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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 10:39 AM
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Boy! I have to say, never in my life have I seen a protest so well covered by the MSM.
It's on every channel. I'm watching Fox of course. The fake news channel that HATES protesters. Edie is on. She is treating these protesters like human beings?? Wow that's a first! hmmmm! Where's the protest pens? Did they have to get permits? Has anyone been beat up by the cops yet? Pepper sprayed or tased?

This is really good news. I'm so glad the United States of Amerikka has decided to treat protesters like human beings. I can't wait till we have our next anti-war protest. No more permits or protest pens! No more abuse by the cops or censoring from the media!

SARCASM!!!!!!!!:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:


It's also very wierd that everytime we call Bush Hitler we get LECTURES, but the MSM has practically declared Ahmadinejad Hitler and nobody is deputing that. Let's see, How many people has Ahmadinejad murdered? How many people has Bush murdered? I think Bush wins the murder contest by a long shot!
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mavoix Donating Member (86 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 10:48 AM
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1. Double
Amen!
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 10:53 AM
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2. How many hundreds of thousands are there?
I am sure the counting is opposite when the protest are against the bu$h regime.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 10:55 AM
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3. They haven't given a number yet but I'm sure you're right...
It will be HUGE!1!1!1
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 10:56 AM
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4. are they also talking TERROR? I do not have cable
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 10:59 AM
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6. No! Not yet. But they don't have too. They've declared Ahmadinejad Hilter!
I guess Hitler is worse than terror!
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 10:57 AM
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5. Any reports on protesters getting knocked to the ground by police...
...and hog-tied? Any reports on protesters getting...you know...the "T" word?
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:03 AM
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8. Oh no! The police are practically holding their hands. So nice to see!
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:02 AM
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7. It's now the TOP story on Faux! Boy, I remember when we had 15 million people
Edited on Mon Sep-24-07 11:10 AM by Joanne98
protesting from countries all around the world on Feb 15th 2003 and they NEVER EVEN MENTIONED IT!

This must be a goverment sponsered protest! That's all I can figure!
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:05 AM
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9. Are there counter protesters protecting the monuments in NYC?
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:09 AM
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12. LOL good one. No I haven't seen any yet. LMAO!
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:10 AM
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13. Is it too late for us to spread rumors that the Statue of Liberty is at risk?
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:49 AM
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19. No! I don't think so. Quick tell the freepers to get right over there. LOL
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:08 AM
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10. Newt Gingrich is on CNN saying "The Iranian goverment locks up students"
THAT'S BETTER THAN GETTING TASERED!!!!!!!!

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Scriptor Ignotus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:08 AM
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11. excellent point
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:11 AM
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14. bush is comitting Genocide in Iraq as we type.
hell he is committing it here at home with his policies. Yep! he Wins the Murder Contest!
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:55 AM
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21. Yep! A mass grave has just been found. I've no doubt that it's his.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:58 AM
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22. Darn you. You had me going for awhile there
I was stuck on 'grave' and 'his'. Then I realized he wasn't actually IN the grave.

Darn you.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 12:00 PM
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24. tee hee
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:11 AM
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15. It looked very small on MSNBC. Not 100 people?
They didn't pan the crowd so it was hard to see. Not as many people as at our last local ignored demonstration.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 03:22 PM
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46. It's within a few blocks of my office.
And I can tell you, it seems like every Jewish person in the city except me got their orders to take the day off and protest.

Wow. It has been crazy out there all day today.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 04:32 PM
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47. Wow. Well, they only showed one part of one block which is where
I tried to figure the count. Joanne says, 200, based on a wider view.

We had 1200 at our last protest and no one bothered to cover it.

This is a much more emotional matrix of issues. Be careful out there.
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jackstraw45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:12 AM
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16. Propaganda Machine in OVERDRIVE...Bush is protested in EVERY country he visits...
The MSM casually mentions it but today it's like OJ is leading the protest with a gun at his head in a Bronco....

:sarcasm:
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 12:03 PM
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25. He just got protested in Canada. We had to watch it on the internet.
This is such a joke. It must be a show for the Iranians. They can't possibly be putting on this performance for us!
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:15 AM
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17. GREAT observation! nt
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sadiesworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:44 AM
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18. The cheap labor...er, illegal immigration "protests" were
rather well covered.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:54 AM
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20. Well the fake news channel showed a picture of the protest....
It looks like there may be 200 people there. They'll probably get LIVE coverage with that big of a crowd! It's CLEAR the the American students are OUTRAGED that Hitler has been allowed to speak!

