ONE HUNDRED BILLION PROTESTORS!!!!
Posted on 01/29/2007 8:57:14 AM PST by yoe
(Truth Alert)
Though all other major news outlets, including his own network's Saturday evening newscast, pegged the number of people who attended Saturday's anti-Iraq war protest rally in Washington, DC as in the “tens of thousands,” CBS's Bob Schieffer led Sunday's Face the Nation by endorsing the exaggerated attendance claims of self-interested organizers as he reminisced about the good old days of Vietnam protests. “Yesterday in Washington,” he recalled, “was like a day from yesteryear -- the war that to many seems long ago and far away: the war in Vietnam. Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people descended on the capital to protest the war in Iraq.” Schieffer's opening of the January 28 Face the Nation segued into his lead interview with freshman Democratic Senator Jim Webb of Virginia (Republican Senators Arlen Specter and Mitch McConnell were subsequent guests).
“Thousands Protest Bush Policy,” read the front page Washington Post headline over a story which reported: “Under a blue sky with a pale midday moon, tens of thousands of people angry about the war and other policies of the Bush administration danced, sang, shouted and chanted their opposition.”
Sunday's New York Times story began: “Tens of thousands of protesters converged on the National Mall on Saturday to oppose President Bush’s plan for a troop increase in Iraq...” Deep in the article, Times reporter Ian Urbina relayed what may have been Schieffer's source for his wildly inflated claim: “Police officials declined to provide crowd estimates, but Hany Khalil, a spokesman for United for Peace and Justice, said the protesters numbered about 400,000.”
The AP's dispatch on the protest explained: “United for Peace and Justice, a coalition group sponsoring the protest, had hoped 100,000 would come. They claimed even more afterward, but police, who no longer give official estimates, said privately the crowd was smaller than 100,000.”
And if Schieffer didn't believe the Washington Post, New York Times or the AP, he certainly didn't show much respect for his CBS News Washington bureau colleague Joie Chen, who related on Saturday's CBS Evening News (as recounted in Brad Wilmouth's NewsBusters posting):
“But for all the tie dye and familiar chants, the anti-war movement has moved on and changed direction. Today's protest didn't go near the White House, instead leading tens of thousands up Constitution Avenue to the Capitol, bearing a message for the new Congress, now controlled by Democrats.”
Isn't it reassuring to know that the chicken sh*t, hand wringers are still among us?
Actually, I have it on good authority that the number was millions of zillions of people.
Just be sure to laugh loudly when you tell liberals that their democrats are doing nothing more than tossing them crumbs of nothing.
I'm wearing blue jeans in support of the war and it looks like lots of others are doing the same.
Ever leave a flaming bag of Schieffer on a doorstep, ring the bell and run away?
Ya know, I'm glad that Schieffer has restored CBS News' credibility after that Dan Rather quagmire.
ONE HUNDRED BILLION PROTESTORS!!!!
Water at CBS affects a lot of them...Andy Rooney gulps
gallons evry day?????? JK
his agenda is the same as the MSM.
Couple of people on a streetcorner shouting "Down with Bush" = dozens of protesters.
Handful of people shouting and carrying signs = Hundreds of protesters.
Couple of busloads of people who show up in DC to protest and mostly sightsee = thousands of protesters.
Different war. Same smell.
I heard the hwhole planet- some say even dogs and cats were protesting too- that I can't say, but I can state that I'm almost certain spyder monkeys were protesting too.
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LOL! Great minds think alike. Like in the movie "Used Cars" when they wanted to prosecute someone for false advertising because they said they had a "zillion cars to choose from"
I'd rather know when the Communists in America have EVER held a rally in SUPPORT of ANYTHING this country has ever done.
Missing the good ol' days, are you, Bob? Nostalgia, together with memory loss, increases with age.
The MSM is trying to propagandize the US public.
Josh was spit on. Thats enough for me. If I had been there, there would have been some thumpin, and I suspect that it was better that patriots stayed away.
But we should organize a support the troops demonstartioon. We could easily get 100,000 in the warmer months.
Just because they protest, doesn'tmean they're right. It just means they're warm bodies in one place.
Tired of people saying, "See? Protestors. Someone must be doing something wrong!" Not even close to accurate.
As i tell people back home: how many people get togethor to get drunk and watch cars drive around in circles every sunday?
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NEVER FORGET
TV Anchor WALTER CRONKITE & CBS Network News' being on the side of our Communist terrorist enemy North Vietnam during the Vietnam War,
...against the precious Freedom for South Vietnam that we were so valiantly fighting for =
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
What price for
the rest of US to now pay
in a new time of war
in a new century
with our own Freedom
directly at stake
right here at home,
with an Enemy that's now
just around the corner and
...up your street..?
Imagaine that, if you dare..?
NEVER FORGET
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