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2004-08-30 Fifth Column

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Posted by UFO 2004-08-30 9:45:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think the count was more like 150k but whose counting. Thatâs an awfully small protest by LLL standards. Maybe they can have a bigger one during the week? I think these should be televised in their entirety in order to showcase their stupidity. That speech by Mike Moore was one for the ages! I was hoping for more anarchists and some head knocking by the NYPD.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-08-30 10:20:48 AM|| 2004-08-30 10:20:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This might get entertaining as the Democrats try to reign in their masters (the far left) in order not to alienate the mainstream.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-08-30 10:25:26 AM|| 2004-08-30 10:25:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 snicker, heh, heh. Is it just me, or is that whole MTV, Hollywood, NY, Paris, celebrity culture seeming as stale and ossified as Tammy Fay Baker?

The stars of the leftâs culture, ie: the Tina Browns, are just such iconic jokes. I donât know what Tina Brown looks like, but I have this image of a loud talking, skinny, olâ shrew with a drink in her hand, running around looking for someone important to be her best friend.

The left is full of old, fat, grandmas, and frazzle-haired, pudgy grandpas, who desperately believe that if they can just keep up the rage, they can fight off the age. That, and of course, the highly organized anarchists, slightly unhinged misfits and other assorted losers who find comfort in uniting their voices against people who managed to find the success and self-confidence that passed them by.

NYC â welcome to the human freak show.

Posted by B 2004-08-30 10:51:23 AM|| 2004-08-30 10:51:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Anybody know why they burned the hotdog or ice cream cart? Must have been PETA.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-30 10:52:43 AM|| 2004-08-30 10:52:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It's all part of the Bush poker game. NYC provides the free freak show, the media provides the freaks free advertising, and most Americans look at them and conclude that they have more in common with Bush than the freaks. I expect to see those Bush poll numbers shooting up soon.

Posted by Tom 2004-08-30 10:59:55 AM|| 2004-08-30 10:59:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I think Mucky has the inside dope on the hot dog cart. The real question there was were they kosher franks? If so, is that a hate crime?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-08-30 11:01:31 AM|| 2004-08-30 11:01:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 They got a whole 500 folks out for a, er, peri-mutuel protest in Chicago. Yep... 500.

Posted by eLarson 2004-08-30 11:02:46 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-08-30 11:02:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Did anyone happen to turn on C-Span this weekend, when they ran the cameras on the protestors and left out the commentators? Well, guess who was marching with the protestors? Palestinian activists, with a banner reading, Intifada! They were shouting "intifada, yes". I wonder how many people milling around these protestors realized that suicide bombing was being advocated--intifada-the armed uprising of Palestine--all within blocks of Ground Zero. Sickening.

Posted by jules 187 2004-08-30 11:06:32 AM|| 2004-08-30 11:06:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I watched much of it from right on Broadway, just above where it ended.

There were lots of idiots with Palestinian flags. Some asshat tried to set fire to a Bush/Cheney bumpersticker and use that to set fire to a peace symbol he'd sprayed out on the street with lighter fluid. The sticker wouldn't burn. HA! There were also Mumia posters, more "Bush lied" things than I've ever seen, some upside-down American flags, a contingent of Socialits waving hammer-and-sickle flags.

Oh, and I counted maybe 5 Kerry signs. Heavily outnumbered by Nader signs. Insignigicant compared to all the Bush-hate signs.

Posted by growler 2004-08-30 11:33:12 AM|| 2004-08-30 11:33:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 B, dont forget the core group of dedicated ~~communists~~ -er-sorry- progressives who form the core of A.N.S.W.E.R. and other anti-american hate groups.

I wonder why they did not show the intifada folks on the MSM. Only the flag-draped caskets.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-08-30 11:41:26 AM|| 2004-08-30 11:41:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 jules - another one I've noticed - "End appeasement to Israel!"
Right, they prefer to appease to Islamists. (Note the curious "lamb and lion" cohibition - peace signs along with intifada)

Posted by Tatyana 2004-08-30 11:46:03 AM|| 2004-08-30 11:46:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Growler - good point about the general absence of Kerry signs. I haven't seen any. We need to get some Protest Warriors out there with "Moonbats for Kerry" signs.

Posted by Matt 2004-08-30 11:49:50 AM|| 2004-08-30 11:49:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Tatyana-re lamb & lion-good point. And they call BUSH a "bait-and-switch" guy..tsk

You would think some of those numbskulls would have been around in WWII and would remember the shame of the world when the Holocaust was revealed in all its gruesome "glory". Apparently, they want to relive it.

Posted by jules 187 2004-08-30 11:54:49 AM|| 2004-08-30 11:54:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 CF â good point.

Itâs like the MSM is just begging us to look elsewhere to see whatâs really going on. Iâm happy to oblige.

Posted by B 2004-08-30 11:55:37 AM|| 2004-08-30 11:55:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 The best demonstration of all was the one held in (Soviet) Union Square which is in the link. These are the true Kerry supporters :)

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-08-30 4:14:25 PM|| [http://communistsforkerry.com/GPU/viewtopic.php?t=85] 2004-08-30 4:14:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 http://blindpig.blogs.com/outside_the_perimeter/2004/08/when_anarchists.html

Posted by crazyhorse 2004-08-30 11:24:52 PM|| 2004-08-30 11:24:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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