okay, I just tortured myself through nearly 50 minutes of NBC

[stellanoir]

Nightly news to hear Brian Williams and others ramble on incessantly about all the subtle nuances of Hurricane Rita. Not to minimize the devastation down there or anything but they only devoted I'd guess, about 20 seconds mentioning the mammoth protest. They mentioned Cindy and Jesse and no numbers. They gave equal time to the pro war wankers and said there were a couple hundred of them.

Excuse me but my head is going to explode now.

[Kukesa]

1. Same here.

This stinks, it really stinks.

At least on MSNBC (website) there's a link to the story.

[GrumpyGreg]

2. I diagnose you with a bad case of masochism.

Take 2 aspirin and call someone,anyone in the morning.

[stellanoir]

3. I honestly don't think aspirin will do the trick.

But thanks for the suggestion. I think I may just resort to what a friend did years ago when he didn't like the crapola his kid was watching on TV. He took the TV out to the backyard and shot it.

[GrumpyGreg]

7. Sounds like a very smart friend to me. Thank God for

books---TV is so passe----.

[stellanoir]

12. yeah and it's his birthday today

just left him a celebratory voice mail.

[Nikki Stone 1]

15. Did your friend really shoot the TV?

:D

[stellanoir]

21. Yup he really did.

Whereas my brother merely cut the cord so it had no plug when his step kids were OD-ing on TV. He's an electronically oriented dude so he could readily mend it.

There used to be an annual New Year's Eve party in a neighboring town where crazy kids would throw TV's out third story windows every hour on the hour until and long past midnight too.

Guess I come from an anti TV zone or something.

[yorkiemommie1]

4. is there a contact link to complain?

i have written to newspapers thousands of miles away and been published. it may not change anything, but at least they won't think we don't care.

[stellanoir]

5. I only have the phone #

for MSNBC which is 201 583 5000, but you won't get a humanoid on a weekend never mind on a weekday.

Consider going to NBC's website and e-mailing. Not sure they give a flying flop though. GE is so aligned with the war profiteers it's utterly pathetic.

[DemocracyInaction]

6. Sadly, what did you expect. The timing stunk.

It's too bad that somehow the protest could not have been postponed. You could go to the bank on it that they were going with a Category Five National Enquirer-type wind and rain and maybe (maybe if real lucky) dead people, blah, blah event. It not only gives a great way to pretend to not see the gathering or anything else but they were bound to go with this because the drooling, numbnuts in this country just love that there neat kinda stuff. It was doomed the minute a hurricane, any hurricane, even began to appear in the Gulf. Bush got a two for oner: he got to try to do a mulligan on the hurricane front and he got to detract from any mention of protest. And the Amurekan people paid like a zillion dollars of him throwing relief money around like it came out of a Monopoly set so that no one would notice the protest.

[stellanoir]

14. I'm somewhat disheartened as well.

Yet we can never underestimate the power or energy of people in vast numbers. Many who were there in the 60's have posted today that the larger protests in the late 60's did not get any exposure either.

Even though the press was much more competant back then. Unfortunately, it wasn't until things digressed into violence when the press started to cover them.

It may appear that * and Rita diverted the attention of many. Yet this movement is not going to diminish. It simply has too much momentum.

Peace on.

[anitar1]

17. Yahoo news estimated 100,000 protesters. n/t

[Helga Scow Stern]

8. Recommended. Maybe KKKarl is back at it. Terra threats and all...

[69KV]

9. The pro-war wankers

I counted about 75 in DC. There was one tiny group of about 10 prowar morons who showed up right in the middle of antiwar protesters around 11:30 or so in the morning...they were quickly surrounded by so many antiwar protesters that I hope they crapped their pants. The other group was the group of prowar freaks that lined along one side of a single block close to the end of the march. Total of both groups, maybe 75.

I was one of those regular guys in the blue jeans, baseball cap, work boots, and Carhartt shirt chanting "SIGN UP NOW!" at the prowar wankers. I was also snickering at their ridiculous signs ("hippies smell"; "so-and-so is a commie"). Which group was the real freak show today? It wasn't us. Methinks the prowar wankers need to either stick to wanking off at freerepublic.com, or put their money where their mouths are and ENLIST...

[Algorem]

10. so much for Brian Williams

[Pharlo]

11. Actually, he said there were 'thousands' of protestors,

Hundreds of protestors who assembled on a rooftop, and a policeline to separate the two.

Which I found odd. If the anti's were on a rooftop for safety's sake, why would a police line be necessary to separate the two?...

Oh well...

[stellanoir]

16. you might be right

I usually have several media sources going simultaneously so I may have missed the figure but even if he said thousands, there were 100's of thousands so that's bull too.

[mmonk]

13. The next huge protest

should be at major media offices. Protest for a return to a free and informative press.

[FreedomAngel82]

18. This is why I don't care about the "News"

The news is made to make you forget and/or not know. Dan Rather was so right about what he said.

[spinbaby]

19. March? What march?

I spent the day doing yard work. Every time I took a break, I turned on one of the news channels to see if it was mentioned. The only thing I found out was that Rita caused some damage and there were a lot of press conferences in which various officials patted themselves on the back.

[Algorem]

20. now ABC's going to bore everyone with an hour or ? of Rita.

Maybe they'll have "Knees of Dick" hour special after that.

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. I did the same. So much for the MSM finding its collective stones

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[Algorem]

23. Looks like Stabbackopolous isn't doing anything on it-hurricane,McCain,

and Franklin Graham(?)

[Algorem]

24. from tape-"Also in Washington today,thousands of people protested against

the Iraq war.Police say the demonstration was peaceful,though vocal.Among those taking part,the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Cindy Sheehan,whose son Casey died in Iraq.In a counter-protest a few hundred supporters of the war effort lined the route,shouting at the protesters with a police line keeping the two groups apart."

That's it.24 seconds.Che-knees got 23 seconds just before that.Only video they showed was crowd when Sheehan came onstage with Jesse Jackson.Thousands?So it was like 2,000 anti-war people vs. 800-900 pro-war people,I guess.Pretty even.And small.Tiny,actually.Nothing to see really.NBC didn't even have to send a reporter looks like.They only had to ask the cops what happened.