BTW! the fake news channel is also covering the auto workers strike. they haven't called them godless communists yet but I'm sure that's coming. stay tuned..

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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:59 AM
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23. Ahmadinejad is getting questioned by the MSM on c-span
He is insinuating that their questions are less than truthful.LOL That's pretty nice of him. I just call them LIARS!
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zippy890 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 12:07 PM
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26. all the radio coverage saying 'large' protests

just how large? like the 500,000 antiwar protesters in DC a few years ago that was barely mentioned in the media?

also, much coverage and attention to the groups against allowing him to speak at the college.
What a wonderfully FREE society these people promote. (more sarcasm)

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tears4terra Donating Member (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 12:10 PM
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27. Yep!
Gawd! This whole protest thing is so darn transparent! I'm so embarrassed for my country!

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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 12:15 PM
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28. Well, I saw the crowd at Columbia and it looked like about 200 to me.
But Rush Limbaugh will probably tell his brain dead listeners, that it's the largest protest in American history. LOL
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 12:31 PM
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29. Here's a picture of the Columbia protest...
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 12:35 PM
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30. We manage MUCH larger protests when Bush comes to town here in Sacto
That photo looks rather pathetic.
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tears4terra Donating Member (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 12:51 PM
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31. Wowee Zowee!!!

And thanks :hi: :hi:
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 01:05 PM
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33. I count 34 people in that picture - including legs behind the banner.
Hugh demo. Just Hugh.
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Tiberius Donating Member (798 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 02:42 PM
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43. OT - where's the "hugh" thing come from?
I see people all the time saying "this is going to be HUGH!1!1!"

Is that like, "get a brain, morans!" ?
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 03:07 PM
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44. Just like that
It's a quote from Freeperville.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 02:36 PM
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39. I've seen bigger crowds waiting to see a movie.
:rofl:
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 01:01 PM
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32. big kick and rec! -- Ahmadinejad is an "untouchable" -- the next evil we are to rally
behind.

turn off your mind, relax and float downstream...
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 02:20 PM
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34. Well Bollinger totally caved! Reading bush talking points as if they're true?
Pathetic! Some people this country should know that it's not a threat to have leaders come to this country. Ahmadinejad couldn't influence me one way or the other. I know a lie when I hear one. That's why I don't believe most of what the government or the media tell me. I've been that way since I was 16 years old. I guess that's what makes some of us "conspiracy theorists." I do believe when Ahmadinejad said there were no homosexuals in Iran he was lying. But so did the students because they laughed.
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 02:22 PM
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35. Bingo !!! - K & R !!!
:kick::yourock::kick:
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 02:28 PM
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36. Here's some more pictures...
Notice how there is no wide shots!









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zippy890 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 02:32 PM
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38. there are only 12 of them
but they sure got a lotta cameras on them

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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 02:39 PM
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41. "... YOUR NOT ..."? Another illiterate pretending to have an "informed" opinion.
She obviously loves Amerika for the quality of our edukashun systim.
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halobeam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 02:31 PM
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37. I would like to know if they have permits...
how do we find out? I wish I knew how to find an accurate number of people there AND find out how much coverage each station gave the protest. Then compare it with just this past Sept. 15th!

This issue is much of our problem ... it's fundamental to our argument of fair media. (or unfair).

Would LOVE Keith to start hammering this.

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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 02:37 PM
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40. I don't think they did. They had to stay outside the gates....
Edited on Mon Sep-24-07 02:38 PM by Joanne98
Apparently they are complaining about that. I don't know about the protest in front of the UN. They may have had a permit. I wonder who issues them. NYC or the UN.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 02:41 PM
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42. You know while we're talking about permits. Does anybody know
if the Christian pro-life groups have ever had to get a permit for their "rallys" in Washington. Bush is always talking to them via speaker and the cops are always soooooo nice to them. I bet they don't have to get permits either.
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PDenton Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 03:21 PM
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45. When it comes to the Zionist Entity
You know, that mysterious "Friends and Allies" Bush is always talking about whenever WMD, Iraq, or Iran is mentioned, the MSM and government pull out no stops letting the American people know where they SHOULD stand. "Support Israel or go to hell"
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mogster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:59 AM
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48. Good observation
Where are the free speech zones? :shrug:
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