing we have ... right now in this kind of conflict is our will and our resolve," Gen. Richard Myers, outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the
Pentagon, adding the U.S. public does not get the stakes.

I think it's incumbent on the national leadership, writ large, to help communicate this to the American public," said Myers, reporting on a 10-day, 18-base tour that included Iraq,
Afghanistan and bases in Asia and Europe.

Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050826/pl_nm/security_usa_myers_dc

Clearly, the Corporatist Media gets their marching orders from the Pentagon.

Edit: another source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/27/wus27.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/27/ixworld.html

[wli]

11. counterpunch says psyops officers are posted at CNN n/t

[Al-CIAda]

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